Hoot Gibson -- The Fastest, Funniest, Most Entertaining Picture This Popular Star has Ever Produced -- March 14, 2024

Film Daily, 31-March-1924

Hoot Gibson looked like a funny guy. Eddie Sedgwick directed the beautifully titled 40 Horse Hawkins. 

Motion Picture News, 15-March-1924

Director Eddie Sedgwick also acted in 40 Horse Hawkins. It had been ten years since he gave up acting for directing.

Motion Picture News, 29-March-1924

I like how Broadway or Bust, Hoot's next movie, is described as a comedy rather than a western.

Motion Picture News, 08-March-1924

Dig that hat in the top center photo. 

Motion Picture News, 22-March-1924

Jack Hoxie was a real cowboy and rodeo performer who became a big star in the early 1920s. The Phanton Horseman was directed by Bob Bradbury. 

Motion Picture News, 01-March-1924

The Man from Wyoming was also directed by Bob Bradbury. 

Motion Picture News, 29-March-1924

Ridgeway of Montana was directed by Cliff Smith. The Back Trail was shot at Lone Pine. It was directed by George Marshall and Cliff Smith. 

Film Daily, 21-March-1924

Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Unable to deal with the death of his wife, Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925. W Adcock directed Western Grit. 

Film Daily, 20-March-1924

Hoot Gibson -- He's a New Type of Hero -- August 9, 2022

Morning Tulsa Daily World, 22-August-1922

I always enjoy Hoot Gibson movies. He added a lot of comedy to his films.

Salem, Oregon Capital Journal, 26-August-1922

Casper Daily Tribune, 14-August-1922

Not many Buck Jones ads this month in 1922.

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Leo Maloney, who directed several movies with Hoot Gibson, but he also starred in several westerns.

Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922

Exhibitors Herald, 27-August-1922

Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Unable to deal with the death of his wife, Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925.

Buck Jones -- Only Rival of Tom Mix -- December 15, 2021

Omaha Bee, 18-December-1921

Buck Jones was Fox's second-string cowboy star, after Tom Mix. I like this image from Riding With Death. Jacques Jaccard directed. 

Clovis News, 22-December-1921

This item about Riding With Death reminds us that we recently saw Buck Jones try to change his billing to Charles Jones.

Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 31-December-1921

This ad refers to him as "Charles (Buck) Jones." 

Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 23-December-1921

While this ad refers to him as "Charles Jones," omitting "Buck" entirely. Personally I would rather be called "Buck." 

Great Falls Tribune, 20-December-1921

Bar Nothin' is a good title. Eddie Sedgwick was the director.

Alaska Daily Empire, 29-December-1921

I like the name Spickett's Palace. 

Cambridge, Maryland Daily Banner, 22-December-1921

Hoot Gibson was a contemporary of Tom Mix and Buck Jones. His movies tended to emphasize humor.

Pueblo Chieftan, 18-December-1921

John Ford directed Sure Fire. 

Great Falls Tribune, 18-December-1921

Note that the Capitol Theater in Great Falls planned to show Rex Ingram's The Conquering Power with Rudolph Valentino, but the print got "lost in transit," so they showed Sure Fire. 

Pueblo Chieftan, 08-December-1921

Bill Fairbanks was not Doug's brother, but he may have been related. They were both born with the family name "Ullman," but that may have been a coincidence.

Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram, 24-December-1921

Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Unable to deal with the death of his wife, Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925.

Cine-Mundial, December, 1921

Tom Santschi (hard name to spell) had a long career, but mostly worked in small character parts after the mid-1920s.

Indiana Daily Times, 03-December-1921

I see that I have not mentioned Texas Guinan in this blog. She started out in vaudeville and theater, then went into the movies, making a series of westerns. Later she ran several speakeasies in New York and became known as "The Queen of the Nightclubs." She died in 1933, just before Prohibition was repealed.  This ad calls her "The Female 'Bill Hart.'"

Buck Jones Scores Again -- October 15, 2021

Moving Picture World, 22-October-1921

Buck Jones started out as Fox Film Corporation's second-tier cowboy star, after Tom Mix. He went on to have a strong career, well into the talkie era. I think he deserves his own series. Bar Nothing is a good title.

Moving Picture World, 08-October-1921

Eddie Sedgwick directed and Ruth Renick co-starred.

Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 15-October-1921

"They aroused the wrong man! They started something -- he finished it!"

Exhibitors Herald, 08-October-1921

Hoot Gibson was a contemporary of Tom Mix and Buck Jones. His movies tended to emphasize humor. He starred in Universal productions.

Moving Picture World, 29-October-1921

Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Unable to deal with the death of his wife, Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925. Mrs Wallace Reid was Dorothy Davenport. Learn more about her here:

Dorothy Davenport: Her Life and Career 

http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/03/dorothy-davenport-her-life-and-career.html

Exhibitors Herald, 01-October-1921

Lester Cuneo planned to make a "Spanish picture" in Mexico. 

Exhibitors Herald, 22-October-1921

The Vitagraph starred William Duncan and his wife Edith Johnson in two features, Steelheart and Where Men Are Men. 

Exhibitors Herald, 22-October-1921

Benjamin B Hampton produced adaptions of six Zane Grey novels, including The Mysterious Rider. Robert McKim, who had played Zorro's nemesis in the Douglas Fairbanks movie, starred. McKim died in 1927. Learn more about Benjamin B Hampton, who promoted Zane Grey Week:

Big V Riot Squad: Zane Grey Week -- 02-June-2021

Tom Mix -- The Night Horsemen -- September 15, 2021

Omaha Bee, 25-September-1921

I like the design of this ad for The Night Horsemen, which apparently survives in an archive. It is based on a novel by Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust), who wrote lots of Westerns.

Moving Picture World, 31-January-1920

Exhibitors Herald, 17-September-1921

Exhibitors Herald, 03-September-1921

Tom Mix and Fox's number two western star, Buck Jones talked about touring the rodeo circuit together.

Moving Picture World, 24-September-1921

Tom Mix was invited to visit the Pendleton Round-Up, a major rodeo.

East Oregonian, 10-September-1921

Unfortunately, his schedule did not permit him to go. 

Exhibitors Herald, 17-September-1921

Buck Jones serenades his leading lady, Helen Ferguson, in To A Finish. I find the title interesting because usually we would say "To The Finish."

Exhibitors Herald, 17-September-1921

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Moving Picture Weekly, 03-September-1921

"Let your crowd go wild with excitement when the fearless king of cowboys fights the skull-faced demons." Sounds like an exciting serial. Art Acord was another contemporary of Mix and Jones, who appeared in many silent films, but did not make the transition to talkies.

Moving Picture Weekly, 11-September-1921

Frank Mayo had a long career but never became a star. John Ford directed him in Hitchin' Posts.

Moving Picture Weekly, 11-September-1921

Moving Picture Weekly, 03-September-1921

Hoot Gibson was a contemporary of Tom Mix and Buck Jones. His movies tended to emphasize humor. How about those sheepskin chaps?

Moving Picture Weekly, 25-September-1921

"Universal's first Americanism Film"!?

Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921

Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925. 

Moving Picture World, 17-September-1921

Tom Santschi (hard name to spell) had a long career, but mostly worked in small character parts after the mid-1920s. The Secret of Butte Ridge was directed by Bob Bradbury.

Moving Picture World, 24-September-1921

Santschi's leading lady in The Honor of Ramirez was Bessie Love.