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Auction History Result 5g0862 MYSTERY TROOPER pressbook 1931 Buzz Barton Canadian Mountie serial, very rare! Date Sold 8/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) The Mystery Trooper, the 1931 Stuart Paton, Harry S. Webb Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mountie cowboy western serial starring Buzz Barton, Robert Frazer, Blanche Mehaffey, Al Furgeson, Charles King, William Von Brencken (billed as "Red Eagle"), and White Cloud (billed as "'White Cloud' The Wonder Horse"). Note that Buzz Barton was born William Lamoreaux, but at the age of 12, he played a small role in a B-western, billed as "Billy Lamar". Over the next two years, he appeared in a total of nine B-westerns, being billed under various names. Apparently, he was quite a horseman, and in 1927, he starred in "The Boy Rider" as a youthful western hero, and he was billed as "Buzz Barton". This proved to be a very popular movie, and over the next two years, he appeared in around a dozen similar movies, as the "World's Greatest Juvenile Western Star", always playing David "Red" Hepner (because of Barton's red hair). Over the next few years, he continued making B-westerns, playing various characters, but becoming an adult hurt his career, and he was reduced to playing uncredited parts in scores of B-westerns in the late 1930s. He left the movies in 1942, when he enlisted in the Navy (even though he only grew to 5'2" as an adult). Note that first release movie paper from this forgotten serial is beyond rare! The movie was re-released in 1935 as "Trail of the Royal Mounted", and we have had a few items from the re-release, but never anything from the first release. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut, and it was tri-folded at one time. Learn More about condition grades 
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