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Reunion in Reno
NevadaA little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
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Dark City
NevadaA tense, tough drama of underworld violence and revenge ! — Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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My Friend Irma Goes West
NevadaYou'll Say: "FUNNIEST" picture of my Life! — Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
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Saddle Tramp
Nevada The 19th CenturyCarefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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Operation Haylift
NevadaA pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.
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The Lady Gambles
NevadaWhen Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Undertow
NevadaEvery bullet in Chicago had his name on it! — Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.
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The Last Bandit
NevadaThey chased the rumor of gold 'cross half a continent...men who knew only how to rob and kill...and their women who lived only for love! — 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.
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Silver River
Nevada The 1860sWHERE MEN OF IRON SHOOT IT OUT FOR A CITY OF SILVER — Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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Night Time in Nevada
NevadaNIGHTS OF THRILLING EXCITEMENT! DAYS OF DANGER!...when train-raiding rustlers ride straight into trouble — 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.
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Desert Fury
NevadaTwo men wanted her love ... The third wanted her life ! — The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
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Born to Kill
NevadaTHE COLDEST KILLER A WOMAN EVER LOVED — Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.
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Driftwood
NevadaA young Natalie Wood stars as an orphan who helps a doctor (Dean Jagger) fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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Heldorado
NevadaThere's a treat on every trail... a thrill in every spill... in hootin'... howlin'... HELDORADO! — Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker who originated the idea (at least, in this film).In Las Vegas, Roy meets heiress Carol Randall, who has been selected as the Queen of the Heldorado. Roy is informed that the F.B.I. wants an immediate investigation of the counterfeit thousand dollar bills that are being passed over the gambling tables at the casino.
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Maisie Goes to Reno
Nevada The 1940sYOU'LL BE CRAZY ABOUT MAISIE! — A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Nevada The 1880sLynch law rules the mob! — Gil Carter and Art Croft ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, Carter and Croft eventually join a posse out to get the criminals, who also may be involved in a recent shooting. When the posse closes in on a group that could be the fugitives, they must decide on a course of action, with numerous lives hanging in the balance.
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Sullivan's Travels
Nevada The 1930sA Happy-Go Lucky Hitch-Hiker on the Highway to happiness! He wanted to see the world . . . but wound up in Lover's Lane! — Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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No Hands on the Clock
NevadaMYSTERY...MADNESS...MURDER! — A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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Flying Blind
NevadaA plane-load of thrills ... as two lovers battle spies in the skies! — A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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Virginia City
NevadaGo West!...to Virginia City...for excitement, for adventure, for primitive romance!!! — Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
NevadaRadio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Granny Get Your Gun
NevadaShe was the roughest toughest...Sweetest old gal in the West! — An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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The Women
NevadaIt's all about men! — A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Charlie Chan in Reno
NevadaMary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
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Reno
NevadaAll he had to thank Reno for was lovely Jessie Gibbs...And now he was losing her! — A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Battle of Greed
NevadaWhen silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
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Speed Limited
NevadaA wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
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The Man From Utah
NevadaFRAMED BY A GANG of Murderig Thieves! — The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
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Bosko's Picture Show
Nevada The 1930s The 1890sBosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
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Night Life in Reno
NevadaA story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
Nevada The 1890sThis legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch Rector recorded the entire fight, simultaneously creating the world's first known feature film, as the resulting footage lasted over 90 minutes in length. About a quarter of the film survives today. Written by Mark Toscano.
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