❋ The Old Corral isn't an online store. We don't have anything for sale. We don't do ads from businesses or other websites. Nor do we have any sponsors or advertisers.

Please don't ask me for a "price list" or catalog of videotapes, DVDs, posters, lobby cards, etc.

And please don't ask me to give you prices on running some kind of an ad (banner, pop-up, etc.) on the Old Corral.

The Old Corral is a non-profit, non-commercial fan site, with nothing for sale. The Old Corral is NOT an online business or store. We don't sell videos, DVDs, audio tapes, CDs, posters, lobby cards or photos. There are no companies who sponsor or underwrite the Old Corral. And there are no banner advertisements, link exchange ads, pop-ups, pop-unders, nor are we part of any money-making 'associates' or 'referral' programs with click-thru icons and banners that take you to other websites to purchase books, CDs, videos, etc. In other words, no remuneration of any kind is received in connection with the operation of this site.

Ye Old Corral webmaster pays for the b-westerns.com domain name and the website hosting/web server - that's my treat and I consider it a worthwhile expenditure in order to keep the B-western memories alive.

❋ You're looking for info on a relative who might have worked on - or appeared in - some western films. And I do like contacts from relatives cuz they generally are enthused and happy to provide info and photos on a family member who did westerns or serials. It's imperative that you send me one or two photos with a good face closeup.

I get a lot of e-mails with questions like "my grandfather (or uncle or grandmother, etc.) worked in a few films during the 1920s (or 1930s or 1940s) as a stuntman (or henchie or stage driver or whatever). Can you give me some info on him or her". The probability is that we can't be of much help on background performers or personnel who appeared in - or worked on - a film or two or three.

Be aware that those bit and background performers never got any credits. And if they were involved in stunting, doubling, driving a buckboard, or just doing "hoss wrangling", they never got credit either. Likewise with many of the B western production people (other than the primary production folks such as the producer, director, main camera man, etc.). And nobody kept records of those participants. To add more confusion, westerns which were filmed on ranches or distant locations from Hollywoodland often employed local citizens to act as townspeople, saloon patrons, etc.

Many of these old westerns and serials were churned out by "Poverty Row" production companies that came and went seventy five years ago. And any records or paperwork related to their films were tossed or lost decades ago.

If you ask for this kind of help, ye Old Corral webmaster and Old Corral contributors will try to oblige.

In many cases, I need to forward your e-mail to folks who might have some info or leads. I don't forward e-mails or give out e-mail addresses without your permission. So if you write to e-mail me with a question, include an OK in your e-mail for me to forward your e-mail message to Old Corral contributors and B-western contacts.

Based on many experiences in helping with "relative questions", there's a couple things WE NEED FROM YOU:

1. An image scan of the person so we can see a closeup or two of their face. And if you have some photos of them from any films - or cast and crew shots - that would be very helpful. E-mail me first before sending any image scans as I need to provide you with some instructions on the size of the scans.

2. We also need details about the person you are asking about - like the person's full name and nickname, date and location of birth, date and location of death. Plus your best guesstimate on when they were doing films - silents in the 1920s ... or the 1930s ... or the 1940s ... or later.

❋ I like to get e-mails. But please ... check out the Old Corral webpages and do a little "homework" before sending me a message. Odds are pretty high that your question may already be answered on the Old Corral.

I get questions ... lots and lots of questions ... and it amounts to several thousand e-mails a year. Sadly, more than half of these are answered in one or more sections on the Old Corral website. For example, there have been scores of e-mails asking "did Ken Maynard live out his years in some trailer park?" Those e-mailers didn't take the time to read my Ken Maynard biography. If they had, they would have found a page with photos and info on Ken and the trailer park. Another common question is "how many films did Gabby Hayes do with Roy or Hoppy or Bill Elliott?". Info on ol' Gabby is on the website also. So before you e-mail me, please take the time to look through the Old Corral homepage menu and the various sections ... and do run the Search function.

I don't forward e-mails or give out e-mail addresses without your permission. If you write to me with a question about a film, person, studio, whatever - include an OK in your e-mail for me to forward your e-mail message to Old Corral contributors and B-western contacts. I don't have all the answers, and quite often I have to ask for help. If you don't include that OK, that forces me to e-mail you back to ask for that permission.

If you're looking for a western movie on videotape or DVD, please don't ask me to locate it for you. Go to the Videotapes/DVD section on the Old Corral, and do your own searching. You also should check our list of Lost and Missing B-westerns and serials as there are about 150 films currently on that list.

Please don't ask me questions like "who owns the rights to xyz film?" ... "or is xyz film under copyright?" ... "or is xyz film public domain?". I don't have a clue. You need to find a legal-copyright-trademark expert who can get you those answers.

Before you ask a question, please take the time to scroll down through ALL the Old Corral menu items. There's info and links to DVD and videotape suppliers, heroes, heroines, villains, henchman, sidekicks, horses, musicians/musical groups, producers, directors, western series, movie locations, photos, CDs, books, newsletters, auction websites, TV schedules, movie databases to search, posters, comics, Big Little Books, more.

There's also a Search function within the Old Corral website - so if you're looking for a film title, person's name, etc., try that. Look for the red search box on the Old Corral homepage.

❋ The Old Corral is about the sound era B-western films, performers and production / support people, and the time period is roughly 1929 - 1954.

In a nutshell, the Old Corral is about the low budget SOUND B western circa 1929 - 1954, give or take a year or two. We don't do A-Westerns or TV Westerns or "spaghetti" westerns or "Eurowesterns". And we don't cover performers who worked only in the silent era. So please don't ask why the Old Corral doesn't have info on Joel McCrea, Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott, James Garner, Clint Eastwood and other A-western heroes ... or western heroes who only worked in silents like Art Acord, Fred Thomson and William S. Hart ... or TV western heroes such as Clint Walker, Chuck Connors and James Arness. Nor do we have info on the bad guys who did mostly TV and movies in the mid 1950s and later like John Doucette, Leo Gordon, Jack Elam, Hal Baylor, Richard Devon, etc. Please read the homepage menu item marked "About The Old Corral website", as that defines what the Old Corral website includes and does NOT include.

However, folks whose career spanned both silent and sound - like Tom Mix, Ken Maynard, Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Tom Tyler, Hoot Gibson, Bob Custer, Buffalo Bill Jr. and Bob Steele - are covered on the Old Corral.

❋ You have a (vague) recollection of some film you saw years ago ... and want to know if I (we) can identify the film title and if it's available on videotape or DVD.

I get lots of these type e-mails, and in many cases, the plot description is too brief and too generic (like "I saw a movie with a wagon train being attacked."). Do some deep thinking about this before shootin' off an e-mail to me please. Think about your recollections of the film - and add as much detail as you can. For example - was the film in color (if so, it probably wasn't a B-western as most of those were done in glorious B&W). Did you see it on TV or at the theater? How many years ago did you see the movie - in the 1940s or the 1950s or the 1960s? Did the hero ride a white horse or have a sidekick? Did the film include some singing and musical interludes? A suggestion - the Internet Movie Database has a search function where you can look for western films only ... and you can enter search terms (like wagon train). You may want to try the IMDb first.

Trying to recall a movie, a TV series, or info on a person? Go to the Internet Movie Database and run your searches. Click HERE.

Looking for a B western that appears to be impossible to find? Click HERE for our listing of Lost, Missing, and Unavailable westerns.