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Missouri (i/mɨˈzʊəri/) (nickname The Show Me State) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri generally mirrors the demographic, economic and political makeup of America and has long been considered a political bellwether state. With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results have accurately predicted the next President of the United States in every election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state. It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the "western-most Eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most Western city". Missouri's geography is highly varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains while the southern part lies in the Ozark Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the two. The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of North America, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis, and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel. The starting points of the Pony Express Trail and Oregon Trail were both in Missouri. The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.
Actors: Vanessa Williams (actress), Dick Anthony Williams (actor), Richard Lawson (actor), Robert Townsend (director), Victoria Rowell (actress), Robert Townsend (writer), Robert Townsend (actor), Harry Lennix (actor), John Dennis Johnston (actor), Janet MacLachlan (actress), Heavy D (actor), Jazsmin Lewis (actress), Bobby McGee (actor), A.J. Johnson (actress), Calvin Levels (actor),
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Mario Bianchi (actor), Luciano Catenacci (actor), Richard Harrison (actor), Goffredo Unger (actor), George Wang (actor), Roberto Bianchi Montero (writer), Roberto Bianchi Montero (writer), Arpad DeRiso (writer), Roberto Bianchi Montero (director), Franco Marletta (actor), Carlo Gaddi (actor), Pamela Tudor (actress), Gaetano Imbró (actor), Bruno Piergentili (actor), Ferruccio Viotti (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Chet Brandenburg (actor), John Dehner (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), Don Haggerty (actor), Don C. Harvey (actor), Tim Holt (actor), Richard Martin (actor), Paul Sawtell (composer), Lew Landers (director), Robert Swink (editor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Denver Pyle (actor), Stuart Randall (actor), Robert Shayne (actor), Regis Toomey (actor),
Plot: Cowhands Ross Taylor and his pal Chito Rafferty rescue road-construction engineer Dan Madden and his wife, Mary, when Madden is delayed starting work on a road running parallel to a toll road operated by Anson Thurder and his armed henchmen. After a running gun battle, Ross and Chito get the Maddens to the construction site, aided by Jay Wingate, who is in league with Wingate but poses as an advocate of the new road. When Madden's surveying instruments are destroyed while under Wingate's protection, Ross and Chito uncover the connection between Thurber and Wingate. To get rid of Ross, Wingate insinuates that Ross and Mary are having an affair. Ross knocks him down but is arrested for assault by the sheriff, but Chito rescues him. Ross and Chito save Madden from Wingate's next scheme to get rid of him, but all three are trapped in a canyon wired with dynamite and about to be set off by Wingate's men.
Keywords: female-gunfighter, new-mexico, shootout, storekeeper, street-shootout, surveyorActors: Donald Kerr (actor), Eddie Laughton (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Eddie Bruce (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Jesse Graves (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Neal Dodd (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Perc Launders (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,Actors: Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Charles King (actor), Tom London (actor), Clyde McClary (actor), Horace Murphy (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Dave O'Brien (actor), Tex Palmer (actor),
Genres: Western,Actors: Hank Bell (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Richard Dix (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Leila Hyams (actress), Jessie Ralph (actress), Cliff Reid (producer), Jack Townley (writer), John Twist (writer), Alberto Colombo (composer), Wallace Fox (director), Robert McKenzie (actor), Art Mix (actor), Ted Oliver (actor), Moroni Olsen (actor),
Plot: Eastern educated Bob Culpepper, along with grizzled prospector Solitary, hit the mother lode and head to Gold Town to stake their claim. Along the way they chase off a gang of stagecoach robbers, led by the oafish Missouri, who works for shady Gold Town saloon owner Jack Hanway. Bob immediately falls in love with one of the passengers, pretty songstress Nellie Brian. Things do not go well for Bob back in town, however, as not only does Hanway, jealous of Nellie's affection for Bob, frame him for the robbery and has him arrested, but cajoles the existence of the big gold strike out of a drunken Solitary, with plans to stake the claim himself the next morning.
Keywords: 1870s, abduction, bartender, based-on-play, burial, claim-jumper, dancehall-girl, deputy, drinking, drunkennessActors: John English (editor), Monte Blue (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Charles Delaney (actor), Art Dillard (actor), John Elliott (actor), Robert Frazer (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Fuzzy Knight (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), Clyde McClary (actor),
Plot: An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
Keywords: 1930s, ambush, b-movie, b-western, barfly, barroom-brawl, bartender, bushwhacker, canada, canadianActors: Edmund Cobb (actor), Victor Adamson (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), William Desmond (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), Philo McCullough (actor),
Plot: John Blaine wins a contract to build a section of the Transcontinental Railroad. With his daughter Ann and his eighteen-year-old son, Noah, Blaine establishes his construction camp in the heart of Wyoming, on the border of hostile Indian territory. Forces led by Rance Judd, Bart Eaton, and the renegade Buckskin Joe, unite to stop Blaine from completing the job on time. But with the leadership of construction engineer Tom Crosby and young Noah, the hardships of railroad pioneering are overcome.
Keywords: 12-chapters, 1870s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, ambush, american-indian, archive-footage, army, aunt-nephew-relationship, aunt-niece-relationship, b-movieActors: Jesse J. Goldburg (miscellaneous crew), Carl Krusada (writer), Jack Nelson (director), Ernie Adams (actor), Bob Custer (actor), William Gillespie (actor), Nelson McDowell (actor), Bobby Nelson (actor), Artie Ortego (actor), Eugenia Gilbert (actress), Jesse J. Goldburg (producer), Tom Bay (actor), James Ormont (writer), E. Lanning Masters (writer),
Genres: Action, Romance, Western,Actors: Octavia Handworth (actress), Clay M. Greene (writer), Siegmund Lubin (producer), Thurston Hall (actor), Bernard Siegel (actor), Charles Brandt (actor), Betty Brice (actress), Percy Winter (director), Clara Lambert (actress), George Clarke (actor), James Daly (actor),
Genres: Short, Western,(Verse 1)
November's almost over,
The gentle winter's on the way.
Still I sit here on this balcony,
and smoke my brain away,
Waiting on that phone to ring.
Wondering which day that it will be.
(Chorus)
Oh Carrie I pray one day you'll go back home,
To the warmth of Southern Georgia where you belong,
And leave all the pain you've felt from me,
here in Missouri.
(Verse 2)
Oh you were just a young girl,
and I swore I could change.
Every day that you forgive me,
is just another one you'll waste.
You came here in search of something true.
I hope like hell your searching isn't through.
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
It's hard to think that everything around her.
To know that won't be happy ever after.