A collection of action filled trailers from early westerns are included in this video. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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This is a tribute to the movie-making industry, with many film clips of, and much commentary about, several decades of...
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1988
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Buck Roberts
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1942
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Monogram's "Rough Riders" rolled along smoothly with the 1942 entry Down Texas Way. Once again, the star trio consists of...
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Buck
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1942
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Buck Roberts
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1942
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The last of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" westerns starring oldtimers Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton, West of the...
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1942
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Riders of the West is another entry in Monogram's repetitious but profitable "Rough Riders" series. Back in the saddle again...
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Buck Roberts
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1942
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The old plot device of a western "ghost town" being used as a hideout for criminals is trotted out again in Monogram's Ghost...
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Buck Roberts
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Monogram Pictures launched its lucrative "Rough Riders" western series with 1941's Arizona Bound. Producer Scott Dunlap hoped...
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Buck Roberts
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1941
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Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western,...
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1941
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Veteran action and western director Spencer G. Bennet certainly opens this the second of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders"...
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1941
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The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former...
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1941
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The "Rough Riders"-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton-are back in the saddle in Forbidden Trails. As was customary, the...
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Buck Roberts
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1941
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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Sheriff McDaniels
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1940
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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Slag Bailey
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1939
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The dangers experienced by a Pony Express rider are chronicled in this western. The hero rides between Missouri and...
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Buck Dawson
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1938
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This drama offers a fascinating backstage look at the making of westerns. The story centers around a stunt double working...
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Buck Kennedy
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1938
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Set on the eve of California's entry into the Union, this fact-based Western features Buck Jones as an undercover agent out...
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Buck Pearson
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1938
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Sudden Bill Dorn gets under way when a prospector strikes gold. Within what seems to be minutes, the entire population of a...
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Producer, Sudden Bill Dorn
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1938
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Law of the Texan is another of the above-average Buck Jones westerns produced by Coronet Films for Columbia release. Jones...
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Buck
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1938
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Produced by Coronet Productions and released by Columbia, The Stranger from Arizona represented a change of pace for cowboy...
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Buck Weylan
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1938
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Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937...
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Producer, Buck Hallett
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1937
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A mysterious rider heads off to fight evil in this western that was originally a 15-episode serial. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn...
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Producer, Buck Devlin
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1937
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Smoke Tree Range represented another winning collaboration between cowboy hero Buck Jones and his favorite director...
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Producer, Lee Cary
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1937
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Veteran western star Buck Jones both co-produced (with Lesley Selander) and directed this well-mounted Universal B-Western...
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Director, Producer, Ted Ames
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1937
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Buck Jones was his own producer on this average Universal western filmed on attractive locations in California's Kern River...
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Producer, Steve Hanson
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1937
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Producer, Alamo Bowie
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1937
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This is one of Buck Jones' most unusual sound films. Cowboy Buck Benson (Jones) is incredulous to find that his father, M.H....
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Benson
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and directed (with action expert B. Reeves Eason) this somewhat inconsistent Western about a ranger...
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Director, Producer, Alamo Bowie
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1937
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1936
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Buck Jones was producing as well as starring in his own western series by the time Ride 'Em Cowboy hit the screen. A heady...
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Producer, Jess Burns
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1936
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Western star Buck Jones essays a dual role in Boss Rider of Gun Creek. In time-honored sagebrush tradition, one of the Bucks...
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Producer, Lary Day / Gary Elliott
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Buck Jones, the auteur of the prairies, frequently wrote and/or directed his own westerns. Jones composed the screenplay for...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Steve Davis
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1936
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Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged...
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Producer, Cliff Lea
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1936
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Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout...
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Director, Producer, Buck O'Bryan
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1936
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Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers (played by Pat O'Brien...
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Producer, Reece Rivers
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1935
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In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began...
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Producer, Buck Ward
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1935
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Buck Jones' fourth Universal western, The Crimson Trail turned out to be one of his best-ever vehicles. The plot has...
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Producer, Billy Carter
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1935
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In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted...
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T. William Stone
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1935
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This better-than-average Buck Jones western stars Jones as Buck Saunders, shunned by his community because it is believed...
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Producer, Buck Saunders
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1935
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Westerner Buck Jones heads to the Great White North in Border Brigands. Jones plays Canadian Mountie Tim Barry, who always...
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Lt. Tim Barry
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1935
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Rocky Rhodes was Buck Jones' first western vehicle for Universal Pictures. Evidently inheriting a leftover script from...
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Producer, Rocky Rhodes
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1934
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The second entry in Buck Jones' Universal western series, When a Man Sees Red casts Jones as the foreman of a ranch owned by...
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Producer
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1934
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At the time of its release, Fighting Code was praised as being markedly different from the general run of Buck Jones...
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1934
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A remake of the earlier The Lone Rider (1930), The Man Trailer once again starred Buck Jones as Track Ames, a fugitive from a...
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1934
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Jim
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1934
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Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his...
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1933
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Yankee Buck Jones turns into a south-of-the-border Robin Hood in this fine, if flawed, Western from Columbia Pictures....
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Santa Fe Stewart
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1933
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The first of five Western serials Buck Jones was to make for Universal, this film was based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, Oh,...
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1933
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This dark, brooding ancestor to Hang 'Em High features Buck Jones as a happy-go-lucky cowpoke who is duped by a gang of...
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Camp O'Neill
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1933
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Columbia's Buck Jones western series was winding down when Unknown Valley was released in mid-1934. Jones plays Bob Gordon,...
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Joe Gordon
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1933
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On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child...
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Panama Kelly
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1933
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In this unusual Western, Buck Jones is not only branded for being a "squaw stealer" (i.e. rapist) but his prey is a woman...
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1933
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An average Buck Jones oater from Columbia Pictures, Forbidden Trail featured a girl newspaper publisher, Mary Middleton...
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Tom Devlin
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1932
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In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw...
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White Eagle
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1932
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Buck Jones took a break from his cowboy duties to play a speedway driver in this highly implausible but fast-paced action...
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1932
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In this western a falsely accused convict is paroled. He goes home and finds himself ostracized by his neighbors who believe...
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Buck Donlin
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1932
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More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a...
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1932
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In his first Western for 1932, Buck Jones went mostly for laughs playing a former Texas ranger inheriting an Arizona ranch...
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1932
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Filmed in the San Jacinto Mountains above Palm Springs, CA, this Buck Jones series entry was publicized as the first talkie...
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1932
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In this western, a Chicago slicker begins grabbing land and using it to scam city dwellers by selling it first to locals,...
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1932
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A highly unusual Buck Jones Western, South of the Rio Grande featured the spectacle of Jones playing a Mexican Rurales...
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1932
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Every so often, western star Buck Jones got it in his head that he could play a Mexican, and never mind that his accent...
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1931
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A well-paced early sound Western, Border Law features Buck Jones) as Jim Houston, a Texas Ranger going undercover as a...
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1931
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Buck Jones is supported by a very young John Wayne in this fine Western from his early years at Columbia Pictures. They play...
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Sheriff Buck Gordon
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1931
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On his way to claim an inheritance, Tom, aka Cuthbert Chauncey Dale (Buck Jones), and his pal "Swede" (John Oscar) witness a...
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1931
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A fine early sound Western, this Buck Jones series entry from his Columbia period told the well-known story of a feud between...
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1931
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After unsuccessfully impersonating a Mexican in his previous The Avenger, cowboy star Buck Jones returned to form in The...
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1931
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In this western, the leader of an outlaw band gets conned on a steamship voyage. To get revenge he holds the con man's...
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Jim Cardew
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1931
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Buck Jones falls in love with the sister of the outlaw he has just killed in this superior B-Western from independent...
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Bob Terry
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1931
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Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has...
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Buck Healy
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1930
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Buck Jones' first sound western, The Lone Rider, was not a rousing success. The former Fox star had left that studio at the...
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Jim Lanning
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1930
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The second in a series of Buck Jones westerns produced by Sol Lesser for Columbia release, Shadow Ranch is the story of a...
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1930
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In one of his final Westerns for the Fox company, Buck Jones promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert...
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1928
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Rancher Buck Jones goes undercover as a ranch hand on his own spread in this fairly well-paced silent Western, the last under...
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1927
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A simple but well-received silent Western, this film starred popular Buck Jones as a young rancher tracking down the rustler...
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1927
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Buck Jones stars as Buck Laramie, an itinerant cowpoke who wanders into a wide-open frontier town. Heroine Ellen Wade...
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Laramie
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1927
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Buck Jones stars as Black Jack, a clever if somewhat larcenous gambler who finds willing suckers wherever he goes. After...
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1927
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Starring Buck Jones, Fox's second-string cowboy hero, this fine silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized...
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Buck Kildare
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1927
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Based on "The Owner of the Aztec", a 1926 magazine story by Murray Leinster, this typical silent Buck Jones Western presented...
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Buck Brady
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1927
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When cowboy Buck Thomas' (Buck Jones) beloved horse Silver is "drafted" into the Cavalry during WWI, Buck loyally joins up as...
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Screen Story, Buck Thomas
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1927
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Energetic cowboy Buck Jones is almost swindled out of his valuable land in this above-average silent Western produced by Fox....
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Larry Crawford
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1926
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Based on a 1921 story by Jackson Gregory, this silent Western starred Buck Jones as Montgomery Wilson Fitzsmith, a roaming...
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Fitzsmith
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1926
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Once again the battle between cattle ranchers and encroaching sheep farmers takes center stage in a silent western, this time...
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Wils McCann
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1926
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Comedy and thrills are doled out in equal measure in the Buck Jones western The Gentle Cyclone. The story is motivated by a...
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Wales
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1926
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With Tom Mix already having explored Arabia, it was only natural that Fox's other cowboy star, Buck Jones, should visit the...
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Jerry Whipple
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1926
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Based on Dark Rosaleen, a serialized novel by Max Brand (pen name of Frederick Faust), this fine silent Western starred a...
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1926
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1926
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The Fox company signed young Carole Lombard (billing her "Carol") to a contract after she tested for and won the female lead...
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Hal Emory
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1925
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Charles "Buck" Jones, normally a heroic Western star, takes a surprising turn by playing a shiftless rural character in this...
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Lazybones
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1925
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A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands starred Buck Jones in the title role, a rancher falsely...
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1925
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Buck Jones and Elinor Fair starred in this average Fox western directed by future MGM ace Woody S. Van Dyke. Jones plays a...
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Bruce Standing
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1925
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To spite her domineering father, Eastern girl Lucy Fox pursues an unsuitable suitor to a small Western hamlet where she...
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Tom Long
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1925
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The Fox company, who championed Buck Jones as Western star Tom Mix's possible heir, began cutting back a bit with Gold and...
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1925
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Fox's also-ran cowboy star Buck Jones played a prospector falsely accused of murder in this silent Western, which benefitted...
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1924
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This is a rather confusing silent Western melodrama in which Jack Mills (Buck Jones) comes to the aid of a friend, Bud Loupel...
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1924
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Cowboy Buck Saxon (Buck Jones) is falsely accused of attempting to murder his rival in love (Jack McDonald) and is on the run...
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1924
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Although cowboy star Buck Jones plays a prizefighter in this drama, he's only getting in the ring to pay for a ranch -- which...
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Perry Blair
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1924
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Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a...
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1924
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Publicized as "A Red-Hot Romance of the Western Plains," this above-average Buck Jones oater features the rootin' tootin'...
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Tex Hartwell
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1924
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William Scott inherits half of a valuable mine from a friend, and prospector Matt Black (Buck Jones) goes undercover as a...
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Matt Black
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1924
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The Fox company's number two cowboy star (Tom Mix was, of course, top of the heap) Buck Jones starred as a cowboy who comes...
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1924
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Fox Western star Buck Jones enjoyed a change of pace in this boxing melodrama directed by a young William Wellman. Returning...
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Dan O'Hara
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1923
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This stereotypical rural tale wastes the talents of Charles "Buck" Jones, who was far better off in Westerns, where he would...
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1923
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Billed "Charles Jones" for the occasion, Fox cowboy Buck Jones found himself on Broadway in this silent melodrama. He played...
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1923
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Even though this Western used the convenient "dream" premise, it still managed to please audiences. Cowboy Tod Musgrave...
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1923
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In this simple little romantic drama, Charles "Buck" Jones plays fireman Andy McGee. McGee becomes a fireman over the...
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1923
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Pioneering film producer William Fox turned Jackson Gregory's 1919 Wild West story The Bells of San Juan into a strong silent...
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1922
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A drifter, Racey Dawson (Buck Jones) falls for pretty Molly Dale (Eileen Percy), the daughter of alcoholic rancher Henry Dale...
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1922
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In this silent Western "whodunit," a very young Buck Jones stars as Conroy Daley, a young man whose uncle offers him a job on...
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1922
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Western star Buck Jones is a foreman who catches a gang of cattle rustlers in this standard silent oater. Steel Brannon...
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1922
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Western ace Buck Jones had one of his best early roles in this well-mounted silent action melodrama directed by...
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1922
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About the only thing that separated this Northwoods drama from the other several dozen that were released during 1922 was...
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1922
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Buck
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1921
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In somewhat of a departure from his usual fare, Western star Buck Jones played a Scottish coal miner-turned-Northwest Mounted...
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1921
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Silent screen Western hero Buck Jones starred in this average assembly-line oater as a young rancher searching for the...
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Tom Merrill
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1921
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Played mostly for laughs, this silent Buck Jones Western featured the star as "The Mediator," a drifter who manages to...
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1921
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Duke Travis (Buck Jones) is the new foreman on a ranch run by pretty Bess Lynne (Ruth Renick) and her brother...
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Duke Travis
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1921
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A small Western community is terrorized by an unscrupulous empire-builder (G. Raymond Nye) in this early Buck Jones Western...
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Jim Blake
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1921
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This picture was a departure, both for star Buck Jones and director John Ford (in those days known as Jack Ford). Instead of...
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1920
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After being away for several years, Chick Crandall (cowboy star Buck Jones) returns to his ranch in Arizona to find that the...
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1920
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Buck Jones played a cowboy helping a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this...
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1920
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