''Blazing Sixes'' is a 1937 American

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film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by

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. The film stars

Dick Foran John Nicholas "Dick" Foran (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was an American actor and singer, known for his performances in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures. He appeared in dozens of movies of every ...

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and

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. It was the 9th of 12 B-westerns Foran starred in for the studio, and is noteworthy for giving perennial villain Strange a rare good-guy role as the simple-minded cowhand Pee Wee. The film was released by

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on June 12, 1937.

Plot

Government agent Red Barton goes into a small Western town in order to find the source of recent gold robberies, and Barbara Morgan who goes into the city to claim a ranch that is part of her inheritance, but that also serves as the headquarters of an outlaw gang.

Cast

as Red Barton *

as Barbara Morgan (billed as Helen Valkis) *

as Aunt Sarah *

as Jim Hess *

as Peewee (misspelled as Glen Strange) *

as Major Taylor *

Milton Kibbee Milton Kibbee (born Milne Bryan Kibbee;"Obituaries: Milne B. Kibbee"

as Mort *Gordon Hart as Gore *

Henry Otho Henry Otho (February 6, 1888 – June 6, 1940) was an American actor. He has worked in ''The Big Stampede'' (1932), ''Mary Stevens'' (1933), '' Hard to Handle'' (1933), ''The Mayor of Hell'' (1933), ''Baby Face'' (1933), ''Mandalay'' (1934), '' ...

as Chuck *

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as Sheriff Tom *

Bud Osborne Leonard Miles "Bud" Osborne (July 20, 1884 – February 2, 1964) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963. Biography Osborne was born Miles Osborne in Knox County, Texas, ...

as Dave *Tom Foreman as Buck *

Ben Corbett Ben Corbett (February 6, 1892 – May 19, 1961) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1915 and 1956. He was born in Hudson, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California. Corbett was a trophy-winning rodeo part ...

as Slim *

Malcolm Waite Malcolm Ivan Waite (May 7, 1892 – April 25, 1949) was an American film actor. Biography Malcolm Waite appeared in 31 films between 1923 and 1942, most notably as the oily "ladies' man" Jack in Charlie Chaplin's film classic ''The Gold Rush''; ...

as Jamison *Bob Burns as Mike *

Jack Mower Jack Mower (September 5, 1890 – January 6, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 520 films between 1914 and 1965. He was born in Honolulu and died in Hollywood. After studying at Punahou College, in Honolulu, Mower moved ...

as Wells Fargo Agent

References

External links

* 1937 films American Western (genre) films 1937 Western (genre) films Warner Bros. films Films directed by Noel M. Smith American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films Films scored by Howard Jackson (composer) English-language Western (genre) films {{1930s-Western-film-stub