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Prairie Justice
''Prairie Justice'' is a 1938 American Western "B" movie directed by George Waggner and starring Bob Baker as a singing cowboy. Plot Baker plays an undercover marshall investigating a series of stage coach robberies. After his father is killed, he determines to get justice, pretending to be a drifter while gradually gathering clues to the identify of the killers. Early in the story Bob meets Anita, who is trying to save her ranch after all her cattle have been stolen. Bob woes Anita with his guitar. Finally he goes after the bad guys in a shoot-out. After justice had been done, Anita agrees to marry Bob. Cast * Bob Baker as U.S. Marshal Bob Randall * Dorothy Fay as Anita Benson *Hal Taliaferro as Alfalfa *Jack Rockwell as John Benson *Forrest Taylor as Sheriff Pop Randall *Carleton Young as Dry-Gulch Baker * Glenn Strange as Hank Haynes (Express Agent) *Jack Kirk as Henchman Boots *Dick Dickinson as Committeeman Doc (uncredited) * George Hazel as Townsman (uncredited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Waggner
George Waggner (September 7, 1894 – December 11, 1984) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film '' The Wolf Man''. For some unknown reason, Waggner sometimes configured his name in mostly lowercase letters but with his surname's two Gs capitalized ("waGGner"), including in the credits of some of the productions he directed. Career Born in New York City, he trained as a chemist and served in World War I before coming to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. He made his film debut as an actor portraying Yousayef in '' The Sheik'' (1921). He later acted in Western films. The first film he directed was ''Western Trails'' (1938). During his career as a film director, he worked with John Wayne ('' The Fighting Kentuckian''), Lon Chaney Jr. ('' Man Made Monster'' and his most famous film, ''The Wolf Man''), Brian Donlevy and Broderick Crawford ('' South of Tahiti''), Randolph Scott (''Gunfighters'') and Boris K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Dickinson
Dick Dickinson (September 16, 1895 – July 27, 1956) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1920 and 1954. Selected filmography * '' The Phantom of the West'' (1931) * '' The Galloping Ghost'' (1931) * ''The Lightning Warrior'' (1931) * ''The Fighting Marshal'' (1931) * '' The Fighting Fool'' (1932) * '' Hidden Valley'' (1932) * '' Vanishing Men'' (1932) * ''Texas Cyclone'' (1932) * '' Law of the West'' (1932) * '' High Speed'' (1932) * ''Texas Buddies'' (1932) * ''Galloping Romeo'' (1933) * ''West of the Divide'' (1934) * ''Big Calibre'' (1935) * ''Prairie Justice'' (1938) * ''Lightning Strikes West'' (1940) * '' American Empire'' (1942) * '' House of Frankenstein'' (1944) * ''The Lost Trail ''The Lost Trail'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Adele Buffington. This is the seventeenth film in the "Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie" series, and stars Johnny Mack Brown as Jack McKenzie and Raymond ...'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Films
Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Directorial Debut Films
Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By George Waggner
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Western (genre) Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures Films
Universal is the adjective for universe. Universal may also refer to: Companies * NBCUniversal, a media and entertainment company ** Universal Animation Studios, an American Animation studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal ** Universal TV, a television channel owned by NBCUniversal ** Universal Kids, an American current television channel, formerly known as Sprout, owned by NBCUniversal ** Universal Pictures, an American film studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal ** Universal Television, a television division owned by NBCUniversal Content Studios ** Universal Parks & Resorts, the theme park unit of NBCUniversal * Universal Airlines (other) * Universal Avionics, a manufacturer of flight control components * Universal Corporation, an American tobacco company * Universal Display Corporation, a manufacturer of displays * Universal Edition, a classical music publishing firm, founded in Vienna in 1901 * Universal Entertainment Corporation, a Japanese software producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Western (genre) Films
Events January * January 1 ** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinebooks
Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy. They typically translate Franco-Belgian comics – predominantly originating from the Franco-Belgian comic publishers Dargaud, Dupuis and Le Lombard – into English and have also issued an original series about the French Queen Marguerite de Valois, also known as Queen Margot. Cinebook works with a team of translators, including native speakers of French, British English and American English. Titles Softcover album series So far, the company has published, or plans to publish, the following comic series in softcover editions: Hardcover series * ''Valerian: The Complete Collection'' During 2017 and 2018 the British publisher Cinebook Limited published a hardcover collection of the series titled; ''Valerian: The Complete Collection'', spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Early life Woodward Maurice Ritter was born on January 12, 1905, in Murvaul, Texas, to Martha Elizabeth (''née'' Matthews) and James Everett Ritter. He grew up on his family's farm in Panola County, Texas, and attended grade school in Carthage, Texas. He attended South Park High School in Beaumont, Texas. After graduating with honors, he entered the University of Texas at Austin in 1922 to study pre-law and major in government, political science, and economics. After traveling to Chicago with a musical troupe, he entered Northwestern Law School. Career Radio and Broadway An early pioneer of country music, Ritter soon became interested in show bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleming Allen
Fleming Allan (February 2, 1904 – February 2, 1965)''California, Death Index, 1940-1997'' was an American composer of Western music, who helped make that genre popular in the 1930s. Fleming Allan was born in California On February 2, 1904. His mother was a native of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Fleming Allan, Occupation: Composer, resident in Hollywood, 1935 address in Chicago, residing with mother Minnie Fleming, divorced. ''1940 United States Federal Census'' He worked at WLS (AM) in Chicago around the time that Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette were singing for that station, then moved to Hollywood. He spent most of the rest of his life in California, writing songs for many movies in the 1930s and 1940s. For a period in the early 1950s, Allen and the Mesner brothers operated Intro Records, a BMI affiliate. In January 1954 he left this job to join Gene Autry's music publishing business. Allan composed songs for western movies by Autry, Ken Curtis, Tim Holt, Rod Cameron, Ray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Whitaker
Charles Orbie "Slim" Whitaker (July 29, 1893 – June 27, 1960) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 340 films between 1914 and 1949. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Los Angeles, California, from a heart attack. Partial filmography * ''The Man from Bitter Roots'' (1916) * '' Eyes of Youth'' (1919) * '' The Radio King'' (1922) * '' Full Speed'' (1925) * ''On the Go'' (1925) * ''A Streak of Luck'' (1925) * '' Galloping On'' (1925) * '' The Bandit Buster'' (1926) * '' The Bonanza Buckaroo'' (1926) * '' The Fighting Cheat'' (1926) * '' Double Daring'' (1926) * '' The Stolen Ranch'' (1926) * ''The Ramblin' Galoot'' (1926) * ''Crossed Signals'' (1926) * '' Bucking the Truth'' (1926) * '' Ace of Action'' (1926) * '' The Twin Triggers'' (1926) * '' Rawhide'' (1926) * ''Vanishing Hoofs'' (1926) * '' The Phantom Buster'' (1927) * '' The Obligin' Buckaroo'' (1927) * ''Soda Water Cowboy'' (1927) * '' The Ridin' Rowdy'' (1927) * '' The Desert of the Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
