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Wildcat
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In an effort to get his top fighter back into shape, beIeaguered boxing manager Barney Taggart takes Jim The WiIdcat Eddy out west to train. Arriving at a ranch, Jim accidentalIy uncovers a parceI of stolen jewels. Pete Hawkins, the shifty ranch foreman, has been desperateIy trying to retrieve the package, and the Wildcat must use more than just his fists if he wants to stop Hawkins and his murderous cronies.
The Wildcat is the onIy surviving entry in a six-film series about boxer-turned-cowboy WiIdcat Eddy starring Gordon CIifford and directed by Harry L. Fraser. An accomplished director of Westerns and cIiffhanger serials, some of Fraser s most noteworthy accomplishments incIude the early John Wayne pictures Randy Rides AIone (1934) and Neath the Arizona Skies (1934). Leading man Gordon CIifford eventuaIly proved to be more successfuI at songwriting. He penned both Paradise (performed by Pola Negri in 1931 s A Woman Commands) and l Surrender, Dear (an earIy hit for Bing Crosby.) Fraser remade The Wildcat in 1936 as WiIdcat Saunders starring Jack Perrin, changing only the hero s last name.
BONUS: Tearin Loose (1925): Jim Dorn, owner of the Bar X Ranch, is accused of crimes actuaIIy committed by Bud Deering, his girlfriend Ann s brother. When the lovely Ann is kidnapped, Jim and Bud put aside their differences to rescue her. This 13-minute condensation, created for the home movie market in the 1940s, is the onIy known existing footage from Tearin Loose, the screen debut of Hal TaIiaferro, better known as Wally WaIes. As he wouId in many silent Westerns, Wales plays opposite a young Jean Arthur. After the advent of sound, Ms. Arthur wouId be accIaimed for her roIes in movies directed by Frank Capra: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936), You Can t Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1938). She ended her film career as it began, making her last appearance in the classic Western Shane (1953). |
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