Biography: Tom London |
A fixture in B-Westerns from the late 1910s, first as a star, then as one of the genre's better boss villains and eventually as a grizzled comedy sidekick à la George "Gabby" Hayes, Tom London claimed to have been a train engineer, a draftsman, and a... more
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Cast: Monte Hale Roy Barcroft
Tags: Musical Western Action Western
Length: 67min
Singing cowboy Monte Hale plays "himself" in the Republic western Last Frontier Uprising. Actually, he's not really himself, but a federal agent, dispatched to Texas to buy horses on behalf of the government. Hale runs up against a vicious gang of...
Cast: Frank Jaquet
Length: 56min
In this off-beat western, a cowboy is struck on the head and loses his memory. Opportunistic outlaws then assure him that he is in their gang. With no choice but to believe them, he begins a series of robberies. Another smack on the noodle restores...
Cast: Don "Red" Barry Ralph Peters Yakima Canutt
Length: 57min
Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an end to the activities of a stagecoach-robbery gang. That's why he spends most of the film pretending...
Cast: Tex Palmer
Length: 57min
Carl Krusada (aka Val Cleveland) was credited with the screenplay for this typically inferior Jack Randall oater from Poverty Row company Monogram. In reality, the story of a drifter helping a sheriff catch a gang of smugglers was as old as the hills...
The Marshal of Cripple Creek (1947)
Tags: B-Western Western Action
Length: 58min
Marshal of Cripple Creek was the last of seven Republic "Red Ryder" westerns starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. This time, Red Ryder (Lane) rides into a gold-mining town, where an outlaw gang is operating unmolested. It's not that the local sheriff is...
Tags: Musical Western Action Western
Length: 47min
In this his penultimate Western for low-budget company Monogram, Jack Randall assumed the identity of a murdered ranger in order to track down the killer. In the lawless town of Brimstone, the citizens are being terrorized by a gang of outlaws headed...
Cast: Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Joseph Kane Charles King J.P. McGowan
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 58min
Guns and Guitars could have served as the title of any Gene Autry picture released in 1937. In this one, medicine-show entertainer Gene runs afoul of a crooked town boss who moonlights as an outlaw. The villain murders the local sheriff and pins the...
Cast: Tex Ritter Frank LaRue
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 58min
An above-average entry in the Monogram Tex Ritter series of music Westerns, Song of the Buckaroo proved to be a memorable event for the star in more ways than one. Appearing in a small role of a pioneer woman, pretty Dorothy Fay was killed off early...
Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes Cecilia Parker
Tags: Western
Length: 61min
In this western, a hero is arrested and tossed in the pokey. He and a renowned mail thief escape together. It is soon revealed that the hero is only masquerading as a crook; in reality, he is a Secret Service agent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Ken Maynard Sam Newfield
Length: 57min
Though it probably isn't saying much, Flaming Lead is the best of Ken Maynard's starring vehicles for low-budget Colony Pictures. The story begins, curiously enough, at a nightclub where Maynard is wowing the customers with his expert lariat tricks....
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