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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O'Malley of the Mounted (1936)
Cast: Stanley Fields William S. Hart
Length: 59min
In this North western, a Mountie is assigned to patrol the Canadian and US border. He also stops the evil outlaws that have been terrorizing bordertowns by going undercover and infiltrating their gangs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Length: 58min
In this romantic comedy a border patrolman must cite a young, wealthy, and very spoiled young woman for smoking in a non-smoking area. Later her parents hire him to protect their wild young daughter. Unfortunately she accidently gets involved with...
Cast: John Carradine Heather Angel Clarence Muse
Tags: Historical Film Adventure Action Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 75min
The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that primarily centers on the big man's attempts to quell an Indian uprising and capture the ornery villain who has been stirring up all...
Tags: Action Comedy Western Romance
Length: 65min
Cowboy Millionaire is one of the last and best of George O'Brien's western vehicles at the Fox Studios. O'Brien is in charge of a dude ranch, where his newest customer is wealthy English girl Evelyn Bostock. They fall in and out of love, and soon...
Whispering Smith Speaks (1935)
Tags: Western
Length: 65min
This satisfying George O'Brien western was released in most markets as Whispering Smith Speaks. O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to...
Tags: Disaster Film Action Drama
Length: 60min
Hard Rock Harrigan is an easygoing George O'Brien actioner with emphasis on comedy and romance. The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley (played by O'Brien's frequent screen...
Cast: George O'Brien Dorothy Wilson Paul Kelly
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
A frequently-filmed Harold Bell Wright novel was the source for this leisurely-paced George O'Brien western. His fortune wiped out, Easterner Larry Knight (O'Brien) heads West to start life all over again. He manages to land a job as a ranchhand, and...
Cast: George E. Stone Lewis Seiler
Length: 66min
The first of several "official" versions of Stuart Lake's biography of Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall stars George O'Brien as the legendary lawman, here rechristened "Michael Wyatt" for legal reasons. Riding into a lawless frontier town, Wyatt...
Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes
Tags: Western
Length: 56min
After a brief flurry of non-western actioners, George O'Brien returned to the West in Thunder Mountain. Based on a story by Zane Grey, the film casts O'Brien as Kai Emerson, whose claim on a gold strike is met with skepticism by heroine Sydney Blair...
Cast: Smiley Burnette Edward F. Cline
Tags: Romantic Comedy Western
Length: 58min
In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien plays Ernest Selby, a young Easterner who cannot get rid of his inheritance -- an Arizona ranch -- soon enough. But when Sam...
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