Bob SteeleFilmography

Charley Varrick

Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a Read More

Something Big

Synopsis: In this western, an outlaw anxiously awaits the arrival of his betrothed, who is under the false impression that her fiancé is worth a fortune. Unfortunately, the fellow has earned nothing during his stint in the West. Desperate to keep her, he begins plotting the theft of a Mexican bandit's loot. Read More

Rio Lobo

Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Read More

Family Affair: The Old Cowhand

Synopsis: Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) is thrilled at the prospect of meeting his idol, 1930s cowboy star Chaps Callahan (played by genuine B-western icon Bob Steele). Worried that Jody's hero-worship is bordering on obsession, Bill sets up a situation whereby his nephew will be disillusioned over the fact that Read More

The Great Bank Robbery

Actors: Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's purportedly most unrobbable bank. Unfortunately, they are not the only bandits planning to rob the bank. Their rivals in robbery include a Mexican bandido and his dullard son. Read More

Hang 'Em High

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Sr., Pat Hingle, Arlene Golonka

Synopsis: Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley Sr.), ride up and accuse him of having stolen the cattle and killed their owner. Refusing to believe his account, they string him up by the Read More

F Troop: Don't Look Now, One of Our Cannon is Missing

Synopsis: O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) loans the fort's only cannon to the Hekawi Indians who want to use it for a tribal festival. Unfortunately, the cannon "disappears" at the precise moment when Captain Parmenter (Ken Berry) must impress a visiting colonel (played by former B-western hero Don "Red" Barry). Read More

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the oppressive influence of an outlaw and his evil gang. One couple knows the gunslinger's true avocation and they talk him into working as a lawman and putting one of the crooks Read More

Town Tamer

Actors: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie Selander directs an equally veteran cast in this high-action Western. After his wife is murdered, hired gun Tom Rosser (Dana Andrews) rides into town in search of revenge Read More

The Bounty Killer

Actors: Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen

Synopsis: Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good" townsfolk until they need him to track down and kill a criminal; the gratitude doesn't last long, and it's back to outcast status for Duryea. At one juncture, the Read More

Shenandoah

Actors: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth

Synopsis: The year is 1863. Wealthy Virginia landowner Charlie Anderson (James Stewart), a man of peace despite his autocratic behavior, steadfastly refuses to take sides in the Civil War. Bit by bit, Anderson's isolationism--and his way of living--is torn apart.
Charlie's daughter, Jannie Anderson (Rosemary Forsyth Read More

F Troop: The Phantom Major

Synopsis: Bernard Fox guest stars as Major Bentley Royce (foreign-car fanciers please note!), late of the Bengal Lancers. Arriving amidst much ceremony at Fort Courage, the "Phantom Major" sets about to instruct the men of F Troop in the fine art of camouflage. Unfortunately, the troopers can barely find Read More

Bullet for a Badman

Actors: Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee

Synopsis: Audie Murphy continued to make 1950s-style westerns into the 1960s. In Bullet for a Badman, Logan Keliher (Murphy) is framed for murder by onetime friend Sam Ward (Darren McGavin). Keliher escapes to mete out justice and to reclaim his former wife (Ruta Lee), whom Ward has married. The escapee Read More

Taggart

Actors: Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cardenas

Synopsis: In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want his land. The son returns the favor and slaughters them. As the father lies dying, he manages to hire three gunslingers to track the boy down. The boy is a good shot though Read More

4 for Texas

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono

Synopsis: In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most of the film battling over who will control the gambling and wenching in 1870 Galveston. Though they'd as soon cut each other's throats than cooperate, Zack and Joe are Read More

McLintock!

Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the territory, which also includes a mine and a lumber mill that he built up himself, should be a happy, fulfilled man, but he isn't. His wife, Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), walked out on him Read More

The Wild Westerners

Actors: James Philbrook, Nancy Kovack, Duane Eddy, Guy Mitchell, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: In this routine western set in 1864 in Montana, U.S. Marshal Jim McDowell (James Philbrook) is trying to safely get a treasure-trove of gold bullion out East, where it will help the Union cause in the Civil War. Standing in his way are first a band of Native Americans and then some crafty outlaws Read More

Six Black Horses

Actors: Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Joan O'Brien, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: A sometimes astonishingly grim western, Six Black Horses ostensibly stars Audie Murphy, but is effortlessly stolen by Frank Jesse (Dan Duryea). Wrongly accused of horse theft, Ben Lane (Murphy) is rescued by ruthless but sentimental gunslinger Jesse. The two men are hired as trail guides by Kelly (Joan O'Brien Read More

The Comancheros

Actors: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character development seen in a John Wayne vehicle that was not directed by John Ford or Howard Hawks, and so well made that it got by with some of the most violent action seen in a Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Kentucky Gunslick

Synopsis: In the 12th episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, widower John (Tom Tryon) has finally wed the lovely Viola Howell (Betty Lynn), thus providing a mother for his children Willie (Brian Corcoran) and Addy (Patricia Gorman). En route to register his land claim Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

Synopsis: In the 13th episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, John (Tom Tryon) finds himself in the uncomfortable position of mediating an argument between his son Willie (Brian Corcoran) and his new bride Viola (Betty Lynn). This domestic disturbance is temporarily Read More

Hell Bent for Leather

Actors: Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally, Robert Middleton, Rad Fulton

Synopsis: Hell Bent for Leather is a standard western that features Audie Murphy in the role of Clay, a cowboy hunted by a posse out for blood. Clay deals and trade in horses in an honest way, and he does not suspect that a crooked U.S. Marshal (Stephen McNally) interested in furthering his career, is Read More

Rio Bravo

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that Read More

Pork Chop Hill

Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, George Shibata, James Edwards

Synopsis: Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean "police action." While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a Read More

The Atomic Submarine

Actors: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Seasoned serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett helmed this story of a one-eyed, octopoidal space alien, wreaking havoc upon atomic subs at the North Pole. The monster is determined to take over the world, though it seems ill equipped for that purpose. Heroes Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, and Brett Halsey Read More

Maverick: Holiday at Hollow Rock

Synopsis: No sooner has he arrived in the town of Hollow Rock than Bret (James Garner) loses his money in a crooked poker game. Unfortunately, Bret can't go to the sheriff for help, since the sheriff was in on the swindle. But Bret is determined to get his money back, and he intends to use an upcoming Read More

Once Upon a Horse

Actors: Robert Livingston, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Erickson, Nita Talbot, Tom Keene, Kermit Maynard, Bob Steele

Synopsis: Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a try with Once Upon a Horse. Dan and Dick play Dan Casey and Doc Logan, a pair of nitwitted cowboys who turn to outlawry because they can't make a go at any honest profession. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The High Graders

Synopsis: Paladin's suspicions are aroused when his favorite tailor is killed in an "accident" shortly after purchasing a gold mine. Believing that the tailor was murdered for his gold, Paladin (Richard Boone) is assured that this is not the case, inasmuch as the mine is deemed worthless. Why, then, have Read More

Maverick: The Seventh Hand

Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) is among the participants when the lovely but larcenous Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster) organizes a big, no-limit poker game. Before long, Bret is being accused of cheating, and of masterminded a robbery in which the players are cleaned out. Naturally, Samantha has vanished Read More

Giant from the Unknown

Actors: Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele

Synopsis: In Richard Cunha's Giant from the Unknown, scientists come upon a petrified lizard in the California Mountains. The lizard revives, proving the theory of suspended animation. Excitedly, scientist Wayne Brooks (Ed Kemmer) begins searching for a legendary Spanish giant called Vargas, who disappeared Read More

Band of Angels

Actors: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Patric Knowles

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop Read More

The Parson and the Outlaw

Actors: Anthony Dexter, Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Jean Parker

Synopsis: Parson and the Outlaw is a cheapjack rally of washed-up movie actors, leftover sets and cobwebbed cliches. Anthony Dexter, who failed to scale the heights after starring in the 1951 biopic Valentino, plays Billy the Kid, once more as a victim of society. The parson of the title is Sonny Tufts, who Read More

Gun for a Coward

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill Wills, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father, Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to his work and live in peace, but this is made impossible by the tense situation in his own household. Will's two younger brothers, Bless (Jeffrey Hunter) and Hade (Dean Stockwell Read More

Duel at Apache Wells

Actors: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ben Cooper, Jim Davis, Harry Shannon, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Lensed in Republic's widescreen Naturama process, this modest little western would seem to be better suited to a standard-ratio screen. After a four-year absence, Johnny Shattuck (Ben Cooper) returns home to find that ex-rustler Dean Cannary (Jim Davis) has his eyes on the Shattuck family farm. To Read More

Maverick: War of the Silver Kings

Synopsis: The premiere episode of Maverick opens with a characteristic grace-note from director Budd Boetticher, in which Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into the town of Echo Springs, caked with trail dust and dressed in seedy "cowboy" clothes--only to re-emerge a few moments later as the well-groomed Read More

Decision at Sundown

Actors: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Decision at Sundown was one of several felicitous collaborations between star Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher. Scott plays a flint-eyed gunman who rides into a sleepy town to drive out local tough guy John Carroll by sundown. Scott is motivated not by justice but by revenge; years Read More

The Steel Jungle

Actors: Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Ted de Corsia, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak, who goes to jail rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly Garland), who is expecting a child. The longer he Read More

Pardners

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, John Baragrey, Jackie Loughery

Synopsis: This Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis romp is liberally based on the 1936 Bing Crosby film Rhythm on the Range. Set around 1910, the film stars Lewis as the pampered son of female tycoon Agnes Moorehead. Yearning to return to the Wild West where his father was a famed peacekeeper, Lewis purchases a prize Read More

Last of the Desperadoes

Actors: James Craig, Jim Davis, Barton MacLane, Margia Dean, Donna Martel

Synopsis: James Craig plays Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who gunned down Billy the Kid. We always thought that was the end of the story, but Last of the Desperados informs us that Garrett was forced to flee from the vengeance of Billy's gang (we also never knew that Billy had a gang). Everywhere he Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Ray Danton, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the Gold Rush of '98, the film stars Jeff Chandler as mine owner Roy Glennister, cheated out of his claim by gold commissioner Alex McNamara (Rory Calhoun). Though Glennister Read More

The Fighting Chance

Synopsis: A friendship is ripped apart by a greedy woman in this drama. The trouble begins when a horse trainer and a jockey, both long-time friends, fall for the same woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Drums Across the River

Actors: Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Audie Murphy is at his taciturn best in the Universal western Drums Along the River. Murphy is cast as Gary Brannon, a peaceful homesteader living a quiet existence with his father Sam (Walter Brennan). No-account Frank Walker (Lyle Bettger), hoping to open up the Ute Indian territory for Read More

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The Outcast

Actors: John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis, Catherine McLeod, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: Jet Cosgrave (John Derek) is The Outcast in this big-budget Republic western. Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave (Jim Davis), Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear Read More

San Antone

Actors: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta

Synopsis: Republic "regulars" Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan and Forrest Tucker star in the A-minus western San Antone. During the Civil War, Texan Carl Miller (Rod Cameron) adopts a neutral stance regarding the conflict. Miller is branded a coward by Brian Culver (Forrest Tucker), a Confederate blowhard whose Read More

Savage Frontier

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Bob Steele, Dorothy Patrick

Synopsis: Savage Frontier stars Allan "Rocky" Lane in his familiar movie guise as a U.S. marshal. A criminal gang, run by a mysterious "Mister Big," has been knocking off lawmen left and right. Once the audience is introduced to Roy Barcroft as leading citizen William Oakes, the mystery surrounding the Read More

Island in the Sky

Actors: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine

Synopsis: During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador. The five men, led by Dooley (John Wayne), have barely any food and almost no way to keep warm, and their power supply is fading fast, but they have to find a way of staying Read More

Column South

Actors: Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: Audie Murphy is suitably cast as cavalry lieutenant Jed Sayre in Universal's Column South. Stationed in Navajo country, Sayre has a pretty good understanding of, and rapport with, the local Indians, but his new CO Lee Whitlock (Robert Sterling) is of the "only good Indian is a dead Indian" school Read More

Bugles in the Afternoon

Actors: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become embroiled in a conflict, the cause of which is somewhat cloudy. As a result, Shafter leaves the Eastern Cavlary and moves West, where he is able to re-enlist. Ten years Read More

The Lion and the Horse

Actors: Steve Cochran, Ray Teal, Bob Steele, Harry Antrim, George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: The Lion and the Horse is one of the best efforts to come out of Bryan Foy's "B"-picture unit at Warner Bros. Steve Cochran stars as Ben Kirby, an easygoing cowboy who is dead set on owning a magnificent wild stallion. After Kirby and his partners capture the horse, the animal is purchased Read More

Rose of Cimarron

Actors: Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers considers herself a Native American and regards all whites as her enemies. Her feelings are justified to an extent when outlaws kill her Indian parents. Realizing she can't Read More

Silver Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Jim Davis, Bob Steele

Synopsis: This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie (Jim Davis). Read More

Cattle Drive

Actors: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: Cattle Drive stars Joel McCrea as boss drover Dana Mathews. It is Mathews' task to make a man out of Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled-rotten son of railroad executive Chester Graham Sr. (Leon Ames). Accidentally left behind when his dad's train pulls out of a small cow town Read More

Fort Worth

Actors: Randolph Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena Carter, Dick Jones

Synopsis: Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Ned Britt. Setting up shop in the eponymous Texas town, Britt tries to expose the crooked machinations of cattle baron Gabe Clevinger (Ray Teal). This brings him into conflict with his old friend Blair Lunsfold (David Brian), who Read More

The Enforcer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Martin Ferguson, a prosecutor about to put Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane), the head of a murder-for-hire ring, on trial. But the night before the trial, his key witness, Joe Rico (Ted de Corsia), dies in a fall out of the window of the room in which he's been guarded, part Read More

The Savage Horde

Actors: Adrian Booth, Grant Withers, Barbara Fuller, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo, who, though no paragon of virtue, is not a murderer. After killing a man in self-defense, Ringo takes it on the lam from the law. Hiding out in a remote frontier town, Ringo Read More

South of St. Louis

Actors: Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The story begins in the last days of the Civil War. Chased off their property by guerillas, ranching partners Kip Davis (Joel McCrea), Charlie Burns (Zachary Scott) and Lee Read More

Killer McCoy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn, Tom Tully

Synopsis: In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy, a dancer who performs in a going-nowhere nightclub act with his alcoholic father, Brian (James Dunn). Johnny Martin (Mickey Knox), a lightweight boxing champ who is Read More

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Actors: Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans

Synopsis: Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry Western. Autry, sidekick Sterling Holloway, and the Cass County Boys get involved with fiery Elena Del Rio (Adele Mara), a singer in the local cantina who alternately throws Read More

Bandits of Dark Canyon

Actors: Allan Lane, Bob Steele, Eddy Waller, John Hamilton

Synopsis: Back to his standard Rocky Lane characterization after a brief series of "Red Ryder" westerns, Allan Lane stars in Republic's Bandits of Dark Canyon. In this outing, Lane takes it upon himself to clear ex-convict Ed Archer (Bob Steele) of a trumped-up murder charge. Making things easier is the Read More

Cheyenne

Actors: John Alvin, Bruce Bennett, Monte Blue, John Compton, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is having no luck discovering the desperado's identity; when he comes across James Wylie (Dennis Morgan), a gambler who is running from the law in Carson City, he blackmails Read More

Exposed

Actors: Adele Mara, Robert Scott, Adrian Booth, Robert Armstrong, William Haade

Synopsis: Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara is a delight as wisecracking female private eye Belinda Prentice, who has to put in a lot of overtime when her first client is murdered. Following the clues to an apartment Read More

Northwest Trail

Synopsis: Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild, California, this Northwest Mounted melodrama starred the veteran Bob Steele as a rather surly mountie who, against his own better judgment, is persuaded to escort a patronizing Read More

The Navajo Kid

Actors: Bob Steele, Sid Saylor, Edward Cassidy, Caren Marsh, Stanley Blystone

Synopsis: A B-Western hero since the late silent era, Bob Steele would hang up his spurs after a final four westerns for director Harry L. Fraser. In the opener, The Navajo Kid, Steele, as he had so many times before, went in search of the villain, or villains, who murdered his foster-father and stole both Read More

The Sheriff of Redwood Valley

Synopsis: In this western, Red Ryder and his sidekick prove that a man never committed the crime of which he has been accused. They then round up the real outlaws. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ambush Trail

Actors: Budd Buster, Edward Cassidy, Frank Ellis, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The villain of the piece intends to bankrupt all the local ranchers and grab up the surrounding property for himself. But with Curley involved, the bad guy and his minions Read More

The Big Sleep

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. Brown

Synopsis: The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's Read More

Six Gun Man

Actors: Bob Steele, Sid Saylor, Jim Martin, Jean Carlin, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Diminutive western hero Bob Steele stars in Six Gun Man. Steele plays federal marshal Bob Storm, who has been assigned to halt the activities of cattle rustlers. Given his previous movie track record, we'll wager that Bob also wants to avenge the death of his father. Jean Carlin is the ingenue, I. Read More

Rio Grande Raiders

Synopsis: In this western, a stagecoach driver learns that his little brother is working for a corrupt, rival stage line. The good brother does all he can to save the bad one from a life of crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Thunder Town

Actors: Bob Steele, Sid Saylor, Ellen Hall, Bud Geary, Charles King

Synopsis: In his final starring Western for PRC, Bob Steele plays Jim Brandon who is imprisoned for a bank robbery and murder he didn't commit. Returning home on parole, Jim is ostracized by all and sundry, except Sheriff Warner (Steve Clark) and Betty Morgan (Ellen Hall), both of whom believe in his Read More

Wildfire

Actors: Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway, William Farnum

Synopsis: Wildfire was the first release from Screen Guild Productions, the adventuresome little independent that would eventually metamorphose into Lippert Pictures Inc. The title character is a magnificent wild horse, slated to be destroyed by a group of ranchers. It seems that Wildfire is being held Read More

Arizona Whirlwind

Actors: Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Ian Keith, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: In their third and final "Trail Blazers" Western together, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele witness what appears to be a gang of Indians raiding a stagecoach. Investigating, the three lawmen discover that the attackers are actually white bandits dressed as Indians and that their leader is Read More

Marked Trails

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Veda Ann Borg, Mauritz Hugo, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Unlike previous "Trail Blazers" entries, each of which starred three veteran western heroes, Marked Trails top-bills only two sagebrush favorites. Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele play a couple of wandering do-gooders who take on a gang of oil swindlers. Adopting a series of bewildering (but hardly Read More

Trigger Law

Death Valley Rangers

Actors: Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Linda Brent, Kenneth Harlan

Synopsis: Having worked as a duo in the first three entries of Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" series, veteran Western stars Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson were joined by Bob Steele in the fourth, Death Valley Rangers -- reportedly much to Maynard's dismay. Although not much younger than his august Read More

The Utah Kid

Synopsis: The Utah Kid was a late entry in Monogram's "Trail Blazers" series. These low-budget westerns usually featured three cowboy stars; this time, however, there are only two, Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson. Though neither star is a spring chicken, Steele is the younger of the two, so he's the "Utah Kid" Read More

Westward Bound

Actors: Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Betty Miles, John Bridges

Synopsis: The fifth of Monogram's eight "Trail Blazers" Western, Westward Bound was set during the time of Montana gaining statehood. Property values are about to skyrocket and nasty banker Roger Caldwell (Harry Woods) conspire with tax collector Henry Wagner (Karl Hackett) to drive the local ranchers off Read More

Sonora Stagecoach

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Rocky Camron, Betty Miles

Synopsis: Filmed at Corriganville, actor Ray "Crash" Corrigan's movie ranch in Simi Valley, Sonora Stagecoach was the last of Monogram's eight ramshackle "Trail Blazers" Western. The series had already suffered the loss of veteran star Ken Maynard -- who had become too difficult and costly -- and both Hoot Read More

Outlaw Trail

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Jennifer Holt

Synopsis: In the penultimate "Trail Blazers" B-Western, the often difficult Ken Maynard found himself summarily replaced by Chief Thundercloud, a somewhat original casting concept for Monogram, a stolid poverty row company that rarely took chances. Thundercloud joined veteran "Trail Blazers" Hoot Gibson and Read More

The Blocked Trail

Actors: Jimmy Dodd

Synopsis: The Blocked Trail was one of six "Three Mesquiteers" westerns starring Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmy Dodd. Steele played Tucson Smith, Tyler was Stony Brooke, and Dodd (later famous as the head mousketeer on TV's Mickey Mouse Club) essayed the comedy-relief role of Lullaby Joslyn. The plot of Read More

Santa Fe Scouts

Actors: Jimmy Dodd, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Lois Collier, John James

Synopsis: This late entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" series stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmy Dodd as, respectively, Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Johnson. This time out, the Mesquiteers try to help young Tim Clay (John James), who's been framed for murder by villains who Read More

Thundering Trails

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmy Dodd, Nell O'Day, Vince Barnett

Synopsis: In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Riders of the Rio Grande

Actors: Jimmy Dodd, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Lorraine Miller, Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis: With Riders of the Rio Grande, Republic's 51-entry "Three Mesquiteers" western series came to an end. Starring as the Mesquiteers on this excursion are Bob Steele as Tucson Smith, Tom Tyler as Stony Brooke and Jimmy Dodd as Lullaby Joslin. It all begins when kindly town banker Pop Owens (Edward Van Sloan Read More

Revenge of the Zombies

Actors: John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Gale Storm, Veda Ann Borg, Mantan Moreland

Synopsis: The second of Monogram's "zombie" thrillers, Revenge of the Zombies is better than the first, if only because of its powerhouse cast. John Carradine does his usual as Von Alltermann, a mad scientist in the employ of the Nazis. Commissioned to create a race of "living dead" warriors for the Third Read More

Valley of Hunted Men

Synopsis: Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis Read More

Code of the Outlaws

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Weldon Heyburn, Bennie Bartlett

Synopsis: The Three Mesquiteers are back in the saddle in Republic's Code of the Outlaws. In this outing, the Mesquiteers are played by Bob Steele (as Tuscon Smith), Tom Tyler (as Stony Brooke) and Rufe Davis (as Lullaby Joslin). Bennie Bartlett costars as the son of outlaw Weldon Heyburn, who refuses to Read More

The Phantom Plainsmen

Actors: Tom Tyler, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Robert O. Davis, Lois Collier

Synopsis: Republic's The Phantom Plainsman is another in the long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. The heroic triumverate are herein portrayed by Bob Steele (as Tucson Smith), Tom Tyler (Stony Brooke) and Rufe Davis (Lullaby Joslin). In keeping with a trend then prevalent in "B" westerns, the Read More

Texas Cowboy

Actors: Bob Steele, Edna Aslin, J.P. McGowan, Grace Stevens, Bud Osborne

Synopsis: Bob Steele stars as Dick Carlysle, who returns home to his family ranch after almost a year away in Texas to discover that his widowed mother has married Brute Kettle (J.P. McGowan), a local rancher with whom he has a lot of bad history. He's willing to stay on long enough to make certain of his Read More

Raiders of the Range

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Lois Collier, Frank Jaquet

Synopsis: Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series was in its fifth year of production when Raiders of the Range was released in March of 1942. In this one, the Mesquiteers are enacted by Bob Steele (as Tucson Smith), Tom Tyler (Stony Brooke) and Rufe Davis (Lullaby Joslin). Our heroes come to the aid Read More

Shadows on the Sage

Actors: Jimmy Dodd, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Cheryl Walker, Harry Holman

Synopsis: Republic Pictures' final 1942 release was the "Three Mesquiteers" western Shadows on the Sage. The better-than-average plot (brainstormed by screenwriter J. Benton Cheney) finds our three heroes battling a crooked banker and an elusive bandit -- who happens to be the exact double of Mesquiteer Read More

Riders for Justice

Synopsis: Riders for Justice is the TV title of the Republic "Three Mesquiteers" western Westward Ho (the change was made to avoid confusion with a 1936 John Wayne vehicle of the same name). The Mesquiteers this time out are Bob Steele as Tucson Smith, Tom Tyler as Stony Brooke and Rufe Davis as Lullaby Read More

Westward Ho

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Evelyn Brent, Donald Curtis, Lois Collier

Synopsis: The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of Read More

Gangs of Sonora

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, June Johnson

Synopsis: The Three Mesquiteers are back in Republic's Gangs of Sonora. The story is set in Wyoming, just before statehood was bestowed upon the territory. Town boss Sam Treadwell (Robert Frazer) doesn't want his little fiefdom to enter the Union, and does everything he can to prevent this eventuality Read More

West of Cimarron

Synopsis: A fine, action-packed entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" Western series, West of Cimarron featured the constellation of Bob Steele as Tucson Smith, Tom Tyler as Stony Brooke, and Rufe Davis as Lullaby Joslin. The scene is Texas right after the Civil War and former medical Read More

Gauchos of El Dorado

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Lois Collier, Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again, this time played by Bob Steele (as Tucson Smith), Tom Tyler (as Stony Brooke) and Rufe Davis (as Lullaby Joslin). It all begins when young bank robber Gaucho (played by ex-Mesquiteer Duncan Renaldo) is mortally wounded during a holdup. As the lad lays dying, he Read More

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

Synopsis: PRC's "Billy the Kid" series had two different stars over a six-year period. Bob Steele plays the title role in 1941's Billy the Kid in Santa Fe. Framed on a murder charge, Billy heads to guess what New Mexico town. Here he teams with the brother of the murder victim to extract a confession from Read More

The Great Train Robbery

Actors: Bob Steele, Claire Carleton, Milburn Stone, Helen MacKellar, Si Jenks

Synopsis: The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any longer than eight minutes. This 1941 production isn't even a western, but instead a modern-day melodrama starring Bob Steele as a railroad detective. Steele takes it upon Read More

Saddlemates

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Gale Storm, Forbes Murray

Synopsis: Congress suddenly changes the boundary between Texas and Mexico and the rangers leave the territory to the U.S. cavalry in this fine entry in Republic Pictures long-running Three Mesqueteers western series. Left to fend for himself, the commanding officer, Colonel Langley (Forbes Murray), makes Read More

Pals of the Pecos

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, June Johnson, Robert Winkler

Synopsis: The Pals of the Pecos are our old pals The Three Mesquiteers, portrayed herein by Robert Livingston (as Stony Brooke), Bob Steele (as Tucson Smith) and Rufe Davis (as Lullaby Joslin). Once again hopscotching in time, the Mesquiteers finds themselves in the year 1858. Attempting to help establish Read More

Billy the Kid's Range War

Actors: Bob Steele, Joan Barclay, Carleton Young, Rex Lease

Synopsis: Small-but-wiry Bob Steele plays the title role in the PRC western Billy the Kid's Range War. Once again rewriting history, the script contrives to have honest Billy falsely accused of a series of killings. The actual murderers are trying to sabotage an under-construction stagecoach road. Hiring on Read More

Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals

Actors: Bob Steele, Phyllis Adair, Carleton Young, Charles King

Synopsis: Billy the Kid is played by Bob Steele in this PRC sagebrusher, while his "fighting pals" are Al "Fuzzy" St. John and Carleton Young. Billy and his buddies arrive in the town of Paradise, which fails to live up to its name. The villain is a local banker (Edward Peil Sr.), who of course is also the Read More

Death Valley Outlaws

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, Milburn Stone, Karl Hackett

Synopsis: Produced and directed by George Sherman, Death Valley Outlaws starred James Cagney-lookalike Donald Barry as Johnny Edwards, a cowboy saving lovely Carolyn Johnson (Lynn Merrick) from a gang of vigilante raiders. When his friend, Bill Weston (Michael Owen), becomes the next target of the vigilante Read More

Prairie Pioneers

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Esther Estrella, Robert Kellard

Synopsis: Prairie Pioneers was one of a trio of "Three Mesquiteers" westerns directed by the forgotten Les Orleback. On this occasion, the Mesquiteers are enacted by Robert Livingston (as Stony Brooke), Bob Steele (Tucson Smith) and Rufe Davis (Lullaby Joslin). Their mission this time is to save young Read More

Outlaws of the Cherokee Trail

Synopsis: In this western, the Three Mesquisteers face down angry Indians and outlaws while fighting to save the life of am abducted young woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Billy the Kid Outlawed

Actors: Bob Steele, Al St. John, Carleton Young

Wild Horse Valley

Synopsis: In his penultimate Western for low-budget company Metropolitan, Bob Steele's horse Pirate, "one of the finest Arabian stallions in the West," is stolen by Ted Adams in a daring attempt to lure mares belonging to local ranchers into secret Wild Horse Valley. The ploy, of course, backfires and Adams Read More

Lone Star Raiders

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, June Johnson, George Douglas

Synopsis: Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders finds Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Bob Steele) and Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) defending elderly rancher "Granny" Phelps (Sarah Read More

Under Texas Skies

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Lois Ranson, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: With Under Texas Skies, Republic's Three Mesquiteers underwent a slight change of personnel. Robert Livingston remained as Stony Brooke, but now Bob Steele was seen as Tucson Smith and Rufe Davis assumed the role of Lullaby Joslin. The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to Read More

The Trail Blazers

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Pauline Moore, Weldon Heyburn

Synopsis: An above-average entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" series, The Trail Blazers is something as unusual as a Christmas western that includes comic sidekick Rufe Davis' rendition of "Jingle Bells". The Mesqueteers -- who in addition to Davis' Lullaby Joslin also numbered Read More

Billy the Kid in Texas

Actors: Bob Steele, Carleton Young

Synopsis: The second entry PRC's "Billy the Kid" series was 1940's Billy the Kid in Texas. The titular Kid is played by Bob Steele, who this time out becomes sheriff of a Texas town (despite the price on his own head). In this capacity, he is forced to do battle with any number of outlaws, one of whom turns Read More

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

Synopsis: Sherman Scott is credited as director of Billy the Kid's Gun Justice, but you can't fool us: Scott is none other than the incredibly prolific Sam Newfield. We'd like to tell you what the picture's all about, but not even our most reliable sources can offer us any info. Judging by the rest of PRC's Read More

The Carson City Kid

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery, Jr., Pauline Moore

Synopsis: Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the masters of the genre, Joseph Kane. Learning that the man he believes to be the killer, Lee Jessup (Bob Steele), is running a gambling establishment in Sonora, the Kid manages to Read More

City for Conquest

Actors: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis: There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the six or more in the book -- but the real star, to a large extent, is New York City and its entire population. For purposes of the movie, however, the dramatic arc is linked to James Cagney Read More

Pinto Canyon

Synopsis: In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The leader of the rustlers, rancher Farley (Ted Adams), hires killer Pete Childers (George Cheseboro) to impersonate a deputy sheriff and gain Sheriff Read More

El Diablo Rides

Synopsis: In his sixth and final Western release of 1939, diminutive Bob Steele played a cowboy, who, searching for his father's killer, is mistaken for a notorious outlaw in a corrupt border town. Directed by producer Harry S. Webb's younger brother Ira, El Diablo Rides featured the usual Metropolitan Read More

The Pal from Texas

Synopsis: The fifth of eight Metropolitan Bob Steele B-Westerns, The Pal From Texas featured the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal (Josef Swickard) from being swindled by an unscrupulous tavern owner (Ted Adams). When the friend, Texas, is found murdered, suspicion Read More

Smoky Trails

Actors: Bob Steele, Jean Carmen, Murdock MacQuarrie, Carleton Young

Synopsis: In all aspects a mediocre B-Western, Smoky Trails once again trotted out the old story of a young man pretending to join a gang of outlaws in order to find the villain that killed his father. Bob Steele had played the role many times before but usually under better conditions. Smoky Trails was the Read More

Smokey Trails

Of Mice and Men

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: This 1939 film version of John Steinbeck's classic novel was a surprising choice for comedy producer Hal Roach; in fact, Roach had no intention of filming the property until forced to do so as a result of a lawsuit brought by director Lewis Milestone. Burgess Meredith stars as itinerant farm Read More

Riders of the Sage

Synopsis: The fourth of eight ramshackle Bob Steele oaters ground out by Metropolitan Pictures 1939-1940, Riders of the Sage joined the growing list of B-Westerns dealing with the cattle rancher vs. homesteader problem. The site of the trouble this time is Apache Basin, into which rides innocent Bob Burke (Steele Read More

Mesquite Buckaroo

Actors: Bob Steele, Carolyn Curtis, Frank LaRue, Juanita Fletcher

Synopsis: The third of eight Bob Steele Westerns produced by bargain-basement company Metropolitan, Mesquite Buckaroo was a slight improvement over its predecessor, due mainly to a couple of campfire songs penned by Johnny Lange and Lew Porter and warbled by the now forgotten Bruce Dane. The diminutive Steele Read More

Feud of the Range

Synopsis: The first of eight Bob Steele Westerns from Gower Gulch producer Harry S. Webb's Metropolitan Pictures Corp., Feud of the Range had been filmed as The Kanab Kid in Kanab, UT, in the fall of 1938. An ignominious beginning of an justly infamous series, the Western starred the diminutive Steele as a Read More

Thunder in the Desert

Actors: Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Don Barclay, Ed Brady, Charles King

Synopsis: Bantam-weight cowboy star Bob Steele stars in Thunder in the Desert. If you're familiar with Steele, you'll know that he was a star with but a single plot: A young man searches for the murderer of his father. This time, however, a few changes have been made. Now Bob is on the prowl for the Read More

Durango Valley Raiders

Actors: Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Karl Hackett, Ted Adams, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: A B-Western of the old school, Durango Valley Raiders stars diminutive Bob Steele as Keene Cordner, a drifter who obtains the job of foreman for rancher Mac McKay (Karl Hackett). But Keene proves to be the son of Mac's old partner (Steve Clark), with whom he once had a dramatic falling out. A Read More

The Colorado Kid

Actors: Bob Steele, Marion Weldon, Karl Hackett, Ernie S. Adams, Ted Adams

Synopsis: Less than a week after the release of the Bob Steele western Paroled-to Die came yet another Steele vehicle, Amateur Crook. Once again, the hero (Steele) is framed for a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to track down the culprit. And once again, he succeeds. Amateur Crook was Read More

The Feud Maker

Actors: Bob Steele, Marion Weldon, Karl Hackett, Frank Ball, Budd Buster

Synopsis: In this western, a good-guy must halt a battle between cattle ranchers and settlers. An outlaw exploits the feud by working on both sides and then buying up all of the land for peanuts as the two factions murder each other. The hero soon figures out the outlaw's scheme and brings him to justice Read More

Desert Patrol

Actors: Bob Steele, Marion Weldon, Rex Lease, Ted Adams, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: Ranger Bob Steele goes after the bandit who killed his colleague in this low-budget oater from Supreme Pictures Corp., which was picked up for distribution by Republic. When Dave Austin learns that Apache Joe (Ted Adams) is the killer of Ranger Carson (Julian Madison), he pretends to be an outlaw Read More

The Trusted Outlaw

Actors: Bob Steele, Lois January, Joan Barclay, Earl Dwire, Charles King

Synopsis: Though A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures went belly-up in 1936, he continued grinding out his popular Bob Steele westerns, shifting distribution to up-and-coming Republic. Steele plays Dan, the headstrong young son of a notorious outlaw. Dan is forced not only to live down his dad's reputation, but Read More

Lightning Bill Crandall

Synopsis: As cattlemen battle, a gunman arrives in Arizona for peace and quiet only to be entangled in their mess so assists the good guys. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Paroled to Die

Actors: Bob Steele, Karl Hackett, Horace Murphy, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Paroled-to Die was one of Bob Steele's best starring westerns for producer A. W. Hackel. Wasting precious little time with plot or dialogue, the film gets down to business with a two-fisted opening action sequence. Thereafter, the thrills never let up, as hero Doug Redfern (Steele) tries to clear Read More

The Red Rope

Actors: Bob Steele, Lois January, Forrest Taylor, Karl Hackett

Synopsis: Bob Steele -- or, as he was known in the trade papers, "Our Bob" -- stars as Tom Shaw, the courageous foreman of the ranch owned by Betty Duncan (Lois January). A group of mysterious riders, apparently determined to drive every cattle rancher out of the territory, has launched a bloody campaign of Read More

Ridin' the Lone Trail

Actors: Bob Steele, Claire Rochelle, Ernie S. Adams, Lew Meehan

Synopsis: The 1937 Bob Steele western Ridin' the Lone Trail was released by the legendary Republic Studios, but it was filmed independently, its production values on a par with Steele's previous poverty-stricken efforts at lesser studios. At one point, the silence of the lone frontier is broken by the sound Read More

Border Phantom

Actors: Bob Steele, Harley Wood, Don Barclay, Karl Hackett, Horace Murphy

Synopsis: A murdered entomologist, an inscrutable Asian, and a sinister cowboy with rape on his mind are but a few of the many strange characters inhabiting this unusually well-made, Bob Steele Western. Steele plays Larry O'Day, who, along with sidekick Lucky Smith (Don Barclay), comes to the rescue of Read More

The Gun Ranger

Actors: Bob Steele, Eleanor Stewart, John Merton, Ernie S. Adams, Earl Dwire

Synopsis: A disgruntled ranger quits his job after a crooked state's attorney manages to get a case of murder thrown out of court in this standard Bob Steele western released by Republic Pictures. But as Dan Larsen (Steele) soon learns, there is more to the murder suspect, Wally Smeed (Ernie Adams), than Read More

The Arizona Gunfighter

Actors: Bob Steele, Jean Carmen, Ted Adams, Ernie S. Adams, Lew Meehan

Synopsis: To those well versed in the Bob Steelewesterns of the 1930s, it's hardly surprising to reveal that the plot of Arizona Gunfighter was motivated by the murder of the hero's father. One of the more novel plot twists finds good-guy gunfighter Colt Ferron (Steele) casting his lot with reformed outlaw Read More

Doomed at Sundown

Actors: Bob Steele, Lorraine Hayes, Warner P. Richmond, Harold Daniels, David Sharpe

Synopsis: Bob Steele once again goes in search for the outlaw who murdered his father in this average Western released by Republic Pictures. The killer, Jim Hatfield (Warner Richmond), is holed up in a South-of-the-Border cantina from whence he runs a series of cattle rustlings and assorted other crimes. Read More

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin

Actors: Bob Steele, Karl Hackett, Ernie S. Adams, Frank LaRue

Synopsis: In this western, a cattleman's son and a homesteader's daughter fall in love, but find their love thwarted by a trouble-making lawyer who creates a conflict between the ranchers and the settlers by telling the ranchers that the cattleman's stock will die if the homesteaders are allowed to dam the Read More

Lightnin' Crandall

Actors: Bob Steele, Lois January, Frank LaRue, Ernie S. Adams

Synopsis: In this western, brand new rancher Bob Steele, a former gunslinger in search of a more peaceful life, finds his quiet shattered when he finds himself caught between two feuding neighbors. Matters become more complex when he falls in love with one of their daughters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Smokey Smith

Synopsis: Bob Steele goes in search of the outlaw who killed both his parents and stole a valuable ring in this pedestrian western from producer A.W. Hackle's ramshackle Supreme Pictures Corp. Left to die in the desert, Smokey Smith (Steele) is nursed back to health by the sheriff of Pecos, John Law (Earl Read More

Sundown Saunders

Actors: Bob Steele, Catherine Cotter, Earl Dwire, Edward Cassidy, Jack Rockwell

Synopsis: Western favorite Bob Steele stars as Sundown Saunders, so named because of his remarkable ability to win at poker just at the moment when the sun goes down. Winning 640 acres of land in a pony race, Saunders leaves cards and chips behind to take charge of his property. He doesn't yet know that his Read More

The Kid Ranger

Synopsis: Veteran silent screen star William Farnum earns one of his more prominent talking picture roles in this otherwise standard Bob Steele Western from Supreme Pictures. Farnum plays Sheriff Bill Mason who, after being forced to shoot outlaw Ben Brokaw (Frank Ball), promises the dying man to look after Read More

Brand of the Outlaws

Synopsis: Bob Steele was directed by his father Robert N. Bradbury in Brand of the Outlaws. Can it be that Our Hero has turned outlaw himself? It sure seems that way, given the fact that Bob comes to the aid of a gang of rustlers. But fear not: Steele is merely working undercover, in search of (you guessed Read More

Cavalry

Synopsis: Bob Steele plays a Boy in Blue in the low-budget western Cavalry. The diminutive Steele leads his troopers against all manner of dangerous foes, all for the benefit of leading-lady Frances Grant. Naturally, Steele is also trying to avenge the murder of his father, just as he'd done in his previous Read More

The Law Rides

Synopsis: Director Robert N. Bradbury puts his cowboy-star son Bob Steele through the customary paces in The Law Rides. The key to a series of murders is the gold coins left at the scene of each crime. It appears for a while as though "battling Bob" is responsible for the killings. He isn't, and it's not Read More

The Last of the Warrens

Actors: Bob Steele, Margaret Marquis, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee, Charles French

Synopsis: Last of the Warrens is ever-so-slightly better than most of Bob Steele's westerns for A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures. Once again, the hero, this time named Ted Warren, spends the lion's share of his screen time searching for the murderer of his father. In a unique twist, the bad guy turns out to Read More

Alias John Law

Synopsis: Filmed simultaneously with the earlier release No Man's Range (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the diminutive hero as John Clark, a young drifter who comes to the aid of beleaguered U.S. marshal Blyth (Jack Rockwell), who has been shooting it out with a gang of outlaws. Wounded but still Read More

Big Calibre

Actors: Bob Steele, Peggy Campbell, John Elliott, Frank Ball, Frank Brownlee

Synopsis: Directed by his father, Robert North Bradbury, Bob Steele's third Western for independent producer A.W. Hackel remains one of the most bizarre and evocative B-Westerns of the 1930s. Written by set designer/supporting actor Perry Murdock, The Big Calibre is really a horror movie masquerading as a Read More

Powdersmoke Range

Actors: Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Tom Tyler, William Farnum

Synopsis: William Colt MacDonald's 1934 story based on the Three Mesqueteers characters was brought to the screen the following year by RKO, who billed it "the Barnum and Bailey of Westerns" and seems to have rounded up every Western star not under exclusive contract. The Western, in fact, could boast of no Read More

No Man's Range

Synopsis: Filmed simultaneously with Alias John Law, this rather complicated Western from low-budget Supreme Pictures featured wiry Bob Steele as Jim Hale, a young cowboy summoned by his stepfather Ed (Charles K. French) to assume his share of the family ranch. When Jim and his elderly sidekick Fuzz (Buck Read More

Kid Courageous

Synopsis: Released in the wake of the bizarre Big Calibre (1935), this below-average Bob Steele Western directed by his father Robert North Bradbury stayed mainly on the straight and narrow. Thrown out of the family mining business by his stern father (Lafe McKee), ne'er-do-well Bob Bannister (Steele) jumps Read More

The Rider of the Law

Synopsis: An apparently lost entry in the long-running Bob Steele Western series produced by A.W. Hackel, The Rider of the Law presented the diminutive Steele as an Arizona lawman trailing the Tolliver brothers, a gang of outlaws. Steele catches up with the brothers in Apache City, where they are Read More

Trail of Terror

Synopsis: Nobody is what he (or she) appears to be in this above-average western starring Bob Steele and directed by his father, Robert North Bradbury. Searching for the whereabouts of a strongbox lost in a stage hold-up, government agent Jim Wilson (Steele) goes undercover as a prison inmate. The ploy Read More

Western Justice

Actors: Bob Steele, Renee Borden, Julian Rivero, Arthur Loft, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: Released in the wake of the spooky The Big Calibre (1935), this Bob Steele Western featured the spectacle of a villain skinned alive as punishment for attempted rape. Scripted by director Robert North Bradbury (Steele's real-life father), Western Justice presented Steele as Ace, an apparent Read More

A Demon for Trouble

Synopsis: In his first of thirty-two B-Westerns for producer A.W. Hackel, bantamweight Bob Steele plays Bob Worth, a cowboy seeking employment at Lita Morton's (Gloria Shea) New Mexico ranch. Lita's brother Bud (Nick Stuart) turns him down flat and instead puts the property up for sale. The buyer, Dyer Read More

Gun Ranger

Synopsis: A Texas Ranger makes his own kind of justice after having enough of corrupt prosecutors and weak judges. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Brand of Hate

Actors: Bob Steele, Lucille Browne, William Farnum, Mickey Rentschler, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: An above-average cast makes up for the lack of production values in this, the second of 32 Bob Steele Westerns produced by A.W. Hackel for the States' Rights market. Steele is Rod Kent, a rancher falling in love with his neighbor, Margie Orkin (Lucile Browne), whom he rescues from an irate bull. Read More

Tombstone Terror

Synopsis: The 1934 B western Tombstone Terror could also have been titled All in the Family. Its star is Bob Steele, and its director is Steele's father Robert N. Bradbury. Once more, Our Bob is wrongly accused of being an outlaw. And once more, he clears himself and tracks down the murderer of his father Read More

Mystery Squadron [Serial]

Actors: Bob Steele, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Lucille Browne, Jack Mulhall, J. Carrol Naish, Robert W. Frazer, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele. Steele and sidekick Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (whose supposedly comical craving for jellybeans quickly becomes tiring) are hired by an aviator friend (Jack Mulhall Read More

Trailing North

Actors: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, Arthur Rankin, George "Gabby" Hayes, Fred Burns

Synopsis: Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele, who that same year also played a circus acrobat, a would-be boxer, and a barn-storming pilot, takes on the wintry Northwest in this low-budget action melodrama from Monogram. Attacked by persons unknown, a dying Jim Powers (Fred Burns) warns his young friend Lee Read More

The California Trail

Actors: Buck Jones, Helen Mack, George Humbert, Carmen La Roux, Luis Alberni, Emile Chautard, Charles Stevens

Synopsis: Yankee Buck Jones turns into a south-of-the-border Robin Hood in this fine, if flawed, Western from Columbia Pictures. Arriving with a shipment of food for the starving peons of La Loma, CA, Santa Fe Stewart (Jones) finds himself falsely accused of murdering local businessman Don Marco Ramirez (Emile Chautard Read More

The Gallant Fool

Synopsis: A good idea never really gets off the ground in this circus melodrama/western starring Bob Steele. The bantamweight cowboy plays Kit Denton, whose father, Charles (George Hayes), the owner of a traveling circus, is forced to admit that he is unwanted in the western town of Big Ben. As Charles Read More

Galloping Romeo

Actors: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ed Brady, Frank Ball

Synopsis: The Galloping Romeo is Bob Steele, a wandering cowboy who's had incredibly bad luck with women. After several romantic setbacks, Steele finally falls for a girl who he thinks is as pure as the driven snow. In actuality, the "heroine" and her father are in charge of a lucrative stage-holdup racket. Read More

Breed of the Border

Actors: Bob Steele, Marion Byron, Wilfred Lucas, Ernie S. Adams, George "Gabby" Hayes, Henry Roquemore

Synopsis: In a slight change of pace, low-budget Western star Bob Steele plays a cowboy-turned-race car driver in this otherwise typical Paul Malvern production directed by the star's father Robert North Bradbury. Steele's happy-go-lucky Speed Brent gets involved with escaped prisoner Killer Joe (Ernie Read More

Fighting Champ

Actors: Bob Steele, Arletta Duncan, Charles King, Kit Guard, George Cheseboro

Synopsis: B-Western perennial Bob Steele made attempts at diversifying in 1933 by playing a circus acrobat in The Gallant Fool and a would-be boxer in The Fighting Champ, although, truth be told, never veering too far from the range in either. In The Fighting Champ, Steele plays Brick Loring, an itinerant Read More

The Ranger's Code

Actors: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, Ernie S. Adams, George Nash, Ed Brady

Synopsis: Bob Steele has trouble sticking to The Ranger's Code in this western. As the sheriff, Steele must bring in a young man who's been consorting with crooks. Trouble is, the suspect is the brother of Steele's sweetheart. Fortunately, our hero is able to prove the boy's innocence by film's end, thereby Read More

Young Blood

Actors: Helen Foster, Harry Semels, Charles King, Naomi Judge, Hank Bell

Synopsis: A pet monkey saves the day in this otherwise unusually adult Bob Steele Western. The bantam-weight Steele plays Nick, aka "the Kid," a sort of prairie Robin Hood planning to return some jewels he stole from French performer Lola Montaine (Naomi Judge). Nick's partner-in-crime, Sheriff Jake Sharpe (Charles King Read More

Law of the West

Synopsis: A young man rebels against his brutal foster-father in this low-budget Western directed by Robert North Bradbury. Bradbury's real-life son Bob Steele plays Bob Carruthers, kidnapped by evil Lee Morgan (Ed Brady). Bob's real father, Sheriff Dan Carruthers (Hank Bell), had killed Morgan's son in Read More

Texas Buddies

Actors: Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Francis McDonald, Harry Semels, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele took to the air in this his second-to-last Western for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World Wide. A returning World War I flying ace, Ted "Gat" Garner joins his old friend, Si Halter (George "Gabby" Hayes), on a trip to the desert. They stumble over the skeletal Read More

Hidden Valley

Actors: Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, Francis McDonald, Ray Hallor

Synopsis: Filmed on glorious locations at the foot of California's Mount Whitney by ace cinematographer Archie Stout, this above-average Monogram B-Western starred wiry, little Bob Steele in an offbeat story of a cowboy searching for a lost tribe of Indians. Surviving in the seemingly impassable Hidden Read More

Man from Hell's Edges

Actors: Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Julian Rivero, Robert E. Homans, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: Filmed in the desert near Lake Elsinore and Lake Hemet, CA, and in the San Jacinto Mountains, The Man From Hell's Edges was the fourth of six Bob Steele Westerns produced by Trem Carr for release by Sono Art-World Wide. Escaping from Hell's Edges, desert penitentiary Flash Manning (Steele) heads Read More

Riders of the Desert

Actors: George "Gabby" Hayes, John Elliott, Horace B. Carpenter

Synopsis: In his third of six low-budget Westerns for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World Wide, diminutive cowboy ace Bob Steele was once again directed by his real-life father, Robert North Bradbury. Steele plays Bob Houston, a young man returning from college only to find that the father (Horace B. Read More

South of Santa Fe

Synopsis: In his first of six inexpensive Westerns for producer Trem Carr, bantam-weight cowboy ace Tom Steele played Tom Keene, a Yankee defying Mexican Captain Rodriguez (Allan Garcia) by crossing over the border into Mexico to visit his friend, Lanky (Eddie Dunn). At the Thornton ranch, old man Thornton Read More

Son of Oklahoma

Actors: Bob Steele, Josie Sedgwick, Julian Rivero, Carmen La Roux

Synopsis: The last of Bob Steele's six Westerns of Poverty Row company Sono Art-World Wide, Son of Oklahoma was directed by the diminutive cowboy's real-life father, Robert North Bradbury, and filmed on locations in the Mojave Desert near Palmdale, CA. Steele, who broke his arm during the making of the Read More

The Sunrise Trail

Actors: Bob Steele, Blanche Mehaffey, Jack Clifford, Germaine DeNeel, Eddie Dunn

Synopsis: Bob Steele rides the Sunrise Trail in this dusty "B"-western. Ostensibly an outlaw, Steele is actually an undercover operative for the local constabulary. He joins up with a gang of rustlers for the purpose of bringing the crooks to justice. Along the way, he falls for golden-hearted saloon gal Blanche Mehaffey Read More

Near the Trail's End

Actors: Jay Morley, Hooper Atchley, Si Jenks

Synopsis: Poor Marion Shockley finds herself the victim of both a robbery and a kidnapping in this obscure but quite well-made Poverty Row Western starring the diminutive Bob Steele. After saving Jane Rankin (Shockley) from her kidnappers, Johnny Day (Steele) is elected Cactus town marshal but what at first Read More

The Nevada Buckaroo

Actors: Bob Steele, Dorothy Dix, Ed Brady, George "Gabby" Hayes, Glen Cavender

Synopsis: An early Bob Steele sound oater from low-budget company Tiffany, Nevada Buckaroo featured the bantam-weight star as the Nevada Kid, a stage robber arrested when he attempts to steal a kiss from Joan (Dorothy Dix), one of his victims. Nevada's sidekick, Cherokee (George "Gabby" Hayes), steals a Read More

At the Ridge

Synopsis: In its last production days, Tiffany studios was home for many a "B" western series. One such starred Bob Steele, usually cast as a young cowboy searching for the murderer of his father. In At the Ridge, however, Steele and his sidekick Al St. John are occupied with protecting a herd of horses Read More

The Ridin' Fool

Synopsis: Bob Steele's first Western of 1931, The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry (Ted Adams) from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and Read More

The Man from Nowhere

Actors: Bob Steele, Ione Reed, Clark Comstock, William Nestell, Perry Murdock

Synopsis: Bantam-weight cowboy hero Bob Steele made his talkie debut in a series of westerns for Syndicate Films, one of the several precursors to Monogram Pictures. In The Man From Nowhere, wandering hero Terry Norton (Bob Steele) rides from out of nowhere into the middle of a family feud. The villain of Read More

Near the Rainbow's End

Synopsis: Bob Steele's talkie debut was the usual story of cattlemen versus sheepmen. Steele, the son of a cattle rancher, naturally belongs to the former group and is soon falsely accused of murdering an old sheepherder. The dead man, alas, is the father of Steele's girlfriend (Louise Lorraine) and the Read More

The Land of Missing Men

Actors: Bob Steele, Caryl Lincoln, Al Jennings

Synopsis: The fourth of eight westerns made by diminutive Bob Steele for poverty row's Tiffany Productions, The Land of Missing Men is a sturdy little oater which contains a hair-rising scene where Steele and sidekick Al St. John enter a saloon littered with corpses! The remainder of the film is not quite Read More

Hunted Men

Synopsis: Veteran action specialist J.P. McGowan both produced and directed this very late silent western released by his own ill--named Big Productions Film Corp. The former husband and co-star of serial queen Helen Holmes, McGowan peddled his little oaters to rural movie theaters not yet equipped with Read More

Headin' North

Actors: Barbara Luddy, Perry Murdock, Walter Shumway, Eddie Dunn, Fred Burns

Synopsis: Cowboy star Bob Steele looks embarrassed throughout most of Headin' North, as well he should. The film begins conventionally enough, with Steele once again accused of a murder he didn't commit. Hoping to remain in hiding until he can expose the real killer, our hero disguises himself as a Read More

The Oklahoma Sheriff

Actors: Jean Reno, Perry Murdock, Cliff Lyons, Mack Wright, Thomas G. Lingham

Synopsis: This inexpensively produced early sound Western was diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele's second to last for poverty row company Syndicate Film Exchange. Steele appeared as a young cowboy in love with the sheriff's daughter (Jean Reno). There is a rival, of course, a crooked deputy (Perry Murdock) Read More

Oklahoma Cyclone

Synopsis: Disguising himself as a bandit, diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele infiltrates the gang who abducted his father, the sheriff. The second of eight Steele Westerns produced by Trem Carr for Tiffany release, this minor Western included three songs crooned by a star not necessarily known for any great Read More

Go and Get It

Actors: Bob Steele, James Quinn, Jay Morley

Laughing at Death

Actors: Bob Steele

Synopsis: In one of his final silent films, cowboy hero Bob Steele plays a dual role, Prisoner of Zenda style. One of the Steeles is the prince of the mythical country of Libania, while the other is a down-to-earth college student, working his way through school as a ship's stoker. Inevitably, the stoker Read More

Amazing Vagabond

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Lingham, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee, Perry Murdock, Jay Morley

Synopsis: The son of productive western director Robert North Bradbury, Bob Steele became FBO's final western hero. Here, he is a wealthy scion who toughens up in a rough-and-tumble lumber camp when he is forced to defend Phil Dunning (Lafe McKee) and his daughter (Thelma Daniels) from the brutal George Read More

Cowboy and the Outlaw

Actors: Bob Steele, Edna Aslin, Bud Osborne, Tom Lingham, Cliff Lyons

Synopsis: Diminutive cowboy Bob Steele starred as a cowboy tracking down his father's killer in this modest silent Western produced by J.P. McGowan's penny-pinching (and grossly misnamed) Big Productions Company. The revenge theme was popular in Westerns at the time, especially with Steele who used it Read More

The Invaders

Actors: Bob Steele, Edna Aslin

Synopsis: In this western, a wagon train is massacred by Indians and the only survivors are two children, a brother and a sister. They take the girl, adopt her into the tribe and name her "Black Fawn." Meanwhile, the cavalry saves the boy. He grows up to join them. Eventually the siblings are reunited after Read More

Driftin' Sands

Synopsis: Diminutive screen cowboy Bob Steele stars in this minor Western from action melodrama factory Film Booking Office (later RKO). Steele plays a drifter bearing the appropriate nickname "Driftin' Sands," who is hired by a wealthy rancher (William H. Turner) to protect his spoiled daughter (Gladys Quartero Read More

Breed of the Sunsets

Actors: George Bunny, Leo White, Bob Steele

Synopsis: Lovely senorita Maria Alvaro (Dorothy Kitchen) is rescued from a gunshot wedding to foppish Senor Valdez (former Charlie Chaplin associate Leo White) practically on the steps to the church by daredevil rider Jim Collins (Bob Steele). The young man simply kidnaps her and holds her until her father (George Bunny Read More

Man in the Rough

Actors: Bob Steele

Synopsis: Attempting to warn an old prospector (Tom Lingham) and his daughter (Marjorie King) of impending danger from a notorious outlaw (William Norton Bailey), diminutive but tough western hero Bob Steele is himself mistaken for a bandit. The villain in this minor FBO outing was played by William Norton Bailey Read More

Lightning Speed

Actors: William Welch, Mairy Mabery, Perry Murdock, Bob Steele, Sam de Grasse

Synopsis: Popular young B-Western star Bob Steele left the prairie behind this time around and instead found himself playing Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falling in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet (Barney Read More

Captain Careless

Actors: Perry Murdock, Mairy Mabery, Jack Donovan, Wilfred North, Bob Steele

Synopsis: Would you trust an adventurer named "Captain Careless"? Hero Bob Steele bears this curious moniker, though in his case "Careless" translates to "Reckless". When heroine Mary Mabery is shipwrecked on an island inhabited by cannibals, Steele rushes to her rescue. Though he experiences many a Read More

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

Actors: Bryant Washburn, Chief Yowlachie, Bob Steele

Synopsis: As helmed by Robert North Bradbury, the silent feature With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre was produced in 1925 but went unreleased until 1927, and was then considered lost for another 80 years. It stars a Native American thespian, Chief Yowlachie, as the famous 19th Century Sioux Indian Read More

Mojave Kid

Actors: Bob Steele, Lillian Gilmore, Buck Connors, Bob Fleming

Synopsis: Diminutive screen cowboy Bob Steele starred in his pleasant oater about a cowboy searching for his mysteriously vanished father.Trailing three oldtimers into the desert, Bob Saunders (Steele) discovers his father, Silent (Buck Connors) in the hands of nasty Big Olaf (Robert Fleming). When Big Olaf Read More

The Bandit's Son

Actors: Tom Lingham, Stanley Taylor, Bobby Mack, Frank Finch Smiles

Synopsis: A very young Bob Steele starred in this average silent Western as Bob McCall, a young cowboy saving his outlaw father (Tom Lingham) from being lynched for a crime he didn't commit. The real culprit, as young Bob quickly learns, is Rufe Bolton (Stanley Taylor), the wastrel son of the local sheriff (Hal Davis Read More

Texas Trouble

Synopsis: In this rootin' tootin' western, the good-guy defeats the outlaws. Horses run, guns blaze, fists fly, and justice prevails. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

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