Home

The Driftin' Kid (1941) [NR]

Featuring:
Tom Keene, Betty Miles, Frank Yaconelli

Written by:
Robert Emmett Tansey
Frances Kavanaugh

Directed by:
Robert Emmett Tansey


Release Date:
October 16, 1941

Original Title:
The Driftin' Kid

Genres:
Western

Production Companies:
Monogram Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 57

He's LEAD POISON! When the kid drifts in...gunmen duck out! Trouble brings this human tornado on the run with guns blazin' and fists flyin'!

Overview from TheMovieDB

In this western, the good-guy battles his bad-guy double and his band of outlaws to protect a purty gal's ranch.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Overview from Open Movies

Jim Vernon (Tom Keene), Arizona rancher, attempting to fulfill a contract to deliver wild horses to the Mexican government, learns that his first consignment of 200 horses has been stolen by a borderland gang of rustlers. The Mexican authorities send Tom Sterling (Tom Keene) to investigate the theft. When he arrives in town he discovers that he is being mistaken for Jim Vernon. Since the two me look exactly alike, Jim goes into hiding while Tom impersonates him. Gang leader Ace Reed (Earl Douglas), unaware of the switch, puts the stolen horses back onto Jim's ranch, hoping the latter will be strung up for a horse thief and he and his gang can take over Jim's ranch and Mexico contract.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Rankings and Honors

The Driftin' Kid (1941) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.6/10

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Director:
Robert Emmett Tansey

Writer:
Frances Kavanaugh
Robert Emmett Tansey

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.