Bobby Jordan

Bobby Jordan

Though he was the youngest, Jordan was the first of the boys who made up the Dead End Kids to work in films with a role in a 1933 Universal short. In 1935, he became one of the original Dead End Kids by winning the role of Angel in Sydney Kingsley's Broadway drama Dead End about life in the slums of the east side of New York City. The play was performed at the Belasco Theatre and ran for three years with over 600 performances. He appeared for the first season and the beginning of the second but left in mid-November 1936. He returned in time to join the others in 1937 in Hollywood, California to make the movie version of the play, starring big names such as Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, and Claire Trevor. Following the making of Dead End, Jordan found himself "released" from his contract at Goldwyn, and, subsequently, he appeared at Warner Brothers with the rest of the Dead End Kids. After one year, Warners released most of them, but kept Leo Gorcey and Jordan as solo performers. Jordan appeared (as "Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom") in Warner's Damon Runyon comedy A Slight Case of Murder (1938) and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Young Tom Edison (1940). In 1940, Jordan appeared in the film Military Academy and accepted an offer from producer Sam Katzman to star in a new tough-kid series called "The East Side Kids." Leo Gorcey soon joined him, then Huntz Hall, and the trio continued to lead the series through 1943, when Jordan entered the United States Army during World War II as a foot soldier in the 97th Infantry Division. He was subsequently involved in an elevator accident, when the elevator fell five floors, that forced him to have surgery to remove his right kneecap.

  • Title: Bobby Jordan
  • Popularity: 3.692
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1923-04-01
  • Place of Birth: Harrison, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Bob Jordan, Robert Jordon, Robert G. Jordan
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Bobby Jordan Movies

  • 1956
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    High Tor

    High Tor

    7.5 1956 HD

    High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur...

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  • 1943
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    Kid Dynamite

    Kid Dynamite

    6.6 1943 HD

    The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend...

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  • 1942
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    Let's Get Tough

    Let's Get Tough

    6 1942 HD

    Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a...

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  • 1942
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    Mr. Wise Guy

    Mr. Wise Guy

    6.1 1942 HD

    The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes...

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  • 1940
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    Pride of the Bowery

    Pride of the Bowery

    6.1 1940 HD

    Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain...

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  • 1939
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    They Made Me a Criminal

    They Made Me a Criminal

    6.3 1939 HD

    A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

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  • 1939
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    Dust Be My Destiny

    Dust Be My Destiny

    6.1 1939 HD

    Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...

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  • 1938
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    Reformatory

    Reformatory

    6 1938 HD

    A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.

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  • 1938
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    A Slight Case of Murder

    A Slight Case of Murder

    6.1 1938 HD

    Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

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  • 1937
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    Dead End

    Dead End

    6.9 1937 HD

    Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

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  • 1938
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    Angels with Dirty Faces

    Angels with Dirty Faces

    7.541 1938 HD

    Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry...

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  • 1941
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    Spooks Run Wild

    Spooks Run Wild

    4.841 1941 HD

    A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

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  • 1941
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    Bowery Blitzkrieg

    Bowery Blitzkrieg

    6.1 1941 HD

    The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

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  • 1956
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    The Man Is Armed

    The Man Is Armed

    4.8 1956 HD

    Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a...

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  • 1943
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    Ghosts on the Loose

    Ghosts on the Loose

    4.2 1943 HD

    The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

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  • 1946
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    Spook Busters

    Spook Busters

    4.7 1946 HD

    The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old...

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  • 1938
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    Crime School

    Crime School

    6.289 1938 HD

    In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who...

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  • 1940
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    Boys of the City

    Boys of the City

    5.364 1940 HD

    Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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  • 1941
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    Flying Wild

    Flying Wild

    5.9 1941 HD

    A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting...

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  • 1946
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    Bowery Bombshell

    Bowery Bombshell

    6 1946 HD

    Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a...

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  • 1947
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    Bowery Buckaroos

    Bowery Buckaroos

    6.5 1947 HD

    The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted...

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  • 1939
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    Angels Wash Their Faces

    Angels Wash Their Faces

    6.4 1939 HD

    A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

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  • 1942
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    Smart Alecks

    Smart Alecks

    6 1942 HD

    Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share...

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  • 1949
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    Treasure of Monte Cristo

    Treasure of Monte Cristo

    5.6 1949 HD

    A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.

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  • 1991
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    Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    10 1991 HD

    A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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  • 1938
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    Swingtime in the Movies

    Swingtime in the Movies

    5.8 1938 HD

    In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.

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  • 1939
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    Hell's Kitchen

    Hell's Kitchen

    6.2 1939 HD

    A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the...

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  • 1946
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    In Fast Company

    In Fast Company

    6.3 1946 HD

    The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.

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  • 1939
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    On Dress Parade

    On Dress Parade

    6.3 1939 HD

    The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

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  • 1939
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    Off the Record

    Off the Record

    6 1939 HD

    After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

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  • 1942
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

    1 1942 HD

    Fourth film in the Hedda Hopper series.

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  • 1942
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    'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

    'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

    6.8 1942 HD

    The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their...

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  • 1943
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    Adventures of the Flying Cadets

    Adventures of the Flying Cadets

    6.5 1943 HD

    Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.

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  • 1940
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    Give Us Wings

    Give Us Wings

    6 1940 HD

    Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

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  • 1946
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    Mr. Hex

    Mr. Hex

    6.7 1946 HD

    Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.

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  • 1938
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    My Bill

    My Bill

    6.2 1938 HD

    An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

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  • 1955
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    The Matchmaking Marshal

    The Matchmaking Marshal

    1 1955 HD

    Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

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  • 1940
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    You're Not So Tough

    You're Not So Tough

    4.3 1940 HD

    The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick...

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  • 1934
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    Kid Millions

    Kid Millions

    6.5 1934 HD

    A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

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  • 1940
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    Young Tom Edison

    Young Tom Edison

    5.6 1940 HD

    Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

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  • 1940
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    That Gang of Mine

    That Gang of Mine

    5.6 1940 HD

    A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...

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  • 1943
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    Clancy Street Boys

    Clancy Street Boys

    7.3 1943 HD

    Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the...

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  • 1942
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    Junior Army

    Junior Army

    5.7 1942 HD

    An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.

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  • 1944
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    Bowery Champs

    Bowery Champs

    7 1944 HD

    Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from...

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  • 1946
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    Live Wires

    Live Wires

    5.5 1946 HD

    Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip...

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  • 1947
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    News Hounds

    News Hounds

    6.3 1947 HD

    Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring...

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  • 1943
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    Keep 'Em Slugging

    Keep 'Em Slugging

    5.5 1943 HD

    A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past...

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  • 1953
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    Secret of Outlaw Flats

    Secret of Outlaw Flats

    1 1953 HD

    Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.

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  • 1943
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    Destroyer

    Destroyer

    6.6 1943 HD

    Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the...

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  • 1953
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    The Eddie Cantor Story

    The Eddie Cantor Story

    5 1953 HD

    Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

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  • 1947
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    Hard Boiled Mahoney

    Hard Boiled Mahoney

    6.4 1947 HD

    Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand...

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  • 1940
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    Military Academy

    Military Academy

    5.5 1940 HD

    Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father....

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  • 1947
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    The Beginning or the End

    The Beginning or the End

    6.5 1947 HD

    The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

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  • 1951
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    Dragnet

    Dragnet

    6.5 1951 HD

    Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1955
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    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1957
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    Richard Diamond, Private Detective

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective

    6.2 1957 HD

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

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  • 1957
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    M Squad

    M Squad

    5.2 1957 HD

    Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption...

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  • 1951
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    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    4.5 1951 HD

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems...

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  • 1957
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    Casey Jones

    Casey Jones

    5.5 1957 HD

    Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1960
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    Route 66

    Route 66

    6.4 1960 HD

    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays...

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1959
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    Bonanza

    Bonanza

    7.5 1959 HD

    The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

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  • 1970
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    The Odd Couple

    The Odd Couple

    7.8 1970 HD

    Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different...

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  • 1951
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    The Adventures of Boston Blackie

    The Adventures of Boston Blackie

    4 1951 HD

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