Biography: Frank Ellis |
Snake-eyed, mustachioed character actor Frank Ellis seldom rose above the "member of the posse" status in "B" westerns. Once in a while, he was allowed to say things like "Now here's my plan" and "Let's get outta here," but generally he stood by... more
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Cast: Harry L. Fraser Charles King Bob Steele I. Stanford Jolley
Length: 60min
One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The villain of the piece intends to bankrupt all the local ranchers and grab up the surrounding property for himself. But with...
Cast: Milton Frome Merrill McCormack Stanley Price Lester Dorr
Length: 52min
In what must have seemed like a good idea at the time, Grand National pictures attempted to build a series of westerns around a singing cowgirl, played by Dorothy Page. In Ride 'Em Cowgirl, Page acquits herself nicely as Helen Rickson, who tries to...
Cast: Alan James Lew Meehan Virginia Brown Faire Hal Taliaferro William Nobles
Tags: Western
Length: 63min
One of Hollywood's few women producers, Flora E. Douglas, produced this minor western starring former silent screen cowboy Wally Wales as a war veteran accused of being a notorious outlaw upon his return from the front. Managing to escape the law,...
Cast: Yakima Canutt Jack Mower
Length: 63min
Veteran stunt-man Yakima Canutt not only played Buffalo Bill, Jr.'s nemesis in this obscure western from small-scale West Coast Studios, but was also credited with the original story. Not that the story was all that original: Buffalo played Buck...
Cast: J.P. McGowan Cliff Lyons Mack Wright
Length: 5rlmin
The once-popular, now-forgotten western star Bob Custer heads the cast of Law of the Mounted. Custer dons the red coat of the Northwest Mounted Police in this location-filmed outing. He gets his man when he foils a gang of fur smugglers. The...
Tags: Western
Length: 50min
In one of his better efforts, silent screen cowboy Bill Cody plays Larry O'Donnell, the "Sheriff" of the title, who comes between the Wolf Pack gang and a train loaded with valuable platinum. Sheriff O'Donnell gets conked on the head for his efforts,...
Cast: Leo Maloney
Length: 5rlmin
Producer-director-star Leo Maloney spared every expense in putting together this very minor western offering about a Texas Ranger (Maloney) tracking down a young man (Chet Ryan) accused of murder. The youngster's father, (Milton Brown), an ex-officer...
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