Aces Wild (1936)
Directed by Harry Fraser / Harry L. Fraser
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Weather-beaten western star Harry Carey is consistently better than his material in the cheapie shoot-em-up Aces Wild. Astride his wonder horse Sonny, Cheyenne Harey (Carey) comes to the rescue of heroine Martha (Gertrude Messenger), the owner of a valuable gold mine. The villains try to buy Cheyenne off, but he's not about to be dissuaded from his purpose. Two veterans of Columbia's 2-reel comedy mills show up in important roles: Theodore Lorch as the mustachioed heavy, and second-echelon comic Phil Dunham as a crusading newspaper editor. Also on hand is black comedian Fred Toones, who spent most of his career saddled with the demeaning cognomen "Snowflake."
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aspiration, bad-guy, cowboy, gangster, good-guy, hidden, lawman, legacy, loot, newspaper, outlaw [Western], romance, search, stage-struck