Biography: Edward J. Le Saint |
White-maned, saintly American actor Edward LeSaint became a familiar figure in B-westerns of the '30s. He was almost invariably cast as the frail but courageous father of the heroine, who refused to sell his land (water, oil, gold) rights to the... more
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Cast: George B. Seitz Dorothy Revier
Length: 60min
Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his traditional cowboy garb. Jones plays a small-town spinner of tall tales who claims to be a top-notch stuntman. He's forced to...
Cast: Edward J. Le Saint Tim McCoy
Length: 58min
Although based on a story by William Colt McDonald, the creator of The Three Mesqueteers, this Tim McCoy effort from Columbia was a conventional Western at best. McCoy played Tim Madigan, a cowpoke coming to the aid of Jerry Norris (Alberta Vaughn),...
Cast: John Wayne
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 58min
Buck Jones is supported by a very young John Wayne in this fine Western from his early years at Columbia Pictures. They play stepbrothers involved in a feud between the Turners and the Waltons. Clint Turner (Wayne) is forbidden to visit Judy Walton...
Cast: Buck Jones Harry Cohn William Christy Cabanne
Length: 60min
A fine early sound Western, this Buck Jones series entry from his Columbia period told the well-known story of a feud between cattle barons and sheep men. When Mart Denton (Charles Morton), son of a wealthy cattle man, kills a homesteader during a...
Cast: Betty Blythe
Tags: Drama
Length: 65min
This jazzy comedy-drama was based on the ~Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Sartwell Mason. Wiletta Whipple (Pauline Garon) and her brother, Dick (Arthur Rankin), are a little on the wild side, and they believe their easy-going parents, Sam...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 62min
Elaine Hammerstein stars in this Columbia picture, which trade magazine ~Motion Picture News admitted was "an average program attraction." Helen Merritt (Hammerstein) is the daughter of a proud but impoverished Southern Colonel (William V. Mong). They...
Cast: Lionel Barrymore Ruth Clifford Lucien Littlefield Montagu Love
Length: min
Lionel Barrymore was at a low career ebb when he agreed to appear in the independently produced Brooding Eyes. Barrymore emulates his brother John in the role of Slim Jim Carey, the "black sheep" of an aristocratic British family. A professional...
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 65min
This omantic melodrama was based on the novel -Peggy of Beacon Hill by Maysie Greig. Because she is so badly treated by her stepfather (James Marcus), Peggy Mason (Lillian Rich) considers marrying Joe Wheeler (Brooks Benedict), even though she does...
Cast: James Kirkwood
Tags: Marriage Drama
Length: 70min
Michael (James Kirkwood) and Margaret Fraser (Cleo Madison) experience marital discord when his professional career interferes with romance. Jack (Vernon (Steele) and Emily Ballard (Grace Darmond) also feel the flame of love has burned out. Emily and...
Tags: Melodrama
Length: min
This standard but solid programmer was put out by a company called C.B.C., a Poverty Row studio derisively called "Corned Beef and Cabbage." Later in the decade, the company would change its name to Columbia, and, under the leadership of tough,...
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