Jay Silverheels

Jay Silverheels

Jay Silverheels was born on a reservation in Canada to a Mohawk chief. He was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman in 1938. He worked in a number of films though the 1940s before he gained some notice as the Osceola brother in Humphrey Bogart's film Key Largo (1948). Most of his roles consisted of bit parts as "Indian." In 1949, he would work in a movie called The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) with another "B movie" actor named Clayton Moore. It was later that same year that Jay would be hired to play the faithful Indian companion, Tonto, in the television series "The Lone Ranger" (1949). This role, while still playing the "Indian," would bring Jay the fame that his motion picture career never did. As Tonto, on his horse Scout, Jay could show up where the Ranger could not and some of the time he would be shot at or beat up for his trouble. Jay would play Tonto in all the episodes except for those that he missed when he had his heart attack. In those episodes, he was replaced by the Ranger's nephew, Dan. However, Clayton Moore would miss the third season when he was replaced by John Hart. Jay would reprise the role of Tonto in two big-screen color movies with Moore, The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After the series ended in 1957, Jay could not escape the typecasting of Tonto. He would continue to appear in an occasional film and television show, but he would become a spokesman to improve the portrayal of Indians on TV.

  • Title: Jay Silverheels
  • Popularity: 4.063
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-05-26
  • Place of Birth: Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
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  • Also Known As: Harold J. Smith, Harry Silversmith, Harry Smith
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Jay Silverheels Movies

  • 1948
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    The Feathered Serpent

    The Feathered Serpent

    5.8 1948 HD

    In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...

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  • 1968
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    The Movie Orgy

    The Movie Orgy

    6.2 1968 HD

    Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

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  • 1960
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    Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

    Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

    1 1960 HD

    Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship with the Apaches. But when a vengeful Geronimo...

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  • 1944
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    Tahiti Nights

    Tahiti Nights

    1 1944 HD

    Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess.

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  • 1973
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    The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

    The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

    5.8 1973 HD

    On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit...

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  • 1970
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    The Phynx

    The Phynx

    3.5 1970 HD

    A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

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  • 1973
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    One Little Indian

    One Little Indian

    6.3 1973 HD

    An Army deserter (James Garner) flees by camel across the desert with a white boy (Clay O'Brien) raised by Indians.

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  • 1952
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    Yankee Buccaneer

    Yankee Buccaneer

    5.8 1952 HD

    A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year...

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  • 1973
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    Santee

    Santee

    5.3 1973 HD

    Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty...

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  • 1947
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    Captain from Castile

    Captain from Castile

    7.2 1947 HD

    Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to...

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  • 1943
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    Northern Pursuit

    Northern Pursuit

    5.9 1943 HD

    Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring,...

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  • 1943
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    The Phantom

    The Phantom

    6.2 1943 HD

    Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological...

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  • 1952
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    The Half-Breed

    The Half-Breed

    5 1952 HD

    An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.

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  • 1967
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    Pistols 'n' Petticoats

    Pistols 'n' Petticoats

    1 1967 HD

    Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.

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  • 1958
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    The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

    The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

    6.5 1958 HD

    Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large...

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  • 1956
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    The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

    6.1 1956 HD

    The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese...

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  • 1954
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    Drums Across the River

    Drums Across the River

    5.4 1954 HD

    When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

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  • 1949
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    Tulsa

    Tulsa

    6.275 1949 HD

    It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee...

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  • 1954
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    The Black Dakotas

    The Black Dakotas

    5.1 1954 HD

    During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold....

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  • 1948
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    Fury at Furnace Creek

    Fury at Furnace Creek

    6 1948 HD

    The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory,...

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  • 1951
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    Red Mountain

    Red Mountain

    6.1 1951 HD

    Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold...

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  • 1954
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    Saskatchewan

    Saskatchewan

    5.9 1954 HD

    Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the...

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  • 1943
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    The Girl from Monterrey

    The Girl from Monterrey

    1 1943 HD

    Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent...

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  • 1965
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    Indian Paint

    Indian Paint

    5.3 1965 HD

    Nishko is a chief's son in the Great Plains, before Europeans arrive. During his rite of passage, he's determined to tame a painted pony. He...

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  • 1951
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    The Wild Blue Yonder

    The Wild Blue Yonder

    6 1951 HD

    Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful...

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  • 1953
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    Jack McCall, Desperado

    Jack McCall, Desperado

    5.3 1953 HD

    During the Civil War, a Southerner joins the Union Army and is accused of leaking information to the Confederates.

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  • 1958
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    Return to Warbow

    Return to Warbow

    5.8 1958 HD

    Three escaped prisoners return to the site of a robbery to find the stolen money that was never recovered. Western.

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  • 1955
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    The Vanishing American

    The Vanishing American

    4 1955 HD

    A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo.

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  • 1954
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    Masterson of Kansas

    Masterson of Kansas

    5.8 1954 HD

    Western lawman Bat Masterson sets out to prove a man standing trial for murder is innocent.

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  • 1953
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    The Nebraskan

    The Nebraskan

    3 1953 HD

    War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.

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  • 1972
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    In Pursuit of Treasure

    In Pursuit of Treasure

    1 1972 HD

    In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with union waivers, a $220,000 budget and even...

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  • 1952
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    The Pathfinder

    The Pathfinder

    4 1952 HD

    Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to avenge himself on the Mingo warriors and the French, who...

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  • 1949
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    The Cowboy and the Indians

    The Cowboy and the Indians

    6.8 1949 HD

    Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after...

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  • 1954
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    Four Guns to the Border

    Four Guns to the Border

    4.5 1954 HD

    A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals...

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  • 1948
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    Family Honeymoon

    Family Honeymoon

    5.7 1948 HD

    Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on...

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  • 1950
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    Broken Arrow

    Broken Arrow

    6.7 1950 HD

    Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to...

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  • 1952
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    Brave Warrior

    Brave Warrior

    4 1952 HD

    In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side...

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  • 1953
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    War Arrow

    War Arrow

    5.6 1953 HD

    A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to...

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  • 1948
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    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    7.958 1948 HD

    Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local...

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  • 1949
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    Sand

    Sand

    4.5 1949 HD

    Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder...

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  • 1969
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    True Grit

    True Grit

    7.361 1969 HD

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old...

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  • 1952
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    The Battle at Apache Pass

    The Battle at Apache Pass

    6.3 1952 HD

    Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically...

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  • 1956
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    Walk the Proud Land

    Walk the Proud Land

    6.1 1956 HD

    Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation...

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  • 1952
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    The Legend Of The Lone Ranger

    The Legend Of The Lone Ranger

    6 1952 HD

    A group of Texas Rangers chasing the Butch Cavendish gang is massacred in an ambush. One of the Rangers survives and becomes a vigilante, a masked...

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  • 1949
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    Enter the Lone Ranger

    Enter the Lone Ranger

    3.5 1949 HD

    The sole surviving Texas Ranger of a murderous ambush - John Reid, becomes the great masked hero. He fights for justice with his companion, Tonto.

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  • 2002
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    The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s

    The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s

    1 2002 HD

    From those early days of black and white with Ed Ames' memorable Tomahawk toss, to Tiny Tim's Technicolor wedding, to Letterman and Leno's stand-up...

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  • 1949
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    Lust for Gold

    Lust for Gold

    5.9 1949 HD

    A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of...

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  • 1948
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    Key Largo

    Key Largo

    7.474 1948 HD

    A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and...

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  • 1942
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    Perils of Nyoka

    Perils of Nyoka

    1 1942 HD

    Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates,...

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  • 1940
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    Kit Carson

    Kit Carson

    5.9 1940 HD

    Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.

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  • 1947
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    Gas House Kids Go West

    Gas House Kids Go West

    6 1947 HD

    The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.

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  • 1949
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    Laramie

    Laramie

    6.5 1949 HD

    A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf...

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  • 1953
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    Last of the Comanches

    Last of the Comanches

    6.4 1953 HD

    It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left...

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  • 1940
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    7.1 1940 HD

    Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

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  • 1940
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    Too Many Girls

    Too Many Girls

    5.7 1940 HD

    Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The...

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  • 1949
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    Trail of the Yukon

    Trail of the Yukon

    6 1949 HD

    When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a...

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  • 1947
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    The Prairie

    The Prairie

    6 1947 HD

    The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a...

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  • 1941
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    This Woman Is Mine

    This Woman Is Mine

    3.2 1941 HD

    Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.

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  • 1941
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    Western Union

    Western Union

    6 1941 HD

    When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot...

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  • 1948
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    Singin' Spurs

    Singin' Spurs

    1 1948 HD

    In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an...

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  • 1942
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    Valley of the Sun

    Valley of the Sun

    5.8 1942 HD

    An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

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  • 1969
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    Smith!

    Smith!

    5.6 1969 HD

    When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since...

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  • 1948
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    Yellow Sky

    Yellow Sky

    6.9 1948 HD

    In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow...

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  • 1944
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    Lost in a Harem

    Lost in a Harem

    5.5 1944 HD

    Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

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  • 1944
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    I Am an American

    I Am an American

    5.3 1944 HD

    The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.

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  • 2001
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    Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes

    Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes

    1 2001 HD

    Along with two complete episodes of the classic television series with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels (shown with original commercials and network...

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  • 1959
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    Alias Jesse James

    Alias Jesse James

    5.9 1959 HD

    Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent...

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  • 1971
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    Cat Ballou

    Cat Ballou

    1 1971 HD

    A pretty ranch owner hires an alcoholic gunfighter to protect her ranch and her adopted boy from an outlaw gang's depredations.

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  • 1970
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    The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man

    The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man

    1 1970 HD

    Disguised behind his mask, The Lone Ranger led the fight for law and order in the early West. Relive the journey of the resourceful rider in The...

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  • 1969
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    The Brady Bunch

    The Brady Bunch

    6.716 1969 HD

    When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their...

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  • 1971
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    Cannon

    Cannon

    6.5 1971 HD

    Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the...

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  • 1966
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    Pistols 'n' Petticoats

    Pistols 'n' Petticoats

    7.5 1966 HD

    Pistols 'n' Petticoats is an American Western sitcom

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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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  • 1964
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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    6.9 1964 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September...

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  • 1965
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    Branded

    Branded

    6.4 1965 HD

    Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern...

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  • 1958
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    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    6.9 1958 HD

    Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three...

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  • 1949
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    The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

    6.8 1949 HD

    The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

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  • 1964
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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    6.9 1964 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September...

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  • 1964
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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    6.9 1964 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.429 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.429 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

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