Film Snail

Western

Avalanche

Avalanche

November 10, 1928

An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.

Rough Ridin' Red

Rough Ridin' Red

November 4, 1928

Rough Ridin' Red is a 1928 silent Western.

The Glorious Trail

The Glorious Trail

October 28, 1928

After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out another supply train to make the dangerous trip across open country. The Indians attack and are driven off. On the day the wires are finally strung, the settlers gather to hear the first message from the East.

The Vanishing West

The Vanishing West

October 15, 1928

A boy's father is an unjustly accused fugitive, and the boy's scheming uncle plots to become the youngster's guardian and take over the family fortune.

Clearing the Trail

Clearing the Trail

October 7, 1928

A lawman and a rancher fight a gang of horse thieves.

Manhattan Cowboy

Manhattan Cowboy

October 1, 1928

When easterner Jack Steel gets into trouble with the law again, his father sends him to his ranch out west. There he and Alice Duncan become attracted to each other. Cowhand Slim was planning to marry Alice and now kidnaps her. When Slim's girl friend learns of Slim's interest in Alice, she tells Jack where Alice is and he heads out alone to face the three kidnapers.

Burning Bridges

Burning Bridges

September 30, 1928

Bob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war, escapes from a sanitarium and holds up the Express train, for which Jim is mistakenly arrested. Jim soon escapes from jail in order to find his brother. However, his task is complicated by a crooked sheriff who pins a holdup and murder on him that the sheriff himself actually committed. To make matters worse, the murder victim was Tommy Wilkins, the brother of Jim's fiancee, who now thinks that Jim killed her brother.

The Son of the Golden West

The Son of the Golden West

September 30, 1928

Tom Hardy (Tom Mix), a pony express rider, is carrying government gold in a coach to Wassatch accompanied by Alice Calhoun (Sharon Lynn) , the daughter of the US telegraph survey station. The gold is to pay for the US Telegraph Survey and it is to be delivered to the survey chief, Jim Calhoun (Thomas Lingham). The coach is attacked by bandits led by the Slade (Duke Lee) and Kane (Mark Hamilton).

Young Whirlwind

Young Whirlwind

September 16, 1928

Red foils a plan to steal the airmail and in one especially exciting scene takes to the air armed only with a (very effective) slingshot.

Beyond the Sierras

Beyond the Sierras

September 15, 1928

A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.

Guardians of the Wild

Guardians of the Wild

September 15, 1928

A forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang try to force them off their land.

The Wind

The Wind

September 15, 1928

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.

The Black Ace

The Black Ace

September 2, 1928

Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.

The Big Hop

The Big Hop

August 31, 1928

Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.

The Water Hole

The Water Hole

August 25, 1928

Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when he comes east to talk business with her father. Philip proposes and discovers that Judith has only been kidding him along. He returns angrily to Arizona, and the elder Endicott, accompanied by his daughter, follows him west. With her father's permission, Richard "kidnaps" Judith and takes her to a deserted Indian cliff dwelling, where she must cook and care for him. Bert Durland, Judith's fiancé, follows after her, and his Indian guide steals all of the horses. Judith and Bert and Philip start back to civilization across the desert, and Bert goes berserk from the heat. They are rescued by cowboys, and Judith returns east, "kidnaping" Philip and taking him with her.

The Bantam Cowboy

August 12, 1928

The railroad wants to extend a line across the Briggs' ranch, and hires a gang to get rid of John Briggs and his daughter, Nan sweetheart of the local sheriff. Wanderers "Sidewinder" Steve and his young friend "Red" Hepner take a hand in the proceedings and manage to save Briggs and his daughter, the ranch, and the romance.

Arizona Days

Arizona Days

August 1, 1928

A Cattlemen´s Association hires a detective (Bob Custer) to look into a series of cattle rustlings. To dismantle the plot, an undercover agent will be infiltrating the gang as a bandit.

The Adventurer

The Adventurer

July 14, 1928

American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes involved in the revolution....

The Cowboy Kid

The Cowboy Kid

July 14, 1928

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.

Trail of Courage

Trail of Courage

July 8, 1928

A cowhand is fired for romancing the boss' daughter in this bantam-weight silent Western from assembly-line studio FBO.