Biography: Bob Baker |
According to Hollywood lore, Bob Baker's mother mailed her handsome son's picture and a biography to Universal, who was actively searching for a new face to star in a series of B-Westerns. Born Stanley Leland Weed and nicknamed "Tumbleweed," Baker... more
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Tags: Western
Length: 57min
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local...
Cast: Ralph Staub
Length: 55min
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery...
Cast: Ray Taylor
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 56min
Worth seeing for its title alone was the Johnny Mack Brown western Riders of Pasco Basin. This time, Brown plays the head of a group of vigilantes (the peace-keeping variety) who take on a gang of clever villains. With the law on their side, the bad...
Tags: Western Adventure Action
Length: 58min
With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal. Brown and comic sidekick Fuzzy Knight are cast as Steve Hayden and Cousin Willie, on the trail of cattle rustlers. The action...
Length: 58min
Johnny Mack Brown plays a dual role in the Universal B-western Bad Man From Red Butte. It seems that honest, upright Gil Brady has a less-than-honest twin brother, a desperado who goes by the name of Buck Halliday. Eventually, Gil is blamed for the...
Cast: Marge Champion Jack Kirk
Tags: Musical Western Action Crime Western
Length: 60min
In terms of action, Honor of the West ranks among the best of the Bob Baker westerns. In terms of its script, alas, it must rank as one of the worst. Screenwriter Joseph West (a pseudonym for director George Waggner) seems to have taken a perverse...
Cast: Fuzzy Knight Anne Gwynne Johnny Mack Brown
Tags: Traditional Western Western
Length: 58min
Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride Janet Rankin (Anne Gwynne), homesteader Jeff McLeod (Brown) is thrown into jail at the behest of villain George Frazier (James...
Cast: John Ridgely
Tags: Musical Western Action Western
Length: 59min
After directing the first few Bob Baker westerns for Universal, Joseph H. Lewis passed the cudgel to George Waggner, who did his usual efficient job on Western Trails. Singing cowboy Baker stars a Bob Mason, who comes to the aid of heroine Alice...
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 57min
Singing cowboy Bob Baker starred in this average music western as a cavalry officer assigned to investigate the murders of several Pony Express riders. Going undercover as Pony Express riders themselves, Captain Bob Bradley and his sidekick Andy...
Cast: Marjorie Reynolds Reed Howes George Waggner
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 57min
With Phantom Stage, Universal called it quits on singing cowboy Bob Baker's western series. The plot involves a series of outlaw raids perpetrated upon the stagecoach line owned by heroine Mary (Marjorie Reynolds). The perpetrator is a pint-sized...
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