Hoot Gibson

Hoot Gibson

Birthday: 1892-08-05

Place of Birth: Tekamah, Nebraska, USA

Biography: Hoot Gibson was a colorful figure, a light-hearted, fun-loving personality on screen and off. Hoot’s cheerful westerns included a significant amount of comedy. His mild, peaceful character rarely carried a gun. As an expert horseman, Hoot was always impressive on a galloping horse. Gibson’s film career began in 1910 with a few films for the Biograph Company interspersed among rodeo competitions. In 1914 he was a stuntman for the serial The Hazards of Helen, doubling the serial’s star Helen Holmes. His stunts included fights on trains and transfers from a train to a horse. He had supporting roles in numerous Western short films, including playing the villain in A Knight of the Range (1916) opposite popular western star Harry Carey. He appeared in three of the Westerns made by Carey and director John Ford in 1917: Straight Shooting, The Secret Man, and A Marked Man. Hoot’s starring career at Universal Studios was launched in two films directed by Ford, Action (1921) and Sure Fire (1921). In these films, Hoot plays a wandering cowboy who rescues the pretty young co-star from outlaws. Hoot became a popular western star for Universal. Film titles such as Ridin’ Wild (1922), Thrill Chaser (1923), Hit and Run (1924), Hurricane Kid (1925), and Galloping Fury (1927) guaranteed Hoot’s fans five reels of action and fun. Hoot’s easygoing approach gave his films a lighthearted tone. A deft comedian, he featured as much comedy as drama. As talkies arrived, Hoot continued as a Western star, but with lower budget producers such as M.H. Hoffman Inc. (distributed on a state rights basis by Allied Pictures Corporation) and Walker Futter Productions (Diversion Pictures). In 1935, Hoot co-starred with Harry Carey in Powdersmoke Range, advertised by RKO as the "Barnum and Bailey of Westerns" (whatever that means). The cast list of this "all star" (B western stars) film included Bob Steele, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Tom Tyler, William Farnum, and other Westerners from the silent era. In 1937 at Republic, he made a serial, The Painted Stallion, in support of new cowboy star Ray Corrigan. An aging Hoot retained his fine horsemanship and comic flair, but fan interest had moved to the new singing cowboys, especially Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Hoot’s Westerns had lost their appeal. In the late thirties, out of movies, Hoot toured with circuses and appeared at rodeos and fairs. In 1943, after seven years off the screen, Hoot returned in the Trail Blazer series at Monogram Studios. In these Westerns, Marshall Hoot Gibson, initially co-starred with Ken Maynard and later with Bob Steele and Chief Thundercloud, upholds the law and captures outlaws and crooked businessmen threatening the lives and property of innocent citizens. Hoot made eleven Trail Blazer films; the last was Trigger Law (1944). John Ford brought Hoot back for a cameo role in The Horse Soldiers (1959). His last screen appearance was as a sheriff’s deputy in Ocean’s Eleven (1960), another cameo.

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Burning the Wind
Burning the Wind

Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love....

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Sure Fire
Sure Fire

The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about...

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The Fire Eater
The Fire Eater

Partners "Smilin' Bob" Corey and Jim O'Neil are forest rangers sent to peacefully "penetrate" Paradi...

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Spurs
Spurs

Bob Merril, looking for the killer of Buddy's father, has found the secret entrance to Pecos' hideou...

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The Denver Dude
The Denver Dude

A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress ...

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40-Horse Hawkins
40-Horse Hawkins

Luke Hawkins, the jack-of-all-trades of the western town of Lariat, falls in love with Mary Darling,...

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Ride for Your Life
Ride for Your Life

Bud Watkins loses his ranch and savings to gambling house proprietor "Gentlemen Jim" Slade. The Coco...

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The Man from the East
The Man from the East

Tom Bates is living in the city enjoying a liberal fortune left him by an uncle recently deceased. W...

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The Telltale Knife
The Telltale Knife

Mabel Madden, thrown upon her own resources, inherits a saloon from her father. She is somewhat infa...

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Ridin' Wild
Ridin' Wild

Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeop...

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Let 'er Buck
Let 'er Buck

A young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry. However, t...

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The Silent Rider
The Silent Rider

Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Fa...

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Galloping Fury
Galloping Fury

Billy Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed w...

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Life in Hollywood No. 3
Life in Hollywood No. 3

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

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The Horse Soldiers
The Horse Soldiers

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....

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His Only Son
His Only Son

Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place ...

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Cavalcade of the West
Cavalcade of the West

Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other t...

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The Flyin' Cowboy
The Flyin' Cowboy

Rodeo king Bill Hammon invites the owner of a Wild West show to give an exhibition at the ranch. A p...

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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings

Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony cere...

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A Knight of the Range
A Knight of the Range

Unaware of the weakness of Bob Graham's character, Bess Dawson decides to marry him instead of the o...

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The Passing of Hell's Crown
The Passing of Hell's Crown

Hell's Crown, a town where law and order are as scarce as preachers, is ruled by "Chuck" Wells, a fo...

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The Wedding Guest
The Wedding Guest

The sheriff of the county is elected by men who call him the "squarest sheriff alive." Panchita Garc...

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Cowboy Sports and Pastimes
Cowboy Sports and Pastimes

Ed Gibson and Bertha Blanchard are featured in sensational riding on unbroken horses....

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A Four-Footed Hero
A Four-Footed Hero

Jack, Alice and Dandy are a well assorted trio. Jack is handsome, Alice sweet and Dandy is the best ...

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In the Secret Service
In the Secret Service

General Gordon, of the Federal army, receives a message from General Grant, telling him to intercept...

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The New Superintendent
The New Superintendent

James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough elemen...

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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Kid Pink and the Maharajah

A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaratio...

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Shotgun Jones
Shotgun Jones

Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cat...

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The Hazards of Helen
The Hazards of Helen

The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes...

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Buckshot John
Buckshot John

A sheriff and his posse shoot it out with a gang of robbers headed by Bad Jake Kennedy. The survivin...

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Stampede in the Night
Stampede in the Night

Old man Wilson is much inclined to a liberal use of liquor. His daughter. Nell, is known and liked b...

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The Death Train
The Death Train

The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is...

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In Danger's Path
In Danger's Path

Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she cho...

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The Capture of Red Stanley
The Capture of Red Stanley

Red Stanley's band has successfully robbed the express car and the members are making good their esc...

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The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine

Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same tr...

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The Ring of Destiny
The Ring of Destiny

Jack and Dolly, his sister, live together in the west. On Jack's birthday, Dolly presents him with a...

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The Mysterious Cipher
The Mysterious Cipher

Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defraudi...

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The Voice on the Wire
The Voice on the Wire

A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters....

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The Night Riders
The Night Riders

Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator a...

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A 44-Calibre Mystery
A 44-Calibre Mystery

A 44-Calibre Mystery is a Silent Western short....

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The Golden Bullet
The Golden Bullet

A bandit tries to incriminate an innocent man for his own crimes....

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The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man

A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits....

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The Painted Stallion
The Painted Stallion

American federal agent Clark Stuart is on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with t...

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Clearing the Range
Clearing the Range

A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother....

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Frontier Justice
Frontier Justice

When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on ...

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Wild Horse
Wild Horse

Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is aw...

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The Hard Hombre
The Hard Hombre

When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the H...

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Roarin' Dan
Roarin' Dan

The girl is a school teacher in a cattle town, the hero a rather wild cowboy of good intentions but ...

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West Is Best
West Is Best

Josephine is called to her Western home from an Eastern college and brings a party of girls with her...

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The Sheriff's Oath
The Sheriff's Oath

The Sheriff's Oath is a 1920 silent western....

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Runnin' Straight
Runnin' Straight

A young slum-reared fellow makes good with a man who befriends him and then sacrifices his good name...

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Hair Trigger Stuff
Hair Trigger Stuff

Hair Trigger Stuff is a 1920 silent Western....

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The Texas Kid
The Texas Kid

The Texas Kid is a 1920 silent Western....

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Held Up for the Makin's
Held Up for the Makin's

Showing the difficulties that could occur if smoking is prohibited....

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Masked
Masked

The "Black Hound" band of desperadoes abduct a candidate for governor and demand a heavy ransom for ...

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The Shootin' Kid
The Shootin' Kid

The Shootin' Kid is a 1920 silent Western short...

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Wolf Tracks
Wolf Tracks

Wolf Tracks is a 1920 silent Western...

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The Broncho Kid
The Broncho Kid

A young rancher rides away on a half-broken broncho. He is suspected of horse stealing and pursued, ...

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The Champion Liar
The Champion Liar

A breezy young Westerner loves to talk and tells some "whoppers" for humorous purposes. This get him...

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Thieves' Clothes
Thieves' Clothes

A ranchman sets fire to his trousers with a cigarette. In the morning the hotel attendant furnishes ...

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The Smilin' Kid
The Smilin' Kid

The Smilin' Kid is a 1920 silent Western short....

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The Winged Horseman
The Winged Horseman

Skyball Smith is a Texas Ranger, assigned to investigate a series of ranch bombings....

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Hit and Run
Hit and Run

Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat ...

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The Big Catch
The Big Catch

The Big Catch is a 1920 silent Western...

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The Sawdust Trail
The Sawdust Trail

Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show...

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The Cowboy Counsellor
The Cowboy Counsellor

A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he ha...

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The Shootin' Fool
The Shootin' Fool

The Shootin' Fool sometimes known as Some Shooter is a 1920 silent Western short....

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The Tell-Tale Wire
The Tell-Tale Wire

The Tell Tale Wire is a 1919 silent Western...

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A Trick of Hearts
A Trick of Hearts

In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue fi...

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Clearing the Trail
Clearing the Trail

A lawman and a rancher fight a gang of horse thieves....

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Riding for Fame
Riding for Fame

A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his bo...

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Play Straight or Fight
Play Straight or Fight

Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who ha...

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Courtin' Wildcats
Courtin' Wildcats

College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he find...

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Painted Ponies
Painted Ponies

A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, wi...

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The Wild West Show
The Wild West Show

"Rodeo" Bill is a hard-nosed, fun-loving cowboy who likes a lot of action and will go out of his way...

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The Danger Rider
The Danger Rider

Hal Doyle, son of the prison warden, falls in love with a portrait of Mollie Dare, who runs a reform...

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The Midnight Flyer
The Midnight Flyer

One of two former convicts is the brother of a girl station agent. The second ex-convict tries to bl...

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The Branded Man
The Branded Man

A group of law-abiding cowboys work together to drive cattle rustlers off their range....

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His Buddy
His Buddy

The efforts of an elder brother, who is sheriff, to save the younger from a lynching, the latter hav...

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The Four-Bit Man
The Four-Bit Man

The Four-Bit Man is a silent Western short....

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The Lone Hand
The Lone Hand

A government detective poses as a holdup, on the trail of masked riders....

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The Black Horse Bandit
The Black Horse Bandit

Helen's father, the sheriff, is murdered and she successfully undertakes the task of bringing his mu...

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Trigger Tricks
Trigger Tricks

Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's she...

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The Fighting Heart
The Fighting Heart

The Fighting Heart is a 1919 silent Western short....

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The Jack of Hearts
The Jack of Hearts

The Jack of Hearts is a 1919 silent Western....

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Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come

A child picked up on the desert by the cowboy hero is brought to town on the eve of prohibition enfo...

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Danger, Go Slow
Danger, Go Slow

Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "th...

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Ace High
Ace High

Ace High is a silent Western short....

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The Mounted Stranger
The Mounted Stranger

A boy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers....

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The Crow
The Crow

The Crow is a 1919 Western short....

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The Trail of the Holdup Man
The Trail of the Holdup Man

A cowboy commits a series of hold-ups near a big hotel for advertising purposes, being a sort of ban...

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The Face in the Watch
The Face in the Watch

The Face in the Watch is a 1919 silent Western....

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The Double Hold-Up
The Double Hold-Up

The hero impersonates a "spook" bandit and aids in bringing the band to justice....

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The Lone Hand
The Lone Hand

Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, b...

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A Gamblin' Fool
A Gamblin' Fool

A man unconsciously borrows a bandit's yellow slicker and is temporarily under suspicion as a result...

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Trimmed
Trimmed

Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his townsmen. C...

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The Fightin' Terror
The Fightin' Terror

The Fightin' Terror is a 1920 silent Western....

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The Jay Bird
The Jay Bird

The hero makes good with the bank president by preventing a robbery and thus wins the daughter's han...

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The Grinning Granger
The Grinning Granger

The Grinning Granger is a 1920 Western short...

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One Law for All
One Law for All

The making of an American out of a resident of some other country....

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'in Wrong' Wright
'in Wrong' Wright

'in Wrong' Wright is a 1920 Western short....

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Cinders
Cinders

A cowboy's flirtations with a lady on a passing train get him into trouble with his sweetheart....

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Double Danger
Double Danger

Mr. Dawson can't pay the balance of a note owned by the villain, so the villain demands his daughter...

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Marked Trails
Marked Trails

This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks...

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Lucky Terror
Lucky Terror

A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner....

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The Two-Fisted Lover
The Two-Fisted Lover

The hero befriends a young school teacher, who adopts a child at his suggestion. The real father of ...

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Step on It!
Step on It!

Brother of Lorraine Leighton is falsely accused of rustling and murder and shipped off to jail. Desp...

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The Loaded Door
The Loaded Door

Bert Lyons returns to the Grainger spread from the "outside world" to find his former employer dead ...

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The Galloping Kid
The Galloping Kid

Cowboy Simplex Cox, now a drifter and odd-job seeker, lands the assignment of chaperoning the pretty...

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Kindled Courage
Kindled Courage

Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots ...

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The Gentleman from America
The Gentleman from America

Two Army buddies, Dennis O'Shane and Johnny Day, decide to take their furlough in Paris but instead ...

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Single Handed
Single Handed

Hector MacKnight, known to the townspeople as "Goofy" and an irritatingly terrible fiddler, is innoc...

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Dead Game
Dead Game

"Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to ...

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Double Dealing
Double Dealing

The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his pro...

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Shootin' for Love
Shootin' for Love

Duke Travis returns from the war suffering from shell shock and an inordinate fear of guns. His fath...

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Out of Luck
Out of Luck

Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot...

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Blinky
Blinky

Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed...

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The Ramblin' Kid
The Ramblin' Kid

The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her aft...

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A Man's Land
A Man's Land

Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and h...

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Broadway or Bust
Broadway or Bust

Virginia Redding inherits a fortune and goes to New York, leaving behind her suitor Dave, a rancher....

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Tipped Off
Tipped Off

Ranchmen try to play a joke on one of their associates by signing his name to a letter addressed to ...

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Hook and Ladder
Hook and Ladder

Cowboy Ace Cooper, to avoid arrest, becomes a fireman, falls in love with the chief's daughter, Sall...

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The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who kille...

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The Hurricane Kid
The Hurricane Kid

The Hurricane Kid runs afoul of Colonel Langdon's ranch foreman, Lafe Baxter when Joan Langdon shows...

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The Two Brothers
The Two Brothers

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born ...

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The Phantom Bullet
The Phantom Bullet

When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the ki...

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A Hero on Horseback
A Hero on Horseback

A chronic gambler whose addiction has lost him his ranch. On the verge of total bustitude, he discov...

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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Hey! Hey! Cowboy

A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by...

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The Local Bad Man
The Local Bad Man

The Murdock's bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money p...

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The Stranger
The Stranger

A stranger rides into a little town on his white horse, where he finds plenty of excitement and a lo...

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Superstition
Superstition

The hero is affected in his daily life by petty superstitious fears, which gives the heroine an idea...

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The Man with a Punch
The Man with a Punch

The inaptly named Peace City is held in a grip of fear by the corrupt Sheriff Sellers. The benevolen...

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Fight It Out
Fight It Out

Cowpoke Sandy Adams overhears a plot to frame rancher Duncan McKenna for a rash of cattle rustlings ...

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The Brand Blotter
The Brand Blotter

The Brand Blotter is a 1920 silent Western....

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The Saddle King
The Saddle King

A broken-down cowboy applies for work at one of the Western ranches. The boss agrees to hire the wan...

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The Trail of the Hound
The Trail of the Hound

The Trail of the Hound is a 1920 silent Western....

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The Driftin' Kid
The Driftin' Kid

A "drifting" cowpuncher tries to find a place where he can be happy, but never actually succeeding....

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Winning a Home
Winning a Home

Winning a Home is a 1920 film...

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Sweet Revenge
Sweet Revenge

Hoot is the only cattleman in the neighborhood and he is about to be run off the range by the wealth...

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Double Crossers
Double Crossers

Double Crossers is a 1921 silent film....

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The Fightin' Fury
The Fightin' Fury

A villain robs a safe in the town bank and leaves evidence to convict the hero....

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The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West is a 1921 silent Western....

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Crossed Clues
Crossed Clues

Crossed Clues is a 1921 silent Western....

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Out o' Luck
Out o' Luck

While riding over the plains Hoot encounters some officers searching for two escaped lunatics. Later...

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The Cactus Kid
The Cactus Kid

A slicker sells a fake oil lease to Gertrude's father. Later the villain discovers that the lease is...

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Who Was the Man?
Who Was the Man?

Hoot appears on a ranch as a tenderfoot whose father wants to make a man of him. He falls in love wi...

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The Movie Trail
The Movie Trail

The Movie Trail is a 1921 silent Western....

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Kickaroo
Kickaroo

Hoot is a cowpuncher, somewhat addicted to liquor (when he can get it). His sweetheart, the rancher'...

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Bandits Beware
Bandits Beware

Bandits Beware is a 1921 silent Western....

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The Man Who Woke Up
The Man Who Woke Up

The Man Who Woke Up is a 1921 silent Western....

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Hollywood or Bust
Hollywood or Bust

Hollywood or Bust is a silent comedy short....

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Smilin' Guns
Smilin' Guns

After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, so...

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Points West
Points West

Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's deat...

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The Lariat Kid
The Lariat Kid

A lawman goes undercover to help his brother, a rancher, fight off horse thieves working for his gre...

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Trailing Trouble
Trailing Trouble

Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans t...

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The Concentratin' Kid
The Concentratin' Kid

A cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her....

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The Boiling Point
The Boiling Point

Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inherita...

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Beating the Game
Beating the Game

Beating the Game is a 1921 silent Western....

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Headin' West
Headin' West

Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced to ...

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The Winning Track
The Winning Track

The Winning Track is one of many, many Hoot Gibson Western film shorts....

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The Bear Cat
The Bear Cat

The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty ve...

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The Dude Bandit
The Dude Bandit

After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He...

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By Indian Post
By Indian Post

Jode MacWilliams, a cowboy working on the Circle O ranch, has a crush on the boss's daughter, Peg. A...

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Sunset Range
Sunset Range

Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men...

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Rainbow's End
Rainbow's End

A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all because of...

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The Calgary Stampede
The Calgary Stampede

Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Cal...

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The Rattler's Hiss
The Rattler's Hiss

A range boss learns to imitate the hiss of a rattlesnake for humorous purposes, but has occasion to ...

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The Riding Avenger
The Riding Avenger

Buck Bonner, posing as the recently deceased Morning Glory Kid, is sent to round up the Mort Ringer ...

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The Fighting Parson
The Fighting Parson

A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the...

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features....

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Wild Horse Stampede
Wild Horse Stampede

Two cowboys try to protect railroad workers from rampaging Indians....

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The Woman in the Web
The Woman in the Web

An adventure serial released in 1918...

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Flight to Nowhere
Flight to Nowhere

A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets....

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Outlaw Trail
Outlaw Trail

Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, t...

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The Governor's Special
The Governor's Special

The film is directed by James Davis from a story by Edward T. Matlack. In this episode Helen Gibson ...

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The Law Rides Again
The Law Rides Again

When a band of American Indians breaks a treaty with the federal government, U.S. Marshals Ken Mayna...

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Blazing Guns
Blazing Guns

The Governor sends Ken and Hoot to clean up the town of Willow Springs....

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Death Valley Rangers
Death Valley Rangers

When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in th...

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Westward Bound
Westward Bound

Learning that Montana is about to become a state and that property values will rise rapidly, Caldwel...

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Arizona Whirlwind
Arizona Whirlwind

US marshals Ken, Hoot and Bob stop a gang dressed as Indians from robbing the stage. After getting r...

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Straight Shooting
Straight Shooting

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint'...

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The Last Outlaw
The Last Outlaw

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daught...

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Chip of the Flying U
Chip of the Flying U

A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on ...

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The Pay Train
The Pay Train

Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is...

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Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night....

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The Buckaroo Kid
The Buckaroo Kid

Mulford sends Ed Harley to manage Radigan's rundown ranch. He makes a success of it but when called ...

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The Saddle Hawk
The Saddle Hawk

Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beauti...

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The Flaming Frontier
The Flaming Frontier

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to lea...

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Taming the West
Taming the West

John Carleton is living a carefree jazz lifestyle, much to the annoyance of his father. When he can ...

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The Spirit of the West
The Spirit of the West

To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand....

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The Prairie King
The Prairie King

Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late A...

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Trigger Law
Trigger Law

Hoot Gibson and Bob Stanley ride into Arizona seeking the killer of Bob's father, who managed the st...

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The Utah Kid
The Utah Kid

The Utah Kid was a late entry in Monogram's "Trail Blazers" series. These low-budget westerns usuall...

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The Texas Streak
The Texas Streak

Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw ...

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Swifty
Swifty

Swifty is framed for the murder of Alec MeNiel by the Lawyer Cheevers and the stepson Price. Then th...

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Spook Ranch
Spook Ranch

Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested w...

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The Marshal's Daughter
The Marshal's Daughter

To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a za...

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The Man from Texas
The Man from Texas

A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her in ill health. When he gets there, Te...

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Powdersmoke Range
Powdersmoke Range

Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it....

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The Gay Buckaroo
The Gay Buckaroo

Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont....

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Sonora Stagecoach
Sonora Stagecoach

The Trail Blazers are bringing in a prisoner to stand trial for bank robbery, when several attempts ...

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We're switching to Hollywood
We're switching to Hollywood

A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...

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Feud of the West
Feud of the West

A rodeo rider works himself into two different 'gangs' in order to end a range war over....

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Cheyenne's Pal
Cheyenne's Pal

During World War I, westerner Cheyenne Harry is a horse seller, but he refuses to part with his favo...

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The Secret Man
The Secret Man

Convict Cheyenne Harry escapes from prison in a garbage truck and boards a train, where he eludes ca...

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A Marked Man
A Marked Man

Bandit Cheyenne Harry reforms because of the faith placed in him by Molly Young and her father. Soon...

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The Soul Herder
The Soul Herder

Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when t...

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Action
Action

Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law....

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The Fighting Brothers
The Fighting Brothers

When Sheriff Larkin's brother is falsely accused of a murder, Larkin still does his job - arrests th...

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Gun Law
Gun Law

Secret Serviceman Allen takes a job at Bart Stevens' mine in order to find evidence proving that Ste...

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The Gun Packer
The Gun Packer

With the help of a reformed gunman (and a gang of outlaws), the sheepmen aim to win their water righ...

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The Rustlers
The Rustlers

Disguised as a peaceful sheepman, Clayburn is actually a government ranger sent to Point Rock to fin...

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Headin' South
Headin' South

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k...

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The Long, Long Trail
The Long, Long Trail

Its time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt...

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Arizona Sweepstakes
Arizona Sweepstakes

Arizona cowboy Coot Cadigan travels to San Francisco and runs into Stuffy McGee, a small-time crook ...

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Roaring Ranch
Roaring Ranch

Cowboy fights to keep his ranch after oil is discovered on it....

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Hello, 'Frisco
Hello, 'Frisco

A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville....

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Red Courage
Red Courage

Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is...

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The Thrill Chaser
The Thrill Chaser

In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns im...

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King of the Rodeo
King of the Rodeo

A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago....

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The Rawhide Kid
The Rawhide Kid

Good cowboy vs. bad cowboy in this romantic adventure....

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The Man in the Saddle
The Man in the Saddle

A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits....

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Pride Of The Range
Pride Of The Range

Pride of the Range is a 1910 American short silent Western film directed by Francis Boggs. It featur...

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