Best Western Films of 1936
The Singing Cowboy
In this western, Gene ... hands rally to her rescue. Back in the city, the performance is a success and the girl is healed. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Desert Gold
Generous stock footage from ... cast are new Paramount contractees Robert Cummings as an eastern tenderfoot, and Glenn (later Leif) Erikson as Kasedon's brother. [ best western films - 1936 ]
The Old Corral
A typical Gene Autry ... Old Corral is probably the only chance to see silent screen cowboy star Buddy Roosevelt playing a tuxedo-clad mobster. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Guns and Guitars
Guns and Guitars could ... picture, it pales in comparison to such superior 1937 Autry vehicles as Rootin' Tootin Rhythm and Boots and Saddles. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Man of the Frontier
Singing cowboy Gene Autry ... a bigger game. Autry finds time to sing five tunes during the proceedings, inclusing the classic title song. [ best western films - 1936 ]
The Arizona Raiders
Another above-average entry in ... Hunt, as much of a "regular" in the Zane Grey series as Crabbe and Hatton, plays the self-reliant ingenue. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Drift Fence
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe ... was the closest Paramount came to a B-Western in the mid-'30s. Zane Grey's original novel was published in 1932. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Aces and Eights
Although slow-moving at times, ... comic opera Mexican captain of police. McCoy filmed three additional Westerns for Puritan before moving on to Victory Pictures. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Arizona Mahoney
Fabled Broadway comedian Joe ... his prize elephant). Alas, Joe Cook was quite ill during filming of Arizona Mahoney, and died not long afterward. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Ghost Patrol
A cowboy turned G-Man ... Brent is shot attempting to shut off the ray gun. The professor survives, however, and the villains are apprehended. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Headin' for the Rio Grande
In his second "Range ... must have killed old Charlie King at least twenty times," Ritter would later reminisce. "Usually behind the same rock." [ best western films - 1936 ]
Winds of the Wasteland
Former pony express riders ... in the Sacramento Valley. Watch for future Universal star Jon Hall as one of John Wayne's pony express colleagues. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Ghost Town Gold
Ghost Town Gold was ... Other highlights include a typical Republic saloon-brawl scene, in which Tucson cleans the clock of head-villain Frank S. Hagney. [ best western films - 1936 ]
The Traitor
In his final Western ... Pizor contract kept the popular cowboy hero off the screen for the remainder of 1936 and all of 1937. [ best western films - 1936 ]
The Riding Avenger
In his penultimate western ... latter never became the third Mrs. Gibson as has been reported elsewhere but instead married eccentric pianist Oscar Levant. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Whistling Bullets
Whistling Bullets was one ... John English, later a mainstay of the Republic "B"-western product., directs, while Harlene Wood co-stars as the heroine. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Stampede
Stampede was the first ... to the satisfaction of Columbia's executives, who replaced Beebe with David Selman for Starrett's next Canadian production Secret Patrol. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Everyman's Law
This above-average Johnny Mack ... Brown was to make 16 low-budget but slightly off-beat Westerns for Supreme Pictures 1935-1937 before moving on to Universal. [ best western films - 1936 ]
The Phantom of the Range
Filmed back-to-back with Rip ... maid, but it is Eddie who finally locates the treasure, which a magnanimous Jerry insists rightfully belongs to Jeanne. [ best western films - 1936 ]
King of the Pecos
John Wayne stars in ... baron who killed his parents; after he is thwarted in the courts, he chooses to explore frontier justice instead. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Song of the Gringo
Written by John P. ... over the main titles to Fred Zinneman's High Noon (1952), was the father of 1970s television star John Ritter. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Ambush Valley
Directed under the pseudonym ... share the land. Ambush Valley was the first of three very low-budget Custer westerns produced by small-time Reliable Pictures. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Ridin' On
Tom Tyler stars in ... while attempting to stay a step ahead of the real killer, who wants to make Tom his next victim. [ best western films - 1936 ]
Vengeance of Rannah
Starring the supposed offspring ... Both films were directed by "Franklin Shamray" and "Henri Samuels," producers Bernard B. Ray and Harry S. Webb, respectively. [ best western films - 1936 ]
