Earle Hodgins
Birthday: 1893-10-05
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor. Early in his career, Hodgins was active in stock theater, including working in the Ralph Cloninger troupe of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Siegel Stock company of Seattle, Washington. He appeared in over 330 films and television shows between 1932 and 1963. He specialized in playing fast-talking con men—often in westerns, such as The Lone Ranger, Judge Roy Bean, The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Rawhide, Maverick, Lawman, The Rifleman, Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke and Hopalong Cassidy. In the 1960-1961 season, he appeared in three episodes of Joanne Dru's ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho! as the aging ranch wrangler known as "Lonesome." In one of those episodes, "Lonesome's Gal", he was cast opposite ZaSu Pitts. Thereafter, the two died within a year of each other. Hodgins' other television roles were as carnival barkers, medicine-show salesmen, and the like. He was known for shooing away obstreporous children from his stage, snapping at them, "Get away, son, ya bother me". Hodgins married Sue Hanley, who was described in a newspaper item as "a Seattle society girl."
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The Missouri Traveler
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Paradise Canyon
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
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Scattergood Baines
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
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Scattergood Rides High
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Smoke Tree Range
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The Savage Horde
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Aces and Eights
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Law for Tombstone
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Inside the Law
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Accomplice
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Barefoot Boy
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Westward the Women
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Silent Conflict
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Pride of the West
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Santa Fe Marshal
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The Cyclone Ranger
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The Rangers' Round-Up
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Call The Mesquiteers
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Thunder Over the Plains
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King of Burlesque
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The Village Smithy
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Crime, Inc.
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Oh, Susanna
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Guns Along The Trail
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The Return of Rin Tin Tin
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The Range Busters
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Roaring Six Guns
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The Old Barn Dance
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Guns and Guitars
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The Singing Cowboy
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Hollywood Barn Dance
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Calling Dr. Death
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Oregon Trail
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All Over Town
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San Antonio Kid
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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The Topeka Terror
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Shockproof
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The Pride of the Yankees
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Alaska
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Border Caballero
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Ticket to Paradise
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Whispering Smith
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The Young Guns
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Sensations of 1945
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Criminals Within
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The Purple Vigilantes
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It Happened Tomorrow
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A Lawman Is Born
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Heroes of the Alamo
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Sky Racket
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Range Defenders
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Saintly Sinners
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The D.I.
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Vigilantes of Boomtown
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Partners of the Plains
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Under Western Stars
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Frontier Town
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Next Time I Marry
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
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Guys and Dolls
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Crime of the Century
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Key Witness
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Tarnished Angel
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Fool's Gold
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The Long Shot
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Mountain Justice
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Borderland
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I Cover the War!
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Dodge City
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Thunder Afloat
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The Spellbinder
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The Perfect Gentleman
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Firebrands of Arizona
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The Day the Bookies Wept
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Riding the Wind
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Fixer Dugan
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Sailors on Leave
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East of Eden
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Headin' East
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Hills of Old Wyoming
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The Texas Rambler
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The Southerner
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Deadline at Dawn
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Inherit the Wind
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Texas Trail
The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands in...
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Sierra Sue
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he ...
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Mexican Spitfire
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The Circus Clown
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father....
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The Great Jesse James Raid
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery....
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City of Bad Men
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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Moonlight on the Prairie
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer....
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Lawless Valley
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him....
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The Sagebrush Family Trails West
The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Min...
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The Sea of Grass
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Trail of Vengeance
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted o...
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Boss of Bullion City
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss....
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Bad Man from Red Butte
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murde...
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Law and Order
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between...
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Under Texas Skies
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been...
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Range War
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing i...
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Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...
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Friendly Persuasion
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...
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Hoppy Serves a Writ
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outl...
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Riders of the Deadline
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape ...
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Unexpected Guest
At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among whoever ...
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The Fastest Gun Alive
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee ...
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Outlaws of the Prairie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Coll...
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Borrowed Trouble
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the confli...
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That Brennan Girl
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hus...
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
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If You Knew Susie
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
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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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My Favorite Wife
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Men Against the Sky
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve d...
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Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...
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The Old Chisholm Trail
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the C...
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The Main Street Kid
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy....
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The Last Crooked Mile
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow....
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Traffic in Crime
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as a...
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Shut My Big Mouth
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west....
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Two Alone
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie...
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Little Big Shot
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter....
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Oregon Trail Scouts
Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on t...
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The Avenging Rider
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold....
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The Lone Star Trail
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USS VD: Ship of Shame
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the resul...
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Red River Robin Hood
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Hidden Valley Outlaws
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Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
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Colt Comrades
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are...
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Gun Town
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The Marauders
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Old Los Angeles
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Call of the Canyon
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast....
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Oklahoma Badlands
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Undercover Man
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
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Silver Queen
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The Spoilers
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Sheriff of Wichita
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Border Patrol
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the min...
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King of the Cowboys
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Idaho
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Bar 20
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False Colors
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Mystery of the Riverboat
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The Forty-Niners
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a...
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My Favorite Spy
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The Power of God
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Slightly French
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Henry, the Rainmaker
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Panama Lady
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Batman
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Crazy House
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Fun on a Weekend
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Bunco Squad
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Where Danger Lives
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Keep 'Em Flying
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Bedside Manner
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Ridin' On
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The Devil's Playground
Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and he i...
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Down Missouri Way
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a ne...
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Round-Up Time in Texas
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has a...
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Under Western Skies
An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from ...
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The Bashful Bachelor
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, b...
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Let's Live Again
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to pr...
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Canadian Pacific
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the ...
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Gallant Journey
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio o...
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Las Vegas Nights
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nigh...
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Whirlpool
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists....
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Callaway Went Thataway
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on t...
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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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Cowboy G-Man
Edited version of Paradise Canyon. An undercover agent for the government is sent to round up a gan...
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Texas Carnival
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister....
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