Sam Nelson

Sam Nelson

Sam Nelson was a director and assistant director who worked from the end of the silent era right up through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over 20 films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were westerns. As an assistant director he worked on such notable films as Pennies from Heaven, And Then There Were None, All the King's Men, the original 3:10 to Yuma, Some Like It Hot, A Raisin in the Sun, and Spartacus. In addition he appeared in over a dozen films in small roles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: Sam Nelson
  • Popularity: 3.679
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1896-05-11
  • Place of Birth: Whttier, California, USA
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Sam Nelson Movies

  • 1927
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    Breed of Courage

    Breed of Courage

    1 1927 HD

    During a feud between remote families, a dog saves the day.

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  • 1929
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    The Vagabond Cub

    The Vagabond Cub

    1 1929 HD

    Red saves his prospector sidekick Hank Robbins from the hangman.

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  • 1929
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    The Little Savage

    The Little Savage

    1 1929 HD

    Once again, diminutive hero Red tries to help the adult characters in their fight against the villains.

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  • 1930
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    Soldiers and Women

    Soldiers and Women

    1 1930 HD

    Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and...

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  • 1928
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    The Circus Kid

    The Circus Kid

    1 1928 HD

    In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.

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  • 1947
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    The Lady from Shanghai

    The Lady from Shanghai

    7.4 1947 HD

    A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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  • 1925
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    The Midnight Flyer

    The Midnight Flyer

    1 1925 HD

    The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".

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  • 1956
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    Don't Knock The Rock

    Don't Knock The Rock

    5.7 1956 HD

    Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from...

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  • 1949
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    The Doolins of Oklahoma

    The Doolins of Oklahoma

    6.8 1949 HD

    When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the...

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  • 1943
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    The Outlaw

    The Outlaw

    5.4 1943 HD

    Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his...

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  • 1938
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    The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    1 1938 HD

    A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure...

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  • 1939
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    Mandrake the Magician

    Mandrake the Magician

    5.6 1939 HD

    Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

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  • 1939
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    Overland with Kit Carson

    Overland with Kit Carson

    0.5 1939 HD

    When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten...

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  • 1930
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    Rain or Shine

    Rain or Shine

    5.5 1930 HD

    Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune...

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  • 1932
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    Washington Merry-Go-Round

    Washington Merry-Go-Round

    6.7 1932 HD

    Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...

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  • 1958
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    The Last Hurrah

    The Last Hurrah

    7.1 1958 HD

    In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

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  • 1939
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    Konga, the Wild Stallion

    Konga, the Wild Stallion

    1 1939 HD

    A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the...

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  • 1958
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    Cowboy

    Cowboy

    6.3 1958 HD

    Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom...

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  • 1955
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    The Violent Men

    The Violent Men

    6.4 1955 HD

    A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled...

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  • 1957
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    The Tall T

    The Tall T

    6.9 1957 HD

    An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.

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  • 1957
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    Decision at Sundown

    Decision at Sundown

    6.3 1957 HD

    A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

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  • 1940
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    Bullets for Rustlers

    Bullets for Rustlers

    1 1940 HD

    Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers...

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  • 1939
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    The Man from Sundown

    The Man from Sundown

    1 1939 HD

    The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.

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  • 1937
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    Outlaws of the Prairie

    Outlaws of the Prairie

    1 1937 HD

    Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of...

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  • 1956
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    The White Squaw

    The White Squaw

    6.4 1956 HD

    A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.

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  • 1938
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    West of the Santa Fe

    West of the Santa Fe

    1 1938 HD

    US marshal Lawlor (Starrett) takes on a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Taylor (Dick Curtis). His reasons are partly personal: Conway (Edward...

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  • 1939
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    The Stranger from Texas

    The Stranger from Texas

    1 1939 HD

    Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both...

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  • 1940
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    Pioneers of the Frontier

    Pioneers of the Frontier

    1 1940 HD

    Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley. But before he can right Brawley's...

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  • 1939
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    Western Caravans

    Western Caravans

    1 1939 HD

    A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the...

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  • 1958
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    Fifi Blows Her Top

    Fifi Blows Her Top

    4 1958 HD

    The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind...

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  • 1932
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    No More Orchids

    No More Orchids

    6.8 1932 HD

    Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.

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  • 1957
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    Rusty Romeos

    Rusty Romeos

    4.7 1957 HD

    The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then...

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  • 1932
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    The Menace

    The Menace

    4.5 1932 HD

    A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

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  • 1931
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    Way Back Home

    Way Back Home

    6.2 1931 HD

    A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

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  • 1961
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    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun

    7.6 1961 HD

    Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...

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  • 1959
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    Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot

    8.1 1959 HD

    Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join...

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  • 1929
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    Mexicali Rose

    Mexicali Rose

    5.2 1929 HD

    The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of...

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  • 1939
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    Texas Stampede

    Texas Stampede

    1 1939 HD

    Sheep raisers, resentful of old injuries from the cattlemen, bar the way to water when dry ranges force the cattle ranchers to drive their herds into...

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  • 1940
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    Prairie Schooners

    Prairie Schooners

    1 1940 HD

    Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want...

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  • 1951
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    Santa Fe

    Santa Fe

    6.8 1951 HD

    After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

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  • 1942
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    Bandit Ranger

    Bandit Ranger

    3.5 1942 HD

    Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with...

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  • 1947
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    The Lady from Shanghai

    The Lady from Shanghai

    7.4 1947 HD

    A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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  • 1957
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    3:10 to Yuma

    3:10 to Yuma

    7.2 1957 HD

    Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's...

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  • 1939
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    Parents on Trial

    Parents on Trial

    1 1939 HD

    According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial,...

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  • 1987
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    What's Love

    What's Love

    4.8 1987 HD

    Previously lost reconceptualization of Bill Cable's unfinished early 70s epic titled "What is Love," which deals with themes of romantic obsession...

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  • 1945
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    A Walk in the Sun

    A Walk in the Sun

    5.7 1945 HD

    In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension...

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  • 1943
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    Sagebrush Law

    Sagebrush Law

    6 1943 HD

    Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner...

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  • 1962
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    Experiment in Terror

    Experiment in Terror

    7.1 1962 HD

    A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

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  • 1938
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    Rio Grande

    Rio Grande

    3 1938 HD

    No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp Charles Starrett western from the Columbia...

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  • 1939
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    North of the Yukon

    North of the Yukon

    1 1939 HD

    In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of...

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  • 1943
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    The Avenging Rider

    The Avenging Rider

    1 1943 HD

    Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.

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  • 1933
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    Ann Carver's Profession

    Ann Carver's Profession

    5.5 1933 HD

    Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

    A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

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  • 1941
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    Outlaws of the Panhandle

    Outlaws of the Panhandle

    6 1941 HD

    Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of...

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  • 1955
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    The Last Frontier

    The Last Frontier

    6 1955 HD

    Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

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  • 1946
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    Gallant Journey

    Gallant Journey

    6.1 1946 HD

    Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn...

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  • 1959
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    Good Day for a Hanging

    Good Day for a Hanging

    6.2 1959 HD

    As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable...

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  • 1955
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    My Sister Eileen

    My Sister Eileen

    6.4 1955 HD

    Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They...

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  • 1960
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    Comanche Station

    Comanche Station

    6.6 1960 HD

    A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the...

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  • 1940
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    Mandrake the Magician

    Mandrake the Magician

    5 1940 HD

    Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.

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  • 1957
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    The Man Who Turned to Stone

    The Man Who Turned to Stone

    4.5 1957 HD

    A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated...

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  • 1956
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    Reprisal!

    Reprisal!

    7.2 1956 HD

    New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched...

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  • 1954
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    Three Hours to Kill

    Three Hours to Kill

    4.9 1954 HD

    After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but...

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  • 1936
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    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    6.833 1936 HD

    Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be...

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  • 1943
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    Jack London

    Jack London

    5.8 1943 HD

    The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).

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  • 1947
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    It Had to Be You

    It Had to Be You

    6.5 1947 HD

    A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

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  • 1945
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    And Then There Were None

    And Then There Were None

    7 1945 HD

    Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at...

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  • 1938
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    Colorado Trail

    Colorado Trail

    1 1938 HD

    In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land...

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  • 1931
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    The Miracle Woman

    The Miracle Woman

    6.6 1931 HD

    After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a...

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  • 1941
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    The Corsican Brothers

    The Corsican Brothers

    6.8 1941 HD

    Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each...

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  • 1944
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    Guest in the House

    Guest in the House

    4.2 1944 HD

    Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his...

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  • 1949
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    Tell It to the Judge

    Tell It to the Judge

    6.3 1949 HD

    Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...

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  • 1952
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    Affair in Trinidad

    Affair in Trinidad

    6.3 1952 HD

    A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

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  • 1949
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    The Walking Hills

    The Walking Hills

    6.079 1949 HD

    A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

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  • 1960
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    The Wackiest Ship in the Army

    The Wackiest Ship in the Army

    6 1960 HD

    Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who...

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  • 1950
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    No Sad Songs for Me

    No Sad Songs for Me

    6.2 1950 HD

    Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and...

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  • 1961
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    By Love Possessed

    By Love Possessed

    4.9 1961 HD

    An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.

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  • 1960
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    Let No Man Write My Epitaph

    Let No Man Write My Epitaph

    6.143 1960 HD

    Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...

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  • 1948
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    The Return of October

    The Return of October

    6.4 1948 HD

    A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

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  • 1938
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    Cattle Raiders

    Cattle Raiders

    3 1938 HD

    Tom Reynolds returns to find he is wanted for murder, his gun having been found at the scene. Tom suspects Munro and stages a fight to get a bullet...

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