Blazing Sixes

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Blazing Sixes
Blazing Sixes poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Noel M. Smith
Screenplay by John T. Neville
Story by Anthony Coldeway
Produced by Bryan Foy
Starring Dick Foran
Joan Valerie
Mira McKinney
John Merton
Glenn Strange
Kenneth Harlan
Cinematography Ted D. McCord
Edited by Frederick Richards
Music by Howard Jackson
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • June 12, 1937 (1937-06-12)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Blazing Sixes is a 1937 American Western film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by John T. Neville. The film stars Dick Foran, Joan Valerie, Mira McKinney, John Merton, Glenn Strange and Kenneth Harlan. It was the 9th of 12 B-westerns Foran starred in for the studio, and is noteworthy for giving perennial villain Strange a rare good-guy role as the simple-minded cowhand Pee Wee. The film was released by Warner Bros. on June 12, 1937. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

Government agent Red Barton goes into a small Western town in order to find the source of recent gold robberies, and Barbara Morgan who goes into the city to claim a ranch that is part of her inheritance, but that also serves as the headquarters of an outlaw gang.

Cast

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References

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