Biography: Frank S. Hagney |
Arriving in America from his native Australia at the turn of the century, Frank S. Hagney eked out a living in vaudeville. He entered films during the silent era as a stunt man, gradually working his way up to featured roles. While most of Hagney's ... more
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Cast: Robert North Bradbury
Length: 55min
The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw. This time around, the lawman is Jack Preston...
Cast: Alan James Frank S. Hagney
Tags: Western
Length: 58min
With Wild Horse Round-Up, cowboy star Kermit Maynard put his "Canadian Mountie" film series behind him to concentrate on orthodox western action. Maynard plays Jack Benson, who gallops to the aid of heroine Ruth Williams (Betty Lloyd). She...
Cast: Cecilia Parker
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western
Length: 60min
Typical of Ken Maynard's offbeat approach to westerns, Honor of the Range stars Maynard as twin brothers -- one strong and heroic, the other weak and dishonest. The "good" brother takes his sibling's place to get the goods on all-around villain...
Cast: William Wyler Walter Huston John Huston Marjorie Main Helen Chandler Walter Brennan
Length: 58min
"A house divided against itself cannot stand" declared Abraham Lincoln; proof that a house divided can be repaired is provided in this early talkie effort from director William Wyler. Walter Huston plays alcoholic fisherman Seth Law, who, recently...
The Lone Rider Ambushed (1941)
Cast: Al St. John
Length: 67min
Guess what happens in the PRC western The Lone Rider Ambushed? Yes, he does get ambushed, but that's not all. Posing as his lookalike, an imprisoned crook, Tom Cameron (George Houston), aka The Lone Rider, tries to track down a gang of bank robbers....
Cast: Sam Newfield
Length: 64min
Opera singer-turned-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's Lone Rider in Ghost Town. Houston is cast as Tom Cameron, who in the guise of the Lone Rider comes to the rescue of a group of gold prospectors. The villains are a band of big-city...
Length: 6rlmin
Frank S. Hagney, best known for his performance as mean old Mr. Potter's bodyguard in It's a Wonderful Life, has a much larger role to play in the 1928 six-reeler Free Lips. Hagney is cast as crooked nightclub owner Bill Dugan, who carries a torch for...
Cast: Ken Maynard
Tags: Western
Length: 65min
The arrival of the telegraph to the Great Plains took center stage once again in this superior silent Western starring Ken Maynard at the height of his career. He plays Pat O'Leary, the telegraph company's tough troubleshooter assigned to investigate...
Cast: Hoot Gibson
Length: 6rlmin
Ethnic comedies and melodramas were popular in the late 1920s, a fashion only heightened by the enormous popularity of the Broadway play +Abie's Irish Rose. Even Universal cowboy Hoot Gibson went the route, playing an Irishman befriending an old...
Cast: Tom Mix
Length: 6rlmin
The greatest western star of his day, Tom Mix performed several dangerous stunts without the benefit of a double in The Last Trail. One exciting scene had Mix mounting the front wheels of a crashing wagon, riding them like a Roman chariot. Director...
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