Biography: Franklin Farnum |
A rugged and trustworthy Western hero from Boston, silent screen cowboy Franklyn Farnum's appeal was closer to William S. Hart than Tom Mix. Farnum's road to screen stardom began in vaudeville and musical comedy. While he was not related to stage and... more
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Length: 53min
In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would later be billed), the actor is cast as Whit Gordon, who rides into Tombstone Arizona to help keep the peace. Elliot is...
Tags: B-Western Western Action
Length: 60min
Former silent teenage star Buzz Barton headlines this juvenile Western from low-rent Big 4 Film Corp. directed by the veteran J. P. McGowan. The freckled Master Barton plays Buzz Dale, a young boy who becomes a local hero after stopping a runaway...
Cast: Franklin Farnum Sam Newfield
Length: 60min
Written (under the pseudonym of Jimmy Hawkey) and directed by Robert F. Hill, this very low-budget Western from poverty row company Spectrum starred former silent screen cowboy Bill Cody and his real-life son Bill Cody, Jr.. Everything of course being...
Cast: Walter Miller Alan James
Length: 60min
A remake of the silent When a Man Rides Alone (1919), this low-budget oater from the Big 4 Film Corp. stars Wally Wales as Wally Madison, a ranger investigating the robbery of a shipment of gold bullion. In a shootout with the gang, one of the...
Tags: Western
Length: 53min
Romance of the Rockies is considered the best of Tom Keene's starring westerns for Monogram. Keene is cast against type as a doctor, replete with non-cowboy wardrobe. Despite his calm demeanor, our hero proves a worthy adversary when the villains try...
Cast: Van Johnson Lew Meehan
Length: 71min
Produced by Victor Adamson (aka Denver Dixon), directed by Alan James (aka Alvin J. Neitz), and written by Van Johnson (no, not that Van Johnson), this minor -- very minor -- Western-melodrama starred yet another alias, Tom Wynn, the real name,...
Tags: Western
Length: 54min
Silent screen Western star Franklyn Farnum played a stagecoach agent in this inexpensive oater from Jesse J. Goldburg's low-budget Independent Pictures Corp. A series of stage robberies have been plaguing the area, but using cunning detective methods...
Length: 50min
Saucer-eyed silent-screen cowboy Jack Perrin and his magnificent horse, Starlight, star in this ramshackle early sound western. Perrin is falsely accused of a robbery actually committed by his onetime partner (fellow silent western star Edmund Cobb)...
Tags: Western
Length: 5rlmin
A hero, his horse, a girl, a villain, a moppet and a black sidekick were the main ingredients of this minor silent western from Jesse J. Goldburg's Independent Pictures. The hero is good old Franklyn Farnum, who plays a prospector defending his claim...
Cast: J.P. McGowan
Tags: Western
Length: 55min
Veteran actor-director-writer J.P. McGowan helmed this cheaply made silent comedy-western for Jesse J. Goldburg's Independent Pictures Co. Minor western star Franklyn Farnum plays a cowpoke who saves his weak brother (Jack Vernon) from various...
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