James NewillFilmography

Gunsmoke Mesa

Actors: Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Patti McCarty, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: The Texas Rangers ride again in the PRC oater Gunsmoke Mesa. As in earlier series entries, the rangers are played by Jim Newill (the handsome one), Dave O'Brien (the athletic one) and Guy "Panhandle" Wilkerson (the funny one). The villain is the appropriately named Henry Black (Jack Ingram) Read More

Outlaw Roundup

Actors: James Newill, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Helen Chapman, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: A "Texas Rangers" series entry from PRC, this low budget western features Dave "Tex" O'Brien as a stranger in town introducing himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden (I. Stanford Jolley) believes him at first but then the real Spade (Jack Ingram) turns up and Read More

Boss of the Rawhide

Actors: Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Nell O'Day, Edward Cassidy

Synopsis: Also known as Boss of Rawhide, this "Texas Rangers" western top-bills Dave O'Brien, James Newill, and Guy Wilkerson. This time, the three Rangers are called upon to solve a series of rangeland murders. The victims were all ranchers, and it looks as though the same gang was responsible for all the Read More

The Pinto Bandit

Actors: James Newill, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: No, the "Pinto Bandit" doesn't go around stealing beans. This is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" series, starring Dave O'Brien and Jim Newell. This time, the Rangers' principal foe is a masked desperado. Evidently, the villain's main purpose in life is to disrupt the mail service between two Read More

Brand of the Devil

Synopsis: In this western, a gang of evil cattle rustlers wreaks havoc upon a community of ranchers. Three Texas Rangers come to the rescue and find out the ring leader works as a local ranch foreman. The bad guys do not escape the trusty Rangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spook Town

Synopsis: In this western, the residents of a town are terrorized by the presence of a mysterious ghost. The Texas Rangers investigate and discover the true culprits behind the hauntings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trail of Terror

Actors: Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Patricia Knox, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: Trail of Terror is a PRC Studios western starring Dave O'Brien (here billed as Dave "Tex" O'Brien) and Jim Newell. Texas ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach robbers. The ruse falls apart at Read More

Bad Men of Thunder Gap

Synopsis: In the second of PRC's ramshackle Texas Rangers Westerns, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom (Jack Ingram) and Holman (Charles King), a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals, Jim Steele (James Newill) and Read More

West of Texas

Actors: Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Frances Gladwin, Marilyn Hare

Synopsis: A would-be Western epic soundly defeated by an almost nonexistent budget, West of Texas was the third of 22 "Texas Rangers" oaters released by Gower Gulch company PRC from 1942-1945 in an attempt to compete with Republic's The Three Mesqueteers and Monogram's "Rough Riders" and "Range Busters." Read More

The Return of the Rangers

Synopsis: In this western, the Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Border Buckaroos

Actors: Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Christine McIntyre, Eleanor Counts

Synopsis: Another low-budget entry in PRC's interminable Texas Ranger series, Border Buckaroos is perhaps the only B-Western to misprint its own name in the titles, which read "Border Buckaroo." (Supporting actor Ethan Laidlaw's name became "Laidlow," and so on.) The rangers -- Tex (Dave "Tex" O'Brien), Jim Read More

The Rangers Take Over

Actors: Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Iris Meredith, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: In the first entry in PRC's Texas Ranger series, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) and Panhandle Perkins (Guy Wilkerson) are recruits assigned by Tex's stern father, Captain Wyatt (Forrest Taylor), to look into a series of cattle rustlings. Despite strict orders not to arrest anyone, Tex goes after Read More

Bombardier

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, Walter Reed

Synopsis: A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots. O'Brien and Scott argue over teaching methods, while their students vie for the affections of Anne Shirley. O'Brien's methods prove sound during a bombing raid over Tokyo. Scott Read More

Fighting Valley

Synopsis: The Fighting Valley is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" westerns, with Dave O'Brien, Jim Newell and Guy Wilkerson as the aforementioned Rangers. This time, our heroes try to find out who's been stealing ore from a valuable smelting mine. One of the independent mine-owners victimized by the crooks Read More

The Falcon's Brother

Actors: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Don Barclay, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: When George Sanders announced that he was leaving the "Falcon" series, RKO Radio came up with the perfect replacement: Sanders' own brother, Tom Conway. The transition was handled with style in The Falcon's Brother, with private detective Gay Lawrence (Sanders), aka The Falcon, incapacitated early Read More

The Great American Broadcast

Actors: Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, Four Ink Spots

Synopsis: On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment The Great American Broadcast. Opening with clips of such airwaves favorites as Dick Powell and Fred Allen (courtesy of earlier Fox films like Thanks a Million), the picture Read More

Danger Ahead

Actors: James Newill, Dorothea Kent, Guy Usher, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Maude Allen

Synopsis: Renfrew of the Royal Mounted rides again in the Criterion/Monogram "northern" Danger Ahead. There's not a whole lot of plot to speak of, as Renfrew (James Newill) gets involved with a crooked banker (John Dilson) and his raffish henchman (Dick Rich). One of the film's plusses is the presence of Read More

Yukon Flight

Actors: James Newill, Louise Stanley, Warren Hull, William Pawley, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: Yukon Flight is one of several Monogram programmers starring James Newill as Renfrew of the Royal Mounted. This time Renfrew is on the trail of the operators of a crooked air freight service. The villains have been helping themselves to the cargo and bumping off clients who have complained. The Read More

The Sky Bandits

Synopsis: In this adventure, the final entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series, the intrepid RCMP officer and his girl friend head for the Yukon to look for stolen planes carrying gold shipments. There they find themselves faced with a death ray that has been invented by a scientist who has been Read More

Murder on the Yukon

Actors: James Newill, Polly Ann Young, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, William Royle

Synopsis: In the sixth of eight Renfrew of the Royal Mounted "Northwesterns," mounties Renfrew (James Newill) and Kelly (Dave O'Brien) come across the body of a murdered prospector, Jim Smithers (Budd Buster). The dead man's cabin has been tossed, it turns out, and when his alcoholic brother (Al St. John) Read More

Crashing Thru

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

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

Fighting Mad

Actors: James Newill, Sally Blane, Benny Rubin, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: Fighting Mad was the second of producer Phil Krasne's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" films to be released by Monogram (taking over from the defunct Grand National Pictures). In this endeavor, Renfrew (James Newill) and his young pal Kelly (Dave O'Brien) take on American gangster Cardigan (Milburn Stone Read More

On the Great White Trail

Actors: James Newill, Terry Walker, Robert W. Fraser, Richard Alexander, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: On the Great White Trail was the second B-picture inspired by Laurie York Erskine's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" books. James Newill is back as Renfrew, who on this occasion tries to solve a robbery and murder. The villains are a gang of fur thieves who've been targeting the trading posts owned Read More

Renfrew on the Great White Trail

Actors: James Newill, Carolyn Hughes, William Royle, Donald Reed

Synopsis: An uneven mix of '30s crook melodrama and Rose Marie-inspired mountie romance, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted of radio fame came to the screen in 1937, courtesy of the founder of Grand National, Edward L. Alperson. Chosen to play the strapping title role was James Newill, a Nelson Eddy wannabe whose Read More

Sing While You're Able

Actors: Pinky Tomlin, Toby Wing, Harry C. Bradley, Sam Wren

Synopsis: In this countrified musical, a wealthy man and his daughter try to promote the singing career of a talented hillbilly and his always smiling friend. They meet when the rich man's car breaks down while travelling across the South. The father brings the young crooner to his radio station. The singer Read More

Something to Sing About

Actors: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who heads to Hollywood when he is offered a movie contract. The down-to-Earth Rooney resists the "star treatment," an attitude misinterpreted by movie Read More