Biography: Bob Kortman |
In films after 1915, hatchet-faced Robert Kortman claimed to have served in the U.S. Cavalry prior to going on-stage. With producer Thomas H. Ince in the mid-1910s, the menacing actor often supported the era's great Western icon William S. Hart (he... more
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Cast: Al St. John Douglas Walton Don "Red" Barry
Tags: Western
Length: 56min
Don "Red" Barry stars in the lightning-paced Republic western Sundown Fury. Befitting his unofficial title "the cowboy Cagney", Barry plays a character whose ethics seem to be very shaky. Be assured, however, that he'll come out on the side of the law...
Cast: Frank Yaconelli
Length: 20min
Johnny Mack Brown makes his third movie-serial starring appearance in the 13-chapter Wild West Days. Brown is cast as Kentucky Wade, who with the help of pals Trigger (Bob Kortman) and Mike (Frank Yaconelli) tries to protect Larry and Lucy Monroe...
Cast: Buck Jones
Tags: Drama Mystery Western B-Western
Length: 58min
Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west...
Length: 58min
Most of Ken Maynard's westerns were highly distinctive, if not always good. Heroes of the Range is okay but virtually indistinguishable from the horse operas being ground out by every other cowboy star. In this one, the hero poses as a notorious...
The Luck of Roaring Camp (1937)
Cast: Irvin V. Willat
Length: 61min
Bret Harte's short story The Luck of Roaring Camp had previously been woven into the plot of RKO's Outcasts of Poker Flat when this Monogram "special" made its appearance late in 1937. The basic story remains intact, with an orphaned baby magically...
Cast: John Wayne Ann Rutherford Joseph Kane
Length: 58min
The Lonely Trail, directed by Joseph Kane, stars John Wayne as veteran Union officer John Ashley. Ashley (Wayne), upon his return to his hometown in Texas, finds his presence unwanted by his former neighbors, who have all sided with the Confederacy....
Cast: Ken Maynard Cecilia Parker
Length: 63min
Though filmed on a tight budget, Universal's Trail Drive has the size and scope of a silent western epic, proof positive of the production acumen of star Ken Maynard. The story concerns (what else) a cattle drive, with Maynard cast as head drover. The...
Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes Hoot Gibson Alan James
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
Based on -Tracks, a 1928 short story by Stephen Payne, this low-budget Western from Diversion Pictures told the ancient story of a carefree drifter falsely accused of murdering a rancher. As he had so many times before, Hoot Gibson played the drifter,...
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown Sam Newfield
Length: 56min
In his first of 16 Westerns for independent producer A.W. Hackel, Johnny Mack Brown is Branded a Coward when instead of preventing a saloon hold-up, he is spotted cowering behind the bar. The reason for Johnny Hume's reticence is to be found in his...
Cast: Harry Carey
Tags: Western
Length: 62min
Throughout his "B"-western series for Ajax Pictures, Harry Carey was consistently better than his material. In Wild Mustang, Carey plays a leathery ex-marshal named Norton. When the scurrilous Utah Evans (Bob Kortman) and his gang embark upon a crime...
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