Biography: Lewis D. Collins |
American-born Lewis D. Collins was a theater director before calling the shots on a series of two-reel films. Collins' first feature was 1930's The Devil's Pit, which he also scripted. The bulk of his output from 1931 to 1952 consisted of economical... more
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Cast: Roy Barcroft
Tags: Western
Length: 69min
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business...
Cast: Buzz Henry William "Wild Bill" Elliott George Wallace
Length: 65min
After a number of overproduced, overlong western "specials," Wild Bill Elliot went back to basics with a series of Monogram/Allied Artists "B"s. In the 62-minute The Homesteaders, Mace Corbin (Elliot) is hired to pick up a consignment of dynamite on...
Tags: Western
Length: 70min
Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill...
Cast: Peggy Stewart Lewis D. Collins
Length: 64min
Kansas Territory is one of Bill Elliot's latter-day Allied Artists westerns--meaning that even the non-western fan is in for a treat (albeit a violent one). Elliot's brother is killed, which naturally prompts him to seek revenge. On his bloody quest...
Length: 68min
The Waco depicted in this film is a wide-open Texas frontier town, in desperate need of a strong authority figure to clean out the criminal element. The man needed is the man found: Matt Boone, played by Wild Bill Elliot. Though himself a fugitive...
Cast: Harry Keller
Length: 62min
Considered by many the weakest of Wayne Morris' latter-day B-Westerns, The Marksman features the no longer svelte star as a U. S. Marshall chasing down the gang of rustlers that killed his colleague (I. Stanford Jolley). Masquerading as a harmless...
Length: 53min
Johnny Mack Brown was a bit on the chunky side by the time he starred in Canyon Ambush, though his excess poundage never impedes his performance. This time Brown comes to the rescue of imperiled Phyllis Coates (who'd just spent 26 weeks as Lois Lane...
Cast: Hugh Beaumont Edgar Buchanan Walter Mirisch
Tags: Western
Length: 72min
Though Ben Johnson would have to wait until the 1970s before full stardom was bestowed upon him, 1952's Wild Stallion proved that, even at this early stage, Johnson had what it took to carry a picture. Harking back to his pre-movie rodeo days, Johnson...
Cast: Denver Pyle
Tags: Western
Length: 62min
Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the son of inveterate thief Frank Ferguson. Knowing full well that Ferguson's gang intends to steal a...
Cast: Phyllis Coates
Length: 52min
The West is scared by an infamous gunslinger in this western film. ~ All Movie Guide
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