Marin SaisFilmography

Cowboy and the Prizefighter

Actors: Jim Bannon, Emmett Lynn, Don Haggerty, Karen Randle

Synopsis: Jim Bannon's final "Red Ryder" western was the Cinecolor effort Cowboy and the Prizefighter. Aiding and abetting the red-headed Ryder is his youthful Indian sidekick Little Beaver (Don Kay Reynolds, aka Little Brown Jug) and a tough galoot named Steve (Don Haggerty), whose life the hero saves in Read More

The Fighting Redhead

Actors: Jim Bannon, Don Kay Reynolds, Emmett Lynn, Peggy Stewart

Synopsis: Though Eagle Lion's "Red Ryder" westerns were not as well received as the earlier entries from Republic, they still managed to turn a profit. In Fighting Redhead, the heroic Ryder is played by Jim Bannon, with Don Kay Reynolds -- aka Little Brown Jug -- as Ryder's youthful Indian chum Little Read More

Roll, Thunder, Roll

Actors: Jim Bannon, Don Kay Reynolds, Emmett Lynn, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little Beaver and the Duchess, here played by "Little Brown Jug" (aka Don Kay Reynolds) and Marin Sais. This time, Ryder tries to prove that a series of cattle raids and ranch Read More

Ride, Ryder, Ride!

Actors: Jim Bannon, Emmett Lynn, Peggy Stewart, Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton

Synopsis: Filmed in "glorious" Cinecolor by Eagle-Lion, this was the first of four "Red Ryder" westerns starring Jim Bannon in the title-role, Don Kay Reynolds (billed, a bit condescendingly, as "Little Brown Jug") as juvenile sidekick Little Beaver, Emmett Lynn as Buckskin, and Marin Sais as Red Ryder's Read More

Stagecoach to Denver

Actors: Allan Lane, Martha Wentworth, Roy Barcroft, Peggy Stewart

Synopsis: An exemplary "Red Ryder" Western, Stagecoach to Denver features Red (Allan Lane), his aunt, the Duchess (Martha Wentworth), and Little Beaver (Bobby Blake) caring for Dickie Ray (Bobby Hyatt), a young child who has broken his back in a stagecoach collision that also took the life of Land 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

Rendezvous 24

Actors: William Gargan, Pat O'Moore, David Leonard, Maria Palmer, John Bleifer

Synopsis: Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an atomic bomb as they plan to use the weapon on large Allied cities to help the Germans again rise to power. The two good agents find themselves entangled with beautiful 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

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

Enemy of Women

Actors: Claudia Drake, Paul Andor, Donald Woods, H.B. Warner, Sigrid Gurie

Synopsis: Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually highly fictionalized and filled with patriotic propaganda. The story attempts to explain Goebbels' madness, blaming it on a love affair gone awry when he was a young aspiring 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

Saddlemates

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Gale Storm, Forbes Murray

Synopsis: Congress suddenly changes the boundary between Texas and Mexico and the rangers leave the territory to the U.S. cavalry in this fine entry in Republic Pictures long-running Three Mesqueteers western series. Left to fend for himself, the commanding officer, Colonel Langley (Forbes Murray), makes Read More

Two Gun Sheriff

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, Jay Novello, Lupita Tovar, Milt Kibbee

Synopsis: The paying customers got two Donald Barrys for the price of one in this typically well-mounted Republic Western directed with his customary vim and vigor by George Sherman. A petty criminal, The Sundown Kid (Barry number one), is persuaded by a gang of rustlers to change places with his lookalike Read More

Sierra Sue

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Robert E. Homans

Synopsis: In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves ineffectual, the local banker, Stacy Bromfield (Frank M. Thomas), sends for a government inspector in desperation. The inspector, played by Autry, quickly suggests spraying Read More

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

Synopsis: PRC's "Billy the Kid" series had two different stars over a six-year period. Bob Steele plays the title role in 1941's Billy the Kid in Santa Fe. Framed on a murder charge, Billy heads to guess what New Mexico town. Here he teams with the brother of the murder victim to extract a confession from Read More

Cracked Nuts

Synopsis: No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart Erwin as Lawrence Trent, a country rube who wins a refrigerator-slogan contest and gets some money for his efforts. Meanwhile, mad scientist Boris Kabikoff (Mischa Auer) builds Read More

The Mad Empress

Actors: Lionel Atwill, Conrad Nagel, Guy Bates Post, Evelyn Brent

Synopsis: In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their brief reign as figureheads for Napoleon III. The two doomed rulers were terribly naive and had no idea that they were universally despised by the native population. Upon her Read More

Deadwood Dick

Synopsis: Don Douglas, a rather bland supporting actor from Scotland, was elevated to the starring role in this low-budget Western serial produced by Columbia Pictures. Yet another reworking on the old Zorro theme, Deadwood Dick took 15 instalments to tell the simple story of Dick Stanley, a newspaperman Read More

The Durango Kid

Actors: Charles Starrett, Luana Walters, Kenneth MacDonald, Francis Walker, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures' resident cowboy ace, Charles Starrett, turns into a regular prairie Robin Hood in this fine Western directed by the veteran Lambert Hillyer that also features the singing group of Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. The Pioneers are ranch hands working for Sam Lowry (Frank Read More

Five Little Peppers at Home

Actors: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Ann Seese, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson, Ronald Sinclair

Synopsis: Like the other entries Columbia's "Five Little Peppers" series, The Five Little Peppers at Home is based on characters created by Margaret Sidney. Edith Fellows stars as Polly, the oldest child of the Pepper clan, while her four siblings are portrayed by Dorothy Ann Seers (as Phronsie), Ronald Read More

Riders of the Frontier

Actors: Tex Ritter, Jack Rutherford, Hal Taliaferro, Nolan Willis

Synopsis: The Tex Ritter Monogram Westerns had a change of directors with Riders of the Frontier, Spencer Gordon Bennet having replaced Al Herman. But that was really the only difference between this entry and the previous seven. Ritter impersonated a notorious outlaw in order to infiltrate the gang that is Read More

Pioneer Trail

Actors: Jack Luden, Joan Barclay, Leon Beaumont, Hal Taliaferro

Synopsis: One thing was always certain in Columbia's Jack Luden westerns: the supporting cast would include Hal Taliaferro, or Harry Woods, or both. In Pioneer Trail, Taliaferro is fifth-billed as "Smokey", a non-villainous role for a change. The film's chief heavy is Slim Whittaker, playing the leader of Read More

Phantom Gold

Actors: Jack Luden, Beth Marion, Barry Downing, Hal Taliaferro

Synopsis: In this western, a looter finds an abandoned, empty mine and begins claiming that he has found the mother lode. Soon, gold-hungry prospectors are giving every penny for a chance to work the mine until the hero rides into town and gets suspicious. Fate intervenes: the hero and the duped miners Read More

Circle of Death

Actors: Montie Montana, Tove Lindan, Yakima Canutt, J. Frank Glendon

Synopsis: Having allowed his name to be listed as "producer" of Gun Smoke, a low-budget Western actually produced by Willis Kent, rodeo star Montie Montana starred in this inexpensive oater, but without the phony producer credit. Originally intended for football star Reb Russell, Circle of Death featured Montana Read More

Wheels of Destiny

Actors: Ken Maynard, Dorothy Dix, Philo McCullough, Frank Rice

Synopsis: In this western, a miner heads back East and ends up traveling with a wagon train. He carries with him a map of his recently discovered claim. Among his comrades is a group of outlaws planning to ambush the train so they can get hold of the map. To do this, they start the local Indians on the Read More

Fighting Cowboy

Synopsis: In this western a tungsten mine provides the setting for action as two miners fight over the claim. A brave hero restores peace by stopping the feud. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trailin' Trouble

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Lona Andre, Margaret Quimby, Roger Williams, Grace Woods, Fred Burns

Synopsis: This M.F. Hoffman production released through Grand National featured Ken Maynard as Friendly Fields, a mama's boy whose hat is stolen by lookalike bandit Blackie Burke (also Maynard). Obtaining a job on Patty Blair's (Lona Andre) ranch, Friendly scares the girl's enemies into submission by Read More

Son of the Desert

Actors: Marin Sais, James Welsh, Robert Burns, William Merrill McCormick, Faith Hope

Synopsis: Popular B-Western villain Merrill McCormick -- billing himself under his full name, William Merrill McCormick, for the occasion -- directed, wrote, and starred in this "Eastern" about an Arabian sheik kidnapping a visiting American girl. McCormick played the villainous heathen himself, while Read More

Fighting Three

Actors: Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, Marin Sais

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

Roaring Adventure

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

The Measure of a Man

Actors: William Desmond, Francis Ford, Marin Sais, William J. Dyer, Bobby Gordon

Synopsis: This crude melodrama starring William Desmond seems like it came from an earlier age when it's compared to other films of the roaring '20s, and in a way it did; this was a remake of the 1916 film starring J. Warren Kerrigan. Desmond plays John Fairmeadow, a Bowery drunk who finds redemption when Read More

Good Men and Bad

Synopsis: Cowboy Steve Kinnard (Steve Carrie) travels from the Texas badlands down to Argentina and finds even more adventure. The invalid Don Esteban Valdeo (George Gyton) owes Don Pedro Martinez (Merrill McCormick) a large sum of money. Martinez insists that either he gets the money, or the hand of Read More

Riders of the Law

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

Hills of Hate

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

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

Dead or Alive

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

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