Movies by Cliff Edwards

Prairie Stranger

Prairie Stranger

Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.

Bandit Ranger

Bandit Ranger

Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.

The Man I Marry

The Man I Marry

A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.

Overland to Deadwood

Overland to Deadwood

Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....

You and Your Five Senses

You and Your Five Senses

Jiminy Cricket explains the five senses, contrasting man and other animals.

You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste

You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste

Jiminy Cricket explains the interconnected senses of smell and taste.

Stepping Out

Stepping Out

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

You and Your Food

You and Your Food

Jiminy Cricket explains how every living thing has its proper kind of food, and how it is used, plus the basics of nutrition.

Take a Chance

Take a Chance

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.

Pirates of the Prairie

Pirates of the Prairie

In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the ra...