Francis Walker

Francis Walker

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Northwest Rangers
Title: Northwest Rangers
Character: Barfly
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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Overland to Deadwood
Title: Overland to Deadwood
Character: Henchman Vance
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
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Riders of the Northland
Title: Riders of the Northland
Character: Dobie
Released: June 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, three Texas Rangers decide to do their part to save the world and join the Army, but before they can, they are sent to Alaska to destroy a secret Nazi operation involving a submarine refueling station. The outpost is located behind an impenetrable tangle of barbed wire. The rangers get a little help, and discover a traitor. Then to get through the wire, they start a cattle stampede and save the day.
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Lawless Plainsmen
Title: Lawless Plainsmen
Character: Henchman Abbott
Released: March 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
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Roaring Frontiers
Title: Roaring Frontiers
Character: Henchman Boot Hill
Released: October 15, 1941
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henchmen to lynch Tex before the trail. Wild Bill and Tex escape to a stagecoach rest station run by Reba Bailey. There is a showdown battle at Hammond's saloon but not before Tex gets to sing two songs followed by a third one after the battle.
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Prairie Stranger
Title: Prairie Stranger
Character: Craig
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
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King of Dodge City
Title: King of Dodge City
Character: Henchman Carney
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Kansas, just after the Civil War. Wild Bill Hickok is summoned from Dodge City to Abilene, there to neutralize a crooked political machine. Hickok is aided every step of the way by Tex Rawlings, a seemingly harmless drifter who is appointed sheriff after proving his prowess with his six-guns.
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The Return of Daniel Boone
Title: The Return of Daniel Boone
Character: Bowers, Henchman
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The scout's grandson foils land-grabbers; his sidekick flirts with twins.
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The Pinto Kid
Title: The Pinto Kid
Character: Curt Harvey
Released: February 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Pinto Kid was one of Charles Starrett's last "formula" westerns before he permanently assumed the screen guise of the Durango Kid. The story takes places just after the Civil War, with hostilities between Yanks and Rebels still in effect between Kansas and Texas. The villain, cattle rustler Vic Landreau (Paul Sutton), intends to play both factions down the middle for his own benefit. But Landreau meets his match in the form of wandering do-gooder Jud Calvert (Charles Starrett).
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Thundering Frontier
Title: Thundering Frontier
Character: Henchman Stub
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett plays Jim Fillmore, kind to old ladies, small animals and heroine Norma Belknap (Iris Meredith). In contrast, the villains are kind to no one, least of all struggling building contractor Square Deal Scottie (Alex Callam), whose projects are continually targeted for demolition and his payroll is forever being stolen at gunpoint. A good 25 percent of the film's running time is given over to Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, whose C&W croonings are pleasant but a bit much. One of the film's few surprises is that Starrett's perennial screen sparring partner Dick Curtis isn't one of the bad guys.
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West of Abilene
Title: West of Abilene
Character: Bat
Released: October 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
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The Durango Kid
Title: The Durango Kid
Character: Steve
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
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The Return of Wild Bill
Title: The Return of Wild Bill
Character: Jake Kilgore
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Henchman
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: Lightning Barlow
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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Blazing Six Shooters
Title: Blazing Six Shooters
Character: Henchman
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Title: Drums of Fu Manchu
Character: Koomerow, Lhama's Emissary
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
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Bullets for Rustlers
Title: Bullets for Rustlers
Character: Henchman Ellis
Released: March 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes Sheriff Webb, Judge Baxter, and rancher Ann Houston into his confidence, and works his way into the rustler stronghold and confidence by "turning rustler" himself.
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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: Army Enlistee
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Henchman
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Call The Mesquiteers
Title: Call The Mesquiteers
Character: Henchman Spike, gas station, etc.
Released: March 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack their truck for a getaway and the police conclude they are part of the gang, an identification which is just fine with the gang's nameless chief.
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Law for Tombstone
Title: Law for Tombstone
Character: Lee (Stagecoach Guard)
Released: October 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A stagecoach line hires an agent to stop a string of robberies of gold shipments.
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The Feud of the Trail
Title: The Feud of the Trail
Character: Deputy
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who's a dead ringer for the leader of an outlaw gang kills the gang leader, then takes his place to try to bring the gang to justice.
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Borderland
Title: Borderland
Character: Texas Ranger
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
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Cheyenne Rides Again
Title: Cheyenne Rides Again
Character: Henchman Joe
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them.
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Stormy Trails
Title: Stormy Trails
Character: Deputy Ned Sanderson
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
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Aces Wild
Title: Aces Wild
Character: Townsman
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Cheyenne rides into Durango and runs into his old enemy Kelton. Kelton's game is to bring his safe to a town without a bank and let the townspeople put their valuables in it. Then he grabs the loot and flees. But Cheyenne is on to his scheme and finding the safe empty, gets the Sheriff to join in the chase.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Cowhand (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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The Unknown Ranger
Title: The Unknown Ranger
Character: Cowhand (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate. Everyone is looking for men when the actual rustler is a horse.
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The Riding Avenger
Title: The Riding Avenger
Character: Welch
Released: June 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Buck Bonner, posing as the recently deceased Morning Glory Kid, is sent to round up the Mort Ringer gang. Buck finds Ringer and joins up with his gang. But he is in trouble when Slim and Bud who buried the Kid arrive and expose him as a Marshal.
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For the Service
Title: For the Service
Character: Army Scout (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
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Ridin' On
Title: Ridin' On
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O'Neil. Tom Rork has found a bullet with markings on it that he hopes will clear Danny and bring in the real killer.
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The Kid Ranger
Title: The Kid Ranger
Character: Henchman
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ranger Ray plans to marry stage driver Bill Mason's daughter Mary, but there are problems ahead....
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The Last of the Clintons
Title: The Last of the Clintons
Character: Henchman
Released: November 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Cowboy infiltrates an outlaw gang to expose their rackets, but after he's ordered to kidnap a young girl, the gang finds out who he really is.
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Wild Mustang
Title: Wild Mustang
Character: Henchman
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Prison escapee Utah Evans kills Sheriff McClay. Joe Norton was McClay's predecessor and sent Utah to prison. Ma McClay having taken over as Sheriff for her husband, now gets Joe to return. Joe sets out to get Utah and Utah, learning Joe is after him, hopes to get revenge for being sent to prison.
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The Pecos Kid
Title: The Pecos Kid
Character: Henchman Chuck
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A gang of robbers steals the deed to the Pecos Ranch and kill the family. The young son escapes, and years later he returns to the ranch to find the killers and reclaim his property.
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Carrying the Mail
Title: Carrying the Mail
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The owner of a stagecoach line is about to lose his mail contract after 30 years because he's been underbid. His competitor is actually a crook who's planning to hijack the stagecoach and rob the mail--and, for good measure, have a go at his rival's pretty young daughter.
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Law of the Plains
Title: Law of the Plains
Character: Cowhand
Released: August 19, 1929
Type: Movie
a cowboy seeks revenge for the murder of his father.