Biography: Bruce Mitchell |
H. Bruce Mitchell entered films as a director in 1912. By the time talkies came in, Mitchell's directorial career had eclipsed. Dropping the "H" from his name, he launched his acting career with 1932's Airmail Mystery. For the next decade, Bruce... more
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Cast: Sherry Tansey
Tags: Action Western B-Western
Length: 58min
Whistling Bullets was one of better Kermit Maynard westerns from the Ambassador Pictures "B"-mill. Based on a story by James Oliver Curwood, the story finds Texas Ranger Larry Graham (Maynard) hot on the trail of an outlaw and his gang. To gain the...
Length: 50min
Perhaps the weirdest Western from Poverty Row entrepreneur Victor Adamson, The Rawhide Terror features Art Mix (aka George Kesterson) as Al Blake, a young rancher going up against a phantom killer known only as "The Rawhide Terror." Years earlier, a...
Cast: Jobyna Ralston
Length: 48min
Several silent-film favorites briefly extended their film careers in the Poverty Row epic Sheer Luck. Nick Stuart plays a milkman who's "that way" about winsome Jobyna Ralston. The wealthy and powerful villain, Philo McCullough, steals Ralston's...
Length: min
One of the era's more obscure oaters, 45 Calibre Echo was the final Jack Perrin Western produced by the redoubtable Robert J. Horner, an indefatigable low-budget producer who seems to have cranked out an endless stream of ramshackle Westerns without...
Cast: Larry Steers
Length: 54min
Directed and written by Bruce Mitchell, this airborne Western melodrama starred real-life flying ace Al Wilson as Dick Stanton, a border patrol aviator who comes to the aid of beleaguered rancher John Crandall (Buck Connors) and his brood. Crandall is...
Cast: Tom Santschi
Tags: Crime
Length: 63min
Trapped could well describe how former silent-movie queen Priscilla Dean must have felt when she was cast in this poverty-row quickie. Nick Stuart, the chauffeur for a gangster chieftain, falls in love with Nena Quartaro, the daughter of brassy...
Cast: Helen Jerome Eddy Mildred Harris
Length: 50min
Speed Classic went into production under the less formalized title They're Off! Yes, it's an auto-race drama, starring Rex Lease as a speed-crazy young socialite. Despite the protests of his girlfriend Mildred Harris, Lease enters an important race,...
Cast: Bruce Mitchell Art Mix Yakima Canutt Monte Montague
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 60min
An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western from low-budget producer Syndicate that wasted the talents of silent western stars Yakima Canutt, Bob Reeves, Art Mix, and...
Cast: Wilbur Mack
Length: 5rlmin
Real-life aviator Al Wilson starred in a series of popular silent actioners, of which 1929's Sky Skidder was among the last. Hero Al Simpkins (Wilson) invents a revolutionary fuel that will enable pilots to clock 1000 miles on a single pint. The...
Length: 69min
Fans of stunt pilot Al Wilson had no reason for complaint when their favorite flyboy brought forth his 1928 vehicle Won in the Clouds. There's a plot of sorts, as Wilson tries to save the heroine -- and his father's diamond mine -- from the clutches...
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