Wallace Fox

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Wallace Fox

Born March 9, 1895 · Purcell, Oklahoma Territory, USA

Died June 30, 1958 · aged 63

Wallace Fox (9 March 1895 – 30 June 1958) was an American and Native American film director. He directed 84 films between 1927 and 1953. He was a member of Chickasaw Nation. His brothers were screenwriter Finis Fox and director Edwin Carewe.

Known For

The Ex-Mrs. BradfordThe Ex-Mrs. Bradford · 1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
★ 6.21936
MovieComedyMystery
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Little WomenLittle Women · 1933
Little Women
★ 6.81933
MovieDramaFamily
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Gun TownGun Town · 1946
Gun Town
★ 7.01946
MovieWestern
Indian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments robbed by Indians. Kip and his men are ready the next time and learn the robbers are white men dressed as Indians. Kip finds Davy Sawyer's case at the scene and confronts him. When Davy accuses Talbot whom he lent it to, Talbot shoots him. But Davy names Talbot before he dies and Kip goes after him.
The Daring CaballeroThe Daring Caballero · 1949
The Daring Caballero
★ 6.01949
MovieWestern
Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles they'd carry over into a popular 1950s TV series. Once more stumbling into a dangerous situation, Cisco and Pancho risk their own necks by saving an innocent man from hanging. Eventually, our heroes learn that a corrupt political machine is behind the killing. Leading lady Kippie Valez is cast as "herself," which must have meant more in 1949 than it does today. Unlike the subsequent TV series, Daring Caballero does not end with the leading actors reciting their standard mantra "Oh, Pancho! Oh, Cisco!"
The Corpse VanishesThe Corpse Vanishes · 1942
The Corpse Vanishes
★ 4.31942
MovieScience FictionHorror
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Docks of New YorkDocks of New York · 1945
Docks of New York
★ 8.01945
MovieActionAdventure
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
Bowery at MidnightBowery at Midnight · 1942
Bowery at Midnight
★ 5.01942
MovieCrimeHorror
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the WestThe Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West · 1947
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
★ 7.21947
MovieActionCrime
Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.

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Outlaws of Stampede PassOutlaws of Stampede Pass · 1943
Outlaws of Stampede Pass
★ 7.01943
MovieWestern
Tom Evans (Jon Dawson), nephew of U.S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), has just trailed his cattle to Yucca City, where he intends to sell to Ben Crowley (Harry Woods), owner of practically everything in town.Tom loses his money in a crooked game ran by Crowley. "Nevada Jack" McKenzie (Johnny Mack Brown), a U.S. Marshal working undercover, watches the game and secures one of the "fixed" decks of cards. Later, Tom discovers Crowley's men rustling his cattle and is shot. Nevada finds him severely wounded and hides him with Jeff Lewis (Sam Flint) and his daughter Mary (Ellen Hall). Sandy, posing as a dentist, arrives in town after a wire from Nevada. The latter confronts Crowley with the crooked deck and also with the fact that Tom is still alive, and demands a partnership from Crowley. When Crowley learns that Lewis is hiding Tom, he decides to have both Tom and Nevada killed.

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The Ghost RiderThe Ghost Rider · 1943
The Ghost Rider
★ 8.01943
MovieWestern
The first of a long-running series of Monogram-produced westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton that replaced the Rough Riders series following the death of Buck Jones in the Boston night club fire. Though the next three years featured Brown (as Nevada Jack McKenzie) and Hatton (in his Sandy Hopkins role from the Rough Riders series) as undercover marshals in some form or another, this initial entry had Brown as a lone rider seeking vengeance and he and Hatton's characters were unknown to each other through most of the film. Hopkins offer McKenzie a marshal's job at the end of the film, which the Brown character declined and rode off alone on his quest. This quest didn't take long as by the next film in the series Nevada Jack McKenzie was a full-fledged U. S. Marshal.

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