198 films of BOB STEELE (1907 - 1988)

Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister. Dan is able to save his farm when his horse, Firefly, wins a big race. Finally, it is revealed that Dan's brother, who had been involved with Barlow, an unscrupulous moneylender and bank thief, is secretly married to the mother of his child.

In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.

Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimately, one of those who gave their lives.

Aloysius Appleby, known as Ally, leaves his small town for Baldwin College and promises his Aunt Polly and Uncle Lish that he will not indulge in sports. Horatio Winston, a senior at the college, becomes jealous of Ally's powerful physique and plans to make him the college boob. Ally meets Angela Boothby (Horatio's girl), is immediately smitten, and pesters his roommate, Shorty Buzelle, for information about her. At a "pep" dance, the boys dress Ally in a ridiculous manner: he is severely ridiculed, and, at Angela's insistence, he promotes some respect with his fists. Pop Warren, the football coach, encourages him to try out for the team, in spite of his promise, and he is the hero of the first game. Later, when Ally refuses to play, Angela explains the importance of his playing to his aunt and uncle. They come to the game, and Ally goes in in time to save the team.

A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as Sitting Bull. Other fine actors in the cast include the always popular Bryant Washburn and a young Bob Steele, who appears under his real name Bob Bradbury Jr. The story takes place in the 1860s or 1870s near Spirit Lake, Iowa. Settlements of whites are growing in that region but the Sioux Indians also have professed their interest in one such settlement. Chief Sitting Bull surveys the settlement at Spirit Lake from afar and with the advice of the Great Spirit vows to retake the land that belonged to his fathers.

Jack Pemberton, a newspaper reporter in love with Betty Standish, the governor's daughter, learns that Velvet, a notorious criminal, is planning to abduct Betty in order to force her father to sign a pardon freeing Velvet's brother, who is in the "big house" waiting to be hanged. Jack tries to warn Betty but to no avail, and she falls into Velvet's hands; Jack later gets on Velvet's trail, and the abductor tries to escape in a balloon. Jack rescues Betty, and Velvet falls to his death.

Bob Gordon learns that Ruth Devere, the girl he loves, has been reported lost in a South Seas yachting accident, and accompanied by his chum, Perry, he sets out for the Pacific in an airplane.

Two children--a brother and sister--are the only survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and are soon separated. An army officer adopts the boy, and the girl is taken to live with Indians and renamed Black Fawn. When the boy grows up he joins the cavalry and finds himself in the middle of an Indian war as he searches for his long-lost sister.

Using as his only clue, the button of of a coat, George Hardcastle (Bob Steele), begins the search for the murderer of his father Pepper Hardcastle (J. P.

Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get the Carlysle ranch. First Kettle gets Bennett to forge a letter saying Dick relinquishes his inheritance in the ranch and then he tries to get Dick's mother to relinquish hers.

A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde niece. Everything ends okay after one killing.