Category: Classics

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Roy Rogers, the singing cowboy, is back as an insurance investigator sent out to find a company’s stolen moneybox. Rogers goes undercover as a singer on a showboat (The Yellow Rose of Texas) belonging to Betty Weston (Dale Evans) in search of the culprit behind the robbery.

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Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Grant Withers

Directed By: Joseph Kane

Written By: Jack Townley

Genre: Western

Run Time: 69 minutes

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A young Texan named Jerry Mason (John Wayne) and an old rancher named Jake Bensen (George Hayes) become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. However, things get complicated when Jake is shot by officials, and Jerry is then framed for the murder and arrested. Naturally, Jerry actually survived his terrible “death” and decides to surprise everyone at the trial held for his supposed murderer.

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Written and Directed By: Robert N. Bradbury

Genre: Western

Run TIme: 55 minutes

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This 1943 picture is the true story of the Carlson’s Raiders and their actions after Pearl Harbor. Robert Mitchum and Randolph Scott star in this World War II drama that displays the true heroism of the soldiers who fought the Japanese on Makin Island.

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Starring: Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr. and Robert Mitchum

Directed By: Ray Enright

Written By: Lucien Hubbard & Joseph Hoffman

Alternate Title: 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders

Genre: War, Drama

Run Time: 88 minutes

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James Cagney stars in the 1936 crime mystery about Johnny Cave, a new chief deputy inspector who must investigate the ploys of a crooked government official (played by Robert Glecker). Cave is forced to figure out with whom his loyalty lays.

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Starring: James Cagney, Mae Clarke and James Burke

Directed By: John G. Blystone

Written By: James Edward Grant, Henry McCarty, Henry Johnson, Harry Ruskin

Alternate Titles: A Great Guy; Pluck of the Irish

Genre: Mystery, Crime

Run Time: 75 minutes

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This 1946 comedy starring Paul Muni and Claude Rains puts a comical twist the concept of life after death. After Eddie Cagel (Muni) is murdered, he goes to the underworld where he makes a deal with the Devil (Rains) for another chance at life. But can Eddie hold up his part of the bargain?

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Starring: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter and Claude Rains

Directed By: Archie Mayo

Written By: Harry Segall, Roland Kibbee

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Run Time: 100 minutes

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Greek father (Gilbert Roland) and son (Robert Wagner) divers decide to search for sponges off the coast of Florida. But after being robbed, they agree to take the crooks to a dangerous reef to dive for more. Alas, the father suffers a fatal accident, leaving his son to carry on the business with a female companion (Terry Moore).

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Starring: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish and Peter Graves

Directed By: Robert D. Webb

Written By: A. I . Bezzerides

Genre: Action, Adventure

Run Time: 102 minutes