Deuce Spriggins

Deuce Spriggins

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Gold Strike
Title: Gold Strike
Character: Deuce
Released: March 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Musical western short
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The Fargo Phantom
Title: The Fargo Phantom
Character: Deuce Spriggins
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns, fists and singing abilities against a gang of stage-robbing bandits. This film was combined with another Tex Williams short, Coyote Canyon, and reissued as the feature-length "Tales of the West No.2.)
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Coyote Canyon
Title: Coyote Canyon
Character: Deuce (as 'Deuce' Spriggens)
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.
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The Pecos Pistol
Title: The Pecos Pistol
Character: Ranger Deuce
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.
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Prairie Pirates
Title: Prairie Pirates
Character: Deuce
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: Movie
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.
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Cheyenne Cowboy
Title: Cheyenne Cowboy
Character: Deuce
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.
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Silver Butte
Title: Silver Butte
Character: Deuce
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Shipments of silver are going astray after leaving the mine, and Tex and his pals investigate. With 3 songs.
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Singing on the Trail
Title: Singing on the Trail
Character: Deuce Spriggins - Bandleader
Released: September 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-lookalike Dusty Anderson. She played Helen Wyatt, whose father (the rotund Guy Kibbee) loses his ranch to the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, the Hot Shots have been swindled by a couple of Eastern crooks (Ian Keith and Matt Willis) and consider themselves the lawful owners. Chased by the irascible Wyatt, the band members seek protection from aspiring singer Curt Stanton (Curtis), who they mistake for a gunslinger.
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Song of the Prairie
Title: Song of the Prairie
Character: Band Leader Deuce
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler's show and uses Wingate money to keep him afloat. Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers they try to keep her father away from the show. But he eventually finds out and decides they will return east
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Devil Riders
Title: Devil Riders
Character: Band Member
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.