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Two for the Money (1972) Bernard L. Kowalski, Robert Hooks, Stephen Brooks, Walter Brennan
Two cops quit the police department to become private detectives, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years. Read More »
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) Joseph Pevney, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen
When Pete’s plane crashes in the swamp, he’s rescued by young Tammy Read More »
Kentucky (1938) David Butler, Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan
During the Civil War, two of the oldest families in Kentucky,the Dillons and the Goodwins, begin a long and bitter feud that has lasted into 1938. Read More »
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) F. Hugh Herbert, June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. Read More »
Nice Girl? (1941) William A. Seiter, Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan
A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father’s business partners. Read More »
To Have and Have Not (1944) Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Read More »
Northwest Passage (1940) King Vidor, Jack Conway, Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers Read More »
Swamp Water (1941) Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. Read More »
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) Michael O’Herlihy, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention Read More »
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) Burt Kennedy, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Comedy, Romance, Western
McCullough is”passing on my way to Australia” if he takes a job in a gold rush town. Read More »
Dakota (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Western
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Read More »
The Princess and the Pirate (1944) David Butler, Sidney Lanfield, Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king’s ransom. Little do the cutthroats know that she will be rescued by that unlikeliest of knights errant, Sylvester the Great, who will lead them on a merry, and madcap, chase.
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Hangmen Also Die! (1943) Fritz Lang, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
On May 27, 1942 the Nazi Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the “Hangman” Reinhard Heydrich, died from the bullets of unidentified resistance fighters. Hangmen Also Die is the story of Heydrich’s assassination in fictionalized form. It was Bertolt Brecht’s only comparatively successful Hollywood project; the money he received allowed him to write “The Visions of Simone Marchand”, “Schwyk in the Second World War” and his adaptation of Webster’s “The Duchess of Malfi”. Hanns Eisler won an Academy Award for his musical score.
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Brimstone (1949) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Lorna Gray, Walter Brennan, Western
The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western filmed in Republic Pictures’ Trucolor system. Walter Brennan plays Pop “Brimstone” Courteen, an ornery rancher who avenges the loss of the free range by robbing stagecoaches and banks. The Courteen gang, which also includes Pop’s three sons, Nick (Jim Davis), Luke (Jack Lambert), and the reluctant Bud (James Brown), gets a bit of competition from The Ghost, a mystery outlaw who really is Marshal Johnny Tremaine (Rod Cameron). Tremaine’s undercover investigation leads to McIntyre (Forrest Tucker), the sheriff of Gunsight, who is in the employ of the Courteens. In love with Molly Bannister (Adrian Booth), a settler, Bud turns against his ruthless family, but will Tremaine be able to save the boy from his father’s wrath?
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