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7 unusual facts about Victor McLaglen


A Devil with Women

A Devil with Women is a 1930 film starring Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, and Humphrey Bogart, and directed by Irving Cummings.

Captain Lash

Captain Lash (1929) is a film adventure drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation starring Victor McLaglen and Claire Windsor.

Diamond Frontier

Diamond Frontier is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Victor McLaglen, John Loder and Anne Nagel.

Gun the Man Down

Andrew V. McLaglen, the movie's director, was the son of actor and former boxer Victor McLaglen, and went on to direct ninety-six episodes of Gunsmoke starring James Arness as well as five movies starring Gun the Man Down producer John Wayne, among many others.

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Victor McLaglen (1886– 1959), English boxer, World War I officer and actor

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Additionally, Hecht and MacArthur's story for the 1939 film Gunga Din recycles their basic plot of trying to persuade someone from leaving his job, in this case Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s character attempting to resign his post in the British army and comrades Grant and Victor McLaglen conniving to prevent it.

We're Going to Be Rich

We're Going to Be Rich is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy.


Call Out the Marines

It stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing the same characters with different names that they played in What Price Glory? and several sequels; however the original film trailer mentions What Price Glory? and The Cock-Eyed World.

June Lang

She soon graduated to leading roles, most notably in Bonnie Scotland (with Laurel and Hardy, 1935), in The Road to Glory (with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore—written in part by William Faulkner—1936), and in Wee Willie Winkie (directed by John Ford, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero, and Victor McLaglen, 1937).


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