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The Cool and the Crazy
KansasSeven savage punks on a weekend binge of violence! — High school thug is front man for a local marijuana ring.
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Missouri The 1920sOne of the Great Adventures of Our Time! — Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Kansas The 1880sThe Wildest Gunfight in the History of the West! — Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Baby Face Nelson
Illinois The 1930sthe baby-face punk who became the FBI's PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1! — Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
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The Pajama Game
IowaBased on the hit Broadway musical, featuring the choreography of Bob Fosse. — Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! Written by A.L. Beneteau
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Chicago Confidential
IllinoisIt Rips Through "Chi" Like A Hurricane! — In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
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Raintree County
Indiana The 1860sIn The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance — In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
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Beginning of the End
IllinoisNew thrills! New shocks! New terror! — 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?
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All Mine to Give
Wisconsin The 1850sSIX KIDS ON A TRUE AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURE! — This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
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The True Story of Jesse James
MinnesotaThe real story… really told for the first time! — Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.
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The Delinquents
KansasThis is the hard-hitting motion picture that takes off the kid gloves and puts on the brass knuckles in a smashing expose of today's children of violence - who just "gotta have action"! — A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.
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Mister Cory
WisconsinAn opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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The Joker Is Wild
Illinois The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe Most Electric Performance That Ever Shocked and Fascinated an Audience! — Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker (Ted de Corsia). A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack (Eddie Albert), who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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The Big Land
Missouri The 1860sOh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock. — Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
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The Harder They Fall
IllinoisNo Punches Pulled! If you thought "On The Waterfront" hit hard... wait till you see this one! — Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Picnic
KansasUnsurpassed! Unforgettable! — Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
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7th Cavalry
North Dakota The 1870sCHARGING THE BATTLE LINES OF THE SIOUX AND THE CHEYENNES! — An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
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Friendly Persuasion
Indiana The 1860sHere's A Superb Motion Picture Full Of Fun...Laughter and Happiness — The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Hollywood or Bust
IllinoisA COAST TO COAST FUN TOOT! — The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
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The Rainmaker
Kansas The 1930sIt's about the magic that makes a woman beautiful when she's wanted by a man! — Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
IllinoisTHRILLING ADVENTURES...frontier giants join forces to challenge the might of the River Raiders. — Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
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The Proud Ones
KansasA MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match! — Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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The Naked Hills
Indiana The 1840sTracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
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The Rawhide Years
MissouriTHE GAMBLER...THE GUNSLINGER...THE RIVER LADY KNOWN AS 'ZOE'...They Risked Their Luck On A Turn Of A Card...Their Lives On The Draw Of A Gun! — Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
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A City Decides
Missouri The 1950sA City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 1956.
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Inside Detroit
Michigan The 1950sIT'S DYNAMITE! — Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
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Savage Fury
IndianaTERRIFYING ADVENTURE From the Heart of DARKEST AFRICA! — Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
IllinoisAn 'untouchable' theme…an unusual motion picture! — A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
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The Desperate Hours
IndianaA reign of violence sweeps the screen — Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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Rage at Dawn
IndianaSHOWDOWN AT SUNUP! — In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint (Denver Pyle) is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura (Mala Powers), who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Kansas The 1920s The 1910sA jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s! — In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
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The Far Horizons
North Dakota Iowa Nebraska Missouri The 1800sVirginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
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Wichita
KansasTHE TRUE SAVAGE STORY OF WYATT EARP! — Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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Seven Angry Men
Kansas The 1850sViolent as the Life They Lived! — Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1955 period drama about abolitionist John Brown's crusade to free the slaves stars Raymond Massey, Jeffrey Hunter, Debra Paget, Larry Pennell, Leo Gordon, James Best, John Smith, Dennis Weaver, James Edwards, Guy Williams, James Anderson, Dabbs Greer, Robert "Smoki" Whitfield and Tom Irish.
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Chicago Syndicate
IllinoisSmashing the nation's worst crime ring! — An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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Target Earth
IllinoisRaw Panic The Screen Never Dared Reveal! — Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.
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The Human Jungle
IllinoisThe inside police story ! — Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
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Carmen Jones
Illinois The 1940sSomething Really New! Something Truly Different! — The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
KansasThe Most Glamorous Entertainment Of Your Lifetime in CinemaScope. You See It Without Glasses! — Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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Calamity Jane
South DakotaWarner Bros.' sky highest, smile widest, wild and woolliest Western of 'em all! — Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Indiana The 1910sThey're Wooin' and Doin' The Things Boy and Girls Like To Do... — Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
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The Naked Spur
Kansas The 1860sPacked with Technicolor Thrills! — Howard Kemp has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate and former Union soldier Roy Anderson. Thinking Kemp is a sheriff, they agree to help for a small fee. When they catch Vandergroat, he tells them Kemp is pursuing a $5,000 bounty. After demanding equal shares, the uneasy alliance heads for Kansas as Vandergroat tries to turn them against each other.
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City That Never Sleeps
Illinois...from the Honky Tonks to the penthouses...the creeps, the hoods, the killers come out to war with the city! — Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Kansas The 1860sTHE SCREEN'S GREATEST OUTDOOR STAR — Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
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The Nebraskan
Nebraska The 1860sIf the Indians didn't get them... they'd get each other! — War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.
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Sweethearts on Parade
Indiana The 1870sTHE SECRET THRILL THAT EVERY WOMAN REMEMBERS...and will never tell! — Cam Ellerby brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend.
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The All American
IllinoisA family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.
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Saginaw Trail
Michigan The 1820sGENE CLEARS THE WOODS OF RENEGADES...and runs them out of Michigan Territory! — Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
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Meet Me at the Fair
Missouri The 1900sIn 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
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Rebel City
Kansas The 1860sHis guns were loaded for one town... one man... one roaring moment of revenge! — Rebel City is a "B" western with "A" aspirations. Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself. As always, the least likely suspect is the guilty party (though sharp-eyed viewers were wise to the villain from the first reel). Marjorie Lord co-stars as Jane Dudley, the comely operator of the local freight line who helps Graham in his task. Producer Thomas M. Fennelly and director Thomas Carr later collaborated on the Richard Diamond TV series.
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