Harold Shumate — Playwright (13)
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The Kansan (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Kansan
director: George Archainbaud actor: Richard Dix / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Der Sheriff von Kansas / Le Cavalier du Kansas …
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Abilene Town (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Abilene Town
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Randolph Scott / Ann Dvorak …
other title: I predoni della città / Banditen ohne Maske …
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…
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Saddle Tramp (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Saddle Tramp
director: Hugo Fregonese actor: Joel McCrea / Wanda Hendrix …
other title: Vagabondo a cavallo / Ohne Gesetz …
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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When the Daltons Rode (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
When the Daltons Rode
director: George Marshall actor: Randolph Scott / Kay Francis …
other title: La vendetta dei Dalton / Die Bande der Fünf …
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Badlands of Dakota (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Badlands of Dakota
director: Alfred E. Green actor: Robert Stack / Ann Rutherford …
other title: Aventureros de Dakota
In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.
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The Forest Rangers (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Forest Rangers
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Corazones en llamas
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.