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Remembering the B-Western movie, heroes, heroines, sidekicks, heavies and henchmen.
Exclusively B-Westerns circa 1929 - 1954 or so.
No A-Westerns, TV Westerns, "spaghetti westerns", or "Eurowesterns".

Old Corral Menu
1. B-Western Heroes (and 1 Heroine) - click below:
• Bob Allen
• Rex Allen
• Gene Autry, Roy & Hoppy
• Bob Baker
• Smith Ballew
• Jim Bannon
• Don Barry
• Buzz Barton
• Sammy Baugh
• Rex Bell
• William Boyd/Hopalong Cassidy
• Johnny Mack Brown
• Buffalo Bill, Jr. (Jay Wilsey)
• Rod Cameron
• Harry Carey
• John (Johnny) Carpenter
• Sunset Carson
• Lane Chandler
• Bill Cody
• Spade Cooley
• Ray 'Crash' Corrigan
• Buster Crabbe
• Ken Curtis 
• Bob Custer
• Eddie Dean
• Eddie Dew
• 'Wild Bill' Elliott
• James Ellison
• Tex Fletcher ... the Lonely Cowboy
• Dick Foran
• Hoot Gibson
• Kirby Grant
• Monte Hale
• Russell Hayden
• Tim Holt
• Hoppy, Roy & Gene
• George Houston ... The Lone Rider
• Jack & Al Hoxie
• Herb Jeffries ... the Bronze Buckaroo
• Buck Jones
• Tom Keene
• John Kimbrough
• John 'Dusty' King
• Allan 'Rocky' Lane
• Lash LaRue
• Rex Lease
• Bob Livingston
• Jack Luden
• Ken Maynard
• Kermit Maynard
• Tim McCoy
• Robert Mitchum ... in B westerns
• Tom Mix
• Clayton Moore 
• George Montgomery
• Wayne Morris
• James Newill
• Dave 'Tex' O'Brien
• George O'Brien
• Dorothy Page ... the Singing Cowgirl
• Jack Perrin
• Lee 'Lone Ranger' Powell
• John Preston ... Morton of the Mounted
• Jack Randall
• Monte Rawlins ... the Masked Phantom
• Duncan Renaldo
• Tex Ritter
• Roy Rogers, Gene & Hoppy
• Buddy Roosevelt
• Reb Russell
• Fred Scott
• Robert Shayne
• Dave Sharpe
• Cal Shrum
• Charles Starrett ... the Durango Kid
• Bob Steele
• Tom Tyler
• Jimmy Wakely
• Wally Wales (Hal Taliaferro)
• James Warren
• John Wayne ... in the 1930s
• Ted Wells
• Ray Whitley
• Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
• Tex Williams
• Jay Wilsey (Buffalo Bill, Jr.)
• Whip Wilson
2. Heroines, Indians, Second Leads, Sidekicks, Kid Helpers, Villains, Henchies, Stage Drivers, Singers, Singing Groups ... and background performers that portrayed townsmen, barflies, ranch hands, posse riders, etc. - click below:
• GOAT Award / Greatest of All Time 
• Villains & Character players 
• Henchmen & background players 
• Heroines/Leading Ladies 
• Saddle Pals-Sidekicks-Kids-2nd Leads 
• The Indians
• Singers-Musicians-Groups
• Character Actresses
• Ray Whitley
• Bob Nolan (& the Sons of the Pioneers)
• At The Reins - the Drivers
• Republic's Stable of Bad Guys
3. Hollywood Families and Individuals - click below:
• Cameraman Archie Stout 
• Horse trainer Glenn Randall
• Producer Lester F. Scott Jr.
• Director Raymond K. Johnson
• Bernard B. Ray & Reliable Pictures
• George W. Weeks & Range Busters
• Director Sam Newfield
• Nat Levine & Mascot
• Producer Maurice Conn
• Director Noel Mason Smith
• Fred MacKaye, Violet Neitz & Alan James
• Tansey Family in Hollywood
• Producer/director BobTansey
• Producer Jesse James Goldburg
• The Geraghty's of Hollywood
• Producer/director Robert J. Horner
• Producer Victor Adamson/Denver Dixon
• Harry S. Webb & Reliable Pictures
• Wild Bill Cody/Frederick Garfield Penniman
4. Stunt Men & Women - click below:
• Great Stunts - A Day At The Office 
• Dave Sharpe
• Yakima Canutt
• More Stunt Men & Women
• At the Reins - the Drivers
5. Various Photos including some Faces to Identify - click below:
• Who's That Face?
• Memories (snapshots)
• Behind the Scenes ...
• Photo Fun
6. Cowboy Trio Series - click below:
• Republic's Three Mesquiteers
• Monogram's Rough Riders
• Monogram's Range Busters
• Monogram's Trail Blazers
• PRC's Texas Rangers
• PRC's Frontier Marshal series
• Trios That Weren't Official Trios
• Dennis Landadio Reviews the 3 Mesquiteers
7. The Lone Ranger - click below:
• Republic's Lone Ranger Serials
• Clayton Moore
• Lee Powell
• Bob Livingston
• Chief Thunder Cloud (1st Tonto)
8. Other Series and Themes, Lost and Missing Westerns - click below:
• Ghostly / Weird Westerns
• Lost and Missing Westerns
• Republic's 3 Guest Star westerns
• Hopalong Cassidy / William Boyd
• Warners Santa Fe Trail shorts
• Lone Rider series at PRC
• Billy the Kid at PRC
• Mountie Films
• Red Ryder in Films-TV-Radio-Comics
• Durango Kid / Charles Starrett
• Cisco Kid Films
• Duncan Renaldo - the Cisco Kid
• The B Western Goes To War!
9. More Stuff - click below:
• Canine Helpers - Movie Dogs
• Trusty Steeds - Movie Horses
• Riding Actors Association of Hollywood
• Contracts and wages
• Sunset Carson's Video Interviews on YouTube
• Roy & Dale Museum closing/auctions
• Cowboy Vending Card Machine
• B-Western Boo Boos 
• Dual Roles
• TV Westerns (external sites)
• Big Little Books, etc.
• Cowboy Comic Books
• Golden Boot Awards
• Under The Big Top / Circus Days
• Tommy Scott's Wild West Show
• Gunbelt Trivia
• Cowboy Cliffhangers (Serials)
• The Bob Burns Museum
• In Search Of ... (Obits, Death Records, Soc Security, Burial Locations)
10. Ramblings and Writings - click below:
• Remembering Bobby J. Copeland
• Remembering Janus Barfoed
• Les Adams Remembers Buck Rainey
• Remembering Jack Mathis
• Les Adams Remembers Alan G. Barbour
• The Script for TRIGGER LAW
• Geronimo Film & WW2 Paratrooper Yell
• Jed Buell Midgets-THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN
• Sunset, Ken & Tex in MARSHAL OF WINDY HOLLOW
• End of the Trail (B-western bites the dust)
• Buck Jones & the Cocoanut Grove Fire
• Poverty Row & the B Western Producer
• Character Identification Guidelines
11. Spreadsheets, Statistics, Film Counts, Popularity Polls & other Nitty Gritty - click below:
• Film Company Logos
• The Western Film ... By The Numbers!
• Prolific Performers
• Cowboy Popularity Polls & Rankings
• Producers
• Script, Screenplay, Writers
• Heroines
• Directors
• Sagebrush Trivia
12. Movie Locations - click below:
• Movie Locations
• Monogram/Allied Artists Western Street
• Corriganville Movie Ranch
13. Film Festivals, DVDs, Videotapes, CDs, Books, Newsletters, Auctions, TV Schedules, Movie Databases, Posters, Comics, Big Little Books, 8mm and Super8 films - click below:
• Videos/DVDs
• Movie Databases to Search
• Satellite/Cable TV Schedules
• CDs/Audio Tapes/Records
• Auctions-Posters-Comics-Big Little Books-etc.
• Online Movies/Streaming Videos
• Books-Print Media-Newsletters
• Bunkhouse News (film festivals) 
• Before video, there were 8mm films
14. Misc Stuff - click below:
• Search the Old Corral
• Old Corral Changes/Updates
• Acknowledgments & Thanks
• Links to other websites
• Chuck Anderson's Biography
• About the Old Corral Website
The Old Corral was last updated on July 27, 2026. Click HERE to view the changes and updates.

Got word from Boyd Magers that his Western Clippings publication has ended ... and his Western Clippings website is no longer online. Boyd said "I'm 85 and it's time to hang it up. We have several lengthy vacations planned this year." Good news! The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has copies of his website. Click HERE and a separate window / tab will open.

 Click HERE for the Old Corral's B western G O A T Award, the "Greatest Of All Time".

Mysteries, questions, and faces to ID. Click HERE and a separate window / tab will open.
• August 22, 2025 - a bit of a mystery about wardrobe color changes in lobby cards.
• May 28, 2025 - unidentified actor in the Richard Dix THE KANSAN (Harry Sherman Prod / UA, 1943).
• April 27, 2024 - unidentified actor in the Texas Rangers oater MARKED FOR MURDER (PRC, 1945).

While I'm working on updates and new things, here's links that may be of interest. Click on the item and these will open in a separate window / tab:

If you find a page with a typo or an image or link that is "broken" ... want to communicate with Chuck Anderson, the Old Corral curator and webmaster? Click HERE and a separate window/tab will open.

You can do a search on the entire Old Corral website for names, movie titles, whatever. Click HERE for more info and instructions.

Websites of some of our favorite western heroes:
   Official JOHN WAYNE website.
   Official GENE AUTRY website.
   Official HOPALONG CASSIDY website.
   Official ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS website.

     

Two Tom Tyler silent westerns, The MAN FROM NEVADA (Syndicate, 1929) and THE LAW OF THE PLAINS (Syndicate, 1929) are available on DVD and Blu-ray. And Kit Parker films released a new double feature "Saddle Up Westerns" Blu-ray and DVD with Audie Murphy's APACHE RIFLES (1964; in color) and Rod Cameron's PANHANDLE (1948; in Sepia Tone). Click HERE for more info.

     

VCI released several DVDs in 2024. TRAIL OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED [1935] is the title of the re-released early sound serial THE MYSTERY TROOPER (Syndicate, 1931). The B western DVD has four films with Johnny Mack Brown, Buck Jones, and Hoot Gibson. VCI has many other DVDs and Blu-rays. Click HERE for more info.

     

The Serial Squadron continues to release DVDs and Blu-rays of silent and sound cliffhangers as well as books, some features, more. Their offerings include some films which have been colorized. Covers shown above are for THE MASKED MARVEL (Republic, 1943) and colorized THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Mascot, 1932). They offer many others. Click HERE for more info.


Merrill T. McCord authored a wonderful biography on Nell O'Day titled Ballerina on a Horse, The Life, Careers, and Times of Nell O'Day. Nell O'Day is best remembered as the fast ridin' cowgirl and helper to Johnny Mack Brown in thirteen of his early 1940s oaters for Universal. Click HERE for more info.

     

Roy Rogers last film MACKINTOSH AND T.J. (1975) is available on DVD and Blu-ray. Critics Choice video has released a three film DVD of Bill Elliott westerns from Columbia Pictures. Click HERE for more info.

     

Film historian Ed Hulse has authored Behind the Mask: The Making of Republic's Lone Ranger Serials. Click HERE for more info.

Leo Pando's Trigger - The Lives and Legend of Roy Rogers' Palomino - second edition is available from McFarland. Click HERE for more info.


John Brooker's THE HAPPIEST TRAILS, is a fantastic trip down memory lane, and many of the chapters are interviews that John did with B western guys and gals. Click HERE for more info.



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The Old Corral website is a research project in progress and dedicated to those wonderful cowboy heroes, heroines, sidekicks, heavies, and supporting players that rode the silver screen from the 1930s through the early 1950s in B westerns and cowboy cliffhangers. My goal is to simply rekindle memories of those great silver screen adventures, and provide information, critique, and education on the actors, actresses and films of the genre. As the Old Corral has expanded, it has been recognized as a comprehensive history and ongoing study of the B western, the western film performers, and the production companies and personnel.

Every attempt has been made to ensure the information on the Old Corral is correct. In some cases, references are made to books, articles, interviews, etc. And we do our best to identify conjecture and opinion vs. truth and history. But research is imperfect, and errors can and will occur. I am always open to corrections and updates.

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Milestone: on May 1, 2006, the hit counter recorded 1,500,000 homepage visitors. In May, 2006, I moved the Old Corral to a new, faster web server and established the b-westerns.com domain name.

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The webmaster/curator is:  Chuck Anderson
and the Old Corral website went online in May, 1998