Don Haggerty
Don Haggerty (b. July 3, 1914, Poughkeepsie, New York – d. August 19, 1988, Cocoa Beach, Florida) was an American film actor appearing in films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Before entering films in 1947, Haggerty was a Brown University athlete and served in the US military. Usually cast as tough policemen or cowboys, he appeared in a number of memorable films including Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1951), Angels in the Outfield (1951) and The Narrow Margin. The B-movie actor continued to appear in films until the early 1980s. In the 1955-1956 season, he appeared as the outlaw Sam Bass in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated Stories of the Century.
In 1956-1957, Haggerty appeared as Sheriff Elder in Rod Cameron's syndicated western-themed crime drama, State Trooper. He appeared at this time in three episodes of the syndicated western 26 Men about the Arizona Rangers. In 1959, he guest starred in Bruce Gordon's docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors. In 1960, Haggerty guest starred on the NBC crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. He also appeared as Joe Wine in the 1961 episode "Alien Entry" of the syndicated series The Blue Angels. About this time, he also appeared in the episode "The Green Gamblers" of the crime drama The Brothers Brannagan.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.173 |
Birthday | 1914-07-03 |
Place of Birth | Poughkeepsie, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Donald Francis Haggerty, |
1966
The Night of the Grizzly
5.5/24
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces oppos...
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The Night of the Grizzly
1950
Armored Car Robbery
6.509/57
While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the l...
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Armored Car Robbery
1964
The Killers
6.876/177
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
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The Killers
1962
Hell Is for Heroes
6.5/111
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line....
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Hell Is for Heroes
1954
Loophole
6.5/11
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft,...
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Loophole
1949
King of the Rocket Men
5/10
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King...
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King of the Rocket Men
1954
Naked Alibi
6/36
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next...
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Naked Alibi
1954
Cry Vengeance
5.643/14
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he himself scarred, framed and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but on...
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Cry Vengeance
1951
Cause for Alarm!
6.1/34
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Cause for Alarm!
1949
The Crooked Way
6.3/28
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his crimin...
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The Crooked Way
1939
Back Door to Heaven
5/2
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Back Door to Heaven
1957
Chain of Evidence
4.8/8
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliot...
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Chain of Evidence
1956
Calling Homicide
5.6/8
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
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Calling Homicide
1957
Footsteps in the Night
5.3/8
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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Footsteps in the Night
1950
Gambling House
6.1/15
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Gambling House
1958
The Man Who Died Twice
5.6/13
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narc...
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The Man Who Died Twice
1960
Seven Ways from Sundown
5.7/20
Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a...
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Seven Ways from Sundown
1959
The Gunfight at Dodge City
5.6/22
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is ki...
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The Gunfight at Dodge City
1955
The Private War of Major Benson
6.7/13
A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC...
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The Private War of Major Benson
1951
Lost Planet Airmen
6/1
Feature version of the 1949 serial, KING OF THE ROCKETMEN: Young member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy sab...
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Lost Planet Airmen
1951
Spoilers of the Plains
6/1
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.
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Spoilers of the Plains
1954
The Rocket Man
6.3/5
After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cut...
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The Rocket Man
1957
Back from the Dead
4.8/11
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what s...
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Back from the Dead
1955
Air Strike
5/1
Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenho...
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Air Strike
1950
Storm Over Wyoming
5.5/3
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawli...
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Storm Over Wyoming
1956
Crashing Las Vegas
4.6/4
An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their la...
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Crashing Las Vegas
1971
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
5.5/5
A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His injuries are completely healed by a secret organizat...
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The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
1950
Dynamite Pass
5.8/6
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
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Dynamite Pass
1952
Bronco Buster
5/1
A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.
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Bronco Buster
1949
Canadian Pacific
5.3/29
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
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Canadian Pacific
1950
Vigilante Hideout
0/0
Cattle detective, Rocky Lane, arrives in town to investigate cattle disappearances only to realize just three cows owned by eccentric inventor, Nugget...
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Vigilante Hideout
1951
Callaway Went Thataway
5.125/12
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is...
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Callaway Went Thataway
1971
Dirty Harry
7.458/2378
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...
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Dirty Harry
1952
Denver and Rio Grande
5.4/12
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sab...
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Denver and Rio Grande
1958
Blood Arrow
7/1
Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is...
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Blood Arrow
1957
Fight for the Title
0/0
An champion light-heavyweight boxer batters a young challenger so severely that the youthful pugilist suffers brain damage. Remorseful, the champion d...
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Fight for the Title
1965
The Great Sioux Massacre
4.2/9
Colonel Custer (Philip Carey), an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by...
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The Great Sioux Massacre
1948
Gun Smugglers
0/0
A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps.
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Gun Smugglers
1949
Rustlers
5.3/3
A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher F...
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Rustlers
1948
False Paradise
6/1
A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.
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False Paradise
1954
Return from the Sea
4.5/2
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
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Return from the Sea
1948
The Dead Don't Dream
0/0
Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has...
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The Dead Don't Dream
1948
Borrowed Trouble
7.167/3
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door...
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Borrowed Trouble
1956
Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.2/156
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
1951
Angels in the Outfield
6.6/24
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
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Angels in the Outfield
1954
Phantom Stallion
0/0
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inher...
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Phantom Stallion
1958
Cattle Empire
6/18
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading...
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Cattle Empire
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
6.4/132
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit th...
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Sands of Iwo Jima
1948
Angel in Exile
5.2/6
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe...
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Angel in Exile
1949
Cowboy and the Prizefighter
0/0
Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.
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Cowboy and the Prizefighter
1950
The Sundowners
5.4/11
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
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The Sundowners
1948
Sinister Journey
6/1
Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.
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Sinister Journey
1952
Wild Stallion
6.5/2
A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.
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Wild Stallion
1942
USS VD: Ship of Shame
4.444/9
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas...
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USS VD: Ship of Shame
1957
Spoilers of the Forest
0/0
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's p...
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Spoilers of the Forest
1948
Silent Conflict
0/0
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.
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Silent Conflict
1949
South of Rio
0/0
The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for Lon Bryson and Chuck Bowers, who organize a couple...
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South of Rio
1950
The Vanishing Westerner
2/1
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive some...
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The Vanishing Westerner
1951
Quebec
0/0
Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada.
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Quebec
1953
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
4/1
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has t...
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1955
Texas Lady
5.4/5
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. He...
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Texas Lady
1958
Day of the Badman
6.5/13
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
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Day of the Badman
1981
California Gold Rush
5/1
Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west fo...
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California Gold Rush
1952
The Narrow Margin
7.294/141
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.
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The Narrow Margin
1958
Some Came Running
6.9/123
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes...
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Some Came Running
1948
Pitfall
6.8/72
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent pr...
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Pitfall
1950
The Kid from Texas
5.3/20
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. N...
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The Kid from Texas
1955
The Desperate Hours
7/154
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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The Desperate Hours
1951
Rhubarb
5.5/7
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
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Rhubarb
1953
Roar of the Crowd
0/0
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give...
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Roar of the Crowd
1946
Problem Drinkers
0/0
This edition of the March of Time series (Volume 12, Number 11) deals with the growing problem of alcoholism ins the USA. It emphasizes that alcoholic...
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Problem Drinkers
1965
The Loved One
6.271/41
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp...
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The Loved One
1956
Mobs, Inc.
4/1
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con art...
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Mobs, Inc.
1973
Starbird and Sweet William
0/0
A plane crash survivor draws upon the sensibilities of his Native American ancestry in order to stay alive in a rugged outland.
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Starbird and Sweet William
1960
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
0/0
Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship with the Apaches. But when a vengeful Geronimo init...
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Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1955
I Cover the Underworld
6/1
Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a visit from his twin brother John, a divinity stud...
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I Cover the Underworld
1951
The Stooge
6.6/31
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the...
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The Stooge
1953
Take the High Ground!
5.7/11
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he r...
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Take the High Ground!
1957
The Crooked Circle
0/0
A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.
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The Crooked Circle
1953
Combat Squad
5/1
A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War.
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Combat Squad
1955
An Annapolis Story
3.3/3
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
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An Annapolis Story
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
7.491/464
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v...
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The Asphalt Jungle
1981
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6/1
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duk...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1951
Go for Broke!
5.63/23
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the trainin...
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Go for Broke!
1952
Sailor Beware
6.1/29
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps tryi...
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Sailor Beware
1959
Gundown at Sandoval
0/0
In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious...
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Gundown at Sandoval
1948
That Lady in Ermine
5.833/15
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, w...
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That Lady in Ermine
1964
The Solid Gold Girl
0/0
While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin) stumbles into a town where an old cell mate of h...
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