Roy Barcroft — Actor (19)
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Out of the Storm (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Out of the Storm
director: R.G. Springsteen actor: Jimmy Lydon / Lois Collier …
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
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False Colors (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
False Colors
director: George Archainbaud actor: William Boyd / Andy Clyde …
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.
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Last Stagecoach West (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Last Stagecoach West
director: Joseph Kane actor: Jim Davis / Mary Castle …
other title: The Last Stagecoach West / La ultima diligencia del Oeste …
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
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Gunmen of Abilene (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Gunmen of Abilene
director: Fred C. Brannon actor: Allan Lane / Black Jack …
Abilene gunmen are bent on terrorizing the town of Blue Valley and massacring its inhabitants. They have been hired by local druggist Henry Turner, who has discovered gold beneath the town and wishes complete possession.
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Son of Zorro (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Son of Zorro
director: Spencer Gordon Bennet / Fred C. Brannon actor: George Turner / Peggy Stewart …
other title: Il figlio di Zorro / Zorros Sohn
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
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Ghost of Zorro (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ghost of Zorro
director: Fred C. Brannon actor: Clayton Moore / Pamela Blake …
other title: Il doppio segno di Zorro / Zorro im Wilden Westen
Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.
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The Purple Monster Strikes (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Purple Monster Strikes
director: Spencer Gordon Bennet / Fred C. Brannon actor: Roy Barcroft / Dennis Moore …
other title: Marte invade La Tierra
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterrestrial Purple Monster can complete the rocket ship and return to Mars, he will be able to start a full-scale invasion of Earth. Good thing Craig Foster sets out to thwart the Monster's mission!
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Surrender (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Surrender
director: Allan Dwan actor: Vera Ralston / John Carroll …
other title: Il diavolo nella carne
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
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West of Carson City (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
West of Carson City
director: Ray Taylor actor: Johnny Mack Brown / Bob Baker …
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the crooks, two-fisted cattleman Jim Bannister (Brown) swings into action. The film's highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed, played by loose-limbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell.