Hank Worden
Birthday: 1901-07-23
Place of Birth: Rolfe, Iowa, USA
Biography: Raised on a cattle ranch in Montana. Educated at Stanford and the University of Nevada as an engineer. Washed out as an Army pilot. Toured the country in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider. Broke his neck in a horsefall in his 20s, but didn't know it until his 40s. Chosen along with Tex Ritter from a rodeo at Madison Square Garden in New York to appear in the Broadway play "Green Grow the Lilacs", the play from which the musical "Oklahoma" was later derived. Drove a cab in New York, then worked on dude ranches as a wrangler and as a guide on the Bright Angel trail of the Grand Canyon. Recommended by Billie Burke to several movie producers. Became friends with John Wayne, Howard Hawks, and later John Ford, all of whom provided him with much work. Survived by adopted daughter Dawn Henry. Date of Death: 6 December 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)
Movies
Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo...
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The Ice Pirates
In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The ...
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Red River
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive fr...
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The Searchers
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation ...
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Runaway Train
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only t...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero...
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The Music Man
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing...
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3 Godfathers
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safe...
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Accused of Murder
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a...
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The Big Sky
Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to tr...
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McLintock!
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numer...
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-t...
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The Horse Soldiers
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....
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Sing Cowboy Sing
Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step ...
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The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the ...
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One-Eyed Jacks
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the ...
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The Stranger from Arizona
A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers....
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Dragoon Wells Massacre
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel throu...
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Rio Lobo
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the l...
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Please Don't Eat the Babies
Teenage girls are kidnapped and brought to a remote island, which is inhabited by a family of crazed...
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Thunder Over Arizona
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a ...
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Scream
A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out ...
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Hellfire
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant ...
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Apache War Smoke
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursui...
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison i...
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The Man from Texas
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and th...
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Hittin' the Trail
When he swaps horses with the Tombstone Kid — a wrongly accused man on the run from the law — singin...
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Which Way Is Up?
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving be...
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Smokey and the Bandit
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hour...
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The Quiet Gun
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontie...
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Frenchie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me...
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Whispering Smith
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be...
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Hondo and the Apaches
Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature....
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The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife....
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The Sainted Sisters
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide o...
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Comin' Round the Mountain
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy ...
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Ghost Town Riders
Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her not...
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it...
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Forty Guns
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Ma...
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Cahill: United States Marshal
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop...
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control....
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Barbary Coast
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel o...
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Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l...
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Bullwhip
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead....
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...
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Roseanna McCoy
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillb...
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Chisum
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinst...
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True Grit
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging h...
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The Alamo
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...
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The President's Analyst
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's An...
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Big Wednesday
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves....
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Frontier Town
Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins...
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Hollywood Round-Up
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star ...
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Bronco Billy
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luc...
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Sergeant Rutledge
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white w...
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Spoilers of the Forest
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with...
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Fort Apache
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...
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The Night Riders
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting ...
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The Buckskin Lady
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Ang...
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival own...
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The Range Busters
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruit...
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Viva Cisco Kid
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father i...
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Rollin' Westward
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are tryi...
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frus...
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For the Service
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones ...
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Crime Wave
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out fo...
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Sundown on the Prairie
Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendric...
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Angel and the Badman
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Q...
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The Great Moment
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia...
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Father Is a Bachelor
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: Janua...
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Cover Up
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midweste...
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The Indian Fighter
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daug...
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Lawless Breed
Government agents Ted Everett and Tumbleweed are sent to Spearville, Texas, where the law agencies h...
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a...
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Triple Justice
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill...
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The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...
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Chip of the Flying U
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title ro...
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Oklahoma Frontier
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is al...
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Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp...
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Gaucho Serenade
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in...
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Big Jake
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grand...
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The Californian
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing...
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Winners of the West
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a va...
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Good Times
Given the opportunity to headline their own feature film by studio executive Mr. Mordicus, Sonny and...
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Northwest Passage
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who jo...
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Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h...
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a...
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Beyond Tomorrow
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reuni...
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Cross-Country Romance
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....
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Black Market Rustlers
In this WW II film meant to discourage the purchase of black market beef, the Range Busters are call...
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Prairie Express
Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Mo...
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Border Vigilantes
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante commit...
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart ...
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Woman of the North Country
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining em...
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The Woman of the Town
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge Ci...
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A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci...
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Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...
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Yellow Sky
In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost t...
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The Fighting Kentuckian
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand...
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The Legend of Frank Woods
Legendary Quick-shot Frank Woods is caught in a shootout and kills three drunks in self-defense. In ...
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Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself...
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The Hanged Man
A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land ...
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So Proudly We Hail
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a...
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Undercurrent
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his...
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Big Daddy
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. ...
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Every Which Way but Loose
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder...
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Hammett
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...
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Tap Roots
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses ...
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Black Noon
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in ...
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals....
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UFOria
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bu...
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Once Upon a Texas Train
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of hi...
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Big Bad John
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who el...
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Wagon Master
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terra...
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Almost an Angel
Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car wh...
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Space Rage
In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and se...
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John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes...
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Big Wednesday
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves....
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Zachariah
A blacksmith and an amateur gunslinger embark on journey through the west together but soon separate...
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Ghost Town Gold
The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayo...
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None Shall Escape
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed ...
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Sky Hei$t
A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a polic...
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this ...
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