(From Old Corral collection) Above from L-to-R are George Cooper, Buck Jones and Barbara Weeks in a scene from FORBIDDEN TRAIL (Columbia, 1932). | Buck Jones' uniform included a uniquely decorated single holster/gunbelt. |
Al 'Lash' LaRue had a variety of gunbelts, and examples are shown below. | |
(Courtesy of Minard Coons) | Above and left are the gunbelts that LaRue wore in the Eddie Dean Cinecolor oaters at PRC, circa 1945-1946. Click HERE, HERE, and HERE for some photos and a lobby card from SONG OF OLD WYOMING and THE CARAVAN TRAIL. In the color lobby card, the gunbelt is brown, not black. |
Lash got his own series at PRC, where his role was as 'Cheyenne Davis'. The gunbelt changed, probably to a custom rig made specifically for Lash. Click HERE for a photo of Lash with his sidekick, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John. | |
After their series at PRC, Lash and 'Fuzzy' did a batch for Ron Ormond's Western Adventure Production company ... and the gunbelt changed again. Lash is also wearing his pants belt with the Lash monogram. Click HERE for a lobby card showing the above belt and holster rig. | |
Lash also had several pants belts that he wore over the years. Most often, he wore a belt with the "Lash" monogram. And occasionally, he did wear belts with rather large and ornate buckles. Thanks to Wayne Knowles for reminding me that Lash had a later belt which carried a monogram of A L R (bottom right) ... which I'm guessing stood for Al La Rue. |
(From Old Corral collection) | Football great Slingin' Sammy Baugh starred in the KING OF THE TEXAS RANGERS (Republic, 1941) serial. Early on, he wore a twin holster set ... and then all of a sudden, the leftside gun and holster was gone. In the publicity still on the left, Baugh is shown with a single holster. Below is a crop from a lobby card from the serial, showing from L-to-R: unidentified player, Howard Hughes, Baugh, and William Kellogg. Kermit Maynard is seated. The blowup shows the two-gun rig. And Baugh's pistol(s) were Smith & Wesson or Colt double-action revolvers, not the traditional single-action Colt. |
(Courtesy of Les Adams) | |
(From Old Corral collection) | Does the gunbelt that Baugh is wearing look familiar? Take a gander at the rig worn by Roy Rogers in this photo ... it's not the same rig, but its durn close, and had to be made by the same person. |