Edgar Buchanan

Linda Darnell plays a young woman who gets herself sent to a women's prison to be near her husband, a Coast Guard officer convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Inside she finds a population of wives and mothers serving time alongside — and sometimes instead of — the men who dragged them into trouble. Edgar Buchanan and Glenda Farrell lead the ensemble. Sidney Salkow directed this Columbia prison-reform drama at the height of the wartime cycle of women's-prison pictures. The film is in the public domain.

Drama · Crime

Kirk Douglas plays a timber baron who arrives in California's redwood country in 1900 planning to strip it bare, only to run up against a Quaker community whose land sits on the biggest trees. The land scheme he builds with the help of a saloon singer and a treacherous foreman slowly collapses as he falls for the widow who leads the settlers and starts to see what the forest is worth. Directed by Felix E. Feist for Warner Bros and shot in Technicolor among the real redwoods, it is a conservation western a generation before that was a genre. It entered the public domain after its copyright was never renewed.

Western · Drama

Judge Roy Bean is an American Western television series that aired in syndication in 1956, starring Edgar Buchanan as the legendary frontier judge Roy Bean, the self-proclaimed "Law West of the Pecos." The series follows Bean's eccentric administration of justice in the Texas frontier town of Langtry, where he served as judge, justice of the peace, and saloon keeper. Based loosely on the real historical figure, the series blends Western action with humor and frontier color. Produced by Screen Gems, the series ran for 39 episodes. Several episodes are in the public domain.

Western