The best J. Frank Glendon’s adventure movies

J. Frank Glendon

J. Frank Glendon

25/10/1886- 17/03/1937
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The Red Rider

The Red Rider
6.9/10
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

Men with Steel Faces

Men with Steel Faces
4.4/10
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.

The Lost Special

The Lost Special
5.2/10
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.

Her Splendid Folly

Her Splendid Folly
5.1/10
Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.

For the Soul of Rafael

For the Soul of Rafael
5.2/10
Cinematheque Francais holds a copy.

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