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Sears, officially named Sears Roebuck and Co., is an American chain of department stores, which was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 19th century. Formerly a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Sears merged with Kmart in early 2005, creating the Sears Holdings Corporation.
From its mail order beginnings, the company grew to become the largest retailer in the United States by the mid-20th century, and its catalogs became famous. Competition and changes in the demographics of its customer base hurt Sears following World War II, as the country's suburban areas thrived, hurting the company's inner-city (and rural) strongholds. Eventually, Sears' catalogs were discontinued in lieu of more web-based alternatives.
Richard Warren Sears was a railroad station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota, when he received an impressive shipment of watches from a Chicago jeweler which were unwanted by a local cube jeweler. Sears purchased them, then sold the watches for a considerable profit to other station agents, then ordered more for resale. Soon he started a business selling watches through mail order catalogs. The next year, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he met Alvah C. Roebuck, who joined him in the business. In 1893, the corporate name became Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Actors: Michael Barnes (miscellaneous crew), Humberto Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Hershey (actress), Tom Berenger (actor), Richard Halsey (editor), David Arnold (composer), Mario Kassar (producer), Kurtwood Smith (actor), Mark Boone Junior (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), Wilford Brimley (actor), Molly Parker (actress), Parley Baer (actor), Mario Kassar (miscellaneous crew), Miguel Gurza (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
Keywords: archaeologist, bar, black-comedy, bounty-hunter, bow-and-arrow, cabin, campfire, chase, dog, drunkennessActors: Eva Marie Saint (actress), Claire Trevor (actress), Erin Gray (actress), Jason Robards (actor), Parley Baer (actor), Jerry Haynes (actor), Kenneth Kaufman (producer), Jerrold Immel (composer), Gary Griffin (editor), Amy Krell (miscellaneous crew), John Wilder (producer), John Wilder (director), John Wilder (writer), Doug McKeon (actor), Norman Bennett (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Nolan Miller (costume designer), Pat Corley (actor), Tom Skerritt (actor), Arthur Allan Seidelman (director), Susan Tyrrell (actress), Billy Goldenberg (composer), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Gary Grubbs (actor), George Hamilton (actor), David Wayne (actor), Liz Torres (actress), Richard Mulligan (actor), Chris Swinney (miscellaneous crew), Millie Moore (editor), John Bennett Perry (actor),
Plot: Alice Moffit, 'Poker Alice', has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. She is travelling the West with her cousin, John, when she wins a house in a poker game on a train. The 'house' turns out to be a bordello, which she decides to run until she can sell it. She falls for a bounty hunter, Jeremy Collins, who is about to settle down in California. Marrying him would mean ending the life-long relationship between the two cousins.
Keywords: assertive-woman, bordello, bouffant-hairstyle, buggy, cardsharp, compulsive-gambler, poker-game, pretty-woman, saloon, trainActors: Dale Wilson (actor), Julie Christie (actress), Wayne Robson (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Jack Riley (actor), Terence Kelly (actor), Don Francks (actor), William Devane (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), Rene Auberjonois (actor), Bert Remsen (actor), David Foster (producer), Shelley Duvall (actress),
Plot: Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, african-american, american-indian, ampersand-in-title, anti-western, banjo, bar, bar-keeperActors: George Brent (actor), Hank Patterson (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Johnny Carpenter (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), John McIntire (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Howard Duff (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), David Clarke (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Denver Pyle (actor),
Genres: Western,Actors: Roy Barcroft (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Bert Dillard (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Victor Adamson (actor),
Plot: Columbia's 11th serial (between "Terry and the Pirates" and "The Green Archer") and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed. The standard one-man-to-a-hoss and nobody walks rule of Westerns tended to cramp Horne's usual style of directing, in that he wasn't able to pour six or seven henchies into a four-door sedan and have them come tumbling out like the clowns at a circus, and the surprise with those familiar with his serials is that he didn't have all the henchmen riding around in a stagecoach or wagon. And, since they usually stayed on their horse, he was unable to have them rounding a corner on foot at an angle, freeze in surprise with their arms thrust over their heads, do a couple of takes and hot-foot it stage left for an alarmed feet-do-your-stuff exit. The character of "Deadwood Dick" in this serial is just a name that had a ring to it, was not intended to be based on the real-life "Deadwood Dick" in any manner, and those who delight in pointing out that the real "Deadwood Dick" was a black man and Columbia didn't know what they were doing miss an obvious point; the Columbia writers most likely knew that, but they weren't writing a factual history of the West and their fictional character could be what they wanted him to be. And was. That he ended up being played by the dullest actor (Don Douglas) ever to essay the lead role in a serial (at least until Republic came up with the likes of Bill Henry and Harry Lauter as serial leads) probably wasn't something they planned. This one had a little promise with veteran western actor Lane Chandler as "Wild Bill Hickok" but that promise soon faded with Hickok's demise in chapter one of this 15-chapter serial, where a renegade band led by a mysterious, masked character known as "The Skull" is terrorizing the town of Deadwood in the territory of Dakota. Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota committee, is, unknown to his fellow townsmen and committee members, the equally mysterious Deadwood Dick, who is fighting The Skull and his gang. This makes everything about even as, unknown to Stanley, fellow-committeeman banker Transon Drew is The Skull. Well, actually, The Skull is a bit ahead as his "speaking voice" in costume is that of Forrest Taylor, who is nowhere in sight among the suspected citizens. Frank Butler, Stanley's "star' reporter is killed when he discovers that The Skull has plans to build an mpire of his own, and this also raises the possibility that Butler's sister, Anne, is also in danger. Chapter One ends with Deadwood Dick involved in a fight on a railroad handcar (filled with dynamite, naturally) with Jack McCall, the slayer of Wild Bill Hickok, and the handcar crashes to the bottom of a deep gorge and crashes... and explodes. Stanley/Deadwood Dick faces 13 more cliffhangers (mainly because he keeps letting Drew in on his plans to capture The Skull),before he unmasks The Skull in Chapter 15, "The Deadwood Express," Most of the action footage involving the Deadwood Dick character shows up again in 1954's "Riding With Buffalo Bill", where Marshall Reed as Buffalo Bill sans goatee, rides around in Deadwood Dick's costume.
Keywords: 1890s, ambush, arsenal, barfly, bartender, blacksmith, cattle-rustling, cattle-stampede, character-name-in-title, cliffhangerActors: Noah Beery (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Hilliard Karr (actor), Frank Leigh (actor), Alan Roscoe (actor), William H. Tooker (actor), Ida Darling (actress), Harvey F. Thew (writer), Harvey F. Thew (writer), Walter Plunkett (costume designer), George Melford (director), Randolph Bartlett (writer), Olive Borden (actress), Louis Sarecky (writer), Hugh Trevor (actor),
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