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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 careers. Especially noted for his handling of runaway stagecoaches and buckboards, Osborne began as a stunt performer with Thomas Ince's King-Bee company around 1912, and by the 1920s he had become one of the busiest supporting players in the business. Rather rakish-looking in his earlier years, the still slender Osborne even attempted to become a Western star in his own right. Produced by the Bud Osborne Feature Film Company and released by low-budget Truart Pictures, The Prairie Mystery (1922) presented Osborne as a romantic leading man opposite B-movie regular Pauline Curley. Few saw this little clunker, however, and Osborne quickly returned to the ranks of supporting cowboys, often portraying despicable villains with names like Satan Saunders, Piute Sam, or Bull McKee. Playing an escaped convict masquerading as a circuit rider in both the 1923 Leo Maloney short Double Cinched and Shootin' Square, a 1924 Jack Perrin feature Western, Osborne even demonstrated an affinity for comedy. The now veteran Bud Osborne continued his screen career into the sound era and became even busier in the 1930s and 1940s. As he grew older and his waistline expanded, Osborne's roles became somewhat smaller and instead of calling the shots himself, as he often had in the silent era, he now answered to the likes of Roy Barcroft and Charles King. But he seems to pop up in every other B-Western and serial released in those years, appearing in more than 65 productions for Republic Pictures alone. By the 1950s, the now elderly Osborne became one of the many veteran performers courted by maverick filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., for whom he did Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid (1954), an unsold television pilot, Jailbait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), and Night of the Ghouls (1958). When all is said and done, it was a rather dismal finish to a colorful career. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide less

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The Diamond Trail (1933)
Tags: Crime Drama Action Western
Length: 58min
In this action film, a New York reporter follows a group of East Coast jewel thieves trying to move their operation to the West Coast. The intrepid journalist tries to infiltrate the ring, but is quickly discovered. Mayhem ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All...
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Red Fork Range (1931)
Cast: Alan James Al Ferguson
Tags: Action Western
Length: 59min
Red Fork Range stars Wally Wales, who enjoyed a lengthy starring career in "B"-westerns before entering the character-actor ranks under the moniker of Hal Taliaferro. The star plays Wally Hamilton, virtually the only "good guy" in the aptly named...
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Western Honor (1930)
Cast: Cliff Lyons
Tags: Western
Length: 50min
Western Honor was one of the last silent Bob Steele westerns for low-budget Syndicate Pictures. The story follows the established pattern, as two-fisted Steele endeavors to defend heroine Ione Reed against the villains. The diminutive hero takes on so...
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Bad Men's Money (1929)
Cast: Yakima Canutt
Tags: Western B-Western
Length: 50min
Directed and written by veteran action specialist J.P. McGowan, this minor Western featured stuntman Yakima Canutt as a cowboy saving a pretty ranch owner (Peggy Montgomery) from a gang of cattle rustlers. Canutt, who had starred in several B-Western...
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Cowboy and the Outlaw (1929)
Cast: Bob Steele
Tags: Western
Length: min
Diminutive cowboy Bob Steele starred as a cowboy tracking down his father's killer in this modest silent Western produced by J.P. McGowan's penny-pinching (and grossly misnamed) Big Productions Company. The revenge theme was popular in Westerns at the...
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The Last Roundup (1929)
Cast: Bud Osborne
Tags: Western Action
Length: 5rlmin
This cheap western produced by J.P. McGowan's Syndicate Film Exchange was given an almost too prophetic title. One of the last silent westerns, The Last Roundup told the oft-told tale of a cowboy (Bob Custer) saving a pretty girl (Hazel Mills) from...
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On the Divide (1928)
Cast: J.P. McGowan Lafe [Lafayette] McKee
Tags: Action Western
Length: 5rlmin
Minor cowboy star Bob Custer finds his newly purchased land overrun by outlaws and claim-grabbers in this minor silent western released by the poverty row company Syndicate. He bravely stands up to the villains and manages to save not only his own...
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Sky-High Saunders (1927)
Cast: Bruce Mitchell Frank Rice
Tags: Adventure
Length: 5rlmin
Billed as a "Universal Thrill Feature," this airborne action melodrama featured real-life aviator Al Wilson playing identical flying twins. "Sky High" Saunders is searching for his twin brother, Michael, whom he suspects has joined a gang of...
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Pioneers of the West (1927)
Length: 61min
As a foreword to this low-budget silent western intones, "Perhaps the most important step in the early stages of the settlement of the Far West was the establishment of the historic Pony Express in 1859." One of the bravest of the riders, "Pony Bob"...
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Riders of the West (1927)
Tags: Western
Length: 50min
Veteran B-western auteur Benjamin F. Wilson (the "F" stood for "Franklin," of course) produced, directed, and starred in this very low budget silent oater about a reformed bandit turned lawman. After cleaning up a lawless town and winning the love of...
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