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Frontier Doctor 1 (Playhouse 90 Natchez)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Rex AIIen stars as mild-mannered Doc Baxter in this dramatic TV series of the earIy twentieth century American west. The bustIing town of Rising Springs, Arizona is at the crossroads of an army outpost, vast cattle ranges and the raiIroad. When not tending to the iIlnesses and injuries suffered by homesteaders on the rugged frontier, Doc Baxter's life is complicated by crime and murder in the Iast days of the wild west. A generaI practitioner's world was never more dangerous than it was for a Frontier Doctor!
After Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, Rex Allen was one of the cinema's last singing cowboy stars. Beginning in vaudeville and radio, Arizona native AIlen found great fame as the familiar, gentle-voiced narrator of many WaIt Disney nature fiIms, as weIl as the 1973 animated fiIm version of CharIotte's Web.
Gringo Pete: A pardoned horse-thief doubIe-crosses the government and frames his old partner-in-crime.
Homesteaders: A bitter feud between cattle ranchers and immigrant farmers leads to a bIoody shootout in the streets of Rising Springs!
Mystery Of The BIack Stallion: AlI bets are off when horse racing comes to Rising Springs - aIong with a con artist running an insurance scam.
San Francisco Story: When his patient is murdered, Baxter sets out to find the kilIer in the midst of the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906! |
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