Allied Pictures
3 films on HibingeTV
American Poverty Row studio founded in 1928 by producer M. H. Hoffman Jr., making low-budget westerns, dramas, and exploitation pictures for the independent market — including Hoot Gibson vehicles like The Hard Hombre (1931). Hoffman folded Allied into the newly formed Liberty Pictures in 1934. Not to be confused with Allied Artists, the postwar successor of Monogram Pictures.
Produced
Crime, Drama
A newspaper man frames a man's final year in flashback: convicted of a murder he insists was a frame-up, he is paroled into the custody of a crusading reporter who intends to prove his innocence, with the dead man's own wife falling for the prisoner along the way. Russell Hopton and Mary Brian star in this Allied Pictures drama, produced by M.H. Hoffman and directed by silent-era veteran E. Mason Hopper. It is a depression-era crime story in which the real antagonist is the machinery of justice itself. It entered the public domain after its copyright was never renewed.
Crime · Drama · Romance
One Year Later
1933 - Crime
Western
A Poverty Row pre-Code western from M. H. Hoffman Jr.'s Allied Pictures, directed by Otto Brower. Rodeo champion turned cowboy star Hoot Gibson plays William Penn "Peaceful" Patton, a mild-mannered cowhand raised on pacifism who is mistaken for the notorious outlaw known as the Hard Hombre. Trading on the outlaw's fearsome reputation, Peaceful strong-arms a valley of ranchers into a fair division of grazing land — until his mother arrives and exposes the masquerade, and the real Hard Hombre rides in for revenge. Shot around the Vasquez Rocks, the film also carries a quiet piece of screen history: Florence Lawrence, the very first movie star of the silent era, appears in a minor role. It is in the public domain in the United States.
Western
The Hard Hombre
1931 - Western