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Foundation date 1 january 1935
Republic Pictures was an American independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1935 through 1959, and was best known for specializing in westerns, movie serials, and B films emphasizing mystery and action.
The studio was also responsible for financing and distributing one Shakespeare film, Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948), and several of the films of John Ford during the 1940s and early 1950s. It was also notable for developing the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers.
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(1948)Filmography of Republic Pictures (640 films)
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The Last Command (1955)
, 1h50Directed by Frank Lloyd, William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Sterling Hayden, Arthur Hunnicutt, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Carlson, J. Carrol Naish
La relation des derniers jours de Fort Alamo, assiégé par les troupes du général Santa Ana.
A Man Alone (1955)
, 1h36Directed by Ray Milland
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Mary Murphy, Ward Bond, Raymond Burr, Lee Van Cleef, Alan Hale Jr., Arthur Space
On foot after the mercy killing of his horse, Wes Steele finds a stagecoach and a number of dead passengers. He takes a horse and rides to Mesa.
Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
, 1h11Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Robert Lowery, Richard Deacon, Jacqueline deWit, Pierre Watkin, Robert Burton, Marjorie Bennett
Judy Canova works in a hotel for her domineering aunt. Her unscrupulous relatives try to blackmail and dupe her into selling her apparently worthless farm, having been led to believe that it has enormous potential value by a couple of confidence tricksters.
The Eternal Sea (1955)
, 1h43Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger, Virginia Grey, Hayden Rorke
Histoire vécue du contre-amiral américain John M. Hoskins, chargé de former les pilotes de l'aéronavale, puis de commander un porte-avions qui sera coulé et lui coûtera une jambe. Au lieu d'arrêter, il repartira dans l'aviation de marine à réaction, en Corée, dans laquelle il accomplira des prouesses....
Johnny Guitar (1954)
, 1h50Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ernest Borgnine, Ward Bond
On the outskirts of a wind-swept Arizona cattle town, an aggressive and strong-willed saloonkeeper named Vienna maintains a volatile relationship with the local cattlemen and townsfolk. Not only does she support the railroad being laid nearby (the cattlemen oppose it), but she permits "The Dancin' Kid" (her former amour) and his confederates to frequent her saloon. The locals, led by McIvers but egged on by Emma Small, a onetime rival of Vienna, are determined to force Vienna out of town, and the hold-up of the stage (they suspect, erroneously, by "The Dancin' Kid") offers a perfect pretext. Vienna faces them down, helped by the mysterious and just arrived Johnny Guitar. He turns out to be her ex-lover and a reformed gunslinger whose real name is Johnny Logan. Their smouldering love/hate relationship develops until McIvers gives Vienna, Johnny Guitar and "The Dancin Kid" and his sidekicks 24 hours to leave.
Make Haste to Live (1954)
, 1h30Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally, Mary Murphy, Edgar Buchanan, John Howard, Ron Hagerthy
Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One night she feels a man is stalking her. She grabs a gun and makes a series of arrangements anticipating his own death. She prepares a tape with a message for her teenage daughter, who (in flashback) speaks about her relationship with Steve Blackford, who, has good reason to hate her.
Hell's Half Acre (1954)
, 1h30Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime
Actors Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, Nancy Gates, Leonard Strong
The drama related the tale of ex-racketeer Chet Chester (Corey) who is blackmailed by his former criminal partners.
Man with the Steel Whip (1954)
, 2h47Directed by Franklin Adreon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Richard "Dick" Simmons, Lane Bradford, Mauritz Hugo, Pat Hogan, Roy Barcroft, Stuart Randall
In a version of a standard western plot, the saloon owner Barnett wants the land under the local Indian Reservation for its gold deposits. In order to drive off the people living on the reservation, he forms a gang to attack the local ranchers and frame the Indians. Rancher Jerry Randall opposes him using the legendary masked identity of "El Latigo", friend to the Indians.
Tobor the Great (1954)
, 1h17Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Robot films
Actors Charles Drake, Billy Chapin, Karin Booth, Steven Geray, Henry Kulky, William Schallert
At his underground laboratory in Los Angeles, Professor Nordstrom (Taylor Holmes), worried that manned space exploration is too dangerous, enlists the help of Dr. Ralph Harrison (Charles Drake), who recently left the new government-appointed Civil Interplanetary Flight Commission. The two scientists embark on a research project to create a robot that can replace a human for space flight. Nordstrom's daughter, Janice Roberts (Karin Booth), and her 11-year-old son Brian (Billy Chapin), nicknamed “Gadge”, become very interested in the project.
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
, 1h31Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor McLaglen, John McCallum, Eddie Byrne
After moving from South America to the Scottish Highlands, millionaire Sanin Cejador y Mengues (Welles) reassumes the title of laird of Glen Easan, which he inherited from his grandfather, Sandy Menzies. Obstinate in nature, Mengues soon finds the climate inhospitable, and the language and customs of the Highland people exasperating. While fishing on the loch with his equally stubborn, distantly related cousin Angus, who works as a fishing or hunting guide for the estate, Mengues hooks and then loses a large trout, and the confrontation escalates from Gaelic epithets and an overturned boat to Mengues firing Angus. When the locals then refuse to work for him and his cattle roam unmanaged over the glen, Mengues, advised by Oliver Dukes (Archie Duncan), his factor from Glasgow whom the villagers distrust, closes a heavily used road that leads through his property.
The Shanghai Story (1954)
, 1h30Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley, Philip Ahn, Whit Bissell
A number of people are held captive by Major Ling Wu and his men, who refuse to let anyone go until identifying a spy in their midst. When he sends his assassin Sun Lee after one of the hostages, Dan Maynard, a doctor, and Knuckles Greer, a sailor, manage to intervene.
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
, 1h32Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas, Victor McLaglen, John Russell, Claude Jarman Jr.
In 1883, the Boston, Massachusetts, company that owns the full-rigged sailing ship Gerrymander gives the ship's captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit for the company in the Gerrymander 's operations in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a trade exclusion policy that prevents him from carrying goods between ports in the islands, Boll looks for a way for the Gerrymander to make money. In Soerabaja on Java, Boll encounters an Indonesian whose life he once saved. The Indonesian tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon, contrary to legend which says the diamonds were lost. The Indonesian directs Boll to a Chinese junk captain who has cargo that will lead Boll to the diamonds.
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
, 1h30Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold, Chill Wills, Marie Windsor
Johnny Kelly (Gig Young) is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. Haunted by echoes of his mother-in-law's scolding voice, he plans on leaving his wife Kathy (Paula Raymond) for exotic dancer Sally "Angel Face" Connors (Mala Powers), but Sally is getting tired of waiting for him. Also in love with her is a club entertainer, Gregg, who mimics a mechanical man in his act.
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Western
Actors John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper, James Brown
Civil War factions along the Arkansas-Missouri border are warned by Border City's mayor, Delilah Courtney, to stay five miles from her neutral town or risk arrest. Quantrill, a former Confederate officer gone rogue, brings his gang of marauders to the region, including wife Kate, who he kidnapped from Border City two years ago.
Old Overland Trail (1953)
, 1hDirected by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Musical, Western
Actors Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Roy Barcroft, Leonard Nimoy, Harry Harvey, Sr.