''Honor of the Range'' is a 1934 American

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film directed by

Alan James Alan James (March 23, 1890 – December 30, 1952) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 70 films between 1916 and 1943. He also wrote for more than 60 films between 1916 and 1951. He was born in Port Townsend ...

and starring

Ken Maynard Kenneth Olin Maynard (July 21, 1895 – March 23, 1973) was an American actor and producer. He was mostly active from the 1920s to the 1940s and considered one of the biggest Western stars in Hollywood. Maynard was also an occasional screenwrit ...

who not only plays a sheriff and his disreputable brother, but impersonates a music hall singer.

Plot

Clem the clerk conspires with a gang of outlaws to share the profits of a robbery when he gives the leader of the gang, 'Rawhide', the safe's combination. Prior to robbing the business, Rawhide telephones the Sheriff that a rancher is being attacked by a group of cattle rustlers. Upon finding out the call is a hoax, the Sheriff and his posse return to catch the robbers in the act. A gunfight ensures with most of the outlaws escaping through a hole in the floor. Clem, the Sheriff's brother is found tied up, and nearly dies when the building catches fire in the gunfight, Mr. Turner, the owner of the business discovers the robbery is an inside job when he finds the safe's combination on a note in Clem's handwriting. When the Sheriff refuses to pursue the outlaw gang until morning, one of the town folk, Boots, takes over as Sheriff and tie Ken, the old sheriff up. Meanwhile, Clem escapes and brings his girlfriend and the daughter of the business, Mary Turner to the outlaw's hideout where he demands his share of the loot.

Cast

as Sheriff Ken / Brother Clem *

Cecilia Parker Cecilia Parker (April 26, 1914 – July 25, 1993) was a Canadian-born American film actress. She was best known for portraying Marian Hardy, the sister of Andy Hardy in eleven of the Andy Hardy film series. Early life and career Cecilia ...

as Mary Turner *

Fred Kohler Fred Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor. Career Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri or in Dubuque, Iowa. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. ...

as 'Rawhide' *

Frank Hagney Frank Sidney Hagney (20 March 1884 – 25 June 1973) was an Australian actor. He is known for his work on ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946), ''Ride Him, Cowboy'' (1932) and '' The Sea Beast'' (1926). Early and career Born in Sydney, New Sou ...

as Deputy 'Boots' *

Jack Rockwell Jack Rockwell Trowbridge (October 6, 1890 – November 10, 1947) was an American film actor who was born in Mexico. He appeared in over 250 movies, mostly Westerns, between 1927 and 1947. Rockwell's older brother was character actor Charles ...

as Henchman Rocky *

James A. Marcus James A. Marcus (January 21, 1867 – October 15, 1937) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1937. He was born in New York City. On October 15, 1937, Marcus died in Hollywood, California from a myocardi ...

as Mr. Turner * Albert J. Smith as Henchman 'Smokey' * Eddie Barnes as Charlie Curzon (the vaudevillian) *

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 at ...

as Henchman Pete *

Franklyn Farnum Franklyn Farnum (born William Smith; June 5, 1878 – July 4, 1961) was an American character actor and Hollywood extra who appeared in at least 1,100 films. He was also cast in more films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture than any ot ...

as Saloonkeper *Tarzan as Tarzan, Ken's Horse

External links

* * 1934 films American black-and-white films 1934 Western (genre) films Films directed by Alan James American Western (genre) films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-Western-film-stub