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The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)

Mark Franklin February 7, 2025
Rory Calhoun as Hemp Brown and Beverly Garland as Mona Langley watching a lynch mob gather in The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
Rory Calhoun is Hemp Brown, a cavalry officer leading a payroll and an officer’s lover back to the fort. A former fellow officer, Jed Givens (John Larsh) appears along …
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Saddle Tramp (1950)

Mark Franklin February 6, 2025
Wanda Hendrix as Della rushing to the aid of Chuck Conner (Joel McCrea) following a fight in Saddle Tramp (1950)
Joel McCrea is Chuck Conner, the saddle tramp of the title, a man bound for California, determined to live a life free of responsibility. But en route he decides …
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The Westerner (1940)

Mark Franklin February 5, 2025
Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean listening to a description of Lilly Langtry from Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) in The Westerner (1940)
Gary Cooper plays Cole Harden, a cowboy hauled into Judge Roy Bean’s barroom court on a charge of stealing a horse. Bean’s a hanging judge, and Harden senses the …
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Northwest Outpost (1947)

Mark Franklin February 2, 2025
Nelson Eddy as Capt. Jim Laurence with Ilona Massey as Natalia Alanova in Northwest Outpost (1947)
Ilona Massey is Natalia Alanova, daughter of a Russian general, arriving by ship at Fort Ross, a Russian outpost in 1837 California. She’s young and she’s beautiful, which means …
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Wyoming (1940)

Mark Franklin February 1, 2025
Wallace Beery as Reb Harkness, ready to send a Sioux warrior to his happy hunting ground as Jimmy Kincaid (Bobs Watson) looks on in Wyoming (1940)
Wallace Beery is Reb Harkness, who has a falling out with his partner after a botched bank robbery. The result: He finds himself afoot with a cavalry detail on …
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Kit Carson (1940)

Mark Franklin January 31, 2025
After two years trapping in the Western wilderness, Kit Carson (Jon Hall) and buddies Ape (Ward Bond) and Lopez (Harold Huber) barely escape a Shoshone attack with their own …
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

Mark Franklin January 30, 2025
Bruce Cabot as Wild Bill Hickok, surrounded by grateful ladies, incluidng Constance Bennett as Belle Andrews, after stopping a runaway buckboard in Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Bruce Cabot is Wild Bill Hickok, headed to the Powder River Valley to visit his best friend Ned Nolan and their adopted daughter Janey. Turns out Ned owns a …
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River’s End (1940)

Mark Franklin January 29, 2025
Dennis Morgan is John Keith, a man convicted of killing Roger Cass and sentenced to hang. Instead, he jumps out a courthouse window, leaps on a horse and flees. …
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Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

Mark Franklin January 28, 2025
Ellen Drew as Ellen Dangerfield, with the man she thinks is Pecos Bill (John Howard) under her gun in Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
Someone has been rustling cattle by the hundreds on the 1,000-acre Dangerfield ranch, and aging Cecilia Dangerfield has had enough. So the family matriarch (May Robson) turns to the …
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The Daltons Ride Again (1945)

Mark Franklin January 27, 2025
The Dalton boys -- Noah Beery Jr. as Ben, Kent Taylor as Bob, Alan Curtis as Emmett and Lon Chaney Jr. as Grat -- charge through Skeleton Creek in The Daltons Ride Again (1945)
The Dalton boys — Emmett (Alan Curtis), Grat (Lon Chaney Jr.), Bob (Kent Taylor) and Ben (Noah Beery Jr.) — have decided to hang up their guns, head to …
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