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Starring: Tim McCoy,  Luana Walters,  Rex Lease,  Wheeler Oakman,  J. Frank Glendon, 
Directed By: Sam Newfield, 
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 1936
Studio: A2ZCDS.com
Format: Color,  DVD-Video,  Full Screen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]

Product Description
Tim Madigan (Tim McCoy), gentleman gambler who never carries a gun, exposes a card sharp cheating Jose Hernandez (Red Lease.) Later, the gambler is shot after being knocked unconscious by Tim. Through circumstances, Jose thinks he did the killing, while Marshal Tom Barstow (Earle Hodgins) thinks Tim is the guilty party.Tim takes refuge at the ranch of Don Hernandez (Joseph Girard) and his daughter Juanita (Luana Walters), not knowing the youth he befriended is the runaway son of the family. Saloon owner Amos Harden (J. Frank Glendon) and gambler Ace Morgan (Wheeler Oakman), who sat in on the card game preceding the murder, are plotting to acquire the Hernandez ranch by means of a forged document. Harassed by the Marshal, who is seeking to unravel the murder mystery, Tim persuades Jose to return home. Tim then wins enough in a poker game with Harden and Morgan to save the Hernandez ranch. He stakes his winnings against Harden's saloon and wins with aces-and-eights, known throughout the West as the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was killed by Jack McCall. Written by Les Adams {longhorn3708@windstream.net}

Customer Reviews for Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]

Proof That B Movies Can Work Well
In this modern era of huge Hollywood blockbusters that seem to open every weekend and take the world by storm, it's interesing to think that the motion picture business used to work with an A and B movie system.

The system worked, because to get people in the theaters in the days before multiplexes, they needed to put two films on per sitting. They couldn't afford to have all of their films be star studded spectaculars, so for the most part you would get to see one blockbuster - but only after sitting through a smaller budgeted "B" movie first.

What Hollywood could not have predicted is that over time, many people eventually realized that these lower budgeted B movies were often better and more intersting than the A List movies that they were opening for.

The Tim McCoy western series - and Aces and Eights in particular - are a good example of this phenominon. Almost every one of them has an interesting twist and survives repeated viewing very, very well.

This disk is typical of the series, with McCoy comming in and saving the day when bad men are about to con a Hispanic family out of their home.

The con men have gotten the family to almost gamble away the entire ranch, but what no one knows is that McCoy's character is an even better gambler than the bad men.

You can guess how this works out - though honestly the process of the anti-con is not the point of this movie. What is the point is that it is a great period genre western that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the final happy ending.

The film is good and it's very well restored.Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]

"Tim McCoy B-Westers Series ... Aces and Eights (1936) ... VCI Home Video"
VCI Entertainment and Puritan Pictures present "Aces and Eights"(1936) (Dolby
digitally remastered)...relive those thrilling days from the early '30s and '40s
when drama took us down the dusty trails and the plains to exciting
adventures....some of the best B-Westerns ever to grace the Saturday Matinee
Screen......the Native Americans had no better ambassador than Tim McCoy, a
former Indian language translator in real life...as Tim McCoy speaks
passionately about this country's longtime abuse of its native population by
breaking treaty after treaty...just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and
suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss any of the Tim
McCoy features loaded with action that will leave you wanting more of his
B-Western adventures

Under director Sam Newfield, producers Sigmund Neufeld & Leslie Simmonds, original story by Arthur G. Durlam, screenplay Joseph O'Donnell...the cast include Tim McCoy (Gentleman Tim Madigan), Luana Walters (Juanita Hernandez), Rex Lease (Jose Hernandez), Wheeler Oakman (Ace Morgan), Earle Hodgins (Marshal Tom Barstow), John Merton (Gambler), J. Frank Glendon (Amos Harden), Charles Stevens (Rurale Capt. Felipe de Lopez), Jimmy Aubrey (Lucky), Joseph W. Girard (Don Julio Hernandez). . . . . . . . our story line deals with taking over Joseph W. Girard's (Hernandez) rancho, and the two villains involved are Wheeler Oakman and J. Frank Glendon very bad customers...Tim McCoy our famous gambler Gentleman Tim Madigan is accused of the murder of John Merton, but who really killed Merton...is there a crooked poker game in the works, can McCoy save the day and clear young Rex Lease (who thinks he too killed Merton)...take note that Charles Stevens appears as a rurale that is working with Marsal Earle Hodgins to catch the murdered...McCoy's sidekick Jimmy Aubrey always checks the throw of the dice for luck...well, the dice worked this oater is a real winner..another great B-Western for Tim McCoy under the Puritan Pictures banner for Poverty Row, proves to be one of his finest performances.

Special footnote, actor Tim McCoy in real life was a sharpshooter and famed for
his fast draw...was an expert on the Old West also an authority on Indian
folklore could converse in Indian sign language...McCoy was inducted into the
"Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage
Museum" in 1973, also inducted into "The Cowboy Hall of Fame" in 1974.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Tim McCoy (aka: Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy)
Birth Date: 4/10/1891 - Saginaw, Michigan
Died: 1/29/1978 - Nogales, Arizona

Check out other Tim McCoy titles available on VHS & DVD from VCI:
1. ACES AND EIGHTS
2. ARIZONA BOUND
3. ARIZONA GANGBUSTERS
4. BELOW THE BORDER
5. BULLDOG COURAGE
6. CODE OF THE CACTUS
7. END OF THE TRAIL
8. FIGHTING RENEGADE
9. FORBIDDEN TRAILS
10.GHOST PATROL
11.GHOST TOWN LAW
12.GUN CODE
13.GUNMAN FROM BODIE
14.LIGHTNIN' BILL CARSON
15.LIGHTNING CARSON RIDES AGAIN
16.LION'S DEN
17.OUTLAW DEPUTY
18.PHANTOM RANGER
19.ROARIN' GUNS
20.SIX GUN TRAILS
21.STRAIGHT SHOOTER
22.TEXAS WILCATS
23.WEST OF THE LAW

Ask Amazon.Com to carry the above titles if they are not available as of
yet...you can order and pick up your copy now from VCI Entertainment.. why not
pick up other copies of Tim McCoy features.

In 1941 the "Rough Riders" series began with Buck as Marshal Buck Roberts, Tim
McCoy was Marshal Tim McCall and Raymond Hatton was Marshal Sandy Hopkins for
Monogram Pictures:

1. ARIZONA BOUND (Monogram, 1941)
2. THE GUNMAN FROM BODIE (Monogram, 1941)
3. FORBIDDEN TRAILS (Monogram, 1941)
4. BELOW THE BORDER (Monogram, 1942)
5. GHOST TOWN LAW (Monogram, 1942)
6. DOWN TEXAS WAY (Monogram, 1942)
7. RIDERS OF THE WEST (Monogram, 1942)
8. WEST OF THE LAW (Monogram, 1942)

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing "Aces and Eights" (1936), the
digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more
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B-Westerns...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there
are plenty of copies available on DVD and VHS, stay tuned once again for top
notch action mixed with deadly adventure from the "King of Serials" VCI...just
the way we like 'em

Total Time: 62 min on DVD/VHS ~ VCI Entertainment #1928 ~ (11/08/2000)Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]

In Walks A Man With A White Hat
I'm not sure why this genre always works so well, but I do know that it does. This time around you have a typical problem in the wild west - bad guys are trying to take a good family's ranch and it looks like they will lose until a man with a white hat walks in with a six gun and saves the day. The acting is really good and the film quality rocks.Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]

Traditional Western With A Spanish Twist
Well. It's not often you get an old school western that also has a social concious. That said, this film is much more western than it is PC sensitive film. There is just enough story in there about the plight of Spanish settlers to make you feel not too quilty about watchin a White Hats Versus Black Hats film. It moves along very quickly and the gun play is better staged that most westerns of this era.Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]

I am a diehard fan Of McCoy's and will not miss a single movie of his .. thanks to A2ZCDS
I remember reading that McCoy was the fastest man on the draw in Hollywood and was amazed to see him toss away the gun in this episode, which is just as thrilling as it would have been if he did carry a six shooter. Tim's rare magnetism carries the plot so well that you don't seem to remember any other name except his when the lights are turned on again. I am a diehard fan Of McCoy's and will not miss a single movie of his - regardless of whether he carries a gun or not!Aces and Eights (1936) [Remastered Edition]