Bob Terry
Biography: Bob Terry's (aka Robert Terry and Bob Hodges) real name (birth name) was Robert T. Hodges and he was born in New York City, New York, USA in 1910. He was a fixture in many Poverty Row features and serials for a short period circa 1936 to 1940, when he dropped out of movies and became a car salesman in Los Angeles.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 24, 1910
Deathday: May 28, 1988
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Million Dollar Racket
1937-09-30
Million Dollar Racket
Overview: Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Smoky Trails
1939-03-03
Smoky Trails
Overview: Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Song of the Buckaroo
1938-12-07
Song of the Buckaroo
Overview: An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go straight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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Blake of Scotland Yard
1937-01-30
Blake of Scotland Yard
Overview: Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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The Stranger from Arizona
1938-09-22
The Stranger from Arizona
Overview: A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Up in the Air
1940-09-09
Up in the Air
Overview: A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-09
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Brothers of the West
1937-06-29
Brothers of the West
Overview: Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher his only clue, an unusual set of tire tracks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-29
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Blake of Scotland Yard
1937-01-30
Blake of Scotland Yard
Overview: A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
Genres: Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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Where the Buffalo Roam
1938-10-12
Where the Buffalo Roam
Overview: Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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On the Great White Trail
1938-07-22
On the Great White Trail
Overview: Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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Dick Tracy Returns
1938-08-19
Dick Tracy Returns
Overview: Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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Songs and Saddles
1938-06-01
Songs and Saddles
Overview: An old rancher's property sites smack-dab on the site where a new highway is to be built, although he doesn't know it. Someone else does, however, and is determined to force the old man off his property in order to get the ranch for himself. The rancher's foster son returns home to help the old man keep his property and find out who is behind the scheme to take it from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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Six-Gun Trail
1938-11-25
Six-Gun Trail
Overview: Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
1938-10-09
Lightning Carson Rides Again
Overview: Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-09
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Lightning Strikes West
1940-06-01
Lightning Strikes West
Overview: When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's boot. Joe Laikon and his men are also after the gold and they overpower Morgan, get the map, and head for the treasure. But Morgan and Tod Grant are soon on their trail
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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Flaming Lead
1939-11-01
Flaming Lead
Overview: Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting enough money together to get back to his beloved Arizona. Frank Gordon, while drunk, is about to be rolled by the club bouncer, but Ken interferes and earns Clark's gratitude. Gordon gets a telegram from Kay Burke, the daughter of his partner in Arizona, notifying him that her father, Jim Burke, has been killed by rustlers.The ranch has a U.S. Army contract to furnish horses, but she sees little hope of being able to make good because the stock is being rustled, and she asks Gordon for his help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-01
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Six Shootin' Sheriff
1938-05-20
Six Shootin' Sheriff
Overview: Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Stormy Trails
1936-12-23
Stormy Trails
Overview: A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939-09-02
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Overview: A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Strike Me Pink
1936-01-24
Strike Me Pink
Overview: Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Trigger Fingers
1939-11-01
Trigger Fingers
Overview: Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-01
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Code of the Cactus
1939-02-25
Code of the Cactus
Overview: A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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Outlaws' Paradise
1939-04-18
Outlaws' Paradise
Overview: Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-18
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Down the Wyoming Trail
1939-06-13
Down the Wyoming Trail
Overview: Tex arrives on the Parker ranch on Christman eve and is given the job of being Santa Claus. Also dressed as Santa Claus, Blackie robs Parker and kills a man. When Tex is arrested for the murder, he escapes and joins up with outlaw Becker and his gang. He finds Blackie's Santa Claus suit but is soon made a prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-13
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Straight Shooter
1939-08-12
Straight Shooter
Overview: Before he was killed, Martin hid a half million dollars worth of bonds on his ranch. Brainard, who killed him, Inspector Carson posing as Sam Brown, and Martin's niece Margaret all want the ranch, and it's being sold at auction.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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Texas Wildcats
1939-04-09
Texas Wildcats
Overview: Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are rustling their cattle. Bill is robbing Burrows while posing as the mysterious Phantom and it's not long before the two collide.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-09
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Danger Ahead
1940-01-22
Danger Ahead
Overview: The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Yukon Flight
1940-01-02
Yukon Flight
Overview: When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner Louise Howard (Louise Stanley) reports that her superintendent is missing. The Mounties find him murdered and that too has been made to look like an accident. A new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), arrives. He had gone to training school with Renfrew but had been cashiered for misconduct. The Mounties discover that Raymond (Karl Hackett), who had been working for Louise, really owns the flying line managed by Yuke Cardoe (William Pawley.) They find proof that all the gold from the mine isn't being turned over to Louise, and suspect that Raymond and Yuke are stealing the gold and shipping it to Seattle by plane.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Sky Bandits
1940-07-06
Sky Bandits
Overview: Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Genres: Action Comedy Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-06
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Rollin' Westward
1939-03-01
Rollin' Westward
Overview: A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Sandflow
1937-02-14
Sandflow
Overview: Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-14
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Citizen Kane
1941-04-17
Citizen Kane
Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Sundown on the Prairie
1939-02-08
Sundown on the Prairie
Overview: Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hendricks intends to meet a rustler named Dorgan. Tex goes instead and finds out that Dorgan plans to move rustled cattle through the ranch owned by Graham and his daughter Ruth. Dorgan has Graham Pass set to be dynamited to stop any pursuit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-08
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Starlight Over Texas
1938-09-06
Starlight Over Texas
Overview: Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-06
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