Category: 1940s

Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a bellhop at a St. Louis hotel who daydreams about helping catch Rebel spies. He’d like nothing better than to be a member of …

John Wayne plays John Breen, the fighting Kentuckian of the film’s title. But in opening scene, he tries to delay rejoining his fellow Kentuckians on their 800-mile march by …

Wallace Beery plays Bill Bragg, who’s looking forward to a tall cold beer after leading a 20-mule team hauling a load of borax through Death Valley to the town …

Wallace Beery is Marmaduke Baggot, who thinks of robbing the mail wagon, but winds up chasing off other holdup men instead. And hence he meets Clementine “Tiny” Tucker and …

Barbara Stanwyck is Hannah Sempler, a lovely young woman living in Philadelphia in 1848 and engaged to be married to a much older businessman made Cadwallader when she falls …

Errol Flynn is Jeb Stuart and Ronald Reagan is George Custer, West Point classmates punished for getting into a fight with colleague Carl Rader over abolition by being assigned …

Henry Fonda is Frank James, trying to live a quiet life as a farmer in the Ozarks under the name of Ben Woodson. Then comes news of his brother’s …

Van Johnson is Henry Carson, a young man who shows up at the MacBean farm in post-Civil War Missouri and seems intent on staying a while. That bothers Gill …

Randolph Scott is Vance Cordell, a former Texas ranger who sells his ranch with plans to head to California with his lady love (Jacqueline White as Madge) and her …

Evelyn Keyes is Hannah Brockway, a red-haired beauty who plans to marry Sam Martin (Willard Parker), town doc in Prairie Dog, and settle down to a quiet life in …