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Fandango at Home Free
75
7.2
/26349/
71
/674/
68
/447/
3.5
/23899/
93
/58/
77
/653/
74
/18/

Them! (1954)
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
7.0
/13570/
73
/394/
65
/225/
3.3
/6687/
90
/10/
74
/188/
79
/7/

Hondo (1953)
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
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The Roku Channel
72
7.0
/36325/
70
/950/
67
/662/
3.4
/36200/
87
/69/
73
/569/

The Thing from Another World (1951)
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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YouTube TV
74
69
7.4
/8393/
74
/189/
67
/96/
3.7
/2673/
78
/9/
82
/122/

Battleground (1949)
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
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67
7.1
/6112/
70
/133/
66
/149/
3.9
/8324/
100
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/43/

Wagon Master (1950)
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.
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61
7.2
/3179/
75
/68/
69
/36/
3.5
/1462/
100
/8/
78
/42/

The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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MGM Plus
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54
6.8
/4047/
67
/76/
62
/67/
3.3
/996/
86
/7/
61
/46/

Island in the Sky (1953)
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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42
6.4
/3732/
70
/92/
61
/48/
3.2
/722/
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/31/

The Sea Chase (1955)
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
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30
6.9
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/17/
3.3
/388/
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Carbine Williams (1952)
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
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6.4
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/24/
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/20/
3.4
/634/
40
/54/

Horizons West (1952)
Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
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26
5.2
/2480/
51
/27/
49
/28/
2.8
/516/
38
/249/

Big Jim McLain (1952)
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
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26
6.8
/1619/
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/23/
57
/27/
3.3
/523/
37
/34/

The People Against O'Hara (1951)
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
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The Roku Channel
59
25
6.1
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48
/7/
62
/12/
62
/47/

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
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61
19
7.2
/550/
69
/20/
65
/10/
42
/104/

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton.
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Hoopla
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18
6.2
/1465/
68
/32/
62
/16/
3.2
/311/
45
/12/

Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
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16
6.9
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/17/
65
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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987)
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twelve years ago, Marshal Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty Russell.
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16
6.4
/1218/
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/19/
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/16/
3.3
/368/

Sierra (1950)
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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The Roku Channel
59
13
6.3
/915/
67
/21/
64
/13/
3.3
/285/
38
/7/

Gun the Man Down (1956)
An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with one thing on his mind: Revenge.
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47
10
5.4
/863/
48
/8/
55
/11/
3.0
/277/
20
/9/

The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. When they come unstuck with corsets they embark on the even more hazardous project of selling barbed wire to highly suspicious Texas cowboys.
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56
10
6.3
/551/
70
/8/
56
/5/
40
/18/

Her Twelve Men (1954)
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
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48
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7.7
/179/
30
/4/
37
/4/

The Horror Show (1979)
A history of horror movies.
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6.8
/16/
40
/2/
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John Wayne Standing Tall (1989)
Profile of one of the world's most popular motion picture stars, told through interviews with some of the artists who worked with him, family, friends, and excerpts from many of his films and television appearances.
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60
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7.2
/461/
51
/5/
60
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Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994)
Retired marshal Dillon goes after a 15 year old boy who is determined to kill the men responsible for the murder of his mother during a stagecoach robbery
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51
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6.0
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35
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Cavalry Scout (1951)
Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to the Soiux and Cheyenne. The trail leads him to Red Bluff where, aided by Claire Corville, he and the audience discover together and real quick like that Martin Gavin, a supposedly-honest operator of a freight line, has the guns and intends to exchange them to the Indians for furs.
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6.1
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55
/8/

Roses Are Red (1947)
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
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10
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The Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)
A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and more.
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66
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7.2
/430/
70
/12/
55
/4/

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1995)
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been gunned down in cold blood and an eyewitness says Dillon was the murderer.
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52
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35
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The Veils of Bagdad (1953)
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
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Starz
58
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6.6
/636/
58
/12/
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/9/

The Lone Hand (1953)
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws. After the murder of a Pinkerton's detective, the farmers decide to unite against the bandits, but Hallock rejects the proposal. To the astonishment of his son and his fiancée, Hallock decides to join the outlaws.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
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6.1
/522/
62
/15/
56
/5/

Red River (1988)
Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
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6.4
/620/
47
/4/
67
/9/

Hellgate (1952)
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
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64
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6.1
/299/
59
/10/
44
/6/
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/7/
71
/6/

Wyoming Mail (1950)
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
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56
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6.2
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Iron Man (1951)
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
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44
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5.8
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41
/5/
35
/4/

Flame of the Islands (1955)
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
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5.4
/130/
70
/1/
60
/1/

The Man from Texas (1948)
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
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Hoopla
44
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4.1
/355/
48
/16/
40
/9/

Two Lost Worlds (1951)
Shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted island inhabited by prehistoric beasts.
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61
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6.8
/505/
50
/4/
67
/5/

The Girl in White (1952)
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
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69
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7.2
/470/
72
/18/
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992)
Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.


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