Andy ClydeFilmography

The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry Goes Bankrupt

Actors: Andy Clyde, Dick Elliott

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy is forced by the indignant taxpayers of Mayberry to evict old Frank Myers (Andy Myers), the poorest man in town. While helping Frank pack, Andy comes across an old document: A bond worth nearly $350,000. Suddenly, the townsfolk can't do enough to curry Frank's favor, even unto fixing Read More

Love That Bob: Grandpa's Old Buddy

The Road to Denver

Actors: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Lee J. Cobb, Ray Middleton, Skip Homeier, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: Though running 90 minutes, Road to Denver moves along at a much faster clip than most Republic "A" westerns. John Payne and Skip Homeier star as the Mayhew brothers, Bill and Sam. Tired of pulling his headstrong younger brother Sam out of his various scrapes, Bill heads off to Denver alone. Here Read More

Carolina Cannonball

Actors: Judy Canova, Andy Clyde, Ross Elliott, Sig Rumann, Leon Askin

Synopsis: Cornpone comedienne Judy Canova tackles a science-fiction theme in Carolina Cannonball, her last starring vehicle for Republic Pictures. This time, Canova and her grandpa Andy Clyde comprise the entire population of the ghost town of Roaring Gulch. They put food on the table by operating the Read More

Lover Boy

Abilene Trail

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Tommy Farrell, Steve Clark, Noel Neill

Synopsis: Whip Wilson rides again in the Monogram western Abilene Trail. Wilson and his grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde are accused of horse stealing, a hangin' offense around these here parts. Eluding the authorities, the boys take jobs at a ranch where the real crook is hiding out. Between whip-cracking Read More

Arizona Territory

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Nancy Saunders, Dennis Moore, John Merton

Synopsis: Whip Wilson, Monogram Pictures' clone of PRC's bullwhip champ Jack LaRue, stars in Arizona Territory. Wilson plays the pal of US marshal Andy Clyde, who is kept busy tracking down a counterfeiting ring. Wilson goes undercover to get the goods on the bad guys. When all else fails, he flails-his Read More

Cherokee Uprising

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Lois Hall, Sam Flint, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: The title insurrection in this low-budget Whip Wilson Western consists mainly of Iron Eyes Cody, who is conspiring to raid the wagon trains with crooked sheriff Marshall Reed and nefarious Indian agent Forrest Taylor. Investigating the presumed revolt, the whip-wielding Wilson and grizzled Read More

Fence Riders

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Myron Healey, Riley Hill

Synopsis: Whip Wilson and Andy Clyde are back and Monogram's got 'em in Fence Riders. The Whipster comes to the aid of beautiful ranch owner Reno Browne, who is being victimized by rustlers Myron Healey and Riley Hill. To get Wilson out of the way, the villains frame him on a murder rap. With the aid of Read More

Silver Raiders

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Leonard Penn, Dennis Moore, Virginia Herrick

Synopsis: Whip Wilson stars in the formula Monogram western Silver Raiders. Cast as Arizona ranger Larry, Wilson goes undercover to catch a gang of silver smugglers. He almost gets away with his subterfuge, but when the bad guys kidnap a Mexican girl (Patricia Rios), he is forced to tip his hand. Andy Clyde Read More

Outlaws of Texas

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Phyllis Coates, Terry Frost, Stanley Price

Synopsis: Monogram's Outlaws of Texas is surprisingly bereft of the action highlights one might expect from star Whip Wilson. This time, the Whip and his saddle pal Andy Clyde play heroes Tom and Hungry who work undercover to break up a gang of bank robbers. As a novelty, the crooks are headed by the Read More

Gunslingers

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Sarah Padden, Bill Kennedy

Synopsis: Gunslingers is another of Monogram's Whip Wilson western series, built around the bullwhip-wielding skills of its star. This time, Wilson and his saddle pal Andy Clyde come to the rescue of a group of ranchers who are being victimized by villain Ace Larabee (Douglas Kennedy). Ace has inside Read More

Range Land

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Leonard Penn, John Cason

Synopsis: Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits. The robberies are being staged by a "solid citizen" who hopes to accumulate a fortune in gold bars. Whip Read More

Crashing Thru

Synopsis: Western star Whip Wilson stars in the Monogram oater Crashing Thru. He periodically displays his whip-wielding skill (which far outclasses his acting ability) to bring a gang of rustlers to heel. In so doing, he rescues Christine Larson from financial ruin and physical danger. Wilson's comic Read More

Riders of the Dusk

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Lee Roberts, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Riders of the Dusk is another of Monogram's formula Whip Wilson westerns. Since the studio couldn't build an entire film around Wilson's bullwhip prowess, a plot was called for. This time around, it's the one about a U.S. marshal who searches high and low for a mysterious masked desperado. The Read More

Haunted Trails

Synopsis: Haunted Trails is another of the long series of Whip Wilson westerns churned out by Monogram in the late 1940s. As before, Wilson is aided and abetted by grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde, who acts the leading man right off the screen. This is no accident: Adele Buffington's screenplay makes certain Read More

Shadows of the West

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Riley Hill, Reno Browne, Bill Kennedy

Synopsis: Even his cinematic rival Lash LaRue allowed that Whip Wilson was one of the best whip wielders in the movies. Shadows of the West was Wilson's second starring vehicle for Monogram, and as in the first, Crashing Thru, the star is teamed with seasoned sagebrush funster Andy Clyde. The Whipster plays Read More

Strange Gamble

Actors: Andy Clyde

Synopsis: In this the final Hopalong Cassidy Western, Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) search for the leaders of a counterfeiting ring after receiving a tip from an anonymous source whose signature is a pencil sketch of a comet. In Silver City, they help Read More

Dangerous Venture

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Fritz Leiber, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the ancient Aztecs. However, a gang of crooks are trying to discredit the claim by dressing up as Indians to commit crimes. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) must rescue the Read More

Silent Conflict

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Virginia Belmont, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: Hypnotism and mind control take center stage in this unusual latter-day "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry produced by its star, William Boyd. Having delivered a herd of cattle for the Cattlemen's Association, Hoppy (Boyd) and California (Andy Clyde) are confronted by a strangely moody Lucky Jenkins Read More

Sinister Journey

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty much the same as he did when the series started in 1936, is back as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde and Rand Brooks as his cohorts California and Lucky, respectively. Like most of the Read More

Borrowed Trouble

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: "This town ain't big enough to hold both of us," saloon owner Dink Davis (Cliff Clark) tells his new rival Steve Mawson (John Phillips) in the opening of this lighthearted Hopalong Cassidy Western. Schoolmarm Lucy Abbott (Anne O'Neal) couldn't agree more; in fact, the spinsterish teacher is Read More

False Paradise

Actors: Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Returning to the scenic splendor of Lone Pine's Alabama Hills, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) tries to help retired entomology professor Alonzo Larson (Joel Friedkin) and his daughter Anne (Elaine Riley), who have purchased a seemingly worthless piece of land, The Paradise Ranch. Larson has paid Read More

The Dead Don't Dream

Actors: Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, John Parrish, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: The Last Chance Inn, the main locality in this latter-day Hopalong Cassidy Western, certainly lives up to its name. A prospector has mysteriously disappeared after spending a night there and now Lucky Jenkins' (Rand Brooks) prospective "uncle-in-law," another guest, has vanished as well. Hopalong Read More

Unexpected Guest

Actors: Rand Brooks, Andy Clyde, Patricia Tate, John Parrish

Synopsis: Reading-of-the-will melodramatics substitute for the usual B-Western shootin' and fightin' in this late entry in the long running Hopalong Cassidy series, which has sidekick California Carlson (Andy Clyde) as one of six heirs to the supposedly worthless Baxter property. During the reading of Hiram Read More

Hoppy's Holiday

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Victor Jory, Rand Brooks, Andrew Tombes, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde) and Lucky (Rand Brooks) can partake in various amusements, the stay becomes more of an ordeal than a holiday when the local bank is robbed during a square-dance competition. Read More

Marauders

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Ian Wolfe, Dorinda Clifton

Synopsis: There's oil in them thar hills in this late entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series. Or, rather, there is oil under an abandoned church in the ghost town of Coltsville. On their way back to the Bar 20, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his two sidekicks, California Carlson Read More

That Texas Jamboree

Synopsis: Breaking with tradition, and despite its up to the minute country & western soundtrack, this Ken Curtis musical Western is set in the Old West of 1890. Jean Warren (Jeff Donnell) and her father Andy (Andy Clyde) arrive with their travelling medicine show in the town of Crescent City. Their arrival Read More

The Plainsman and the Lady

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Andy Clyde, William B. Davidson, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western. William Elliot (formerly and latterly "Wild Bill" Elliot) stars as cattleman Sam Cotten, who offers his services-and his six-guns-to the newly formed Pony Express. Erudite villain Read More

Fool's Gold

Actors: Stephen Barclay, Bob Bentley, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Rand Brooks, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first (Devil's Playground), though it's a step down from the vintage Cassidy films of the late 1930s-early 1940s. Once again, Hoppy (Boyd) is teamed with California Carson (Andy Read More

The Green Years

Actors: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: The Green Years was an important rung in the career of child actor Dean Stockwell. He stars as a morose young Irish lad, raised by ultra-strict Scottish relatives of his late mother. He is drawn out of his shell by roguish great-grandfather Charles Coburn. In time, Stockwell grows up to be Tom Drake Read More

Throw a Saddle on a Star

Synopsis: The "star" in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by cowboy Curt Walker (Ken Curtis) to ride in the Big Rodeo. Unscrupulous John Burton (Robert Stevens) has bet against Curt and does his best to sabotage the event. When lovely Barbara Allen (Adelle Roberts Read More

Devil's Playground

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, Robert Elliott

Synopsis: After a two-year absence, the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series returned with The Devil's Playground. William Boyd, now executive-producer of the series, returns as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde as California Carson and Rand Brooks as Lucky Jenkins. More plot-oriented than earlier Cassidy efforts, Devil's Playground Read More

Song of the Prairie

Synopsis: In this, the second of eight Ken Curtis music Westerns produced by Columbia, the country band the Hoosier Hots Shots arrive in the wild and woolly West to partake in Dan Tyler's (Curtis) "Painted Post Barn Show." Dan auditions and hires girl-singer Joan Smith (June Storey), unaware that she is Read More

Roughly Speaking

Actors: Ray Collins, Kathleen Lockhart, Ann E. Todd, Andy Clyde, Rosalind Russell, Robert Hutton

Synopsis: This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own autobiographical novel. Rosalind Russell is cast as young Louise Randall, the headstrong daughter of a New England merchant. Inheriting her father's business, Louise intends to Read More

Forty Thieves

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Douglas Dumbrille, Louise Currie

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running western series, Hoppy is running for sheriff and is beaten by the yellow-belly who had garnered the support of the local outlaws. Hoppy stands by for a while and watches as the once law-abiding town becomes a veritable den of inequity. Finally, unable to stand it Read More

Lumberjack

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Herbert Rawlinson, Ellen Hall

Synopsis: Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series. In this one, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pals California (Andy Clyde) and Jimmy (Jimmy Rogers) come to the rescue of recently widowed Julie (Ellen Hall). It so happens that Read More

Mystery Man

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Don Costello, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: An above-average entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series, the enigmatically titled Mystery Man opens with Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), Jimmy Rogers, and the Bar 20 cowboys driving a herd of cattle to the Circle J. Ranch, whose owner, Tom Hanlon (Bob Read More

Sundown Riders

Actors: Russell Wade, Jay Kirby, Andy Clyde, Evelyn Finley, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: The Sundown Riders was the first in a brief series of "experimental" westerns, designed for the then-burgeoning 16-millimeter home-movie and classroom market. RKO contractee Russell Wade teams with "Hopalong Cassidy" alumni Jay Kirby and Andy Clyde, portraying the "Sundown Riders". Their first Read More

Texas Masquerade

Actors: Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Mady Correll, Don Costello

Synopsis: William Boyd once again dons the disguise of a fop in this average entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. The masquerade helps Hoppy and sidekicks California Carlson (Andy Clyde) and Jimmy Rogers get to the bottom of some dirty dealings in the Texas town of Glenby. A vicious Read More

The Leather Burners

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory, George Givot

Synopsis: A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of cattle rustlers who have murdered his neighbor, former Bar 20 ranch hand Johnny Travers (Jay Kirby) sends for old friends Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and California Read More

False Colors

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Tom Seidel, Claudia Drake, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: A young Bar 20 cowboy is killed in this fine Hopalong Cassidy Western directed by the efficient George Archainbaud. Having signed an agreement making Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Jimmy Rogers part owners of his ranch, young Bud Lawton (Tom Seidel) is promptly killed Read More

Hoppy Serves a Writ

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory, George Reeves

Synopsis: Best known today as Robert Mitchum's screen-acting debut, this fine entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy series features the silver-haired hero (William Boyd) as a Texas lawman posing as a gambler in order to track down a gang of highwaymen and cattle rustlers who have found refuge in Read More

Colt Comrades

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, George Reeves, Gayle Lord, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his saddle pals California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny (Jay Kirby) use a large amount of reward money to buy their own ranch. But despotic Jebb Hardin (Victor Jory), who Read More

Riders of the Deadline

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Richard Crane, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Two newcomers, Robert Mitchum and Richard Crane, take center stage in this lavishly budgeted entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy series. The latter plays Tim Mason, a young hothead about to be inducted into the Texas Rangers on the behest of his good friend, Hoppy (William Boyd). Read More

Border Patrol

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Duncan Renaldo, Claudia Drake

Synopsis: Though released after Hoppy Serves a Writ, the 1943 Hopalong Cassidy entry Border Patrol was filmed first, to capitalize on America's new "Good Neighbor Policy" with Mexico. Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pals California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny (Jay Kirby), investigate a group of crooks who've been Read More

Bar-20

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, George Reeves, Victor Jory, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: At 54 minutes, Bar 20 is the shortest of the 1943 quota of Hopalong Cassidy pictures. William Boyd, Andy Clyde and George Reeves return to their series roles as Hopalong Cassidy, California Carson and Lin Bradley. Also on hand for villainous purposes is Victor Jory, who'd menaced Hoppy and his Read More

Lost Canyon

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Jay Kirby, Andy Clyde, Lola Lane, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a Hoppy associate framed for a bank robbery and supposedly killed during the ensuing chase. Johnny, however, to Hoppy and California Carlson's (Andy Clyde) great relief Read More

Undercover Man

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Antonio Moreno, Nora Lane

Synopsis: Undercover Man was the first of the "Hopalong Cassidy" series to be released by United Artists rather than Paramount. William Boyd and Andy Clyde return as saddle pals Hoppy and California, while Jay Kirby is cast as their partner-in-adventure Breezy. This time, Hoppy and company take on a gang of Read More

This Above All

Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter. Tyrone Power plays Clive Briggs, a conscientious objector from humble origins, who deserts the British Army because he doesn't believe in fighting to preserve his country's Read More

Pirates on Horseback

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: Producer Harry Sherman once again brought the "Hopalong Cassidy" unit to picturesque Lone Pine, CA, and the result was yet another tidy little sagebrush oater about the search for a missing gold mine. California Carlson (Andy Clyde) learns that his only remaining relative, Ben Pendleton (Britt Read More

Border Vigilantes

Actors: Wally Wales, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Russell Hayden, Frances Gifford, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd stars once more as black-clad champion of justice Hopalong Cassidy, while Andy Clyde and Russell Hayden tag along as California Carson and Lucky Jenkins. This time our heroes Read More

Doomed Caravan

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: This Hopalong Cassidy western finds Hoppy (William Boyd), Lucky (Russell Hayden) and California (Andy Clyde) trying to save Minna Gombell's wagon-freighting line. Bad guys Morris Ankrum and Trevor Bardette (five points to anyone who can tell these mustachioed miscreants apart) plan to sabotage Read More

Outlaws of the Desert

Actors: Andy Clyde, Brad King, Forrest Stanley, Jean Phillips

Synopsis: Ever on the lookout for original story ideas, the producers of the "Hopalong Cassidy" series came up with a lulu in Outlaws of the Desert. In this one, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his saddle pals Johnny (Brad King) and California (Andy Clyde), is assigned by the US government to head to Arabia, there Read More

Riders of the Timberline

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Brad King, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart

Synopsis: Riders of the Timberline was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. To keep things from getting stale, star William Boyd and producer Harry Sherman began plunking Hoppy into non-western environs in the early 1940s (including, at one point, the Arabian desert!) Timberline takes Read More

Twilight on the Trail

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Wanda McKay, Jack Rockwell

Synopsis: Twilight on the Trail was one of three "Hopalong Cassidy" entries tradeshown in New York during the last two weeks of September, 1941 (the other two were Stick to Your Guns and Secret of the Wastelands). William Boyd returns as Hoppy, with Brad King and Andy Clyde as his sidekicks Johny and Read More

Stick to Your Guns

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Henry Hall

Synopsis: Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his buddies Johnny (Brad King) and California (Andy Clyde) take on a gang of rustlers in Stick to Your Guns. To throw the bad guys off the track, Hoppy and his companions pretend to be rustlers themselves and infiltrate the gang. Their mission is complicated Read More

In Old Colorado

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Maggie Hayes, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: The cast and crew of Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" Westerns returned once again to Lone Pine's famous Alabama Hills for this above-average entry in the long-running series. Ma Woods (Sarah Padden) is about to lose her ranch due to the machinations of the not so neighborly George Davidson (Stanley Read More

Secrets of the Wastelands

Actors: Brad King, Andy Clyde, Barbara Britton, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: Secrets of the Wasteland is a lesser "Hopalong Cassidy" western, with talk taking precedence over action. This time, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pals Johnny (Brad King) and California (Andy Clyde) head out on an archeological expedition. While encamped in the San Fernando Valley, our heroes come Read More

Wide Open Town

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Evelyn Brent, Victor Jory

Synopsis: A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former silent screen star Evelyn Brent. Along with his sidekicks, Lucky (Russell Hayden) and California (Andy Clyde), Hoppy (William Boyd) is searching for the gang that killed a Read More

Cherokee Strip

Actors: Richard Dix, Florence Rice, Victor Jory, Andy Clyde, George E. Stone

Synopsis: Though not based on a Zane Grey story, The Cherokee Strip fits in thematically with producer Harry Sherman's Grey series. Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is Read More

Three Men from Texas

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Morris Ankrum, Morgan Wallace

Synopsis: The three men of the title in this superior B-Western are Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), Lucky Jenkins (Russell Hayden), and, making his series debut, grizzled old California Carlson (Andy Clyde). Carlson is the braggart cook of the Gardner outfit, a gang preying on defenseless ranchers, but Read More

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Actors: Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Mary Howard, Dorothy Tree

Synopsis: Raymond Massey plays Abe Lincoln in this moving adaptation of Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Expanded a bit for cinematic purposes, the film traces Lincoln's progress from his days of scrambling for a living as a woodsman, to his courtship of the tragic Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) Read More

Bad Lands

Actors: Robert H. Barrat, Noah Beery, Jr., Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Douglas Walton, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert. The year is 1875: A posse headed by sheriff Robert Barrat is held at bay by Apache warriors. Following the pattern established by the Ford film, the posse members are Read More

Crashing Thru

Actors: James Newill, Warren Hull, Jean Carmen, Milburn Stone, Walter Byron

Synopsis: This adventure is the last entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series. This time the tuneful Mountie travels to the north woods where he must thwart an American mobster's plot to swipe a large gold shipment. Interspersed amongst the action are two songs: "You're Easy on the Eyes," and "Crimson Read More

It's a Wonderful World

Actors: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Frances Drake, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still quite green and a bit of a bumbler. Guy is hired to keep a close watch on Willie Heyward (Ernest Truex), a footloose millionaire with a habit of getting into trouble. One Read More

Borderland

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, George "Gabby" Hayes, Charlene Wyatt

Synopsis: An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough Mexican border town in order to trap a notorious bandit known only as The Fox. Not even sidekicks Johnny Nelson (James Ellison) and Windy (George "Gabby" Hayes) are in on Read More

The Barrier

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison, Robert H. Barrat, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: A pageant-like Rex Beach story was the source of the 1937 western The Barrier. Leo Carrillo is top-billed, but the main character is half-breed girl Jean Parker. Actually, Parker is a full-blooded white woman; she has been raised to believe that she is of mixed blood by Robert H. Barrat, who has Read More

Two in a Crowd

Actors: Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Elisha Cook, Jr., Alison Skipworth, Reginald Denny

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat broke, each find one-half of a $1000 banknote. They decide to invest their windfall in a race horse and jockey, in hopes of financing a theatrical career for Julia and a new Read More

Yellow Dust

Actors: Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olsen, Jessie Ralph, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: College mineralologist Bob (Richard Dix) decides to put his education to good use by prospecting for gold out West. Teaming with desert rat Solitaire (Andy Clyde), Bob strikes it rich, but while en route to town to stake their claim, he stops long enough to rescue Nellie (Leila Hyams) from a gang Read More

Straight from the Shoulder

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Katherine Locke, David Holt, Andy Clyde, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: Curt Hayden (Ralph Bellamy), a witness from the mob, is hidden away in a remote mountain cabin for his own safety. Accompanying Hayden is his young son Johnny (David Holt), who resents his father for planning to remarry. But Johnny loyally rushes to his dad's defense when a pair of gunmen invade Read More

Annie Oakley

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston S. Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie. Coming down from the hills of Ohio, Annie rises to fame with Buffalo Bill's (Moroni Olsen) Wild West Show. Her success as a performer is counterpointed by her stormy romance Read More

Village Tale

Actors: Randolph Scott, Kay Johnson, Arthur Hohl, Robert H. Barrat, Janet Beecher

Synopsis: This drama presents a dim view of life in a small town populated by back-stabbing, narrow-minded, hypocritical and maliciously gossipy bigots who meet at the town general store to spread their vicious lies. The current slander centers upon a young man who has an innocent crush on another man's Read More

Red Lights Ahead

Synopsis: A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Read More

McFadden's Flats

Actors: Walter "Judge" Kelly, Andy Clyde, Richard Cromwell, Jane Darwell, Betty Furness

Synopsis: Based on a barnstorming stage play by Gus Hill, McFadden's Flat seemed charmingly anachronistic in the mid-1935s. Walter C. Kelly, the "Virginia Judge" of vaudeville fame, adopts a molasses-thick Irish brogue as Dan McFadden, philosophical small-town bricklayer. McFadden spends most of his time Read More

The Little Minister

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare

Synopsis: Based on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since Little Women. John Beal plays the Reverend Gavin, the sobersided new cleric of a tiny Scottish village. Almost against his better judgment, Beal falls in love with Babbie (Hepburn Read More

Romance in Manhattan

Actors: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Butler, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: Ginger Rogers and Francis Lederer share equal billing -- and near-equal screen time -- in this amiable RKO programmer. Lederer plays Karel Novak, an incredibly naïve Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia Dennis (Rogers). With the help of lovable Read More

Dora's Dunkin' Donuts

Synopsis: Despite Shirley Temple's over-the-title billing, the real star of Dora's Dunkin' Doughnuts is Andy Clyde playing Andy Wilson, a small town teacher in love with Dora, the local baker. Dora calls him away from his class one day to let him know that she has created the perfect doughnut -- one that Read More

The Giddy Age

Million Dollar Legs

Actors: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Susan Fleming

Synopsis: "Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and Nuts." This introductory title ushers in Million Dollar Legs, one of the zaniest comedies ever to emerge from a major studio. W.C. Fields stars as the president of Read More

Ghost Parade

Hello, Television

Should a Girl Marry?

Actors: Helen Foster, Donald Keith, William V. Mong

Synopsis: A part-talkie from poverty row studio Trem Carr Productions, Should a Girl Marry? answered its own question with a resounding "Yes!" But first, like Helen Foster's Alice Dunn, she should make sure her blackmailing father-in-law-to-be (William V. Mong) is convicted of robbing his own bank. Donald Keith Read More

Midnight Daddies

Actors: Harry Gribbon, Andy Clyde, Alma Bennett, Rosemary Theby

Ships of the Night

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Jack Mower, Andy Clyde, Arthur Rankin

Synopsis: A typical Poverty Row potboiler, this minor silent action melodrama featured Jacqueline Logan as a young woman searching for her wayward brother (Arthur Rankin), who is falsely accused of murder and on the lam. Along the way, Miss Logan encounters untold dangers from a maniacal Chinese warlord Read More

The Good-Bye Kiss

Actors: John Burke, Sally Eilers, Matty Kemp, Wheeler Oakman, Carmelita Geraghty

Synopsis: At 9 reels, The Good-Bye Kiss was comedy producer Mack Sennett's most ambitious feature to date. Eschewing the usual Sennett slapstick, the film is a romantic seriocomedy with a WW I background. Sally Eilers plays a young girl who follows her soldier boyfriend (Johnny Burke) to the front. He is Read More

Branded Man

Actors: Charles Delaney, Erin La Bissoniere, Gordon Griffith, Lucy Beaumont, June Marlowe

Synopsis: Wealthy collegiate Charles Delaney inherits a row of tenement buildings in the city's slum district. Visiting his new acquisition, he meets and falls in love with tenement girl Erin La Bissoniere. He marries her and sets her up in a posh home in the suburbs, where she soon attracts the attentions Read More

The Swim Princess

Blindfold

Actors: George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Earl Foxe, Don Terry, Maria Alba

Synopsis: Blindfold is a crime drama that gets off to a lively (if unbelievable) start when a dedicated cop deliberately gets himself knocked off by the villains so that the hero, ex-cop George O'Brien, will seek vengeance. Things get even more incredible when heroine Lois Moran develops amnesia and joins a Read More

Best Man

Caution: Funny Men at Work!

Synopsis: These vintage silent comedies from Mack Sennett include A Strong Revenge (1913) A Sea Dog's Tale (1926), Sailor, Beware (1927) and The Channel Swimmer (1928). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Ships in the Night

Synopsis: Mower helps Logan find her brother, the victim of pirates. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Sea Dog's Tale

Water Wagons

Actors: Andy Clyde, Sid Smith

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Synopsis: This film from 1925 features Billy Bevan trying to deal with radio-controlled Model-T Fords. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Picking Peaches

Actors: Harry Langdon

The Desperate Scoundrel

The Lizzies of Mack Sennett