Posted in RKO, Tim Holt on February 5, 2026| 3 Comments »
Tim Holt
(February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973)
Happy birthday to one of my favorite cowboy stars, Tim Holt.
He’s in a few of the finest films ever made — Stagecoach (1939), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948). But it’s his RKO B Westerns that I turn to time and time again. They’re just wonderful.
Posted in 1951, Gail Davis, Lesley Selander, Mari Blanchard, Richard Martin, RKO, Robert J. Wilke, Tim Holt on February 5, 2025| 1 Comment »
Tim Holt
(February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973)
Along with all the comments this blog (and the other one) receive, I get plenty of emails. Got an interesting one the other day about Tim Holt, who was born 106 years ago today.
The question was, what Tim Holt RKO would I recommend as a good entry point? Wow, since they’re all so good, that’s hard. But I settled on Overland Telegraph (1951). While it doesn’t have the incredible Lone Pine locations of some of the others, Tim and Chito (Richard Martin) are joined by a top-notch cast — Gail Davis, Hugh Beaumont, Mari Blanchard, Robert Wilke and George Nader. Lesley Selander does his usual masterful job as director.
I’m curious — which one would you have recommended?
This post goes out to Mr. Jerry Entract, a big fan of the Tim Holt Tuesday posts that used to turn up on this blog (and really should return).
Posted in RKO, Tim Holt on June 18, 2023| 7 Comments »
Here’s Jack Holt with his daughter Jennifer and son Tim — on the RKO lot in the late 40s.
If you’re a dad, it’s your day. Enjoy it, especially if it includes putting on a favorite 50s Western.
Posted in 1950, Charles Starrett, Gene Autry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Hopalong Cassidy, Randolph Scott, Roy Rogers, The Durango Kid, Tim Holt, William Boyd on February 17, 2023| 3 Comments »
We looked at Exhibitor magazine’s top cowboy stars for 1951 a while back. Here’s the 1950 list.
By the way, this was the year that Gabby Hayes left theaters with the Randolph Scott picture The Caribou Trail.
Posted in 1951, Gene Autry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Rex Allen, Roy Rogers, Tim Holt, William Boyd on January 12, 2023| 24 Comments »
Posted in Tim Holt on February 5, 2020| 5 Comments »
Tim Holt
(February 5, 1919 – February 15, 1973)
Happy birthday to one of my favorite cowboy stars, Mr. Tim Holt. His series of Westerns for RKO, some of the last B Westerns made, are a complete joy.
Posted in Andy Devine, Claire Trevor, Festivals, screenings, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, Tim Holt, Yakima Canutt on February 4, 2020| 6 Comments »
Directed by John Ford
Starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, John Carradine, George Bancroft, Louise Platt, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Tom Tyler, Tim Holt
The Graham Cinema in Graham, North Carolina, is running John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) next week. I don’t have to tell you what a terrific, landmark movie it is.
John Wayne and Andy Devine on location. John Ford’s back there with the pipe.
Monday & Tuesday, February 10 & 11
7:00 & 9:00 pm.
The Graham Cinema
119 N Main Street
Graham, NC
And if that wasn’t cool enough, on February 24th and 25th, they’ll be running She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949). The Graham Cinema is a great old movie house. If you’re anywhere nearby, be sure to check it out.
Posted in 1954, 1956, 1959, Audie Murphy, Columbia, Jack Arnold, Monogram/Allied Artists, Phyllis Coates, Sam Katzman, Tim Holt, United Artists, Universal (International), Whip Wilson, William Castle on December 20, 2019| 2 Comments »
Came upon this the other day and thought it was worth sharing.
The Morningside Theatre in New York City has quite a lineup on Saturday, April 16, 1959. First, there was Tim Holt in The Monster That Challenged The World (1957), then Audie Murphy in Jack Arnold’s No Name On The Bullet (1959) and finally Running Target from 1956, starring Doris Dowling, Arthur Franz and Myron Healey. Tossed into the mix were a few cartoons and Marshall Reed in a chapter of the Columbia serial Riding With Buffalo Bill (1954), produced by Sam Katzman.
Of course, the stuff coming up after it — William Castle’s The Tingler (1959), The Warrior And The Slave Girl (1958) and Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight and Phyllis Coates in Monogram’s Canyon Riders (1951) — sounds pretty good, too.
Posted in 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, Budd Boetticher, Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea, Nancy Gates, Randolph Scott, RKO, Tim Holt, William Castle on April 14, 2019| 6 Comments »
Nancy Gates
(February 1, 1926 – March 24, 2019)
Nancy Gates has passed away at 93. She was from Dallas, signed with RKO at just 15, and made some really good movies before retiring in 1969 to concentrate on her family.
She was particularly strong in Westerns such as Masterson Of Kansas (1954), Stranger On Horseback (1955), The Brass Legend (1956), The Rawhide Trail (1958), The Gunfight At Dodge City (1959) and Comanche Station (1960). Her other pictures include Hitler’s Children (1943), At Sword’s Point (1952), Suddenly (1954), World Without End (1956) and Some Came Running (1958). She was busy on TV, too, with everything from Maverick and Wagon Train to Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Perry Mason.
Around here, we’ll probably always remember her as Mrs. Lowe in Comanche Station. She’s really terrific in that one.
Posted in John Ford, John Wayne, Tim Holt, Yakima Canutt on March 18, 2019| 91 Comments »
A trip to Raleigh’s flea market yesterday turned up a couple of arcade cards I was really stoked to find. You see these things all the time, but it’s usually the same stars over and over again. This time, the selection was a little more varied.
First, a Yakima Canutt card from Exhibit. Dates from the 30s, I’d guess.
Canutt went from rodeo champion to cowboy star to the absolute master of movie stunts — going from doubling John Wayne in Stagecoach (1939) to doing second unit direction on my favorite movie, Where Eagles Dare (1969).
Next was a more common card, from the 40s, featuring Tim Holt. Of course, Holt’s Western series for RKO is hard to beat.
50 Westerns From The 50s.