Jack PerrinFilmography

Sunrise at Campobello

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker

Synopsis: One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that attempts to illustrate the statesman's courageous battle against infantile paralysis and his political foes. While in the prime of his life Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Crying Cherub

Synopsis: A valuable Matisse is stolen from an art museum and replaced by a forgery. Museum curator June Sinclair (Mala Powers) and her boyfriend David Lambert (Joe Maross) are suspected of the crime--and then charged with the murder of the actual thief, David's wife Lisa (Carmen Philips). Thus it is that Read More

Westbound

Actors: Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Michael Dante, Andrew Duggan

Synopsis: A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular cowboy hero Randolph Scott before Scott's retirement. John Hayes (Scott) left the Civil War behind him when he took on the job of managing the Overland Stage Lines out of a small Read More

When Gangland Strikes

Synopsis: In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

Actors: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation any further, figuring that the strength of the Read More

Ten Wanted Men

Actors: Randolph Scott, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Boone, Alfonso Bedoya, Donna Martell

Synopsis: Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John Stewart, who attempts to establish law and order on his vast Arizona spread without resorting to violence. Less peacefully inclined is Stewart's chief rival Wick Campbell (Richard Read More

Them!

Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out only one word: "Them!" Any aficionado of 1950s horror films can readily tell you that "Them" are giant ants, a byproduct of the radiation attending the atomic bomb tests of Read More

The Treasure of Lost Canyon

Actors: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Henry Hull, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays Doc Brown, a somewhat seedy frontier sawbones who takes orphaned David (Tommy Ivo) under his wing. Doc knows that David is being victimized financially by crooked-attorney Read More

I Shot Billy the Kid

Actors: Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal, Wendy Lee

Synopsis: From Lippert Studios, the same company responsible for I Shot Jesse James, comes I Shot Billy the Kid. Those who know their western history will recall that Billy the kid was gunned down by his friendly enemy Pat Garrett. This time around, Garrett is played by Robert Lowery, while the larger part Read More

Bandit Queen

Actors: Barbara Britton, Willard Parker, Phillip Reed, Barton MacLane, Martin Garralaga

Synopsis: Long before she became a TV cosmetic-commercial spokeswoman, Barbara Britton essayed the title role in Bandit Queen. Britton plays Lola, daughter of a American father and Spanish-aristocrat mother. When her parents are murdered, Lola forms an outlaw band, dedicated to reclaiming those portions of Read More

I Walk Alone

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey, Kristine Miller

Synopsis: On the run from the cops, bootleggers Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), find themselves racing up to an enormous roadblock. The two split up, agreeing that if one was caught, the other would operate their nightclub and save half the profits for his partner. The Read More

This Time for Keeps

Actors: Esther Williams, Johnny Johnston, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante, Xavier Cugat

Synopsis: In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with the star of the "aquacaper." It is difficult to woo her as she is constantly surrounded by her piano-playing bodyguard and her ever-present grandmother. It's musical and Read More

Duffy's Tavern

Actors: Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour

Synopsis: Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite watering hole from old time radio shows. The trouble begins when the neighborhood bar is in danger of closing. The trouble begins when the proprietor, Archie, discovers that one Read More

The North Star

Actors: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Farley Granger, Ann Harding

Synopsis: In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya (Dana Andrews), Kurin (Walter Huston), Damian (Farley Granger), and Marina (Anne Baxter) are members of a farming collective in the Ukraine known as the North Star. The hard-working Read More

Dixie

Actors: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Billy De Wolfe, Marjorie Reynolds, Raymond Walburn, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and sounded exactly like Bing Crosby! Very loosely based on the real Emmett's life and career, the film is essentially an excuse for an unending stream of Southern-fried ballads and Read More

Broadway Big Shot

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Virginia Vale, William Halligan, Dick Rush, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the Read More

The Blonde from Singapore

Actors: Florence Rice, Gordon Jones, Don Beddoe, Alex D'Arcy

Synopsis: The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles alone. Pilot Terry Prescott (Leif Erickson), forced to resort to poaching pearl beds to keep financially afloat, makes the acquaintance of ex-showgirl Mary Brooke (Florence Rice Read More

Borrowed Hero

Actors: Alan Baxter, Florence Rice, John Hamilton, Stanley Andrews, Constance Worth

Synopsis: Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter stars as a crusading DA who suspects that a "respectable" civic reform organization isn't all it appears to be. With the help of sob-sister Florence Rice, Baxter is able to Read More

Lucky Devils

Actors: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Dorothy Lovett, Janet Shaw

Synopsis: Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Read More

Caught in the Act

Actors: Henry Armetta, Iris Meredith, Robert Baldwin, Charles Miller, Inez Palange

Synopsis: Caught in the Act was filmed under the title You Betcha My Life, in honor of its star, Italian character comedian Henry Armetta. The plot concerns a construction foreman named Mike (Armetta) who inherits a whole passel of headaches when he's promoted to salesman. Among these is a gang of crooks Read More

Under Age

Actors: Nan Grey, Tom Neal, Mary Anderson, Alan Baxter, Leona Maricle

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected Read More

Land of Six Guns

Actors: Louise Stanley, Frank LaRue, Glenn Strange, Bud Osborne

Synopsis: Jack Randall, a truly minor singing cowboy, stars in this low-budget oater from Metropolitan Pictures. Jack Rowan (Randall) discovers that his newly purchased land is being used as a pipeline to smuggle cattle across the border from Mexico. Caught in the act, so to speak, one of the rustlers Read More

West of Pinto Basin

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Gwen Gaze, Tristram Coffin

Synopsis: No sooner had the second of Monogram's "Range Riders" westerns hit the screens than the third entry, West of Pinto Basin, was prepared for release. Once again, the Range Riders are portrayed by Ray "Crash" Corrigan, John "Dusty" King and Max "Alibi" Terhune, who this time are hot on the trail of a Read More

Texas Rangers Ride Again

Actors: Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young girl returning to her grandmother's ranch in Texas. Old Mrs. Dangerfield (May Robson) is experiencing a rash of cattle rustlings and, fed up with her no-good grandson Carter's Read More

New Moon

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given another airing in 1940 as Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald vehicle. Set in 18th century Louisiana, the story concerns the relationship between haughty plantation owner Marianne de Read More

The Fighting 69th

Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness" pictures like The Fighting 69th? This film, based on the experiences of military priest Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), is set during World War I. The US 69th division was a Read More

Phantom of Chinatown

Actors: Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers, Paul McVey, Charles Miller

Synopsis: In the last of Monogram's "Mr. Wong" whodunits, Keye Luke takes over from Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective Jimmy Lee Wong, more of an amateur sleuth, really, than his eminent predecessor. The subject for Wong's examination is the poisoning of Dr. Benton (Charles F. Miller), the leader of an Read More

That Gang of Mine

Actors: Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Clarence Muse, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Joyce Bryant

Synopsis: Despite the ridicule of the rest of the East Side Kids, Mugs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) aspires to be a jockey. He gets his chance with the help of elderly stablehand Ben (Clarence Muse), the owner of a thoroughbred race horse. Ben agrees to train Mugs on the condition that the rest of the gang raise Read More

$1,000 a Touchdown

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley

Synopsis: This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, together in the same picture. Brown and Raye play a show business couple who inherit a near-bankrupt college. They decide to build up the school's scraggly football team in hopes Read More

Eternally Yours

Actors: Loretta Young, David Niven, Billie Burke, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Anita's (Loretta Young) life seems to be progressing nicely. She's engaged to Don Barnes (Broderick Crawford), a wealthy man that will give her all the stability and comfort a woman could desire. But then she meets a magician with the unlikely name of The Great Arturo (David Niven), who performs a Read More

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields

Synopsis: The last of RKO's Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicles, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is also the least typical. At their best playing carefree characters in gossamer-thin musical comedy plotlines, Fred and Ginger seem slightly ill at ease cast as the real-life dancing team of Vernon and Read More

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Stanley Ridges, Donald Meek

Synopsis: Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to modern times. Such was the case with MGM's three-episode "Nick Carter" series, which got off to a good start with Nick Carter, Master Detective. Walter Pidgeon plays the title Read More

The Pal from Texas

Synopsis: The fifth of eight Metropolitan Bob Steele B-Westerns, The Pal From Texas featured the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal (Josef Swickard) from being swindled by an unscrupulous tavern owner (Ted Adams). When the friend, Texas, is found murdered, suspicion Read More

City Girl

Actors: Phyllis Brooks, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook Read More

Angels With Dirty Faces

Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft

Synopsis: Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood. Rocky becomes a hero to a gang of teenaged boys Read More

Western Jamboree

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jean Rouverol, Esther Muir, Joe Frisco

Synopsis: Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its full length by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Just as Apple Annie had in Lady for a Day (1933), kindly old Dad Haskell Frank Darien) has gilded the lily a bit by Read More

The Texans

Actors: Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with ranch owner Ivy Preston (Joan Bennett). Although a loyal Southerner, Jordan can't get past the waste and tragedy of the four years that have just ended, but Ivy is eager to Read More

The Purple Vigilantes

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Joan Barclay, Earl Dwire

Synopsis: The Three Mesquiteers ride again in the economical Republic sagebrusher Purple Vigilantes. The Mesquiteers in question are Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith and Lullaby Joslin, played this time out by Robert Livingston, Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Max Terhune. The storyline is a timely one, inspired by the Read More

King of Gamblers

Actors: Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Helen Burgess

Synopsis: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone wall until he meets nightclub singer Claire Trevor. Trevor is anxious to avenge the death of her Read More

Girls Can Play

Actors: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet, George McKay

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an evil ex-con makes his living selling cheap booze masked under expensive labels. He runs a drugstore as a front and also sponsors a girl's baseball team. The story is split between the gangster's illegal activities and the action on the baseball field where the lovely Read More

The Painted Stallion [Serial]

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, Sammy McKim, LeRoy Mason, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Western favorites Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Hoot Gibson head the cast of the 12-chapter Republic serial The Painted Stallion. Corrigan plays American federal agent Steve Clark, on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile, Walter Read More

The Wrong Road

Actors: Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, Lionel Atwill, Russell Powell

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and hide it in a music box. Unfortunately, they are caught and sentenced to prison. Upon their release, the two hope that the money will still be in the little box, which they Read More

Motor Madness

Actors: Rosalind Keith, Allen Brook, Marc Lawrence, Richard Terry, J.M. Kerrigan

Synopsis: Movie trends always come in cycles: in 1937, motorboat melodramas were briefly the rage. In Columbia's Motor Madness, small-time boat manufacturer Cap McNeil (J. M. Kerrigan) enters an international cup race to raise enough money to keep his business afloat. Much to the delight of Cap's pretty Read More

The Last Train from Madrid

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Karen Morley, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the plight and personal lives of refugees preparing to board a train that will take them far away from the bloody horrors of war-besieged Loyalist-controlled Madrid. Once safely on Read More

Live, Love and Learn

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Helen Vinson, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with Rosalind Russell, an heiress who's gone "slumming" in Greenwich Village. Russell becomes Montgomery's patroness as well as his wife, urging him to make his paintings more Read More

Reckless Ranger

Actors: Charles "Slim" Whitaker, Bob Allen, Louise Small, Lane Chandler, Mary MacLaren, Tex Palmer, Harry Woods, Frank Ball, Chick Hannon, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Robert Allen isn't particularly "reckless" in this rather pedestrian Western, which had the gall to cast the non-actor in dual roles. When Jim Allen (Allen number one) is lynched, his identical twin brother Bob (Allen number two), a Texas Ranger, takes his place in an attempt to flush out the man Read More

Hair-Trigger Casey

Synopsis: The second of former silent screen star Jack Perrin's "Blue Ribbon" Westerns, Hair-Trigger Casey deftly straddled the fence between gangster melodrama and ordinary horse-opera. Perrin played an army captain rushing back to his ranch where strange things are occurring. As it turns out, the ranch Read More

Wildcat Saunders

Synopsis: A punch drunk prize-fighter, Wildcat Saunders (Jack Perrin) travels to a western ranch for a little rest and relaxation with his cigar-chomping promoter Joe Pitts (William Gould) and black sparring partner Fred "Snowflake" Toones. The ranch foreman, Hawkins (Tom London) is actually a fugitive from Read More

Desert Justice

Synopsis: This interesting low-budget Western was advertized as "A lightning trigger action drama of the glorious west .. packed with thrills and colorful adventure!" If it didn't quite live up to the hyperbole, Desert Justice nevertheless managed to surprise its mostly juvenile audience, especially by Read More

The Jungle Princess

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, Molly Lamont

Synopsis: In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman. When an explorer gets lost in the same jungle, she rescues him and takes her to her lair. There he teaches her to speak English and to sing a song. Months pass before the Read More

The Cowboy Star

Actors: Charles Starrett, Si Jenks

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures' newest cowboy hero, Charles Starrett, played just that in this fanciful Western which teamed him for the first time with blonde leading lady Iris Meredith. They would go on to make 19 additional Westerns together, one of the longest runs in B-Western history. Starrett played Read More

Gun Grit

Synopsis: Directed by William Berke (under the pseudonym of "Lester Williams"), Gun Grit was the last of four above-average B-Western starring former silent lead Jack Perrin. Perrin, who also co-produced with Berke, played Bob Blake, an FBI agent masquerading as a ranch hand in order to infiltrate a gang of Read More

North of Arizona

Synopsis: Silent screen Western star Jack Perrin plays a somewhat naive cowboy hired to innocently front the nefarious schemes of a gang of thieves in this cheaply-made B-Western from Poverty Row company Reliable Pictures Corp. A jealous rival (Lane Chandler) frames Perrin in an express office robbery and Read More

Texas Jack

Synopsis: In his penultimate Western for poverty row company Reliable Pictures, Jack Perrin starred as Texas Jack Carroll, a newcomer to the rough town of Escondido. Texas Jack saves the town's new schoolteacher, Ann (Jayne Regan) from her drunken escort and discovers that the girl has been lured to Read More

Wolf Riders

Synopsis: The final of six Jack Perrin Westerns produced by poverty row company Reliable Pictures, this film featured Perrin as an orphan raised by both an Indian, Red Wolf (Earl Dwire), and the local Indian agent, Clark (Lafe McKee). The grown up Jack searches for a bandit, Al (George Chesebro), who has Read More

Rawhide Mail

Synopsis: Three outlaws go straight in order to protect a young girl from her unscrupulous guardian in this low-budget Western, the third in a series of six Jack Perrin oaters produced by Reliable Pictures. Bandits Jack Reed (Perrin), Judge (Nelson McDowell), and Estebán (Chris-Pin Martin) are mistaken for Read More

Loser's End

Synopsis: A pretty Mexican dancer, Tina Menard, is actually the lead character in this low-budget Western ostensibly starring Jack Perrin. Jack Fenrod (Perrin) and his grizzled sidekick Amos (Frank Rice) are on the trail of a gang of smugglers when they save Lolita Carlos (Menard) from a runaway carriage. Read More

Arizona Nights

Synopsis: A potentially good idea -- mixing Western hi-jinks with horror film elements -- was wasted on this impoverished 20 minute "Bud'n Ben" series entry. Bud (Jack Perrin) and Ben (Ben Corbett) are border patrol officers investigating the disappearance of one of their colleagues, Trent (Robert Walker). Read More

The Cactus Kid

Synopsis: Produced by Bernard B. Ray and Harry S. Webb's small-scale Reliable Pictures, this low-budget Western starred former silent cowboy Jack Perrin as a cowboy searching for his missing partner. Jack, the Cactus Kid (Perrin), and Jimmie Kane (Fred Humes) have sold a catch of wild horses to a rancher. Read More

The Big Race

Actors: Boots Mallory, John Darrow, Paul Hurst, Frankie Darro, Phillips Smalley

Synopsis: Showmen's Productions, a miniscule poverty-row firm, issued its one-and-only release The Big Race in 1934. Heading the cast is Boots Mallory, a lively blonde starlet who later retired to marry James Cagney's producer brother William Cagney. Most of the heavy dramatics are carried not by Mallory Read More

Jaws of Justice

Actors: Kazan the Dog, Jack Perrin, Robert Walker, Ruth Sullivan, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: Filmed at picturesque Lake Tahoe, NV, this ultra-low-budget dog melodrama starred one of Rin-Tin-Tin's better successors, Kazan, and silent Western hero Jack Perrin, billed for unexplained reasons as "Richard Terry." The latter plays Kincaid, a Mountie coming to the aid of Judy Dean (Ruth Read More

Girl Trouble

Synopsis: The first in a series of seven "Bud'n Ben" Western "featurettes," this 31 minutes oater introduced Ben Corbett and Jack Perrin, two cowpoke pals in love with the same girl (Lola Tate). A rather tattered affair, the series was produced by Bernard B. Ray's ill-named Reliable Pictures company. Both Read More

Mystery Squadron [Serial]

Actors: Bob Steele, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Lucille Browne, Jack Mulhall, J. Carrol Naish, Robert W. Frazer, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele. Steele and sidekick Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (whose supposedly comical craving for jellybeans quickly becomes tiring) are hired by an aviator friend (Jack Mulhall Read More

Hell Fire Austin

Actors: Ivy Merton, Ken Maynard, Nat Pendleton, Alan Roscoe, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Lone Pine, CA, this above average Ken Maynard oater features the veteran cowboy star in the title role, a former cavalry officer sent up the river with an accomplice, Bouncer (Nat Pendleton), convicted for failing to pay a restaurant bill. When Judy Brooks (Ivy Merton) Read More

Movie Crazy

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Ken Thomson, Sidney Jarvis

Synopsis: Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie star who exchanges the quiet life in his sleepy Kansas hometown for the glamour and excitement of Tinseltown where he mistakenly believes he has been selected for a Read More

Gun Grit

Tex Takes a Holiday

Actors: Wallace MacDonald, Virginia Brown Faire, James Dillon, Claude Payton, Sheldon Lewis

Synopsis: Future producer Wallace MacDonald earned a starring role in this low-budget western based on an original story by veteran screen villain Robert Walker. Stopping at a hacienda for rest and food, Tex (MacDonald) falls in love with the pretty owner, Dolores (Virginia Brown Faire), despite the fact Read More

Dynamite Ranch

Actors: Ken Maynard, Ruth Hall, Alan Roscoe, Arthur Hoyt, Martha Mattox

Synopsis: Having signed for eight Westerns with poverty row entrepreneur E.W. Hammons, Ken Maynard went on to deliver a series of solid sagebrush entertainment despite non-existing budgets and filming on standing sets at the old, threadbare Tiffany lot on Sunset Boulevard. The opener, Dynamite ranch Read More

Forty-Five Calibre Echo

The Lone Trail

Actors: Rex Lease, Edmund Cobb, Billy O'Brien, Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Mower

Synopsis: A Texas Ranger (Rex Lease) searches for the killer of his sister in this cheap and often incomprehensible Western produced by Harry S. Webb and Flora E. Douglas, the latter being one of Hollywood's few women executives at the time. In tracking down the mysterious killer -- a villain known only as Read More

The Kid from Arizona

Actors: Jack Perrin, Josephine Hill, Robert Walker

Synopsis: Brawny western hero Jack Perrin certainly deserved better vehicles than such dreck as The Kid From Arizona. Perrin plays a marshal who heads into the mountains to round up a gang of renegade Indians. Alas, our hero finds himself a fugitive from justice when he's falsely accused of horse stealing. Read More

Rider of the Plains

Actors: Tom Tyler, Andy Shuford, Lillian Bond

Synopsis: Produced by Trem Carr, this enjoyable B-Western featured the strapping Tom Tyler, a cowboy performer who historically worked well with children. The child in this case was freckled Andy Shuford, a tough little boy rider. Little orphaned Sandy is adopted by a reformed outlaw (Tyler, of course), but Read More

The Sheriff's Secret

Synopsis: Yet another little indiscretion from Gower Gulch producer Robert J. Horner, this no-budget Western starred former silent cowboy Jack Perrin and his horse Starlight in a too-cute story of a wanted outlaw (Perrin) escaping into the desert with a young child (Fred Hargreaves). Eluding the sheriff's Read More

Wild West Whoopee

Actors: Josephine Hill, Buzz Barton, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Wild West Whoopee was produced and directed by the redoubtable Robert J. Horner, whose early-talkie westerns ranged from mediocre to gosh-awful. Falling somewhere in-between, this Jack Perrin vehicle hardly represents a milestone in the art of cinema, put it paid its way. Perrin plays a rodeo star Read More

Lariats and Sixshooters

Synopsis: One-legged Western maverick Robert J. Horner came up with yet another loser in this dead-on-arrival oater starring silent screen cowboy Jack Perrin and his handsome horse Starlight. On the trail of a gang of smugglers, deputy sheriff Jack Saunders (Perrin) is knocked unconscious. He awakens to Read More

Ridin' Law

Actors: Jack Perrin, Yakima Canutt, Jack Mower, Pete Morrison

Synopsis: Silent-screen hero Jack Perrin and his handsome mount Starlight headlined this low-budget oater from shoestring company Big 4 Film Corp., one of the many Gower Gulch entrepreneurs catching former luminaries whose careers were on a downslide due to talkies. Perrin's father is murdered by villain Yakima Canutt Read More

The Apache Kid's Escape

Synopsis: "Robert J. Horner," wrote film historian Don Miller, "was a man with one leg, small resources and his artistic pretensions were forthrightly nonexistent." In addition to his missing limb, Horner was also sans one eye, both handicaps the results of a car accident. Despite these physical setbacks, Horner Read More

Beyond the Rio Grande

Actors: Jack Perrin, Franklin Farnum, Pete Morrison, Edmund Cobb

Synopsis: Saucer-eyed silent-screen cowboy Jack Perrin and his magnificent horse, Starlight, star in this ramshackle early sound western. Perrin is falsely accused of a robbery actually committed by his onetime partner (fellow silent western star Edmund Cobb) and must flee South of the border to Mexico. Read More

Phantom of the Desert

Actors: Jack Perrin, Eva Novak, Josef Swickard, Edward Earle

Synopsis: A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real culprit is smooth-talking Robert Walker (whose pencil-thin mustache was a dead giveaway of his evil intentions), and manages to rescue the stallion from the glue factory in the Read More

Trail of Peril

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Perrin, Frank Ellis, Lew Meehan, Joe Rickson

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's few women producers, Flora E. Douglas, produced this minor western starring former silent screen cowboy Wally Wales as a war veteran accused of being a notorious outlaw upon his return from the front. Managing to escape the law, Wales tracks down the real outlaw who, to nobody's Read More

Wild Blood

Synopsis: Rex the Wonder Horse steals this silent Western from star Jack Perrin. It seems that an evil saloon owner (Theodore Lorch) not only wants this valuable steed for himself, but also its owner, the beautiful Mary Ellis (Ethlyne Clair). Enter honest gambler Jack Crosby (Perrin), who settles the score Read More

Hoofbeats of Vengeance

Actors: Jack Perrin, Helen Foster, Al Ferguson, Starlight the Horse

Synopsis: The surly but magnificent Rex the Wonder Horse was top-billed in Universal's Hoofbeats of Vengeance. As had been the case in several previous actioners, Rex is "teamed" with human star Jack Perrin, here cast as Canadian Mountie Jack Gordon. Together, horse and man prove that an "honest" politician Read More

The Harvest of Hate

Actors: Jack Perrin, Helen Foster, Rex the Wonder Horse

Synopsis: Universal's infamously obstreperous equine star, Rex the Wonder Horse, earned top-billing over leading man Jack Perrin in this, one of the studio's final silent Westerns. Rex plays the "World's Greatest Trained Horse" and is the star attraction of the Carney Carnival and Road Show. The show's new Read More

Plunging Hoofs

Actors: Jack Perrin, Barbara Worth, J.P. McGowan, David Dunbar

Synopsis: Also-ran silent screen cowboy Jack Perrin starred in this minor western from the Universal assembly line. Perrin is cast as a preacher who saves not only Rex the Wonder Horse from the glue factory but also a pretty saloon-belle (Barbara Worth) from her lecherous employer (David Dunbar). Voted a Read More

Overland Bound

Actors: Jack Perrin, Wally Wales

Synopsis: Produced and directed by veteran silent-screen cowboy Leo Maloney, Overland Bound was the first all-talking independently made western. Maloney cast fellow silent cowboy Jack Perrin as the leading man (Maloney himself had gotten a little thick-waisted by 1929) who saves the community from a Read More

Guardians of the Wild

Actors: Jack Perrin, Starlight the Horse, Ethlyne Clair, Al Ferguson

Synopsis: Rex the Wonder Horse gets some screen competition in the form of Jack Perrin's magnificent white steed Starlight in Guardians of the West. Most of the film's heroics are handled by Perrin, who rescues heroine Ethyline Clair from the mortgage-holding villains. He also saves the girl from a raging Read More

The Water Hole

Actors: Jack Holt, Nancy Carroll, John Boles

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1905 Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern socialite vamping Arizona rancher Philip Randolph Jack Holt, in town to discuss business with her father (C. Montague Shaw). When the smitten young man proposes, he Read More

The Vanishing West

Synopsis: Although not quite the epic its title suggested, this 10 chapter Western serial from genre specialist Mascot was certainly star-studded. Nine former Western stars was added to the line-up by enterprising producer Nat Levine: Jack Perrin, Eileen Sedgwick, Jack Daugherty, Yakima Canutt, Leo Maloney Read More

Two Outlaws

Actors: Jack Perrin, Kathleen Collins, J.P. McGowan

Synopsis: Two Outlaws was apparently a follow-up to the low-budget but high-grossing western Guardians of the West. Once again, human cowboy hero Jack Perrin is teamed with Rex, King of Wild Horses, an ornery critter but a magnificent animal. The titular outlaws are Rex, a rogue stallion with a price on his Read More

The Laffin' Fool

Synopsis: Producer Morris R. Schlank was the purveyor of scores of low-budget westerns starring the likes of Jack Perrin, Al Hoxie, and Cliff Lyons. Perrin and Pauline Curley headed the cast in this instance, he saving her from Al Ferguson, a nefarious money lender threatening to take over the family ranch. Read More

Fire and Steel

Actors: Mary McAlister, Burr McIntosh, Philo McCullough, Cissy Fitzgerald, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Per its title, Fire and Steel is set in a busy steel plant in an industrial town. Steelworker hero Jack Perrin is in love with heroine Mary McAllister, but he hasn't a dime to his name. Through hard work and determination, Perrin ends up with a dime to his name. He also dukes it out with the Read More

Code of the Range

Synopsis: Aided by his handsome mount Starlight and faithful pooch Rex, cowboy Perrin seeks revenge for the murder of his sister, a schoolmarm lured into a life of vice by a crooked dance-hall operator (the always vicious Lew Meehan). This is just one of many inexpensive but fast-paced westerns produced by Read More

Dangerous Traffic

Actors: Ralph Bushman, Mildred Harris, Jack Perrin, Tom London, Ethan Laidlaw

Synopsis: This silent gangster film plays like a B-Western and was actually made by specialists of that genre. There is even a thrilling transfer stunt where young Francis X. Bushman, Jr. (or his stunt double) switches from speeding motorcycle to runaway automobile much like a Western hero would from horse Read More

Midnight Faces

Synopsis: Perhaps the best known film produced by the little poverty row company Goodwill, this is a typical 1920s haunted house thriller-comedy. Eight people gather in a deserted house in the Florida Everglades for the reading of a will. Strange things begin to happen -- sliding panels, clutching hand Read More

West of the Rainbow's End

Actors: Jack Perrin

Synopsis: A cowboy, his horse and a clever pooch play the key roles in this average western from low-budget western factory Rayart. Jack Perrin and his wonderful horse, Starlight, were always a welcome sight in neighborhood theaters, and here Perrin is well-cast as a returning war veteran who finds his Read More

The Grey Devil

Actors: Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Produced by George Blaisdell for W. Ray Johnston's low-budget Rayart Productions (the forerunner of Monogram Pictures, this unusual silent western actually stars a horse, the Grey Devil of the title, played by Starlight. This magnificent steed was screen cowboy Jack Perrin's mount, and it is Read More

Cactus Trails

Actors: Jack Perrin, Alma Rayford, Nelson McDowell, Wilbur McGaugh

Synopsis: One of the silent screen's better also-ran cowboys, Jack Perrin starred in this entertaining oater about a drifter who rescues a Mexican senorita (Alma Rayford) from a runaway carriage. She gets an opportunity to return the compliment when Perrin is jailed and awaiting trial for instigating a Read More

Border Vengeance

Actors: Jack Perrin, Vondell Darr, Minna Redman

Synopsis: Although Jack Perrin had been in films for over a decade and had been playing leading roles since 1919, indie film company Aywon nevertheless claimed this routine Western as his first starring vehicle. Wes Channing (Perrin) owns a ranch with Buck Littleton (Bud Osborne), a nice man who drinks and Read More

The Knockout Kid

Synopsis: A millionaire's son once again toughens up on a western ranch in this low-budget silent western produced by veteran director Harry S. Webb. Jack Perrin plays the wastrel turned hero this time and is soon on the trail of the villains who absconded with the payroll. In between the fast riding, Perrin Read More

Coyote Fangs

Actors: Jack Perrin, Josephine Hill, Lew Meehan

Synopsis: Producer-director Harry Webb was the culprit of this minor silent western that definitely broke no new ground. Saucer-eyed action hero Jack Perrin is falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Lew Meehan, his rival for the attention of lovely Josephine Hill. Meehan's florid acting style was Read More

Shootin' Square

Actors: Jack Perrin, Peggy O'Day, Horace B. Carpenter, Bud Osborne, Tex Starr

Synopsis: This otherwise fairly average silent western contains a sequence as racist in its own seemingly innocuous way as anything D.W. Griffith ever committed. But unlike the treatment of African-Americans in Birth of a Nation, which at least had the excuse of being a period piece, the offensive elements Read More

Why Get Married?

Actors: Helen Ferguson, Andree Lafayette, Jack Perrin, Edwin Booth Tilton

Synopsis: French actress Andree Lafayette made this American film after her success in Trilby. It was a domestic drama which was apparently part of a backlash against women's emancipation (women had only gotten the right to vote a few years before). It tried to prove that the ladies couldn't possibly hope Read More

Virginian Outcast

Synopsis: Billed as a "melodrama of the Tennessee hills," this low-budget Aywon release read like a Western and did indeed star cowboy actor Jack Perrin. A stranger, Perrin arrives in a small mountain town where he falls in love with the prettiest girl around (Marjorie Daw). The girl's hillbilly suitors get Read More

Western Justice

Actors: Josephine Hill, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: This extremely rare silent Western was produced by A.B. Maescher and features Jack Perrin as Tom Taylor, a mining engineer hired by a villainous woman to front her fake company. When he smells a rat, the woman -- known as "Lady Lucifer" -- has him abducted. Taylor's girlfriend Grace (Josephine Hill Read More

The Dangerous Little Demon

Actors: Marie Prevost, Robert Ellis, Herbert Prior, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: Before her nasally voice was exposed, making her a more appropriate choice as a working class girl, Marie Prevost achieved stardom by playing young society lovelies. This one, Teddy Marmon, is a party-loving flapper who is loathe to settle down. Two of her suitors are Graham, her father's Read More

The Trouper

Actors: Gladys Walton, Jack Perrin, Thomas Holding, Kathleen O'Connor, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Minor Universal star Gladys Walton plays an especially pitiful character in this subpar programmer. Mamie Judd (Walton) is a drudge for a theatrical troupe. She adores leading man Herman Jenks (Jack Perrin), who barely acknowledges her existence -- occasionally he will gift her with an autographed Read More

Guttersnipe

Actors: Gladys Walton, Walter Perry, Kate Price, Jack Perrin, Sidney Franklin

Synopsis: This pleasant little programmer features minor Universal star Gladys Walton. Walton is Maisie O'Day, who lives in New York City's "little Ireland" and works as a shopgirl to help out her parents (Walter Perr and Kate Price). Her favorite pastime is reading romantic magazine stories (sort of the Read More

The Rage of Paris

Actors: Jack Perrin, Elinor Hancock, Ramsey Wallace

Synopsis: Based on The White Peacock Feathers by Du Vernet Rabell, this minor melodrama from the assembly line at Universal starred Miss Du Pont as Joan Coolidge, a young American girl who, after having been forced into a loveless marriage by her greedy mother (played by Elinor Hancock), flees to Paris. In Read More

The Torrent

Actors: Eva Novak, Jack Perrin, Jack Curtis

Synopsis: Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He invites Velma and his mistress to take an afternoon trip on his sailboat. Sam tries to force Velma to drink a cocktail, and the virtuous Velma recoils in horror. Sam suffers a Read More

Partners of the Tide

Synopsis: A seafaring action melodrama based on a 1905 novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Partners of the Tide starred future cowboy hero Jack Perrin as an orphan adopted by spinster Temperance Allen (Florence Midgley). As a young adult, Perrin's Bradley Nickerson signs on as first mate of the Thomas Doone, a Read More

Adorable Savage

Synopsis: After going to school in America Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) returns to her Fiji home to take care of the rubber plantation belonging to her father (Dick Cummings). She finds out to her dismay that she is actually half-native (what would nowadays add a mildly exotic flavor could ruin a girl's Read More

Pink Tights

Synopsis: Jonathan Meek (Jack Perrin) is the new minister in the straight-laced New England hamlet of Pleasanton. The circus has come to town and the congregation is insisting that Meek prepare a sermon protesting the pink tights worn by tightrope walker Mazie Darnton (Gladys Walton) right when she Read More

Blind Husbands

Actors: Sam de Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich Von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland

Synopsis: Because of his portrayals of villainous Prussians in pictures such as Hearts of the World and The Heart of Humanity, Erich von Stroheim was already famous as "the man you love to hate." But Stroheim had also been quite busy behind the camera over the years, as an assistant director to D.W. Griffith Read More

Rawhide Mail

Synopsis: Veteran Gower Gulch producer Bernard B. Ray released this cheaply-made western starring silent screen cowboy Jack Perrin. Ray's Reliable Pictures Corporation became almost a graveyard of otherwise neglected silent film heroes, whose names still meant something in the hinterlands. Apart from Read More