Jack A. Marta

Nacimiento : 1903-03-04, Laurin, Montana, USA

Muerte : 1991-06-26

Películas

Billy Jack Goes to Washington
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After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will play along with their shady deals and not cause any problems. They decide on Billy Jack, currently sitting in prison after being sent to jail at the end of his previous film, as they don't expect him to be capable of much, and they think he will attract young voters to the party.
The Master Gunfighter
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Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.
Con la misma moneda
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Un hombre mata a un policía en defensa propia y le condenan a cuatro años de cárcel. Jura vengarse del alcalde de la ciudad y del jefe de policía.
The Trial of Billy Jack
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After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The utopian existence of the school is characterized by everything ranging from "yoga sports" to muckracking journalism. The diverse student population airs scathing political exposes on their privately owned television station. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism. Billy Jack is released and things heat up for the school. Students are threatened and abused and the Native Americans in the neighboring village are taunted and mistreated. After Billy Jack undergoes a vision quest, the governor and the police plot to permanently put an end to their liberal shenanigans, leaving it up to Billy Jack to save the day.
Chase
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A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.
Partners in Crime
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A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
Pisando Fuerte
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Buford Pusser, una antigua gloria local del béisbol, vuelve a casa después de servir en el ejército. Al ver que su pueblo está dominado por la mafia, decide hacerse sheriff para acabar con la corrupción y garantizar el cumplimiento de la ley. Drama basado en la historia de un bateador de béisbol que fue sheriff de Tennessee.
Pesadilla en la nieve
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Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with icy acceptance from her mother-in-law, then getting stranded with her in a blizzard, Francesca begins to discover terrifying secrets about her husband's family.
Emergency! [Pilot]
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The pilot movie to the hit series about Los Angeles paramedics and their interaction with the fire department and hospital system.
El diablo sobre ruedas
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Cuando David intenta adelantar a un camión cisterna no se imagina que el conductor se lo tomará como una ofensa personal. A partir de ese momento, el diabólico camionero someterá a David a una persecución mortal...
A Howling in the Woods
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A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night.
The City
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The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.
Eso del Matrimonio
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Tres historias diferentes sobre diversa gente que pasa unos días en una habitación concreta de un famoso hotel de Nueva York: una pareja celebrando su 25 aniversario, un productor intentando acostarse con su ex, y unos padres intentando que su hija encerrada en el baño salga y de el “si, quiero”.
Dial Hot Line
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The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
The Challengers
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Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
Any Second Now
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A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.
The Perils of Pauline
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Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
La ingenua explosiva
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El rancho familiar de Catherine "Cat" Balou (Jane Fonda) se ve amenazado por la inminente llegada del ferrocarril. La joven maestra de escuela, empeñada en conservar sus raíces, busca la ayuda de Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin), pero descubre que es el pistolero más borracho de todo el Oeste. Cuando su padre muere asesinado por matones a sueldo de la compañía del ferrocarril, ella jura vengarse.
Angel Baby
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A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.
La araña
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Una araña gigante es hallada dentro de una cueva. A pesar de estar muerta y empacada para su estudio en una universidad, revive a los compases del rock´n´roll, para iniciar la consabida destrucción.
The Man Who Died Twice
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An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
La guerra de la bestia gigante
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Una misteriosa serie de robos de camiones de comida hace a los oficiales del gobierno sospechar que el Hombre Colosal de 20 metros de alto no esté muerto. Secuela de "The Amazing Colossal Man" ("El asombroso hombre creciente").
La tigresa de texas
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Las andanzas criminales de Bonnie Parker y Clyde Barrow (aquí llamado Guy Darrow) con su banda en el medio oeste americano durante los años treinta.
Juvenile Jungle
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Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim.
Panama Sal
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The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis takes a liking to Sal, and decides to do the "My Fair Lady" bit. He takes the girl back to the States, where, after teaching her the social graces, he makes her famous as a high-toned supper club songstress. Along the way, Dennis falls in love with Sal, much to the dismay of his wealthy pals, who try to break up the romance.
The Wayward Girl
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Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
Taming Sutton’s Gal
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John Lupton portrays a vacationing city-boy who takes a room in a remote hunting lodge. He soon finds himself in a lick of hillbilly trouble when he catches the eye of a moonshiner's meretricious wife. Low budget "white lightnin'" dramedy released to scant notice in 1957.
Last Stagecoach West
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The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
Beginning of the End
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An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Spoilers of the Forest
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Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
Affair in Reno
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The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an opportunistic gambler.
Lisboa
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Época de la Guerra Fría. Un capitán del ejército es contratado por una atractiva mujer para que localice a su marido, prisionero detrás del Telón de Acero. Sin embargo, todo resulta ser una trampa bien urdida con fines económicos.
Come Next Spring
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Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
La última orden
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En el año 1830, Texas era un inmenso territorio, al norte de Río Grande, que pertenecía a la República de México. El Presidente de este país, el general Santana, había permitido el asentamiento de colonos americanos en esas tierras, que acabaron formando un Estado dentro de la República Mexicana. Pero la política despótica de Santana puso a los texanos en pie de guerra. La primera batalla tuvo lugar en El Álamo, un fuerte situado en la afueras de la ciudad de San Antonio, donde se refugiaron los cabecillas de la insurrección. Santana cercó y atacó el fuerte con un poderoso ejército. El Álamo estaba bajo el mando del coronel Jim Bowie (Sterling Hayden), cuyo lugarteniente era el abogado Bill Travis. (FILMAFFINITY)
Titanes de la montaña
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Llamado por un telegrama, un ingeniero regresa al coto maderero de su padre y encuentra que éste ha muerto, probablemente asesinado. Se queda en el lugar para averiguar la verdad y seguir explotando el negocio del padre. El hombre que posee la mitad del negocio y que quiere eliminarlo, le propone comprarle su parte, pero al no aceptarlo se entabla una lucha entre los dos hombres, descubriéndose al final que el primero era el asesino y que también había matado al padre de la joven de la cual los dos están enamorados.
Hell's Outpost
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A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
Aventura en Shanghai
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Shanghai, China. Los últimos occidentales expatriados que aún viven en la ciudad son retenidos en un hotel por las autoridades comunistas con el fin de encontrar al espía que se esconde entre ellos.
Extraña aventura
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Un comerciante y su esposa neoyorkina se dirigen en caravana a California. El hombre es asesinado durante el camino, y su mujer se descubre embarazada. Continúa adelante con la esperanza de encontrar un hombre y un hogar.
Rumbo a Java
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Finales del siglo XIX. En la costa de la isla de Java, en las Indias Orientales Neerlandesas, el capitán de un barco mercante trata de encontrar un tesoro hundido en las profundidades del océano: nada menos que 10000 piedras preciosas. Pero hay un inconveniente... un volcán cercano está a punto de entrar en erupción.
Woman of the North Country
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In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
Honeychile
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A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
Spoilers of the Plains
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An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.
North of the Great Divide
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An Indian agent comes to the rescue when a local tribe's fishing rights are threatened by a greedy cannery owner.
Sunset in the West
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Roy puts a stop to gun smuggling.
Trigger, Jr.
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Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day.
Rock Island Trail
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A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Llanura sin ley
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Un mariscal se infiltra para detener a una banda de cuatreros, pero terminará siendo descubierto.
Hellfire
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Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
The Last Bandit
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About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
The Far Frontier
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Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
The Plunderers
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Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum (Cameron) to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
Night Time in Nevada
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Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
The Gallant Legion
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When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
Un rancho en California
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Roy, un vaquero, descubre que su caballo, Trigger, ha sido robado por una banda de forajidos. Inmediatamente se pone en marcha para recuperarlo.
Bill and Coo
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The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill! In other words, every single role in this film is played by birds. Actual birds.
The Gay Ranchero
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Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.
Las campanas de San Angelo
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Un bandido está sacando dinero de una mina mexicana e introduciéndolo en los Estadios Unidos. Pronnto será descubierto por un guardia de la frontera, Rogers, desencadenándose un torrente de sucesos...
That Brennan Girl
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Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
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An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
Murder in the Music Hall
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An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Dakota
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Un cowboy ayuda a los granjeros de trigo de Dakota contra los saqueadores de terrenos. Contará con la ayuda de la hija de un magnate ferroviario.
Mexicana
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A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.
Hitchhike to Happiness
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In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Earl Carroll Vanities
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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
Brazil
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Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
The Port of 40 Thieves
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A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
The Yellow Rose of Texas
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Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.
Man from Frisco
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Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
My Best Gal
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A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
Whispering Footsteps
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An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
Nobody's Darling
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Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
The West Side Kid
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Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
Someone to Remember
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An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
Bordertown Gun Fighters
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Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been sent to break it up. When Bill intercepts a shipment of tickets to New Mexico he forces Shelby to send incriminating papers in the next shipment. Bill captures these also and now has the evidence he needs to go after Shelby.
Tahiti Honey
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The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
Hit Parade of 1943
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When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
London Blackout Murders
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A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
Ridin' Down the Canyon
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Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.
Heart of the Golden West
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Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
Los tigres voladores
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Jim Gordon manda una unidad de los famosos Tigres Voladores, el grupo de voluntarios americanos que combatió a los japoneses en China, antes de que los Estados Unidos entraran en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gordon debe enviar a su grupo de pilotos contra un enemigo muy superior, mientras lidia con las dispares personalidades de sus componentes.
En el viejo California
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Tom Craig (John Wayne) llega a Sacramento (California) con el fin de establecer allí una farmacia. Pero la ciudad está dominada por Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker), y muy pronto estallará la guerra entre ambos.
The Girl from Alaska
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A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
Red River Valley
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To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
Down Mexico Way
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
Ice-Capades
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Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Mountain Moonlight
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A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.
Puddin' Head
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On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders.....
Tormenta en la ciudad
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John Reynolds debe ir a Nueva Orleans para investigar un juego de apuestas que está siendo un fraude. Allí conocerá a Julie, la hija del General Mirbeau, que está implicado en esta lotería fraudulenta, y ambos se enamorarán. Sin embargo, la historia sufre un giro cuando Mirbeau es asesinado. Entretenido film con el vaquero John Wayne metido de lleno en la justicia y enamorándose de quien no debe. John Reynolds, viaja a Nueva Orleans para acabar con una lotería amañada. En el proceso, se enamorará de Julie Mirbeau, que resulta ser la hija del General Mirbeau, quien maneja la lotería.
Sis Hopkins
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An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
La rueda de la fortuna
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Lynn Hollister es un letrado que trata de averiguar lo que se oculta tras el asesinato de un amigo. Su principal sospechoso es Tom Cameron, pero Hollister pronto se enamorará de Sabra, la hija de éste.
Robin Hood of the Pecos
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Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
Behind the News
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As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
The Border Legion
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Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
Hit Parade of 1941
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Girl from God's Country
Director of Photography
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
Grand Ole Opry
Director of Photography
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Women in War
Director of Photography
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
Mando siniestro
Director of Photography
John Wayne encarna a Bob Seton, un cowboy de Tejas que llega a un pueblo de Kansas llamado Lawrence en los oscuros días anteriores al estallido de la Guerra Civil Americana.
Pioneers of the West
Director of Photography
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.
Smuggled Cargo
Director of Photography
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Should Husbands Work?
Director of Photography
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
Mickey the Kid
Director of Photography
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
Blue Montana Skies
Director of Photography
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border.
Southward Ho!
Director of Photography
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Rough Riders' Round-up
Director of Photography
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
Come On, Rangers
Director of Photography
A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot.
Under Western Stars
Director of Photography
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
Invisible Enemy
Director of Photography
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Stardust
Director of Photography
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.
El perfecto ejemplar
Director of Photography
Gerald Wicks ha sido educado con gran rigidez por una abuela que quiere convertirlo en el perfecto caballero de los años 30, pero, cuando Mona Carter entra en su vida, Gerald decide lanzarse a la aventura y conquistar el corazón de la entusiasta muchacha.
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Director of Photography
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Hit the Saddle
Director of Photography
Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.
The Riders of the Whistling Skull
Director of Photography
When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.
The Mandarin Mystery
Director of Photography
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Rey de los Pecos
Director of Photography
John Clayborn es un abogado que se quedó huérfano siendo niño, cuando el ganadero Stiles mató a sus padres. Convertido en un hombre, lo único que quiere es acabar con él y con su monopolio del agua, utilizando para ello la ley.
Waterfront Lady
Camera Operator
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Streamline Express
Director of Photography
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
The Red Dance
Director of Photography
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
The Loves of Carmen
Assistant Camera
The Loves of Carmen is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, stars Dolores del Río in the title role, and Don Alvarado as Jose.