The best Kenneth Harlan’s action movies

Kenneth Harlan

Kenneth Harlan

26/07/1895- 06/03/1967
We present our ranking of the best Kenneth Harlan’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Kenneth Harlan.

Gunsmoke Ranch

Gunsmoke Ranch
5.5/10
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.

Paradise Island

Paradise Island
4.6/10
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.

Under Western Stars

Under Western Stars
5.8/10
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventureComedy
  • Release: 13/05/1939
  • Character: Stan - Star Advertising Manager (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

The Duke of West Point

The Duke of West Point
6.4/10
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

A Million to One

A Million to One
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/03/1937
  • Character: William Stevens
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.

Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men
6.5/10
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism

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.

Pride of the Bowery

Pride of the Bowery
5.9/10
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.

The Shadow of the Eagle

The Shadow of the Eagle
5.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/02/1932
  • Character: Ward
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.

The Masked Marvel

The Masked Marvel
7.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/11/1943
  • Character: Gas Works Policeman
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.

Mysterious Doctor Satan

Mysterious Doctor Satan
7.3/10
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.

The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail
6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 04/07/1939
  • Character: General Terry
15 chapter western serial.

Daredevils of the West

Daredevils of the West
7.5/10
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Wanderer of the Wasteland
5.8/10
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.

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