Biography: Bud Osborne |
One of the most popular, and recognizable, character actors in B-Western history, pudgy, mustachioed Bud Osborne (real name Leonard Miles Osborne) was one of the many Wild West show performers who parlayed their experiences into lengthy screen... more
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Adventures of Captain Africa [Serial] (1955)
Cast: John Hart Ben Welden
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 15min
A long-awaited sequel to Columbia Pictures' popular The Phantom (1943), this film was produced by legendary Hollywood cheapskate Sam Katzman. Katzman refused to pay the owners of the character, King Features, their royalty demands, thus the name...
Cast: Douglas Dumbrille Frankie Darro Yakima Canutt
Length: 62min
The redoubtable Johnny Carpenter is producer, author and star of the low-budget western Lawless Rider. Exploiting his slight resemblance to Montgomery Clift to the hilt, Carpenter plays a taciturn sheriff who disguises himself as a notorious...
Cast: Al St. John Lash LaRue Riley Hill Archie Twitchell
Tags: Western
Length: 56min
In this Lash LaRue western, Our Hero aligns himself with the Pinkerton Detective Agency ("We Never Sleep") to capture a vicious outlaw gang. No dummies they, these criminals have developed a rather sophisticated communications system, using tin cans...
Cast: J.P. McGowan Bob Steele
Length: min
Bob Steele stars as Dick Carlysle, who returns home to his family ranch after almost a year away in Texas to discover that his widowed mother has married Brute Kettle (J.P. McGowan), a local rancher with whom he has a lot of bad history. He's willing...
Cast: Art Mix Dub Taylor Evelyn Keyes
Length: 58min
That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia Pictures. This time, sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) discovers that two old enemies, swindlers Cord Crowley (Bradley Page) and...
Cast: Frank LaRue Glenn Strange
Length: 54min
Jack Randall, a truly minor singing cowboy, stars in this low-budget oater from Metropolitan Pictures. Jack Rowan (Randall) discovers that his newly purchased land is being used as a pipeline to smuggle cattle across the border from Mexico. Caught in...
Cast: Marjorie Reynolds Ralph Peters
Length: 55min
Although Monogram claimed that Jack Randall received an average of over 1,000 fan letters a week, the studio was quietly losing interest in the star's Westerns. Despite fine location filming at Lone Pine, CA, Man's Country was saddled with indifferent...
Cast: Walter Miller
Tags: Action Mystery Western B-Western
Length: 59min
Ranger Courage was part of Columbia's short-lived western series starring utility actor Bob Allen. Allen plays the ranger of the title, who demonstrates his courage in solving a string a stagecoach holdups. The robberies are being committed by a...
Length: 57min
Gun Smoke was the second of a brace of "B"-westerns starring the now-forgotten Buck Coburn. The plot is as standard as standard can be: Rancher George Culverson (Henry Hall) and daughter Jean (Marion Shilling) are menaced by villains Sneed (Philo...
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