WAlias – the Bad Man, also known as Alias Bad Man, is a 1931 Pre-Code American western film, directed by Phil Rosen and starring Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire, and Frank Mayo. It was released on July 15, 1931.
WArizona Terror is a 1931 American Pre-Code western film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Ken Maynard, Lina Basquette and Hooper Atchley.
WBattling with Buffalo Bill is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western serial film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, William Desmond, Rex Bell, and Francis Ford.
WThe Big Trail is a 1931 French western film directed by Pierre Couderc and starring Gaston Glass and Jeanne Helbling. It is the French-language version of Fox's The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne and directed by Raoul Walsh. In the early years of sound it was common to make multiple-language versions of films, until the practice of dubbing became more widespread.
WBorder Law is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Louis King and starring Buck Jones. The film was remade as Whistlin' Dan (1932) and with Buck Jones in The Fighting Ranger (1934).
WBranded is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
WThe Cheyenne Cyclone is a 1931 American western film directed by Armand Schaefer and starring Lane Chandler, Marie Quillan and Frankie Darro. It is a remake of the 1928 silent film Phantom of the Range.
WCimarron is a 1931 pre-Code epic Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and featuring Estelle Taylor and Roscoe Ates. The Oscar-winning script was written by Howard Estabrook based on the 1930 Edna Ferber novel Cimarron. It would be RKO's most expensive production up to that date, and its winning of the top Oscar for Best Production would be only one of two ever won by that studio. It is also one of the few Westerns to ever win the top honor at the Academy Awards. Epic in scope, spanning forty years from 1889 to 1929, it was a critical success, although it did not recoup its production costs during its initial run in 1931.
WThe Cisco Kid is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Warner Baxter. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and is a follow up to Fox's hugely successful 1928 In Old Arizona and 1930's The Arizona Kid, both of which had starred Baxter as the same character The Cisco Kid. A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress.
WDugan of the Badlands is a 1931 American Western film written and directed by Robert North Bradbury. The film stars Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Blanche Mehaffey, Ethan Laidlaw, Julian Rivero and Earl Dwire. The film was released on June 24, 1931, by Monogram Pictures.
WFighting Caravans is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Otto Brower and David Burton and starring Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, and Ernest Torrence. Based on the 1929 novel Fighting Caravans by Zane Grey, the film is about a young frontier scout who helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try to save him from falling in love. Although billed as being based on the Zane Grey novel, the stories have little in common. The film was actually written by Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore, Jr., and Keene Thompson.
WThe Fighting Marshal is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring Tim McCoy.
WThe Fighting Sheriff is a 1931 American western film directed by Louis King and starring Buck Jones, Loretta Sayers and Robert Ellis.
WFlying Lariats is a 1931 American western film directed by Alan James and David Kirkland and starring Hal Taliaferro, Buzz Barton and Fred Church.
WFreighters of Destiny is a 1931 American pre-Code Western produced and directed by American film editor Fred Allen, from a screenplay by Adele Buffington. Allen had started in the film industry as an editor in the early 1920s during the silent era. In the early 1930s, he was given the opportunity to direct. Freighters was his first film at the helm. The film stars Tom Keene, a well known actor of B-films.
WGun Smoke is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Edward Sloman and written by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt. The film stars Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William "Stage" Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Charles Winninger, Louise Fazenda and Brooks Benedict. The film was released on April 11, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
WThe Hard Hombre is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Otto Brower and starring rodeo champion Hoot Gibson. The film follows a simpleton rancher who is mistaken for a notorious outlaw known as The Hard Hombre.
WThe Hawk is a 1931 American independent western film directed by Jacques Jaccard and starring Norman Kerry, Nina Quartero and Frank Mayo. Given a limited initial release, it was re-edited and re-released under the alternative title The Phantom of Santa Fe in 1936.
WA Holy Terror is a 1931 American pre-Code Western movie starring George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, and Humphrey Bogart. The film is an adaptation by Ralph Block, Alfred A. Cohn, and Myron C. Fagan of the novel Trailin'! by Max Brand. It was directed by Irving Cummings.
WThe Hurricane Horseman is a 1931 American western film directed by Armand Schaefer and starring Lane Chandler, Marie Quillan and Walter Miller. It was shot at the Iverson Ranch.
WIn Line of Duty is a 1931 American western film directed by Bert Glennon and starring Sue Carol, Noah Beery and Francis McDonald. It was one of the earliest releases of Trem Carr's Monogram Pictures. It is now considered a lost film.
WLady, Play Your Mandolin! is the first Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Rudolf Ising of Harman and Ising. The short was released on August 2, 1931, and stars Foxy, a character who appeared in three 1931 shorts.
WLand of Wanted Men is a 1931 American western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Bill Cody, Sheila Bromley and Gibson Gowland.
WLariats and Six-Shooters is a 1931 American western film directed by Alan James and starring Jack Perrin, Ann Lee and George Chesebro.
WThe Lightning Warrior is a 1931 American Pre-Code Mascot movie serial starring Rin Tin Tin in his last role. It is regarded as one of the better Mascot serials. A number of the production's outdoor action sequences were filmed on the rocky Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, known for its huge sandstone boulders and widely recognized as the most heavily filmed outdoor shooting location in the history of the movies. This was the original Rin Tin Tin's last movie, as he died in 1932, being replaced that same year by Rin Tin Tin Jr.
WThe Man from Death Valley is a 1931 American Western film directed by Lloyd Nosler and written by Lloyd Nosler and George Arthur Durlam. The film stars Tom Tyler, John Oscar, Betty Mack, Gino Corrado, Stanley Blystone and Si Jenks. The film was released on September 9, 1931, by Monogram Pictures.
WThe Nevada Buckaroo is a 1931 American film directed by John P. McCarthy.
WNot Exactly Gentlemen is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Dudley Nichols and William Conselman. It is based on the 1917 novel Over the Border by Herman Whitaker. The film stars Victor McLaglen, Fay Wray, Lew Cody, Robert Warwick, Eddie Gribbon, and David Worth. The film was released on March 8, 1931, by Fox Film Corporation.
WOklahoma Jim is a 1931 American Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and written by George Arthur Durlam and Harry L. Fraser. The film stars Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Marion Burns, William Desmond, Franklyn Farnum and John Elliott. The film was released on October 10, 1931, by Monogram Pictures.
WThe One Way Trail is a 1931 American western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Tim McCoy, Doris Hill and Carroll Nye.
WThe Painted Desert is a 1931 American pre-Code film released by Pathé Exchange. Produced by E. B. Derr, it was directed by Howard Higgin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Buckingham. It starred low-budget Western stars William Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees, and featured a young Clark Gable in his talking film debut. The picture was shot mostly on location in Arizona.
WPartners of the Trail is a 1931 American western film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Tom Tyler, Betty Mack and Lafe McKee.
WThe Phantom of the West is a 1931 American Pre-Code Mascot western movie serial and was the second all-talking serial they produced.
WThe Pocatello Kid is a 1931 Pre-Code American western film, directed by Phil Rosen. It stars Ken Maynard, Marceline Day, and Richard Cramer, and was released on December 6, 1931.
WThe Range Feud is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman for Columbia Pictures, that stars Buck Jones and John Wayne. Wayne biographer Ronald L. Davis referred to the film as the first in a collection of "cheap, assembly-line pictures" Wayne would make in the 1930s. It was remade in 1934 as a 15-chapter Buck Jones serial called The Red Rider.
WRider of the Plains is a 1931 American western film directed by John P. McCarthy and starring Tom Tyler, Lilian Bond and Al Bridge.
WRiders of the Cactus is a 1931 American western film directed by David Kirkland and starring Hal Taliaferro, Buzz Barton and Fred Church. Location shooting took place in Sonora, California, and near Tucson, Arizona at the Tanque Verde Ranch and Mission San Xavier del Bac Mission. The film was made back-to-back with Flying Lariats.
WRodeo Dough is a 1931 short animated film by Columbia Pictures, and stars the comic strip character Krazy Kat.
WShotgun Pass is a 1931 American western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Tim McCoy, Virginia Lee Corbin and Monte Vandergrift.
WThe Texas Ranger is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
WTwo-Gun Caballero is a 1931 American western film directed by Jack Nelson and starring Robert Frazer, Consuelo Dawn and Carmen Laroux.
WThe Vanishing Legion is a 1931 American Pre-Code Mascot film serial directed by Ford Beebe and B. Reeves Eason.
WWest of Cheyenne is a 1931 American western film directed by Harry S. Webb and starring Tom Tyler, Josephine Hill and Harry Woods.
WWild Horse is a 1931 American western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hoot Gibson and Alberta Vaughn.