Pinto Canyon (1940)
Actors:
Ted Adams (actor),
Victor Adamson (actor),
Jimmy Aubrey (actor),
Silver Tip Baker (actor),
Buzz Barton (actor),
Budd Buster (actor),
George Chesebro (actor),
Steve Clark (actor),
Kenne Duncan (actor),
Tex the Horse (actor),
Ray Jones (actor),
Murdock MacQuarrie (actor),
Carl Mathews (actor),
Bob Steele (actor),
Louise Stanley (actress),
Plot: Pete Childers, a notorious killer, is assigned as a deputy to Sheriff Bob Hall. Hardy Keller, wanted for murder, is hiding on a ranch own by Bob's sweetheart, Helen Jones and her brother Fred. Childers is working with Farley, a crooked cattle dealer. After Childers wantonly shoots down the surrendering Kellar, Bob beats him up and fires him. Bob knows that Fred is on familiar terms with the rustlers, but Helen won't believe him and they quarrel.
Genres:
Western,
Silent Valley (1935)
Actors:
Jimmy Aubrey (actor),
Barney Beasley (actor),
Al Bridge (actor),
Budd Buster (actor),
George Chesebro (actor),
Art Dillard (actor),
Frank Ellis (actor),
Art Felix (actor),
Oscar Gahan (actor),
George Hazel (actor),
Jack Hendricks (actor),
Ray Jones (actor),
Charles King (actor),
Murdock MacQuarrie (actor),
Lew Meehan (actor),
Plot: Sheriff Tom Hall is after cattle rustlers. When one of his deputies is killed, Farley gets Tom to replace him with his hired gunman Childers. When Tom catches one of the rustlers, Childers shoots him to keep him from talking. But Tom catches another rustler and this time gets the confession that Farley is the boss.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, brother, rustler, sheriff
Genres:
Western,
Politics (1931)
Actors:
Frankie Bailey (actor),
William Bakewell (actor),
Nick Copeland (actor),
Robert Dudley (actor),
Henry Hall (actor),
DeWitt Jennings (actor),
John Kelly (actor),
Ethan Laidlaw (actor),
Theodore Lodi (actor),
Wilfred Lucas (actor),
Kenneth MacDonald (actor),
Tom McGuire (actor),
Robert McKenzie (actor),
John Miljan (actor),
Roscoe Ates (actor),
Plot: Middle-aged, small-town widow Hattie Burns is angered when a friend's daughter is inadvertently killed by s stray bullet in a gangland shootout at a local speakeasy. When Hattie confronts the mayor, a political hack running for re-election, at a campaign event about closing the illegal operations down, he brushes her off as only a woman. Other women at the rally draft her as a rival candidate with best-friend Ivy as campaign manager and female voters go on a "Lysistrata"-like parlor, bedroom, and bath strike in order to insure Hattie's election. Unfortunately, Hattie does not know that her daughter Myrtle's boyfriend, a reformed but wounded hoodlum, is hiding out in her attic.
Keywords: americana, attempted-murder, attic, barber, barber-shop, best-friend, bird, blackmail, campaign-manager, cat
Genres:
Comedy,
Romance,
Quotes:
Hattie Burns: You must be pretty proud of yourself, breaking up our meeting like that.::Peter Higgins: After that, you couldn't run for a streetcar!
Ivy Higgins: [Last lines at the commencement of Myrtle and Benny's marriage ceremony] And, you know, it isn't every young couple that can have the wedding ceremony performed by Her Honor, the Mayor.::[indicating Hattie]::Hattie Burns: No, and it isn't every young couple that can have as Matron of Honor, the Commissioner of Garbage.::[indicating Ivy]
Ivy Higgins: I'll have you know that singers run in my family.::Peter Higgins: I don't blame 'em!
Ivy Higgins: Put that foot down where it belongs!::Peter Higgins: If I did, you wouldn't be able to sit down for months!
Ivy Higgins: If it wasn't for us women, where would you men be?::Peter Higgins: In the Garden of Eden eatin' apples.
Jim Curango: [Listening to the corrupt mayor speaking to a women's club on the radio] Hah! We're a cinch! Don't those old dames fall for color? That guy could bring tears to a glass eye!
Peter Higgins: Rally, my eye! You're going top stay home and iron my underw-w-w-wear!::Ivy Higgins: Iron them yourself, and, furthermore, after the election you'll be ironing mine!
Title card: For the first time in history women had men worried.
Hattie Burns: Well, what's your proposition?::Jim Curango: Well, just this... if I let you in as mayor, all I want to do is handle the business end of the office, and you can handle the social welfare and public improvements.::Hattie Burns: Oh, well, the first public improvement I'm gonna make is to run you outta town.
Hattie Burns: [Referring to Peter] Oh, Ivy, kiss him. He can't suffer more than he has already.