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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Run time: 103m Tagline: Once upon a time, If the rustlers didn't get you, the hustlers did. Release: 1976-04-01

Director: Melvin Frank

Stars: Conrad Janis George Segal Glynn Rubin Goldie Hawn Jennifer Lee Pryor Richard Farnsworth Sid Gould Thayer David

The Devil’s Playground

Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and he is looking for her. But Hoppy soon learns the girl is looking for stolen gold she wants to return and the Judge in not her father but only wants the gold. Hoppy and the girl find the gold but the Judge and his men find Hoppy and the boys and trap them in a cabin.

Run time: 65m Release: 1946-11-15

Director: George Archainbaud

Stars: Andy Clyde Elaine Riley Rand Brooks Robert Elliott William Boyd

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season. The plot concerns a group of insurrectionists who intend to keep Texas separate from the rest of the USA.

Run time: 62m Release: 1942-09-25

Director: Elmer Clifton

Stars: Edmund Cobb Fuzzy Knight Harry Woods Jennifer Holt Johnny Mack Brown Kenneth Harlan Pat O'Malley Roy Brent Tex Ritter William Farnum

Dawn at Socorro

Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.

Run time: 80m Tagline: The Story of the NOTORIOUS BRETT WADE, LAST OF THE FRONTIER GAMBLERS Release: 1954-08-27

Director: George Sherman

Stars: Alex Nicol David Brian Edgar Buchanan James Millican Kathleen Hughes Mara Corday Piper Laurie Rory Calhoun Roy Roberts Skip Homeier

Colt Comrades

While oil drilling, Hoppy and California discover an underground well - a potential threat to Jebb Hardin's monopoly on water in the region.

Run time: 67m Tagline: HOPPY OUTWITS THE OUTLAWS!...and signs their death warrants with his blazing gun! Release: 1943-06-18

Director: Lesley Selander

Stars: Andy Clyde Douglas Fowley Earle Hodgins George Reeves Herbert Rawlinson Jay Kirby Robert Mitchum Teddi Sherman Victor Jory William Boyd

The Cimarron Kid

Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.

Run time: 84m Release: 1952-01-13

Director: Budd Boetticher

Stars: Audie Murphy Beverly Tyler David Wolfe Hugh O'Brian James Best John Hudson Leif Erickson Noah Beery Jr. Roy Roberts Yvette Duguay

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