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Wallace W. Fox
Wallace Fox (March 9, 1895 – June 30, 1958) was an American film director. He directed more than 80 films between 1927 and 1953. He was born in Purcell, Oklahoma, and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * '' Trail of Courage'' (1928) * ''The Ridin' Renegade'' (1928) * '' The Avenging Rider'' (1928) * ''Driftin' Sands'' (1928) * '' Partners of the Trail'' (1931) * '' Devil on Deck'' (1932) * '' Cannonball Express'' (1932) * ''Bowery Blitzkrieg'' (1941) * ''The Corpse Vanishes'' (1942) * '' Let's Get Tough!'' (1942) * ''Bowery at Midnight'' (1942) * '''Neath Brooklyn Bridge'' (1942) * ''Bullets for Bandits'' (1942) * '' The Girl from Monterrey'' (1943) * ''The Great Mike'' (1944) * ''Brenda Starr, Reporter'' (1945) * ''Docks of New York'' (1945) * '' Pillow of Death'' (1945) * '' The Vigilante'' (1947) * ''The Gay Amigo'' (1949) * ''West of Wyoming'' (1950) * ''Gunslingers Gunfighters, also called gunslingers (), or in the 19th and early 20th centurie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purcell, Oklahoma
Purcell is a city in and the county seat of McClain County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 6,651. Founded in 1887, Purcell was a railroad town named after Edward B. Purcell, who was an official with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.Joyce A. Rex, "Purcell," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed April 12, 2015. Purcell is often called the "Quarterhorse Capital of the World" and its official motto is "Heart of Oklahoma"; the city has registered trademarks on both titles. History Purcell was founded in 1887. It was named after Edward B. Purcell, a vice president of the |
Bullets For Bandits
''Bullets for Bandits'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Wallace W. Fox, starring Wild Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, and Frank Mitchell. Plot Queen Katey is the owner of a large ranch. There is the beginning of a movement among the local homesteaders to drive Katey out, so that her land can be divided. Queen has a long-lost son, Prince, who she sends one of her ranch hands, Cannonball, to find. Cannonball arrives at the office of the Badlands County sheriff, Tex Martin. Cannonball explains to Tex that Prince has the letters "KT" on his forearm, where they had been branded when he was a youth by a man named Clem Jeter. Tex thinks he's seen that brand, and directs Cannonball to the saloon. While Cannonball is still on his way, Wild Bill Hickok is at the bar in the saloon. He observes a man who he could be the double for, playing cards. As he watches, he sees his double cheating, eventually taking all of another gambler's money. The double is Prince Katey. When Hickok c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the " Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazing Bullets
''Blazing Bullets'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall and Stanley Price.Magers & Fitzgerald p.108 Plot Cast * Johnny Mack Brown as Marshal Johnny Mack Brown * Lois Hall as Carol Roberts * House Peters Jr. as Bill Grant * Stanley Price as Hawkins - Henchman * Dennis Moore as Crowley - Henchman * Edmund Cobb as Sheriff * Milburn Morante as Andy Mullins * Forrest Taylor Edwin Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color films. Early years Taylor was born in Bl ... as John Roberts References Bibliography * Boyd Magers & Michael G. Fitzgerald. ''Westerns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s''. McFarland, 2004. External links * 1951 films 1951 Western (genre) films American Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunslingers (film)
''Gunslingers'' is a 1950 American western film written by Adele Buffington and directed by Wallace W. Fox. It stars Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, and Reno Browne. Plot Lawman Whip Wilson arrests Tim Cramer and his gang after they conduct a payroll robbery. As he talks to Tim, Whip learns that Tim turned to a life of crime after his father was recently accused of cattle rustling. Lou, Tim's father, was a blacksmith in Rockville, the local town. When he goes into town, he learns from "Rawhide" Rosie Rawlins that Tim's father, Lou, the local blacksmith, is currently under trial in the town's saloon for his alleged crime. After Lou is convicted for rustling and sentenced to death, Marshal Dean takes him out of the saloon and is leading him to the jail. Whip feels that something is off about the whole process, so he masks his face and confronts the marshal. When Dean goes for his gun, Whip draws faster and shoots the gun from his hand, allowing Lou to escape. With a $1,000 price on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Wyoming
''West of Wyoming'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Gail Davis and Myron Healey.Stephens p.526 Plot Cast * Johnny Mack Brown as Johnny Mack Brown * Gail Davis as Jennifer Draper * Myron Healey as Brodie * Dennis Moore as Dorsey - Henchman * Stanley Andrews as Simon Miller * Milburn Morante as Panhandle Jones * Mary Gordon as Nora Jones * Carl Mathews as Ray Barton - Henchman * Paul Cramer as Terry Draper * John Merton as Sheriff * Mike Ragan Mike may refer to: Animals * Mike (cat), cat and guardian of the British Museum * Mike the Headless Chicken, chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off * Mike (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee featured in several books and document ... as Chuck Maloo - Henchman * Steve Clark as Dalton References Bibliography * Michael L. Stephens. ''Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary''. McFarland, 1998. External links * 1950 films 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gay Amigo
'' The Gay Amigo '' is a 1949 American Western film starring Duncan Renaldo in the lead role of The Cisco Kid. This film was one entry in a series of Cisco Kid B Westerns produced by Philip N. Krasne. Ziv Television Programs later advanced money to Krasne in order to purchase the television rights for the Cisco Kid.Grams, Martin ''Science Fiction Theatre: A History of the Television program, 1955-1957'' BearManor Media (August 30, 2011) Krasne later produced '' The O. Henry Playhouse''. Plot Cisco and Pancho are at the border of the Arizona Territory and Mexico where they see a platoon of U.S. Cavalry pursuing what looks to be a band of ''bandidos''. Escaping to Mexico, one of the bandidos falls off his horse. Cisco and Pancho see that not only is he dead, but he is actually a ''Norteamericano'' in charro costume. Cisco and Pancho use the U.S. Army, the local newspaper, a bar girl and a variety of respectable American citizens by playing them off against each other to disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vigilante
''The Vigilante'' is a 1947 American Western film serial directed by Wallace Fox. The 33rd serial released by Columbia Pictures, it was based on the comic book cowboy Vigilante, who first appeared in ''Action Comics'', published by DC Comics. It stars Ralph Byrd, well known for his central role in the Dick Tracy serials. It was his last serial appearance. Plot The Vigilante, a masked government agent, is assigned to investigate the case of the "100 Tears of Blood", a cursed string of rare blood-red pearls sought by a gang led by the unknown ''X-1'' that may have been smuggled into the country. Greg Sanders (Sanders at that time, later changed to Saunders in the comics), in his civilian guise as an actor, is filming a western on George Pierce's ranch. Pierce is a wealthy rancher and nightclub owner. When Prince Hamil arrives at the ranch, he gives a horse each to Sanders, Pierce, Captain Reilly, Tex Collier, and Betty Winslow. But an outlaw gang soon attacks, attempting to stea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pillow Of Death
''Pillow of Death'' is a 1945 film noir mystery film, mystery horror film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Brenda Joyce (actress), Brenda Joyce. The last of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries#Films, Inner Sanctum mystery films, it is based on a story by Dwight V. Babcock. The "Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popular radio series and all of the films star Lon Chaney, Jr. It was the only entry in the series to dispense with the introduction by a disembodied head in a crystal ball, as well as the only one to feature Comic relief, comic-relief characters to alleviate the grim tone. Plot summary Attorney Wayne Fletcher (Chaney, Jr.) intends to divorce his wife and marry his secretary (Joyce), who comes from a wealthy family. When the wife is found suffocated to death, he naturally becomes the suspect. As others are killed in the same manner and a phony medium (Bromberg) also claims Fletcher is guilty, Fletcher begins to imagine his dead wife is communicatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docks Of New York
: ''See The Docks of New York for the 1928 George Bancroft film directed by Josef von Sternberg.'' ''Docks of New York'' is a 1945 film directed by Wallace Fox and starring the East Side Kids. Plot Late one night on New York's poor East Side, a man is stabbed to death on a street corner, and his body is searched by his attacker. Nearby, Glimpy shows Muggs McGinnis a jeweled necklace he just found outside their tenement. While Glimpy and Muggs are investigating the area, the attacker spots them and gives chase, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Muggs and Glimpy then return to their tenement and learn from neighbor Mrs. Darcy, a war refugee from Toscania, that a thief just stole a valuable necklace from her. After she identifies the found necklace as hers and speculates that the man who attacked the boys was Compeau, an accomplice of the Toscanian Gestapo, she asks the boys to keep the heirloom until the next day. Unknown to the boys, Saundra, Mrs. Darcy's niece, is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Starr, Reporter (film)
''Brenda Starr, Reporter'' (1945) was the 25th film serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was inspired by '' Brenda Starr, Reporter'', a popular comic strip created by Dale Messick. The title role was played by Joan Woodbury, who had similar roles in feature films for Columbia and Monogram. Plot ''Daily Flash'' newspaper journalist Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), are assigned to cover a fire in an old house, where they discover the wounded Joe Heller (Wheeler Oakman), a mobster suspected of stealing a quarter-million-dollar payroll. The dying Heller tells Brenda that someone took his satchel of stolen money and he gives her a coded message. Kruger (Jack Ingram), the gangster who shot Heller, escapes to his gang's hideout with the bag, but discovers it is filled with paper rather than money. The gang, knowing Heller gave Brenda a coded message, makes many attempts on her life to get her to reveal where Heller hid the payroll money, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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