Cavalcade of the West 1936
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.
Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.
Buck Bonner, posing as the recently deceased Morning Glory Kid, is sent to round up the Mort Ringer gang. Buck finds Ringer and joins up with his gang. But he is in trouble when Slim and Bud who buried the Kid arrive and expose him as a Marshal.
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range. When Wilton kills a rancher, Brent is blamed and jailed. Escaping jail he gets Ware to confess that he payed to have Halston committed. He then gets unexpected help from Ethel Gordon when Wilton tries to foreclose.
Swifty is framed for the murder of Alec MeNiel by the Lawyer Cheevers and the stepson Price. Then they incite the locals to form a lynch mob, but Swifty has an unexpected ally in the Sheriff who knows Price was after his stepfather's land.
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.
Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.
A documentary of explorer Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent, featuring a mix of real and staged footage.
A rodeo rider works himself into two different 'gangs' in order to end a range war over.
"Bits of Life that are hard to believe gathered from here, there and everywhere." Running from 1930 to 1932, these travelogue short subjects usually focused on the exotic, unusual and taboo. Futter's company Wafilms owned hours of silent stock footage-- much of which is put to use in his Curiosities series.