Johnny Mack BrownFilmography

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the oppressive influence of an outlaw and his evil gang. One couple knows the gunslinger's true avocation and they talk him into working as a lawman and putting one of the crooks Read More

The Bounty Killer

Actors: Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen

Synopsis: Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good" townsfolk until they need him to track down and kill a criminal; the gratitude doesn't last long, and it's back to outcast status for Duryea. At one juncture, the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Daring Decoy

Synopsis: While enmeshed in a vicious proxy war with business rival Warner Griffith (played by former western star Johnny Mack Brown), Daniel Conway (H.M.Wynant) is charged with murdering Griffith's secretary Rose Calvert (Pamela Duncan), who'd been spying on him. Agreeing to defend Conway, Perry (Raymond Read More

The Marshal's Daughter

Actors: Laurie Anders, Hoot Gibson, Ken Murray, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide Read More

The Man from the Black Hills

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Rand Brooks, Lane Bradford, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's Read More

Canyon Ambush

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown was a bit on the chunky side by the time he starred in Canyon Ambush, though his excess poundage never impedes his performance. This time Brown comes to the rescue of imperiled Phyllis Coates (who'd just spent 26 weeks as Lois Lane on the TV series Superman). The bad guys just Read More

Texas City

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lois Hall, Lorna Thayer, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny investigates when several government gold shipments are hijacked. Someone has been tipping of the outlaws as to when and where the supposedly secret shipments will take place. The Read More

Dead Man's Trail

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown and his youthful sidekick Jimmy Ellison come to the aid of imperiled Barbara Allen. At this point, Johnny was too long in tooth and thick around the middle to qualify as a Read More

Montana Desperado

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Virginia Herrick, Myron Healey, Marshall Reed, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown closed out his 1951 manifest of "B"-westerns with Montana Desperado. The story concerns a fierce struggle over water rights. Complicating the plot is the presence of a masked desperado who is systematically killing off local ranchers. Brown arrives on the scene to find out who's Read More

Colorado Ambush

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell, Christine McIntyre

Synopsis: As was customary in his late Monogram westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays an undercover agent in Colorado Ambush. Brown is sent to Colorado to stem the activities of a particularly vicious outlaw gang. The leader of the gang is played by Myron Healey, who also wrote the script. The best sequence Read More

Texas Lawmen

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lee Roberts, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time, Brown is hunting for three desperate criminals. Fortunately for Our Hero, two of the crooks -- Bart and Steve Morrow (Stan Jolley and Lee Roberts) -- are father and son, on Read More

Man from Sonora

Blazing Bullets

Synopsis: Tall (and a bit heavy) in the saddle, Johnny Mack Brown stars in Blazing Bullets. Too long in tooth to pass a romantic lead, Brown permits his sidekick House Peters Jr. to pitch woo to leading lady Lois Hall. The plot is the same as in Brown's ten previous Monogram westerns; coming into a Read More

Oklahoma Justice

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady, played by Barbara Allen, is of course called "Ma." In order to get the goods on "Ma" and her "brood," Mack Brown must masquerade as a lone bandit. The ruse works up to a point Read More

Whistling Hills

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Noel Neill, Lee Roberts

Synopsis: Though ready for release in 1951, Whistling Hills ended up as western star Johnny Mack Brown's first entry for 1952. This time, Johnny comes to the aid of sheriff Dave Holland (Jimmy Ellison) when a band of stagecoach robbers plague the countryside. The masked bandits use the "whistling hills," a Read More

The Haunted Mine

Synopsis: A series of prospector murders near an abandoned mine are investigated by a lawman in this exciting western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

West of Wyoming

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Gail Davis, Myron Healey, Dennis Moore, Stanley Andrews

Synopsis: The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up of the rang to homesteaders. Government agent Brown comes calling when Simon begins resorting to cold-blooded murder. The leading lady is Gail Davis, a few years shy of her Annie Oakley Read More

Six Gun Mesa

Outlaw Gold

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Adams, Myron Healey, Milburn Morante, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in the Monogram oater Outlaw Gold. The plot is motivated by revenge: sentenced to five years in prison, vicious gunman Sonny Lang (Myron Healey) vows to "get" Dave Willis (Brown) the moment he's released. Our Hero, however, can't be bothered by such trivialities. He's too Read More

Over the Border

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Marshall Reed, House Peters, Jr.

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in the rubber-stamp western Over the Border. Bringing Bart Calhoun (Marshall Reed) to justice for his complicity in a robbery/murder, Johnny assumes that his job is over. Not by a long shot! Calhoun's arrest leads to the uncovering of a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle Read More

Law of the Panhandle

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Adams, Riley Hill, Marshall Reed, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown follows his tried-and-true western formula in Law of the Panhandle. This time, U.S. Marshal Brown backs up Sheriff Tom Stocker (Riley Hill) in an ongoing battle against a marauding outlaw gang. The thieves, led by snarling Henry Faulkner (Myron Healey), hope to scare all the Read More

Short Grass

Actors: Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Walburn, Jonathan Hale

Synopsis: Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer than most Monogram westerns (82 minutes), the film never lags, thanks to the expertise of Selander and a top-rank cast. Rod Cameron plays Steve, a drifter who briefly settles Read More

Stampede

Actors: Rod Cameron, Gale Storm, Johnny Mack Brown, Don Castle, Donald Curtis

Synopsis: Stampede is a choice example of the Lesley Selander B-plus westerns of the late 1940s/early 1950s. Rod Cameron and Don Castle star as feuding brothers who own separate cattle ranches. The siblings find themselves on opposite sides of a water-rights battle, in which settlers are being deprived Read More

Hidden Danger

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Christine Larson, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series galloped ever onward in Hidden Danger. This time, Johnny and his saddle pal Banty (Raymond Hatton) come in contact with a cattlemen's protective organization. Ostensibly an honest venture, the association is the front for an extortion racket, headed by a Read More

Range Justice

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Felice Ingersoll, Sarah Padden, Riley Hill

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown does his usual Johnny Mack Brown thing in the Monogram western Range Justice. Once more teamed with comic sidekick Max Terhune, Brown champions the cause of feisty lady rancher Ma Curtis (Sarah Padden). A gang of crooks led by the scurrilous Stoner (Fred Kohler Jr.) is trying to Read More

Law of the West

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Bill Kennedy, Gerry Pattison, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: By the time Law of the West came out in 1949, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown westerns were beginning to all look alike. Here as elsewhere, Brown plays a marshal who comes to the rescue of the Downtrodden. This time, it's a group of ranchers who are being victimized by a crooked real estate agent. Read More

Trail's End

Actors: Max "Alibi" Terhune, Kay Morley, Douglas Evans, Zon Murray

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown's Trails End was barely distinguishable from his other Monogram releases of 1949. In fact, more than one reviewer noted that even the background music was the same as in previous Brown vehicles. Once again, Johnny and his saddle pal Alibi (Max Terhune) ride into a frontier town Read More

Western Renegades

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Riley Hill, Jane Adams, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown's first starring western for 1950 is cut from the same cloth as his 1949 releases. Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss (Hugh Prosser), an outlaw who has killed the community's leading citizen. The dead man's grown children (Jane Adams and Riley Hill) want to Read More

West of El Dorado

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Reno Browne, Teddy Infur, Milburn Morante

Synopsis: The differences between West of El Dorado and Johnny Mack Brown's previous 1949 vehicles are minimal. Once again, Brown is teamed with Max "Alibi" Terhune, comic ventriloquist extraordinaire. In this outing, Johnny and Alibi try to straighten out a hostile young boy (Teddy Infuhr) whose older Read More

The Fighting Ranger

Synopsis: In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frontier Agent

Synopsis: A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government man, sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang. And once more, he is aided and abetted by Raymond Hatton, an old codger who has a lot more on the ball than Read More

Back Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Coles, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where he becomes embroiled in a blackmail scheme. The town's banker (Ted Adams), a pillar of respectability, once served a jail term. Outlaw leader Pierce Lyden threatens to Read More

The Sheriff of Medicine Bow

Synopsis: Sheriff of Medicine Bow is one of the slower-moving Johnny Mack Brown westerns for Monogram. Once, again, Brown is teamed with Raymond Hatton, but something new has been added. Max Terhune plays Hatton's comic foil, travelling under the same character name-"Alibi"-that he used when costarring in Read More

Gun Talk

Actors: Christine McIntyre, Douglas Evans, Geneva Gray

Synopsis: In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see her sister. Two outlaws next try to jump the miner's claim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crossed Trails

Actors: Raymond Hatton, Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Douglas Evans, Kathy Frye

Synopsis: "Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns of the 1940s. One of the better look-alikes was Crossed Trails, in which Brown champions the cause of pretty ranch owner Maggie (Lynne Carver Read More

Overland Trails

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in this above-average B-Western from Monogram, penned under the pseudonym of Jess Bowers by veteran genre specialist Adele Buffington. Mack Brown plays Johnny Murdoch, a drifter arriving in Gold Flats in search of his prospector father. From old-timer Dusty Hanover (Raymond Hatton Read More

Triggerman

Gunning for Justice

Synopsis: Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a tattered map that her uncle, a prisoner of war, created in camp. Unfortunately two badguys have the map and try to turn the three goodguys against the niece. They do not Read More

Trailing Danger

Synopsis: Trailing Danger is one of Johnny Mack Brown's cookie-cutter Monogram westerns. Once again, Brown is teamed with grizzled Raymond Hatton. Once again, he plays his cards close to his chest throughout most of the film. And once again, he springs into action in reel six, trouncing the villains whom Read More

Code of the Saddle

Synopsis: Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Raiders of the South

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here: we should explain that Johnny has come to the aid of helpless settlers who've been victimized by a vigilante group. The mysterious masked leader turns out be...but wait Read More

Land of the Lawless

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty dealings in the town of Medicine Flats, Johnny learns that Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre), the owner of the Golden Spur Saloon, has been waging a war against local Read More

Flashing Guns

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Bryant, Douglas Evans, James Logan

Synopsis: After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace with such entries as Flashing Guns. In this outing, Brown tries to save his pal Shelby (Raymond Hatton) from being thrown off his ranch by crooked banker Ainsworth (James E. Read More

Valley of Fear

Prairie Express

Actors: Ted Adams, Virginia Belmont, Johnny Mack Brown, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by veteran Lambert Hillyer. Having saved his old friend Faro Jenkins (Raymond Hatton) and young Dave Porter (Robert Winkler) from marauding outlaws, Ranger Johnny Hudson (Mack Read More

The Law Comes to Gunsight

Synopsis: One film critic compared Monogram's eight Johnny Mack Brown westerns of 1947 to strawberries: it was up to the viewer sort out which were good, and which were bad. Law Comes to Gunsight is a little of both. Brown arrives in the town of, yes, Gunsight, in the company of saddle pal Raymond Hatton. Read More

Gentleman from Texas

Synopsis: In one of his better Monogram Westerns, Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a crooked saloon owner with more than one murder on his conscience. Steve Corbin (Tristram Coffin) and his gang of cutthroats are terrorizing the townspeople of Rimrock, who in self-defense hire Johnny Macklin (Mack Brown) Read More

Under Arizona Skies

Synopsis: Monogram added a bit of music to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown oater, courtesy of former star Smith Ballew, who performs Cindy Walker's "The Strawberry Blonde" and Don Swander and June Hershey's "Livin' Western Style" accompanied by Dusty Rhodes and the Sons of the Sage. Mack Brown Read More

Drifting Along

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Raymond Hatton, Smith Ballew

Synopsis: Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran cowboy star comes to the aid of a beleaguered female rancher. Just "drifting along," Steve Garner (Mack Brown) obtains the job of foreman on a spread belonging to pretty Pat Read More

Border Bandits

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Riley Hill, John Merton

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of crooks whose hideout is on the other side of the Mexican border. Aiding Brown in his task are faithful sidekicks Raymond Hatton and Riley Hill. For reasons unknown, Brown is Read More

Silver Range

Synopsis: Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram, which co-stars perennial old-timer Raymond Hatton as a retired U.S. Marshal assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a rancher. As the two old friends soon learn Read More

Trigger Fingers

Shadows on the Range

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in the formula oater Shadows on the Range. The film was made at a time when Monogram was experimenting with the notion of passing Brown off as a singing cowboy. While his voice is dubbed, he's definitely handling all the action sequences himself, and that's what the fans Read More

Frontier Feud

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Dennis Moore, Christine McIntyre, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada and his grizzled sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) are US marshals posing as drifters. Rancher Joe (Dennis Moore) is accused of a series of murders, but Nevada and Sandy Read More

Gun Smoke

Synopsis: The trail provides great adventure for a cowboy in this western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Stranger from Pecos

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Kirby Grant, Christine McIntyre, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Though it wasn't the first of the batch, The Stranger from Pecos would have been an excellent starting point for Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. Containing a great deal more excitement than the official first entry (The Ghost Rider), the film casts Brown as Nevada, a US marshal Read More

Flame of the West

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Joan Woodbury, Douglas Dumbrille, Lynne Carver

Synopsis: Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other reason than the offbeat casting of Douglass Dumbrille. Usually seen in villainous roles, Dumbrille herein offers a sincere, effective performance as a scrupulously honest US Read More

The Navajo Trail

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton once again play undercover U.S. marshals Nevada McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins. This time, Sandy's sergeant, Trevor (Jasper L. Palmer), is shot in the back by Slim Ramsey (Raphael Bennett), an outlaw he had been tracking. Masquerading as a desperado himself, Nevada Read More

The Lost Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Riley Hill, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the Read More

Stranger from Santa Fe

Synopsis: Burly Johnny Mack Brown once again plays undercover U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie in this overly complicated series oater from low-budget Monogram. This time, McKenzie, who goes under the alias of Roy Ferris, is waylaid by would-be stage robber Cy Manning (John Merton) en route to the Bar X Ranch. Read More

Lawmen

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Wiley, Kirby Grant, Robert W. Frazer

Synopsis: Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada (Brown) and Sandy (Raymond Hatton) working as undercover US marshals. Hoping to thwart a gang of stage robbers, Nevada joins the gang, while Sandy poses as a shoemaker in order to Read More

Forever Yours

Actors: Gale Storm, C. Aubrey Smith, Johnny Mack Brown, Frank Craven, Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical favorite Gale Storm goes dramatic as Joan Randall, a young debutante who is confined to a wheelchair after contracting infantile paralysis. Neither her doctor father (Conrad Read More

Law of the Valley

Actors: Charles King

Synopsis: Saddle pals Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton give as good as they get in the action-packed Monogram oater Law of the Valley. In trying to rescue a small western town from the grip of the villains, Brown and Hatton are pummeled and shot at from all directions. But, as every Brown fan can tell Read More

Partners of the Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Craig Woods, Robert W. Frazer

Synopsis: This Johnny Mack Brown western once more teams its star with leathery Raymond Hatton. The boys are cast as U.S. marshals Nevada and Sandy, assigned to solve a series of frontier murders. The victims are all ranchers, with no apparent connection between the killings. To everyone's surprise but the Read More

Ghost Guns

Synopsis: Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Range Law

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Sarah Padden, Ellen Hall, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: Range Law stars Johnny Mack Brown as "Nevada" and Raymond Hatton as "Sandy", the same characters they played in most of their mid-1940s Monogram westerns. This time, Nevada and Sandy, US marshals both, set out to collar some renegades who've been driving out the local ranchers. It's just possible Read More

Raiders of the Border

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Craig Woods, Ellen Hall, Raphael Bennett

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton return to the screen as saddle pals Nevada and Sandy in Monogram's Pals of the Border. In this one, our heroes are US marshals, hot on the trail of cattle rustlers. To rout out the thieves, Nevada poses as a crook, while Sandy pretends to be hard of hearing. Read More

Land of the Outlaws

Synopsis: The old bromide about the western town run by outlaws as a hideout for their fellow crooks makes a return appearance in Monogram's Land of the Outlaws. Since the crooks include such reliable disreputables as Charles King and John Merton, the good guys really have their work cut out for them. But Read More

West of the Rio Grande

The Texas Kid

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Marshall Reed, Shirley Patterson, Robert Fiske

Synopsis: Though the film's title is The Texas Kid, the film's star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cowboy named Nevada. The titular "kid", played by Marshall Reed, is a former bandit leader who decides to go straight-and gets a bullet in his back for his trouble. Nevada and his sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) Read More

Old Chisholm Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Mady Correll

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars as Dusty Gardner, spokesmen for a group of hard-working cattlemen. As Gardner and his compatriots guide their livestock down the titular trail, the villains try to make certain that the cattle will never reach the market. Heading the bad guys is a bad girl, one Belle Turner Read More

Outlaws of Stampede Pass

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown heads the cast of Monogram's Outlaws of Stampede Pass. Per the title, the film concerns a western community held in the grip of a gang of desperadoes. Brown and his dusty sidekick Raymond Hatton set about to round up the bad guys. We know what's going to happen, but as always Read More

Six Gun Gospel

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Inna Gest, Eddie Dew, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville Read More

The Lone Star Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt

Synopsis: The Lone Star Trail was the last of Johnny Mack Brown's series westerns for Universal; thereafter, he pitched camp at Monogram. In this one, Brown plays Blaze Barker, who spends two years in jail on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Upon being paroled, Barker makes it his mission to track down Read More

Raiders of San Joaquin

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Henry Hall

Synopsis: In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad. Things look bleak for a while, but fortunately, one of the heroes is related to the vice--president of the railroad and is able to straighten Read More

Cheyenne Roundup

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the Read More

The Ghost Rider

Synopsis: In his first of 20 "Nevada McKenzie" Westerns for Monogram Pictures, brawny Johnny Mack Brown plays the title role, a drifter happening upon the dying owner of a local abattoir (Jack Daley). The latter, with his dying breath, warns our hero about Lash Edwards (Harry Woods, a cattle rustler turned Read More

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt

Synopsis: Like many of Johnny Mack Brown's western vehicles of the 1942-43 season, Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground draws its title from a popular song. Brown plays Wade Benson, head of a road-building project in the wild frontier. In their efforts to sabotage Benson's efforts, the villains lure his Read More

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Johnny Mack Brown

Synopsis: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo peanut vendors who get mixed up in the travails of western novelist Bob Mitchell (Dick Foran). Ostensibly a true Son of the Frontier, Bob has actually never been west of Brooklyn Read More

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, William Farnum, Rex Lease, Helen Deverell

Synopsis: It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) Read More

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, William Farnum

Synopsis: Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season. The plot concerns a group of insurrectionists who intend to keep Texas separate from the rest of the Read More

Stagecoach Buckaroo

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Anne Nagel, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Stagecoach Buckaroo was Johnny Mack Brown's final Universal western of the 1941-42 season. A gang of holdup men has been plaguing the stagecoach line run by Denton (Henry Hall), the father of heroine Molly (Nell O'Day). Hoping to flush out the crooks, hero Steve (Johnny Mack Brown) rides shotgun Read More

Little Joe, the Wrangler

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Florine McKinney

Synopsis: It should be obvious to fans of husky, muscle-bound cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown that he does not play the title role in Little Joe, Wrangler. That honor goes to Brown's perennial comic sidekick, Fuzzy Knight. Neither Brown nor Knight are the focal point of the story, however: Instead, Tex Ritter Read More

The Silver Bullet

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, William Farnum, Jennifer Holt, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with werewolves. This is a western, starring Johnny Mack Brown as the hero and Fuzzy Knight as his comical sidekick. Brown seeks to avenge the death of his father, who was shot in the Read More

Fighting Bill Fargo

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Jeanne Kelly, Kenneth Harlan, Nell O'Day

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his late father's newspaper. He quickly gets swept up in political intrigue fomented by political boss Hackett (Kenneth Harlan), who has a cute habit of Read More

Man from Montana

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Billy Lenhart

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown from Alabama stretches his acting range to play the Man From Montana. The old "divide and conquer" western plotline is trotted out once more, as evil land usurpers pit homesteaders against cattlemen in a range war. Riding into this tense situation is Bob Dawson (Brown), who Read More

The Masked Rider

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Grant Withers, Virginia Carroll

Synopsis: Cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown launched his third season at Universal with the above-average entry The Masked Rider. Moseying into a sleepy South American town in search of jobs, Larry (Brown) and his pal Patches (Fuzzy Knight) are hired by a local mining concern. Our heroes soon discover that the Read More

Boss of Bullion City

Synopsis: In this western, a town finds itself under the tyrannical control of a shady sheriff. He is usurped by an honest outside lawman and his bumbling side-kick. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rawhide Rangers

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Kathryn Adams, Nell O'Day

Synopsis: Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of frontier businessmen who set up a "protective" organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers. Enter hero Johnny Mack Brown, who has arrived in town to Read More

Arizona Cyclone

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Kathryn Adams, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Arizona Cyclone is usually cited as the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series, if only because of the inventive direction of Joseph H. Lewis. Brown is cast as Tom, owner of a wagon-freight line who business is coveted by crooked banker Quirt (Dick Curtis). The villain will stop at Read More

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

Synopsis: In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Law of the Range

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown saves the day in the Universal western programmer Law of the Range. Finding himself in the middle of a family feud, Brown endeavors to unruffle the combatants' feathers for the sake of leading lady Nell O'Day. He proves that there's nothing for the families to fight over when he Read More

West of Carson City

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Peggy Moran, Harry Woods

Synopsis: West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the Read More

Son of Roaring Dan

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Robert E. Homans

Synopsis: In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women. In the Read More

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Dick Curtis, Lynn Merrick

Synopsis: Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a confused cowhand played by Fuzzy Knight, while the hero is Steve (Johnny Mack Brown), an undercover detective on the prowl for cattle rustlers. Read More

Pony Post

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Dorothy Short, Tom Chatterton

Synopsis: Inspired no doubt by the success of Republic Pictures' singing cowboys, Universal dragged Jimmy Wakely and his Rough Riders harmony group into performing a couple of hayseed ditties in this otherwise average Johnny Mack Brown oater. Johnny plays Cal Sheridan, a pony express rider hired to replace Read More

Riders of Pasco Basin

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Frances Robinson, Arthur Loft

Synopsis: Worth seeing for its title alone was the Johnny Mack Brown western Riders of Pasco Basin. This time, Brown plays the head of a group of vigilantes (the peace-keeping variety) who take on a gang of clever villains. With the law on their side, the bad guys have been cheating the local farmers while Read More

Bad Man from Red Butte

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Anne Gwynne, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown plays a dual role in the Universal B-western Bad Man From Red Butte. It seems that honest, upright Gil Brady has a less-than-honest twin brother, a desperado who goes by the name of Buck Halliday. Eventually, Gil is blamed for the crimes committed by Buck, and is promptly tossed Read More

Chip of the Flying U

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Doris Weston, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, James Craig, Harry Cording

Synopsis: In this western, a retired marshal must once again put on his badge to protect his town from the vicious desperadoes that killed his girl friend's father. The girl uses her shooting prowess to assist them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Oregon Trail [Serial]

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

Oklahoma Frontier

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Anne Gwynne, James Blaine

Synopsis: Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride Janet Rankin (Anne Gwynne), homesteader Jeff McLeod (Brown) is thrown into jail at the behest of villain George Frazier (James Blaine). It takes some doing, but McLeod Read More

Desperate Trails

Actors: Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Bill Cody, Jr., Frances Robinson

Synopsis: With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal. Brown and comic sidekick Fuzzy Knight are cast as Steve Hayden and Cousin Willie, on the trail of cattle rustlers. The action highlights were exciting, if a bit hard to swallow Read More

Flaming Frontiers [Serial]

Synopsis: A partial remake of Universal's Heroes of the West (1932), this 15 chapter serial was based on pulp writer Peter B. Kyne's The Tie That Binds. Burly Johnny Mack Brown played an Indian scout who helps Tom Grant (Ralph Bowman) and his sister Mary (Eleanor Hansen) fight off a gang of outlaws out to Read More

The Gambling Terror

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Charles King, Ted Adams, Earl Dwire

Synopsis: Gambling Terror was one of the more worthwhile entries in Johnny Mack Brown's so-so western series for producer A.W. Hackel. The no-frills plotline finds hero Jeff (Brown), ostensibly a dude gambler, taking on a band of cowboy racketeers. The "big boss" turns out to be the outwardly respectable Read More

Guns in the Dark

Synopsis: Acting upon the belief that he accidentally murdered his best pal, a gunman swears never to draw his weapon again. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Lawman Is Born

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Warner P. Richmond, Mary MacLaren, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: No, we don't get to see Johnny Mack Brown's mother in labor in A Lawman is Born. Brown is "born" as a star packer when he's fully grown. He is moved to slap on his guns by a gang of usurping cattle rustlers. Iris Meredith is the leading lady and Warner Richmond the principal baddie in this Read More

Bar Z Bad Men

Synopsis: Bar Z Bad Men is a slick 1930s oater showcasing Johnny Mack Brown. Per the title, Brown signs on as ranchhand at the Bar Z. The spread is plagued by rustlers, and this plot peg builds to a well-staged cattle- stampede climax. Leading lady Lois January, whose acting ability was several steps above Read More

Wells Fargo

Actors: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Porter Hall

Synopsis: The third of Paramount's "deluxe" westerns of the 1930s (following The Texas Rangers and The Plainsman) was Wells Fargo, filmed on a Cecil B. DeMille scale by producer-director Frank Lloyd. In his first western appearance, Joel McCrea plays Ramsey McCay, troubleshooter for the newly formed Read More

Wild West Days

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, George Shelley, Bob Kortman, Frank Yaconelli

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown makes his third movie-serial starring appearance in the 13-chapter Wild West Days. Brown is cast as Kentucky Wade, who with the help of pals Trigger (Bob Kortman) and Mike (Frank Yaconelli) tries to protect Larry and Lucy Monroe (Frank McGlynn Jr., Lynn Gilbert) from harm. Larry Read More

Lawless Land

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Louise Stanley, Ted Adams, Julian Rivero, Horace Murphy

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in this middling western entry. The former high-school football hero plays a Texas Ranger, who early in the film rides into a wide-open town. Instead of immediately clearing out the criminal element, Brown characteristically chooses to bide his time, giving the crooks Read More

Boothill Brigade

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Claire Rochelle, Dick Curtis, Horace Murphy, Frank LaRue

Synopsis: Boothill Brigade stars Johnny Mack Brown as frontier do-gooder Lon Cardigan. Villainous land-grabber John Porter (Edward Cassidy) spends most of the early reels divesting homesteaders of the hard-earned property. All of this comes to an end when Cardigan looms into view, fists at the ready. Seldom Read More

Trail of Vengeance

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Warner P. Richmond, Karl Hackett, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: In this western, a tough hombre begins stalking his brother's killer. He shows up during a range war and because he is a notorious gun-slinger, finds both sides seeking his services. He chooses to stay focused on finding the killer. In the end the two have a showdown. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Hell Town

Actors: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, John Patterson, Monte Blue

Synopsis: Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West, which was also the Western's original release title. A couple of drifters, Dare Rudd (Wayne) and Dinkie Hooley (Sid Saylor), arrive in a Wyoming town hoping for a handout Read More

Everyman's Law

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Beth Marion, Frank Campeau, Roger Gray, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: This above-average Johnny Mack Brown Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures features the bizarre spectacle of an infant contentedly sucking on the barrel of Mack Brown's gun. The scene is played for warm-hearted comedy with Mack Brown and two wizened gunslingers (Frank Campeau and Read More

Rogue of the Range

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January, Alden Chase, Phyllis Hume, George Ball

Synopsis: Produced by low-budget company Supreme Pictures (which weren't), this middling B-western was saved somewhat by its personable star, the strapping former footballer Johnny Mack Brown. Mack plays Dan Doran, the rogue of the title, who rescues a pretty missionary, Tess (Phyllis Hume), from the Read More

Valley of the Lawless

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed his father in this average western from low-budget Supreme Pictures. Bruce Reynolds happens on the scene just as his quarry, Grandpa Jenkins (George Hayes), is being attacked by one of his former Read More

The Crooked Trail

Synopsis: Released by A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures Corp., this low-budget Western stars Johnny Mack Brown as Jim Blake, a cowpuncher who happens upon Harve Tarlton (John Merton), a wanted killer left for dead in the desert. After making Harve a partner in his prospecting business, Blake begins a romance Read More

Desert Phantom

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Ted Adams, Karl Hackett, Hal Price

Synopsis: Directed by former film editor S. Roy Luby, this above-average mystery-western starred Johnny Mack Brown as Billy Donovan, a sharpshooter turned ammunitions expert coming to the aid of Jean Haloran (Sheila Mannors aka Sheila Bromley), whose ranch is the target of the "Desert Phantom," a masked Read More

Undercover Man

Synopsis: An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures Corp. Former gridiron star (and onetime leading man to Greta Garbo!) Johnny Mack Brown plays Steve Read More

Between Men

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Beth Marion, William Farnum, Earl Dwire, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: In his second Western for Poverty Row producer A.W. Hackel, former football star Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of both his long-lost father and foster-sister. Mistakenly believing that they murdered his young son Johnny, John Wellington (William Farnum) kills three ruffians and becomes a wanted Read More

St. Louis Woman

Branded a Coward

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Billie Seward, Roger Williams, Lloyd Ingraham, Sid Saylor, Bob Kortman

Synopsis: In his first of 16 Westerns for independent producer A.W. Hackel, Johnny Mack Brown is Branded a Coward when instead of preventing a saloon hold-up, he is spotted cowering behind the bar. The reason for Johnny Hume's reticence is to be found in his background: 20 years earlier, little Johnny was Read More

The Courageous Avenger

Synopsis: Cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown made eight westerns for A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures during the 1935-36. Courageous Avenger, like most of the Brown Supremes, was directed by Robert N. Bradbury, then concurrently working on Hackel's Bob Steele series (Bradbury was, of course, Steele's father). In Read More

Rustlers of Red Dog

Synopsis: Rustlers of Red Dog is a serial that was screened in 12 installments. The Western adventure features many of the genre's most obvious staples, including cattle rustlers and Indian wars. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Three on a Honeymoon

Actors: Sally Eilers, ZaSu Pitts, Henrietta Crosman, Charles Starrett, Irene Hervey

Synopsis: Never mind the "limited" title: There are plenty of honeymooners on the ocean liner which serves as the setting for this romantic comedy. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster (Sally Eilers), who is watched over like a hawk by her stepmother "Ma" Gillespie (Henrietta Read More

Marrying Widows

Actors: Bert Roach, Sarah Padden, Nat Carr, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: Versatile character players Minna Gombell and Lucien Littlefield are afforded leading roles in the interesting Poverty-Row effort Marrying Widows. Littlefield plays a wealthy man who is targeted by a conniving gold-digger (Judith Allen). To lure the old duffer into her trap, the sly woman relies Read More

Against the Law

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Sally Blane, Arthur Hohl, George Meeker

Synopsis: After briefly enjoying an "A" budget as Mae West's vis-a-vis in Belle of the Nineties, Johnny Mack Brown returned to the "B"-picture mills with Columbia's Against the Law. Brown plays ambulance driver Steve Wayne, whose devotion to his interne pal Bert Andrews (George Meeker) supersedes all else Read More

Cross Streets

Actors: Claire Windsor, Johnny Mack Brown, Anita Louise, Ken Thomson, Matty Kemp

Synopsis: Invincible Studios' Cross Streets is something of a watershed film, providing leading roles for fading silent stars Claire Windsor and Kenneth Thomson and relative newcomers Johnny Mack Brown and Anita Louise. The story is the old saw about the brilliant surgeon who disappears from view after a Read More

Belle of the Nineties

Actors: Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, Katherine de Mille, John Miljan

Synopsis: Originally titled It Ain't No Sin until the censors prevailed, then St. Louis Woman and Belle of New Orleans, until complaints were registered from those two communities, Belle of the Nineties was Mae West's first post-Production Code film. West is cast as cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter, plying Read More

Saturday's Millions

Actors: Robert Young, Leila Hyams, Johnny Mack Brown, Andy Devine, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using the sport as a means to help him pay for school, and doesn't consider it any different from the laundry service he runs in his spare time. Rather than stroking his ego, the Read More

Fighting with Kit Carson [Serial]

Synopsis: In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Malay Nights

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Burgess, Ralph Ince, Raymond Hatton, Carmelita Geraghty

Synopsis: Dorothy Burgess, the fiery Tonia of the Academy award-winning In Old Arizona (1929), plays a woman who will do anything to locate her missing child in Malay Nights, a rather sordid low-budget melodrama from Mayfair Pictures Corp. After reluctantly marrying handsome pearl fisherman Jim Wilson Read More

Son of a Sailor

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Thelma Todd, Johnny Mack Brown, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the clumsiest gob ever to sail the seven seas. Nor can he steer clear of trouble: Through a series of wholly unbelievable circumstances, Joe finds himself alone on deck of a ship Read More

Female

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Philip Faversham, Ruth Donnelly, Johnny Mack Brown

Synopsis: Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed, hardboiled business woman making dozens of important decisions a day. In her private life, however, she is passionate and bold in her pursuit of male companionship, which she Read More

70,000 Witnesses

Actors: Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star player, is killed just before making the winning touchdown, as the titular 70,000 witnesses look on. Wally's teammate Buck Buchanan (Phillips Holmes), the younger brother Read More

Flames

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Noel Francis, George Cooper, Marjorie Beebe, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in Flames as a cocksure young firefighter named Charlie. After rescuing a cat from a burning building, Charlie and his pal Fishy (George Cooper) try to make time with the cat's pretty owners, Pat (Noel Francis) and Gertie (Marjorie Beebe). After a plenitude of comic byplay Read More

The Vanishing Frontier

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Evelyn Knapp, ZaSu Pitts, Raymond Hatton, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces. When not flummoxing the Cavalry, Kirby relaxes by playing the piano and rendering a song or two. Despite Kirby's notorious reputation, Carol Winfield (Evalyn Knapp), the Read More

The Great Meadow

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman, Lucille La Verne, Anita Louise, Gavin Gordon

Synopsis: In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to Kentucky are chronicled. To get there they must fight the angry natives, open up the forests, and forage for food. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Flight

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown, Helen Chandler, Elliott Nugent

Synopsis: Curiously reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises, The Last Flight dramatizes the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Four Yankee army buddies (Richard Barthelmess, Johnny Mack Brown, David Manners and Elliot Nugent) are invalided out of service during World War One, victims of profound Read More

Lasca of the Rio Grande

Synopsis: Texas Ranger Leo Carrillo falls for dance hall girl Dorothy Burgess who is wanted for murder. Burgess won't let her lover bring her to justice and kills herself by diving into a cattle stampede. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Laughing Sinners

Actors: Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee

Synopsis: The Kenyon Nicholson play Torch Song was the source for the Joan Crawford vehicle Laughing Sinners. Crawford plays nightclub entertainer Ivy Stevens, who loses her zest for living when she's thrown over by her salesman sweetheart Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton). At her lowest ebb, Ivy is befriended Read More

The Secret Six

Actors: Wallace Beery, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer Richard Newton (Lewis Stone), try to muscle in on the territory of gangster "Smiling Joe" Colimo (John Miljan). Franks kills Colimo's brother and tries to frame Scorpio, but Read More

Montana Moon

Actors: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled debutante en route to the family ranch in Montana and he is the cowboy she meets and marries after impulsively departing the train at a whistle stop. Surprising everyone, Papa Read More

Billy the Kid

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing

Synopsis: The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Wallace Beery is more effectively cast as Pat Garrett, the sheriff who's sworn to bring in Billy dead or alive despite his grudging friendship for the young killer. Hardly the Read More

Undertow

Actors: Mary Nolan, Johnny Mack Brown, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars as Paul, who wants nothing more out of life than to take charge of a lighthouse. Falling in love with Sally (Mary Nolan), Paul talks her into sharing his life as a lighthouse keeper. Evidently staring into the beacon once too often, Paul goes blind, and it's quite a chore Read More

Hurricane

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, Johnny Mack Brown, Leila Hyams, Alan Roscoe, Tom O'Brien

Synopsis: That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a rough-and-tumble sea captain named Hurricane. Double-crossed by his no-good business partners, Hurricane is stranded on a remote island, along with his mutinous crew. By way of contrast, virtuous seaman Johnny Mack Brown Read More

Coquette

Actors: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney

Synopsis: Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already made famous on the stage by star Helen Hayes. At almost 40 years old and lacking her signature curls, Pickford plays the young Southern belle Norma Besant, who is courting Read More

Jazz Heaven

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Clyde Cook, Blanche Frederici, Sally O'Neil, Joseph Cawthorn

Synopsis: In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a boarding house where he falls in love with a pretty young woman. When the two are discovered trysting in the same room, the landlady tosses them out on their ears. To help pay for Read More

The Valiant

Actors: Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt Jennings, Henry Kolker, Edith Yorke

Synopsis: The Valiant began life as a one-act play by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass. It is a stark little vaudeville piece about a convicted murderer who goes silently to his execution without ever revealing his true identity. Expanded to 65 minutes, The Valiant was filmed in 1929, starring Paul Muni Read More

The Single Standard

Actors: Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Lane Chandler

Synopsis: Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in silent pictures longer than any of the studio's other contractees. The star's penultimate silent effort (with music and sound effects added) was The Single Standard, based Read More

A Lady of Chance

Actors: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee, Johnny Mack Brown, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines. Cheated out of her loot by a couple of former associates, Bradley (Lowell Sherman) and Gwen (Gwen Lee), Dolly commits a bit of larceny but manages to skip town with her latest Read More

The Play Girl

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Johnny Mack Brown, Walter McGrail, Lionel Belmore, Anita Garvin

Synopsis: Flower-shop clerk Madge Norton (Madge Bellamy) loses her job because she won't fool around with her boss. Figuring that the only way to get anywhere in the world is to be bad, Madge tries to become a loose woman. Unfortunately, she is too good to be bad and is thwarted in her efforts to live a Read More

Annapolis

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, William Bakewell, Charlotte Walker

Synopsis: Directed by Cabanne, himself a graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy, this is a schmaltzy propaganda film aggrandizing the male bonding and "code of honor" adherent to the Academy plebes. Ostensibly the story of a love triangle, it is really a stereotyped tale of two friends who follow the "code" no Read More

Our Dancing Daughters

Actors: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis: Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can never forget the indelible images of Joan Crawford tearing loose with one Charleston after another. Since everyone in the film is rich, the wild parties that dominate Our Read More

A Woman of Affairs

Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Synopsis: Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could not be used when it was adapted to film. Retitled A Woman of Affairs, this tale of a woman destroyed by syphilis was heavily laundered for the screen. Greta Garbo plays an Read More

Square Crooks

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Dwan, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: The 1928 Fox comedy-drama Square Crooks was based on James P. Judge's stage play of the same name (back then, "square" meant "honest", not "clueless"). After their release from prison, petty criminals Johnny Mack Brown and Robert Armstrong decide to go straight and seek out legitimate employment. Read More

Soft Living

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Johnny Mack Brown, Mary Duncan, Joyce Compton, Thomas Jefferson

Synopsis: Madge Bellamy stars as Nancy Woods, the secretary to a successful divorce lawyer. Soured on matrimony by the examples set in her boss' office, Nancy decides to marry for money then dump her husband and live off the alimony. When she entraps millionaire Stockney Webb (Johnny Mack Brown) as her Read More

The Divine Woman

Actors: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran, Dorothy Cumming

Synopsis: One of the great directors of the silent era, Victor Sjostrom, teamed with fellow Swede Greta Garbo for this drama. The great Garbo plays Marianne, a young woman from Brittany who was neglected by her impoverished parents. Marianne longs to be an actress and moves to Paris, where theatrical Read More

The Fair Co-Ed

Actors: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton, Thelma Hill, Lillian Leighton

Synopsis: In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself (actually the men are guilty of this too -- both Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd played college students while in their early 30s). Davies, fortunately, was athletic enough Read More

Slide, Kelly, Slide

Synopsis: One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man William Haines. In his usual brash, cocky manner, Haines is cast as Jim Kelly, a self-styled baseball whiz who talks himself into a job with the New York Yankees. Though his Read More

Bugle Call

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Claire Windsor, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom O'Brien, Harry Todd

Synopsis: Little Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin's famous The Kid(1921), starred in this action melodrama from MGM as a young bugler whose stepmother (Claire Windsor) attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory. According to the Motion Picture New Booking Guide, The Bugle Call, which Read More

Mockery

Actors: Lon Chaney, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Bedford, Mack Swain, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted Russian peasant. On the verge of starvation, Chaney is hired to guide a beautiful countess (Barbara Bedford) through the treacherous Siberian wastes. Once he arrives Read More