Biography: Fred Burns |
Lanky, Montana-born Fred Burns, a former bronco-buster for the Buffalo Bill and Miller 101 Wild West shows, played Western leads opposite Lillian Gish at Biograph in the very early 1910s and later rode in The Birth of a Nation (1915). Like brother Bob... more
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Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes Bob Steele
Tags: Action Adventure Western
Length: 61min
Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele, who that same year also played a circus acrobat, a would-be boxer, and a barn-storming pilot, takes on the wintry Northwest in this low-budget action melodrama from Monogram. Attacked by persons unknown, a dying Jim...
Cast: Al St. John Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Length: 56min
Based on William Colt MacDonald's -Law of the Forty-Fives, this ultra low-budget Beacon Western stars Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and Al St. John as Tucson Smith and Stony Martin, a couple of drifters coming to the defense of elder rancher Hayden (Lafe...
Cast: Fred Allen
Length: 60min
Cowboy star Bob Steele looks embarrassed throughout most of Headin' North, as well he should. The film begins conventionally enough, with Steele once again accused of a murder he didn't commit. Hoping to remain in hiding until he can expose the real...
Cast: Buck Jones Louis King
Length: 65min
Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has fallen in with an outlaw gang lead by Murdock (Harry Woods). The latter frames Buck in the robbery of Francisco Del Rey (Hector...
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 59min
The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns' training camp, Keene not only causes trouble between the veteran riders but also gets on the wrong side of the owner's daughter...
Cast: Hoot Gibson Ken Maynard
Tags: Comedy Western Western Romance
Length: 56min
This M.F. Hoffman production released through Grand National featured Ken Maynard as Friendly Fields, a mama's boy whose hat is stolen by lookalike bandit Blackie Burke (also Maynard). Obtaining a job on Patty Blair's (Lona Andre) ranch, Friendly...
Cast: Harry Joe Brown
Length: 75min
Having recently signed with Universal, Western star Ken Maynard became his own producer with this early talkie Western directed by Harry Joe Brown. Maynard plays Bud Rand, who, with his young ward, Billy (Jackie Hanlon), in tow, accepts an offer to...
Tags: Western
Length: 61min
Action melodrama factory FBO produced this very average silent western about an Easterner travelling West in search of, of all things, a famous recipe! The fop takes a position as a ranch hand and gets in the way of a cattle-rustling scheme. Maurice...
Length: 5rlmin
A very young Ken Maynard stars in this his first series of westerns produced by poverty row's J. Charles Davis. To publicize his little oaters, Davis hired six former Ziegfeld chorus girls and billed them The Six Hollywood Beauties. The writers (here...
Cast: Robert Woolsey Bert Wheeler John Boles Bebe Daniels Max Steiner William Le Baron
Tags: Romance Musical Comedy Musical Western Comedy Western
Length: 135min
Rio Rita, an expensive filmization of the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld-produced Broadway musical of 1928, was the first major production for fledgling RKO Radio Studios. Bebe Daniels plays Rita, an Irish-Mexican girl (with thick Hispanic accent) who...
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