Jack HoxieFilmography

Gun Law

Synopsis: In his penultimate Western, former silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie plays The Sonora Kid, an outlaw who, to spare an old blind woman's feelings, pretends to be her long-lost son. The nasty Nevada Smith (J. Frank Glendon), a cattle rustler, confuses things considerably by pretending to be The Sonora Read More

Via Pony Express

Actors: Lane Chandler, Marceline Day, Julian Rivero, Matthew Betz, Doris Hill

Synopsis: Former silent screen cowboy star Jack Hoxie played a Pony Express rider in this, the fourth of six low-budget oaters produced by Majestic. Delivering a valuable deed to El Rio Rancho, Buck Carson (Hoxie) is ambushed by Clem Porter (Matthew Betz) and his gang, who steal the deed. Meanwhile, at El Read More

Gold

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Alice Day, Jack Clifford, Hooper Atchley

Synopsis: The second of six sound Westerns starring Jack Hoxie and produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film, like most B-Westerns at the time, features long stretches of what for all intents and purposes is silent action briefly interrupted by somewhat awkward dialogue sequences. Jack (Hoxie) and Read More

Law and Lawless

Synopsis: The third in a series of six Jack Hoxie Westerns produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film featured the former silent screen cowboy doing what he did best: ridin' and shootin'. Hoxie plays a gun fighter, Montana, hired by a Spanish landowner, Lopez (Bob Burns), to investigate a series of Read More

Outlaw Justice

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Dorothy Gulliver, Donald Keith

Synopsis: Silent screen cowboy Jack Hoxie returned to the celluloid range after a five year absence with this low-budget Western, the first of six produced by poverty row company Majestic Pictures Corp.. Hoxie, who actually handled dialogue with less difficulty than legend has it, played Panamint Jack, an Read More

The White Outlaw

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Marceline Day, William Welsh, Duke Lee, Floyd Shackelford

Synopsis: Easy-to-please rural audiences got two aging Western stars for the price of one with this low-budget silent oater directed by the ubiquitous Robert J. Horner. Art Acord stars as Johnny Douglas, a highwayman known as "the White Outlaw" because of his usual disguise of a white scarf and because he Read More

Grinning Guns

Synopsis: Nearing the end of his long, profitable association with Universal Westerns, stout cowboy hero Jack Hoxie played "Grinner" Martin, a returning war veteran hired to fill in for the editor (George K. French) of a local newspaper in a town terrorized by a gang of bandits. Deciding to clean up the Read More

Fighting Three

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, Marin Sais

Synopsis: The stolid Jack Hoxie comes to the rescue of the Follies Bergere in this otherwise routine silent Western. The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy (Alma Rayford), as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of Westerner John D'Arcy (William Malan). While she is performing at the town opera Read More

Men of Daring

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Ena Gregory

Synopsis: Cowboy star Jack Hoxie is definitely a "man of daring," but just how daring he really can be isn't demonstrated until the final reel. The story is set in the Black Hills of South Dakota circa 1876. While making their way through the Badlands, a religious cult is terrorized by a bandit known only Read More

The Western Whirlwind

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Margaret Quimby

Synopsis: Returning from WWI, Jack Howard (Jack Hoxie) finds his father, the local sheriff, murdered. The city fathers elect him new sheriff, but leading citizen Jeff Taylor (Claude Payton), blames him for cowardice during the war. Jack's mother (Edith Yorke) begs her son not to retaliate, but the silence Read More

Rough and Ready

Synopsis: This typical Universal "Blue Streak Western" starred the studio's popular Jack Hoxie as a cowboy named Ned Raleigh, who fancies himself as a descendant of Sir Walter Raleigh. Ridiculed for his chivalry towards ladies in general and lovely Beth Stone in particular, Raleigh finally gets to show what Read More

Rambling Ranger

Actors: Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: A typical Jack Hoxie Blue Streak Western from the assembly lines at Universal, The Rambling Ranger featured the stalwart Hoxie as Hank Kinney, a ranger who adopts an orphaned child (Monte Montague Jr.), whom everybody soon knows as "His Royal Highness." Later, nasty claim jumper Sam Bruce (Captain Read More

Border Sheriff

Actors: Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: One of Jack Hoxie's best surviving silent Westerns, Border Sheriff makes an exciting detour to both a drug conference in Washington, D.C., and a knock-down brawl in a Chinatown dive. Hoxie is investigating drug smuggling on the border to Mexico. On his way West from the conference in Washington Read More

Last Frontier

Actors: Marguerite de la Motte, John Farrell MacDonald, Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: A stalwart government scout, Tom Kirby (William Boyd) and his best friend, the legendary frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody (Jack Hoxie) lead a wagon train through Indian territory when they are attacked by Pawnee Killer (Frank Lackteen). A young woman named Beth is saved, but her parents are killed Read More

Looking for Trouble

Actors: Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: Cowboy star Jack Hoxie spends an inordinate amount of time away from his horse in Looking for Trouble. In this one, he's preoccupied with bringing a gang of diamond smugglers to justice. Of courses, he's not too busy to spend a bit of quality time with the heroine, the gloriously yclept Tulip Read More

Wild Horse Stampede

Actors: Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: This Universal "Blue Streak" western stars that fabulous rider and roper Jack Hoxie. The star is cast as Jack Carter, who accepts the challenge of corralling 10,000 wild horses within a 10-day period. Collecting an enormous sum for his efforts, Jack prepares to propose to his sweetheart, only to Read More

Demon

Synopsis: Jack Hoxie's first release of 1926, this Universal Western starred the taciturn hero as a Texas ranger posing as an ex-con in order to infiltrate a gang of land grabbers. Along the way, Hoxie takes time out to romance the gang's lovely stenographer, Lola Todd. (A man of certain standing in the Read More

Red Hot Leather

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Ena Gregory, George B. French, William H. Turner

Synopsis: One of Universal's better Blue Streak Westerns, Red Hot Leather starred the company's number two cowboy hero at the time, Jack Hoxie. (The lackadaisical Hoot Gibson was Universal's premiere Western star of the 1920s.) Unlike Gibson, Hoxie was not much of an actor but looked good on a horse, which Read More

Six Shootin' Romance

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, William A. Steele, Carmen Phillips, Bob McKenzie

Synopsis: Husky cowboy star Jack Hoxie inherits a ranch in this silent Blue Streak Western from Universal. Unfortunately, he is forced to share his inheritance with Donaldeen Travis (Olive Hasbrouck), a snobbish debutante type who arrives from the East with her mammy (Mattie Peters) and sister (Virginia Read More

The Fighting Peacemaker

Synopsis: This Jack Hoxie Western, made during his contract with Universal, has just about every cliché in the book, beginning with the inevitable feud between the cowmen and the sheepmen. Nevertheless, trade magazine Motion Picture News promised, "Will fill the bill wherever fast Westerners please 'em." Read More

Sign of the Cactus

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Helen Holmes, Gordon Russell, Francis Ford, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Silent western hero Jack Hoxie assumes the guise of an avenging angel called "Whitehorse Cactus" when his father is killed during a dispute over water rights with a large corporation. He tracks down the killer, a hired gunslinger from back East (Frank Newberg) and then confronts the water company Read More

Ridin' Thunder

Synopsis: Based on Jean of the Lazy A by B.M. "Muzzy" Bower, this silent western starred Universal cowboy Jack Hoxie as Jack Douglas, whose father, Frank (Francis Ford), is about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit. The victim, Bill Croft (Buck Connors), was a notorious gunfighter, whose daughter Read More

Roaring Adventure

Synopsis: This Universal "Blue Streak Western" (the studio's top-of-the-line brand) starred Jack Hoxie as Duffy Burns, a college hero who returns to the old homestead to find his father (Francis Ford) in trouble with a gang of cattle rustlers. Resolving to catch the rustlers, Duffy goes undercover as a Read More

Two-Fisted Jones

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Kathryn McGuire, Harry Todd, Frank Rice

Synopsis: Jack Hoxie's final Western for 1925 featured Universal's second most popular cowboy hero (after Hoot Gibson) chasing a wanted man. The trail leads to Kathryn McGuire's ranch, which is about to be taken over by greedy banker Harry Todd. In one of those coincidences found only in cheap movie-making Read More

Hidden Loot

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, Edward Cecil, Jack Kenney, Buck Connors

Synopsis: Jack Hoxie's dog, Bunk, takes center stage in this amusing little silent Western from the Universal assembly-line. Hoxie's discovery of the stolen payroll from the B. B. Ranch is interrupted by the robbers. Happily, Bunk manages to escape with the loot, which he buries in a secret place. The Read More

Flying Hoofs

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Bartlett Carré, William Welsh, Gordon Russell, Charlotte Stevens

Synopsis: Sheriff Frank Moody (Jack Hoxie) has his hands full chasing after a notorious bandit known only as the Raven. His younger brother Henry (Bartlet Carré) is suddenly jailed for a bank robbery and accused of being the Raven. Henry is about to be hanged when Moody dramatically climbs the scaffold to Read More

Don Dare Devil

Synopsis: Jack Bannister (Jack Hoxie) returns to his home in Mexico to find his best friend murdered in this well-made Universal Western. The sheriff has arrested old Jose Remado (William Welsh) for the killing, but Jack is not convinced of the man's guilt. In order to get to the truth, Jack disguises Read More

The Galloping Ace

Actors: Robert McKim, Frank Rice, Julia Brown

Synopsis: According to Hollywood lore, silent screen western star Jack Hoxie could neither read nor write -- not true, says Hoxie's biographer, Edgar M. Wyatt. Hoxie, like almost all his rivals at the time, was a real-life cowpoke and certainly no erudite Broadway actor. His reading skills were adequate Read More

Daring Chances

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Alta Allen, Claude Payton, Jack Pratt, Catherine Wallace

Synopsis: Universal's also-ran cowboy star of the 1920s, Jack Hoxie, starred as a cowboy who adopts a young child (Doreen Turner) in this romantic oater. The little girl's step-father, notorious saloon owner Jack Pratt, conspires with Jack's rival, Claude Payton, to have Jack arrested for kidnapping. When Read More

Fighting Fury

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Kohler

Synopsis: Not one of Hollywood's leading thespians, burly action star Jack Hoxie plays both father and son in Fighting Fury. When the elder Hoxie is murdered by three disfigured bandits, the son vows vengeance. Taking a job as a ranch hand after discovering one of the suspected killers among the wranglers Read More

Ridgeway of Montana

Synopsis: This fine silent western was, like so many others in the 1920s, based on a novel by William McLeod Raine, in this case A Sacrifice to Mammon. Rancher Buck Ridgeway (Jack Hoxie) is having trouble with a gang of rustlers. Capturing the gang, Ridgeway's attempt to rope the leader, Steve Pelton (Lew Meehan Read More

The Man from Wyoming

Actors: Lillian Rich, Claude Payton, Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: The feud between cattle ranchers and sheep men took center stage once again in this fairly effective Jack Hoxie western. Hoxie is the foreman on one of those despised sheep ranches. When a neighboring cattleman (William Welsh) is found murdered, Hoxie finds himself the prime suspect. The real Read More

The Back Trail

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Eugenia Gilbert, Claude Payton

Synopsis: Suffering from shell-shock, returning war veteran Jack Hoxie is falsely accused of being a criminal in this typical silent oater from the Universal salt mines. Unscrupulous Gentleman Harry" King (Claude Payton) has concocted the scheme in order to gain access to Hoxie's inheritance. A veteran Read More

Western Wallop

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Margaret Landis, James Gordon Russell, Charles Brinley, Duke Lee

Synopsis: One of nine Jack Hoxie westerns released by Universal in 1924 alone, The Western Wallop was based on a short story, "On Parole," by Adolph Bannauer. Hoxie plays Bart Tullison, a prison parolee who is not allowed to cross state lines. Hired as foreman on the Stillwell ranch, Bart falls for lovely Read More

Galloping Thru

Synopsis: The sixth of eight silent Jack Hoxie westerns produced by Anthony Xydias' Sunset Productions, Galloping Thru' begins as a fairy tale about a knight on a white horse. The storyteller is Priscilla Bonner, whose kid sister Doreen Turner mistakes Hoxie for the fairy-tale knight. The girls' rancher Read More

Men in the Raw

Actors: Jack Hoxie

Synopsis: After Jack Hoxie scored in the comedy Western, Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande, he was given this picture. Windbag, or Windy, Watkins (Hoxie) is a teller of tall tales. When he arrives in camp, his stories enliven the proceedings (and are hilariously illustrated in fantasy sequences). But then he Read More

Red Warning

Actors: Fred Kohler, William Welsh

Synopsis: This Western starring Jack Hoxie) has all the typical elements one would expect: the mortgaged ranch, cattle rustlers, a grizzled old prospector, and a girl in need of saving. Hoxie is hero Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones (Frank Rice -- the old prospector), finds David Ainslee Read More

Barb Wire

Synopsis: In his first of eight Western for poverty row producer Anthony J. Xydias, silent screen hero Jack Hoxie played a miner who fences his claim with barbed wire to keep out a gang of claim jumpers. Their leader (William Lester) leaves Hoxie's gun at the scene of a robbery and he is arrested. Escaping Read More

Two-Fisted Jefferson

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Evelyn Nelson, Claude Payton, William White, Steve Clemente

Synopsis: Silent Western star Jack Hoxie played a sheriff in this low-budget outing produced by Ben Wilson. Ordered to clean up the rough town of Cactus Flats, Sheriff Hoxie learns that the town's mayor (Claude Payton) is corrupt and the brain behind a recent series of crimes against the local settlers. Read More

Riders of the Law

Synopsis: Poverty row's Anthony J. Xydias produced this average Jack Hoxie western about smugglers on the Mexican border. Drifters Hoxie and Frank Rice happen upon the sheriff (Tom Lingham), who has been left for dead by the unscrupulous whisky smugglers. The sheriff's stupid daughter (Marin Sais, Hoxie's Read More

Backfire

Synopsis: The third of four Jack Hoxie westerns produced by Greek-born Anthony J. Xydias' Sunset Productions in 1922, Backfire tells the story of two drifters (Hoxie and comic sidekick George Sowards) who is overheard kidding around with the idea of robbing the local Wells Fargo office. When the office is Read More

Crow's Nest

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Rudd Weatherwax, Evelyn Nelson, Tom Lingham, William Lester

Synopsis: Silent western star Jack Hoxie's second film for producer Anthony Xydias' Sunset Productions, Crow's Nest featured the burly ex-cowboy as Esteban who, raised by an Indian woman (Mary Bruce, is unaware that he is the heir to a ranch. There's a usurper (Tom Lingham) who tries to keep Esteban's real Read More

The Marshal of Moneymint

Synopsis: Independent producer-director Ben Wilson was the one who suggested Hartford Hoxie change his name to plain Jack Hoxie. The two met on the serial Lightning Bryce (1919), and Wilson signed the brawny cowboy to a series of 13 cheaply made but fairly popular western melodramas. Wilson even secured Read More

Hills of Hate

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Marin Sais, Evelyn Nelson, Wilbur McGaugh

Synopsis: The second in a series of eight Jack Hoxie Westerns produced by poverty row veteran Benjamin F. Wilson, this low-budget oater starred Hoxie as an impoverished Easterner who travels West in search of fame and fortune. Settling down in a rough mining town known as "Sinners Settlement," Hoxie strikes Read More

Dead or Alive

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Marin Sais, Joseph W. Girard, Wilbur McGaugh

Synopsis: The husband-and-wife team of Jack Hoxie and Marin Sais starred in this inexpensive oater produced by Ben Wilson's Unity Photoplays. Jack is falsely accused of a shooting actually committed by the sheriff's wife (Sais). He escapes and becomes a hero by catching the bandit (Wilbur McGaugh) who Read More

Valley of the Giants

Synopsis: When his mother (Alice Taaffe) dies, Bryce Cardigan (Wallace Reid) and his lumberman father James (Charles Ogle) bury her in a glade they own and have named the Valley of the Giants. The two men swear to protect this land, but when Bryce returns from college he discovers that his father is in dire Read More

Wolf and His Mate

Synopsis: "The Wolf" is the name bestowed upon a rugged woodsman whose ruthlessness in dealing with others is the stuff from which legends are made. When he stakes his claim on a valuable piece of mountain property, The Wolf meets his match in Nolan, who in addition to being a merciless negotiator is also a Read More

Nobody's Wife

Synopsis: The "wife" of the title is Hope Ross, played by Louise Lovely, but never mind her. The real star of the proceedings is former rodeo champ Jack Hoxie, here billed as "Hart Hoxie" in emulation of the actor's idol, William S. Hart. Hoxie plays Jack Darling, a Canadian Mountie who rides into a Tundra Read More

Blue Blazes Rawden

Synopsis: Along with Hell's Hinges and Tumbleweeds, Blue Blazes Rawden is currently among the most readily available of William S. Hart's westerns. Hart, of course, plays the title character, a brawny lumberjack who enters into a poker game with a deceptively mild-looking English gambler named Ladyfingers Read More

Nan of Music Mountain

Synopsis: Handsome silent screen idol Wallace Reid takes a job as manager of a stage-line in this early silent western directed by the prolific George Melford. Reid's Henry DeSpain not only defeats the notorious Morgan gang but falls for the gang leader's (Theodore Roberts) lovely daughter, Nan (Ann Read More

Jack and Jill

Synopsis: Mary Pickford's brother Jack starred in this silent oater as a boxer who runs West after killing an opponent in the ring. He obtains work as a ranch hand and uses his fists to rid the community of a gang of Mexican outlaws. Produced by the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company for Paramount release Read More

Dumb Girl of Portici

Synopsis: Dumb Girl of Portici is famous today as the film in which Boris Karloff made his movie debut. This "fact" is open to debate: Karloff himself had no memories of the film's star, flamboyant dancing diva Anna Pavlova, and that bow-legged extra in the crowd scenes, photographed from behind, may or may Read More

The Scarlet Sin

Synopsis: As was often the case in the pre-1920 period, the title of this four-reel Universal drama was far more lurid than the film's content. Hobart Bosworth, who also co-directed, starred as a two-fisted minister who aims to knock the fear of God into a wide-open mining town. Coming along for the ride is Read More