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They Were Expendable

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They Were Expendable (1945)

135 min - Drama, War - 7 December 1945
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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Director:  John Ford
Writers:  Frank Wead
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

NR 103 min - Western - 22 October 1949
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After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

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Stagecoach

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Poster for the movie "Stagecoach"

Stagecoach (1939)

NR 96 min - Western, Adventure, Action, Drama, Romance - 3 March 1939
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A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Director:  John Ford
Writers:  Dudley Nichols
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Red River

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Red River (1948)

NR 133 min - Western, Adventure, Drama, Romance - 26 August 1948
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Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

Director:  Howard Hawks
Writers:  Borden Chase, Charles Schnee
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