Bob WoodwardFilmography

Have Gun, Will Travel: Bandit

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is the latest in a long line of hired guns dispatched to bring a murderous outlaw named Sandy to justice. Making this slightly different from other similar cases undertaken by Paladin is the fact that the elusive Sandy is a young woman (played by Natalie Norwick). Upon Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Treasure

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired as escort for Edna Harden (Jeanne Cooper), who is bound for a reunion with her husband, a bank robber recently released from prison. Arriving in a ghost town with Paladin, Edna doesn't find her husband right away, but this doesn't seem to matter in light of the Read More

Five Guns to Tombstone

Actors: James Brown, John Wilder, Walter Coy, Robert Karnes, Joe Haworth

Synopsis: One more stock western in a long line stretching back to the turn of the 20th century, this oater by peripatetic director Edward L. Cahn has nothing particularly distinctive in its story about a group of outlaws. Billy Wade (played by the athletic James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Broken Image

Synopsis: Tim Decker (Kenneth Tobey) enjoys a home-town reputation as being extraordinarily quick on the trigger. With this in mind, the townsfolk cannot understand why Tim is reluctant to give chase when a gang of outlaws rob the local bank. It is up to Paladin (Richard Boone) to coerce Tim into joining a Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Tax Gatherer

Synopsis: The town of Bad Dog, Oregon is populated by wealthy ranchers who refuse to pay their cattle taxes. Actually, it goes beyond a mere refusal: Three tax collectors have already been killed in their efforts to get the cattlemen to pay up. You guessed it: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired as Collector Read More

Gun Fight

Synopsis: In this western, a discharged cavalry soldier rides a stage to his brother's cattle ranch. En route he meets a dance hall girl. Later he saves her from an outlaw's unsavory advances during a heist. When he gets to his brother's ranch he soon learns that his brother makes his real living by Read More

Apache Territory

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, John Dehner, Carolyn Craig, Thomas Pittman

Synopsis: A wandering cowboy endeavors to save a wagon train from an Apache attack in this western that is based upon a Louis L'Amour novel. The settlers are frightened and flee. They all end up dead, but for one little girl, whom the cowboy saves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wyoming Renegades

Actors: Philip Carey, Gene Evans, Martha Hyer, William Bishop, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Phil Carey is his usual rough-and-tumble self in the Columbia western programmer Wyoming Renegade. Carey plays Brady Sutton, a former outlaw who wants to go straight. Trouble is, everyone is convinced that Sutton is still a no-good -- everyone, that is, except heroine Nancy Warren (Martha Hyer). Read More

Cattle Queen of Montana

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. Stanwyck is cast as Sierra Nevada Jones, who hopes to stake her claim in the cattle business despite opposition from hostile land barons. Read More

Winning of the West

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Richard Crane, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Winning of the West was Gene Autry's first western vehicle for 1953. It was also one of Autry's better offerings, with the star cast as a territorial ranger with an uncharacteristically nasty streak. When a local newspaper publisher is slain by an outlaw gang, Gene hesitates to pull his gun Read More

Junction City

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Kathleen Case, John Dehner

Synopsis: Columbia's "Durango Kid" series was winding down to a close by the time Junction City went before the cameras in 1952. Durango, aka Steve Rollins (Charles Starrett) rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescue of pretty Kathleen Case, who is being victimized by greedy Read More

Blue Canadian Rockies

Synopsis: In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude ranch and several murders which require solving. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Stage to Galveston

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Virginia Huston, Thurston Hall, Judy Nugent

Synopsis: Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the wild-and-wooly days when the Texas Rangers were supplanted by various local corrupt police officials, the story finds Gene at odds with crooked police chief Gen. Slaydon (Robert Livingston Read More

The Old West

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Lyle Talbot, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his all to this story of frontier religiosity. Left for dead in an outlaw ambush, Gene is nursed back to health by a travelling parson (House Peters Sr.) Our hero decides to help Read More

Nevada Badmen

Synopsis: The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller (I. Stanford Jolley), a greedy express agent and Banker Jensen (Bill Kennedy, who conspire to separate Bob Bannon (Kenne Duncan) from the gold found on his property. Bob's brother Jim (Jim Bannon) and his two pals Whip Read More

Outlaw Gold

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Adams, Myron Healey, Milburn Morante, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in the Monogram oater Outlaw Gold. The plot is motivated by revenge: sentenced to five years in prison, vicious gunman Sonny Lang (Myron Healey) vows to "get" Dave Willis (Brown) the moment he's released. Our Hero, however, can't be bothered by such trivialities. He's too Read More

Vigilante Hideout

Actors: Allan Lane, Virginia Herrick, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: Allan "Rocky" Lane and his faithful steed Black Jack star in Vigilante Hideout. The plot revolves around a bitter struggle over water rights. Eccentric inventor Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) tries to help his drought-ridden neighbors by blasting for water, while a $25,000 nest egg rests in the bank Read More

Over the Border

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Marshall Reed, House Peters, Jr.

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in the rubber-stamp western Over the Border. Bringing Bart Calhoun (Marshall Reed) to justice for his complicity in a robbery/murder, Johnny assumes that his job is over. Not by a long shot! Calhoun's arrest leads to the uncovering of a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle Read More

The Gene Autry Show: Gold Dust Charlie

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings "Home on the Range," "Cowboy Blues," and "Mexicali Rose," and the Cass County Boys take care of the humorous "Great Grandad" in this television Western, the second entry in Autry's 1950-1955 series. Coming across the murdered body of Gold Dust Charlie, Autry hurries to the assay Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Blackwater Valley Feud

Synopsis: Aired originally on September 3, 1950, and restored by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2000, this The Gene Autry Show series entry features Stanley Andrews as Carl Meachem, the owner of the "Flying M" cattle ranch. Determined to keep the range free of fences, Meachem bars a right of way for neighbor Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Posse

Synopsis: Gene Autry takes a page out of Lady for a Day in this television western initially released on September 17, 1950. Having majored in animal husbandry, Easterner Mary Darrow (Wendy Waldron) is ready to take command of her father's ranch. But unbeknownst to Mary -- or so everyone assumes -- old Read More

Radar Secret Service

Actors: John Howard, Adele Jergens, Tom Neal, Myrna Dell, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Filmed under the title Radar Patrol, Lippert's Rader Secret Service wastes no time getting down to business. Indeed, with a 59-minute running time, no waste would have been tolerated. John Howard and Ralph "Dick Tracy" Byrd star as Bill and Static, a pair of secret service operatives, in search of Read More

Gun Law Justice

Synopsis: In one of his better later Westerns, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely comes to the aid of a reformed outlaw and his wayward son. Wrongfully accused of a shooting, the outlaw, Hank Cardigan (Lee Phelps), is rescued by Jimmy, who manages to obtain a job for his new friend at the local express office. But Read More

Silver Trails

Actors: Jimmy Wakely, Christine Larson, Whip Wilson

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely stars in Monogram's Silver Trails. It all begins when Jimmy and his comical sidekick Dub "Cannonball" Taylor ride into a small California engineering community. Villain Jackson (George Meeker) is busy orchestrating a land-grab scheme, using the members of an outlaw gang Read More

Across the Rio Grande

Actors: Jimmy Wakely, Reno Browne, Riley Hill, Dennis Moore

Synopsis: In this late entry in Monogram's Jimmy Wakely series of musical Westerns, Wakely and sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) come to the aid of Reno Browne, whose brother, Steven (Riley Hill), is convicted and sentenced to death for killing an enemy of their later father. Wakely and Cannonball, who has Read More

Gun Runner

Actors: Jimmy Wakely, Noel Neill, Mae Clarke, Kenne Duncan

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was in his final year of movie stardom when Gun Runner was released by Monogram. Wakely has more action than songs this time out, as he searches for an old pal who has gone sour and is selling guns to the Indians. The pathos of this situation is counterpointed by the Read More

West of El Dorado

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Reno Browne, Teddy Infur, Milburn Morante

Synopsis: The differences between West of El Dorado and Johnny Mack Brown's previous 1949 vehicles are minimal. Once again, Brown is teamed with Max "Alibi" Terhune, comic ventriloquist extraordinaire. In this outing, Johnny and Alibi try to straighten out a hostile young boy (Teddy Infuhr) whose older Read More

Brand of Fear

Synopsis: A late entry in Monogram's Jimmy Wakely musical Western series, Brand of Fear features a nice performance by Gail Davis, television's Annie Oakley. Davis plays Anne Lamont, whose guardian, Marshal Black Jack Flint (Tom London), hires her as the new schoolteacher of Oreville, AZ. Black Jack Read More

Law of the West

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Bill Kennedy, Gerry Pattison, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: By the time Law of the West came out in 1949, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown westerns were beginning to all look alike. Here as elsewhere, Brown plays a marshal who comes to the rescue of the Downtrodden. This time, it's a group of ranchers who are being victimized by a crooked real estate agent. Read More

Hidden Danger

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Christine Larson, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series galloped ever onward in Hidden Danger. This time, Johnny and his saddle pal Banty (Raymond Hatton) come in contact with a cattlemen's protective organization. Ostensibly an honest venture, the association is the front for an extortion racket, headed by a Read More

Shadows of the West

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Riley Hill, Reno Browne, Bill Kennedy

Synopsis: Even his cinematic rival Lash LaRue allowed that Whip Wilson was one of the best whip wielders in the movies. Shadows of the West was Wilson's second starring vehicle for Monogram, and as in the first, Crashing Thru, the star is teamed with seasoned sagebrush funster Andy Clyde. The Whipster plays Read More

Range Justice

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Felice Ingersoll, Sarah Padden, Riley Hill

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown does his usual Johnny Mack Brown thing in the Monogram western Range Justice. Once more teamed with comic sidekick Max Terhune, Brown champions the cause of feisty lady rancher Ma Curtis (Sarah Padden). A gang of crooks led by the scurrilous Stoner (Fred Kohler Jr.) is trying to Read More

Courtin' Trouble

Actors: Jimmy Wakely, Virginia Belmont, Leonard Penn, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Monogram's four-year-old Jimmy Wakely western series began to wind down with Courtin' Trouble. As was customary, Jimmy does more singin' than fightin' or shootin' in this leisurely entry. The plot concerns an ongoing feud between cattlemen and frontier merchants. Adding fuel to the fire is an Read More

Roaring Westward

Synopsis: In his second-to-last Monogram Western, country & western singer Jimmy Wakely does hardly any singing at all as he and sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) attempt to catch the villain who caused the death of 16-year-old Perry Andrews (Buddy Swan), a student at the Sheriff's Association School. Perry Read More

Crashing Thru

Synopsis: Western star Whip Wilson stars in the Monogram oater Crashing Thru. He periodically displays his whip-wielding skill (which far outclasses his acting ability) to bring a gang of rustlers to heel. In so doing, he rescues Christine Larson from financial ruin and physical danger. Wilson's comic Read More

Stampede

Actors: Rod Cameron, Gale Storm, Johnny Mack Brown, Don Castle, Donald Curtis

Synopsis: Stampede is a choice example of the Lesley Selander B-plus westerns of the late 1940s/early 1950s. Rod Cameron and Don Castle star as feuding brothers who own separate cattle ranches. The siblings find themselves on opposite sides of a water-rights battle, in which settlers are being deprived Read More

The Rangers Ride

Synopsis: A Texas Ranger is once again falsely accused of murder in this above-average singing-cowboy oater from Monogram. This time, the unfortunate gent is Jimmy Wakely, who, along with his band of ex-Rangers, battle the new corrupt police force that briefly replaced the Texas Rangers corps. Unbeknownst Read More

Range Renegades

Synopsis: In this western a cowboy and his gang must take on a band of bad-to-the-bone female outlaws. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Song of the Drifter

Synopsis: In this tuneful western, a brave hero endeavors to save the town from the evil villains who are trying to poison its water supply. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Tioga Kid

Actors: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Jennifer Holt, Dennis Moore, Lee Bennett

Synopsis: PRC/Eagle-Lion's Eddie Dean western series came to an end with The Tioga Kid. Dean plays a dual role, as an upright Texas ranger and a desperate outlaw. The "bad" Dean joins a gang of horse rustlers who've been making life miserable for rancher Jennifer Holt. It's up to the "good" Dean to save Read More

Oklahoma Blues

Synopsis: Two communities fight to become county seat in this Jimmy Wakely music western from Monogram Pictures. When Rainbow's End, one of the two towns in question, experiences a stage holdup, State Commissioner Walton (J.C. Lytton) looks to Yuba Junction where, unbeknownst to him, the local undertaker Read More

Partners of the Sunset

Synopsis: Country and western warbler-turned-cowboy star Jimmy Wakely, normally a colorless and unexciting screen presence, is actually given some action sequences in this virtually musicless western. Wakeley and comical sidekick Dub Taylor stumble across a murder scheme, hatched by beautiful but deadly Christine Larson Read More

Cowboy Cavalier

Synopsis: In this western a singing cowboy and his side-kick rescue a pretty gal who runs a stagecoach and finds herself in trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crossed Trails

Actors: Raymond Hatton, Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Douglas Evans, Kathy Frye

Synopsis: "Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns of the 1940s. One of the better look-alikes was Crossed Trails, in which Brown champions the cause of pretty ranch owner Maggie (Lynne Carver Read More

Check Your Guns

Actors: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Nancy Gates, George Cheseboro

Synopsis: PRC's singing cowboy Eddie Dean once again brings law and order to a corrupt town in this average Western co-starring Roscoe Ates and Nancy Gates. When Red Gap's old sheriff (Edward Cassidy) is shot in cold blood by Ace (Mikel Conrad), a member of Brad Taggert's gang, the new lawman, Eddie, orders Read More

Oklahoma Badlands

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Mildred Coles, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Legendary stunt coordinator and second-unit director Yakima Canutt was the man in the director's chair for Republic's Oklahoma Badlands. Canutt makes certain that his star, former Notre Dame football player Allan "Rocky" Lane, is given a real workout in the course of the film's 59 minutes. The Read More

Stage to Mesa City

Actors: Lash LaRue, Jennifer Holt, George Cheseboro, Brad Slaven

Synopsis: Although technically crude, Stage to Mesa City, an entry in PRC's "The Cheyenne Kid" series, was a great favorite with the small fries when unceremoniously dumped on theaters in February of 1948. Al "Lash" LaRue once again played the black-clad, whip-wielding hero who, along with sidekick Fuzzy Q. Read More

Dead Man's Gold

Synopsis: Dead Man's Gold, starring the black clad, whip wielding Lash LaRue and his sidekick, Fuzzy (Al St. John), is the kind of cheesy low-budget production in which legendary lawman Wyatt Earp's name is misspelled "Erpt" in a foreword. Arriving at their friend Jim Thornton's ranch in Gold Valley, Lash Read More

Frontier Agent

Synopsis: A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government man, sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang. And once more, he is aided and abetted by Raymond Hatton, an old codger who has a lot more on the ball than Read More

Gunning for Justice

Synopsis: Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a tattered map that her uncle, a prisoner of war, created in camp. Unfortunately two badguys have the map and try to turn the three goodguys against the niece. They do not Read More

The Westward Trail

Actors: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Phyllis Planchard, Steve Drake

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) come to the aid of novice cattle rancher Ann Howard (Phyllis Planchard) and her juvenile delinquent brother Tom (Steve Drake). Unhappy about the move West from Chicago, the latter forges Ann's signature on the deed to their ranch, which he Read More

The Fighting Ranger

Synopsis: In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Springtime in the Sierras

Actors: Stephanie Bachelor, Roy Barcroft, Harry V. Cheshire, Chester Conklin

Synopsis: Republic's Springtime in the Sierras bestows upon star Roy Rogers two leading ladies. The first is his usual vis-a-vis Jane Frazee; the second is statuesque Stephanie Bachelor, playing the head of a poaching gang. Bachelor, it seems, has murdered a game warden who happens to be Rogers' closest Read More

Return of the Lash

Actors: Lash LaRue, Mary Maynard, Brad Slaven, George Cheseboro

Synopsis: Return of the Lash exists primarily to display the bullwhip-wielding prowess of cowboy star Al "Lash" LaRue. The plot is set in motion when six wanted outlaws are rounded up and captured by The Cheyenne Kid (LaRue). Collecting the reward money, Cheyenne instructs his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John Read More

Cheyenne Takes Over

Actors: Lash LaRue, Nancy Gates, George Cheseboro, Lee Morgan

Synopsis: Whip-wielding westerner Lash LaRue closes out his 1947 schedule with Cheyenne Takes Over. Once again teamed with comical sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John), the Cheyenne Kid (LaRue) investigates the murder of a prosperous rancher. The audience knows that PRC's all-purpose villain George Cheseboro Read More

Pioneer Justice

Actors: Lash LaRue, Jennifer Holt, William Fawcett, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: In this low-budget Western from PRC, Marshal Cheyenne (Al "Lash" LaRue) and his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) are looking into the strange goings-on in the town of Buffalo Gap. A ranger (Bob Woodward) has been killed and the trail leads to a gang headed by Bill Judd (Jack Ingram). There is Read More

The San Antonio Kid

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Linda Stirling, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: There's oil in them thar' hills and an unscrupulous oil company scout attempts to drive the settlers off their newly valuable land in this typical Red Ryder Western starring "the Peaceable Man" (William Elliott). Oil company representative Walter Garfield (LeRoy Mason) and his equally nefarious Read More

Firebrands of Arizona

Synopsis: In this convoluted western, a sickly cowboy sidekick gets into a terrible fix when he is mistaken for a notorious bank robber and tossed in the clink. There is a huge bounty on the villain's head, and the sheriff happily anticipates the arrival of that bounty on the next stage, unaware that the 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

Sons of the Pioneers

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Maris Wrixon, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: Sons of the Pioneers is a showcase for?the Sons of the Pioneers, who are reteamed with ex-"Son" Roy Rogers in this budget western. The plot is contingent upon a deposit of rare minerals, vital to the American war effort. The villains want to get their hands on these minerals, and to do so organize Read More

Sunset on the Desert

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lynne Carver, Frank M. Thomas, Beryl Wallace

Synopsis: In this western, Roy plays both the villain and the hero. As the bad-guy, he heads a ring of rustlers. The trouble begins when the gang runs across good-Roy and mistake him for their wicked leader. Good-Roy plays along so he can bring the gang to justice. Unfortunately, bad-Roy shows up and mayhem Read More

Bad Man of Deadwood

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Carol Adams, Henry Brandon, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin the honest businessmen of Deadwood. Even the sheriff, Jordan (Monte Blue), answers to nasty Jake Marvel (Ralf Harolde), whose reign of terror forces the decent people to Read More

Jesse James at Bay

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Pierre Watkin, Ivan Miller

Synopsis: In 1939's Days of Jesse James, the title character was played by Don "Red" Barry, with official star Roy Rogers carrying the brunt of the plotline. Two years later, Rogers was cast as ol' Jesse himself in Republic's Jesse James at Bay. Since Jesse is herein depicted as a "good guy", whose Read More

Back in the Saddle

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Edward Norris

Synopsis: Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to take watch over his employer's son Tom (Edward Norris), a young hothead who enjoys the so-called finer things in life. Tom has to be corralled out of the wicked city after Read More

Nevada City

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, George Cleveland, Billy Lee

Synopsis: Nevada City finds Roy Rogers and his perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes cast as stagecoach drivers. Their boss is Joseph Crehan, an ornery crust who can't abide the notion of the railroad cutting into his business. Roy and Gabby try to establish a détente between Crehan and railroad man George Read More

In Old Cheyenne

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Joan Woodbury, John Farrell MacDonald, Sally Payne

Synopsis: In Old Cheyenne is where the viewer can find Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes this time out. Rogers is cast as frontier journalist Steve Blane, determined to print the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in his weekly rag. But when Steve inaugurates a series of articles about alleged 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

Kansas Cyclone

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, William Haade, Milt Kibbee, Harry Worth

Synopsis: The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of Read More

Two-Fisted Rangers

Actors: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Bob Nolan, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: Two-Fisted Rangers was the first of a handful of Charles Starrett westerns to be lifted from the routine by the camera pyrotechnics of director Joseph H. Lewis. The story is usual one about hero Thad Lawson (Starrett) avenging the death of his brother at the hands of villainous Jack Rand (Kenneth Read More

Home on the Prairie

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George Cleveland, Jack Mulhall

Synopsis: Home on the Prairie finds Texas ranger Gene Autry trying to halt an anthrax epidemic. The villains are cattlemen Walter Miller and Gordon Hart, who've been knowingly transporting diseased cattle across the US-Mexico border. The bad guys try to pin the blame on female rancher June Storey, but Gene Read More

The Taming of the West

Actors: Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Dub Taylor, James Craig

Synopsis: Cowboy star Bill Elliot makes his first appearance in his familiar guise of "Wild Bill" in Columbia's Taming of the West. When a gang of cattle rustlers knocks off several sheriffs in quick succession, it's up to Wild Bill to get to the bottom of things. The moment he pins on his marshal's badge Read More

The Overland Express

Actors: Buck Jones, Marjorie Reynolds, Carlyle Moore, Jr., William Arnold

Synopsis: The dangers experienced by a Pony Express rider are chronicled in this western. The hero rides between Missouri and California. As he gallops along, he encounters angry Indians, and the competitors of the Pony Express the stage coach drivers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frontier Scout

Actors: George Houston, Beth Marion, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: Frontier Scout was one of a handful of western vehicles for opera star George Houston, who adapted surprisingly well to his sagebrush surrounding. Singing nary a note during the film's 60 minutes, Houston is cast as Wild Bill Hickok, flowing hair and all. After nearly single-handedly winning the Read More

The California Mail

Actors: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Milt Kibbee, Tom Brower

Synopsis: A stagecoach race, murder and a singing cowboy are the main ingredients in this pleasant western from Warner Bros. The singing cowboy is Bill Harkins (Dick Foran) who, after losing a Pony Express contract, bids against the Banton brothers for a lucrative stage line deal. But Roy Banton (Edmund Read More

Guns of the Pecos

Actors: Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, Gordon Hart, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Acuff

Synopsis: Warner Bros.' resident singing cowboy, the amiable Dick Foran, warbles "The Prairie Is My Home" and "When the Cowboy Takes a Wife" (by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl) in between battling a corrupt judge in this pleasant B-Western produced by the studio's busy Bryan Foy unit. Foran is Steve Ainslee, a Read More

West of Nevada

Actors: Rex Bell, Joan Barclay, Steve Clark, Georgia O'Dell

Synopsis: The second of six generally well-made Rex Bell Westerns produced on the cheap by Gower Gulch company Colony Pictures, West of Nevada starred the personable Bell -- husband of silent star Clara Bow -- as Jim Lloyd, a young drifter coming to the aid of an embattled prospector. The latter, Milt Read More