Bob Steele

Bob Steele

Born: January 23, 1907
Died: December 21, 1988
in Portland, Oregon, USA
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Bob Steele (January 23, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family. After years of touring, the family settled down in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father, Robert N. Bradbury, soon found work in the movies, first as an actor, later as a director, and by 1920, he hired Bob and his twin brother Bill (1907–1971) as juvenile leads for a series of adventure movies entitled "The Adventures of Bob and Bill".

Bob's career began to take off for good in 1927, when he was hired by production company Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) to star in a series of Westerns. Bob—who was rechristened Bob Steele at FBO—soon made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film studio, including Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany, Syndicate, Republic (including several films of the Three Mesquiteers series) and Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) (including the initial films of their "Billy the Kid" series), plus he had the occasional role in an A-movie, as in the adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men from 1939.

In the 1940s, Bob's career as a cowboy hero was on the decline, but he kept himself working by accepting supporting roles in many big movies like Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, or the John Wayne vehicles Island in the Sky, Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo. Besides these he also made occasional appearances in science fiction films like Atomic Submarine and Giant from the Unknown and did lots of television work, culminating in a regular supporting role in the army comedy F Troop (1965–1967), which allowed him to show his comic talent. Steele played the character of Trooper Duffy who claimed to have been "shoulder to shoulder with Davy Crockett at the Alamo"-in fact Steele played in With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo in 1926.

Bob Steele died on December 21, 1988 from emphysema after a long sickness.

Bob Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character "Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip.        

                    

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Movies for Bob Steele...

The Shootist
Title: The Shootist
Character: Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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Nightmare Honeymoon
Title: Nightmare Honeymoon
Character: Charlie
Released: September 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists.
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Charley Varrick
Title: Charley Varrick
Character: Bank Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
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Something Big
Title: Something Big
Character: Teamster #3
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
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Skin Game
Title: Skin Game
Character: Bidder (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
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Rio Lobo
Title: Rio Lobo
Character: Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
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Title: Then Came Bronson
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film.
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Doc
Title: Doc
Character: Toby
Released: July 28, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't resist butting in with comic results.
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The Great Bank Robbery
Title: The Great Bank Robbery
Character: First Guard
Released: June 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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Hang 'em High
Title: Hang 'em High
Character: Jenkins
Released: April 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
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Title: Family Affair
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
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Title: F Troop
Character: Trooper Duffy
Released: September 14, 1965
Type: TV
F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.
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The Bounty Killer
Title: The Bounty Killer
Character: Red - Henchman
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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Town Tamer
Title: Town Tamer
Character: Ken
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
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Requiem for a Gunfighter
Title: Requiem for a Gunfighter
Character: Max Smith
Released: June 30, 1965
Type: Movie
A gunfighter takes the identity of a murdered judge in order to avenge his death.
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Shenandoah
Title: Shenandoah
Character: Union Train Guard
Released: June 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.
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Taggart
Title: Taggart
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
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Bullet for a Badman
Title: Bullet for a Badman
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
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4 for Texas
Title: 4 for Texas
Character: Bank Board Member
Released: December 21, 1963
Type: Movie
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
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McLintock!
Title: McLintock!
Character: Train Engineer
Released: November 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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Wall of Noise
Title: Wall of Noise
Character: Trainer
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
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The Wild Westerners
Title: The Wild Westerners
Character: Casey Banner
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as Plummer's Deputy. Plummer is still not suspected when McDowell's wife is kidnaped and the outlaws demand the big gold shipment be sent unguarded. So McDowell heads out alone to face the gang with a load of gunpowder instead of gold and only a few trusted Deputies nearby.
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Six Black Horses
Title: Six Black Horses
Character: Puncher
Released: April 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.
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The Comancheros
Title: The Comancheros
Character: Pa Schofield (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Title: Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Character: Ben
Released: March 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship with the Apaches. But when a vengeful Geronimo initiates a violent campaign against the settlers, Slaughter himself must fight-- to maintain peace and honor among the warring groups.
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Hell Bent for Leather
Title: Hell Bent for Leather
Character: Jared
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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The Atomic Submarine
Title: The Atomic Submarine
Character: "Grif" Griffin
Released: November 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
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Title: The Rebel
Character: Will Randall
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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Title: The Rebel
Character: Jess Kirby
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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Pork Chop Hill
Title: Pork Chop Hill
Character: Col. Kern
Released: May 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
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Rio Bravo
Title: Rio Bravo
Character: Matt Harris (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Deputy Art Gray
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Lawman
Character: Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Luke Short
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Once Upon a Horse...
Title: Once Upon a Horse...
Character: Bob Steele
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Title: The Bonnie Parker Story
Character: Armored Truck Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
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Giant from the Unknown
Title: Giant from the Unknown
Character: Sheriff Parker
Released: January 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.
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Decision at Sundown
Title: Decision at Sundown
Character: Irv
Released: November 10, 1957
Type: Movie
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
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The Parson and the Outlaw
Title: The Parson and the Outlaw
Character: Ace Jardine
Released: September 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garret, but is forced to come out of hiding to stop a ruthless cattle baron from destroying a small frontier community.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited)
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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Title: Maverick
Character: Wells
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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Title: Maverick
Character: Walter Jackson
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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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Sam Shoulders
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Duel at Apache Wells
Title: Duel at Apache Wells
Character: Joe Dunn
Released: January 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.
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Gun for a Coward
Title: Gun for a Coward
Character: Durkee
Released: December 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
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Pardners
Title: Pardners
Character: Shorty
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
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The Steel Jungle
Title: The Steel Jungle
Character: Dan Bucci
Released: March 10, 1956
Type: Movie
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Miner
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
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The Fighting Chance
Title: The Fighting Chance
Character: Curly
Released: December 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.
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Last of the Desperados
Title: Last of the Desperados
Character: Charlie Bowdre
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: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Deputy Sheriff Dodd
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Coe
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Sam Gordon
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Character: Deputy Marshal Sam (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Soto Man (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Ben
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Character: Dude Rankin
Released: August 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
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Drums Across the River
Title: Drums Across the River
Character: Billy Costa
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Wilson
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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Column South
Title: Column South
Character: McAfee
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
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Savage Frontier
Title: Savage Frontier
Character: Sam Webb
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
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San Antone
Title: San Antone
Character: Bob Coolidge
Released: February 15, 1953
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...
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The Lion and the Horse
Title: The Lion and the Horse
Character: Matt Jennings
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.
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Bugles in the Afternoon
Title: Bugles in the Afternoon
Character: Rider Who Announces Custer Is Dead
Released: March 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
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Rose of Cimarron
Title: Rose of Cimarron
Character: Rio
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
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Cattle Drive
Title: Cattle Drive
Character: Charlie "Careless" Morgan
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.
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Fort Worth
Title: Fort Worth
Character: Shorty
Released: July 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
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Silver Canyon
Title: Silver Canyon
Character: Walt Middler
Released: June 19, 1951
Type: Movie
At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie.
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The Enforcer
Title: The Enforcer
Character: Herman
Released: February 24, 1951
Type: Movie
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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The Savage Horde
Title: The Savage Horde
Character: Dancer
Released: May 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.
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South of St. Louis
Title: South of St. Louis
Character: Slim Hansen
Released: March 6, 1949
Type: Movie
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
Title: Bandits of Dark Canyon
Character: Ed Archer
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him. As Rocky is bringing him in, Archer is attacked again. Somebody wants Archer killed and Rocky, now suspecting Archer is innocent, decides to find out who and why.
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Killer McCoy
Title: Killer McCoy
Character: Sailor Graves
Released: December 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Chicago
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Cheyenne
Title: Cheyenne
Character: Bucky
Released: June 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Slick gambler James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann (Jane Wyman), who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
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Twilight on the Rio Grande
Title: Twilight on the Rio Grande
Character: Dusty Morgan
Released: March 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
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Rio Grande Raiders
Title: Rio Grande Raiders
Character: Jeff Carson
Released: September 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Sunset Carson, ace driver for the Harding Stagecoach Line, persuades his boss Frank Harding (Edmund Cobb) to hire his brother, Jeff (Bob Steele), recently released from the penitentiary. Sunset isn't aware that Jeff owes his release to Marc Redmond (Tristram Coffin), owner of the rival line, and that Redmond is forcing Jeff to give him advance information when the Harding stages are carrying valuable shipments, so that his henchmen can rob the stage and force Harding out of business.
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The Big Sleep
Title: The Big Sleep
Character: Lash Canino
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Thunder Town
Title: Thunder Town
Character: Jim Brandon
Released: April 13, 1946
Type: Movie
An ex-convict (Bob Steele) returns to his ranch; he and his sidekick (Sid Saylor) prove he was framed.
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Sheriff of Redwood Valley
Title: Sheriff of Redwood Valley
Character: The Reno Kid
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Redwood Valley residents raise $50,000 for blasting a mountain tunnel to bring a new railroad there. Town leader Bidwell engineers a plot to steal the money and to blame it on the Reno Kid (Bob Steele) who has recently broken out of prison in order to clear himself of false charges that sent him there and caused him to lose his ranch. The badly-wounded sheriff turns his badge over to Red Ryder. Reno visits his wife, Molly and their ailing son Johnny, and Red, also wounded, is brought there by Little Beaver. There, Red begins to believe Reno's story about being innocent. Written by Les Adams
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Ambush Trail
Title: Ambush Trail
Character: Curley Thompson
Released: February 17, 1946
Type: Movie
One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The villain of the piece intends to bankrupt all the local ranchers and grab up the surrounding property for himself. But with Curley involved, the bad guy and his minions don't have a chance. The screenplay, by D. W. Griffith alumnus Elmer Clifton, is a medley of western cliches, pausing every so often for a first-rate action sequence. Perennial sagebrush sidekick Sid Saylor provides negligible comedy relief.
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Six Gun Man
Title: Six Gun Man
Character: Stormy Storm
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Cattle thieves attack every cattle drive that comes near Hagerstown. If they do not sell their cattle for 50 cents on the dollar, they are all stolen. U.S. Marshal Stormy has been sent to end this reign of terror and to find the stolen cattle. He starts with a patrol of cattleman that blast every attempt of the outlaws to steal the herd.
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Northwest Trail
Title: Northwest Trail
Character: RCMP Matt O'Brien
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
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Navajo Kid
Title: Navajo Kid
Character: Tom "The Navajo Kid" Kirk
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
The Navajo Kid goes in search of the villains who murdered his foster-father and stole both ring and watch. The trail leads straight to Canyon City, Texas, and smooth cardsharp Honest John Grogan, who is in possession of both the stolen items. But Grogan has an ironclad alibi for the time of the murder, an alibi confirmed by none other than Sheriff Roy Landon.
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Wildfire
Title: Wildfire
Character: Happy Haye
Released: July 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then set out to prove who the real rustlers are.
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Trigger Law
Title: Trigger Law
Character: Bob Steele
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Hoot Gibson and Bob Stanley ride into Arizona seeking the killer of Bob's father, who managed the stagecoach line in Eggleston for Kelso McGuire.
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The Utah Kid
Title: The Utah Kid
Character: Bob Roberts
Released: August 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The Utah Kid was a late entry in Monogram's "Trail Blazers" series. These low-budget westerns usually featured three cowboy stars; this time, however, there are only two, Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson. Though neither star is a spring chicken, Steele is the younger of the two, so he's the "Utah Kid" by default. The plot, involving a gang of crooks who go around fixing rodeo results, was designed to accommodate yards and yards of stock footage.
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Marked Trails
Title: Marked Trails
Character: Bob Stevens
Released: July 29, 1944
Type: Movie
This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him. His son, Bob Stevens and friend Parkford become U.S. Marshals and proceed to rid the town of the cut-throat gang that has been terrorizing the citizens. Bob goes undercover as an outlaw and works his way into the gang, while Hoot poses as a Dude who goes about making fiery speeches on behalf of law and order.
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Sonora Stagecoach
Title: Sonora Stagecoach
Character: Bob Steele
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
The Trail Blazers are bringing in a prisoner to stand trial for bank robbery, when several attempts are made to kill him; convinced of the man's innocence, they arrange a trap for the real thieves.
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Outlaw Trail
Title: Outlaw Trail
Character: Bob
Released: April 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, they find that 'Honest John' controls everything. He even prints his own money. He also has a gang and they set out to finish off the heroes.
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Arizona Whirlwind
Title: Arizona Whirlwind
Character: Bob Steele
Released: February 21, 1944
Type: Movie
US marshals Ken, Hoot and Bob stop a gang dressed as Indians from robbing the stage. After getting repairs at the relay station, but before they get to town, another trap is set, but they get away. In town, they search the stage and find nothing. But hidden in the axle grease can are diamonds. Polini wants them cut into smaller diamonds so that he can easily dispose of them. Throughout this Western, the courageous trio faces off against cunning opponents, including the gang's merciless leader (Ian Keith) and an unsuspecting banker (Karl Hackett).
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Westward Bound
Title: Westward Bound
Character: Bob Steele
Released: January 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Learning that Montana is about to become a state and that property values will rise rapidly, Caldwell is using his outlaw gang to force the ranchers off their land.
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Death Valley Rangers
Title: Death Valley Rangers
Character: Bob Steele
Released: December 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in the Trail Blazers (Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele) -- a legendary trio of law enforcers -- to find the gold and figure out who's behind the thefts.
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Revenge of the Zombies
Title: Revenge of the Zombies
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion her relations suspect murder. They also suspect the doctor is turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. However, Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own.
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Riders of the Rio Grande
Title: Riders of the Rio Grande
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
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Santa Fe Scouts
Title: Santa Fe Scouts
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
This late entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" series stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmy Dodd as, respectively, Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Johnson. This time out, the Mesquiteers try to help young Tim Clay (John James), who's been framed for murder by villains who want to gain possession of Clay's ranch property.
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The Blocked Trail
Title: The Blocked Trail
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A horse called Brilliant is the only one who knows the location of a gold mine. When Brilliant's owner is killed, the trio known as the Three Mesquiteers (Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmie Dodd) are mistakenly arrested for the murder.
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Thundering Trails
Title: Thundering Trails
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.
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Valley of Hunted Men
Title: Valley of Hunted Men
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis war criminals may be heading towards the local valley.
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Shadows on the Sage
Title: Shadows on the Sage
Character: 'Tucson' Smith / Curly Joe
Released: August 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck. The Three Mesquiteers, Tucson, Stony, and Lullaby arrive to help Sheriff Lippy fight the outlaws. But when the gang leader Curly Joe captures Tucson and notices the resemblance, he assumes Tucson's identity.
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The Phantom Plainsmen
Title: The Phantom Plainsmen
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1937 the life in out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Captain Marvin herding horses which he sells to Kurt Redman. Marvin will not sell any horses to any army, but the boys find out that Redman is a German agent shipping the horses directly to the Third Reich. When Marvin tries to stop Redman, his son Tad, who is studying medicine in Germany, is arrested and held hostage. Marvin must fire the boys as the sneaky German agents take over the ranch, but the boys will not give up their attempt to stop them.
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Westward Ho
Title: Westward Ho
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
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Raiders of the Range
Title: Raiders of the Range
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: March 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Daggett is out to stop the completion of an oil well. He cheats Foster at poker and then forces him to delay the drilling. But the Mesquiteers are on the job with Lulaby posing as a cleaning lady to get evidence.
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Code of the Outlaw
Title: Code of the Outlaw
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
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West of Cimarron
Title: West of Cimarron
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: December 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and his men are the culprits and join up with Morgan and his men.
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Gauchos of El Dorado
Title: Gauchos of El Dorado
Character: 'Tucson' Smith
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.
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Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Title: Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Character: 'Tucson' Smith
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When the Rangers capture his brother and the jury sentences him to hang, Lemar starts killing the jurists. Then the scoundrels kidnap the Captain's daughter Doris... Written by Tony Fontana
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Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Title: Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
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Gangs of Sonora
Title: Gangs of Sonora
Character: 'Tucson' Smith
Released: July 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
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Saddlemates
Title: Saddlemates
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: May 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both have been riled by someone with a hidden agenda - a renegade chief, who is found to be masquerading as an Army interpreter.
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Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Title: Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where Fuzzy is made Marshal. But Hardy and his outlaw gang control the town and none of the previous Marshals survived for very long.
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Pals of the Pecos
Title: Pals of the Pecos
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: April 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.
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The Great Train Robbery
Title: The Great Train Robbery
Character: Tom Logan
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
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Prairie Pioneers
Title: Prairie Pioneers
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: February 16, 1941
Type: Movie
It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Carlos to take the land over. But Tucson is on the side of Roberto and see's that something is not right with all the trouble they have been having. But the situation turns ugly for Don Ortega when Roberto is set up for a murder he did not commit.
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Billy the Kid's Range War
Title: Billy the Kid's Range War
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy sees the wanted posters and learns of the murders he supposedly committed, he sets out to find the imposter. His sidekick Fuzzy is there to help him but his friend Jeff, now a Marshal, is also after him.
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Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Title: Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
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Lone Star Raiders
Title: Lone Star Raiders
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: December 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders finds Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Bob Steele) and Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) defending elderly rancher "Granny" Phelps (Sarah Padden) from greedy neighbor Henry Martin (George Douglas).
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The Trail Blazers
Title: The Trail Blazers
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Tucson Smith
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
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Billy the Kid in Texas
Title: Billy the Kid in Texas
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being held on a trumped-up murder charge in a Mexico jail. He escapes and meets his pal, Fuzzy Jones, in Corral City, Texas, which is taking a holiday to allow the cowpunchers of the Lazy A Ranch their periodic spree. In the saloon, Billy is recognized by Dave Hendricks and Flash, two the Lazy A's bed men, as the rider who had held them up after they had robbed the express wagon a few hours earlier. Outside, Billy is ambushed and slightly wounded, and is taken to the express office by Jim Morgan where Mary Barton, the local agent, agrees to tend him until the doctor arrives. Billy turns over the loot he took from the outlaws and he is appointed sheriff, with Fuzzy as his deputy. The Lazy A gang brings in a noted gunfighter, Gil Cooper, who turns out to be Billy's brother. Billy, Gil and Fuzzy eventually rout the outlaw gang, and Gil remains behind with Mary as Billy and Fuzzy ride off.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Kid Callahan (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Billy the Kid Outlawed
Title: Billy the Kid Outlawed
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: July 20, 1940
Type: Movie
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...
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The Carson City Kid
Title: The Carson City Kid
Character: Lee Jessup, aka Morgan Reynolds
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.
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Pinto Canyon
Title: Pinto Canyon
Character: Sheriff Bob Hall
Released: April 30, 1940
Type: Movie
In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The leader of the rustlers, rancher Farley (Ted Adams), hires killer Pete Childers (George Cheseboro) to impersonate a deputy sheriff and gain Sheriff Hall's confidence.
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Wild Horse Valley
Title: Wild Horse Valley
Character: Bob Evans
Released: March 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Bob Evans' Arabian stallion is stolen and Bob, with his friend Shag Williams starts on the trail that takes them to the horse ranch owned by Kimball and his daughter Ann, where the stallion is running wild. Baker, the ranch's crooked foreman, is utilizing the stallion as a decoy and, with his henchmen, Raymer and Winton, corrals the mares that follow the stallion in a hidden corral, intending to sell them across the state line.
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Of Mice and Men
Title: Of Mice and Men
Character: Curley
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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El Diablo Rides
Title: El Diablo Rides
Character: Bob
Released: December 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob rides into a border town where he runs into trouble with Lambert and his gang. Herb arrests him claiming he is the outlaw El Diablo. But it was just to save him from Lambert's gang and the two now plan to trap the outlaws.
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The Pal from Texas
Title: The Pal from Texas
Character: Bob Barton
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Pal From Texas features the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal from being swindled by an unscrupulous tavern owner.
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Riders of the Sage
Title: Riders of the Sage
Character: Bob Burke
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from the gang known as the Riders of the Sage.
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Mesquite Buckaroo
Title: Mesquite Buckaroo
Character: Bob Allen
Released: April 30, 1939
Type: Movie
It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
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Smoky Trails
Title: Smoky Trails
Character: Bob Archer
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
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Feud of the Range
Title: Feud of the Range
Character: Bob Gray
Released: January 15, 1939
Type: Movie
In an attempt to drive out settlers of the Los Trancos valley, through which the railroad proposes to run a line, railroad representative Clyde Barton conspires with Dirk to cause a range war between the two largest ranchers, Tom Gray and Harvey Allen.
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Durango Valley Raiders
Title: Durango Valley Raiders
Character: Keene Cordner
Released: August 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The Shadow and his outlaw gang have control of Durango Valley. Keene Cordner arrives, and with the help of Tanner becomes a second Shadow in his attempt to round up the gang.
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Desert Patrol
Title: Desert Patrol
Character: Dave Austin
Released: June 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investigate the crime, only to stumble upon a money-laundering scheme in the works. With one eye on the killer (Ted Adams), Austin tries to unravel the racket. But keeping his true identity under wraps could be a problem. Rex Lease and Marion Weldon co-star in this classic Western from prolific director Sam Newfield.
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The Feud Maker
Title: The Feud Maker
Character: Tex Ryan aka Wind River Kid
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old outlaw boss Lassiter. He learns Lassiter is behind the feud when Lassiter asks him to join up with his gang. Tex refuses and instead sets out to stop the feud but no one will believe him that Lassiter is responsible.
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Thunder in the Desert
Title: Thunder in the Desert
Character: Bob Radford
Released: March 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Bob arrives looking for the killer of his uncle. When the Sheriff chases him and his partner Rusty, Reno thinks they are the men he is looking for and takes them into his gang. There Bob finds his uncle's gun and knows he has found the right gang. However he realizes the gang has an unknown leader and he sets out to find him.
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Paroled - To Die
Title: Paroled - To Die
Character: Doug Redfern
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.
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Colorado Kid
Title: Colorado Kid
Character: Colorado Kid
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Hines kills the Colonel for his money, the Colorado Kid is arrested and then found guilt of the murder. Bibben beaks him out of jail and later identifies some of the bills spent by Hines to have been part of the money stolen from the Colonel. The Kid now knows he is the one he is after and heads out to get a confession.
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Arizona Gunfighter
Title: Arizona Gunfighter
Character: Colt Ferron
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.
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Ridin' the Lone Trail
Title: Ridin' the Lone Trail
Character: Bob McArthur
Released: August 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Trains are being robbed by a gang led by an outlaw on a beautiful white horse. The marshal sent to investigate finds out the horse beings to the girl he's in love with.
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The Red Rope
Title: The Red Rope
Character: Tom Shaw
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two, he alters it hoping it will cause the two outlaws to fight each other.
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Doomed at Sundown
Title: Doomed at Sundown
Character: Dave Austin
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Dave Austin hunts down the varmint who murdered his father in this B Western. Austin tracks killer Jim Hatfield to his hideout, a Mexican cantina where Hatfield and his ruthless gang terrorize the locals. After being deputized, the courageous Austin allows himself to be captured by the gang and devises an ingenious plan to turn the bad guys against one another.
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Border Phantom
Title: Border Phantom
Character: Larry O'Day
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Cowboy Larry O'Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith happen upon a distraught Barbara Hartwell, who is about to be arrested for the murder of her uncle. With Barbara behind bars, Larry is determined to find the real killer and soon finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving crazed German entomologists and a smuggling ring bringing Chinese "picture girls" across the Mexican border for sale to wealthy Chinese bachelors.
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Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Title: Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Character: Dan Stockton
Released: May 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over the homesteaders land when they are wiped out. Rancher Dan Stockton, having just married homesteader Gail Dawson, is caught in the middle. He suspects Bowdre is behind the war and it's not long before he gets a chance to prove it.
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The Trusted Outlaw
Title: The Trusted Outlaw
Character: Dan Ward
Released: May 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Dan Ward, reformed and last member of an outlaw family, meets Molly Clark in a rocky draw near town. Ted Wells, a henchman for Dan's enemy Jim Swain, attempts to shoot Dan but is outdrawn and killed by the latter. Molly disappears and Dan learns that she and Wells had ridden there together. Sheriff Bob Larimer tells Dan that Molly is in love with Bert Gilmore and tried to have him ambushed. Dan takes a risky job with mine owner Pember of getting the $10,000 payroll through to the mine. Swain suspects that Dan is carrying the payroll, but his gang is unable to stop Dan. Betty Pember disregards Dan's warning that the hills are filled with Swain's men and she starts for town. She is kidnapped by Gilmore and Molly and Dan ride to her rescue.
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Lightnin' Crandall
Title: Lightnin' Crandall
Character: Bob Crandall, aka Lightnin' Crandall
Released: March 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.
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The Gun Ranger
Title: The Gun Ranger
Character: Dan Larson
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawman who brings in a killer only to see him freed because of corruption turns in his badge & sets out on his own to rid his town of killers & crooked politicians.
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Cavalry
Title: Cavalry
Character: Ted Thorne
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.
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Brand of the Outlaws
Title: Brand of the Outlaws
Character: Gary Gray
Released: August 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Gary Gray arrives only to be caught up in the rustling activities of Ben Holt and his gang. First Holt brands him for rustling and then frames him for murder. Proven innocent, Gary foils the gang's stage holdup and then heads after Holt whom he now knows to be the real killer. But Holt knows he is coming and waits unseen in ambush. Written by Maurice VanAuken
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The Law Rides
Title: The Law Rides
Character: Bruce Conway
Released: June 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Hank Davis kills Jack Lewis to get his gold mine. Bruce Conway brings him in but then realizes Davis is the only one that knows where the mine is. Bruce and his pal Whitey rescue Davis from the lynch mob only to have Davis' gang catch them and leave them in the desert to die.
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Last of the Warrens
Title: Last of the Warrens
Character: Ted Warren
Released: May 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who intercepted his mail, rustled the Warren cattle, took over the Warren ranch, and is now after Ted's girl friend. When Kent's henchmen fail to kill Ted, Kent shoots Ted's father and leaves him for dead. But only wounded, the plan is to have Warren appear as a ghost to get a confession from Kent.
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The Kid Ranger
Title: The Kid Ranger
Character: Ray Burton
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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Trail of Terror
Title: Trail of Terror
Character: Spike Manning
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rejoin the gang. Muggs is the only one who knows where the stolen money is hidden and Manning is after it.
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Alias John Law
Title: Alias John Law
Character: Everett Tarkington 'John' Clark
Released: November 4, 1935
Type: Movie
John Clark (Bob Steele) and his deaf pal, Bootch Collum (Buck Connors), are trailed by U. S. Marshal Lamar Bly (Jack Rockwell)...
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The Rider of the Law
Title: The Rider of the Law
Character: Bob Marlow
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing as an Eastern dude, and, through a series of incidents manages to get rid of three of the brothers, mostly through their own ineptness. The remaining brothers decide to get-while-the-gettin'-is good, rob the bank and head for the Mexican border. But Bob isn't far behind.
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Powdersmoke Range
Title: Powdersmoke Range
Character: Jeff Ferguson aka Guadalupe Kid
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
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No Man's Range
Title: No Man's Range
Character: Jim Hale
Released: September 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Summoned by Ed Oliver, Jim Hale and sidekick Fuzz arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war in progress. Unknown to Jim, Ed Brady has kidnapped Oliver and replaced him with a stooge. Brady is after the Green ranch and Jim and Fuzz now set out to help Helen Green.
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Sundown Saunders
Title: Sundown Saunders
Character: Jim Sundown Saunders
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When Sundown wins a horse race he is paid with a deed to a ranch. Arriving at the ranch he finds the Prestons already living there. They bought it from the fake land agent Taggart who then frames Sundown for murder.
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Tombstone Terror
Title: Tombstone Terror
Character: Jimmy Dixon / Duke Dixon
Released: April 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Jimmy Dixon, pursued by a band of Mexicans, changes clothes with a tramp, who takes off on his horse. Four miles later, Jimmy walks onto the Double-O Ranch, from which he had been thrown off four years before by his dad, who had blamed Jimmy for something that his twin brother Duke had done. Duke, home from college, took over the ranch when Mr. Dixon became ill, and has run it into the ground. When Duke goes to the bank to repay a debt to Jimmy, he rides onto Phoenix with all of the ranch money.
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Smokey Smith
Title: Smokey Smith
Character: Smokey Smith
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while traveling with a wagon train that is attacked by outlaws. Smokey swears revenge but his only possible chance lies in finding the member of the border-gang who took a ring from his father's finger. The sheriff (Earl Dwire) of a nearby border town makes Smokey a deputy after the latter saves his life when outlaws attack a stagecoach the sheriff is escorting. This enables Smokey to find the hideout of the gang that killed his parents, and he, posing as a wanted man, is able to join the gang. He soon incurs the wrath of gang-member Kent(Warner Richmond), who is jealous over the attention that Bess Bart (Mary Kornman, step-daughter of the gang-leader, "Blaze" Bart (George 'Gabby' Hayes), is showing Smokey.
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Bob Neal
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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Kid Courageous
Title: Kid Courageous
Character: Bob Bannister
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
The man Bannister has sent to investigate the trouble at his mine has disappeared. This time his son Bob goes, quickly learning that Kincade is the culprit. Kincade has been taking gold from the mine and now plans to kidnap Teresa and skip across the border.
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Western Justice
Title: Western Justice
Character: Jim / Ace
Released: December 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Three men, each on their individual quest, meet at a deserted cabin and take the assumed names of Ace, King, and Jack.
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The Brand of Hate
Title: The Brand of Hate
Character: Rod Camp
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.
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A Demon for Trouble
Title: A Demon for Trouble
Character: Bob Worth
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and gets blamed for the murder. Fleeing from the Sheriff, Bob teams up with the Mexican outlaw Golinda. Having seen Dyer pay off his men, he has a plan to trap him and Golinda is just the man he needs to make it work.
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The Mystery Squadron
Title: The Mystery Squadron
Character: Fred Cromwell
Released: December 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
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Ranger's Code
Title: Ranger's Code
Character: Bob Baxter
Released: August 14, 1933
Type: Movie
When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a Ranger's badge and a delivery to town of the rustlers.
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Galloping Romeo
Title: Galloping Romeo
Character: Bob Rivers
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers and Grizzly get the jop driving the stage, the same thing happens.
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The Gallant Fool
Title: The Gallant Fool
Character: Kit Denton
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
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Trailing North
Title: Trailing North
Character: Lee Evans aka Curly the Kid
Released: May 15, 1933
Type: Movie
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.
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Breed of the Border
Title: Breed of the Border
Character: Speed Brent
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds. Brent's old friend Chuck arrives and the two head out to find the gang and recover the bonds.
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The Fighting Champ
Title: The Fighting Champ
Character: Brick Loring
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Steele gets into a fight with a ranch foreman, knocking the foreman out. The foreman was supposed to represent the ranch in a prize fight with a middleweight champion. Now Steele finds himself in the fight of his life.
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Young Blood
Title: Young Blood
Character: Nick aka The Kid
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
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Texas Buddies
Title: Texas Buddies
Character: Ted Garner
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, Ted takes over as pilot figuring another attempt will be made and this time the Sheriff will be there.
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Hidden Valley
Title: Hidden Valley
Character: Bob Harding
Released: October 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Cowboy is hired by an archaeologist to help find "Hidden Valley", where an Indian gold treasure is supposed to be buried. Just when he finds it, the archaeologist is killed, and the cowboy his charged with his murder.
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Son of Oklahoma
Title: Son of Oklahoma
Character: Dan Clayton
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Verdugo finds a young boy on the desert and raises him as his son. Now a grown man, Dan is framed for a stagecoach robbery by Brent, the same man that shot his father and tried to take him and his mother away twenty years earlier.
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Title: The Man from Hell's Edges
Character: Bob Williams aka 'Flash' Manning
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
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Riders of the Desert
Title: Riders of the Desert
Character: Bob Houston
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride. They go after the outlaw gang led by Hashknife. They catch Hashknife, but he escapes taking Barbara with him and Bob and Slim have to go after him again.
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Law of the West
Title: Law of the West
Character: Bob Carruthers, alias Bob Morgan
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arrives in the valley where Morgan, his gang, and the now grown Bob hide. After Morgan shoots Tracy, he tells Bob that Carruthers did it and sends Bob out after him. But unknown to Bob, Morgan has put blanks in his gun.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Tom Keene
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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Near the Trail's End
Title: Near the Trail's End
Character: Marshal Johnny Day
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When Johnny Day arrives and takes an interest in Jane, Morgan tries to kick him out. Johnny refuses to go and the stage is set for a showdown.
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The Nevada Buckaroo
Title: The Nevada Buckaroo
Character: Buck Hurley, aka The Nevada Kid
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
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The Ridin' Fool
Title: The Ridin' Fool
Character: Steve Kendall
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
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The Sunrise Trail
Title: The Sunrise Trail
Character: Texas, aka Tex
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.
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Headin' North
Title: Headin' North
Character: Jim Curtis
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
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The Land of Missing Men
Title: The Land of Missing Men
Character: Steve O'Neil
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot head for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. The townspeople head after them not knowing what they will find.
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The Oklahoma Cyclone
Title: The Oklahoma Cyclone
Character: Jim Smith aka The Oklahoma Cyclone
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible.
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The Oklahoma Sheriff
Title: The Oklahoma Sheriff
Released: July 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter's boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the sheriff in a robbery. Boyfriend saves the dough, captures the murderer, and gets the girl.
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Near the Rainbow's End
Title: Near the Rainbow's End
Character: Jim Bledsoe
Released: June 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep ranchers Tug Wilson and Buck Rankin, suggesting that they hope to end their recent loss of cattle. Rankin (not Rankins) shoots Tug, who is unaware of Rankin's lawless activities, in an argument and Jim is accused of murder and also stampeding the sheep. Believing Jim is guilty, Tug's daughter, Ruth, aids Buck in capturing Jim, but he escapes. Ruth gets help from Sheriff Hank Bosley, and a sheepherder, Sanchez, reveals Rankin's responsibility for both the rustling of Bledsoe's cattle and the killing of Wilson.
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Western Honor
Title: Western Honor
Character: Bob
Released: May 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Bob Steele is a young rancher who refuses to give in to a gang that is seeking to deprive he and his partner of the contract for supplying cattle to a railroad construction camp. And the gang-leader also has his eye on Bob's sweetheart, Ione Reed.
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The Man from Nowhere
Title: The Man from Nowhere
Character: Terry Norton
Released: April 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde niece. Everything ends okay after one killing.
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The Hunted Men
Title: The Hunted Men
Character: Dick Stockdale
Released: April 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Spitzer wants the Gordon ranch, so he has his men waylay and rob him as he returns with money. Dick finding the body also finds a blood soaked money wrapper, a clue that will help him find the culprits.
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Breezy Bill
Title: Breezy Bill
Character: Breezy Bill
Released: January 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher.
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A Texas Cowboy
Title: A Texas Cowboy
Character: Dick Carlysle
Released: December 26, 1929
Type: Movie
Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get the Carlysle ranch. First Kettle gets Bennett to forge a letter saying Dick relinquishes his inheritance in the ranch and then he tries to get Dick's mother to relinquish hers.
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The Cowboy and the Outlaw
Title: The Cowboy and the Outlaw
Character: George Hardcastle
Released: October 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer
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The Invaders
Title: The Invaders
Released: October 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Two children--a brother and sister--are the only survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and are soon separated. An army officer adopts the boy, and the girl is taken to live with Indians and renamed Black Fawn. When the boy grows up he joins the cavalry and finds himself in the middle of an Indian war as he searches for his long-lost sister.
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Laughing at Death
Title: Laughing at Death
Character: Bob Thornton
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
One of the doubles is the prince of the mythical country of Libania, while the other is a down-to-earth college student, working his way through school as a ship's stoker. Inevitably, the stoker poses as the prince to save the latter from political assassins
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The Amazing Vagabond
Title: The Amazing Vagabond
Character: Jimmy Hobbs
Released: April 7, 1929
Type: Movie
A wealthy scion toughens up in a rough-and-tumble lumber camp when he is forced to defend Phil Dunning and his daughter from the brutal George Hobbs
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Come and Get It!
Title: Come and Get It!
Character: Breezy Smith
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
When Breezy's father is accused of murdering his neighbor, the former Navy boxing champ takes to the street to clear his name.
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Headin' for Danger
Title: Headin' for Danger
Character: Jimmy Marshall
Released: December 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Headin' for Danger is a 1928 Western
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Captain Careless
Title: Captain Careless
Character: Bob Gordon
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Captain Careless is a 1928 film
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Lightning Speed
Title: Lightning Speed
Character: Jack Pemberton
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falls in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet is attempting to kidnap Betty in order to force her father to pardon a relative on death row.
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Trail of Courage
Title: Trail of Courage
Character: Tex Reeves
Released: July 8, 1928
Type: Movie
A cowhand is fired for romancing the boss' daughter in this bantam-weight silent Western from assembly-line studio FBO.
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Man in the Rough
Title: Man in the Rough
Character: Bruce Sherwood
Released: May 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Attempting to warn an old prospector and his daughter of impending danger from a notorious outlaw, diminutive but tough Bruce Sherwood is himself mistaken for a bandit.
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Breed of the Sunsets
Title: Breed of the Sunsets
Character: Jim Collins
Released: April 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Lovely senorita Maria Alvaro is rescued from a gunshot wedding to foppish Senor Valdez practically on the steps to the church by daredevil rider Jim Collins.
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The Riding Renegade
Title: The Riding Renegade
Character: Bob Taylor
Released: February 19, 1928
Type: Movie
A disgraced son of a sheriff is adopted by an Indian tribe after saving the son of a chief.
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Sliding Home
Title: Sliding Home
Character: Student (as Robert Bradbury Jr.)
Released: January 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Sliding Home is a 1928 Comedy short
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Driftin' Sands
Title: Driftin' Sands
Character: 'Driftin' Sands
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. Driftin', of course, falls for the lady and is immediately banished from the ranch.
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The Bandit's Son
Title: The Bandit's Son
Character: Bob McCall
Released: November 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Bob McCall, a young cowboy, tries to save his outlaw father from being lynched for a crime he didn't commit.
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The Mojave Kid
Title: The Mojave Kid
Character: Bob Saunders
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A cowboy searchs for his mysteriously vanished father.
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With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
Title: With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
Character: Bob Keefe (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Released: June 14, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of a controversial white settlement in 1860s Spirit Lake, Iowa. Unbowed by the encroachment, Chief Sitting Bull vows to reclaim the land of his fathers. A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as Sitting Bull.
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The College Boob
Title: The College Boob
Character: Shorty Buzelle (as Bob Bradbury Jr.)
Released: August 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Ally Appleby is a country boy headed for the college campus, courtesy of his Aunt Polly and Uncle Lish. They're financing his education providing that he stay away from sports. Before his train even arrives at its destination, he earns the enmity of senior Horatio Winston. Winston is determined to make Appleby into the college boob and his plan is working until pretty coed Angel Boothby reveals the plot.
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Title: With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Character: 'Pinky' Smith
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent film of the events of The Alamo
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With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Title: With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Character: Jim Bryan
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.
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Just Plain Folks
Title: Just Plain Folks
Released: February 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister.
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The Opossum
Title: The Opossum
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
The Opossum is a Western short
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Mysterious Tracks
Title: Mysterious Tracks
Released: March 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Mysterious Tracks is a Silent Western short.
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Dangerous Trails
Title: Dangerous Trails
Character: Bob
Released: February 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Dangerous Trails is a 1922 Adventure film
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A Day in the Wilds
Title: A Day in the Wilds
Character: Bob
Released: November 12, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers enjoy exploring the wilds and sighting different animals, ending their day with some impromptu fishing.
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The Skunk
Title: The Skunk
Character: Bob
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The young trappers are taken by surprise when these bold scavengers invade their cabin.
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The Civet Cat
Title: The Civet Cat
Character: Bob
Released: September 12, 1921
Type: Movie
The Civet Cat
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The American Badger
Title: The American Badger
Character: Bob
Released: July 21, 1921
Type: Movie
Bob and Bill go on a camping trip. While setting up camp, they encounter a young badger. They capture it and manage to learn quite a bit about its life and habitat.
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Catching a Coon
Title: Catching a Coon
Character: Bob
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Catching a Coon
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Outwitting the Timber Wolf
Title: Outwitting the Timber Wolf
Released: March 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Outwitting the Timber Wolf
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Trapping the Wildcat
Title: Trapping the Wildcat
Character: Bob
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
The brothers set out from their camp to trap the destructive and predatory bobcat.
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Trapping the Coyote
Title: Trapping the Coyote
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The boys are after the hated predatory prowler.
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Catching a Fox
Title: Catching a Fox
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers practice their skills by trapping a cunning fox.
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Trapping the Mountain Lion
Title: Trapping the Mountain Lion
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts.The brothers are after the dangerous cougar because the large bounty on the large cat.
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Trailing the Coyote
Title: Trailing the Coyote
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The boys are after the hated predatory prowler.
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Capturing a Canadian Lynx
Title: Capturing a Canadian Lynx
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers decide to help the local zoo by capturing a lynx and aim to impress their neighbor Ina May.
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Trapping The Bob Cat
Title: Trapping The Bob Cat
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. The brothers set out from their camp to trap the destructive and predatory bobcat.
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Catching a Koala Bear
Title: Catching a Koala Bear
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
One of The Adventures of Bill and Bob shorts. Mysterious tracks lead to unexpected and exotic catch.
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The Adventures of Bob and Bill
Title: The Adventures of Bob and Bill
Character: Bob
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The Adventures of Bob and Bill