Biography: Sid Saylor |

Scrawny supporting actor Syd Saylor managed to parlay a single comic shtick -- bobbing his adam's apple -- into a four-decade career. He starred in several silent two-reel comedies from 1926 through 1927, then settled into character parts. During the... more
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Cast: Lee J. Cobb Lloyd Bridges Marie Windsor Luther Adler   
Tags: Western Traditional Western 
Length: 82min
Elmo Williams, the veteran Hollywood film editor who gained fame for his work on High Noon, serves as director of the medium-budget western The Tall Texan. Lloyd Bridges plays the title character, a convicted murderer named Ben Trask. While being...

Tags: Western 
Length: 49min
Diminutive western hero Bob Steele stars in Six Gun Man. Steele plays federal marshal Bob Storm, who has been assigned to halt the activities of cattle rustlers. Given his previous movie track record, we'll wager that Bob also wants to avenge the...

Cast: Bob Steele Charles King   
Length: 57min
In his final starring Western for PRC, Bob Steele plays Jim Brandon who is imprisoned for a bank robbery and murder he didn't commit. Returning home on parole, Jim is ostracized by all and sundry, except Sheriff Warner (Steve Clark) and Betty Morgan...

Cast: Norman Willis Jack Mulhall Richard Arlen   
Tags: Western 
Length: 60min
Released in Great Britain as Gangster's Valley, Secret Valley is a modern western (that is, it takes place in 1937). Richard Arlen plays a Nevada rancher who is compelled to extend his hospitality to headstrong Virginia Grey. She has arrived to...

Length: 59min
A B-Western hero since the late silent era, Bob Steele would hang up his spurs after a final four westerns for director Harry L. Fraser. In the opener, The Navajo Kid, Steele, as he had so many times before, went in search of the villain, or villains,...

Tags: Musical Western Western 
Length: 56min
In his third starring Western, former radio singer Tex Ritter played a minstrel performer turned tax collector! During a performance at the Tombstone, Arizona, opera house, Tex Malinson (Ritter) courageously goes up against Harry Price (Forrest...

Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe Monte Blue   
Length: 58min
Previously filmed in 1927 with Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the Zane Grey story Nevada was remade in 1936 with Buster Crabbe and Kathleen Burke. Crabbe plays Nevada, a cattle-drive trail boss, while Burke is cast as Hettie Ide, who is brought into the...

Cast: Ray Taylor J.P. McGowan Robert Livingston   
Tags: B-Western Western Adventure 
Length: 54min
After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film series by Republic Studios. The Mesquiteers, a trio of wandering do-gooders, are muscular Tucson Smith, played by Ray "Crash"...

Headin' for the Rio Grande (1936)
Cast: Tex Ritter Robert North Bradbury   
Tags: Musical Western Western Traditional Western 
Length: 60min
In his second "Range Rider" music Western for poverty row newcomer Grand National, Tex Ritter played Tex Saunders, the troubadour brother of the sheriff (Forrest Taylor) of Rio Grande, Texas. When Tex and sidekick Chilo (Syd Saylor) on behalf of...

Tags: Whodunit Mystery Drama 
Length: 67min
Prison Shadows was put together by the Mercury Productions division of Puritan Pictures, the same folks responsible for the above-average horror hriller Rogue's Tavern. Eddie Nugent plays rising young boxer Gene Harris, who is thrown into jail on a...
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