Frank Rice Trailers
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Frank Rice was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1892 and passed away January 9, 1936 in Los Angeles of nephritis and hepatitis (both of which affect the kidneys).
Rice began film work in silents, doing bit and supporting roles in various films, including oaters starring Jack Hoxie, Bill Cody, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Pete Morrison and Buck Jones. In the late 1920s, he settled in as the mature helper/sidekick to youngster Buzz Barton in Buzz's series at Film Booking Office (FBO).
During the 1930s, Rice continued his saddle pal duties, appearing most frequently with Buck Jones and Ken Maynard. But he also assisted or had support roles in westerns with Tom Keene at RKO, Reliable's Jack Perrin and Tom Tyler, Tim McCoy at Columbia, at Fox with George O'Brien, and with John Wayne in his Warners series.
Most Popular Frank Rice Trailers
Total trailers found: 98
01 July 1929
Old timer Hank Robbins and his young pal,"Red" Hepner ride into the town of Cajon, Mexico and find it under a reign of terror imposed by a mysterious outlaw known as El Lobo.
04 March 1933
A cowboy called The Thunderbolt Kid comes to the aid of a town that is being threatened by outlaws who don't want a railroad to go through the town.
16 September 1928
Red foils a plan to steal the airmail and in one especially exciting scene takes to the air armed only with a (very effective) slingshot.
05 April 1930
After being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. Dave becomes Marshal but when Bowie, the man that shot Dawson appears, he exposes Dave as an imposter.
07 February 1932
Jim and Buddy decide to follow their pal Tater-bug who left them for another job. No sooner do they arrive than Tater-bug gets shot in the back.
10 February 1929
Red saves his prospector sidekick Hank Robbins from the hangman.
20 September 1925
Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested when they attempt to steal something to eat.
01 March 1934
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map.
30 December 1932
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle.
20 December 1935
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
01 November 1931
A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner.
22 February 1925
A red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing express that'll hold you spellbound.
20 December 1926
While taking a joyride with his sweetie Patricia, daredevil pilot Roy Cummins witnesses the aerial hijacking of a mail plane.
02 October 1924
Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe.
31 May 1935
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
01 July 1935
The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley.
17 March 1934
The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. When Jones' kid brother is killed by the villains, our hero quits the Texas Rangers and sets off to seek vengeance on his own.
02 March 1929
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen.
08 March 1930
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League".
15 December 1922
Jack Meadows and sidekick Toby are looking for whiskey smugglers along the Canadian border. They find a badly wounded Seriff who earlier caught one of them and a nearby hoofprint of a horse with a broken shoe.
02 March 1934
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh.
16 November 1929
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
14 April 1935
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek.
01 February 1923
When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the young girl Isobel taken and raised thinking Dugan is her father.
04 September 1927
Dick Morgan, formerly a professional crook, returns from the war as the "Ace" of his squadron.
18 January 1936
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
05 December 1931
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
23 December 1928
A boy hero saves a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
01 August 1926
Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimately, one of those who gave their lives.
29 January 1932
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
17 February 1929
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance.
12 August 1928
The railroad wants to extend a line across the Briggs' ranch, and hires a gang to get rid of John Briggs and his daughter, Nan sweetheart of the local sheriff.
27 September 1930
Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been ambushed and murdered.
20 July 1934
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief.
04 September 1933
Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash.
19 October 1935
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
18 November 1932
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke hides evidence against Karger in his jail cell.
13 July 1925
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
05 August 1935
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
31 May 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums.
17 February 1929
Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area's cattle.
31 July 1935
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
01 June 1933
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate.
08 June 1929
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
24 January 1935
Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits.
15 July 1932
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide.
11 November 1935
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.
16 July 1934
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.
01 March 1931
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market.
04 November 1928
Rough Ridin' Red is a 1928 silent Western.
01 March 1927
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
08 September 1929
Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch (Tom Santschi) on food prices in the mining camps.
05 April 1931
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.
12 October 1930
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
06 July 1934
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
10 July 1927
Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille.
26 September 1914
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews.
13 March 1936
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
21 September 1924
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
04 April 1926
There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
