Harry L. Fraser Trailers
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Harry L. Fraser (31 March 1889 - 8 April 1974) was an American film director. He directed over 80 films between 1925 and 1951, including the 1934 John Wayne film Randy Rides Alone and the Frank Buck cliffhanger serial Jungle Menace (1937). He had a small acting role in the John Wayne film 'Neath the Arizona Skies. He also wrote screenplays, including Chick Carter, Detective (1946).
In his autobiography, Fraser described filming the scene in Jungle Menace during which a boa constrictor attacks the heroine Dorothy (Charlotte Henry). The villain has tied Dorothy hand and foot and she thrashes about wildly, terrified when she suddenly sees the huge snake:
"The snake was in no hurry. Slowly he slithered across the girl's body, while she screamed and struggled. He turned, looking for a spot to slip under her to make his first wrap. I motioned to the reptile crew to get ready, and a split-second later gave them the signal to move in. But now, the maddened snake fought them and did its best to coil around one of the men. Before that happened, however, I had cut, and we had a good cliff-hanger with our terror-stricken heroine to close the episode."
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Total trailers found: 110
09 September 1932
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
28 February 1933
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money.
15 June 1949
It took a lot of courage to set up a new production company devoted to "B" westerns in 1949, a year when the genre was showing signs of winding down.
01 March 1923
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing.
21 October 1932
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train.
17 March 1917
Originally written for Pearl White, this silent serial is a great action-packed adventure starring Molly King and Leon Bary.
01 May 1935
Cheyenne joins El Diablo's gang looking for his long time missing wife and daughter. After saving Romero from the gang he returns to get Connie who he now realizes is his daughter.
14 August 1933
When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a Ranger's badge and a delivery to town of the rustlers.
15 February 1936
An old miner is ambushed by outlaws trying to steal the $10,000 he is carrying to start up a new mine.
14 August 1934
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative.
27 August 1927
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
15 July 1933
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch.
01 June 1946
Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.
01 September 1937
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
29 August 1934
Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men.
31 March 1940
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
02 January 1932
Pete Marlan is a gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Pete plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gang of smugglers.
10 February 1944
Ranger Tex Wyatt introduces himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden believes him until the real Spade turns up and all hell breaks loose.
02 January 1932
Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money.
28 February 1916
Only Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other episodes are believed to be lost.
01 April 1938
The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.
10 October 1931
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
12 November 1935
Cowboy infiltrates an outlaw gang to expose their rackets, but after he's ordered to kidnap a young girl, the gang finds out who he really is.
01 July 1927
A young woman and her father search for hidden treasure in the African jungle.
17 February 1946
One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson.
04 August 1933
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked.
25 July 1933
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day.
22 August 1932
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch.
07 May 1945
Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment.
01 August 1921
Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world.
04 February 1951
Whip Wilson rides again in the Monogram western Abilene Trail. Wilson and his grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde are accused of horse stealing, a hangin' offense around these here parts.
08 April 1935
The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret head.
21 October 1935
Prison escapee Utah Evans kills Sheriff McClay. Joe Norton was McClay's predecessor and sent Utah to prison.
22 August 1940
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom".
04 December 1932
An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.
27 October 1944
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss.
03 April 1932
Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity.
09 August 1931
A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
14 October 1945
Bullets fly as the Texas rangers fight an outlaw gang.
14 May 1932
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence.
22 April 1933
Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster.
28 May 1933
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.
01 June 1938
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.
29 September 1933
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine.
07 August 1937
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head.
01 August 1933
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
30 May 1932
Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape.
01 October 1936
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.
01 April 1935
Bill saves a sheriff, left to die in the blazing sun by desert bandits.
19 September 1941
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.
01 March 1933
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds.
15 February 1932
Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.
21 December 1936
Cheyenne rides into Durango and runs into his old enemy Kelton. Kelton's game is to bring his safe to a town without a bank and let the townspeople put their valuables in it.
17 December 1942
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
16 July 1943
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies.
14 April 1932
Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
01 June 1935
Two prisoners, Steve Brandt and Nick Montana, chained to each other, escape by jumping from the train that brought them to the penitentiary.
01 March 1936
After having been gone for some time, a cowboy comes home to his ranch to find himself up against a gang involved in smuggling Chinese into the country.
20 June 1932
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
23 October 1946
David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard. The outlaws of Sherwood Forest are championing young Roger Mowbray, really Prince Richard, whose right to the throne is being usurped by an evil regent.
