Empty Saddles (1937)
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn it into a profitable dude ranch, drifter Buck Devlin (Buck Jones) purchases the Ranch of Empty Saddles, the former site of a bloody war between cattle ranchers and sheep men. Buck cleans up the place with the help of peddler Swap Boone (Harvey Clark) and his daughter Boots (Brooks), and the ranch is soon teeming with Eastern tourists. As an added treat for the guests, the ranch hands stage a mock recreation of the old feud, which turns deadly serious when someone responds with real bullets. Future B-Western sidekick Frank Yaconelli, appearing unbilled, and a band of cowboys perform "Welcome to the Empty Saddle Ranch" and "Orchid of the Prairie". ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Buck Jones - Buck Devlin
- Harvey Clark - Swap Boone
- Frank Campeau - Kit Kress
- Claire Rochelle - Madge Grant
- Niles Welch - Jasper Kade
- Oliver Eckhardt - Mr. Hilton
- Charles Le Moyne - Mace
- Buck Moulton - Sam
- Silver the Horse
- William E. Lawrence
- Louise Brooks - Boots Boone
- Charles B. Middleton - Cim White
- Lloyd Ingraham - Jim Grant
- Gertrude Astor - Eloise Hayes
- Ruth Cherrington - Mrs. Hilton
- Robert A'Dair - Ezra Biggers
- Ben Corbett - Vegas
- Earl Askam
- Mary Mersch - Mrs. Mills
- Director(s):
- Lesley Selander
- Writer(s):
- Frances Guihan
- Producer(s):
- Buck Jones
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