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Coming Soon! Johnny Mack Brown Movies at Landmark Park

Matt Boster

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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Aug 26 2016 9:38 AM

DOTHAN: On September 1 and 3, Landmark Park will honor late Dothan native and Western film star Johnny Mack Brown with special showings of several of his movies. On Thursday, September 1, what would be Johnny Mack Brown’s 112th birthday, we will be showing the movie The Silver Bullet (1942) at 10 a.m.  We will also have cake and other refreshments for this showing.  


 


On Saturday, September 3, we will be showing the serial Fighting Kit Carson (1933) at 10 a.m and a double feature of The Silver Bullet (1942) and Born to the West (Helltown) (1937) at 2 p.m. Landmark Park is reportedly home to the largest collection of Johnny Mack Brown memorabilia in the world. To learn more about Dothan native and Western film star Johnny Mack Brown, be sure to visit our Johnny Mack Brown exhibit on display in the Interpretive Center lobby.  


 


"Fighting Kit Carson" (1933) A pack train led by Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown) is attacked by Kraft and his Mystery Riders, who want a government shipment of gold carried by the wagons. 


 


"The Silver Bullet" (1942) Jim Donovan (Johnny Mack Brown) is looking for the man that shot him with a silver bullet and also killed his father. 


 


"Born to the West (Helltown)" (1937) Dare Rudd (John Wayne) is an irresponsible young cowboy put in charge of a cattle drive by his cousin, Tom Fillmore (Johnny Mack Brown). Rudd loses the money from the cattle in a crooked card game and falls for his cousin’s girlfriend.


 


Known today for his career as a B-Western actor, Brown’s career initially started in football. Nicknamed the “Dothan Antelope,” Brown rose to recognition as a football player at Dothan High and then the University of Alabama. While playing a game in Birmingham, in 1925, Brown had the opportunity to meet some of Hollywood’s elite who attended the game while in town filming the movie Men of Steel. One man in particular, George Fawcett, was crucial in establishing Brown as an actor and a household name. Impressed with Brown’s charisma and good looks, Fawcett told Brown to contact him for a screen test if he was ever in California. As fate would have it, the first choice schools decided not to participate in the 1926 Rose Bowl, making the University of Alabama a contender and the first Southern team to compete.  The University of Alabama won against heavily favored Washington 20-19 and papers predicted that Brown had earned a seat in the Football Hall of Fame with his outstanding performance during the game.


 


While in California for the 1926 Rose Bowl game, Fawcett contacted Brown and convinced him to participate in a screen test. Brown was immediately offered a contract by MGM, but declined the offer. He returned to the University of Alabama to play football and throughout the year, MGM continued to contact Brown about accepting their contract offer. After returning to California with the University of Alabama to play in the 1927 Rose Bowl game, Brown decided to accept MGM’s offer and he and his wife Cynthia moved to California.


 


Throughout his highly successful career as an actor, Brown starred in 168 films and TV series, 110 of those being B-Westerns. Brown was one of the first actors to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the first inductee into the Gun Spinning Hall of Fame.


 


Landmark Park is a 135-acre natural science and history museum located on the outskirts of Dothan.  Features of the park include nature trails, a planetarium, playground, picnic areas, an elevated boardwalk, a turn-of-the-century farmstead with sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, cows and other farm animals and crops typical of an 1890s farm.  In addition, the park includes a drugstore with operating soda fountain, one-room school, general store, and historic church, all preserved from the surrounding area. The park is open Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 6 p.m.  Admission is $4 adults, $3 for children and is free for park members and children age 2 and under.  The park is located on U.S. Hwy 431 North, three miles north of Dothan’s Ross Clark Circle.  For more info, call 334-794-3452 or visit  www.landmarkparkdothan.com


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