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Guy Wilkerson
Guy Owen Wilkerson (December 21, 1899 – July 15, 1971) was an American actor, known primarily for his roles in Western B movies, who with his tall, lanky frame, he often played sidekick or comedy relief parts. Biography Wilkseron was born December 21, 1899, in Whitewright, Texas. He was a former vaudevillian and burlesque performer when he began making films in 1937. He was one-third of the Texas Rangers in the Rangers series of films, alongside Dave O'Brien in all 22 of the film's series from 1942 to 1945. James Newill was his other co-star in the first 14 of the series. Tex Ritter replaced Jim for the concluding eight entries in the series. Wilkerson played Panhandle Perkins in all 22 films. He later made the move to television, appearing in shows such as ''The Lone Ranger'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Thriller'', '' Maverick'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' The Fugitive'', ''Kentucky Jones'', ''Green Acres'', and ''Adam-12''. Wilkerson died July 15, 1971, in Hollywood, Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abilene Town
''Abilene Town'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming and Lloyd Bridges. Adapted from Ernest Haycox's 1941 novel ''Trail Town'', the production's plot is set in the Old West, in the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas in 1870. Plot In the years following the Civil War, the state of Kansas is increasingly divided by opposing economic and social forces. Homesteaders are moving into the West, trying to start new lives, and their increasing presence is clashing with the established commercial interests of cattlemen, who had settled in the region before the war. Abilene, a major cattle town, is on the brink of armed conflict between the cattlemen and the homesteaders, and the town marshal, Dan Mitchell, strives to keep the peace between those two groups as well maintain the uneasy coexistence between Abilene's townspeople and the ranchers with their legion of cowboys. For years, the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Justice (1937 Film)
''Mountain Justice'' is a 1937 film directed by Michael Curtiz. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. It is loosely based on the story of Edith Maxwell, who was convicted in 1935 of murdering her coal miner father in Pound, Virginia. Plot Cast *Josephine Hutchinson - Ruth Harkins *George Brent - Paul Cameron *Guy Kibbee - Dr. John Barnard *Mona Barrie - Evelyn Wayne *Robert Barrat - Jeff Harkins *Margaret Hamilton - Phoebe Lamb *Robert McWade - Horace Bamber *Fuzzy Knight - Clem Biggars *Edward Pawley - Tad Miller *Elizabeth Risdon - Meg Harkins *Granville Bates - Judge Crawley * Russell Simpson - Mr. Turnbull *Sybil Harris - Mrs. Turnbull *Guy Wilkerson - Asaph Anderson *Marcia Mae Jones - Bethie Harkins Preservation * A print is held by the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Neighbors – The Carters
''Our Neighbors – The Carters'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by S.K. Lauren. The film stars Fay Bainter, Frank Craven, Edmund Lowe, Genevieve Tobin, Mary Thomas and Mildred Coles. The film was released on November 24, 1939, by Paramount Pictures."Pictures: Film Reviews - Our Neighbors--The Carters". ''Variety''. Nov 8, 1939. p. 18. Via Proquest. Plot Cast *Fay Bainter as Ellen Carter *Frank Craven as Doc Carter *Edmund Lowe as Bill Hastings *Genevieve Tobin as Gloria Hastings * Mary Thomas as Mattie Carter * Mildred Coles as Gloria Carter *Scotty Beckett as Dickie Carter *Benny Bartlett as Junior Carter *Donald Brenon as Paul Carter *Nana Bryant as Louise Wilcox *Thurston Hall as Mr. Guilfoyle *Granville Bates as Joseph Laurence *Edward McWade as Pop Hagen *Norman Phillips Jr. as Henry Laurence * Richard Clayton as Peter Bush *Frank Reicher Frank Reicher (born Franz Reicher; December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of Conquest
''Man of Conquest'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Nicholls Jr. and starring Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, and Joan Fontaine. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Score, Best Sound ( Charles L. Lootens), and Best Art Direction (John Victor Mackay). The film marked the first serious attempt by Republic Pictures to break out from its traditional production of B movies and produce a work of greater cost and prestige. The film is a biopic of the politician Sam Houston, focusing on his relationship with Andrew Jackson and his role during the Texas Revolution. It was inspired by Marquis James's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Houston. Plot Sam Houston fights beside his friend Andrew Jackson and is wounded. Not long thereafter, Jackson is elected President of the United States and appoints Houston as governor of Tennessee. Houston is married to Eliza Allen, but his lifestyle as a politician does not appeal to her. Their divorce is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forged Passport
''Forged Passport'' is a 1939 American action film directed by John H. Auer and written by Lee Loeb and Franklin Coen. The film stars Paul Kelly, June Lang, Lyle Talbot, Billy Gilbert, Cliff Nazarro and Maurice Murphy. The film was released on April 24, 1939, by Republic Pictures. Plot Dan Frazer is a border Patrolman in the California-Mexico border with a hot temper, this indirectly leads to the death of a comrade. Dan decides to leave the force and go find his comrade's killer, who he believes is part of smuggler gang. Cast * Paul Kelly as Dan Frazer *June Lang as Helene * Lyle Talbot as Jack Scott * Billy Gilbert as Nick Mendoza *Cliff Nazarro Clifford Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961) was an American double-talk Double-talk is a form of speech in which inappropriate, invented, or nonsense words are interpolated into normal speech to give the appearance of knowledg ... as 'Shakespeare' * Maurice Murphy as 'Kansas' Nelson * Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodge City (film)
''Dodge City'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ann Sheridan. Based on a story by Robert Buckner, the film is about a Texas cattle agent who witnesses the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City, Kansas and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up. Filmed in Technicolor, ''Dodge City'' was one of the highest-grossing films of the year. This was the 5th of 8 movies that de Havilland and Flynn appeared in together. Various scenes were shot in Thousand Oaks, including at present day Wildwood Regional Park. Plot The action of the film starts with Colonel Dodge (Henry O'Neill) arriving on the first train and subsequently opening the new railroad line that links Dodge City with the rest of the world. A few years later, Dodge City has turned into the " longhorn cattle center of the world and wide-open Babylon of the American frontier, packed with settlers, thieves and gunmen—the town that knew no ethics but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cowboy And The Lady (1938 Film)
''The Cowboy and the Lady'' is a 1938 American Western romantic comedy film directed by H.C. Potter, and starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon. Written by S.N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Frank R. Adams and veteran film director Leo McCarey, the film is about a beautiful socialite masquerading as a maid who becomes involved with an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity. ''The Cowboy and the Lady'' won an Academy Award for Sound Recording (Thomas T. Moulton), and was nominated for Original Score (Alfred Newman) and Original Song ("The Cowboy and the Lady" by Lionel Newman and Arthur Quenzer). Plot Mary Smith (Merle Oberon), daughter of presidential hopeful Horace Smith ( Henry Kolker), has lived a cloistered life free of any scandal. Although she is devoted to her father and supports his political aspirations, she longs for a life of her own. Believing she needs some excitement in her life, Mary's free-spirited Uncle Hannib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down In 'Arkansaw'
''Down in 'Arkansaw is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. The film stars Ralph Byrd with the vaudeville comedy troupe the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, along with June Storey and Pinky Tomlin. The film was released on October 8, 1938, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast * Ralph Byrd as John Parker * Leon Weaver as Abner Weaver * June Weaver as Elviry Weaver * Frank Weaver as Cicero Weaver * June Storey as Mary Weaver * Pinky Tomlin as Pinky * Berton Churchill as Judge * Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Juble Butler * Walter Miller as Marks *Gertrude Green as Elsie *Selmer Jackson as Edwards *Arthur Loft as Turner *Ivan Miller as Lewis *John Dilson as Graves * Al Bridge as Jake *Karl Hackett Carl Ellsworth Germain (September 5, 1893 – October 24, 1948), known professionally as Karl Hackett, was an American actor. He served in the U.S. army during World War I. He was married to Ruby Burnette Moore. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Beware
''Professor Beware'' is a 1938 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Elliott Nugent. It was Phyllis Welch MacDonald's first and only film. Plot Three thousand years after ancient Egyptian Neferus's death, Professor Dean Lambert (who looks like Neferus) is translating his history tablet by tablet. Dean is convinced that falling in love will ruin him as it did Neferus, whose love to the Pharaoh's daughter led to his downfall. He meets aspiring actress and heiress Jane Van Buren and exchanges clothes with her drunk audition partner, Snoop Donlan. Dean is arrested for stinking of liquor. His arrest makes the papers and he is asked to resign from the museum staff. Dean has ten days to join an expedition leaving for Egypt from New York and becomes a stowaway in the trailer of a pair of newlyweds bound for Niagara Falls. Snoop then accuses Dean of stealing his watch and clothes. Jane, meanwhile, follows the trailer in order to return Dean's clothes and the museum's car. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentucky Moonshine
''Kentucky Moonshine'' is a 1938 American comedy musical film directed by David Butler and released by 20th Century Fox. Plot Radio star Jerry Wade's program ratings are falling and he suggests to his sponsors a show that is different and he goes to Kentucky to find an idea. Caroline, a Kentucky girl in New York trying to crash into radio, learns of Wade's quest and takes her three friends, Harry, Jimmy and Al Ritz, also aspiring to show-business fame, to Kentucky with her, where Wade discovers them in beards, guns, feuds, moonshine and every cliché that fits the hillbillies lifestyle. He stages a broadcast from the hills, which is not heard because of technical difficulties. He takes the whole troupe back to New York with him. Cast * Ritz Brothers as Themselves * Tony Martin as Jerry Wade * Marjorie Weaver as Caroline * Slim Summerville as Hank Hatfield * John Carradine as Reef Hatfield * Wally Vernon as Gus Bryce * Berton Churchill as J.B. * Eddie Collins as 'Spats' Swen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife, Doctor And Nurse
''Wife, Doctor and Nurse'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Loretta Young. Plot Cast * Loretta Young as Ina Heath Lewis * Warner Baxter as Dr. Judd Lewis * Virginia Bruce as Miss Stephens aka Steve * Jane Darwell as Mrs. Krueger * Sidney Blackmer as Dr. Therberg * Maurice Cass as Pompout * Minna Gombell as Constance * Margaret Irving as Mrs. Cunningham * Bill Elliott as Bruce Thomas (as Gordon Elliott) * Lynn Bari Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s. ... (uncredited) References External links * 1937 films 1937 comedy films American comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Walter Lang Films with screenplays by Lamar Trotti Films scored by Arthur Lange Films with screenplays by Kathryn Scola 20th C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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