PURITAN PICTURES

PURITAN and VICTORY PICTURES

In June 1935 Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) an American film producer and director announced he would make six films written by Peter Kyne for Fox, starting with Danger Ahead. He ended up taking over Bryan Foy's studios at Culver City and doing the films through his own company, Victory Pictures.


In 1935 Katzman founded Puritan Pictures, a film distribution group, their first film being Suicide Squad (1935).


From 1935 to 1940 Victory produced two serials and 30 features, including Western film series starring Tom Tyler and Tim McCoy, and action pictures with Herman Brix and Bela Lugosi. Katzman also made crime films like Hot Off the Press (1935), Bars of Hate (1935), The Fighting Coward (1935) and Danger Ahead (1935), many of which were written by Peter B. Kyne.


Katzman entered the world of serials in 1936 (with Shadow of Chinatown (1936) starring Bela Lugosi) and would return to the genre in 1944.

In June 1937 a fire damaged the building where Victory was based. In January 1939 Victory announced they would make 20 more Westerns, but within six months Katzman closed Puritan and began releasing his productions through Monogram Pictures.


PURITAN PICTURES


  • "Cavalcade of the West" (November 15, 1936) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "The Cowboy and the Bandit" (December 1, 1935) - Director: Albert Herman

  • "Fighting Caballero" (December 15, 1935) - Director: Elmer Clifton

  • "The Live Wire" (November 25, 1935) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "Loser's End" (January 14, 1935) - Director: Bernard B. Ray

  • "Avenging Waters" (April 5, 1936) - Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

  • "Fast Bullets" (June 28, 1936) - Director: Harry S. Webb

  • "The Idaho Kid" (November 20, 1936) - Director: Robert F. Hill

  • "Pinto Rustlers" (February 10, 1936) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "The Reckless Way" (March 15, 1936) - Director: Raymond K. Johnson

  • "Bar Z Bad Men" (January 27, 1937) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "The Feud Maker" (May 15, 1937) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "Blazing Barriers" (October 22, 1937) - Director: Aubrey Scotto

  • "Border Phantom" (February 25, 1937) - Director: S. Roy Luby

  • "Cavalry" (March 28, 1937) - Director: Robert F. Hill

  • "Six-Gun Trail" (January 30, 1938) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "Where the West Begins" (April 8, 1938) - Director: J.P. McGowan

  • "Phantom Ranger" (June 25, 1938) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "Song of the Buckaroo" (August 6, 1938) - Director: Albert Herman

  • "The Kid Comes Back" (October 15, 1938) - Director: B. Reeves Eason

  • "Code of the Fearless" (March 20, 1939) - Director: Raymond K. Johnson

  • "The Shadow of the Eagle" (May 10, 1939) - Director: Ford Beebe

  • "Outlaw Express" (July 24, 1939) - Director: Norman Deming

  • "Oklahoma Terror" (September 30, 1939) - Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

  • "Death Rides the Range" (November 15, 1939) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "West of Pinto Basin" (January 14, 1940) - Director: S. Roy Luby

  • "Billy the Kid's Gun Justice" (March 9, 1940) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "The Ranger and the Lady" (May 1, 1940) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "Wild Horse Range" (August 10, 1940) - Director: Ray Taylor


    VICTORY PICTURES


  • "The Fighting Pilot" (December 8, 1935) - Director: Noel M. Smith

  • "Lawless Border" (December 20, 1935) - Director: William Nigh

  • "Blazing Justice" (January 10, 1936) - Director: Albert Herman

  • "Santa Fe Bound" (February 1, 1936) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "Custer's Last Stand" (March 14, 1936) - Director: Elmer Clifton

  • "Wildcat Saunders" (April 28, 1936) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "The Unknown Ranger" (May 18, 1936) - Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

  • "Vengeance of Rannah" (June 3, 1936) - Director: Bernard B. Ray

  • "Wildcat Trooper" (June 27, 1936) - Director: Elmer Clifton

  • "Galloping Dynamite" (August 15, 1936) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "The Phantom of the Range" (September 9, 1936) - Director: Robert F. Hill

  • "Gun Grit" (November 20, 1936) - Director: William Nigh

  • "The Roaming Cowboy" (January 15, 1937) - Director: Robert F. Hill

  • "Where Trails Divide" (February 5, 1937) - Director: Robert F. Hill

  • "Heroes of the Alamo" (March 24, 1937) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "Ghost Town" (April 15, 1937) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "Riders of the Dawn" (May 3, 1937) - Director: Robert F. Hill

  • "The Red Rope" (June 10, 1937) - Director: S. Roy Luby

  • "Riders of the Rockies" (July 22, 1937) - Director: Robert N. Bradbury

  • "Gun Packer" (January 10, 1938) - Director: Wallace Fox

  • "The Painted Stallion" (February 24, 1938) - Director: Ray Taylor

  • "Thunder in the Desert" (April 11, 1938) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "The Mexicali Kid" (May 23, 1938) - Director: Wallace Fox

  • "The Last Stand" (July 8, 1938) - Director: Joseph H. Lewis

  • "Code of the Rangers" (March 20, 1939) - Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

  • "The Phantom Stage" (April 8, 1939) - Director: George Waggner

  • "Lone Star Pioneers" (May 18, 1939) - Director: Harry L. Fraser

  • "West of the Santa Fe" (July 10, 1939) - Director: Sam Newfield

  • "The Man from Sundown" (September 25, 1939) - Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet