Fred F. Sears

Fred F. Sears

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frederick Francis Sears (1913-1957) was an American film actor and director. Though a marginalized figure in 1950s cinema, he created 52 feature films in a number of genres for Columbia Pictures from 1949 to 1957, before his premature death at the age of 44. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fred F. Sears,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Fred F. Sears
  • Popularity: 3.822
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1913-07-07
  • Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: Fred Sears, Frederick Francis Sears
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Fred F. Sears Movies

  • 1948
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    Rusty Leads the Way

    Rusty Leads the Way

    6 1948 HD

    Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her...

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  • 1949
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    The Secret Of St. Ives

    The Secret Of St. Ives

    6 1949 HD

    A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director...

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  • 1952
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    Brave Warrior

    Brave Warrior

    4 1952 HD

    In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side...

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  • 1947
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    The Corpse Came C.O.D.

    The Corpse Came C.O.D.

    5.7 1947 HD

    Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

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  • 1950
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    David Harding, Counterspy

    David Harding, Counterspy

    5.7 1950 HD

    A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and...

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  • 1949
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    Shockproof

    Shockproof

    6.4 1949 HD

    Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her...

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  • 1953
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    Flame of Calcutta

    Flame of Calcutta

    1 1953 HD

    A British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.

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  • 1950
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    On the Isle of Samoa

    On the Isle of Samoa

    7.5 1950 HD

    After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.

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  • 1951
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    The Family Secret

    The Family Secret

    5.7 1951 HD

    When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.

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  • 1951
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    Gasoline Alley

    Gasoline Alley

    5.5 1951 HD

    A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.

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  • 1957
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    The Giant Claw

    The Giant Claw

    4.9 1957 HD

    Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard...

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  • 1950
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    Frontier Outpost

    Frontier Outpost

    1 1950 HD

    Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold...

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  • 1949
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    Tokyo Joe

    Tokyo Joe

    6.069 1949 HD

    An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals...

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  • 1948
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    Whirlwind Raiders

    Whirlwind Raiders

    5 1948 HD

    It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to...

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  • 1948
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    The Gallant Blade

    The Gallant Blade

    6 1948 HD

    Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.

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  • 1950
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    Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

    Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

    5.7 1950 HD

    A federal agent joins forces with a British lawman to foil a spy ring.

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  • 1949
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    Laramie

    Laramie

    6.5 1949 HD

    A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf...

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  • 1949
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    The Blazing Trail

    The Blazing Trail

    1 1949 HD

    Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the...

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  • 1949
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    South of Death Valley

    South of Death Valley

    5 1949 HD

    When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water...

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  • 1949
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    Bandits of El Dorado

    Bandits of El Dorado

    1 1949 HD

    Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the...

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  • 1951
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    Bonanza Town

    Bonanza Town

    6 1951 HD

    Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and...

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  • 1952
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    The Rough, Tough West

    The Rough, Tough West

    5.5 1952 HD

    Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a...

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  • 1952
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    Laramie Mountains

    Laramie Mountains

    5 1952 HD

    Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by starting an Indian war. Dressed as Indians they...

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  • 1951
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    Cyclone Fury

    Cyclone Fury

    5 1951 HD

    A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an...

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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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  • 1948
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    Smoky Mountain Melody

    Smoky Mountain Melody

    6 1948 HD

    Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody. Not much happens plotwise:...

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  • 1951
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    The Kid from Amarillo

    The Kid from Amarillo

    1 1951 HD

    Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader...

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  • 1951
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    Fort Savage Raiders

    Fort Savage Raiders

    1 1951 HD

    Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named...

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  • 1950
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    Texas Dynamo

    Texas Dynamo

    1 1950 HD

    Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego"...

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  • 1949
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    Renegades of the Sage

    Renegades of the Sage

    1 1949 HD

    The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down...

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  • 1947
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    Law of the Canyon

    Law of the Canyon

    1 1947 HD

    Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break...

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  • 1948
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    Adventures in Silverado

    Adventures in Silverado

    5 1948 HD

    Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures...

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  • 1948
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    Singin' Spurs

    Singin' Spurs

    1 1948 HD

    In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an...

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  • 1949
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    Home in San Antone

    Home in San Antone

    1 1949 HD

    Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas....

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  • 1950
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    A Snitch in Time

    A Snitch in Time

    4.8 1950 HD

    The Stooges are painters who are re-staining some furniture at a boarding house, unaware that a gang of bank robbers has its hideout there.

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  • 1949
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    Slightly French

    Slightly French

    7.2 1949 HD

    A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...

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  • 1949
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    Johnny Allegro

    Johnny Allegro

    6.2 1949 HD

    Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the...

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  • 1950
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    Convicted

    Convicted

    6.3 1950 HD

    A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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  • 1956
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    The Werewolf

    The Werewolf

    5.5 1956 HD

    The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and...

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  • 1946
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    Blondie Knows Best

    Blondie Knows Best

    6.4 1946 HD

    Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim...

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  • 1947
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    Blondie's Anniversary

    Blondie's Anniversary

    5.6 1947 HD

    Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood...

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  • 1947
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    Blondie in the Dough

    Blondie in the Dough

    6.5 1947 HD

    BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer...

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  • 1947
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    Blondie's Holiday

    Blondie's Holiday

    6 1947 HD

    Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford...

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  • 1947
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    Millie's Daughter

    Millie's Daughter

    1 1947 HD

    An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.

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  • 1951
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    My True Story

    My True Story

    6 1951 HD

    Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old,...

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  • 1948
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    The Man from Colorado

    The Man from Colorado

    6.7 1948 HD

    Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to...

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  • 1955
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    Cell 2455 Death Row

    Cell 2455 Death Row

    5.6 1955 HD

    A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

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  • 1957
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    The Giant Claw

    The Giant Claw

    4.9 1957 HD

    Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard...

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  • 1956
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    Miami Exposé

    Miami Exposé

    5.3 1956 HD

    A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.

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  • 1956
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    The Werewolf

    The Werewolf

    5.5 1956 HD

    The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and...

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  • 1957
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    The Night the World Exploded

    The Night the World Exploded

    4.6 1957 HD

    With his assistant, Laura Hutchinson, Dr. David Conway develops a device to advance the fledgling science of earthquake prediction. After forecasting...

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  • 1956
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    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

    6 1956 HD

    Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead,...

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  • 1954
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    The Miami Story

    The Miami Story

    4.9 1954 HD

    Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to...

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  • 1955
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    Teen-Age Crime Wave

    Teen-Age Crime Wave

    4.6 1955 HD

    A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.

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  • 1956
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    Rock Around the Clock

    Rock Around the Clock

    6 1956 HD

    A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and,...

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  • 1953
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    Target Hong Kong

    Target Hong Kong

    5 1953 HD

    Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.

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  • 1957
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    Escape from San Quentin

    Escape from San Quentin

    6 1957 HD

    Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels...

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  • 1953
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    Sky Commando

    Sky Commando

    5.5 1953 HD

    Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war...

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  • 1956
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    Rumble on the Docks

    Rumble on the Docks

    5.7 1956 HD

    A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.

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  • 1958
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    Crash Landing

    Crash Landing

    5 1958 HD

    Airplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.

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  • 1954
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    Wyoming Renegades

    Wyoming Renegades

    5.8 1954 HD

    Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being...

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  • 1953
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    Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

    Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

    6.5 1953 HD

    Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they...

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  • 1953
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    The 49th Man

    The 49th Man

    1 1953 HD

    Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.

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  • 1958
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    The World Was His Jury

    The World Was His Jury

    5.9 1958 HD

    A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears' 1958 drama stars...

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  • 1954
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    The Outlaw Stallion

    The Outlaw Stallion

    5 1954 HD

    A young boy and a veterinarian in a red convertible help thwart a gang of horse thieves. Director Fred F. Sears' 1954 outdoor drama stars Billy...

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  • 1952
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    Last Train from Bombay

    Last Train from Bombay

    5 1952 HD

    An American diplomat risks his life to save an Indian prince from an assassination plot designed to ignite a war.

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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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  • 1954
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    Overland Pacific

    Overland Pacific

    4.9 1954 HD

    A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.

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  • 1953
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    The Nebraskan

    The Nebraskan

    3 1953 HD

    War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.

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  • 1957
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    Calypso Heat Wave

    Calypso Heat Wave

    1 1957 HD

    A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

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  • 1955
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    Chicago Syndicate

    Chicago Syndicate

    6.1 1955 HD

    An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job,...

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  • 1958
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    Ghost of the China Sea

    Ghost of the China Sea

    4.5 1958 HD

    A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way.

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  • 1957
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    Utah Blaine

    Utah Blaine

    6.6 1957 HD

    Western about Calhoun helping to overcome land-grabbing outlaws.

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  • 1955
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    Apache Ambush

    Apache Ambush

    5.6 1955 HD

    Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.

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  • 1958
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    Going Steady

    Going Steady

    7 1958 HD

    Two high-school students keep their marriage a secret from their family and friends, but they're forced to confess when the teenage wife learns she's...

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  • 1954
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    Massacre Canyon

    Massacre Canyon

    5 1954 HD

    A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.

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  • 1956
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    Fury at Gunsight Pass

    Fury at Gunsight Pass

    6 1956 HD

    An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.

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  • 1951
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    Pecos River

    Pecos River

    5 1951 HD

    Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover...

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  • 1952
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    The Hawk of Wild River

    The Hawk of Wild River

    5.2 1952 HD

    Steve Martin is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by The Hawk and his outlaw gang. The Hawk attempts...

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  • 1951
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    Prairie Roundup

    Prairie Roundup

    1 1951 HD

    In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western series. Once again, Charles...

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  • 1956
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    Inside Detroit

    Inside Detroit

    6 1956 HD

    Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair...

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  • 1951
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    Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

    Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

    1 1951 HD

    Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The...

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  • 1952
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    Smoky Canyon

    Smoky Canyon

    6 1952 HD

    Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range...

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  • 1953
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    Mission Over Korea

    Mission Over Korea

    3 1953 HD

    A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.

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  • 1952
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    The Kid from Broken Gun

    The Kid from Broken Gun

    5 1952 HD

    Charles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a postal inspector who has gone underground to catch the...

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  • 1951
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    Bonanza Town

    Bonanza Town

    6 1951 HD

    Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and...

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  • 1949
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    Desert Vigilante

    Desert Vigilante

    1 1949 HD

    Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the...

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  • 1951
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    Snake River Desperadoes

    Snake River Desperadoes

    3.8 1951 HD

    Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the...

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  • 1949
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    Horsemen of the Sierras

    Horsemen of the Sierras

    1 1949 HD

    When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. US Marshall...

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  • 1950
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    Raiders of Tomahawk Creek

    Raiders of Tomahawk Creek

    1 1950 HD

    Charles Starrett, aka "The Durango Kid", is back in Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. Starrett plays Steve Blake, a novice Indian agent, sent out to...

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  • 1950
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    Lightning Guns

    Lightning Guns

    1 1950 HD

    The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is played by Charles Starrett, who this time around...

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  • 1950
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    Across the Badlands

    Across the Badlands

    1 1950 HD

    Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine:...

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  • 1958
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    Badman's Country

    Badman's Country

    5.4 1958 HD

    Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half...

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  • 1952
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    Blackhawk

    Blackhawk

    5.2 1952 HD

    Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the...

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  • 1956
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    Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!

    Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!

    10 1956 HD

    A programmer with a Latin American beat.

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  • 1953
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    El Alaméin

    El Alaméin

    1 1953 HD

    A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

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  • 1955
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    Too Old for Dolls

    Too Old for Dolls

    1 1955 HD

    Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal dance. She assures them she has a boy named Al all...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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