''Paradise Valley'' is a 1934 American
western film
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...
directed by
James P. Hogan and starring
Jean Chatburn,
Wheeler Oakman
Wheeler Oakman (born Vivian Eichelberger; February 21, 1890 – March 19, 1949) was an American film actor.
Early years
Oakman was born as Vivian Eichelberger in Washington, D.C., and educated in that city's schools. He grew up in Fairfax, Virg ...
and
Walter Brennan
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in '' Come and Get It'' (1936), ''Kentucky'' (1938), and '' The Westerner ...
. It was an
independent
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* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independ ...
production made on
Poverty Row
Poverty Row is a slang term used to refer to Hollywood films produced from the 1920s to the 1950s by small (and mostly short-lived) B movie studios. Although many of them were based on (or near) today's Gower Street in Hollywood, the term did n ...
.
[Pitts p.181]
Synopsis
A
radio
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singer
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tires of life in the big city and moves into the country in a valley where a long-standing battle has been raging between
sheepherders
A shepherd or sheepherder is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. ''Shepherd'' derives from Old English ''sceaphierde (''sceap'' 'sheep' + ''hierde'' ' herder'). ''Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations, ...
and
cattlemen
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. His dog Gandhi is quickly but wrongly suspected of killing sheep.
Cast
*Sam Pierce as 'Wing' Bonner
*
Jean Chatburn as Peggy Crawford
*
Wheeler Oakman
Wheeler Oakman (born Vivian Eichelberger; February 21, 1890 – March 19, 1949) was an American film actor.
Early years
Oakman was born as Vivian Eichelberger in Washington, D.C., and educated in that city's schools. He grew up in Fairfax, Virg ...
as 'Smiley' Mason
*
Arthur Loft
Arthur Loft (May 25, 1897 – January 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1932 and 1947.
Biography
He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred ...
as Sanchez
*
Jimmy Aubrey
Jimmy Aubrey (23 October 1887 – 2 September 1983) was an English actor who worked with both Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, having gone with Fred Karno's theatrical company to America in 1908. However he left to start on his own in v ...
as Scotty
*
Si Jenks
Si Jenks (born Howard Hansell Jenkins; September 23, 1876 – January 6, 1970) was an American actor. He was involved in 224 films in a career spanning nearly two decades in vaudeville and films.
His best known appearances includes ''The ...
as Si
* Donny Baker as Jimmy Crawford
* Aleth Hansen as Lazy Bones
*
Walter Brennan
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in '' Come and Get It'' (1936), ''Kentucky'' (1938), and '' The Westerner ...
as Farmer Hiram
* Don Paul as Singing Cowboy
* The Beverly Hillbillies as Western Band
* Zanda the Dog as Gandhi
References
Bibliography
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940''. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
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1934 films
1934 Western (genre) films
1930s English-language films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by James Patrick Hogan
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
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