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Hell Town (1937) John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Syd Saylor

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The Duke got his first real role in 1930 in The Big Trail. This movie, released December 10, 1937, was his 59th movie. Stagecoach (1939) was still 5 movies away. _"Hell Town" also known as "Born to the West" was one of the final entries in Paramount's "Zane Grey" series. A remake of the 1926 Jack Holt silent of the same name, the film stars John Wayne as an irresponsible cowpoke named Rudd, who is constantly being bailed out of trouble by his sensible trail-boss cousin Fillmore (Johnny Mack Brown). The limit comes when Rudd loses Fillmore's cattle money to crooked gambler Hammond (Monte Blue). For a while, it looks as though a showdown between the two cousins is the next logical step, but blood's much thicker than money. Thanks to an error made by the Paramount publicity department in 1937, it has long been assumed that Alan Ladd played a small role in Born to the West; he didn't, despite the claims of the many public-domain companies currently distributing the film._ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hell_town_1937/ Buy the movie ... http://www.amazon.com/Helltown-John-Wayne/dp/B00006AUG7/ref=pd_sim_74_2/190-9818947-3515518?ie=UTF8&refRID;=0W1QP9Z7EWP8VMKF63BY http://www.amazon.com/Born-West-John-Wayne/dp/B000REWZ0M/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1454275961&sr;=1-1&keywords;=born+to+the+west ----- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028653/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_the_West ----- Syd Saylor as Dink Hooley (salesman) (uncredited) "Syd Saylor (born Leo Sailor; March 24, 1895 – December 21, 1962) was an American comedic actor and movie cowboy sidekick who appeared in 395 films and TV series between 1926 and 1962. His father, George Sailor, was in San Francisco when the big 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit the area. He was never seen again. Syd was a member of several local actors groups and discovered he had a knack for making people laugh. An uncle was a captain in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department—and a former member of Mack Sennett's comedy troupe The Keystone Kops. Syd's uncle used his connections in the Hollywood film industry to get Syd's foot in the door to films. In the silent film days of the 1920s he had his own series of two-reel shorts. Saylor was also the second television "Bozo the Clown" on KTTV Ch. 11 in Hollywood, California during the early 1950s. He died in Hollywood in 1962, aged 67." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Saylor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768514/ .