Biography: Robert Emmett Tansey |

On stage from the age of four, Robert Emmett Tansey was the son of vaudevillians John Tansey and Emma Tansey (née Purcell. Young Tansey made his screen debut at the age of 14 in 1911, but adolescence raised its ugly head and he returned to the... more
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Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush (1954)
Cast: James Kirkwood   
Tags: Western 
Length: min
Stunt man Hugh Hooker starred in the title role of this late Grade-Z Western, written and directed by the redoubtable Robert Emmett Tansey. When crooked lawyer Monte Blue attempts to take over the ranch belonging to Pamela Blake and her elderly...

Tags: Adventure 
Length: 67min
Miles and miles of stock footage were used to pad out the 67-minute running time of Forbidden Jungle. The newly-shot scenes feature Don Harvey as famed explorer Tom Burton, who has been hired to locate the long-missing son of a millionaire. The boy...

Cast: Robert Shayne Lyle Talbot   
Length: 67min
Former juvenile star William Henry is the all-grown-up hero of Federal Man. Henry is cast as a government agent who dogs the trail of illegal narcotics peddlers. This requires several trips south of the US-Mexico border and back again. Scenes of...

Cast: Robert Emmett Tansey William Fawcett   
Length: 72min
With a female protagonist as its only selling point, Cattle Queen trots out a farfetched Western story of Queenie Hart (Maria Hart), a rather glamorous bleached blonde cattle driver in 1866 Wyoming. After conning a potential buyer (Robert Robinson)...

Length: 56min
Produced by Jack Schwarz on behalf of Eagle Lion Studios, Badman's Gold was ultimately released through United Artists. John Carpenter (not the horror-film director) stars as a U.S. marshal, sent westward to stop a series of stagecoach robberies. The...

Cast: Ralph Sanford   
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama Family 
Length: 71min
Shaggy is a lovable dog, owned by equally lovable young George Nokes. The put-upon pooch is accused of killing sheep by a grouchy neighbor. The real villain is a wolf, which is eventually dispatched by faithful, fearless Shaggy. Before this happens,...

Length: 63min
The Fighting Stallion stars Bill Edwards as Lon Evans, an ex-GI who is slowly losing his eyesight. Lacking a seeing-eye dog, Lon opts for a seeing-eye horse, training one of his father's stallions for that purpose. Unfortunately, the horse is slated...

Cast: Anne Gwynne Alan Curtis   
Length: 77min
The peaceful, solitary existence of a crippled lad and his grandfather living in a remote wooded valley is disturbed when two armed robbers accompanied by moll visit. On the lam from the law, the crooks are desperate and dangerous. But as time passes...

Cast: Ken Maynard Max "Alibi" Terhune Glenn Strange   
Tags: Musical Western Western 
Length: 54min
Having drunk his way out of most of the major studios and not a few of the minor ones, cowboy star Ken Maynard had trouble finding work in the 1940s. Independent producer Walt Mattox came to the rescue in 1944 when he cast Maynard opposite young...

Cast: Buster Keaton William Farnum   
Tags: Comedy Western Western 
Length: 62min
In this western comedy, the mis-adventures of a bumbling range rider are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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