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Canyon City (1943 Film)
''Canyon City'' is a 1943 American Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Don 'Red' Barry, Wally Vernon and Helen Talbot.Martin, p. 306. Cast * Don 'Red' Barry as Terry Reynolds - posing as the Nevada Kid * Wally Vernon as Beauty Bradshaw * Helen Talbot as Edith Gleason * Twinkle Watts as Twinkle Hardy * Morgan Conway as Craig Morgan * Emmett Vogan as Emerson Wheeler * Stanley Andrews as Johnson - Water Co. President * Roy Barcroft as Jeff Parker * LeRoy Mason as Webb Hepburn * Pierce Lyden as Mac - Henchman * Forbes Murray as Judge Gleason * Edward Peil Sr. as Jim Hardy * Eddie Gribbon Eddie Gribbon (January 3, 1890 – September 29, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films from the 1910s to the 1950s. Gribbon began working in Mack Sennett films in 1916 and continued through the 1920s. He usuall ... as Deputy Frank References Bibliography * Len D. Martin. ''The Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Seria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bennet first entered show business as a stunt man, when he answered a newspaper ad to jump from the Palisades of the Hudson River while wearing a suit for the serial film ''Hurricane Hutch'' (1921). The gig at that time paid $1 per foot he had to fall. He made his directorial debut in 1921's ''Behold the Man'' but made his serial directorial debut in 1925 with ''Sunken Silver''. He would keep making serials, as well as B-Western features, until the very end of the genre, directing the last two serials made in the United States, ''Blazing the Overland Trail'' (1956) and ''Perils of the Wilderness'' (1956). After the serials ended he directed a handful of features, his final directorial credit being 1965's ''The Bounty Killer'', which was also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |