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Both Barrels Blazing
''Both Barrels Blazing'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Derwin Abrahams and starring Charles Starrett. Plot The outlaw gangs are robbing the railroads and the Rangers cannot follow them when they move to New Mexico. So Kip decides to take a vacationto New Mexico and, as the Durango Kid, brings Cass and his gang back to justice. But Cass and his gang are killed at the bank in a double cross and Kip must still find the loot. For this, he enlists the help of Tex and Grubstake, although Grubstake does not know it. Cast * Charles Starrett as Kip Allen/ The Durango Kid * Tex Harding as Tex Harding * Dub Taylor as Cannonball * Pat Parrish as Gail Radford * The Jesters as Musicians * Guy Bonham as Singing Cowhand (as The Jesters) * Walter Carlson as Singing Cowhand (as The Jesters) * Dwight Latham as Singing Cowhand (as The Jesters) See also * List of American films of 1945 This is a list of American films that were released in 1945. In that year, the film '' The Lo ...
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Derwin Abrahams
Derwin Abrahams (1903–1974) was an American film director. He directed four serials in the 1940s for Columbia Pictures, including ''Hop Harrigan'', ''Chick Carter, Detective'', ''Tex Granger'', and ''Son of the Guardsman'', followed by ''The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd'' in 1953.Cline, William C. (1984). In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. . He also directed around two dozen western features, as well as episodes of the TV series ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'', ''Hopalong Cassidy'' and ''The Cisco Kid''.Bernard A. Drew. ''Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide''. Routledge, 2013. Selected filmography * '' Texas Rifles'' (1944) * ''Northwest Trail'' (1945) * ''Both Barrels Blazing'' (1945) *'' Rustlers of the Badlands'' (1945) *'' Drifting Along'' (1946) * ''South of the Chisholm Trail'' (1947) * ''Docks of New Orleans'' (1948) * '' The Girl from San Lorenzo'' (1950) * ''Whistling Hills ''Whistling Hills'' is a 1951 American Western film direc ...
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Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: 131 westerns, all produced by Columbia Pictures. Early years Starrett was born in Athol, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had built a prosperous tool works. He attended Worcester Academy, then graduated from Dartmouth College. Career A graduate of Worcester Academy in 1922, Starrett went on to study at Dartmouth College. While on the Dartmouth football team he was hired to play a football extra in the film ''The Quarterback'' (1926). Bitten by the acting bug, Starrett played minor roles in films and leading roles in stage plays. In 1928, he was a member of the Walker Company, a repertory theatre troupe headed by Stuart Walker. He played the romantic lead in his first movie, '' Fast and Loose'' (1930), which starred Frank Morgan, ...
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George Meehan
George Benjamin Meehan Jr. (1891–1947) was the cinematographer of more than 150 American films. Life Meehan was born on July 19, 1891, in Brooklyn, New York. During World War I he was a cinematographer in the United States Army. He married Louise Harriett Mahoney. Meehan was the cinematographer for ''Mary of the Movies'' (1923), '' Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' (1925), '' The Ghost Talks'' (1929), '' Back to the Woods'' (1937), '' The Big Chance'' (1933), ''Inside Information'' (1934), '' Tarzan’s Revenge'' (1938), ''Riders of Black River'' (1939), ''The Wildcat of Tucson'' (1940), ''Beyond the Sacramento'' (1940), and ''Voice of the Whistler'' (1945). Death Meehan was working on ''King of the Wild Horses'' when he became ill and was replaced on the project by Philip Tannura. Meehan died on February 10, 1947, in Hollywood, California, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park of Glendale, California. Selected filmography * '' Battling Buddy'' (1924) * '' The Gre ...
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Henry Batista
Henry Batista (1914-2002) was an American film and television editor active from the 1930s through the 1970s. Biography Henry Batista was born in Pasadena, California, to Henry Batista and Rose Delara, both of whom had emigrated to the United States from Italy. Before he got into film editing, he was a renowned golfer in Southern California, and he continued playing throughout his life. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Editing for his work on 1954's '' The Caine Mutiny''. Selected filmography * ''Jungle Moon Men'' (1955) * '' Cell 2455, Death Row'' (1955) * ''Women's Prison'' (1955) * '' The Bamboo Prison'' (1954) * ''Masterson of Kansas'' (1954) * ''They Rode West'' (1954) * '' The Caine Mutiny'' (1954) * ''Charge of the Lancers'' (1954) * '' Mission Over Korea'' (1953) * ''Savage Mutiny'' (1953) * '' The Four Poster'' (1952) * ''Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land'' (1952) * ''Purple Heart Diary'' (1951) * ''Jungle Manhunt'' (1951) * ''The Brave Bulls'' (1951) * ...
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Black And White
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. However, there are exceptions to this rule, including black-and-white fine art photography, as well as many film motion pictures and art film(s). Photography Contemporary use Since the late 1960s, few mainstream films have been shot in black-and-white. The reasons are frequently commercial, as it is difficult to sell a film for television broadcasting if the film is not in color. 1961 was the last year in which the majority of Hollywood films were released in black and white. Computing In computing terminology, ''black-and-white'' is sometimes used to refer to a binary image consisting solely of pure black pixels and pure white ones; what would normally be called a black-and-white image, that is, an image containing shades of ...
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation, which would eventually become Columbia Pictures. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968) went public two years later and eventually began to use the image of Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. With Capra and others such as the most successful two reel comedy series The Three Stooges, C ...
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West" and depicted in Western media as a hostile, sparsely populated frontier in a state of near-total lawlessness patrolled by outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other stock "gunslinger" characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. History The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. These featured veterans of ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West'' show exhibiting skills acquired by ...
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Dub Taylor
Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994),Dub Taylor, 87, Actor in Westerns, The New York Times, October 5, 1994, Section B, Page 12 was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor. Early life Taylor was born February 26, 1907, in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor, Sr."The Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920"
enumeration date January 15, 1920, Augusta City, Richmond County, Georgia. Digital copy of original census page,

List Of American Films Of 1945
This is a list of American films that were released in 1945. In that year, the film '' The Lost Weekend'' won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z Documentaries Serials Shorts See also * 1945 in the United States References External links 1945 filmsat the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1945 1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, ... Films Lists of 1945 films by country or language ...
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1945 Western (genre) Films
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: ** Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Hungary from the Russians. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army. * January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Prussia. * January 16 – WWII: Adolf Hitler takes residence in the '' Führerbunker'' in Berlin. * January 17 ** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsa ...
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1945 Films
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1945 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 26 – The film '' National Velvet'', starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere, is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. * January 30 – Restricted release of '' Kolberg'', an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000, probably fewer people view it than appear in it. * April 20 – Release of '' Son of Lassie'', the 2nd Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular ...
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American Black-and-white Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soc ...
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