Biography: George O'Brien |
A college athlete and the Pacific Fleet's heavyweight boxing champion during World War One, in 1922 he began working as an assistant cameraman and soon became a stuntman and bit player. Director John Ford made him an overnight star by casting him in... more
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Tags: Western
Length: 59min
In this western, a courageous rancher single-handedly tries to stop avaricious land grabbers from destroying important timberland. The bad-guys claim to do this so they can build a railroad, but the rancher isn't fooled. A New York newspaper reporter...
Tags: Western Adventure Action Romantic Adventure
Length: 60min
In this western, a federal martial is jumped and robbed while en route to Gunsight. He immediately follows the bandit, a gunfighter named Raven, to a poisoned watering hole. The outlaw, not knowing the water is tainted, drinks it and dies just as the...
Cast: Edgar Dearing
Length: 58min
Virile George O'Brien straddles the "western" and "crime-flick" genres in RKO Radio's Border G-Men. The plot gets under way when the FBI learns that ammunition and men are being smuggled out of the US and into Mexico in violation of the neutrality...
Cast: Stanley Fields Laraine Day
Length: 59min
1938's The Painted Desert borrows the title and precious little else from the 1931 western of the same name. Hero George O'Brien makes it his mission in life to stop crooked Fred Kohler from getting his mitts on a valuable strip of land. He also takes...
Cast: Chill Wills
Length: 60min
In this western, a real estate agent takes everything from a bank and then frames the banker for the crime. The evil agent then becomes the receiver for the institution and begins trying to foreclose on numerous ranchers. His nefarious plans are...
Cast: Cecilia Parker
Length: 60min
Movie cowboy Jeffrey Carson (George O'Brien) tries hard to live up to his image in this "backstage western." On location in Wyoming for a picture, Carson -- travelling incognito -- finds himself in the middle of a real-life range war, stirred up by...
Cast: Rita Hayworth Tim Holt
Length: 60min
The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star George O'Brien is at odds with his eventual successor at the studio, Tim Holt -- at least part of the way. They play Texas Rangers...
Cast: Bert Gilroy Walter Miller
Length: 59min
Lawless Valley is one of the best of George O'Brien's series westerns for RKO Radio. Falsely accused of orchestrating a stage robbery with his conveniently deceased father, O'Brien spends the rest of the film trying to clear his name. Along the way,...
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Crime
Length: 60min
In this high-seas adventure, an assistant state's attorney must serve a subpoena upon a wealthy yacht owner. To do this the fellow must sign on as a crew member for a race across the Pacific to Hawaii. The yacht is filled with wealthy passengers....
Cast: George O'Brien Ward Bond
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Crime
Length: 65min
In this drama, a wealthy, aristocratic New Yorker, thinking his son is a bit of a panty-waist, decides to make a real man of him and sends him to work in a lumber camp to prove himself. Unbeknownst to the father, the boy is already a famous wrestler...
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