The Texans (1938)
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Top billed cast
Randolph ScottKirk Jordan
Joan BennettIvy Preston
May RobsonGranna
Walter BrennanChuckawalla
Robert CummingsAlan Sanford
Raymond HattonCal Tuttle
Robert BarratIsaiah Middlebrack
Harvey StephensLt. David Nichols
Francis FordUncle Dud
Everett BrownMan with Watches
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Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright, Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning.
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
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Knight of the Plains (1938)
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On the Great White Trail (1938)
Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.
King of the Sierras (1938)
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The Canadians (1961)
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Young Guns of Texas (1962)
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.
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Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos (1941)
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'in Wrong' Wright (1920)
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