Directing

Robert J. Horner

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Tex Takes a Holiday poster
8.0

A cowboy finds himself blamed for a series of crimes he didn't commit, so he sets out to find the real criminal.

Tex Takes a Holiday

1932

Ridin' Wild poster
10.0

Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he arrives in Tucson, though, he cannot find a room because he is a 'lunger.' Ill and despondent, Jim is befriended by Betty Blake, the daughter of rancher and town sheriff Frank Blake, who suggests that he try the open desert. Wandering the desert, Jim happens upon members of the gang headed by Scar-face Jordon, a notorious rustler.

Ridin' Wild

1925

The Phantom Cowboy poster
10.0

Bill Collins has a look alike the Phantom who beats Houston robbery plan. However the Phantom is shot by Houston’s men. Bill finding him dying isn’t aware that Houston is just about the get him too…

The Phantom Cowboy

1935

No artwork available
9.0

A handsome boxer is sent out to manage his father's ranch. This is no easy task, as the ranch foreman's a no-good louse!

Walloping Kid

1926

The Mystery Rider poster
9.0

Silent cowboy Western serial.

The Mystery Rider

1928

The Mystery Rider poster
9.0

Silent cowboy Western serial.

The Mystery Rider

1928

The Apache Kid's Escape poster
5.3

A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.

The Apache Kid's Escape

1930

The Apache Kid's Escape poster
5.3

A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.

The Apache Kid's Escape

1930

45 Calibre Echo poster
4.3

A cowhand and his sidekick come to the Texas border country looking for the man who had lured the cowhand's sister in bondage in Mexico. But the man doesn't want to be found and has hired some gunmen to see that he isn't.

45 Calibre Echo

1932

The Whirlwind Rider poster
NR

A cowboy helps a murdered rancher's daughter protect her ranch from the gang of loan sharks that murdered her father.

The Whirlwind Rider

1934

No artwork available
10.0

Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Lightnin' Jack travels to Arizona where he gets a job on the Manning ranch. Two men are out to get the Manning ranch and see their chance when Manning decides to use Lightnin's horse in the big race. They get Manning to bet his ranch and then kidnap Lightnin' so he won't be there to ride.

Lightnin' Jack

1924

Western Racketeers poster
10.0

Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn't have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.

Western Racketeers

1934

The Pell Street Mystery poster
8.0

The police find Queenie Ross murdered. Tip O'Neil, a newspaper reporter, is detailed to solve the mystery.

The Pell Street Mystery

1924

The Pell Street Mystery poster
8.0

The police find Queenie Ross murdered. Tip O'Neil, a newspaper reporter, is detailed to solve the mystery.

The Pell Street Mystery

1924

Fighters of the Saddle poster
7.0

Henry Weatherby is buying up ranch land to sell as right of way for a new road. When he sends his son Dick and his nephew Pete to kick the Wayne's off their ranch, Dick rebels and joins the Wayne's in their fight against his father.

Fighters of the Saddle

1929

No artwork available
8.0

A wagon train of "Forty-Niners" heading for the California gold fields includes a girl, her father and an old black servant, who have hidden their family jewels and life savings in their wagon. One of the men in the train plots with some Indians to attack the caravan and steal the family's wealth. In order to isolate their wagon, the villain has one of his men pose as a small pox victim so that the wagon train will leave them behind. After they fight with the Indians and the band of outlaws, the girl and her family are saved by the leader of the wagon train.

Trails of the Golden West

1931

The Border Menace poster
6.5

Ranger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.

The Border Menace

1934

Wild West Whoopee poster
9.0

A young cowboy is in love with the ranch owner's daughter. When they learn that the girl's father plans to send her to a nearby city to live with her aunt, the two decide to elope. The girl is not surprised when she is kidnapped from the stagecoach because she believes that her fiance planned the whole thing. Actually, it is the cowboy's rival who has arranged her kidnapping.

Wild West Whoopee

1931

Wild West Whoopee poster
9.0

A young cowboy is in love with the ranch owner's daughter. When they learn that the girl's father plans to send her to a nearby city to live with her aunt, the two decide to elope. The girl is not surprised when she is kidnapped from the stagecoach because she believes that her fiance planned the whole thing. Actually, it is the cowboy's rival who has arranged her kidnapping.

Wild West Whoopee

1931

Wild West Whoopee poster
9.0

A young cowboy is in love with the ranch owner's daughter. When they learn that the girl's father plans to send her to a nearby city to live with her aunt, the two decide to elope. The girl is not surprised when she is kidnapped from the stagecoach because she believes that her fiance planned the whole thing. Actually, it is the cowboy's rival who has arranged her kidnapping.

Wild West Whoopee

1931

No artwork available
10.0

Evil Red Sampson and his band of rustlers shoot up Mineral Point, the ranch of William Conway, owner of a gold mine. Shot and dying, Conway reveals the location of his mine at Boulder Creek in a note.

Travelin' Fast

1924

No artwork available
10.0

Evil Red Sampson and his band of rustlers shoot up Mineral Point, the ranch of William Conway, owner of a gold mine. Shot and dying, Conway reveals the location of his mine at Boulder Creek in a note.

Travelin' Fast

1924

No artwork available
10.0

In the Deep South, plantation owner Col. Webster, who is in dire financial straits, is offered a loan by wealthy neighbor Sam Logan on the condition that Webster's beautiful daughter, Madonna, marry him. Webster turns down the offer, thus angering Logan.

Virginian Outcast

1924

Across the Plains poster
8.0

Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love. And face more than a few problems on the way to getting married.

Across the Plains

1928

Pony Express Rider poster
NR

Bill Miller, youngest member of the notorious Range Riders, gets job as pony express rider. Indians become dangerous on the war path. Bill forestalls plan of a bandit chief to rob mails while trying to win the love of a girl and the respect of "Uncle Sam."

Pony Express Rider

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Marshal Jack is sent, undercover, into the bad lands to clean up a gang of Indians who have been terrorizing the local ranchers. Horses belonging to a ranch owner are stolen and the horse which was supposed to be in an endurance race is maimed. Jack is blamed for both deeds. He acquits himself and wins the race for The Colonel, after disclosing that the supposed band of Indians are a pack of white smugglers led by the ranch foreman.

The Kid from Arizona

1931

Border Guns poster
9.0

A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.

Border Guns

1934

The White Outlaw poster
10.0

Known as the White Outlaw for the kerchief he wears, Johnny Douglas decides to go straight. Getting a job as a cowhand he gives the kerchief to his new friend Ted Williams. When the rancher's daughter, the girl friend of Ted, agrees to marry the man holding the note on the ranch so he won't foreclose, Ted uses the kerchief when he robs the stage. When Ted is spotted and jailed, Johnny has a plan to return the money and clear Ted.

The White Outlaw

1929

Pueblo Terror poster
5.0

Bill Sommers returns to find his ranch threatened by a corrupt, water-stealing landowner, John Weston. Weston’s foreman, Ballon, commits murder, frames Bill, and forces him to fight to clear his name.

Pueblo Terror

1931