The best Edward Hearn’s action movies

Edward Hearn

Edward Hearn

06/09/1888- 15/04/1963
Today we present the best Edward Hearn’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Edward Hearn’s movies.

The General

The General
8.1/10
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Santa Fe Trai

Santa Fe Trai
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/12/1940
  • Character: Abolitionist in Armory (uncredited)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Thunder Afloat

Thunder Afloat
6.3/10
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Mystery Mountain

Mystery Mountain
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 02/12/1934
  • Character: Lake
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.

Hell's Heroes

Hell's Heroes
7.2/10
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.

The Miracle Rider

The Miracle Rider
6.7/10
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.

King of the Pecos

King of the Pecos
6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/03/1936
  • Character: Eli Jackson
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own.

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring
5.6/10
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

The Accusing Finger

The Accusing Finger
6.6/10
A district attorney sends a young man to the electric chair, then lands in the death house himself.

Clearing the Range

Clearing the Range
5.2/10
A cowboy (Hoot Gibson) rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.

Adventures of Red Ryder

Adventures of Red Ryder
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Colonel Lang
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

The Shadow of the Eagle

The Shadow of the Eagle
5.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/02/1932
  • Character: Colonel Nathan Gregory
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.

Fighting With Kit Carson

Fighting With Kit Carson
6.5/10
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.

I Was Framed

I Was Framed
5.4/10
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

Trouble at Midnight

Trouble at Midnight
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 16/10/1937
  • Character: DeHoff
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.

The Vanishing Legion

The Vanishing Legion
6.8/10
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.

The Green Archer

The Green Archer
6.5/10
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans
5.8/10
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.

Perils of the Rail

Perils of the Rail
7.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 22/10/1926
  • Character: Jack Hathaway
A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.

The Lost Express

The Lost Express
A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators and the authorities try to determine where it is and who took it.

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