Bernard B. Ray

Bernard B. Ray

Bernard B. Ray was born Benjamin Shamrayevsky on November 18, 1895 in Moscow, Russia. He and his family immigrated to the U. S. in the early 1900s, settled in New York City, and during this period, the family surname got shortened to "Shamroy". Despite his lack of formal education he found constant work in the movie business starting with Biograph and then D. W. Griffith and Mutual Film Corporation. He worked primarily as a camera operator, but also did film editing and lab work. Eventually he formed Reliable Pictures with Harry S. Webb in 1933. Known for it's cheap westerns starring cowboys such as Tom Tyler, Reliable lasted a until 1938 when Monogram Pictures absorbed it. It was at Reliable that B.B. Ray became a director and known for his western features. After Reliable was gone he attempted to make exploitation and "black" pictures before returning to B-Westerns until the 50's. Bernard B. Ray passed away December 10, 1964 at the Motion Picture Home and Hospital, Woodland Hills, California.

  • Title: Bernard B. Ray
  • Popularity: 0.1802
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1895-11-18
  • Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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  • Also Known As: B.B. Ray, Benjamin Shamrayevsky, Franklin Shamray
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Bernard B. Ray Movies

  • 1936
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    Ambush Valley

    Ambush Valley

    4 1936 HD

    Clay Morgan kills Joel Potter and Marshal Manning has to arrest the brother of the girl he plans to marry.

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  • 1936
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    Ambush Valley

    Ambush Valley

    4 1936 HD

    Clay Morgan kills Joel Potter and Marshal Manning has to arrest the brother of the girl he plans to marry.

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  • 1935
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    Wolf Riders

    Wolf Riders

    1 1935 HD

    Deputy Indian Agent is framed for the murder of a captured fur thief actually killed by his boss in rivalry for affections of a saloon girl.

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  • 1941
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    Dangerous Lady

    Dangerous Lady

    4.4 1941 HD

    Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.

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  • 1935
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    Coyote Trails

    Coyote Trails

    3 1935 HD

    Tom Riley and sidekick Windy arrive at the Baker ranch where horses are being rustled. It appears the culprit is a wild horse, but Tom catches and rides the horse which leads to trouble with the real rustlers.

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  • 1935
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    Coyote Trails

    Coyote Trails

    3 1935 HD

    Tom Riley and sidekick Windy arrive at the Baker ranch where horses are being rustled. It appears the culprit is a wild horse, but Tom catches and rides the horse which leads to trouble with the real rustlers.

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  • 1936
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    Fast Bullets

    Fast Bullets

    4.5 1936 HD

    Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a runaway wagon.

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    The Laramie Kid

    The Laramie Kid

    5 1935 HD

    When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.

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  • 1934
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    Mystery Ranch

    Mystery Ranch

    5 1934 HD

    The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.

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  • 1934
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    Mystery Ranch

    Mystery Ranch

    5 1934 HD

    The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.

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  • 1936
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    Roamin' Wild

    Roamin' Wild

    5 1936 HD

    Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's brother is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his brother's place. Learning that Clark is behind the all the trouble and that he is after the Madison stage line, Tom joins up with Mary Madison to fight Clark while he also looks for his missing brother.

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  • 1936
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    Roamin' Wild

    Roamin' Wild

    5 1936 HD

    Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's brother is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his brother's place. Learning that Clark is behind the all the trouble and that he is after the Madison stage line, Tom joins up with Mary Madison to fight Clark while he also looks for his missing brother.

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  • 1936
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    Santa Fe Bound

    Santa Fe Bound

    1 1936 HD

    Riding toward Santa Fe, Tom Crenshaw shoots a bushwhacker who has killed Dad Bates from ambush. Discovering a money belt on Bates, Tom carries it to town, along with a letter he finds in the pocket of the killer, which offers him the means of identifying either of the dead men. In town, Tom has a run-in with gunman One-Shot Morgan and one of Morgan's henchmen sees Tom with the money belt. Tom poses as the renegade who did the killing and is accepted by Morgan and his gang. Tom's plan is working until one of the gang who knew the killer shows up and denounces him as an impostor.

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  • 1935
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    The Test

    The Test

    2.5 1935 HD

    A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.

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  • 1935
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    Loser's End

    Loser's End

    1 1935 HD

    Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits.

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    Rio Rattler

    Rio Rattler

    6 1935 HD

    A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to assume the Marshal's identity. Mason, the chief, now sends Rattler, the killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom. But when he overhears Tom is a fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder of the Marshal.

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  • 1935
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    Midnight Phantom

    Midnight Phantom

    4.8 1935 HD

    A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.

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  • 1936
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    The Millionaire Kid

    The Millionaire Kid

    5 1936 HD

    The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs away from home. The private detective assigned to watch him tells Mrs. Neville he has been kidnapped. She immediately suspects her husband. Meanwhile, Tommy is selling newspapers in another city. He is attacked by a bully, and is rescued by gangster Terry Mallon and his daughter Kitty. Unaware of his identity, they take him to their beach home. Reporter Breezy Benson is sent to interview Mrs. Neville about the divorce, and is fired when she won't talk to him. He meets Kitty at the beach and is intrigued by her. He meets her father, who is curious but not suspicious as news of the alleged kidnapping has not been reported.

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  • 1936
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    Caryl of the Mountains

    Caryl of the Mountains

    1 1936 HD

    Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!

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  • 1936
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    Vengeance of Rannah

    Vengeance of Rannah

    1 1936 HD

    Insurance Agent Ted Sanders has been called in to investigate a robbery and murder. A deputy also arrives to investigate. But unknown to Ted, the Deputy is a fake and actually part of the gang. The fake plants some of the money in Ted's room so he can arrest him. Then with the help of the gang he plans to finish Ted off.

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  • 1936
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    The Speed Reporter

    The Speed Reporter

    5 1936 HD

    Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.

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    Now or Never

    Now or Never

    1 1935 HD

    A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.

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  • 1937
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    The Silver Trail

    The Silver Trail

    5 1937 HD

    Western, featuring Rin Tin Tin Jr., about a man trying to find an old friend in a town that is trying to deceive him.

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    Never Too Late

    Never Too Late

    4 1935 HD

    A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.

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  • 1935
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    Texas Jack

    Texas Jack

    1 1935 HD

    Jack is looking for the man that was responsible for the death of his sister after he hired her as a school teacher. When he runs into school teacher Ann who was just hired by Corey, he soon realizes Corey is the man he is after. Lacking proof, he works on Corey's nerves hoping to get a confession from him.

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  • 1952
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    Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

    Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

    4.2 1952 HD

    Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.

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  • 1952
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    Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

    Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

    4.2 1952 HD

    Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.

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  • 1936
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    Pinto Rustlers

    Pinto Rustlers

    1 1936 HD

    Tom Evans is a young cowboy orphaned by a band of rustlers. Seeking revenge, Tom pretends to be a notorious ex-con and manages to worm his way into the gang in order to get the goods on the bunch.

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  • 1933
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    At Twelve Midnight

    At Twelve Midnight

    4.5 1933 HD

    A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves

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  • 1940
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    Broken Strings

    Broken Strings

    4.5 1940 HD

    After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

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  • 1940
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    Broken Strings

    Broken Strings

    4.5 1940 HD

    After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

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  • 1940
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    Broken Strings

    Broken Strings

    4.5 1940 HD

    After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

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  • 1942
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    Too Many Women

    Too Many Women

    4.8 1942 HD

    Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister.

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  • 1947
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    Hollywood Barn Dance

    Hollywood Barn Dance

    3.5 1947 HD

    Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the film, but the better-known (on a national scale) Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadors, Jack Guthrie and Jimmy and Leon Short more than make up for that. The slight plot, around 18 songs, begins with Tubb and his band searching for $2000 needed to rebuild their town chuch after it burned down while they were rehearsing in it. Hollywood, here they come!

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  • 1947
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    Hollywood Barn Dance

    Hollywood Barn Dance

    3.5 1947 HD

    Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the film, but the better-known (on a national scale) Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadors, Jack Guthrie and Jimmy and Leon Short more than make up for that. The slight plot, around 18 songs, begins with Tubb and his band searching for $2000 needed to rebuild their town chuch after it burned down while they were rehearsing in it. Hollywood, here they come!

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  • 1936
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    The Crime at Midnight

    The Crime at Midnight

    1 1936 HD

    A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)

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  • 1936
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    The Crime at Midnight

    The Crime at Midnight

    1 1936 HD

    A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)

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  • 1939
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    Smoky Trails

    Smoky Trails

    1 1939 HD

    Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.

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  • 1950
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    Timber Fury

    Timber Fury

    1 1950 HD

    Phyllis Wilson (Laura Lee) returns to the lumber camp owned by her father, Henry Wilson (Sam Flint)), and finds him in a struggle to keep his holdings. Wilson's foreman, McCabe (George Slocum), is employed by Wilson's enemy to destroy his company. Jim Caldwell (David Bruce), an engineer, is hired by Wilson and falls in love with Phyllis. McCabe kills Wilson and Sheriff Williams (Lee Phelps) thinks Caldwell is the killer.

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  • 1950
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    Timber Fury

    Timber Fury

    1 1950 HD

    Phyllis Wilson (Laura Lee) returns to the lumber camp owned by her father, Henry Wilson (Sam Flint)), and finds him in a struggle to keep his holdings. Wilson's foreman, McCabe (George Slocum), is employed by Wilson's enemy to destroy his company. Jim Caldwell (David Bruce), an engineer, is hired by Wilson and falls in love with Phyllis. McCabe kills Wilson and Sheriff Williams (Lee Phelps) thinks Caldwell is the killer.

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  • 1935
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    North of Arizona

    North of Arizona

    4.2 1935 HD

    Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.

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  • 1934
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    Rawhide Mail

    Rawhide Mail

    1 1934 HD

    Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.

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  • 1935
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    Tracy Rides

    Tracy Rides

    1 1935 HD

    Sheriff Tom Tracy is summoned to the sheep camp where he finds Old Man Jenkins fatally wounded and, with his dying breath, accuses Ned Hampton, brother of the girl to whom Tom is engaged, of having shot him in the back.

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  • 1947
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    Buffalo Bill Rides Again

    Buffalo Bill Rides Again

    5 1947 HD

    Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was apparently the first entry in a proposed series. Arlen played the title role, here assigned by the army to quell an Indian attack on the powerless settlers. The Indians are accusing Tom Russell (John Dexter) of murdering a member of the tribe, an act, as Buffalo Bill discovers, actually committed by a gang of outlaws hired by investment company owner J.B. Jordon (Frank O'Connor). Buffalo Bill Rides Again was soundly defeated by a low budget and slipshod direction by the veteran Bernard B. Ray. Popular B-Western villain Ted Adams disappeared mysteriously halfway through the film, only to be replaced by Edmund Cobb. Jennifer Holt, the daughter of Arlen contemporary Jack Holt and by far the busiest B-Western heroine of the 1940s, had little to do other than letting herself be kidnapped by evil Gil Patric.

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  • 1935
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    Texas Jack

    Texas Jack

    1 1935 HD

    Jack is looking for the man that was responsible for the death of his sister after he hired her as a school teacher. When he runs into school teacher Ann who was just hired by Corey, he soon realizes Corey is the man he is after. Lacking proof, he works on Corey's nerves hoping to get a confession from him.

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  • 1938
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    It's All in Your Mind

    It's All in Your Mind

    1 1938 HD

    Wilbur Crane is a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper who no longer finds his wife, Martha, attractive and sets out for a little fling among the fast crowd while looking for love in all the wrong places. Dorothy, a gold-digger first class, and her business-manager friend, Danny, oblige him. Through camera angles,"art" photos, some semi-nudity, special camera-effects (by Ray Mercer), and strange interludes in Wilbur's mind, and off-screen voices, long-time poverty-row b-western director Bernard B. Ray embarks on the exploitation trail.

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  • 1938
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    It's All in Your Mind

    It's All in Your Mind

    1 1938 HD

    Wilbur Crane is a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper who no longer finds his wife, Martha, attractive and sets out for a little fling among the fast crowd while looking for love in all the wrong places. Dorothy, a gold-digger first class, and her business-manager friend, Danny, oblige him. Through camera angles,"art" photos, some semi-nudity, special camera-effects (by Ray Mercer), and strange interludes in Wilbur's mind, and off-screen voices, long-time poverty-row b-western director Bernard B. Ray embarks on the exploitation trail.

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  • 1941
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    Law of the Timber

    Law of the Timber

    6 1941 HD

    PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood.

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  • 1942
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    House of Errors

    House of Errors

    1 1942 HD

    Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.

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  • 1937
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    Santa Fe Rides

    Santa Fe Rides

    1 1937 HD

    The Transcontinental Broadcasting Company sends a sound truck and equipment to a ranch to obtain an audition from "Santa Fe" Evans and his musical cowboys (Oscar Gahan, Lloyd Perryman, Robert "Curley" Hoag, Rudy Sooter and Sherry Tansey.) Carver, arch enemy of Evans and a rival for the love of Carol Sheldon, fails in an attempt to spoil the audition. Carver frames Mr. Sheldon and Carol's brother Buddy on a charge, by Al Jensen, of receiving cattle stolen from him by Evans. Carver blames Evans for all of the Sheldon's troubles and, what with one thing or another, it looks like Evans and his cowhands will miss the big broadcast.

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  • 1936
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    Caryl of the Mountains

    Caryl of the Mountains

    1 1936 HD

    Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!

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    Silent Valley

    Silent Valley

    1 1935 HD

    A sheriff tracking a gang of rustlers discovers that one of them is the brother of his fiance.

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  • 1954
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    Hollywood Thrill-Makers

    Hollywood Thrill-Makers

    1 1954 HD

    Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.

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  • 1954
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    Hollywood Thrill-Makers

    Hollywood Thrill-Makers

    1 1954 HD

    Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.

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  • 1935
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    Skull and Crown

    Skull and Crown

    4.3 1935 HD

    Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.

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  • 1936
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    Ridin' On

    Ridin' On

    1 1936 HD

    Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O'Neil. Tom Rork has found a bullet with markings on it that he hopes will clear Danny and bring in the real killer.

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  • 1938
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    It's All in Your Mind

    It's All in Your Mind

    1 1938 HD

    Wilbur Crane is a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper who no longer finds his wife, Martha, attractive and sets out for a little fling among the fast crowd while looking for love in all the wrong places. Dorothy, a gold-digger first class, and her business-manager friend, Danny, oblige him. Through camera angles,"art" photos, some semi-nudity, special camera-effects (by Ray Mercer), and strange interludes in Wilbur's mind, and off-screen voices, long-time poverty-row b-western director Bernard B. Ray embarks on the exploitation trail.

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  • 1936
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    Step on It

    Step on It

    4.5 1936 HD

    A cop is fired from the force and attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.

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  • 1941
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    Dangerous Lady

    Dangerous Lady

    4.4 1941 HD

    Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.

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  • 1931
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    Touchdown!

    Touchdown!

    1 1931 HD

    Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

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  • 1935
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    The Silver Bullet

    The Silver Bullet

    1 1935 HD

    Tom Henderson is made Sheriff of Chico to fight Slim Walker's gang. Unknown to Tom, banker Luke Hargrave is the gang's real boss. Dad Kane is looking for the man that blinded him whom he can remember by his voice. He finds him when the gang robs the bank and Tom chases them down.

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  • 1941
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    Law of the Timber

    Law of the Timber

    6 1941 HD

    PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood.

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