Biography: Lee Shumway |
Stage actor Lee Shumway first gave the upstart movie industry a try in 1909. He returned to picture-making on a more regular basis in the mid-teens, remaining in Hollywood until his retirement in 1947. On both sides of the talkie revolution, Shumway... more
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Length: 54min
In this western, a U.S. marshal impersonates an outlaw and rides to Texas to find the looters who have been raiding supply shipments. He finds them and infiltrates their gang. He soon finds out that the desperadoes have commandeered a ranch and are...
Cast: Harry Carey David Sharpe
Tags: Action Adventure Western Traditional Western
Length: 65min
As one of Harry Carey's mid-1930s independent westerns, Ghost Town is noted for its good, atmospheric cinematography (as evidenced by the film's production stills). The star assumes his familiar guise as Cheyenne Harry, a wandering do-gooder with a...
Cast: Fred Allen
Tags: Action Western Modern Western
Length: 62min
Tom Keene's first western entry of 1932, Partners casts the star as the partner of travelling medicine-show entrepreneur Billy Franey (who's quite funny in his few scenes). When Franey is murdered, Keene is accused of the crime. Escaping from the...
Cast: Edward G. Robinson Frank McHugh Neil Hamilton Alice White Edward F. Cline
Length: 64min
The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married. It's like this: Polly's police-detective brother Jimmy (Harold Goodwin), hoping to get the goods on the criminal gang run by...
Length: 55min
Beyond London's Lights was filmed entirely at the Culver City, California facilities of FBO studios. Rescued from a masher by handsome Gordon Elliot, dressmaker's model Adrienne Dore has no idea that her savior is a man of wealth and position. Upon...
Length: 6rlmin
Danny Eagan (Reed Howes) is on trial for his life, charged with the murder of a prominent gangster leader. Danny refuses to defend himself, knowing that it would mean jeopardizing the reputation of his sweetheart Mary Norfleet (Josephine Dunn). Making...
Cast: Tom Mix
Tags: Western
Length: 65min
In his first Western after leaving Fox for poverty row company FBO, Tom Mix once again played a pony express rider rescuing the heroine Sharon Lynn from the ubiquitous runaway carriage. The girl's pa (Tom Lingham) is the survey chief for the telegraph...
Cast: Frank S. Hagney
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...
Cast: George B. Seitz
Length: 7rlmin
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover,...
Cast: Douglas MacLean Lee Shumway
Tags: Comedy
Length: 7rlmin
Once he was established as a star, light comedian Douglas MacLean began producing his own films. This was one of a string of entertaining, successful pictures. Jimmy Clark (MacLean) and his pal, Algy Baker (Robert Ober), are American tourists...
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