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William Boyd

William Boyd is a British novelist and screenwriter born in Ghana in 1952. He studied at three universities before establishing a career as a writer. His works include "An Ice-Cream War," "Restless," and "Any Human Heart," which was adapted into a successful TV series. Boyd has been awarded multiple literary prizes throughout his career.

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Hidden Gold

Hidden Gold

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes go...

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Hoppy Serves a Writ

Hoppy Serves a Writ

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, Cal...

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Lost Canyon

Lost Canyon

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1942 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he...

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Pirates on Horseback

Pirates on Horseback

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.

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Bar 20

Bar 20

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.

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Border Patrol

Border Patrol

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 6.2

When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.

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Pride of the West

Pride of the West

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1938 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the robbers. With her father the Sheriff under pressure, Mary sends for Hoppy who finds the stolen money...

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Outlaws of the Desert

Outlaws of the Desert

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.

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High Voltage

High Voltage

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1929 IMDB Rating: 5.3

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.

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The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1931 IMDB Rating: 5.2

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranc...

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