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In Hollywood from the mid-1910s, writer/director Alvin J. Neitz began his screen career with the small-scale Centaur company and never really progressed far beyond the boundaries of poverty row. He did work for Universal in the late 1910s -- and again... more
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Cast: Ken Maynard Alan James William Castle
Tags: Action Western B-Western
Length: 56min
The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial effort of Alan J. Neitz (alias Alan James), a veteran genre specialist whose career dated back to 1916. Aging lawmen Ken...
Cast: Hoot Gibson
Tags: Western
Length: 58min
In a rather desperate attempt to duplicate the success of Republic Pictures' Three Mesqueteers B-Western series, Monogram producer Robert Emmett Tansey hired tired veterans Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson to constitute the "Trail Blazers." Maynard and...
Cast: Dave "Tex" O'Brien
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
As in his previous two Westerns, Mexicali Kid and Wild Horse Canyon (both 1938), Jack Randall goes in search of his brother's killer in this low-budget series entry from Monogram. All three films were penned by line producer Robert Emmett Tansey, but...
Flaming Frontiers [Serial] (1938)
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 300min
A partial remake of Universal's Heroes of the West (1932), this 15 chapter serial was based on pulp writer Peter B. Kyne's ~The Tie That Binds. Burly Johnny Mack Brown played an Indian scout who helps Tom Grant (Ralph Bowman) and his sister Mary...
Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe
Tags: Mystery Drama Adventure Detective Film Adventure Drama
Length: 21min
Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role. Detective Barry is galvanized into action when 2,000,000 worth of bonds is stolen from an unnamed Asian country. Among the...
Cast: Charles Starrett
Tags: Western
Length: 54min
The locale is slightly different in the Charles Starrett western Call of the Rockies, but the familiar Starrett formula remains the same. Starrett plays Clint Buckley, who defends female rancher Ann Bradford (Iris Meredith) against mortgage-holding...
Cast: Tim McCoy Frank LaRue
Length: 57min
West of Rainbow's End was one of two Tim McCoy westerns directed by Monogram Pictures workhorse Alan James. Returning to the screen after a tour with the Ringling Bros. circus, McCoy is cast as a former railroad detective who emerges from retirement...
Cast: Frank S. Hagney
Tags: Western
Length: 58min
With Wild Horse Round-Up, cowboy star Kermit Maynard put his "Canadian Mountie" film series behind him to concentrate on orthodox western action. Maynard plays Jack Benson, who gallops to the aid of heroine Ruth Williams (Betty Lloyd). She...
Cast: Betty Compson
Tags: Western
Length: 58min
In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete with paint-on mustache and Latino accent. The plot contrives to have McCoy go into his "Si, senorita" routine to infiltrate...
Tags: Musical Western Action Western
Length: 55min
Having eschewed music interludes in his previous Western effort, Gun Packer, Jack Randall returned to warbling a tune or two this time around. Accompanied by the Colorado Hillbillies, Randall sang &"King of the Trail" by Eddie Cherkose and Charles...
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