 | | | | Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie |  | Director: Ray Taylor
Actor: Johnny Mack Brown;kermit Maynard
Studio: Alpha Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 61 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 089218491695
EAN: 0089218491695
ASIN: B000BITV38
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
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"The King of B-Westerns & Serials...VCI Entertainment ~ Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)" January 6, 2006
VCI Entertainment present "Johnny Mack Brown Double Feature Vol. 7" (Dolby digitally remastered)...relive those thrilling days from the early '30s and '40s when Johnny Mack Brown took us down the dusty trails with some of the best B-Westerns ever to grace the Saturday Matinee Screen...just remember double the thrills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss any of the Johnny Mack Brown features loaded with action that will leave you wanting more of his B-Western adventures.
First up of this double feature VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present "BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE" (1941) (61 mins/B&W) ... Under director Ray Taylor, associate producer William Cowan, screenplay by Sherman Lowe and Victor McLeod, original story by Sherman Lowe, musical director H.J. Salter...the cast include Johnny Mack Brown (Joe Henderson), Fuzzy Knight (Lem Fielding), Nell O'Day (Edna Fielding), Kathryn Adams (Dorothy Walker), Harry Cording (Red Clinton), Jack Rockwell (Red's cohort), Ernie Adams (Red's cohort Mustang), Ed Cassidy (Sheriff), William Desmond (Bartender), Bud Osborne (Calvert), Kermit Maynard (henchman), Bob Kortman (saloon patron), Jimmy Wakely and his Rough Riders, Johnny Bond (Singing cowhand), Don House (Bob Henderson) . . . . . long running Johnny Mack Brown series turned out in the early '40s ... the story line has Johnny Mack Brown as a mining engineer whose brother is killed by some claim jumpers....Harry Cording, Jack Rockwell and Ernie Adams murder Brown's brother and are out gunning for him out before he finds them out, the scene between them and Fuzzy Knight (who has lost his memory, thinks he's still in the war between the states) is well worth the price of a ticket...Fuzzy Knight and his sister Nell O'Day provide the comedy scenes...Jimmy Wakely and his group the Rough Riders sing the title of the film "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie", wonderful arrangement. . .lots of high adventure from the screenplay by Sherman Lowe and Victor McLeod, great direction by Ray Taylor . . . . . special footnote, actor Jack Rockwell played a lawmen probably more than any other actor in westerns...sheriff, a marshal, a Texas Ranger... if you were watching any western from the 1920s to the 1940s - especially from Columbia or Republic. . when somebody wearing a badge and a gun showed up on onscreen, chances are it was Jack Rockwell...he appeared in around 252 films in his career beginning with "The Prairie King" (1927). . .not all of his roles were lawmen, but enough of them were to ensure that western aficionados will forever identify Jack Rockwell as the man who represented the law in the West. . .check out all of this and more in a new book "Best of the Badmen" by Boyd Magers, Bob Nareau and Bobby Copeland, available from Amazon and Empire Publishing pick up your copy today........meanwhile back to another great Johnny Mack B-Western provided by Universal Pictures during their heyday of the early '30s.
The second feature is from Supreme Pictures "LONE STAR TRAIL" (1943) (58 min/B&W) ... Under director Ray Taylor, associate producer and screenplay by Oliver Drake, original short story by Victor Halperin, musical director H. J. Salter...the cast include Johnny Mack Brown (Blaze Barker), Tex Ritter (Fargo Steele), Fuzzy Knight (Angus MacAngus), Jennifer Holt (Joan Winters), Jimmy Wakely (Jimmy/leader, Jimmy Wakely Trio), Earle Hodgins (Mayor Cyrus Jenkins), Jack Ingram (Dan Jason), Robert Mitchum (Ben Slocum), George Eldredge (Doug Ransom), Michael Vallon (Jonathan Bentley), Ethan Laidlaw (Steve Bannister), Harry Strang (Sheriff Waddell ), William Desmond (bartender) . . . . . .the story line has two of our favorite B-Western heroes Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Riter providing all the action of this unusual tale...Johnny Mack is just out of prison after being framed for a train holdup...Fuzzy Knight provides the comedy with Tex Ritter and Jimmy Wakely the songs...why is this gang of outlaws trying to take over the valley land, could it be a dam is coming their way...what part of this scheme does Robert Mitchum, Earle Hodgins and Jack Ingram play when the Universal Picture stunt people punch the time clock...not to mention the marked bills passed off to Johnny Mack to pay back taxes...this is one of his best, so saddle up and enjoy . . . . . special footnote, Fuzzy Knight was the sidekick with his comical ways in many B-Westerns in the '30s & '40s with Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter, finally landing a co-starring role with Buster Crabbe on the small tube in the TV series "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion" (1955) as Private Fuzzy Knight........another special footnote, actor Robert Mitchum generally played macho heroes in film noir flicks "Out of the Past (1947), "The Big Steal" (1949), "His kind of Woman" (1951), "My Forbidden Past" (1951), and villains in B-Westerns (Hopalong Cassidy & Johnny Mack Brown) "Colt Comrades" (1943), False Colors (1943), "The Leather Burners" (1943), "Hoppy Serves A Writ" (1943)...then played one of his most dsturbing psycoic villains the evangelist Reverend Harry Powell in Charles Laughton's "Night of the Hunter" (1955), which he won critical acclaim.........meanwhile this exciting Johnny Mack Brown western provided all the youngsters a hero and someone to look up to.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Johnny Mack Brown
Birth Date: 9/01/1904 - Dothan, Alabama
Died: 11/14/1974 - Woodland Hills, California (cardiac condition)
2. Fuzzy Knight (aka John Forest Knight)
Birth Date: 5/09/1901 - Fairmont, WV
Died: 2/23/1976 - Hollywood, CA.
3. Nell O'Day
Birth Date: 9/22/1909 - Prairie Hill, Texas
Died: Los Angeles, California
4. Tex Ritter (aka Woodward Maurice Ritter)
(best remembered for his singing of the theme song in "High Noon" (1952).
(inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1980)
Birth Date: 1/12/1905 - Murvaul, Texas
Died: 1/02/1974 - Nashville, Tennessee. (heart attack)
5. Robert Mitchum (aka Robert Charles Durman Mitchum)
Birth Date: 8/06/1917 - Bridgeport, CT
Died: 7/01/1997 - Santa Barbara, California (lung cancer and emphysema)
6. Jennifer Holt (aka Jacqueline Holt) (daughter of Jack Holt, sister of Tim Holt)
Birth Date: 11/10/1920 - Hollywood, CA
Died: 9/21/1997 - Dorset, England
7. Jack Rockwell (aka: John Rockwell Trowbridge)
Birth Date: 10/06/1890 - Vera Cruz, Mexico
Died: 11/10/1947 - Los Angeles, California
8. Ray Taylor (Director)
Birth Date: 12/01/1888 - Perham, Minnesota
Died: 2/15/1952 - Hollywood, California
If you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure check out other western double features by Johnny Mack Brown:
JOHNNY MACK BROWN WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURES:
Vol. 1 Bad Man from Red Butte/Rawhide Ramgers (VCI#8348
Vol. 2 Raiders of San Joaquin/Law of the Range (VCI #7226)
Vol. 3 Pony Post/Ragtime Cowboy Joe (VCI #7238)
Vol. 4 Branded A Coward/Rogue of the Range (VCI #7244)
Vol. 5 Guns in the Dark/Partner of the Trail (VCI #7260)
Vol. 6 Bar Z Bad Men/Between Men (VCI #7282)
Vol. 7 Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie/Lone Star Trail (VCI#7308)
Vol. 8 Crooked Trail/Boot Hill Brigade (VCI#7309)
Ask Amazon.Com to carry the above 8 volumes as they are not available on Amazon as of yet...you can order and pick up your copy now from VCI Entertainment.
Bobby J. Copeland's book on "Johnny Mack Brown: Up Close & Personal" is chuck full of answers to all the questions his fans had from early on...when you went to see him on the big screen, you got exactly what the marquee said...plenty of thrills, adventure and loaded with action...Johnny Mack was a natural for the western, his riding abilities and fight scenes were of the the same caliber as Buck Jones and Bob Steele...Johnny Mack sets the saddle better than Duke Wayne...seems Johnny got better with the more films he made and the scripts were always top notch...he was one of the best-liked people in films, what you saw on the screen is what he really was, a great human being...pickup your copy from Amazon or Empire Publishing both have this in stock.
Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE" (1941) and "LONE STAR TRAIL" (1942)", the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available on DVD and VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just the way we like 'em
Total Time: 116 on DVD ~ VCI Home Video #7308 ~ (9/12/2006)
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