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The Medicine Man – Jack Benny, Adolph Milar

 

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Betty Bronson and Billy Butts star as the children of a cruel shopkeeper who sneak out to see a medicine man named Dr. Harvey (Jack Benny) perform. Catching them, the angry, abusive father decides to make his daughter marry an unwholesome widower (played by Adolph Milar) and she goes to her crush, Dr. Harvey, for help.

Starring: Jack Benny and Adolph Milar

Directed By: Scott Pembrooke

Written By: Ladye Horton, Elliot Lester, Eve Unsell

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Run Time: 66 minutes

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Blazing Arrows (AKA Fighting Caravans)

 

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In this talking picture based on Zane Grey’s story of the same name, a young frontier scout (Gary Cooper) helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love with an attractive French orphan (Lily Damita).

Starring: Gary Cooper, Lily Damita and Ernest Torrence

Directed By: Otto Brower & David Burton

Written By: Zane Grey (novel), Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore Jr., Keene Thompson

Genre: Western, Romance

Alternate Title: Fighting Caravans (original title)

Run Time: 92 minutes

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The Green Promise (AKA Raging Waters)

 

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A stubborn, widowed father (Walter Brennan) won’t listen to anyone about how to modernize and improve his farm. His three daughters live with him, and the oldest one, a teenager, has fallen in love with a local boy. However, she knows that she is expected to help her father work the farm and is torn between her love for the local boy and her father’s expectations. Also stars Natalie Wood, Marguerite Chapman, and Ted Donaldson.

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Starring: Marguerite Chapman, Walter Brennan, Robert Paige and Natalie Wood

Directed By: William D. Russell

Written By: Monte Collins

Alternate Title: Raging Waters

Genre: Drama

Run Time: 93 minutes

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King of the Cowboys – Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette

 

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This 1943 Western stars Roy Rogers, the singing cowboy. Rogers and his gang of cowboys go undercover to catch a gang of saboteurs who are blowing up government warehouses.

Starring: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and Bob Nolan

Directed By: Joseph Kane

Written By: J. Benton Cheney, Oliver Cooper, Hal Long (story)

Genre: Western

Run Time: 67 minutes

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Captain Sirocco (AKA The Pirates of Capri)

 

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Count Amalfi (Louis Hayward), using the assumed name of Captain Sirocco, heads a group of men called “The Pirates of Capri” who are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1779. The Queen (Binnie Barnes) is advised of a pirate’s assault on a member of her court and seeks to escape to Palermo. But first, she’s advised to attend a ball that Amalfi is holding for his fiancée (Mariella Lotti) who is unaware of Amalfi’s dual identity.

Starring: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes and Mariella Lotti

Directed By: Edgar G. Ulmer

Written By: Giorgio Moser, Golfiero Colonna

Alternate Titles: The Pirates of Capri; The Masked Pirate; I Pirati di Capri

Run Time: 94 minutes

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Utopia (AKA Atoll K; Atollo K; Escapade)

 

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This French/Italian film marks the final screen appearance of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. After receiving news that he would inherit an island, Laurel, along with Hardy, leaves at once to visit. With a cook, a stowaway, and a young woman escaping her fiancé in tow, the ship maroons on an atoll, and the passengers set up a government there. After the comic duo discovers Uranium on the island, the largest world powers fight over the atoll.

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Directed By: Leo Joannon

Written By: John D. Klorer

Alternate Titles: Atoll K; Atollo K; Escapade; Robinson Crusoeland

Genre: Comedy

Run Time: 100 minutes

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