Biography: Forrest Taylor |
Veteran American character actor Forrest Taylor is reputed to have launched his film career in 1915. His screen roles in both the silent and sound era seldom had any consistency of size; he was apt to show up in a meaty character part one week, a... more
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Cast: George Waggner
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 57min
Singing cowboy Bob Baker starred in this average music western as a cavalry officer assigned to investigate the murders of several Pony Express riders. Going undercover as Pony Express riders themselves, Captain Bob Bradley and his sidekick Andy...
Cast: Joseph H. Lewis Fuzzy Knight
Tags: Western Action Musical Western
Length: 57min
The Last Stand is among the better Bob Baker westerns, with the star getting to show off his athletic prowess as well as his singing skills. The story borrows a page from the repertoire of Bob Steele, with hero Tip (Baker) trying to find out who...
Cast: Hal Taliaferro Jack Rockwell
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 58min
Singing cowboy Bob Baker dispenses plenty of Prairie Justice in this 58-minute western. When his father is bushwacked and murdered, Baker vows to bring the mysterious assailants to justice. Posing as an irresponsible drifter, our hero slowly and...
Cast: Sam Newfield
Length: 56min
Ranger Bob Steele goes after the bandit who killed his colleague in this low-budget oater from Supreme Pictures Corp., which was picked up for distribution by Republic. When Dave Austin learns that Apache Joe (Ted Adams) is the killer of Ranger Carson...
Cast: Tom Tyler Sam Katzman
Length: 57min
Orphan of the Pecos is one of the eight Tom Tyler westerns produced by Victory Pictures during the 1937-38 season. Victory was owned by legendary fast-buck entrepreneur Sam Katzman, who also directed this particular film. Tyler is cast as Tom Wade, an...
The Luck of Roaring Camp (1937)
Cast: Irvin V. Willat Forrest Taylor Joan Woodbury
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: Henry Brandon Eddie Nugent
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Crime
Length: 53min
Filmed on a microscopic budget, the independently-produced Island Captives is purportedly set in the South Seas (though it looks a lot like Catalina). Hero Tom Willoughby (Eddie Nugent) is one of several seafarers shipwrecked on a remote tropical...
Cast: Al St. John
Length: 56min
Singing cowboy Fred Scott stars as wandering troubadour Cal Brent, who travels the length and breadth of the West with his comical sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John). In the course of their travels, Cal and Fuzzy find themselves in the middle of a gun...
Cast: Bob Steele Roy S. Luby Charles King
Length: 56min
Bob Steele -- or, as he was known in the trade papers, "Our Bob" -- stars as Tom Shaw, the courageous foreman of the ranch owned by Betty Duncan (Lois January). A group of mysterious riders, apparently determined to drive every cattle rancher out of...
Length: 67min
Prison Shadows was put together by the Mercury Productions division of Puritan Pictures, the same folks responsible for the above-average horror hriller Rogue's Tavern. Eddie Nugent plays rising young boxer Gene Harris, who is thrown into jail on a...
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