Bob Steele Movies
Bantamweight Western hero Bob Steele began making films as a teenager, co-starring with his brother in a series of "outdoors" short subjects produced and directed by his filmmaker father, Robert N. Bradbury. A star from 1927 onward, Steele gained popularity in several B-Western series of the late silent and early talkie era. Most of his films shared the same plot: Steele's character was forever searching for the murderer of his father (perhaps significantly, many of Steele's starring vehicles were scripted by his real-life dad). In addition to his many starring films, Steele contributed several rate supporting appearances in prestige pictures. Among his better-known non-Western roles included the hot-tempered Curley in Of Mice and Men (1939) and the vicious hoodlum who poisons Elisha Cook Jr. in The Big Sleep (1946). In films until the early '70s, Bob Steele also played the recurring role of Trooper Duffy, the self-styled sole survivor of the Alamo, on the TV sitcom F Troop (1965-1967). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- 1927
Diminutive screen cowboy Bob Steele starred in his pleasant oater about a cowboy searching for his mysteriously vanished father.Trailing three oldtimers into the desert, Bob Saunders (Steele) discovers his father, Silent (Buck Connors) in the hands of nasty Big Olaf (Robert Fleming). When Big Olaf learns that Bob is Silent's son, Bob is tortured in the hope that Silent will spill the beans about a hidden treasure. Bob manages to free himself, however, and instead fights one of Big Olaf's men. He wins and Big Olaf's gang of outlaws turn on their leader. This fairly well-mounted Western was directed by Steele's real-life father, Robert N. Bradbury. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bob Steele, Lillian Gilmore, (more)
- 1927
A very young Bob Steele starred in this average silent Western as Bob McCall, a young cowboy saving his outlaw father (Tom Lingham) from being lynched for a crime he didn't commit. The real culprit, as young Bob quickly learns, is Rufe Bolton (Stanley Taylor), the wastrel son of the local sheriff (Hal Davis). Leading lady Anne Sheridan, who also acted under the name Gloria Heller, was not the "Oomph" girl of the late '30s. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Lingham, Stanley Taylor, (more)
