Silver Tip Baker
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Floyd 'Silver Tip' Baker born Floyd Michael Baker in Texas in 1886. Well-known trick rider in rodeos and wild west shows from the late 1900's. He was among the talented few that could handle a team of horses and stagecoach at full speed, became a white-haired old codger character in many westerns, first playing the role, General Grenville M. Dodge in 'In the Days of Buffalo Bill' directed by Edward Laemmle and starring Art Acord as Art Taylor and Duke R. Lee as Buffalo Bill at the Universal, seen in over 100 minor roles in talkies many of them B-Westerns. married to wild show trick rider Mabel Baker.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ellis County, Texas, USA
Birthday: April 18, 1886
Deathday: March 15, 1943
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Gender: Male
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Overview: Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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Along Came Jones
Overview: An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-19
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Gunsmoke Ranch
Overview: A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-05
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Overview: A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-05
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Gun Play
Overview: A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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Rio Grande Ranger
Overview: Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent across the border where he poses as an outlaw hoping to lure the gang back into Texas. He gets into Sayres' gang displacing the gang boss but the disgruntled ex-boss is able to expose the hoax and Bob is made a prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Frontier Town
Overview: Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Terror of the Plains
Overview: A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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Wild Horse
Overview: Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-02
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Thunder Over Texas
Overview: A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-18
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The Man from Hell
Overview: A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-28
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Borderland
Overview: Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Destry Rides Again
Overview: Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-24
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Ranger Courage
Overview: The Harper wagon train is carrying money and Bull and his gang are after it. When their first attack is foiled by the rangers, Allen trails them. But he is captured and his ranger badge used to divert the rangers away leaving the wagon train unprotected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-10
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The Thrill Hunter
Overview: A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-30
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Empty Holsters
Overview: Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-10
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North of the Rio Grande
Overview: Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Under Texas Skies
Overview: The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-29
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Young Buffalo Bill
Overview: It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-11
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Arizona
Overview: Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Wrangler's Roost
Overview: The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-04
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Forbidden Trails
Overview: Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Winners of the West
Overview: Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-02
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Overview: Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Trailin' West
Overview: A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Rocky Mountain Rangers
Overview: Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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Stick to Your Guns
Overview: Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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Pirates on Horseback
Overview: Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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Young Blood
Overview: A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Lawless Plainsmen
Overview: In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-17
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Arizona Bad Man
Overview: The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Big Calibre
Overview: Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Overview: The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-07
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The Gallant Fool
Overview: The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
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Kid Courageous
Overview: The man Bannister has sent to investigate the trouble at his mine has disappeared. This time his son Bob goes, quickly learning that Kincade is the culprit. Kincade has been taking gold from the mine and now plans to kidnap Teresa and skip across the border.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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The Durango Kid
Overview: The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-15
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Blue Steel
Overview: When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-10
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