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Director: Clarence Badger    More Info
Starring: Walter Huston, James Rennie, Dorothy Revier, O.P. Heggie, Sidney Blackmer, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Marion Byron, Harry Semels, Erville Alderson, Myrna Loy

 Gilbert Jones (James Rennie) is in danger of losing his ranch until he is aided by a Mexican bandito (Walter Huston).

Director: Raoul Walsh    More Info
Starring: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr., Ward Bond, Helen Parrish, Frederick Burton, Ian Keith, Charles Stevens

 In John Wayne's first starring role, he plays Brick Coleman who guides a wagon train pioneering the Oregon Trail. Along the trek, the wagon train confronts desert heat, steep cliffs, a fierce storm, an Indian attack, and swollen rivers. Brick fearlessly leads the wagons while still finding time to romance Ruth Cameron (Marguerite Churchill)–despite competition from gambler Bill Thorpe (Ian Keith) and villain Red Flack (Tyrone Power Sr.).

Director: King Vidor    More Info
Starring: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Roscoe Ates, Wyndham Standing, Russell Simpson, Blanche Friderici, Warner Richmond, James A. Marcus

 A Marshal (Wallace Beery) is determined to capture and bring to justice the infamous Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown) in this early talkie Western.

Director: Otto Brower    More Info
Starring: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugene Pallette, Stanley Fields, E.H. Calvert, Ethan Allen, Syd Saylor, Hank Bell, Jim Corey

 This remake of Zane Grey's story uses footage from an earlier silent film as it tells the story of the an outlaw (Jack Holt) who puts his life on the line when he comes to aid of Jim (Richard Arlen) and his love (Fay Wray) after Jim is falsely accused of murder.

Director: Otto Brower    More Info
Starring: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Fred Kohler, Harry Green, Regis Toomey, William Le Maire, George Chandler, Syd Saylor, Guy Oliver, Gus Saville

 Ranch foreman Dick Bailey's (Richard Arlen) best friend and owner of the ranch was killed, and when the sister (Mary Brian) of his friend arrives to take over the ranch, she fires him and then rehires him to fight the crooked sheriff (Fred Kohler) who has his own plans for the ranch property. Adapted from a Zane Grey story.

Director: John P. McCarthy    More Info
Starring: Bob Steele, Al St. John, Rita Rey, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Cliff Lyons, N.E. Hendrix, Hector Sarno, Emilio Fernandez, John Ince

 Oklahoma Cyclone (Bob Steele) goes undercover by joining an outlaw gang in order to find his father whom he believes was kidnapped by the gang. Non-singer Steele tries some songs.

Director: Otto Brower    More Info
Starring: Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, Hooper Atchley, Luis Alberni, Lee Shumway, Chief Yowlachie, Blue Cloud

 Sheep rancher Stan Hollister (Richard Arlen) is falsely accused of murdering an Indian, but two children saw the real killer, which also aids Stan in stopping a land grabber.

Director: Edwin Carewe    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William "Stage" Boyd, Oscar Apfel, James Kirkwood, Slim Summerville, Harry Green, Lloyd Ingraham, George Irving

 In this early Western film, gold prospector Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets and falls in love with Helen (Kay Johnson) while voyaging to the Yukon. When Glenister arrives in Alaska, his partners Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry (Slim Summerville and James Kirkwood) inform him that they are in danger of losing their mine because U.S. marshal Voorhees (Jack Holmes), Judge Stillman (Lloyd Ingraham), and politician Alec McNamara (William "Stage" Boyd) are conspiring to gain ownership of the mines in the area. Helen suggests that they take the matter to court, but that turns out to be impossible. Finally, Glenister takes matters into his own hands and whips McNamara in a powerful fistfight.

Director: John Cromwell    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James A. Marcus, Donald Reed, Soledad Jimenez, Veda Buckland, Cesar Vanoni, Ed Brady

 The "Llano Kid" (Gary Cooper) heads for South America to escape the law and becomes involved in a plot in which he pretends to be Senora Ibarra's (Emma Dunn) son.

Director: Louis King    More Info
Starring: Buck Jones, Lupita Tovar, Jim Mason, Frank Rice, Glenn Strange, Don Chapman, Lafe McKee

 Working undercover for the Texas Rangers, Buck Jones infiltrates an outlaw gang led by Jim Mason to avenge the murder of his brother.

Director: Wesley Ruggles    More Info
Starring: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr., Roscoe Ates, George E. Stone, Robert McWade, Edna May Oliver, Frank Darien

 This early sound film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and is based on Edna Ferber's novel about the hardships faced by Yancey and Sabra Cravat (Richard Dix and Irene Dunne) staking a land claim during the Oklahoma land rush. Yancey starts a newspaper business and crusades for justice. His efforts lead to long separations from Sabra, which prove fatal for the marriage, and Yancey leaves Sabra and their children to continue his "quick draw" brand of justice. With help from her friend, Mrs. Wyatt (Edna May Oliver), Sabra takes over the newspaper business and turns it into a powerful empire.

Director: Otto Brower    More Info
Starring: Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Hooper Atchley, George Mendoza, Robert Homans, Edward Peil Sr., Edward Hearn, Eva Grippon, Maston Williams, Jack Byron

 Bank cashier Lafe Kildare (Hooper Atchley) has been stealing from the bank, and when the bank president Jim Fremont (Edward Hearn) begins to suspect Lafe, Lafe kills Jim and becomes the bank president. Jim's brother Curt (Hoot Gibson) arrives in town posing as a cowardly drifter to investigate his brother's murder. He does his investigating at night, posing as Mexican bandit El Capitan in order to solve the murder, which he does, bringing Lafe to justice. Meanwhile, he wins the affections of a rancher's daughter, Mary Lou Moran (Sally Eilers–Hoot Gibson's wife at the time).

Director: Otto Brower    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Fred Kohler, Eugene Pallette, Roy Stewart, May Boley, James A. Marcus, Eve Southern

 After young scout Clint (Gary Cooper) avoids jail for troublemaking by talking Felice (Lily Damita) into pretending to be his wife, Clint and Felice head west on a wagon train. As an apprentice scout working for seasoned scouts Bill and Jim (Ernest Torrence and Tully Marshall), all goes well for Clint until Bill and Jim are killed during an Indian raid orchestrated by gunrunner Lee (Fred Kohler). Now it's up to Clint to get things back on track.

Director: Otto Brower    More Info
Starring: Hoot Gibson, Lina Basquette, Mathilde Comont, G. Raymond Nye, Jessie Arnold, Jack Byron, Christian J. Frank, Rosa Gore, Skeeter Bill Robbins, Frank Winkeman

 Timid, mama's boy "Peaceful" Patton (Hoot Gibson) vowed not fight. He takes a job at Senora Martini's (Lina Basquette) ranch and is routinely mistaken for a notorious gunman, "Hard Hombre." He even uses the mistaken identity to break up a dispute between ranchers over water rights. When the real "Hard Hombre" (Frank Winkleman) comes to town and slugs "Peaceful's" mother (Jessie Arnold), "Peaceful" becomes enraged and takes care of "Hard Hombre."

Director: Irving Cummings    More Info
Starring: George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirkwood, Stanley Fields, Robert Warwick, Richard Tucker, Earl Pingree

 Wealthy easterner (George O'Brien) heads west in his plane after finding out that a rancher may hold to key to his father's murder. After crashing his plane and having a romantic interlude, he confronts the rancher only to find out that the rancher is his real father. A weak early Bogart film, with Humphrey having a relatively small role as the rancher's foreman.

Director: John P. McCarthy    More Info
Starring: Bob Steele, Dorothy Dix, Ed Brady, George "Gabby" Hayes, Glen Cavender, Billy Engle, Artie Ortego, John Elliott, Gordon De Main, Merrill McCormick

 The Nevada Kid (Bob Steele) and sidekick Cherokee (George 'Gabby' Hayes) rob stages for a living. When Nevada is captured and jailed, Cherokee forges a pardon to gain his release. Nevada decides to go straight and takes a job guarding the stagecoach. Of course, when the stage is robbed and the driver killed, Nevada is charged with the crime and now must prove his innocence by bringing the real culprits to justice.

Director: Howard Higgin    More Info
Starring: William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum, J. Farrell MacDonald, Clark Gable, Charles Sellon, Edmund Breese, Al St. John, Wade Boteler, Jim Mason

 This Western marks Clark Gable's talkie-film debut. The story involves a romantic triangle taking place in the midst of a family feud.

Director: D. Ross Lederman    More Info
Starring: Tom Tyler, William Desmond, Tom Santschi, Dorothy Gulliver, Tom Dugan, Philo McCullough, Frank Lanning, Joe Bonomo, Frank Hagney, Kermit Maynard

 The convicted killer of Jim's (Tom Tyler) father escapes from prison, leaving a note to Jim professing his innocence but providing the names of seven men who know the real killer's identity. And the search begins for the killer, with hazards along the way in this 10-episode serial.

Director: Hamilton MacFadden    More Info
Starring: George O'Brien, Marguerite Churchill, Noah Beery, Yvonne Pelletier, Frank McGlynn Jr., Stanley Fields, James Todd, Lester Dorr, Shirley Nail, Cliff Lyons

 The Zane Grey novel is again brought to the screen, as Jim Lassiter (George O'Brien) is out to rescue his sister and her daughter from a kidnapper (Noah Beery). Taking a job at a ranch, he finds that the kidnapper is living under a pseudonym and is the local judge. There are no religious undertones in this OK version.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Warner Baxter, Paul Cavanagh, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dickie Moore, Julia Faye, C. Aubrey Smith

 This remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 and 1918 silent films is excellent fare as it again relates the tale of racial biases encountered in settling the Old West.

Director: Phil Rosen    More Info
Starring: Ken Maynard, Lucille Powers, Lafe McKee, Charles King, Nita Martan, Murdock MacQuarrie, Tom London, Walter Perry, Ethan Allen, Will Stanton

 Marshal Blackie (Ken Maynard) and his sidekick Joe (Lafe McKee) are on the trail of cattle rustlers and pose as gunmen at a ranch. When the ranch foreman is killed, Blackie is blamed and must work even harder to uncover the rustlers.

Director: Sidney Algier    More Info
Starring: Hoot Gibson, Alberta Vaughn, Stepin Fetchit, Neal Hart, Edmund Cobb, George Bunny, Edward Peil Sr., Skeeter Bill Robbins, Joe Rickson, Fred Gilman

 Jim Wright (Hoot Gibson) captures a wild, magnificent "Devil Horse" that has a price on its head. But the horse is stolen, and Jim's buddy is murdered in the process. Of course, Jim is suspected of the murder but comes through in the end.

Director: Forrest Sheldon    More Info
Starring: Ken Maynard, Ruth Hall, Josephine Dunn, Wallace MacDonald, Albert J. Smith, Walter Law, James Bradbury Jr., John Pratt, Robert(2) Walker, Jack Rockwell

 Wally (Wallace MacDonald) and his adopted brother Ken (Ken Maynard) find themselves in the middle of a conflict between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. Their father, cattleman Winchester "Win" Thompson (Walter Law), hires gunman Butch Martin (Albert J. Smith) to get a sheepman to move, and Butch shoots him. The sheepman's daughter Judy (Ruth Hall) moves onto the Thompson ranch where Ken and Wally compete for her attentions–and, by story's end, Judy will pick one of them to live with happily ever after.

Director: Tenny Wright    More Info
Starring: John Wayne, Noah Beery, Mae Madison, Luis Alberni, Berton Churchill, Paul Hurst, Sherwood Bailey, Lafe McKee, Joseph W. Girard, Frank Ellis

 New Mexico Territory Governor Lew Wallace (Berton Churchill) sends Deputy Sheriff John Steele (John Wayne) into the range lands to stop cattle rustling and help colonize the territory. Steele deputizes rustler Sonora Joe (Louis Alberni) along with his gang, and they assist in bringing justice to cattle rustler/land baron Sam Crew (Noah Beery).

Director: William Nigh    More Info
Starring: Harry Carey, Kathleen Collins, George "Gabby" Hayes, Niles Welch, Olive Carey, Albert J. Smith, Merrill McCormick, Art Mix, Tetsu Komai, Jack Gallagher

 Jim Gray (Harry Carey) is accused of murdering his friend Bud Brandon (Art Mix) and is arrested. He breaks out of jail with help from Neil Denham (Jack Gallagher) and sets out to prove his innocence. Later, Neil is killed, leaving Marcia (Kathleen Collins) a widow, and she becomes Jim's sidekick while Jim assumes Neil's identity. Jim joins forces with "Dude" Sanders (George "Gabby" Hayes), and they go off in search of the mysterious "The General" (Tetsu Komai) who is the Chinese leader of bandits. The bandits are vandalizing cattle hoping to stir up discontent among the ranchers so that they will not be noticed smuggling dynamite across the border. Surprises lie in wait–including who is the real leader of the bandits.