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Wild Brian Kent

Feature film · 55 min · dir. Howard Bretherton

  • Western

Synopsis

Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.

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Details

Director
Howard Bretherton
Writer
Harold Bell Wright
Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
1936-11-06
Running time
55 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★ · Ralph Bellamy "B" Western Star? Get Out Of Here! · bobsluckycat · 2013-03-13

From the cadence of the dialogue and the way the story plays out, this had to have been written for George O'Brien in pre-production, who by the time it got around to going before the cameras was no longer under contract to 20th Century-Fox and Sol Lessor Productions, having signed in mid-1936 with George Hirliman. This would have been a good vehicle in O'Brien's hands, but......this picture is a mess on all counts. Ralph Bellamy replaces O'Brien as the star but while he has many good qualities and was a great actor, time would prove, he was no George O'Brien. This is a typical modern day…

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