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"White Eagle (1941) ... Buck Jones ... VCI Ent. (2007)", December 14, 2007
This review is from: White Eagle (DVD)
VCI Entertainment presents "WHITE EAGLE" (1941) (290 mins/B&W) (digitally remastered) --- Buck's on a red hot thrill rampage in the greatest of serial epics --- A Columbia Pictures 15 Chapter Play vintage serial loaded with thrilling drama and high adventure sequences featuring heroes, Indians and villains --- Buck Jones stars as White Eagle who was raided by Indians after U.S. Army Officer, his father was killed in an all out Indian raid --- Jones works hard throughout the 15 episodes that the white settlers and Indians can live together in peace --- The two main villains James Craven and Jack Ingram keep the two groups stirred up and thus the plot thickens --- Buck carries the entire cliffhanger with the help of his sidekick Raymond Hatton, who would later become a member of "The Rough Riders", along with Jones and Tim McCoy --- In 1941, the deal was struck for a new western trio series called "The Rough Riders", starring Charles 'Buck' Jones (Marshal Buck Roberts), Tim McCoy (Marshal Tim McCall) and Raymond Hatton (Marshal Sandy Hopkins) -- Interestingly, all three B-Western actors were fifty years of age or older when the series began.
Under the production staff:
James W. Horne - Director
Larry Darmour - Associate Producer
Morgan Cox - Screenwriter
John Cutting - Screenwriter
Arch Heath - Screenwriter
Lawrence Taylor - Screenwriter
Fred Myton - Story
Lee Zahler - Original Music
James S. Brown Jr - Cinematographer
Dwight Caldwell - Film Editor
Earl Turner - Film Editor
Carl Hiecke - Second Unit Director
Yakima Canutt - Stunt Co-Ordinator
BIOS:
1. Buck Jones (aka: Charles Frederick Gebhart )
Date of Birth: 4 December 1889 - Vincennes, Indiana
Date of Death: 30 November 1942 - Boston, Massachusetts
2. Raymond Hatton
Date of Birth: 7 July 1887 - Red Oak, Iowa
Date of Death: 21 October 1971 - Palmdale, California
3. Charles King
Date of Birth: 21 February 1895 - Hillsboro, Texas
Date of Death: 7 May 1957 - Hollywood, California
4. James W. Horne (Director)
Date of Birth: 14 December 1880 - San Francisco, California
Date of Death: 29 June 1942 - Hollywood, California
the cast includes:
Buck Jones ... White Eagle
Silver ... Silver - White Eagle's horse
Raymond Hatton ... Grizzly
Dorothy Fay ... Janet Rand
James Craven ... 'Dandy' Darnell
Chief Yowlachie ... Chief Running Deer
Jack Ingram ... Henchman Cantro
Charles King ... Henchman Brace
John Merton ... Henchman Romino
Roy Barcroft ... "Poker" Pendleton
Hank Bell ... Parks - a Trapper
Horace B. Carpenter ... Townsman
George Chesebro ... Henchman Blackie
Steve Clark ... Suveyor Roberts
Edmund Cobb ... Dave Rand
George DeNormand ... Civic leader Smith
Kenne Duncan ... Henchman Kirk)
Al Ferguson ... Henchman Butch
Bud Osborne ... Henchman Bart
Jack O'Shea ... Tough Standing at Bar
Charles Stevens ... Henchman
Al Taylor ... Trapper
Bob Woodward ... Pony Rider
CHAPTER TITLES:
1. Flaming Tepees
2. The Jail Delivery
3. The Dive into Quicksands
4. The Warning Death Knife
5. Treachery at the Stockade
6. The Gun-Cane Murder
7. The Revealing Blotter
8. Bird-Calls of Deliverance
9. The Fake Telegram
10.Mystic Dots and Dashes
11.The Ear at the Window
12.The Massacre Invitation
13.The Framed-Up Showdown
14.The Fake Army General
15.Treachery Downed
If you're into vintage serials as I am, why not pick up a copy of the following titles from VCI Entertainment:
VCI CLIFFHANGER TRAILERS:
1. Adventures of Red Ryder (Don "Red" Barry)
2. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (Bobby Jordan)
3. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe)
4. Captain Midnight (Dave O'Brien)
5. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (Judd Holdren & I. Stanford Jolley)
6. Dick Tracy's G-Men (Ralph Byrd)
7. Don Winslow of the Navy (Don Terry)
8. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (Don Terry)
9. Drums of Fu Manchu (Henry Brandon)
10.Fighting Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown)
11.Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe)
12.The Green Archer (Victory Jory)
13.Jungle Girl (Frances Gifford)
14.Jungle Jim (Grant Withers & Raymond Hatton)
15.Lost City of the Jungle (Russell Hayden & Keye Luke)
16.Mandrake the Magician (Warren Hull & Dick Curtis)
17.Miracle Rider (Tom Mix & Tony Jr)
18.The Painted Stallion (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
19.The Phantom (Tom Tyler)
20.The Return of Chandu (Bela Lugosi)
21.Riders of Death Valley (Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo & Buck Jones)
22.Secret Agent X-9 (1937) (Scott Kolk & Henry Brandon)
23.Secret Agent X-9 (1945) (Lloyd Bridges & Keye Luke)
24.Sky Raiders (Donald Woods & Billy Halop)
25.Undersea Kingdom (Ray "Crash" Corrigan)
26.Winners of the West (Dick Foran, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft & Charles Stevens)
27.Zane Greys "King of the Royal Mounted" (Allan "Rocky" Lane)
28.Zorro's Cliffhanger Collection (Reed Hadley, John Carroll & Linda Stirling)
Hats off to VCI Entertainment and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc), Buck Rainey (author of: The Life and Films of Buck Jones: The Sound Era (Paperback) and Bob Nareau (author of: "The Real" Bob Steele) as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns ... order your copy now from Amazon where there are plenty of copies available on DVD --- if you enjoyed this title, why not check out Amazon and VCI where they are experts in releasing B-Westerns and Serials --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 290 mins on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment ~ (12/04/2007)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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VCI DOES IT AGAIN!!!, March 26, 2008
This review is from: White Eagle (DVD)
Excellent action-packed 15 chapter serial from Columbia restored by VCI Entertainment. A sheer joy to watch as Buck Jones stars as the title character White Eagle, a white man raised by Indians since childhood. James Craven is at his back-stabbing dastardly best as Dandy Darnell, out to prevent peace between the settlers and the Indians...for his own greedy purposes of course! This role rivals his gang leader in THE GREEN ARCHER(1940) and like that role, is played to the hilt, pure evil interjected with sly humor and comic exaspiration at the failings of his minions!
And what minions they are!!! A virtual Who's Who among B-Western cronies and henchmen, some of them even playing good-guy roles! I spotted Bud Osborne, Al Ferguson, Eddie Cobb, Roy Barcroft, George Chesebro, Charlie King, John Merton, Jack Ingram, Hank Bell, Kenne Duncan, Black Jack O'Shea and Edward Hearn. They pop in and out and most wind up pushin up daisies by the end!
As with a Columbia serial (especially one directed by James W. Horne) you get lots of running about! Everyone's in a hurry! At times it seems comical with characters running hap-hazardly around and about, through doors, down streets, leaping onto horses!!! But that's what Columbia delivered, Fast-Paced Action! Non-Stop Thrills! And this serial really delivers!
Buck is in fine form as White Eagle, mature yet still very atheletic. Raymond Hatton is side-kick Grizzly and does well boasting, providing laughs and even saving Buck on occasion. Dorothy Fay is the love interest and doesn't get in the way too much.
The print is BEAUTIFUL!!! Sharp, crisp, clear! A joy to watch! Thank you again VCI for doing such an outstanding job!
If you're a serial or Buck Jones fan this is an absolute must for your collection. I'm really glad I made this purchase!
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