The Gallant Fool

May 28, 1933

0h 56m

★ 0.0

Hair-raising stunts of the big top-with a western wallop. Suspense! Punch! Action! And a Baffling Mystery!

Overview

The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Paul Malvern Productions

Monogram Pictures

The Gallant Fool Trailers

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Cast

Kit Denton

Bob Steele

Alecia Russo

Arletta Duncan

Dad Denton

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Rainey

Theodore Lorch

Chris McDonald

John Elliott

Connors

Perry Murdock

Jim Leyton

Pascale Perry

Foils Pick Pocket

George Nash

Martha Williams

Vane Calvert

Leyton's Friend at Campfire

Billy Franey

Henchman

Blackie Whiteford

Henchman

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