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Western Wednesdays: Idaho Kid (1936)

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SYNOPSIS:
The Idaho Kid [Rex Bell] befriends an amateur holdup artist [David Sharpe], along the way they meet slovenly and dirty-faced Slagel [Charles King] who proposes the two men work the Hollister [Earl Dwire] range. It is soon revealed that Idaho is none other than Hollister’s own son. As it turns out, Idaho was raised by a rival clan called the Endicotts because his father disowned him. However, Idaho left the range at 10 years old, due to a feud between the Endicotts and the Hollisters.
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Western Wednesdays: Hell’s Hinges (1916)

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Young and weak-hearted Reverend Henley [Jack Standing] is sent from the big city church to preach in the town of Placer Centre, a city known locally as “Hell’s Hinges” for the cutthroat and violent behavior of its gun-toting townsfolk. However, two rogue citizens, Silk Miller [Alfred Hollingsworth] and “Blaze” Tracey [William S. Hart], do not care for Henley’s appearance in town and plot to do away with the reverend and his sister Faith [Clara Williams].
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Western Wednesdays: The Rawhide Terror (1934)

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A family is enjoying a meal in the desert when a horde of white badmen masquerading as Indigenous people infiltrate their picnic and rob the family of their valuables. They kill the parents, leaving the two male children, whom share similar birthmarks, stranded with the eldest son wandering off cackling maniacally.
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Western Wednesdays: King of the Bullwhip (1950)

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Tioga City and its bank president James Kerrigan [Jack Holt] are plagued by a deadly masked bullwhip carrying bandit named “El Azote” (The Scourge) who is robbing stagecoaches and banks across the territory of their gold and cash. Kerrigan decides it is time for action and calls in two men to act as marshal and deputy to drive out the marauder, those two men being Lash LaRue and his bearded sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones [Al St. John]. The two arrive in town with the townsfolk suspicious that LaRue, the master of the bullwhip, is the evil masked robber.
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