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Topeka
KansasA TRAIL OF GUNSMOKE DREW HIM TO TOPEKA! — Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
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High Noon
Kansas The 1880sThe story of a man who was too proud to run. — Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
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Kansas City Confidential
KansasThe Crime That Shocked The Nation! — A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.
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The Narrow Margin
IllinoisA Fortune If They Seal Her Lips!...A Bullet If They Fail! — A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.
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The Pride of St. Louis
Missouri The 1930s The 1940sThe Story of Dizzy Dean! — The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Carrie
Illinois The 1900sCarrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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The Big Sky
Missouri The 1830sTheirs the great adventure... — Kirk Douglas stars as the determined leader of a band of Tennessee fur trappers who set out to explore the uncharted Missouri river in 1830 and find them selves battling American Indians.
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The Bushwhackers
MissouriREVENGE - Frightening in it's Naked Fury! — Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
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Bugles in the Afternoon
North Dakota The 1870sWHEN FLAMING ARROWS WERE THE SCOURGE OF THE DAKOTA TERRITORY! — Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Illinois The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1940s The 1890sAt the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and others.
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Fort Osage
MissouriLesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort Osage. Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territory. Clay knows that he's in for a lot of trouble because of the treaty-violating activities of white criminals Pickett (Morris Ankrum) and Keane (Douglas Kennedy). Fortunately for the hero, Pickett and Keane double-cross each other somewhere along the line, weakening their ability to foment an all-out Indian attack. Jane Nigh co-stars as the in-the-dark daughter of one of the villains. Fort Osage was produced by Walter Mirisch, who later graduated to such big-budgeters as West Side Story and The Great Escape.
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On Moonlight Bay
Indiana The 1910sThe lovin'est musical in many a moon! — The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
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Excuse My Dust
Indiana The 1890sM.G.M.'s Technicolor SONG and FUN film ! — Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.
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The Whip Hand
WisconsinSCIENCE HARNESSED BY MADMEN TO WIPE OUT AMERICA'S MILLIONS! — A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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Fort Worth
KansasWhen the Lone Star State was split wide open... he linked it together with lead! — Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
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Symphony in Slang
Illinois The 1950sAt the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
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Westward the Women
Illinois Missouri The 1850sThe BIG MGM Spectacle ! HE LED 200 WOMEN ON AN ADVENTURE THAT MOST MEN FEARED TO FACE! — In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates he selects 138 who seem able to survive a months long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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The Mating Season
OhioThe Comedy of the year!!! — Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
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Best of the Badmen
Missouri The 1860sHere they come! — After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
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Native Son
Illinois The 1930sI didn't mean to KILL her! — Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.
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The Wild Blue Yonder
KansasHELL-RIDERS OF THE SKY! — Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
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Little Egypt
Illinois The 1890sTHE SHAPE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! — A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Winchester '73
Kansas The 1870sThe Gun That Won The West! — Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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The Asphalt Jungle
OhioThe City Under the City — Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Dark City
IllinoisA 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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Union Station
IllinoisPolice catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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The Glass Menagerie
MissouriFour Academy Award predictions! Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy — An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
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Kansas Raiders
Kansas The 1860sTHE FURIOUS, FIGHTING STORY OF QUANTRILL'S GUERILLAS! — Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
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Wabash Avenue
Illinois The 1890sAndy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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The Jackpot
IndianaHe had a wife, two kids, a home of his own, a job with a future and then POOR JIMMY WON THE $24,000 RADIO JACKPOT! — Jimmy Stewart's Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.
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Love That Brute
Illinois The 1920sDirector Alexander Hall's 1950 comedy, about a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee, stars Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis, Arthur Treacher, Jay C. Flippen, Barry Kelley, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, John Doucette, Arthur O'Connell and Charles Lane.
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White Heat
IllinoisPick up the pieces folks, Jimmy's in action again! — A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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In the Good Old Summertime
Illinois The 1900sFall in love — In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
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Chicago Deadline
IllinoisHe's a fighting reporter making front page history! — On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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Beyond the Forest
Wisconsin IllinoisNobody's as good as Bette when she's bad! — Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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The Lady Gambles
IllinoisWhen 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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Knock on Any Door
IllinoisIt will shock you but it will hold you spellbound to the end ! — An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Undertow
IllinoisEvery 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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It Happens Every Spring
Missouri The 1940s"oh yeah?" "Oh yeah!" — A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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The Younger Brothers
MinnesotaLURED INTO OUTLAWRY BY A BANDIT QUEEN! — Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
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ADVENTURE towering above the majestic Rockies! — The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
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Call Northside 777
Illinois The 1940s The 1930sIt couldn't happen... but it did! — In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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So Dear to My Heart
Indiana The 1900sA "dilly-dilly" delight! — The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.
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Rachel and the Stranger
Ohio The 18th CenturyOnce was a man, a married man... Who couldn't see the danger Until one day, one fateful day... Along came a Tall, Dark Stranger! — A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
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So This Is New York
IndianaA small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
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June Bride
IndianaWarner Bros. new laugh team in the happiest hit of their lives!!! — A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...
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The Walls of Jericho
Kansas The 1900sTHE TOWN COULDN'T HOLD THESE PEOPLE and THEIR LOVE! — After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julian Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria Wedge, the new bride of Dave's best friend, Tucker Wedge, makes overtures and plays for Dave, much to the displeasure of Dave's hard-drinking wife Belle. Angered by Dave's rebuffs, Algeria induces the state political boss to back Tucker for a Congress race against Dave. Meanwhile, Julia has returned to Jericho, with her law degree, and she and Dave fall in love.
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Isn't It Romantic?
IndianaWhat a sight to see! — Three sisters find romance in post-Civil War Indiana.
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Fighting Father Dunne
Missouri The 1900sThis is His Real-Life Story — A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
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