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Frank Sanucci
Frank Sanucci (1901–1991) was an Argentine-born American composer who scored numerous films.Pitts p.255 Born in Buenos Aires he emigrated to the United States as a child. He worked in Hollywood on generally low-budget productions, many of them for Monogram Pictures where he was employed for several years. He was also employed at Universal Pictures, Grand National Pictures and Astor Pictures. Selected filmography * ''Song of the Gringo'' (1936) * ''Headin' for the Rio Grande'' (1936) * ''Riders of the Rockies'' (1937) * '' Riders of the Dawn'' (1937) * '' God's Country and the Man'' (1937) * ''Stars Over Arizona'' (1937) * ''Hittin' the Trail'' (1937) * ''Trouble in Texas'' (1937) * ''Where Trails Divide'' (1937) * ''Romance of the Rockies'' (1937) * '' The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen'' (1937) * '' Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts'' (1937) * '' Arizona Days'' (1937) * ''Where the Buffalo Roam'' (1938) * ''The Singing Outlaw'' (1938) * ''Border Wolves'' (1938) * '' Two Gun Jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia, Italy. Buenos Aires is classified as an alpha global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2020 ranking. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hittin' The Trail
''Hittin' the Trail'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury. It stars singing cowboy Tex Ritter and Hank Worden. Plot Penniless horse traders Tex and Hank meet a stranger in need of a horse. Though he has no money and the pair don't know who he is, when the stranger quotes "Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days" from Ecclesiastes 11, they loan him one of their horses. Sheriff Grey accuses Tex of being the Tombstone Kid, the stranger who they loaned a horse to. The Sheriff doesn't believe they aren't criminals until they take them to town where saloon owner James Clark affirms that Tex is not the Tombstone Kid, whose gang is being held in jail as horse thieves. Clark seeks to use Tex and Hank as a cover for his own gang stealing horses. Clark rigs the roulette wheel in his saloon where Tex wins on the money Clark loaned him; he agrees to buy a herd of horses from Clark to ride them to market, but Clark's gang sets the pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison Break (film)
''Prison Break'' is a 1938 American crime-drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Barton MacLane, Glenda Farrell and Paul Hurst. The film was based on the story "Walls of San Quentin" by Norton S. Parker. It was released by Universal Pictures on July 12, 1938. A fisherman confesses to a murder he didn't commit to protect a friend. Determined to keep out of trouble in prison, but another convict makes things difficult for him. Plot Joaquin Shannon (Barton MacLane), a fisherman, takes the blame for a crime to protect his brother-in-law Joe Fenderson (Edward Pawley), who died from injuries from a mugging. He is sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime. Joaquin asks Joe's sister and his girlfriend Jean Fenderson (Glenda Farrell) to wait for him, expecting to be paroled in one year for good behavior. However, in prison, he battles with Red Kincaid ( Ward Bond). Joaquin's repeat altercation with Red causes him to fail his parole examination and his prison sentences are l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Stand (1938 Film)
''The Last Stand'' is a 1938 American Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis. It is an early example of the western detective story.Gary D. Rhodes ''The Films of Joseph H. Lewis'' 0814334628 2012 - Page 66 "However, Lewis predated these efforts in his B movies The Last Stand (1938) and Blazing Six Shooters (1940), both of which featured cowboys who solved mysteries. His detective films, whether set in the Old West or modern day, are notable ....." Cast * Bob Baker, Tip Douglas the Laredo Kid *Constance Moore, Nancy Drake *Fuzzy Knight, Pepper *Earle Hodgins, Thorn Evans *Forrest Taylor, Turner * Glenn Strange, Henchman Joe *Sam Flint, as Calhourn *Jimmy Phillips, Henchman Tom *Jack Kirk Jack Kirk (February 19, 1895 – September 13, 1948) was an American film actor from Missoula, Montana who had roles in over 300 films, mostly B-westerns, from 1926 and 1954. Selected filmography * '' The Stolen Ranch'' (1926) * ''Dames Ahoy! ... Henchman Ed References 1938 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Town (film)
''Frontier Town'' is a 1938 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Tex Ritter, Karl Hackett and Ann Evers.Parish & Pitts p.381 Plot Cast * Tex Ritter as Tex Lansing, alias Tex Rawlins * Ann Evers as Gail Hawthorne * Horace Murphy as Stubby * Snub Pollard as Peewee * Karl Hackett as Nat Regan * Charles King as Henchman Pete Denby * Forrest Taylor as Sheriff Walsh of Frontier * Ed Cassidy as Sheriff Jack Lane of Prairie City * Marion Feducha as Bob Hawthorne * Jack C. Smith as Pop Pearson * Lynton Brent Lynton Wright Brent (August 2, 1897 – July 2, 1981) was an American film actor and a writer. He appeared in over 240 films between 1930 and 1950. Brent is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges shor ... as Henchman Grayson * White Flash as Flash, Tex's Horse References Bibliography *James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974. Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Gun Justice
''Two Gun Justice'' is a 1938 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Alan James from a screenplay by Fred Myton. The film stars Tim McCoy and Betty Compson. Cast list *Tim McCoy as Tim Carson *Betty Compson as Kate *Joan Barclay as Nancy Brown *John Merton as Bart Kane *Alan Bridge as Sheriff Tate *Tony Paton as Blinky *Allan Cavan as Tex *Lane Chandler as Butch *Harry Strang as Joe *Olin Francis as Blacky References {{Reflist 1938 films 1938 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Alan James Monogram Pictures films 1930s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Wolves
''Border Wolves'' is a 1938 American Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by Norton S. Parker. The film stars Bob Baker, Constance Moore, Fuzzy Knight, Dick Jones, Willie Fung, Oscar O'Shea and Frank Campeau. The film was released on February 25, 1938, by Universal Pictures. Plot Rusty Reynolds and his partner Clem Barrett are heading to California, but then come upon a wagon train massacre and arrested by mistake. They are sentenced to hang, but on the night before the execution, they are released by the Judge that gave them their sentence since he knows they are innocent and that the real culprit is his son. Cast * Bob Baker as Rusty Reynolds *Constance Moore as Mary Jo Benton *Fuzzy Knight as Clem Barrett * Dick Jones as Jimmie Benton *Willie Fung as Ling Wong *Oscar O'Shea as Judge Coleman *Frank Campeau as Tom Dawson *Glenn Strange George Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973) was an American actor who mostly appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Singing Outlaw
''The Singing Outlaw'' is a 1938 American "B" movie Western (genre), Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Bob Baker (actor), Bob Baker as a singing cowboy. Production The film was the third that Lewis had directed, after ''Navy Spy'' (1937), which he co-directed with Crane Wilbur and ''Courage of the West''. This was the second of four films in which Fuzzy Knight played the comic sidekick to Universal Pictures, Universal's new singing cowboy, Bob Baker. Synopsis A singing outlaw named Cueball and a U.S. Marshal kill each other in a shoot-out. A bystander (Baker) decides to take over the Marshall's identity. To trap the local outlaw gang he pretends to be Cueball. He finds himself struggling to stop the cattle rustlers and win the love of the daughter of a rancher (Joan Barclay). Things get complicated when a sheriff captures him with the gang, and he nearly gets hanged before it is proved that he is not Cueball. Reception A reviewer said, "The second of Baker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where The Buffalo Roam (1938 Film)
''Where the Buffalo Roam'' is a 1938 American Western film directed by Albert Herman (as Al Herman) and starring Tex Ritter. Plot Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death. Cast Soundtrack * Tex Ritter - "Where the Buffalo Roam" (Written by Frank Harford, Frank Sanucci and Tex Ritter) * Tex Ritter - "Troubador of the Prairie" (Written by Frank Harford and Tex Ritter) * Louise Massey and The Westerners - "In the Heart of the Prairie" (Written by Louise Massey and J. Woodruff Smith *Louise Massey and The Westerners1 - "Bunkhouse Jamboree" (Written by Louise Massey and Larry Wellington) * Tex Ritter - "Longside of the Sana Fe Trail" * Tex Ritter - "Home on the Range" * Tex Ritter - "Shoot the Buffalo" See also * Public domain fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Days (1937 Film)
''Arizona Days'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by John English and starring Tex Ritter, Eleanor Stewart, Syd Saylor. It is the third Western singing cowboy Ritter made for producer Edward Finney for Grand National Pictures. Many public domain prints are missing sequences from the original release. Plot Tex and his sidekick "Grass" Hopper are delighted to join a travelling music show. When a group of cowboys come in without paying, Tex steps down from the stage, pulls his six gun and holds the audience up until the manager points out the men who did not pay their admission fee. After seeing the way Tex gathers revenue from cheats, the County commissioner offers Tex a job as a tax collector. Cast Tex Ritter ... Tex Malinson Syd Saylor ... Claude "Grass" Hopper William Faversham ... Professor McGill Eleanor Stewart ... Marge Workman Forrest Taylor ... Harry Price Snub Pollard ... Cookie Tommy Bupp ... Billy Workman Glenn Strange ... Henchman Pete Budd Bust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex Rides With The Boy Scouts
''Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring singing cowboy Tex Ritter and Troop 13 Los Angeles District Boy Scouts of America. The film was shot in Old Kernville, California and premiered on Broadway in November 1937.p.19 West, Dr. James E. ''The Scout World'' ''Scouts Star in Film'' ''Boys' Life'' Nov 1937 Plot The film opens with a tribute to the Boy Scouts of America with footage of their first Jamboree in Washington D.C. and an appearance by Robert Baden-Powell. The scene switches to the robbery of a train carrying $1,000,000 in gold by a gang of outlaws, who hide out at an abandoned gold mine before they attempt to take the gold across the border into Mexico. Tex Ritter and his two sidekicks are warned off from the mine, but join the nearby camp of a troop of Boy Scouts who are impressed when Tex informs them that he was a Boy Scout and shows them his Silver Beaver Award. Tex and his sidekicks investigate the ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of The Hooded Horsemen
''The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor. It was singing cowboy Tex Ritter's eighth film for Grand National Pictures. While the film had an original copyright notice, its copyright was not renewed, so it has entered the public domain. Plot Tex and Stubby keep their promise to a dying friend by helping his partner hold on to his gold mine, and to avenge his death by taking on and wiping out a horde of masked riders. Cast *Tex Ritter as Tex Martin *White Flash as Tex's horse *Iris Meredith as Nancy Wilson *Horace Murphy as Stubby * Charles King as Blackie Devlin *Earl Dwire as Sheriff Walker *Forrest Taylor as Norton * Joseph W. Girard as Dan Farley * Lafe McKee as Tom Wilson *Hank Worden Hank Worden (born Norton Earl Worden; July 23, 1901 – December 6, 1992) was an American cowboy-turned-character actor who appeared in many Westerns, including many John Ford films such as '' The Searchers'' and the TV series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
