B. Reeves Eason
William Reeves Eason (October 2, 1886 – June 9, 1956), known as B. Reeves Eason, was an American film director, actor and screenwriter. His directorial output was limited mainly to low-budget westerns and action pictures, but it was as a second-unit director and action specialist that he was best known. He was famous for staging spectacular battle scenes in war films and action scenes in large-budget westerns, but he acquired the nickname "Breezy" for his "breezy" attitude towards safety while staging his sequences—during the famous cavalry charge at the end of Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), so many horses were killed or injured so severely that they had to be euthanized that both the public and Hollywood itself were outraged, resulting in the selection of the American Humane Society by the beleaguered studios to provide representatives on the sets of all films using animals to ensu...
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Rimfire
North of the Border
The Desert Hawk
The Phantom
Murder on the Waterfront
Truck Busters
Spy Ship
Murder in the Big House
Soldiers in White
The Tanks Are Coming
Meet the Fleet
Service with the Colors
Pony Express Days
Young America Flies
Radio Ranch
Blue Montana Skies
Mountain Rhythm
The Daredevil Drivers
The Kid Comes Back
Call of the Yukon
Sergeant Murphy
Empty Holsters
Land Beyond the Law
Prairie Thunder
Give Me Liberty
Sharad of Atlantis
Red River Valley
Darkest Africa
The Fighting Marines
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
The Phantom Empire
The Miracle Rider
Mystery Mountain
Hollywood Mystery
Law of the Wild
Alimony Madness
Heart Punch
Cornered
The Honor of the Press
The Sunset Trail
The Shadow of the Eagle
The Last of the Mohicans
The Galloping Ghost
King of the Wild
The Vanishing Legion
Roaring Ranch
Troopers Three
Spurs
A Trick of Hearts
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Galloping Fury
The Sign of the Claw
Fighting the Flames
Border Justice
Around the World in Eighteen Days
The Big Adventure
Pink Tights
Blue Streak McCoy
