
Birthday:
08-25-1908
Deathday:
03-20-1969 (60 years)
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 5.5
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Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Man Without a Star
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6.5
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A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Tennessee's Partner
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6.5
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A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
Law and Order
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 4.8
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Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Screenstory
event1948 star_border 6.5
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A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
She Couldn't Say No
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 5.6
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An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
The Bull of the West
Writer
event1972 star_border 5.4
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Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).
Gunsmoke
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 6.4
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Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to setting a wildfire to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.
River Lady
Screenplay
event1948 star_border 5
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In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Screenplay
event1957 star_border 6.1
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In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
Belle Le Grand
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 3
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Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
Ride Clear of Diablo
Additional Dialogue
event1954 star_border 5.8
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A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
The Man from the Alamo
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 6.5
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During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Natchez Trace
Screenplay
event1960 star_border 6
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Bank clerk Virgil Stewart infiltrates a band of land pirates on the Natchez Trace, and learns bandit leader John Morrow's ambitious plans will lead to bloody revolution between slaveholders and slaves if they aren't stopped.
The San Francisco Story
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 4.8
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After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan (Yvonne De Carlo), that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!
Rails Into Laramie
Writer
event1954 star_border 6.3
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A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Story
event1950 star_border 6.1
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Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
A Man Called Gannon
Writer
event1968 star_border 4.4
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A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.
The Golden Gloves Story
Story
event1950 star_border 6
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Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur prizefighters) contestants Nick Martel, a tough, pugnacious kid from Chicago who has had to fight for everything he has in life, and Bob Gilmore, from the other side of life's tracks, are also competing for the affections of Riley's daughter, Patty.
Massacre
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 5
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Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
Jesse James' Women
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 4.4
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Jesse James leaves Missouri for Mississippi, and immediately charms all the women in Mississippi out of their bloomers and garters. His first conquest is the banker's daughter who helps him loot the bank in exchange for a promise of marriage; he wanders over to the saloon and runs the crooked partner of the proprietress out of town, takes all of his-and-her money and leaves her, between kisses, hounding him for her share; the third one, the saloon singer, actually makes a mark out of him as she cons him into a boxing match against a professional fighter and he loses the fight and his money, but he holds the singer and the fighter up as they leave town and gets his money back; and then he romances and swindles Cattle Kate, a replay of what he had done somewhere before to Kate.
Yaqui Drums
Writer
event1956
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In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Story
event1947 star_border 6.2
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Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
For the Love of Mike
Writer
event1960 star_border 5
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An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
Son of Belle Starr
Screenplay
event1953
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The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
The Rawhide Years
Adaptation
event1956 star_border 5.5
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Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
Destry
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 6.1
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Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider
Story
event1966 star_border 5
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Daniel Boone leads a party of settlers into Kentucky to found the town of Boonesborough. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with a lovely, red-haired servant named Rebecca and must vie with the gambler, Jim Santee for her affection.
Port of Hell
Story
event1954
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The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the time, though, to romance the sister of his biggest rival.
It's Always Sunday
Writer
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A pair of drifters try to hit up a minister as a soft touch for a handout, but they inadvertently end up learning a valuable lesson about trust.
Henry, the Rainmaker
Story
event1949
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The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
Father Makes Good
Screenplay
event1950 star_border 6
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In the third movie in Monogram's "Father" series, patriarch Henry Latham buys a cow in order to bypass the town's milk tax.
Father Takes the Air
Writer
event1951 star_border 5
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In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
Father's Wild Game
Writer
event1950
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The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
Leave It to Henry
Story
event1949 star_border 6
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Henry Latham and town Mayor Colton continue their misadventures in Smalltown, America. This time, twelve-year-old David Latham is testifying at the trial of his father, Henry, who is accused of burning down the McCluskey bridge.
The All American
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 5
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A family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.
Cheyenne
Teleplay (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.8
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Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.
CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Tales of Wells Fargo
Writer (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
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