Victor Potel

Captain Swagger (1928)

Cast: Rod La Rocque Victor Potel Richard Tucker Edward H. Griffith Sue Carol   

Length: 70min

Basically a silent film, Pathe's Captain Swagger was released with a synchronized music and sound-effects track, courtesy of RCA Photophone. Rod La Rocque stars as American aviator Hugh Drummong, whose fearlessness during WWI earns him the nickname of...

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Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)

Cast: Nelson McDowell Richard Barthelmess Victor Potel Gustav von Seyffertitz Martha Mattox   

Length: 72min

Kentucky Courage was the second film version of John Fox Jr.'s 1903 novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. Richard Barthelmess stars as Chad Buford, a sensitive Kentucky farm boy who escapes his sadistic guardian Nathan Cherry (Gustav von...

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Doughboys (1930)

Cast: Buster Keaton Ann Sothern Sally Eilers Cliff Edwards Douglas Shearer   

Tags: Military Comedy Comedy 

Length: 81min

Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment office to hire a new chauffeur. Elmer isn't aware that the office has been converted into a World War I recruiting center, and...

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Big Boy Rides Again (1935)

Cast: Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Albert Herman Lafe [Lafayette] McKee Victor Potel Charles French   

Tags: Mystery Western B-Western 

Length: 55min

More of a whodunit than a straight Western, this Guinn "Big Boy" Williams vehicle from low-budget Beacon Pictures at least attempted something a bit different. Having just revised his will under the watchful eyes of lawyer Hartecker (William Gould),...

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The Last of the Clintons (1935)

Cast: Harry Carey Harry L. Fraser Earl Dwire Victor Potel Ernie S. Adams   

Tags: Detective Film Action Mystery Western 

Length: 64min

Harry Carey's western series for bottom-of-the-barrel Ajax Pictures were definitely a mixed bag, but some were pretty good, and Last of the Clintons was even better. Carey is cast in the William S. Hart mold as frontier detective Trigger Carson. With...

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Partners (1932)

Cast: Fred Allen Lee Shumway Otis Harlan Tom Keene Victor Potel   

Tags: Action Western Modern Western 

Length: 62min

Tom Keene's first western entry of 1932, Partners casts the star as the partner of travelling medicine-show entrepreneur Billy Franey (who's quite funny in his few scenes). When Franey is murdered, Keene is accused of the crime. Escaping from the...

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Morganson's Finish (1926)

Cast: Victor Potel Fred Windermere Mahlon Hamilton Anita Stewart Johnnie Walker   

Length: 70min

Morganson's Finish was inspired by the Jack London story of the same name. The hero, Dick Gilbert (Johnnie Walker), is in love with wealthy Barbara Wesley (Anita Stewart), but he is disgraced in her eyes through the underhanded machinations of his...

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The Action Craver (1927)

Cast: Victor Potel   

Tags: Western B-Western 

Length: 5rlmin

War veteran Dick Hatton takes a position as a ranch hand and is soon enamored of the owner's attractive niece (Phyllis Dale). That, naturally, arouses the ire of the ubiquitous jealous foreman. Produced by Ben Wilson, The Action Craver was directed by...

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Below the Line (1925)

Cast: John Harron Victor Potel John Mescall Charles "Heinie" Conklin Herman C. Raymaker   

Tags: Action Adventure Crime 

Length: 7rlmin

This melodrama required less stunts than usual from dog star Rin-Tin-Tin and more "acting." Always the trouper, Rin-Tin-Tin proved to be the histrionic equal of his co-stars. Slasher (Rin-Tin-Tin, a famed fighting dog, falls off the train that is...

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