Mack V. Wright

Directing

Mack V. Wright

Born 1894-03-08 · Princeton, Indiana, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mack V. Wright (9 March 1894 - 14 August 1965) was an American actor and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mack V. Wright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Lion Man poster
9.0

Stella Donovan is a reporter, sent out by her newspaper to cover a society circus being given by millionaire Frederick Cavendish. The circus is exclusive and reporters are not allowed, but Stella cleverly contrives to assume the role of one of the lady performers; she even carries out the wire-walking act of the performer she is impersonating. While engaged In filling this role Stella overhears a plot against Frederick Cavendish, who has just made a will disinheriting his nephew, John Cavendish. John and tricky lawyer Enright are in on the plot, assisted by actress Celeste La Rue. Their plan is to do away with Cavendish and destroy the will so that John can inherit the property.

The Lion Man

1919

Single Handed poster
10.0

Hector MacKnight, known to the townspeople as "Goofy" and an irritatingly terrible fiddler, is innocently drawn into a rigged poker game. A general fight brings the sheriff, and a chase ensues. Before the confusion is ended and Hector cleared, he meets Ruth Randolph and becomes involved in a circus while trying to recover the other half of her treasure map.

Single Handed

1923

Baffled poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Baffled

1924

Rainbow Riders poster
8.0

Jerry Hixon's ranch is being besieged by raiders so Ben sends for his friend Bud. When Bud arrives and finds that the outlaw Texarkana Pete has been captured, he buys Pete's clothes and posing as Pete joins the outlaw gang. But he is quickly in trouble when his masquerade is exposed.

Rainbow Riders

1934

Randy Rides Alone poster
5.1

Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and is framed by Matt the Mute, who is working with the sheriff (who doesn't know Matt is really a criminal). Randy escapes with the help of the niece of the dead owner of the bar. Bowers ends up running from the sheriff, and ends up in the cave in which the bandits have their hide-out…

Randy Rides Alone

1934

Mills of the Gods poster
8.0

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)

Mills of the Gods

1934

No artwork available
10.0

Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.

Mistaken Orders

1925

The Bar Sinister poster
NR

The Bar Sinister is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.

The Bar Sinister

1917

A Two Fisted Tenderfoot poster
8.0

Pampered Easterner Tom Ransom is sent West by his father, a meatpacking tycoon, to buy a large herd. Tom soon comes into conflict with the agents of Bennett, an unscrupulous rival, who tries to steal the herd from him. Tom eventually proves himself by outwitting Bennett.

A Two Fisted Tenderfoot

1924

No artwork available
7.0

A prospector is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. His girlfriend knows who the real killer is, but she can't turn him it--it's her father.

Riders of Mystery

1925

Pioneers of the West poster
9.0

The express company had been robbed and a man is caught and sent to prison but the loot is not recovered. The company sends an investigator who soon suspects the convicted man is innocent and only covering for the guilty culprit.

Pioneers of the West

1929

The Hunted Men poster
8.0

Spitzer wants the Gordon ranch, so he has his men waylay and rob him as he returns with money. Dick finding the body also finds a blood soaked money wrapper, a clue that will help him find the culprits.

The Hunted Men

1930

Manhattan Cowboy poster
8.0

When easterner Jack Steel gets into trouble with the law again, his father sends him to his ranch out west. There he and Alice Duncan become attracted to each other. Cowhand Slim was planning to marry Alice and now kidnaps her. When Slim's girl friend learns of Slim's interest in Alice, she tells Jack where Alice is and he heads out alone to face the three kidnapers.

Manhattan Cowboy

1928

Perils of the Yukon poster
8.0

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled into Space; 9. The Gold Rush; 10. Valley of Death; 11. A Race for Life; 12. The Path of Doom; 13. Martial Law; 14. Trail of Vengeance; 15. The Final Reckoning.

Perils of the Yukon

1922

The Oklahoma Sheriff poster
8.0

Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter's boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the sheriff in a robbery. Boyfriend saves the dough, captures the murderer, and gets the girl.

The Oklahoma Sheriff

1930

Crossed Trails poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crossed Trails

1924

Red Courage poster
9.0

Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.

Red Courage

1921

Headin' Westward poster
8.0

Concern for her father, who is being slowly ruined by cattle rustling, prompts Mary Benson to do some investigating in a distant cattle town, where she briefly encounters drifters Oklahoma Adams and Sneezer Clark. They follow her back to Arizona, go to work on the Benson ranch, and discover the ranch foreman to be responsible for the rustling and the robbery of a rodeo box office.

Headin' Westward

1929

No artwork available
3.7

A Cattlemen´s Association hires a detective (Bob Custer) to look into a series of cattle rustlings. To dismantle the plot, an undercover agent will be infiltrating the gang as a bandit.

Arizona Days

1928

Behind the camera

Roarin' Lead poster
5.7

The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.

Roarin' Lead

1936

Winds of the Wasteland poster
5.2

The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.

Winds of the Wasteland

1936

No artwork available
10.0

Wolf Tracks is a 1920 silent Western

Wolf Tracks

1920

No artwork available
10.0

Wolf Tracks is a 1920 silent Western

Wolf Tracks

1920

Thieves' Clothes poster
9.0

A ranchman sets fire to his trousers with a cigarette. In the morning the hotel attendant furnishes him with a pair borrowed from a cattle rustler. A note in one of the pockets gets the hero into trouble, but he clears himself and wins the girl of his choice.

Thieves' Clothes

1920

Hit the Saddle poster
6.0

Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.

Hit the Saddle

1937

Haunted Gold poster
5.1

John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.

Haunted Gold

1932

Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm poster
5.8

Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.

Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm

1937

The Singing Cowboy poster
4.5

A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.

The Singing Cowboy

1936

The Big Show poster
4.7

At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.

The Big Show

1936

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok poster
9.0

A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1938

The Riders of the Whistling Skull poster
5.7

When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.

The Riders of the Whistling Skull

1937

The Stagecoach Race poster
NR

A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Winds of the Wasteland', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'Winds of the Wasteland' down to a 22 minute short version. The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.

The Stagecoach Race

1936

The Vigilantes Are Coming poster
7.8

A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.

The Vigilantes Are Coming

1936

The Man from Monterey poster
4.8

A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers

The Man from Monterey

1933

No artwork available
6.3

"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.

Cappy Ricks Returns

1935

Wells Fargo Days poster
5.5

A notorious arrives in Sunrise and turns in his gun and promises to avoid trouble. But when robbers shoot his good friend, he straps on his gun again and takes off in pursuit.

Wells Fargo Days

1944

The Broncho Kid poster
9.0

A young rancher rides away on a half-broken broncho. He is suspected of horse stealing and pursued, but retrieves his good name by saving a kidnapped girl and recovering stolen express funds.

The Broncho Kid

1920

Somewhere in Sonora poster
5.1

John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.

Somewhere in Sonora

1933

Comin' 'Round the Mountain poster
9.0

His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what's at stake is a horse race and a bull fight.

Comin' 'Round the Mountain

1936

The Sea Hound poster
6.2

Columbia's 34th serial production starring Buster Crabbe, the Serial King himself

The Sea Hound

1947

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island poster
7.3

A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

1936

No artwork available
3.7

A Cattlemen´s Association hires a detective (Bob Custer) to look into a series of cattle rustlings. To dismantle the plot, an undercover agent will be infiltrating the gang as a bandit.

Arizona Days

1928

Range Defenders poster
4.8

Stony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his innocence. But they find that Harvey rules the town along with his stooge Sheriff Gray and that George won't get a fair trial.

Range Defenders

1937