Sam Rice
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One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Citizen Kane
Orson Wells was 26 when he made his first feature film Citizen Kane. The film became known as one of the greatest of all time and earned him international celebrity. The story is about the publishing business and how one thrill-seeker’s struggle for power negatively affected everybody he came in contact with and eventually lead to a merciless war.
The Bank Dick
The Bank Dick is a comedy from 1940 starring W.C. Fields (who also wrote the story). The film is one of the greatest works from an American comedian.
Knute Rockne All American
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Second Fiddle
Studio publicist (Power) discovers Minnesota skating teacher (Henie) and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Code of the Secret Service
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
The Devil's Saddle Legion
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor.
The Cherokee Strip
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Land Beyond the Law
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
Guns of the Pecos
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
Blazing Sixes
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
Black Legion
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Treachery Rides the Range
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty.
Trailin' West
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
Road Gang
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
California Mail
A 1936 B-western detailing early days of the Pony express. Starring Dick Foran and Linda Perry.
Bullets or Ballots
A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
Brides Are Like That
Fred supports his jobless college-grad nephew Bill, who lives off his uncle's apple grove wealth. Bill, a dreamer and golfer, convinces Hazel to marry him instead of Doc Jenkins, but now needs work.
Moonlight on the Prairie
A singing medicine-show cowboy (Dick Foran) and his magician partner (George E. Stone) catch a killer.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.