Lionel Backus
Actor
Movies9
Movie6.7DramaRomanceJohn and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Our Daily Bread
1934 · 50 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
A Man of Sentiment
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
Hubby's Weekend Trip
1928 · 1 votes
Movie5.6WesternTrouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.
The Brand of Hate
1934 · 5 votes
Movie6.0MysteryA young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
Alias Mary Smith
1932 · 4 votes
Movie6.7WesternA cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
Thunder Over Texas
1934 · 3 votes
Movie6.5WesternThe daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
Arizona Bad Man
1935 · 2 votes
Movie7.5MusicWesternSandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his own. He counts on Rickson's inability to stay away from gambling as the means to his ultimate success. Government investigator Oliver Shea and his assistant, Dan Haggerty, start a fight in Doyle's place when they see Rickson being cheated and are invited to the Bar-X where Oliver and Helen Rickson, Rufe's daughter, discover interest in each other and Dan finds himself pursued by Bell, the ranch cook. Sheriff Larson brings the prize money for the $5,000 race of the Rodeo Association, and that night it is stolen.
Ride 'em, Cowgirl
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.2ActionCrimeA sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
Dragnet Patrol
1931 · 5 votes