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77
7.6
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/377/
74
/294/
3.9
/25639/
91
/66/
84
/234/
74
/14/

Gun Crazy (1950)
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Fandor
77
71
7.3
/9685/
71
/197/
70
/165/
3.8
/10758/
93
/14/
79
/91/

The Big Combo (1955)
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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72
57
7.0
/4058/
70
/81/
66
/73/
3.5
/7562/
92
/26/
66
/17/

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
56
6.8
/2605/
63
/47/
67
/44/
3.6
/3611/
100
/6/
66
/25/

Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be the guilty party.
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64
43
6.3
/1543/
63
/42/
61
/32/
3.1
/2948/
100
/6/
40
/8/

So Dark the Night (1946)
Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible.
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66
39
6.7
/1885/
68
/32/
61
/38/
3.2
/1593/
60
/5/
78
/8/

The Undercover Man (1949)
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
36
5.3
/2898/
56
/55/
52
/55/
2.7
/2937/
28
/984/

Invisible Ghost (1941)
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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60
32
6.4
/1664/
71
/56/
53
/31/
3.3
/662/
48
/1046/

A Lawless Street (1955)
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
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56
24
5.8
/1524/
63
/46/
59
/18/
3.2
/410/
42
/128/

7th Cavalry (1956)
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
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56
22
6.1
/703/
58
/11/
57
/10/
3.2
/948/
45
/64/

Cry of the Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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51
21
6.1
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56
/21/
52
/22/
3.2
/704/
22
/62/

A Lady Without Passport (1950)
An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.
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54
16
5.3
/656/
55
/18/
52
/19/
2.9
/691/

The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
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62
14
6.4
/930/
67
/17/
58
/12/
3.2
/310/
57
/10/

The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.
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?
6.2
/37/
100
/1/

The Last Stand (1938)
Tip Douglas is sent after cattle rustlers, the same rustlers that murdered his father. Posing as a notorious outlaw, he is able to join the gang. Learning that the gang's boss Thorn Evans killed his father, he and sidekick Pepper set a trap when he learns of their next raid.
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?
5.4
/60/

Border Wolves (1938)
Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks them out and sends them after Carson. They join Carson's gang to learn of their next raid but the Marshal arrests them for the wagon train murders.
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?
5.4
/33/

The Singing Outlaw (1938)
A rodeo rider finds himself accused of the murder of a U.S. marshal.
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?
6.4
/42/

Texas Stagecoach (1940)
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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?
5.4
/68/
40

Arizona Cyclone (1941)
Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....
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?
6.7
/66/

The Return of Wild Bill (1940)
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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?
6.0
/63/

Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942)
It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.
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5.8
/17/
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Two-Fisted Rangers (1939)
Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns that Jack Rand, powerful overlord of the town is to blame. After Rand murders newspaper publisher Jordan Webster, Thad sets out to put him behind bars.
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?
6.6
/31/
60
/1/

Blazing Six Shooters (1940)
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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69
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6.0
/203/
80
/2/

The Swordsman (1948)
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
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5.3
/130/
55
/2/
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/2/

Criminals Within (1941)
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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50
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5.5
/120/
55
/2/
40
/3/

The Gold Racket (1937)
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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?
6.5
/54/

Courage of the West (1937)
Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices.
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48
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5.8
/358/
46
/3/
57
/7/

Desperate Search (1952)
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
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?
4.9
/68/
25
/2/
40
/1/

Man on a Bus (1955)
Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass the time, each begins to tell the story behind their emigration to Israel.
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43
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4.7
/222/
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/3/
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/5/

Minstrel Man (1944)
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.
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fuboTV
63
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6.0
/167/
100
/1/
30
/2/

The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940)
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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?
5.2
/65/
20
/1/

Navy Spy (1937)
A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.
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?
5.4
/93/
50
/3/

The Spy Ring (1938)
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
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58
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6.3
/563/
53
/13/
61
/9/
3.4
/215/
45
/3/

The Halliday Brand (1957)
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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61
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6.2
/314/
66
/3/
58
/6/

The Return of October (1948)
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
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?
6.0
/98/
40
/2/

The Silver Bullet (1942)
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
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66
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6.5
/609/
71
/15/
63
/10/

Retreat, Hell! (1952)
During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
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47
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5.2
/288/
45
/4/
50
/6/
40
/5/
50
/3/

Bombs Over Burma (1942)
The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
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36
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5.2
/57/
20
/1/

Secrets of a Co-Ed (1942)
An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.
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Amazon Prime Video
52
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5.9
/590/
43
/3/
56
/12/

That Gang of Mine (1940)
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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Amazon Prime Video
60
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5.9
/655/
58
/6/
61
/9/

Pride of the Bowery (1940)
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
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MGM Plus
54
?
5.6
/700/
54
/5/
53
/11/

Boys of the City (1940)
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.


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