Blazing Sixes (Warner Bros.) (1937)

WARNER (Lead-Off Story) 6-GUNS BLAZE IN NEW MOVIE DUE AT WASCO The latest movie starring that shooting,~ singing eowboy, Dick Foran, doesn’t belie its name, according to advices sent in advance of its opening next OH 1 01: a Theatre. It is a Warner melodrama ealled “Blaz ing Sixes,” and the numeral, of course, refers to the six-guns with which Dick and his pals, and their enemies, the stagecoach robbers, volley their way through. the plot. It’s a tale of Colorado in 1890, when it was a common thing for the road agents to hold up the stages carrying gold coins from the Denver mint. The identity of these highwaymen—and the hideout where they melted the coins down and made gold bars out of them—remained a mystery until secret agents of the government tracked the miscreants and recovered the loot. Dick, in “Blazing Sixes,” is head man of the government group. It is said to be the most thrilling among the eleven outdoor pictures this tall redhead has made since beginning his movie career with Warner’s a couple of years ago. As is usual, advantage is taken of Foran’s’ splendid baritone voice. He sings two songs— “Ridin? On to Monterey” and “In a Little Prairie Town”’— which were written for him by the hit-composing team of M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. A new leading lady makes her first appearance in “Blazing Sixes”—a young and pretty girl named Helen Valkis, who was drafted for the movies from the famed Pasadena Community Playhouse. John Merton is said to be thoroughly villainous as the head of the bandit gang, and Glen Strange is prominent. as “Peewee,” Dick’s faithful pal. Others well known are Kenneth Harlan, Milton Kibbee, Gordon Hart, Mira McKinney and Henry Otho. “Blazing Sixes” was directed by Noel Smith from a screenplay by John T. Neville, based upon an original story by Anthony Coldeway. BRO (Opening Day Story) STRAND TODAY HAS FORAN IN FAST WESTERN There ought to be plenty of racket—the rattle of revolvers, the erack of rifles and the thunder of horses’ hoofs—at the Theatre today, for there opens a picture called “Blazing Sixes,” which title refers to the six-guns the characters use. It’s a Warner Bros. Western, starring that likeable six-footer Dick Foran, the Singing Cowboy. It has to do with how the government agents back in 1890 stopped the looting of stage-coaches earrying newly-made gold coins from the Denver Mint to the cities of Colorado. Dick, naturally, is head man of the government lads (the G-men of their time), operating in disguise of an ordinary cowhand. The feminine and romantic interest of the picture is upheld by lovely Helen Valkis—making her screen debut. In the midst of all his tracking and fighting, Dick finds appropriate moments in which to sing a couple of songs written for him by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl “Ridin’ On to Monterey” and “In a Little Prairie Town.” Among the excellent supporting east are such players as Mira McKinney, Kenneth Harlan, Milton Kibbee, Gordon Hart, John Merton and Glen Strange. The picture was directed by Noel Smith from a screen play by John. T. Neville, based on Anthony Coldeway’s original story. No Tenderfoot Is Dick Foran Dick Foran, star of Warner Bros.’ “Blazing Sixes,” now showing at the Theatre, spent his last four week’s vacation working as a cowhand on a friend’s ranch in Wyoming. Although Dick was born in New Jersey, educated at Princeton, and never rode a horse until three years ago, he is now one of the best horsemer in the west and recently came within an ace of breaking a world’s record for roping. Starring re CAMPAIGN (Review) ‘Blazing Sixes’’ Is Fine Western Film With Foran Big Dick Adds Another To His Long List Of Outdoor Thrillers “‘Blazing Sixes’’—and that means six-guns pouring out their deadly contents as horsemen gallop and stagecoaches rumble along—is the thrilling western picture that delighted audiences yesterday as it had its local premiere at the Theatre. It is another triumph for that 6 foot, red-headed Singing Cowboy, Dick Foran, the Warner Bros. riding, roping, shooting star, who since entering pictures a couple of years DICK FORAN The Singing Cowboy of the Warner Bros. lot, rides, ropes, shoots, sings, as well as makes love to pretty Helen Valkis— leading lady in “Blazing Sixes” the exciting melodrama of gold robbers of the 90’s and_ the government man who puts the thieves to rout. Mat No. 102—10c ago has made almost a dozen hit shows of the swift-moving outdoor type. It’s the West of 1890 we see this time, with Dick riding into a little town ostensibly looking for a job. In reality he’s a government operative (they didn’t call them G-men in those days) trying to solve the mystery of why coach after coach, carrying gold coins from the Denver mint, is being held up and robbed. Dick gets his job, from Jim Hess, local gambler and saloonkeeper, and before long finds out that Hess is the ringleader of the road agents who’ve been holding up the stages, stealing the gold coins and melting them down into bars. But Dick does nothing so simple as to arrest Hess on the spot. He wants the whole gang. So— learning when the. next holdup is to be, and where—he goes out to the spot, masked, and holds up the holdup men, taking away their loot. Baek at the “Diamond M” ranch, where he’s been working for Hess, and which is the hideaway of the loot, Dick confides to the leader that he was the mysterious bandit—and is declared in as a member of the gang. But Hess double-crosses Dick, and tells the sheriff Dick is responsible for all the holdups. Dick has a real pal, Peewee, who convinees the Sheriff this isn’t so. So a posse (including Dick) goes after Hess and his minions, who are fleeing with the gold bars. It should be mentioned that meanwhile Dick has fallen in love with a young girl named Barbara,. who is the rightful owner of the Diamond M, and her embraces are his reward for his bravery. Barbara is excellently played by Helen Valkis, a 19-year-old recruit from the stage. Dick Foran, as usual, is outstanding. He rides magnificently, acts as the real modest hero, and even finds time to sing two songs —In a Little Prairie Town” and “Ridin’ On to Monterey”—written especially for him by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. NO SONG HIT IS FORETOLD BY WRITER Songwriters never know when one of their productions is going to be a hit. Usually, they don’t even suspect such an outcome. Especially is this true of the melodists and lyricists attached to the movie studios, who have to turn out a great number of songs, because almost every movie nowadays has music in it. M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl make up one of the star teams at Warner Bros. studio. Their latest work is two cowboy songs —Tn a Little Prairie Town” and “Ridin’ On to Monterey”—which are sung by Dick Foran, the big redheaded Singing Cowboy, in “Blazing Sixes,” Dick’s newest western, now showing. .at the Theatre. “To complete our surprise,” explains Scholl, “a little song we turned out in a hurry for one of Dick’s recent pictures—a song called ‘My Little Buckaroo’ that he sung in ‘Cherokee Strip’ proved to be a smash hit. “Tt was put on the air before the picture was released, and within two or three weeks it was being hailed as one of the ten most popular compositions of the month. Its title became go popular in fact, that the studio changed the name of the picture from ‘Cherokee Strip’ to ‘The Little Buckaroo’. Be nr POSES EAP a a Pe Dick Foran Croons Two Western Hits “Little Buckaroo” the Jerome and Scholl western song which Dick Foran sang in a recent picture (Warner Bros. “The Cherokee Strip”) has become one of the biggest song hits of the country. It has been rendered by many of the best radio artists—and few are the people that haven’t hummed or whistled it. The big news is that the same composers have written two grand western songs— “In a Little Country Town,” and “Ridin’ on to Monterey” —which Dick Foran sings in his latest film, “Blazing Sixes,” the Warner Bros. melodrama which opens at Heine... Theatre on.................. Pretty Helen Valkis plays lead opposite Foran. | SS 5 SE aE Ss ee eae Country of origin U. S. A. Copyright 1937 Vitagraph, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers.