Mike Ragan

Mike Ragan

Born: February 18, 1918
Died: August 25, 1995
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Mike Ragan...

The Outfit
Title: The Outfit
Character: Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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Gunpoint
Title: Gunpoint
Character: Zack
Released: April 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
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Title: Batman
Character: Cowboy
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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The Claw Monsters
Title: The Claw Monsters
Character: Rand (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring trespassers away from his diamond mine. Condensed from one of the last Republic serials, "Panther Girl of the Congo". (1955).
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Dark Intruder
Title: Dark Intruder
Character: Plainclothesman
Released: July 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
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Dark Intruder
Title: Dark Intruder
Character: The Plainclothesman
Released: July 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
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Viva Las Vegas
Title: Viva Las Vegas
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Title: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1962
Type: Movie
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
Title: Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
Character: Ben Wade
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the threats posed both by one another and the local Indigenous peoples.
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Hell Bent for Leather
Title: Hell Bent for Leather
Character: Hard Case (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
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Frontier Gun
Title: Frontier Gun
Character: Tanner (as Holly Bane)
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Bounty Hunter
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Title: Maverick
Character: 1st Johnny Reb
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Ride The High Iron
Title: Ride The High Iron
Character: Railroad Workman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.
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The Man Is Armed
Title: The Man Is Armed
Released: October 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
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Attack
Title: Attack
Character: GI
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Title: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Character: Tank Commander (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
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Last of the Desperados
Title: Last of the Desperados
Character: Dave Rudebaugh
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: Movie
After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang.
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Title: Fury
Character: Chris
Released: October 15, 1955
Type: TV
Fury is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The frequent introduction to the show depicts the beloved stallion running inside the corral and approaching the camera as the announcer reads: "FURY!..The story of a horse..and a boy who loves him." Fury is the first American series produced originally by Television Programs of America and later by the British-based company ITC Entertainment.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: The Fireman
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Cab Driver
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Alfredo
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Escaped Convict
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mr. Cheever
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Pete
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Tall Man Riding
Title: Tall Man Riding
Character: Tom
Released: June 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
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Dial Red O
Title: Dial Red O
Character: Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1955
Type: Movie
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
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Panther Girl of the Kongo
Title: Panther Girl of the Kongo
Character: Rand
Released: January 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation, who is known to Africa as 'the Panther Girl' because of her bravery in jungle living, stumbles on a plot by a mad scientist to frighten the natives out of a diamond-laden district by chemically growing crayfish to giant size, and enlists the aid of a game hunter friend to prevent a monster rampage and bring the culprits to justice.
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The Yellow Mountain
Title: The Yellow Mountain
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.
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Bitter Creek
Title: Bitter Creek
Character: Joe Venango - Henchman
Released: February 21, 1954
Type: Movie
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
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Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Title: Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Character: Reed
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
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Son of Belle Starr
Title: Son of Belle Starr
Character: Earl
Released: June 26, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Horseman (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
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Montana Belle
Title: Montana Belle
Character: Ben Dalton
Released: November 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Dissension among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicate the plot, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons, horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer. Written by Rod Crawford
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The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Title: The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Springfield Rifle
Title: Springfield Rifle
Character: Red (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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Target
Title: Target
Character: Higgins - Henchman
Released: April 20, 1952
Type: Movie
A female marshal and a newspaper editor help heroic Tim Holt fight an evil land agent. Western.
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The Dakota Kid
Title: The Dakota Kid
Character: Messenger
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Dakota Kid is a young outlaw who joins a gang headed by Ace Crandall. Crandall's aim is to unseat Sheriff Tom White and then use his power to enrich himself at the community's expense. Dakota impersonates a long-lost nephew of the sheriff, and is made a marshal. Through his association with the sheriff's grandson, Red White and his friend Judy, plus falling in love with Mary Lewis, the Kid gradually reforms.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Al Shelby
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Storm Over Wyoming
Title: Storm Over Wyoming
Character: Scotty - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: April 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Before Dave and Chito can find out, they must convince Chris Marvin, Rawlins's attractive boss, that he's no good...and get out from under a framed murder charge. - Rod Crawford
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Over the Border
Title: Over the Border
Character: Duke - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: March 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Bringing Bart Calhoun (Marshall Reed) to justice for his complicity in a robbery/murder, Johnny assumes that his job is over. Not by a long shot! Calhoun's arrest leads to the uncovering of a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle silver from Mexico to the United States.
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West of Wyoming
Title: West of Wyoming
Character: Chuck Maloo - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: February 19, 1950
Type: Movie
The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up of the rang to homesteaders. Government agent Brown comes calling when Simon begins resorting to cold-blooded murder. The leading lady is Gail Davis, a few years shy of her Annie Oakley TV stardom. Surprisingly, West of Wyoming contains none of the comedy relief that had characterized earlier Johnny Mack Brown oaters.
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Radar Secret Service
Title: Radar Secret Service
Character: Truck Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
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Fence Riders
Title: Fence Riders
Character: Gus Rayburn - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Whip Wilson and Andy Clyde are back and Monogram's got 'em in Fence Riders. The Whipster comes to the aid of beautiful ranch owner Reno Browne, who is being victimized by rustlers Myron Healey and Riley Hill. To get Wilson out of the way, the villains frame him on a murder rap.
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Red Desert
Title: Red Desert
Character: Barton
Released: December 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.
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Riders of the Dusk
Title: Riders of the Dusk
Character: Gus - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: November 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Riders of the Dusk is another of Monogram's formula Whip Wilson westerns. Since the studio couldn't build an entire film around Wilson's bullwhip prowess, a plot was called for. This time around, it's the one about a U.S. marshal who searches high and low for a mysterious masked desperado. The mystery angle is minimal, since seasoned movie fans will be able to determine the mystery person's identity within 15 minutes. As always, Andy Clyde is a tower of comic strength as Whip Wilson's grizzled old sidekick.
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Brand of Fear
Title: Brand of Fear
Character: Butch Keeler
Released: July 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Jimmy and Cannonball escort Anne Lamont, the new school teacher, to Oreville, where she is molested by two outlaws. Marshal Blackjack Flint wounds Slade, who tells Derringer that lawman Flint is wanted by the law and, unknown to Anne, is also her father. Derringer than kills Slade and begins to blackmail Flint. Jimmy and Cannonball join the fray on the side of Flint, the reformed outlaw.
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Grand Canyon
Title: Grand Canyon
Character: Rocky Thompson - Henchman
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule herder, who had never acted before, is "shanghaied" into taking over the role. Complications ensue.
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Ghost of Zorro
Title: Ghost of Zorro
Character: Larkin - Henchman (Ch. 2)
Released: March 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.
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The Far Frontier
Title: The Far Frontier
Character: Rocco - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: December 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
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Renegades of Sonora
Title: Renegades of Sonora
Character: Henchman
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Cowboy Rocky Lane thwarts an attack on a courier delivering a precious Indian tribal belt and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy in the process. When the courier dies, Rocky delivers the belt to the Agent. But he quickly finds himself arrested for murder and learns not only is the belt missing, but the murdered Agent is not the man he gave the belt to.
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Night Time in Nevada
Title: Night Time in Nevada
Character: Mort Oakley (as Holly Bane)
Released: September 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
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The Return of Wildfire
Title: The Return of Wildfire
Character: Dirk
Released: August 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can become king of the horse market. One stubborn rancher refuses to relent and his killed. His two surviving sisters then continue the fight. They are soon assisted by a passing drifter who ends up falling for one of them. In the end a gunfight between the good and bad guys ensues.
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Carson City Raiders
Title: Carson City Raiders
Character: Joe (as Holly Bane)
Released: May 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wants to help Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) save his freight line. Meanwhile, Dave Starky (Harold Goodwin) is impersonating the outlaw Fargo Jack (Steve Darrell). But why? There's a lot of confusion in Carson City in this Western about hidden identities. Who is truly behind the gang of stagecoach robbers?
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Overland Trails
Title: Overland Trails
Character: Rex Hillman - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown stars in this above-average B-Western from Monogram, penned under the pseudonym of Jess Bowers by veteran genre specialist Adele Buffington. Mack Brown plays Johnny Murdoch, a drifter arriving in Gold Flats in search of his prospector father. From old-timer Dusty Hanover (Raymond Hatton), Johnny learns that Old Man Murdoch was murdered for his claim by Rex Hillman (Holly Bane), a hireling of Carter Morgan (Bill Kennedy).
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Ring Photographer (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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Jesse James Rides Again
Title: Jesse James Rides Again
Character: Clark's Clerk Tim
Released: August 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Jesse James wants to start a new life in a new location, but quickly finds himself wrapped-up in protecting townsfolk from the machinations of evil oilmen.
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Song of the Wasteland
Title: Song of the Wasteland
Character: Tex - Ranger (as Holly Bane)
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Barfly
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.