Larry Buchanan

Larry Buchanan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Larry Buchanan (born Marcus Larry Seale Jr.) (January 31, 1923 – December 2, 2004) was a film director, producer and writer, who proclaimed himself a "schlockmeister". Many of his titles have landed on "worst movie" lists, but all at least broke even and many made a profit. Buchanan was born in Mexia, Texas. He was orphaned as a baby, and was raised in Dallas in an orphanage. It was while growing up there that he became fascinated with the movies which were shown in the orphanage's theater. He considered becoming a minister, but visited Hollywood and landed a job in the props department at 20th Century Fox. He made movies for the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II. In the early 1950s, Buchanan began producing, writing, editing and acting in his own movies. The first was The Cowboy in 1951. He is perhaps best known for exploitation, science fiction, and other genre films, including Free, White and 21, High Yellow, The Naked Witch, The Loch Ness Horror, and Mistress of the Apes. Among Buchanan's work, eight direct-to-television films he wrote, produced, and directed under his own Azalea Films production entity in the mid- and late-1960s, for American International Pictures, still generate a good degree of fan adoration. The titles — The Eye Creatures, Zontar, The Thing from Venus, Creature of Destruction, Mars Needs Women, In the Year 2889, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Hell Raiders, and It's Alive! — were largely remakes of AIP films from a decade earlier. Buchanan's instructions from AIP were We want cheap color pictures, we want half-assed names in them, we want them eighty minutes long and we want them now. In 1964, Buchanan created The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, which presented an alternate history in which John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald both survived Kennedy's assassination. In 1984 he produced Down on Us, which charged that the United States government was responsible for the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Buchanan's autobiography is entitled It Came from Hunger: Tales of a Cinema Schlockmeister. After he died in 2004 in Tucson, a long obituary in the New York Times  summarized his work thus: "One quality united Mr. Buchanan's diverse output: It was not so much that his films were bad; they were deeply, dazzlingly, unrepentantly bad. His work called to mind a famous line from H. L. Mencken, who, describing President Warren G. Harding's prose, said, 'It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.'" Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Buchanan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Larry Buchanan
  • Popularity: 0.444
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1921-01-31
  • Place of Birth: Lost Prairie, Texas, USA
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Larry Buchanan Movies

  • 1968
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    Mars Needs Women

    Mars Needs Women

    3.9 1968 HD

    Tommy Kirk leads his fellow Martians to Earth on an interplanetary quest for females. Kirk proves that Martians have impeccable taste when one of his...

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  • 1964
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    Naughty Dallas

    Naughty Dallas

    2 1964 HD

    A small-town girl comes to Dallas to make it as a stripper.

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  • 1950
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    The Gunfighter

    The Gunfighter

    7.2 1950 HD

    The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

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  • 1951
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    The Cowboy

    The Cowboy

    1 1951 HD

    Short film by Larry Buchanan.

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  • 1970
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    A Bullet for Pretty Boy

    A Bullet for Pretty Boy

    4 1970 HD

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  • 1968
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    Mars Needs Women

    Mars Needs Women

    3.9 1968 HD

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    Mars Needs Women

    Mars Needs Women

    3.9 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Mars Needs Women

    Mars Needs Women

    3.9 1968 HD

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    Mars Needs Women

    Mars Needs Women

    3.9 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    Zontar: The Thing from Venus

    Zontar: The Thing from Venus

    4 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Eye Creatures

    The Eye Creatures

    2.9 1967 HD

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    The Eye Creatures

    The Eye Creatures

    2.9 1967 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Naked Witch

    The Naked Witch

    3.1 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Naked Witch

    The Naked Witch

    3.1 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Naked Witch

    The Naked Witch

    3.1 1960 HD

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  • 1969
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    In the Year 2889

    In the Year 2889

    2.8 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    In the Year 2889

    In the Year 2889

    2.8 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    In the Year 2889

    In the Year 2889

    2.8 1969 HD

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  • 1968
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    Curse of the Swamp Creature

    Curse of the Swamp Creature

    2.4 1968 HD

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    Curse of the Swamp Creature

    Curse of the Swamp Creature

    2.4 1968 HD

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  • 1984
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    Down on Us

    Down on Us

    3.2 1984 HD

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  • 1984
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    Down on Us

    Down on Us

    3.2 1984 HD

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  • 1969
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    It's Alive

    It's Alive

    3.4 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Creature of Destruction

    Creature of Destruction

    2.3 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Creature of Destruction

    Creature of Destruction

    2.3 1967 HD

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  • 1969
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    It's Alive

    It's Alive

    3.4 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    It's Alive

    It's Alive

    3.4 1969 HD

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    It's Alive

    It's Alive

    3.4 1969 HD

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  • 1963
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    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

    4.2 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

    4.2 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

    4.2 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

    4.2 1963 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    4.7 1964 HD

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  • 1989
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    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    2 1989 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    4.7 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    4.7 1964 HD

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  • 1989
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    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    2 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    2 1989 HD

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  • 1976
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    Goodbye, Norma Jean

    Goodbye, Norma Jean

    4.8 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Goodbye, Norma Jean

    Goodbye, Norma Jean

    4.8 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Goodbye, Norma Jean

    Goodbye, Norma Jean

    4.8 1976 HD

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  • 1979
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    Mistress of the Apes

    Mistress of the Apes

    3.8 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Mistress of the Apes

    Mistress of the Apes

    3.8 1979 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Loch Ness Horror

    The Loch Ness Horror

    3.4 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Loch Ness Horror

    The Loch Ness Horror

    3.4 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Loch Ness Horror

    The Loch Ness Horror

    3.4 1981 HD

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  • 1978
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    Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

    Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

    2 1978 HD

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  • 1978
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    Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

    Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

    2 1978 HD

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  • 1978
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    Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

    Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

    2 1978 HD

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  • 1971
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    Strawberries Need Rain

    Strawberries Need Rain

    4 1971 HD

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  • 1969
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    Hell Raiders

    Hell Raiders

    3 1969 HD

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  • 1971
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    Strawberries Need Rain

    Strawberries Need Rain

    4 1971 HD

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  • 1969
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    Hell Raiders

    Hell Raiders

    3 1969 HD

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  • 1971
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    Strawberries Need Rain

    Strawberries Need Rain

    4 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Strawberries Need Rain

    Strawberries Need Rain

    4 1971 HD

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  • 1965
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    High Yellow

    High Yellow

    3 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    High Yellow

    High Yellow

    3 1965 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

    The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

    5 1968 HD

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  • 1969
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    Sex and the Animals

    Sex and the Animals

    2 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    Sex and the Animals

    Sex and the Animals

    2 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Eye Creatures

    The Eye Creatures

    2.9 1967 HD

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    Zontar: The Thing from Venus

    Zontar: The Thing from Venus

    4 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Zontar: The Thing from Venus

    Zontar: The Thing from Venus

    4 1967 HD

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  • 1952
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    Grubstake

    Grubstake

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1952
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    Grubstake

    Grubstake

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1961
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    Common Law Wife

    Common Law Wife

    4.5 1961 HD

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  • 1970
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    A Bullet for Pretty Boy

    A Bullet for Pretty Boy

    4 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    A Bullet for Pretty Boy

    A Bullet for Pretty Boy

    4 1970 HD

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  • 1964
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    Under Age

    Under Age

    4 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Under Age

    Under Age

    4 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Under Age

    Under Age

    4 1964 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

    The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

    5 1968 HD

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  • 1984
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    Down on Us

    Down on Us

    3.2 1984 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Cowboy

    The Cowboy

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1968
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    Comanche Crossing

    Comanche Crossing

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    Sam

    Sam

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Cowboy

    The Cowboy

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1968
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    Comanche Crossing

    Comanche Crossing

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    Sam

    Sam

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1968
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    Comanche Crossing

    Comanche Crossing

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Comanche Crossing

    Comanche Crossing

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Cowboy

    The Cowboy

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1967
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    Sam

    Sam

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Cowboy

    The Cowboy

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Cowboy

    The Cowboy

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1967
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    Sam

    Sam

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1964
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    Naughty Dallas

    Naughty Dallas

    2 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Naughty Dallas

    Naughty Dallas

    2 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    Naughty Dallas

    Naughty Dallas

    2 1964 HD

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  • 1989
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    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn

    2 1989 HD

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