Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie 1941  N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Taylor
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Kathryn Adams, Lee Shumway, Harry Cording, Jack Rockwell, Ernie Adams, Ed Cassidy, Pat J. O'Brien, Jim Corey, William Desmond
After Joe's (Johnny Mack Brown) brother is murdered by a gang of claim jumpers, he sets out to extract revenge.
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Fargo Express 1933  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Alan James
Cast: Ken Maynard, Helen Mack, Roy Stewart, Paul Fix, William Desmond, Jack Rockwell, Claude Payton, Joe Rickson, Charles King, Hank Bell, Pat Harmon, Ben Corbett
Ken (Ken Maynard) takes Helen's (Helen Mack) brother Mort (Paul Fix) under his wing to straighten him out. But Mort is set up in a crooked card game and taken to jail. Now Ken must bring the real culprits to justice in order to clear Mort.
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Headin' for the Rio Grande 1936  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: Tex Ritter, Eleanor Stewart, Syd Saylor, Warner Richmond, Charles King, Earl Dwire, Forrest Taylor, William Desmond, Charles K. French, "Snub" Pollard, Budd Buster, Bud Osborne
Plenty of singing marks the second film appearance of Tex Ritter as Tex and his sidekick Chili (Syd Saylor) take on a gang running a protection racket in which if a rancher doesn't buy their "service" of protecting cattle, the cattle will be stolen.
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The Last Frontier 1932 N/R, 212 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Bushman, William Desmond, Richard Neill, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison, Yakima Canutt, LeRoy Mason, Frank Lackteen, Judith Barrie, Ben Corbett
In this 12-episode serial, newspaper editor Tom Kirby (Lon Chaney Jr.), disguising himself as the masked "Black Ghost," takes on outlaw Tiger Morris (Richard Neill) who drives settlers away so he can have gold-laden property for himself. Tom gets help from Western heroes, including Wild Bill Hickock and General Custer. Remake of the 1926 feature-length film.
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The Phantom of the West 1931 N/R, 170 min.
Genre: Western
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: Tom Tyler, William Desmond, Tom Santschi, Dorothy Gulliver, Tom Dugan, Philo McCullough, Frank Lanning, Joe Bonomo, Frank Hagney, Kermit Maynard, Dick Dickinson
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.
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Song of the Gringo 1936 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Old Corral
Director: John P. McCarthy
Cast: Tex Ritter, Joan Woodbury, Fuzzy Knight, Monte Blue, Warner Richmond, Al J. Jennings, Martin Garralaga, William Desmond, Forrest Taylor, Robert Fiske, Glenn Strange, Budd Buster
Marshal Tex (Tex Ritter) goes underground and infiltrates a gang that is using all means, including murder, to take over the local mines. Songs abound as Tex saves the day. This is Tex Ritter's film debut in a remake of 1930's "Oklahoma Cyclone."
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Tailspin Tommy 1934 N/R, 230 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Maurice Murphy, Noah Beery Jr., Patricia Farr, Walter Miller, Grant Withers, Charles A. Browne, Monte Montague, Edmund Cobb, Bryant Washburn, John Davidson, Harrison Green, William Desmond
Tailspin Tommy Tompkins (Maurice Murphy) and cohort Skeeter Milligan (Noah Berry Jr.) are working for a mail-delivery airline when a rival airline sends out its dogfighting planes with the mission of destroying Tommy's plane and seizing control of the mail-delivery business. A 12-part serial for the 1930s' Saturday matinees.
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The Three Musketeers 1933 N/R, 215 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Thriller
Director: Armand Schaefer
Cast: John Wayne, Raymond Hatton, Ralph Bushman, Noah Beery Jr., Lon Chaney Jr., Ruth Hall, Jack Mulhall, Al Ferguson, Edward Peil Sr., William Desmond, Yakima Canutt, Hooper Atchley, Gordon De Main, Robert Frazer, Robert Warwick
After rescuing Clancy, Renard and Schmidt (Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, and Ralph Bushman), Lt. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) joins them in a fight against their nemesis–the Devil of the Desert, El Shatan (Yakima Canutt)–during the reign of France's Louis XIII. The last of John Wayne's serials.
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The Vigilantes Are Coming 1936 N/R, 226 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright
Cast: Robert Livingston, Fred Kohler, Kay Hughes, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Raymond Hatton, Robert Warwick, William Farnum, Bob Kortman, John Merton, Lloyd Ingraham, William Desmond, Yakima Canutt
Russians, under the leadership of General Burr (Fred Kohler), set out to colonize California using Cossack soldiers. But, there is resistance out there in the person of a church organist (Don Loring) who dons a black mask, calls himself "The Eagle," and leads a gang of misfits in pursuit of the Russians. There are plenty of cliffhangers in this 12-episode serial.
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Winners of the West 1940 N/R, 250 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Cast: Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, James Craig, Tom Fadden, Harry Woods, Charles Stevens, Trevor Bardette, Edward Keane, Edgar Edwards, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, Roy Barcroft
In this 13-episode serial, railroad executive Jeff Ramsay (Dick Foran) attempts to run the rail line through Hell Gate's Pass. But there are bad guys who intend to block those efforts–including the use of Indians to raid workers' camps.
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| 1. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
2. Fargo Express (1933)
3. Headin' for the Rio Grande (1936)
4. The Last Frontier (1932)
5. The Phantom of the West (1931)
6. Song of the Gringo (1936)
aka: The Old Corral
7. Tailspin Tommy (1934)
8. The Three Musketeers (1933)
9. The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
10. Winners of the West (1940)
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