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Rogue of the Range [VHS]

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VCI Entertainment and Supreme Pictures present "Rogue of the Range" (1936) (digitally remastered), long running Johnny Mack Brown series turned out in the early '30s...the story line has Johnny Mack brown robbing a stage beating the other outlaws to the punch...Brown tells the stage driver to charge this holdup to "The Rogue of the Range"...the outlaws chase Brown and his hard riding close-ups are something to behold... next scene we see our hero saving a damsel Phyllis Hume in distress only to find her Grandfather didn't make it...Johnny Mack gets himself thrown into prison, but alas he is really an undercover government man trying to get a lead on the gang operating in these parts and their headman...Lois January is Brown's love interest and they are great together in every scene...Alden Chase is the leader and he is getting wise to Johnny Mack and the sheriff Horace Murphy, and soon discovers things aren't what they seem...Chase tips off Jack Rockwell that Brown is a spy and needs to be dealt with...will the final showdown have a brawl in the cabin hideout...well don't leave the theater until Johnny Mack Brown asks Lois January to marry him, now he's in real trouble.

Under director S. Roy Luby, producer A.W. Hackel, original story and adaptation by Earle Snell, music supervisor Lee Zahler ...the cast include a very young Johnny Mack Brown (Dan Doran), Lois January (Stella Lamb), Alden Chase (Lige Branscomb), Phyllis Hume (Tess), George Ball (Jim Mitchell), Jack Rockwell (Sloan), Horace Murphy (Sheriff Tom), Frank Ball (express agent), Lloyd Ingraham (doctor), Forrest Taylor (Pinky/prison guard). . . . . . .special footnote, actor Jack Rockwell played a lawmen probably more than any other actor in westerns...sheriff, a marshal, a Texas Ranger... if you were watching any western from the 1920s to the 1940s - especially from Columbia or Republic...when somebody wearing a badge and a gun showed up on onscreen, chances are it was Jack Rockwell...he appeared in around 252 films in his career beginning with "The Prairie King" (1927). . .not all of his roles were lawmen, but enough of them were to ensure that western aficionados will forever identify Jack Rockwell as the man who represented the law in the West. . .check out all of this and more in a new book "Best of the Badmen" by Boyd Magers, Bob Nareau and Bobby Copeland, available from Amazon and Empire Publishing pick up your copy today. . . . . . .another special footnote actor Johnny Mack Brown had a long film association with producer A.W. Hackel in a series of sixteen B-Westerns for the independent Poverty Row's Supreme Pictures, many directed by Sam Newfield and S. Roy Luby...associate producer A. William Hackel also produced a series of Bob Steele B-Westerns........meanwhile back to another great Johnny Mack B-Western provided by Supreme Pictures during their heyday of the early '30s.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

BIOS:

1. Johnny Mack Brown

Birth Date: 9/01/1904 - Dothan, Alabama

Died: 11/14/1974 - Woodland Hills, California (cardiac condition)

3. Jack Rockwell (aka: John Rockwell Trowbridge)

Birth Date: 10/06/1890 - Vera Cruz, Mexico

Died: 11/10/1947 - Los Angeles, California

4. S. Roy Luby (Director)

Birth Date: 8/08/1904 - New York, New York

Died: 8/19/1976 - Los Angeles, California

5. A.W. Hackel (Producer)

Birth Date: 12/18.1882 - Austria

Died: 10/22/1959 - Los Angeles, California

If you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure check out other western double features by Johnny Mack Brown:

JOHNNY MACK BROWN WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURES:

1. Raiders of San Joaquin/Law of the Range (VCI #7226)

2. Pony Post/Ragtime Cowboy Joe (VCI #7238)

3. Brand A Coward/Rogue of the Range (VCI #7244)

4. Guns in the Dark/Partner of the Trail (VCI $7260)

5. Bar Z Bad Men/Between Men (VCI #7282)

6. Bad Man from Red Butte/Rawhide Rangers (VCI #8348)

Ask Amazon.Com to carry the above five titles as they are not available on Amazon as of yet...you can order and pick up your copy now from VCI Entertainment...if you enjoyed "Rogue of the Range" (1936), why not pick up other copies of Johnny Mack Brown Double Features.

Bobby J. Copeland's book on "Johnny Mack Brown: Up Close & Personal" is chuck full of answers to all the questions his fans had from early on...when you went to see him on the big screen, you got exactly what the marquee said...plenty of thrills, adventure and loaded with action...Johnny Mack was a natural for the western, his riding abilities and fight scenes were of the the same caliber as Buck Jones and Bob Steele...Johnny Mack sets the saddle better than Duke Wayne...seems Johnny got better with the more films he made and the scripts were always top notch...he was one of the best-liked people in films, what you saw on the screen is what he really was...a great human being...pickup your copy from Amazon or Empire Publishing both have this in stock.

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '30s & '40s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again with a top notch B-Western from VCI...just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 60 min on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment #7244 ~ (1/29/1996)