The Big Hop
"A Romance of the West plus the Perils of the Air"
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
"A Romance of the West plus the Perils of the Air"
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
Buck Jones
Buck Bronson
Jobyna Ralston
June Halloway
Ernest Hilliard
Ben Barnett
Charles K. French
Buck Bronson's Father
Charles Clary
June Halloway's Father
Duke R. Lee
Ranch Foreman (as Duke Lee)
Edward Hearn
Pilot
Jack Dill
Mechanic
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Put-upon lawman John Dorsey is on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, so he posses up with bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden to hold outlaw Emily Rusk hostage. A battle of wills ensues as Emily turns the posse on themselves, but as her marauding husband and his gang approach, Emily and John realize they will need each other to survive.
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.