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Gunfighters of Casa Grande

In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexicans, but they don't realize he plans to cheat them. En route, the cattle drivers are ambushed by banditos. They survive, but during the course of the struggle, the cattle hands learn the truth and ensure that justice gets served.

NR

4

1964 Western 90 min Play

6.1

The Girl Hunters

Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with ...

NR

6.1

1963 Crime 98 min Play

6.5

Seven Hills of Rome

Mario Lanza movie (also known as Arrivederci Roma) made in 1958. After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc (Lanza) follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.

G

6.5

1958 Drama 107 min Play

5.8

Slander

A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.

NR

5.8

1957 Drama 81 min Play

5.7

Gun Glory

An ex-gunslinger (Stewart Granger) shunned by townsfolk is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman.

NR

5.7

1957 Western 89 min Play

5

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

NR

5

1956 Comedy 112 min Play

6.5

These Wilder Years

A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.

NR

6.5

1956 Drama 91 min Play

6.3

Hit the Deck

Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's father is a Rear Admiral...

NR

6.3

1955 Comedy 112 min Play

6.3

Many Rivers to Cross

Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which were impressed upon him on threat of death), Gentry heads into the North Country, with Mary in hot pursuit. Hero and heroine spend the rest of the picture taking turns rescuing each other from ...

NR

6.3

1955 Action 95 min Play

6.3

Witness to Murder

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

NR

6.3

1954 Crime 83 min Play

5.5

Rogue Cop

A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

NR

5.5

1954 Crime 92 min Play

5.4

The Moonlighter

A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!

NR

5.4

1953 Western 77 min Play

4.5

Affair with a Stranger

Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Nicholas Joy, Lillian Bronson and George Cleveland.

NR

4.5

1953 Drama 89 min Play

6.5

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.

G

6.5

1953 Family 89 min Play

4.4

Bugles in the Afternoon

Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.

NR

4.4

1952 Western 85 min Play

7.7

Excuse My Dust

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.

NR

7.7

1951 Comedy 82 min Play

7.3

The Outriders

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....

NR

7.3

1950 Western 93 min Play

5.7

Two Weeks with Love

The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.

NR

5.7

1950 Comedy 92 min Play