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Kansas (i/ˈkænzəs/) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans."
For thousands of years what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly, when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States.
Actors: Linda Hamilton (actress), Ted McGinley (actor), David A. Hoffman (miscellaneous crew), Hallee Hirsh (actress), Clint Morris (miscellaneous crew), Jan Citron (miscellaneous crew), Andrew James Allen (actor), Austin Rogers (actor), Melinda Denny (miscellaneous crew), Jessica Gardner (actress), Deanna Shapiro (producer), Nicholas Brandt (director), Nicholas Brandt (writer), Elsie Fisher (actress), Kris Eber (producer),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Steve Crest (actor), Jim Hanks (actor), Will Estes (actor), Ross McCall (actor), Adam Gifford (actor), Matthew Del Negro (actor), Marsha L. Swinton (producer), Pippa Scott (actress), Tessa Thompson (actress), Emily Baldoni (actress), Kevin P. Kearns (actor), Vania Ouzounova (costume designer), Amy Walmann (miscellaneous crew), Kyle Sucher (miscellaneous crew), William West (composer),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Liz M. Schroeder (costume designer), Ronnie Clark (actor), Elliott Ehlers (actor), Zac Petrillo (writer), Zac Petrillo (director), Hannis Brown (composer), Sydney Stephenson (actress), Robin August (miscellaneous crew), Taylor Maxwell (actor), Chelsea Kammeyer (editor), Linda Berglund (actress), Juette Raphael (actor), Arthur James (miscellaneous crew), Joyce Zylberberg (producer), Josh Krenz (writer),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short,Actors: Paul Gagne (actor), Paul Gagne (actor), Paul Gagne (actor), Paul Gagne (producer), Melissa Reilly (actress), Melissa Reilly (producer), Galen Fott (actor), Galen Fott (actor), Galen Fott (director), Galen Fott (actor), Galen Fott (actor), Galen Fott (actor), Galen Fott (actor), David de Vries (actor), David de Vries (actor),
Genres: Family, Short,Actors: Harry Lennix (actor), Keith David (actor), Kevin Carroll (actor), Avery O. Williams (producer), Avery O. Williams (writer), Kevin Dorsey (composer), Adisa Jones (producer), Adisa Jones (director), David Kirkman (editor), Tracy Coley (actor), Stephanie Pope (actress), Bobby Thomas (composer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Bob Mackie (costume designer), Andrea Martin (actress), Craig Zadan (producer), Lacey Chabert (actress), Robert Halmi Sr. (producer), Neil Meron (producer), Elisabeth Moss (actress), Michael Jeter (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Peter Riegert (actor), Bette Midler (actress), Edward Asner (actor), Christine Ebersole (actress), William Reynolds (editor), Cynthia Gibb (actress),
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical,Actors: Emile Avery (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Tom Tyler (actor), Rick Vallin (actor), Herman Schlom (producer), Norman Houston (writer), Paul Sawtell (composer), Lesley Selander (director), Desmond Marquette (editor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), John Holland (actor), Tim Holt (actor), Richard Martin (actor), Bob Reeves (actor),
Plot: Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito along with the Mexican Captain Trevino suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.
Keywords: gun-smuggling, machine-gun, mexican-borderActors: Stanley Blystone (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Leo Carrillo (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), William Hall (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Dan Dailey (actor), Murdock MacQuarrie (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor),
Plot: The Crowley Lumber Company's wartime government contract is threatened when a series of accidents thwart production. While Arizona and Quebec try to keep the lumber camp and the lumber mill operating, their old friend Kansas arrives to help out. Kansas soon learns that a ring of saboteurs operating in the lumber company are about to throttle the nation's timber industry and the leader of the spies is operating nearby. Kansas and his friends must round up the ringleader and his traitorous henchman before serious damage is done to the Allied war effort.
Keywords: 1940s, agent, alias, archive-footage, arson, assignment, axe, b-movie, boss, brawlActors: Arthur Hilton (editor), Leo Carrillo (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor), Stanley Price (actor), James Seay (actor), Guy Usher (actor), Ann Doran (actress), Ben Pivar (producer), Hans J. Salter (composer), Vera West (costume designer), William Nigh (director), Wade Boteler (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor),
Plot: The crooked manager of a fruit plantation, unknown to the company officials, in a banana republic is mistreating the workers and refuses to pay competitive prices for the crops and to the laborers, and also causing some sabotage problems . The company sends a couple of trouble-shooters in to uncover the problems.
Keywords: 1940s, accent, ambush, archive-footage, b-movie, banana, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smoking, comic-sidekick, crookActors: Charles J. Hunt (editor), Harry Allen (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), John P. McCarthy (director), Richard Alexander (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Emilio Fernández (actor), William Gould (actor), George Hazel (actor), Jack Richardson (actor), Bob Steele (actor), Wally West (actor), Blanche Mehaffey (actress),
Genres: Western,