Larry "Buster" CrabbeFilmography

Original Flash Gordon Collection

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Charles B. Middleton, Frank Shannon

Synopsis: Universal's three Flash Gordon serials have, over the years, been edited down to feature-length form. In 1991, these various abridgements were further whittled down into a six-hour-and-six-minute videotape compendium, titled The Original Flash Gordon Collection. Appearing throughout this ersatz Read More

Hollywood on Vine: A Tarzan Tribute

Synopsis: A tribute to Hollywood's Tarzan as played by Johnny Weismuller, Gordon Scott and Ron Ely as well as all the of the accompanying Janes and chimps. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Golden TV Memories of the '50s, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Golden TV Memories of the '50s pays homage to the unforgettable age of live television. Volume three showcases a series of the period's most popular programs, including The Howdy Doody Show, featuring Buffalo Bob, the beloved puppet, Howdy Doody, their cast of friends, and the "Peanut Gallery" Read More

The Alien Dead

Actors: Linda Lewis, Mike Bonavia

Synopsis: Never released theatrically, this undistinguished monster film is set in the Florida swamps where an unusual meteor shower has given birth to a group of mutant youngsters who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The youngsters become horribly disfigured and are overtaken by an uncontrollable Read More

The Comeback Trail

Actors: Chuck McCann, Robert Staats, Ina Balin, Jara Kahout

Synopsis: In this comedy a producer of "B" movies makes a film featuring a has-been cowboy star in the hopes that he can bring back his failing studio. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

It Fell from the Sky

Synopsis: This early waterlogged effort from now-notorious exploitation king Fred Olen Ray (released directly to video) is an amateurish blend of 50s-style monster movie and Night of the Living Dead zombie mayhem. The zombies in question arise when a meteor (represented by a cheap 4th of July sparkler) Read More

Swim Team

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a swim coach must work overtime to turn his wimpy swim team into champions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Arizona Raiders

Actors: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Ben Cooper, Gloria Talbott, Fred Graham

Synopsis: Action expert William Witney glosses over the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in Arizona Raiders. Audie Murphy and Ben Cooper play members of Quantrill's Raiders, hoping to avenge the fallen South after the Civil War. Murphy and Cooper are captured by a Union officer (Buster Crabbe) (effectively Read More

Gunfighters of Abilene

Actors: Barton MacLane, Judith Ames, Arthur Space, Eugenia Paul

Synopsis: One of the busiest directors of westerns at this time, Edward L. Cahn helms this uninspired saddle saga about love and betrayal. Kip (Buster Crabbe) is a gunslinger with a score to settle. Seth (Barton MacLane), a villainous land baron, frames Kip's brother for a crime he never committed and Read More

Badman's Country

Actors: George Montgomery, Neville Brand, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: A veritable honor roll of famed western heroes and villains appears in the fanciful oater Badman's Country. It all begins when Sheriff Pat Garrett (George Montgomery) draws up plans to lure the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, headed by Butch Cassidy (Neville Brand) and the Sundance Kid (Russell Johnson) Read More

Foreign Legionnaire: Court Martial

The Lawless Eighties

Synopsis: In this western, a circuit rider endeavors to warn the cavalry after he sees masked men cruelly abusing an Indian band. En route, the brave rider is shot and left to die. Fortunately, a gunfighter comes upon him and saves his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion: Season 02

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Cullen "Cuffy" Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight, Gilles Queant, Roger Treville

Gun Brothers

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ann Robinson, Neville Brand, Michael Ansara, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Gun Brothers is a rehash of the "Cain and Abel" motif that has been popular amongst screenwriters since time immemorial. Buster Crabbe and Neville Brand star as brothers Chad and Jubal. While Chad remains on the straight-and-narrow and becomes a rancher, Jubal opts for the life of an outlaw. The Read More

Saturday Serials

Synopsis: Combined here are select episodes from two popular '50s TV serials which often appeared on Saturday mornings across the U.S. The serials are "The Adventures of Robin Hood," starring Richard Greene and "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion," starring Buster Crabbe. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion: Season 01

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Cullen "Cuffy" Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight, Gilles Queant, Roger Treville

The Gabby Hayes Show: Episode 1

The Gabby Hayes Show: Episode 4

The Gabby Hayes Show: Episode 6

The Gabby Hayes Show: Episode 10

The Gabby Hayes Show: Episode 9

The Gabby Hayes Show: Episode 8

King of the Congo [Serial]

Synopsis: In this convoluted adventure serial, a U.S. Air force captain begins searching for some stolen microfilm that contains vital information. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pirates of the High Seas [Serial]

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Lois Hall, Symona Boniface

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe stars in this Columbia serial about a modern-day "Flying Dutchman" ghost ship. Costarring are Tristram Coffin, Lois Hall), and Symona Boniface as "The Lotus Lady." ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide Read More

Captive Girl

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Anita Lhoest, Rick Vallin, John Dehner

Synopsis: Number three in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series was the misleadingly titled Captive Girl. Johnny Weissmuller returns as Jim, who this time out comes to the rescue of a white girl named Joan (Anita Lhoest), who has been raised as a "jungle goddess," complete with revealing costume and pet tiger. The Read More

Caged Fury

Actors: Richard Denning, Sheila Ryan, Mary Beth Hughes, Frank Wilcox

Synopsis: Caged Fury was the last of three Pine-Thomas productions tradeshown in Los Angeles within the same February week in 1948. The story takes place in a seedy circus, where malevolent clown Smiley (Buster Crabbe, in a truly despicable characterization) plots to further the career of aspiring lion Read More

Code of the Plains

Synopsis: This western follows Billy the Kid on another shoot-em-up adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sea Hound

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Barron

Synopsis: In the first of his three serials for Columbia Pictures, Larry "Buster" Crabbe starred as Captain Silver who, with his crew, gets involved with rescuing John Whitney (Milton Kibbee), a man with a certain knowledge of sunken treasure. Whitney has been kidnapped by a mysterious pirate known as The Read More

The Last of the Redmen

Actors: Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea, Evelyn Ankers, Julie Bishop, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: Columbia's Last of the Redmen is actually the first color film version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Jon Hall stars as 18th century frontier scout Hawkeye, assigned to escort the offspring of British general Munro (Guy Hedlund) through treacherous Indian country in upstate Read More

Prairie Badmen

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Patricia Knox, Edward Cassidy

Synopsis: Prairie Badmen is a typically threadbare entry in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series. This time around, Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) link up with medicine show proprietor Doc Latimer (Edward Cassidy). Having discover a cache of hidden gold, Latimer intends to keep it all Read More

Ghost of Hidden Valley

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Carlin, John Meredith

Synopsis: Officially released one month before PRC's "Billy the Kid" entry Prairie Badmen, Ghost of Hidden Valley, another "Billy"effort, was issued simultaneously with the later film for its New York debut in July of 1946. The story is the usual, with Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. Read More

Swamp Fire

Actors: Marcelle Corday, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Pedro de Cordoba, Virginia Grey, Edwin Maxwell

Synopsis: This adventure, set upon the mighty Mississippi, features two former Tarzans. One of them is a river-boat captain who was shell shocked in the war. The other is an evil trapper. The trouble is caused by their shared affection for a pretty young woman. Their rivalry climaxes as the two wrestle it Read More

Overland Riders

Synopsis: Larry "Buster" Crabbe was billed "King of the Wild West" in this the final entry in PRC's ultra low-budget "Billy Carson" series. This time, Carson and sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) prevent a stage holdup, a crime organized by crooked land agent Vic Landreau (Jack O'Shea) in the mistaken Read More

Terrors on Horseback

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Patti McCarty, I. Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard

Synopsis: Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up in this "Billy Carson" Western series entry starring Larry "Buster" Crabbe and Al St. John. Billy and Fuzzy quickly learn that the culprit, who not only killed all the passengers but also absconded with $40,000, may be holed up in lawless Pecos City. Read More

Gentlemen with Guns

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Patricia Knox, Steven Darrell, George Cheseboro

Synopsis: Sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) finds himself in deep trouble with the law in this above-average entry in PRC's Billy Carson series starring Larry "Buster" Crabbe. Angered by Fuzzy's refusal to sell him his water rights, nasty Jim McAllister (Steve Terrell) has the grizzled old-timer framed Read More

Outlaw of the Plains

Synopsis: In this western, Billy Carson must help out his bumbling side kick after he involves himself in a land scam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Prairie Rustlers

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Evelyn Finley, Karl Hackett, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: It's Buster Crabbe times two in this low-budget "Billy Carson" Western from PRC, which once again trots out that anatomical impossibility: identical cousins. The bad cousin, Jim, heads a gang of cattle rustlers that has just killed both the local sheriff and his deputies. The only one left Read More

Shadows of Death

Synopsis: Larry "Buster" Crabbe and Al St. John -- "Our Old Pals," as they were billed -- get in trouble with a murderous Charles King in this typical "Billy Carson" Western from Poverty Row company PRC. Billy and railroad agent Dave Hanley (Karl Hackett) are discussing plans to run the new railroad through Read More

Gangster's Den

Synopsis: The "urban" nature of the title notwithstanding, Gangster's Den is another PRC Studios B-western. Buster Crabbe and Al St. John, as usual, fill the roles of cowboys Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones. This time, Billy and Fuzzy are partners in a gold mine. Using his earnings, Fuzzy opens a saloon Read More

Border Badmen

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Lorraine Miller, Charles King, Ray Bennett

Synopsis: Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) discovers that he may be an heir to a ranch in this ho-hum entry in PRC's Billy Carson Western series. But as Fuzz and Billy (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) soon learn the hard way, other parties arrive to claim the inheritance, including pretty Helen Stockton (Lorraine Read More

Stagecoach Outlaws

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frances Gladwin, Edward Cassidy, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: At long last, a low-budget Western that fully lives up to its title, Stagecoach Outlaws depicts exactly that, a gang of outlaws robbing a stage line operated by Jed Bowen (Edward Cassidy). When Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) foils the gang's latest holdup, its leader, Steve Kirby (I. Stanford Read More

His Brother's Ghost

Synopsis: An otherwise typically cheesy Billy "the Kid" Carson B-Western series entry from Poverty Row studio PRC, His Brother's Ghost is unusual in having no leading lady. Yes, that's right: no rancher's daughter or schoolmarm for Larry "Buster" Crabbe to romance and embrace at the fade-out and no damsel Read More

Lightning Raiders

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Fuzzy St. John, Henry Hall, Steven Darrell

Synopsis: The most thrilling aspect of the PRC oater Lightning Raiders is the film's title. Though Buster Crabbe earns top billing as do-gooder Billy Carson (aka Billy the Kid), the first reel is dominated by Al St. John as Billy's mangy saddle pal Fuzzy Q. Jones. Expecting an important letter, Fuzzy gets Read More

Fighting Bill Carson

Synopsis: Fighting Bill Carson, as any B-western aficionado can readily tell you, is played by Buster Crabbe. And where there's Bill Carson, you'll also find faithful sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones, portrayed as ever by Al "Fuzzy" St. John. This time around, Bill and Fuzzy rescue the lovely Lorraine Miller from Read More

Thundering Gun Slingers

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frances Gladwin, Karl Hackett, Charles King

Synopsis: Being in the presence of a gun-slinger is intimidating enough, but when a "thundering" gun-slinger comes riding over the horizon, it's time to make out the will and pick the coffin. Buster Crabbe plays Billy Carson, aka Billy the Kid, while Al St. John is his grizzled sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones. The Read More

Rustler's Hideout

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Patti McCarty, Charles King, John Merton

Synopsis: Rustler's Hideout is more of the same from PRC's resident cowboy stars Buster Crabbe and Al St. John. Cast once again as Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones, our heroes declare war against a gang of cattle rustlers. Even the villains are making their umpteenth return appearances in the Crabbe - St. Read More

Devil Riders

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Patti McCarty, John Merton

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe is back as Billy Carson, aka Billy the Kid, in the PRC western The Devil Riders. In this one, Billy and his saddle pal Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) try to keep an beleagured stagecoach line in business. This they can do only after foiling the outlaw gang that has been raiding the Read More

Frontier Outlaws

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frances Gladwin, Marin Sais

Synopsis: One thing is certain in Frontier Outlaws. Despite evidence to the contrary, Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) do not play the title characters. It's true that Billy joins the outlaws for a spell, but that's only so he can trap them in the act. Outside of the usual Read More

The Drifter

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Parker, Kermit Maynard, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe essays a dual role in the PRC horse opera The Drifter. Crabbe is seen in his usual guise as dogooder Billy Carson (aka Billy the Kid) and as bank robber Drifter Davis. When Drifter commits a series of holdups, Billy is held responsible-and small wonder, since Drifter has been going Read More

Frontier Fighters

Synopsis: Thrill to the adventures of Billy the Kid. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fuzzy Settles Down

Synopsis: In this western, Billy the Kid must convince Fuzzy not to leave the trail. Fuzzy tries anyway and buys a small-town newspaper. It doesn't take him long to find himself accused of embezzling money from his new business. Unfortunately for Fuzzy, he is innocent. It is his pal the Kid that rides to Read More

The Contender

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Glenn Strange

Synopsis: In this drama, a truck driver will do almost anything to keep his son in a prestigious military academy. To pay the tuition, the trucker becomes a prizefighter. Unfortunately the pugilist is drug down by booze and a gold-digging blond. His friends assist him, he makes up with his former gal, and Read More

Valley of Vengeance

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Evelyn Finley, Donald Mayo

Synopsis: This PRC "Billy the Kid" western once more teams Buster Crabbe, as Billy Carson, with Al St.John, as perennial sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones. Motivating the plot is the wholesale slaughter of two families by a gang of outlaws. Twenty years later, Billy and Fuzzy, survivors of the massacre, return to the Read More

Blazing Frontier

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Marjorie Manners, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (or "Our Old Pals", as they were invariably billed) star in the PRC western Blazing Frontier. As ever, Crabbe plays Billy the Kid, aka Billy Carson, while St. John is the daffy Fuzzy Q. Jones. This time, Billy intervenes in a feud between the railroad company and Read More

Nabonga

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London, Bryant Washburn

Synopsis: In this campy jungle adventure, an embezzler's daughter is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Hurt and afraid, the woman is befriended by a gorilla who protects her from danger. They stay together for many years when one day a man appears looking for the stolen loot. At first Nabonga wants to rip Read More

Oath of Vengeance

Synopsis: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, as Billy Carson, and his sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) decide to turn in their spurs and instead operate a general store in this low-budget Western from PRC. But owning a shop in the wild and woolly West can be hazardous, as our heroes discover when they land in the middle of Read More

Wild Horse Phantom

Synopsis: In this western, a courageous cowboy stops the land-grabbing conspiracy of a corrupt banker. The banker was planning to wait until hard-working local ranchers made their mortgage payments and then was going to stage a phony robbery so he could foreclose upon their land. Fortunately, the hero finds Read More

Western Cyclone

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Marjorie Manners, Karl Hackett, Milt Kibbee

Synopsis: In this "Billy the Kid" series western, Billy (Buster Crabbe) is framed by an outlaw gang. Fortunately, state governor Arnold (Karl Hackett) is in Billy's corner, and surreptitiously helps Our Hero prove his innocence and bring the crooks to heel. But he'd better hurry: part of the bad guys' frame Read More

The Kid Rides Again

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Iris Meredith, Glenn Strange, Charles King

Synopsis: In this western, Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of the pokey and hits the dusty trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers an outlaw band impersonating upstanding ranchers. They are the real Read More

Cattle Stampede

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frances Gladwin, Charles King, Edward Cassidy

Synopsis: Cattle Stampede was the 200th production of that legendary B-picture mill, PRC Studios. Buster Crabbe plays Billy the Kid (not the real one), while Al St. John, as ever, is Fuzzy Q. Jones. This time Billy and Fuzzy ("our old pals," as they were always billed) come the aid of a group of Oklahoma Read More

Fugitive of the Plains

Synopsis: Billy the Kid, in the person of former swimming champion Larry "Buster" Crabbe, is once again falsely accused of a crime in this low-budget oater from Poverty Row studio PRC. This time, the sheriff of Red Rock accuses the Kid (Karl Hackett) of terrorizing communities on the border to Mexico. Read More

The Renegade

Synopsis: The Renegade stars Larry "Buster" Crabbe and Al St. John in their standard B-western roles of Billy the Kid and Fuzzy. Coming to the aid of victimized townsfolk, Billy and Fuzzy try to foil a cartel of evil land-grabbers. They'd better hurry, or else the town bank will go bust, wiping out everyone Read More

Smoking Guns

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Al St. John, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, John Merton, Milt Kibbee

Sheriff of Sage Valley

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Maxine Leslie

Synopsis: In this episode of the "Billy the Kid" series of westerns, outlaw Billy (Buster Crabbe) is mistakenly appointed Sage Valley's new sheriff. He likes the job and works hard to maintain order. Unfortunately his crooked twin brother, who runs a casino and is in hiding after a murder, wants to keep the Read More

Billy the Kid Trapped

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Anne Jeffreys, Glenn Strange

Synopsis: Here's another entry in PRC's long-running "Billy the Kid" series, again starring Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson and Al St. John as his comic sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones. In this outing, a bandit posing as Billy manages to pin several crimes on Our Hero. Cleverly eluding the law (never mind the film's Read More

The Mysterious Rider

Synopsis: Jack Greenhalgh's murky photography did not enhance this low-budget "Billy the Kid" series entry, in which a falsely accused Billy (Larry "Buster" Crabbe and his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) flee to the ghost town of Laramy. Said town is lorded over by one Dalton Sykes (John Merton), a Read More

Billy the Kid, Sheriff of Sage Valley

Jungle Siren

Synopsis: Burlesque stripper-turned-thespian Ann Corio plays yet another white girl brought up in the jungle after her missionary parents are killed in this unintentionally funny espionage thriller from PRC. As Kuhlaya, Corio rescues a couple of Americans, Captain Gary Hart (!) (Buster Crabbe) and Sgt. Mike Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Sarah Padden, Wanda McKay

Synopsis: Also known as Billy the Kid in Law and Order, this PRC sagebrusher stars Buster Crabbe as Billy "The Kid" Carson and Al St. John as Fuzzy Q. Jones. This time, Billy must impersonate a dead army lieutenant, in order to save the decedent's aunt (Sarah Padden) from marrying the villain of the piece (Charles King Read More

Queen of Broadway

Synopsis: There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this sentimental B-picture is the story of a gambler (Rochelle Hudson), who tries to clean up her act and adopt an orphan (Donald Mayo). She is challenged by the welfare Read More

Panhandle Trail

Synopsis: In this western, Billy the Kid confronts an evil con artist who has been trying to gull two children out of their inherited mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns

Synopsis: Larry "Buster" Crabbe's "Billy the Kid" is once again unfairly accused of a crime and on the run with friends Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John and Jeff (Dave O'Brien in this low-budget oater from PRC. The three fugitives come across a young boy, Dickie Howard (played by the director's son Joel Read More

Wildcat

Actors: Richard Arlen, Arline Judge, William Frawley, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of Oklahoma. With the help of his pal Chicopee Nevins (Elisha Cook Jr.), foresighted oil speculator Johnny Maverick (Richard Arlen) buys up a great deal of property in hopes of Read More

Jungle Man

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe is a doctor, accompanying a shipment of fever serum to a remote jungle village. The ship is torpedoed by a U-Boat. Crabbe and his girlfriend Sheila D'Arcy are marooned on a small island. When D'Arcy falls ill to jungle fever, Crabbe heroically dives into the ocean to retrieve the Read More

Billy the Kid Wanted

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Glenn Strange, Charles King

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe makes his first appearance as frontier do-gooder Billy Carson in PRC's Billy the Kid Wanted. The film also marked the first teaming of Crabbe with ineluctable comedy sidekick Al St. John. Like the previous "Billy the Kid" oaters with Bob Steele, this one begins with Billy and Fuzzy Read More

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals

Actors: Bob Steele, Phyllis Adair, Carleton Young, Charles King

Synopsis: Billy the Kid is played by Bob Steele in this PRC sagebrusher, while his "fighting pals" are Al "Fuzzy" St. John and Carleton Young. Billy and his buddies arrive in the town of Paradise, which fails to live up to its name. The villain is a local banker (Edward Peil Sr.), who of course is also the Read More

Billy the Kid's Roundup

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carleton Young, Glenn Strange

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe is Billy Carson and Al St. John is Fuzzy Q. Jones in this formula PRC western. Riding into a wide-open town, Billy, Fuzzy and their saddle pal Jeff (Carleton Young) befriend crusading newspaper editor Dan (John Elliott). The villains have run out of methods to intimidate Dan into Read More

Billy the Kid [Film Series]

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 04 - The Destroyer Ray

Flash Gordon: The Purple Death From Outer Space

Synopsis: Interstellar good guy Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) and evil incarnate Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) do battle once again in this vintage science fiction epic. A strange new plague known as the Purple Death is sweeping the globe and Flash; his girlfriend, Dale Arden (Carol Hughes Read More

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 06 - Flaming Death

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 07 - The Land of the Dead

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 03 - Walking Bombs

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 01 - The Purple Death

Sailor's Lady

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall, Joan Davis, Dana Andrews, Mary Nash

Synopsis: The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy (Claire Trevor). Danny's impending marriage to Sally is put on the back burner when she is put in charge of an orphaned baby (Bruce Hampton, playing a girl!) During naval Read More

Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Flash Gordon" sci-fi series, the ever wicked Ming causes the dreaded space plague "The Purple Death," to rain down on the inhabitants of Earth. Flash Gordon and his cohorts must fly to the Mongo palaces and save the day. It is a dangerous journey, but somehow the intrepid Read More

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 02 - Freezing Torture

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 08 - The Fiery Abyss

Flash Gordon: The Peril From Planet Mongo

Synopsis: All-American space hero Flash Gordon (played by Larry "Buster" Crabbe) once again does battle with the devious Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) in this vintage sci-fi adventure. Ming has, as usual, set his sights on conquering the Earth, and has designed a new weapon with this in mind Read More

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 12 - Doom of the Dictator

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 05 - The Palace of Terror

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe [Serial]

Synopsis: Amid the political chaos sweeping across the world in 1939, a new terror arises -- the Purple Death -- and people around the world succumb at random by the hundreds, then thousands, with the identifying symptom being a purple spot on the victim. The authorities are baffled as to the cause or the Read More

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 09 - The Pool of Peril

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 10 - The Death Mist

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 11 - Stark Treachery

Buck Rogers [Serial]

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jackie Moran

Synopsis: After starring in two successful serials as All-American Boy in Outer Space Flash Gordon, Larry "Buster" Crabbe found himself visiting very familiar territory in 1939's Buck Rogers, a 12-episode serial in which he played an young adventurer sent 500 years into the future. Buck Rogers (Crabbe), his Read More

Unmarried

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by Prohibition. Both of them are fairly depressed by their lives and end up living together in the home of the fighter's recently murdered manager. The deceased's young son comes home Read More

Buck Rogers Conquers the Universe

Synopsis: Based on the character created by sci-fi writer, Phil Nolan, this feature has the space-age hero facing a number of adventures and villains when he finds himself in the future. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Call a Messenger

Actors: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, Anne Nagel

Synopsis: Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In this one, the Little Tough Guys (Hally Chester, Harris Berger, David Gorcey) cede most of the screen time to Dead Enders Billy Halop (as Jimmy Hogan) and Huntz Hall (as Pig). When he and his pals are Read More

Million Dollar Legs

Actors: Betty Grable, John Hartley, Donald O'Connor, Jackie Coogan, Dorothea Kent

Synopsis: No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of Paramount's younger contract players. The college is in financial trouble, so the students pin their hopes on a race horse--the "million dollar legs" of the title. As it turns Read More

Colorado Sunset

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes up against another "protection" racket in this tuneful series entry, which also features country & western singer Patsy Montana and the CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers. Doc Blair (Robert Barrat), a crooked veterinarian, is doing a good business terrorizing the local dairy farmers into Read More

Illegal Traffic

Actors: J. Carrol Naish, Mary Carlisle, Robert Preston, Judith Barrett, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays Louis Zonta, an immigrant gangster running a racket that transports wanted criminals. At their wits end, the authorities send in undercover agent Bent Martin (Robert Preston) to Read More

Hunted Men

Actors: Mary Carlisle, Lloyd Nolan, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding. Lynne Overman stars as a middle-class family man whose even-keel lifestyle is shattered when he brings home an affable stranger (Lloyd Nolan) to dinner. The stranger turns out to be Read More

Mars Attacks the World

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles B. Middleton, Frank Shannon, Beatrice Roberts

Synopsis: This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tip-Off Girls

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Carlisle, J. Carrol Naish, Harvey Stephens, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title refers to a group of pretty young women who are ordered by their gangster bosses to pick up tips on incoming merchandise shipments, thereby expediting a sophisticated Read More

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars [Serial]

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon, Beatrice Roberts

Synopsis: Universal Pictures' second Flash Gordon serial was even more opulent than its first, offering better special effects, more impressive sets, a bigger cast, and a more complicated story. When a mysterious beam of light starts disrupting and destroying the Earth's atmosphere, Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe Read More

Red Barry

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frances Robinson, Edna Sedgwick, Cyril Delevanti, Frank Lackteen

Synopsis: Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role. Detective Barry is galvanized into action when $2,000,000 worth of bonds is stolen from an unnamed Asian country. Among the villains involved are prima ballerina Natacha (Edna Sedgewick Read More

The Deadly Ray From Mars

Synopsis: You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars. Space traveller Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), his lady love Dale Arden (Jean Rogers), and scientific genius Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), blast off for Read More

Daughter of Shanghai

Actors: Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham

Synopsis: Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the criminals who murdered her father. The villains are running an illegal-alien operation, smuggling cheap Chinese and Mexican labor into San Francisco and killing those 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

Thrill of a Lifetime

Actors: Yacht Club Boys, Judy Canova, Ben Blue, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: "Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy secretary's crush on her handsome boss, the camp manager. The manager has been working on a musical. Just as he is about to finish it, the secretary gives herself a Read More

Murder Goes to College

Actors: Roscoe Karns, Marsha Hunt, Astrid Allwyn, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide with higher learning. When the titular murder occurs, detective Hank Hyer (Lynne Overman) shows up to investigate, with vacationing reporter Sim Perkins (Roscoe Karns) Read More

Forlorn River

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, June Martel, John Patterson, Harvey Stephens, Chester Conklin

Synopsis: Paramount's "Zane Grey" series continued rolling onward with 1937's Forlorn River. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, a regular in the Grey films, stars as Nevada, who in the company of his sidekick Weary Pierce (Sid Saylor) searches high and low for the outlaw gang run by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens). It's Read More

Sophie Lang Goes West

Actors: Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Barlowe Borland

Synopsis: In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive from justice and heading for the West coast. Soon after her arrival, she hooks up with a screenwriter and not only helps him finish his latest script, she also helps him Read More

Rocketship

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, Flash Gordon and friends take on Mongo's sea monster, deadly ray guns, and robots to keep the evil Emperor Ming from destroying Earth. The film is also titled Flash Gordon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rose Bowl

Actors: Eleanore Whitney, Tom Brown, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, William Frawley, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented comedy. Longtime chums Paddy O'Reilly (Tom Brown) and Dutch Schultz (Benny Baker) may be heroes of the high-school gridiron, but they're persona non grata with the girls Read More

Spaceship to the Unknown

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles B. Middleton, Priscilla Lawson

Synopsis: In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic strip of the day about a dare-devil do-gooder in outer space. Flash Gordon: Rocketship is a condensed version of that original serial, compressing the original twelve episodes Read More

Nevada

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Kathleen Burke, Sid Saylor, Monte Blue, William Duncan

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1927 with Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the Zane Grey story Nevada was remade in 1936 with Buster Crabbe and Kathleen Burke. Crabbe plays Nevada, a cattle-drive trail boss, while Burke is cast as Hettie Ide, who is brought into the story when Nevada rescues her from a runaway Read More

Arizona Mahoney

Actors: Joe Cook, Robert Cummings, June Martel, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in 1937's Arizona Mahoney. As in his earlier film, the star plays a travelling circus entrepreneur, said "circus"consisting of an elephant, a goose, and a rusty old cannon. When Read More

Lady Be Careful

Actors: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ben Baker, Grant Withers

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Read More

The Arizona Raiders

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Raymond Hatton, Marsha Hunt, Jane Rhodes, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: Another above-average entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Arizona Raiders was adapted from Grey's Riders of Spanish Peaks. Buster Crabbe, here billed under his given name of Larry, stars as outlaw Laramie Nelson, who at the beginning of the picture manages to escape a "necktie party." A sense Read More

Desert Gold

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Cummings, Marsha Hunt, Tom Keene

Synopsis: Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket" western Desert Gold. Though most of the storyline is taken up the romance between young pioneers Dick Gale (Tom Keene) and Jane Belding (Marsha Hunt), the most compelling Read More

Drift Fence

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Katherine de Mille, Tom Keene, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft (Benny Baker), who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson (Stanley Andrews) from continuing his cattle Read More

Bad Men of Arizona

Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his planet-hopping exploits to the big screen in the 13-episode serial Flash Gordon, one of the most lavishly produced and wildly popular "chapter-plays" of its day. Flash Read More

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Actors: Dean Jagger, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Ben Baker, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: This Zane Grey adaptation stars Dean Jagger as Adam and Gail Patrick as Ruth, two rugged individuals heading to gold country by riverboat. The couple's burgeoning romance is interrupted when Adam inadvertently gets involved in a murder. On the lam from the authorities, he links up with grizzled Read More

Hold 'em Yale

Actors: Patricia Ellis, Cesar Romero, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, William Frawley, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Based on a story by Damon Runyon, Hold 'Em Yale is also more than a little beholden to O. Henry's Ransom of Red Chief. Spoiled-rotten heiress Clarice Van Cleve (Patricia Ellis) is enticed to New York by fortune-hunter Gigolo Georgie (Cesar Romero), who dumps her in the apartment owned by Read More

Badge of Honor

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ruth Hall, Ralph Lewis, Betty Blythe, John Trent

Synopsis: Buster Crabbe plays one of his more offbeat roles in Mayfair's Badge of Honor. Crabbe is cast as Bob Gordon, a spoiled society boy who finds himself in a small town, rife with political corruption. Hoping to bring the crooks to justice, Bob poses as a hotshot reporter, getting away with all sorts Read More

We're Rich Again

Actors: Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Marian Nixon, Reginald Denny, Joan Marsh

Synopsis: Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play And Let Who Will be Clever. Carolyn Page's (Joan Marsh) once-rich family has gone broke thanks to their profligate spending habits. Parents Mr and Mrs. Page (Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell Read More

You're Telling Me

Actors: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter

Synopsis: W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is the laughingstock of his small town. Returning in defeat from a disastrous big-city demonstration of his latest invention, Sam makes the acquaintance of a beautiful young Read More

Search for Beauty

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for beautiful girls and handsome men who might qualify as movie contractees -- though most the winners were drawn from the ranks of Hollywood residents. These contests, coupled with a Read More

The Oil Raider

Synopsis: From low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp., this robust action-melodrama starred Larry "Buster" Crabbe as an oil prospector whose financial backer turns crooked when he suddenly finds himself faced with bankruptcy. Learning that Dave Warren (Crabbe) has been forced to fire a troublesome worker Read More

She Had to Choose

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Isabel Jewell, Sally Blane, Regis Toomey, Maidel Turner

Synopsis: Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car that's too old. She gets stranded one night, nearly out of money and gas, in a college town where she meets Bill Cutler (Larry "Buster" Crabbe), a poor-but-honest and Read More

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

Actors: Mary Carlisle, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Charles Starrett, Florence Lake, Eddie Tamblyn

Synopsis: This musical romance is set upon a college campus and centers on a coquettish coed who promises her dates more than she cares to deliver until she meets the fraternity rowing star. The flirt is also pursued by another. Songs include: "Fraternity Walk," "It's Spring Again" (George Waggner, Ed Read More

Man of the Forest

Actors: Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Sr., Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Man of the Forest is based on a Zane Grey story, previously filmed in 1921 and 1926. The title character is two-fisted frontiersman Brett Dale, played by Randolph Scott. Dale gets wind of a plot to kidnap Alice Gaynor (Verna Hillie), the daughter of wealthy rancher Jim Gaynor (Harry Carey) and Read More

Buffalo Stampede

Actors: Randolph Scott, Judith Allen, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Zane Grey's Thundering Herd was first filmed by Paramount in 1925, with Jack Holt in the lead. This 1933 remake utilizes a great deal of stock footage from the original, going so far as to rehire several of the supporting players from the earlier film to match the old scenes with the new; in Read More

To the Last Man

Actors: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jack LaRue, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was essentially a B-picture budget. In the years following the Civil War, Kentucky man Lynn Hayden (Randolph Scott) moves his family to Nevada, partly to start life anew, but mostly Read More

Tarzan the Fearless [Serial]

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren, Edward Woods, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: If MGM could cast an Olympic champion it its Tarzan series, so could Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures. Thus it was that Larry "Buster" Crabbe, gold-medal winner for the 400 meter free-style swimming event in the 1932 L.A. Olympics, played the title role in Principal's 15-chapter serial Tarzan the Read More

King of the Jungle

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Frances Dee, Douglas Dumbrille, Robert A'Dair, Florence Britton

Synopsis: In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and taken to New York along with his feline pals. Just before the boat is to dock, the lion-boy jumps ship and swims to shore. Dressed only in a loin cloth, he begins stalking Read More

Island of Lost Souls

Actors: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke

Synopsis: This first film version of H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau stars Charles Laughton as Dr.Moreau, a dedicated but sadly misguided scientist who rules the roost on a remote island. Shipwrecked sailor Edward Parker Richard Arlen finds himself on Moreau's island, agreeing to stick around until another Read More