Bob Steele | Riders of the Desert (1932) | Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, Al St. John

Ranger Bob Houston is riding shotgun on a stage driven by Silver and carrying a valuable shipment when it is attacked by Hash-Knife Brooks and his gang, including Apache Joe, a sadistic half-breed and Gomez, who vies with Brooks for leadership of the outlaws.Silver is killed and Bob wounded in the arm. Bob makes it back to Ranger headquarters and is told by his father, Ranger Captain Dan Houston that they can officially do nothing as the Rangers have been disbanded by the New Mexico state government. After a farewell dinner, with rangers played by Glenn Strange, Chcuk Baldra and Cactus Mack singing "Auld Lang Syne", they all go their own ways, with Bob going back to college. A few months later, Bob learns that Jim Reynolds, the former head of the Rangers and father of the girl Bob loves,Barbara Reynolds, has been murdered.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Writer: Wellyn Totman (story and continuity)
Stars: Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, Al St. John .
Bob Steele (born Robert Adrian Bradbury, 1907 - 1988) was an American actor primarily in B-westerns. His father, Robert N. Bradbury became a major director of B-Westerns in the early 20s. Bob's career began to take off in 1927, when he was renamed Bob Steele by Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) to star in a series of Westerns. In the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s he starred in B-Westerns for almost every western film studio, including Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany, Syndicate, Republic (including several of The Three Mesquiteers series) and Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) (including the initial films of their "Billy the Kid" series), plus he had an occasional role in an A-movie such as John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men in 1939.

[@thegunther7188]

With Bob Steele, Gabby Hayes, Al St. John, Earle Dwyer and others, how can you go wrong! Top notch western!

[@eddieh9248]

Fuzzy looks a lot younger without the beard

[@riverraisin1]

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy
Was he?

[@martinamorgan1119]

Fuzzy must have been very good looking when 17

[@imanutnur7]

How can a man take so many punches.

[@elchoya8432]

jumped off and left the stage driver to get killed

[@martinamorgan1119]

Bob was born on a horse.,,,,,,,,,

[@elchoya8432]

not in a hospital,must have been uncomfortable

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Goodstuf