Biography: Si Jenks |
After years on the circus and vaudeville circuits, Si Jenks came to films in 1931. Virtually always cast as a grizzled, toothless old codger, Jenks was a welcome presence in dozens of westerns. In Columbia's Tim McCoy series of the early 1930s, Jenks... more
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The Great Train Robbery (1941)
Cast: Bob Steele Milburn Stone Joseph Kane Claire Carleton
Tags: Detective Film Crime Drama Crime
Length: 61min
The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any longer than eight minutes. This 1941 production isn't even a western, but instead a modern-day melodrama starring Bob Steele...
Cast: Charles Starrett Art Mix Russell Hicks Jack Rockwell
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 65min
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry), rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired...
Cast: Lew Meehan Edward Peil Sr.
Tags: Action Western Romance B-Western
Length: 56min
Columbia Pictures' newest cowboy hero, Charles Starrett, played just that in this fanciful Western which teamed him for the first time with blonde leading lady Iris Meredith. They would go on to make 19 additional Westerns together, one of the longest...
Cast: Buddy Roosevelt
Length: 50min
Poverty Row entrepreneur Victor Adamson (hiding behind the pseudonym of Denver Dixon) once again managed to release a completely incomprehensible Western filled to the brim with tired old clichés and the most wooden acting this side of cigar-store...
Cast: Si Jenks
Length: 53min
Poor Marion Shockley finds herself the victim of both a robbery and a kidnapping in this obscure but quite well-made Poverty Row Western starring the diminutive Bob Steele. After saving Jane Rankin (Shockley) from her kidnappers, Johnny Day (Steele)...
The Man from Death Valley (1931)
Length: 61min
The Man From Death Valley is steely-eyed western hero Tom Tyler. A mysterious figure in the opening scenes, Tyler rides out of the nowhere and into a dusty frontier town, there to renew his romance with an old sweetheart. Upon learning that the girl...
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