The best William Desmond’s action movies

William Desmond

William Desmond

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best William Desmond’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about William Desmond.

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.

Custer's Last Stand

Custer's Last Stand
4.7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 02/01/1936
  • Character: Wagon Master
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.

The Phantom of the Air

The Phantom of the Air
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 21/05/1933
  • Character: Thomas Edmonds
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.

Rustlers of Red Dog

Rustlers of Red Dog
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/01/1935
  • Character: Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
6.7/10
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.

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