| DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Code of the Cactus is a 1939 American film directed by Sam Newfield. Cast Tim McCoy as "Lightning" Bill Carson / Miguel Ben Corbett as Magpie Dorothy Short as Joan Ted Adams as Thurston Alden 'Stephen' Chase as Foreman James Dave O'Brien as Bob Swane Forrest Taylor as Blackton Bob Terry as Lefty, gang truck driver Slim Whitaker as Sheriff Burton Frank Wayne as Jake, gang truck shotgun Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, (December 6, 1889 -- November 10, 1964) also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, with over two hundred and fifty feature films to his credit. To such production several shorts and TV series episodes shall be added. Because of this massive output, sometimes releasing nearly twenty movies in a single year, he has been called the most prolific director of the sound era. Most of Newfield's movies were created for PRC Pictures. This was a film production company that he operated in association with his brother Sigmund Neufeld. The films they produced were mostly low budget productions, the majority being westerns, with an occasional horror film or crime drama. Col. Tim McCoy (born Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy April 10, 1891 -- died January 29, 1978) was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life and customs. Ben Corbett (6 February 1892 -- 19 May 1961) was an American film actor. He appeared in 283 films between 1915 and 1956. He was born in Hudson ... |
