Rex Bell

Rex Bell

Born: October 16, 1903
Died: July 4, 1962
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Rex Bell...

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Title: Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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The Misfits
Title: The Misfits
Character: Old Cowboy (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
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Title: Cowboys & Injuns
Released: October 15, 1950
Type: TV
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Jack Carson
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Title: Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Character: Virgil Earp
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
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Stormy Trails
Title: Stormy Trails
Character: Tom Storm
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
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Law and Lead
Title: Law and Lead
Character: Jimmy Sawyer
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy hears rumors that an old friend who once headed a criminal gang and had since gone straight is now back on the wrong side of the law. He goes to investigate.
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Men of the Plains
Title: Men of the Plains
Character: Jim Dean - aka Tom Porter
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The Government sends Dean, Baxter, and Gordon to investigate a series of train holdups. Travis is behind the robberies and they are soon on his trail. When things get hot, Travis has a plan of double-crossing his own men that will enable him to keep not only his gold but also the money it is insured for.
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The Idaho Kid
Title: The Idaho Kid
Character: Todd Hollister aka Idaho
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.
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West of Nevada
Title: West of Nevada
Character: Jim Carden, posing as Jim Lloyd
Released: July 21, 1936
Type: Movie
When a gang tries to rob Haldain, Jim and Walla Walla break it up. Haldain is carrying stuffed animals and Jim's suspicion that they are stuffed with gold is soon confirmed. The gang's boss is banker Cutting and he is after Haldain's gold. He also receives Jim's mail at his bank and changes one of Jim's letters to make it look like Jim is after the gold. His sends Haldain's daughter after her father thereby leading the gang to the secret gold field.
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Too Much Beef
Title: Too Much Beef
Character: Johnny Argyle alias Tucson Smith
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Someone is adding beef to Rocky Brown's herds and changing the brands to make it look like he is rustling. Then he is framed for murder and jailed. Johnny Argyle who has been sent to investigate believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it and starts with hides that have been rebranded.
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Saddle Aces
Title: Saddle Aces
Character: Steve Brandt
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two prisoners, Steve Brandt and Nick Montana, chained to each other, escape by jumping from the train that brought them to the penitentiary. Persued, they hide in the carriage with Jane Langton. Arriving at her ranch, they discover that she is fighting against a Pete Sutton, who wants to take her pasture. Not wanting to confront, Sutton offers the two escapees help by assisting them move to Mexico.
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Fighting Pioneers
Title: Fighting Pioneers
Character: Lieutenant Bentley
Released: May 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Driving off an Indian attack, the soldiers capture one of the Indian rifles only to learn that it came from their own warehouse. With Lieutenant Bentley and Sergeant Luke having the only keys to the guns, Bentley finds himself under suspicion and starts to investigate.
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The Tonto Kid
Title: The Tonto Kid
Character: 'Skeets" Slawson aka The Tonto Kid
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid finds platinum on the ranch, Creech frames him for murder.
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Gunfire
Title: Gunfire
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
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Rainbow Ranch
Title: Rainbow Ranch
Character: Ed "Tex" Randall
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
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The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: Joe Kean
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
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Fighting Texans
Title: Fighting Texans
Character: Randy Graves
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and gets job selling oil stock in a nearby town; there he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter and tangles with crooked stock promoters.
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Crashing Broadway
Title: Crashing Broadway
Character: Tad Wallace
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
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Diamond Trail
Title: Diamond Trail
Character: 'Speed' Morgan, posing as Frisco Eddie
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster. Flash and his gang head west guning for Bill Miller who failed to send some diamonds on to Flash. Speed hopes to bring Flash to justice but is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
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Lucky Larrigan
Title: Lucky Larrigan
Character: Craig Larrigan
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.
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The Man from Arizona
Title: The Man from Arizona
Character: Kent Rogers
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
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Broadway to Cheyenne
Title: Broadway to Cheyenne
Character: 'Breezy' Kildare
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
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The Arm of the Law
Title: The Arm of the Law
Character: Robin Dale, a Reporter
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Jimmy Burke
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Battling with Buffalo Bill
Title: Battling with Buffalo Bill
Character: Dave Archer
Released: November 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.
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Disappearing Enemies
Title: Disappearing Enemies
Character: Paul
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
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Lightnin'
Title: Lightnin'
Character: Larry - Betty's Husband
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
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True to the Navy
Title: True to the Navy
Character: Eddie
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
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Courage
Title: Courage
Character: Lynn Willard
Released: May 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. Bennett, who is unversed in financial matters, soon faces poverty for herself and her children. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender (played by Richard Tucker), who is so impressed by the charm and valiant spirit of Bennett than he neglects to ask her for collateral. Bennett, however, is only able to partially pay her creditors. Marion Nixon, Bennett's eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother's actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Tucker in order to clear her mother's obligations, even though she is engaged to marry a well to do Harvard undergraduate, played by Rex Bell. This film is believed lost.
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Harmony at Home
Title: Harmony at Home
Character: Dick Grant
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
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They Had to See Paris
Title: They Had to See Paris
Character: Clark McCurdy
Released: September 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Rex Bell
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
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Salute
Title: Salute
Character: Cadet (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
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Joy Street
Title: Joy Street
Released: May 12, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Cowboy Kid
Title: The Cowboy Kid
Character: Jim Barrett
Released: July 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.