Biography: Reed Howes |
One of several male models to achieve some success in action films of the '20s, Hermon Reed Howes was forever saddled with the tag "Arrow Collar Man," despite the fact that he had been only one of several future luminaries to have posed for famed... more
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Cast: Sam Newfield Ralph Peters
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
Radio crooner Tex Fletcher was given a one-time-only chance at western stardom in Grand National's Six-Gun Rhythm. The plot offers a bit of novelty value, with Fletcher starting out as an eastern-seaboard football player who heads westward when his...
Zorro Rides Again [Serial] (1937)
Cast: Duncan Renaldo William Witney
Tags: Adventure Swashbuckler
Length: min
Actually it's the great-grandson of legendary 19th century do-gooder Zorro who rides in this 12-chapter Republic serial. Villainous modern-day tycoon Marsden (Noah Beery) supervises the activities of a western outlaw gang from the plush confines of...
Cast: Frank Yaconelli
Length: 48min
The first of six Jack Randall Westerns directed by Monogram studio hack Raymond K. Johnson, The Cheyenne Kid presented the handsome but ineffective Randall as the title character, a gambler turned ranch foreman. Cheyenne quickly earns the enmity of...
Cast: Tim McCoy
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
Long before the character was appropriated by Buster Crabbe, "Lightning" Bill Carson was played by Tim McCoy in a series of low-budget westerns produced by Sam Katzman. One of the last of these was Straight Shooter, filmed in the late 1930s but...
Cast: Hoot Gibson
Tags: Action Adventure Western
Length: 60min
Neither the best nor worst of Hoot Gibson's westerns for producer Walter Futter, Feud of the West lies somewhere in between. The old Hooter plays a rodeo performer named Whitey, performing some remarkable riding and roping stunts before the plot...
Cast: Reed Howes
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 60min
An average entry in the otherwise above-average Monogram/"Lone Star" Western series starring John Wayne, this film is noteworthy for containing one of the last screen appearances of Joseph De Grasse, a major silent screen actor-director, who -- with...
Cast: George Cleveland George Waggner
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 57min
With Phantom Stage, Universal called it quits on singing cowboy Bob Baker's western series. The plot involves a series of outlaw raids perpetrated upon the stagecoach line owned by heroine Mary (Marjorie Reynolds). The perpetrator is a pint-sized...
Cast: John Wayne Carl Pierson
Tags: Traditional Western Western
Length: 59min
Paradise Canyon is one of the most action-packed entries in John Wayne's "Lone Star" series. On the trail of a counterfeiting gang, undercover agent John Wyatt (Wayne) joins the traveling medicine show of Doc Carter (Earl Hodgins). For a while, it...
Cast: Ben Hall
Tags: Action
Length: 60min
It may be hard to believe, but Gorilla Ship is almost as ludicrous as its title. Wheeler Oakman plays Mr. Wells, a millionaire yachtsman who is insanely jealous of his "friend" Dave Burton (Reed Howes). Believing that Burton is in love with Mrs. Wells...
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 55min
This racist horror film from director Marshall Neilan was inspired by "Chloe -- Song of the Swamp," a minor hit for Eva Taylor. Silent film star Olive Borden is Chloe, a woman of mixed parentage who lives in the swamps with an elderly black voodoo...
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