Frank McGrath

Frank McGrath

Benjamin Franklin McGrath (February 2, 1903 – May 13, 1967) was an American television and film actor and stunt performer who played the comical, optimistic cook with the white beard, Charlie B. Wooster, on the western series Wagon Train for five seasons on NBC and then three seasons on ABC. McGrath appeared in all 272 episodes in the eight seasons of the series, which had ended its run only two years before his death. McGrath's Wooster character hence provided the meals and companionship for both fictional trail masters, Ward Bond as Seth Adams and John McIntire as Christopher "Chris" Hale. McGrath was born in Mound City in Holt County in far northwestern Missouri. McGrath married Libby Quay Buschlen (1902–1978), a native of Ontario, Canada. He died May 13, 1967 at the age of sixty-four of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. CLR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: Frank McGrath
  • Popularity: 1.1847
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1903-02-02
  • Place of Birth: Mound City, Missouri, USA
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  • Also Known As: Benjamin Franklin "Frank" McGrath, Benjamin Franklin McGrath
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Frank McGrath Movies

  • 1957
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    Hell Bound

    Hell Bound

    5.538 1957 HD

    After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

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  • 1968
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    The Shakiest Gun in the West

    The Shakiest Gun in the West

    6.261 1968 HD

    Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

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  • 1953
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    Hondo

    Hondo

    6.584 1953 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    The Reluctant Astronaut

    The Reluctant Astronaut

    5.964 1967 HD

    Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.

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  • 1951
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    Westward the Women

    Westward the Women

    6.987 1951 HD

    There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.

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  • 1950
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    The Milkman

    The Milkman

    8 1950 HD

    A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

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  • 1956
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    The First Texan

    The First Texan

    6.3 1956 HD

    After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.

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  • 1967
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    Gunfight in Abilene

    Gunfight in Abilene

    6.5 1967 HD

    Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.

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  • 1932
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    The Rainbow Trail

    The Rainbow Trail

    1 1932 HD

    The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.

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  • 1956
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    The Searchers

    The Searchers

    7.697 1956 HD

    As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

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  • 1967
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    Tammy and the Millionaire

    Tammy and the Millionaire

    6.25 1967 HD

    A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.

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  • 1960
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    The Colter Craven Story

    The Colter Craven Story

    1 1960 HD

    Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he may be wrong after Major Adams gives him a history lesson.

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  • 1943
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    The Ox-Bow Incident

    The Ox-Bow Incident

    7.713 1943 HD

    A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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  • 1950
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    Wagon Master

    Wagon Master

    6.644 1950 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    The Last Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    6.333 1967 HD

    An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

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  • 1957
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    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star

    7 1957 HD

    An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

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  • 1948
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    Fort Apache

    Fort Apache

    7.013 1948 HD

    Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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  • 1951
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    The Red Badge of Courage

    The Red Badge of Courage

    6.431 1951 HD

    Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.

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  • 1949
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    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    6.893 1949 HD

    On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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  • 1941
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    Riders of the Purple Sage

    Riders of the Purple Sage

    1 1941 HD

    Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a young George Kennedy as Lassiter.

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  • 1942
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    Sundown Jim

    Sundown Jim

    1 1942 HD

    US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.

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  • 1967
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    The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

    6.8 1967 HD

    An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.

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  • 1941
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    Western Union

    Western Union

    6 1941 HD

    When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

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  • 1940
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    High School

    High School

    5.5 1940 HD

    A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high school.

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  • 1932
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    Robbers' Roost

    Robbers' Roost

    5.5 1932 HD

    Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.

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  • 1965
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    The Sword of Ali Baba

    The Sword of Ali Baba

    5.8 1965 HD

    Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the 21-year-old footage.

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  • 1953
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    Ride, Vaquero!

    Ride, Vaquero!

    5.9 1953 HD

    Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory.

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  • 1948
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    Half Past Midnight

    Half Past Midnight

    6 1948 HD

    A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.

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  • 1951
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    Slaughter Trail

    Slaughter Trail

    3.8 1951 HD

    Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the war path and they have to take refuge in an Army fort to avoid them. The Indians then arrive offering peace if the three men are turned over to them. The fort's commanding Officer wants peace but the rules say the men must be tried in a white man's court leaving the Indians no choice but to attack.

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  • 1950
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    The Flame and the Arrow

    The Flame and the Arrow

    6.2 1950 HD

    Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

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  • 1945
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    They Were Expendable

    They Were Expendable

    6.521 1945 HD

    After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.

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  • 1950
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    Broken Arrow

    Broken Arrow

    6.7 1950 HD

    Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.5 1942 HD

    When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.

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  • 1930
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    The Big Trail

    The Big Trail

    6.7 1930 HD

    Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

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  • 1950
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    Devil's Doorway

    Devil's Doorway

    6.9 1950 HD

    A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.5 1942 HD

    When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.

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  • 1956
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    Santiago

    Santiago

    5.2 1956 HD

    Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.

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  • 1950
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    Broken Arrow

    Broken Arrow

    6.7 1950 HD

    Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.

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  • 1953
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    The Naked Spur

    The Naked Spur

    6.936 1953 HD

    A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

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  • 1967
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    The Last Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    6.333 1967 HD

    An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

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  • 1949
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    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    6.893 1949 HD

    On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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  • 1950
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    Wagon Master

    Wagon Master

    6.644 1950 HD

    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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  • 1948
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    Fort Apache

    Fort Apache

    7.013 1948 HD

    Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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  • 1956
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    The Searchers

    The Searchers

    7.697 1956 HD

    As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

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  • 1957
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    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star

    7 1957 HD

    An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

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  • 1948
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    3 Godfathers

    3 Godfathers

    6.7 1948 HD

    Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

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  • 1950
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    Rio Grande

    Rio Grande

    6.809 1950 HD

    Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

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  • 1950
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    The Flame and the Arrow

    The Flame and the Arrow

    6.2 1950 HD

    Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

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  • 1943
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    The Ox-Bow Incident

    The Ox-Bow Incident

    7.713 1943 HD

    A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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  • 1941
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    Western Union

    Western Union

    6 1941 HD

    When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

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  • 1925
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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    7.3 1925 HD

    Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

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  • 1967
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    The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

    6.8 1967 HD

    An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.

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  • 1950
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    Devil's Doorway

    Devil's Doorway

    6.9 1950 HD

    A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

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  • 1953
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    The Naked Spur

    The Naked Spur

    6.936 1953 HD

    A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

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  • 1965
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    Tammy

    Tammy

    7.5 1965 HD

    Tammy is an American sitcom, starring Debbie Watson in the title role. Produced by Universal City Studios, 26 color half-hour episodes were aired on ABC from September 17, 1965 to March 11, 1966. Tammy was loosely based on the three Tammy films; Tammy and the Bachelor starring Debbie Reynolds; Tammy Tell Me True; and Tammy and the Doctor both starring Sandra Dee. The films themselves were adaptations of novels by Cid Ricketts Sumner. The series was also partially influenced by other rural themed TV sitcoms such as The Beverly Hillbillies. In particular, there are similarities between Tammy's Cletus Tarleton and The Beverly Hillbillies' Jethro Bodine.

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

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  • 1955
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    6.023 1955 HD

    Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

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  • 1957
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    Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

    6.586 1957 HD

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

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