Movies by Buck Jones

Hollywood Round-Up

Hollywood Round-Up

While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.

The Last Straw

The Last Straw

A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.

California Frontier

California Frontier

Halstead forces the Land Agent to alter the records and then kicks the Mexicans off their land. Buck has been sent to investigate and quickly joins up with Juan Cantova in the fight against Halstead. To keep Buck from seeing the records, Halstead has the Agent murdered. His men then claim Juan killed him and both Buck and Juan then find themselves wanted dead or alive.

Forbidden Trails

Forbidden Trails

"Squint" Taylor owns a ranch and has a much older mining partner. When the partner is fatally wounded, he makes Taylor promise to take care of his daughter Marion. Taylor is more than happy to do his bidding, but Marion and her uncle are both involved with William Carrington, who is trying to cheat them out of her share of the mine.

The Crimson Trail

The Crimson Trail

A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.

Desert Vengeance

Desert Vengeance

Brother and sister Hugh and Anne Dixon pull their fake suicide scam on Jim Cardew. Hugh leaves a note for Jim to take care of Anne. After Jim proposes and leaves money to Anne, he learns of their scheme. Not revealing his knowledge he gets them to return with him to his desert hideout where he and his outlaw gang reside and from which the Dixon's only escape is 30 miles of desert on foot.

Gold and the Girl

Gold and the Girl

Dan Prentiss is a special undercover agent hired by a mining company to look into a series of gold-shipment robberies.

The Fighting Ranger

The Fighting Ranger

The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. When Jones' kid brother is killed by the villains, our hero quits the Texas Rangers and sets off to seek vengeance on his own. He ends up just below the Mexican border, where bandit leader Cougar (Bradley Page) lives high off the hog, knowing he can't be extradited.

Hearts and Spurs

Hearts and Spurs

Oscar has been sent to the plains to make a man of himself, is soon visited by his sister Sybil Estabrook, who travels west along with her maid in tow. Oscar, who has been losing at cards to Victor Dufresne, is forced by him to rob a stagecoach in order to pay off his gambling debts.

The Desert Rat

The Desert Rat

Steve Lanyon, known as the Desert Rat, returns with gold and saloon owner Brazos Pete plots to get it.

The Roaring West

The Roaring West

A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.

Branded

Branded

A cowboy looking to sell an inherited ranch changes his mind after a female neighbour arrives on the scene.

The Texas Ranger

The Texas Ranger

Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.

The Man Trailer

The Man Trailer

When an ex-outlaw becomes Marshall he must face up to his old gang.

The Fighting Code

The Fighting Code

The death of a young woman's father puts a cowboy on the trail of a killer.

Gordon of Ghost City

Gordon of Ghost City

A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.

Life on the 101 Ranch, Bliss Oklahoma

Life on the 101 Ranch, Bliss Oklahoma

Life on the 101 Ranch, Bliss Oklahoma

30 Below Zero

30 Below Zero

Don Hathaway Jr. goes to Alaska to escape Follies girl and meets with an accident. The girl helps him and takes him to her home where jealous rival accuses him of being a bootlegger, when he is the culprit himself. Hero proves innocence and defeats rival for affection of girl.

White Eagle

White Eagle

Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony Express Rider defending his people against a gang of evil Whites.

Stone of Silver Creek

Stone of Silver Creek

In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.