“Silver Range” Lobby Cards – Set of 3 – 1946

Description

There are three lobby cards for the 1946 Monogram Pictures movie “Silver Range.” They measure approximately 11 x 14.5 inches and are printed on heavy stock paper.
Silver Range is a 1946 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by J. Benton Cheney. The film stars Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Bryant, I. Stanford Jolley, Terry Frost and Eddie Parker. The film was released on November 16, 1946, by Monogram Pictures.
Range detectives Johnny Bronton and Tucson Smith are out to trap and bring to justice a band of smugglers who have been bringing silver across the Mexican border illegally. Their task is complicated when the smugglers kidnap Jeanne Willoughby, the daughter of a rancher whose land the smugglers are using for their activities.
On its 1-10 rating scale, IMDb gives the movie a 6.2 rating.
John Brown (September 1, 1904-November 14, 1974) was a college football star and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He was mostly in Western films.
Brown was a prominent halfback on the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide football team, coached by Wallace Wade. He earned the nickname "The Dothan Antelope" and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Pop Warner called him "one of the fastest football players I've ever seen."
Brown's good looks and powerful physique saw him portrayed on Wheaties cereal boxes and in 1927, brought an offer for motion picture screen tests that resulted in a long and successful career in Hollywood.
He became one of the screen's top B-movie cowboys, and became a popular star at Universal Pictures in 1937. After starring in four serials, in 1939 he launched a series of 29 B-westerns over the next four years, all co-starring Fuzzy Knight as his comic sidekick, and the last seven teaming him with Tex Ritter.
Brown moved to Monogram Pictures in 1943 to replace that studio's cowboy star Buck Jones, who had died months before. Brown's Monogram series was immediately successful and he starred in more than 60 westerns over the next 10 years, including a 20-movie series playing "Nevada Jack McKenzie" opposite Buck Jones's old sidekick Raymond Hatton, beginning with the 1943 film The Ghost Rider.
When Monogram abandoned its brand name in 1952, Brown retired from the screen. He returned more than 10 years later to appear in secondary roles in a few Western films. Altogether, Brown appeared in more than 160 movies between 1927 and 1966, as well as a smattering of television shows, in a career spanning almost 40 years.