Gavin Gordon
Also Known As: Fred Gavin Gordon
Biography: Gavin Gordon (born Fred Gavin Gordon; April 7, 1901 - April 7, 1983 ) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. Despite it usually being indicated that he died on his 82nd birthday, his tombstone inscription reveals that he actually died one day earlier.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicora, Mississippi, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 07, 1901
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 07, 1983
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Bride of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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American Madness
Overview: Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-15
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I Killed That Man
Overview: A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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Suspicion
Overview: A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Overview: The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Overview: Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Overview: An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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Man Against Woman
Overview: Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-15
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The Bat
Overview: Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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Johnny Tremain
Overview: When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the Sons of Liberty army, taking part in the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's legendary ride.
Genres: Drama Family War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-19
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King Creole
Overview: Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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Chicago Confidential
Overview: In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Gangs Inc.
Overview: Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Philo Vance's Gamble
Overview: Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-12
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A Life at Stake
Overview: An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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High Society
Overview: Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out of his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-17
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The Vagabond King
Overview: Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
Genres: Romance Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-28
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Lone Cowboy
Overview: Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scooter longs to return to his home in Chicago especially after discovering Dobe is an embittered ranch hand hellbent on seeking revenge on his duplicitous wife Eleanor and the man she ran off with. Dobe is dogged in his pursuit until he unwittingly puts Scooter’s life in danger. Seeing the error of his ways the pair ride off together in search of a new adventure.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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Romance
Overview: A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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The Toast of New York
Overview: After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Love Me Forever
Overview: A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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The Silver Horde
Overview: A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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Two Against the World
Overview: A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-03
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Secret Service
Overview: In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
Genres: Western Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
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Ticket to Paradise
Overview: A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-24
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Mr. Celebrity
Overview: A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Murder by Invitation
Overview: The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-30
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High Hat
Overview: An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Windjammer
Overview: The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth) and put to work as galley slaves.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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The Great Meadow
Overview: Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-24
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All in a Night's Work
Overview: After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Wake Up and Dream
Overview: The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Women Must Dress
Overview: A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Happiness Ahead
Overview: Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-27
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Red Hot Tires
Overview: An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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They Gave Him a Gun
Overview: With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Genres: War Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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Grand Old Girl
Overview: An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-15
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Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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I See Ice
Overview: George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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The Leavenworth Case
Overview: Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-20
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Female
Overview: Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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Bordertown
Overview: An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-23
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Knock on Wood
Overview: Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-06
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His First Command
Overview: A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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Three on a Ticket
Overview: A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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Notorious
Overview: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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The Lone Star Vigilantes
Overview: It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. Returning from Civil War duty, Hickok, Tex Martin and Cannonball find that their Texas home town is under the rule of Colonel Monroe, a bush-league dictator with his own police force. In true Hitlerian fashion, Monroe extorts huge sums of money from the populace, terrorizing them into silence. Our three heroes set about to put an end to Monroe's regime, with time out for Tex Ritter's musical interludes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Shipmates
Overview: A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-25
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Stranded
Overview: A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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Sylvia
Overview: Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-10
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Black Beauty
Overview: Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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White Christmas
Overview: Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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The Matchmaker
Overview: Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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The Patsy
Overview: When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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King Creole
Overview: Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Overview: Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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The Good Fairy
Overview: In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-18
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Pardners
Overview: Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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