Dub TaylorFilmography

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

Falling From Grace

Actors: John Mellencamp, Joe Mellencamp, Kay Lenz, Mariel Hemingway, Claude Akins, Larry Crane, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: Rocker John Mellencamp both directed and starred in this drama about a well-known musician who returns to his old home town, opening a number of old wounds in the process. Bud Parks (Mellencamp) is a country-rock star who's feeling burned out after a long stretch on the road and heads back to his Read More

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) Read More

Conagher

Actors: Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Barry Corbin, Billy Green Bush, Ken Curtis

Synopsis: This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the budding relationship between brave but lonely widow (Katharine Ross) who runs a remote stagecoach way station and the handsome cowpoke (Sam Elliot) who comes to help her out. Read More

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Actors: Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Rick Rossovich, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More

Back to the Future Part III

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the dizzying time travel of the first two films for mostly routine comedy set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives a 70-year-old letter from his inventor friend, Doc Read More

Once Upon a Texas Train

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie Dickinson. Nelson plays a veteran outlaw who robs a bank less than 6 hours after being paroled from jail. He uses the money to reunite his old gang, then sets about to Read More

The Cosby Show: The Drum Major

Synopsis: Aspiring to become her school's first male drum major, Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) is thwarted by the "good ol' boy" chauvinism of the student jury. Exerting pressure on his friends, Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) forces the jury to hold another audition, but doesn't let Vanessa know what has Read More

The Best of Times

Actors: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial high-school football game. Likewise tainted for life is the team's star quarterback Kurt Russell, now a garage owner. Fed up with living his life under a cloud, Williams Read More

On the Run

Synopsis: In this actioner, a tough young woman and her ex-con lover leave a trail of destruction across the South while trying to escape the law. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outlaws

Synopsis: In this rather blatant "all-white" derivation of the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor starrer Stir Crazy, Christopher Lemmon and Charles Rocket are cast as pair of dimwitted innocents who suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law. While promoting a zany get-rich-quick scheme, uptight Read More

Cannonball Run II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

Soggy Bottom USA

Synopsis: Set during Prohibition in a tiny Southern town filled with colorful characters, this all-star comedy follows the exploits of a hard-working sheriff who tries his darnedest to keep things peaceful and above board. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Blind Justice

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Adam (Linwood Boomer) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) return to Walnut Grove, where Adam wants to set up his law practice. His first client turns out to be the most hated man in town: Edgar Mills (Jeff Corey), who is accused of swindling the townsfolk in a wide-ranging scam. At first believing in Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Silent City

Actors: Michael Landon, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux, Merlin Olsen, Linwood Boomer

Synopsis: Veteran character actor Dub Taylor appears as old man Houston, who takes in a pair of blind youngsters who have run away from a local orphanage so that they won't be separated. Houston takes it upon himself to find a couple willing to adopt both orphans. But this proves well nigh impossible for Read More

Little House on the Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) tries to get over the departure of her fiancé, Almanzo (Dean Butler), by helping her sister Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and brother-in-law Adam (Linwood Boomer) set up a new school for the blind in the town of Sleepy Eye. As fate would Read More

Little House on the Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Almanzo (Dean Butler) asks Charles' permission to marry Laura (Melissa Gilbert), but Charles insists that she cannot wed until she is 18 -- two years from now. Upset that Laura concedes to her father's wishes, Almanzo leaves town. Meanwhile, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor Read More

Used Cars

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Frank McRae, Gerritt Graham, Deborah Harmon, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Read More

1941

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen

Synopsis: It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period Read More

Beartooth

Synopsis: A secluded mountain paradise becomes a snowbound deathtrap when a devastating blizzard washes over the landscape and one desperate man is forced to choose between life and death in director Zack Belcher's harrowing tale of survival. C.J. McDonald lives alone in the deep mountains of Beartooth, but Read More

Heartbreak Motel

Synopsis: Heartbreak Motel enjoyed a brief theatrical life on the drive-in circuit, then settled down into Late Late Show screenings. Leslie Uggams stars as a singer whose car breaks down a million miles from nowhere. Taking refuge at a run-down motel (hence the title), she finds herself at the mercy of Read More

Doc Hooker's Bunch

Synopsis: Doc Hooker's Bunch is a low-budget western farce about a travelling medicine show. The mission of Doc Hooker and his bunch is to entertain ranchers and cavalry soldiers--thereby anticipating the USO by some sixty years. When business slows down, Hooker and company can always count on a little Read More

They Went That-A-Way and That-A-Way

Actors: Tim Conway, Chuck McCann, Richard Kiel, Dub Taylor, Reni Santoni

Synopsis: In this broad, occasionally slapstick comedy, Dewey and Wallace (Tim Conway and Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are trying to find out where some thieves have hidden their money. With the help of the governor of their state, they are able to enter the prison where the thieves are Read More

Moonshine County Express

Actors: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward, Claudia Jennings

Synopsis: Banking on his renewed "leading man" status vis-a-vis Enter the Dragon, John Saxon plays J. B. Johnson in Moonshine County Express. The villain is racketeer Starkey (William Conrad), who has bumped off likeable moonshiner Pap Hammer (Fred Foresman). Now Starkey must do away with Hammer's toothsome Read More

The Rescuers

Synopsis: Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a pair of mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca. A little girl named Penny has been kidnapped by Miss Medusa. When the human law enforcement officials fail to locate the child Read More

Treasure of Matecumbe

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Johnny Doran

Synopsis: This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The children are assisted by three adults, who each have the their own agendas for finding the cache. The hunters are followed by a greedy gang of villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Pony Express Rider

Synopsis: Designed for the regional family trade, Pony Express Rider is a fond harkback to the Saturday afternoon westerns of old. Stewart Paterson plays the title character, a young frontiersman hoping to avenge his father's death. He takes a job with the Pony Express mail service in hopes of running Read More

Gator

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Reed, Alice Ghostley

Synopsis: Having created the character of Gator McKlusky in 1973's White Lightning, Burt Reynolds reprises the role in the appropriately titled Gator. Once again, ex-convict McKluskey is strong-armed into helping the feds nab a dangerous criminal, who turns out to be an old high-school chum (Jerry Reed). He Read More

The Great Smokey Roadblock

Actors: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Robert Englund, John Byner, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: Not everything Henry Fonda did was Grapes of Wrath or Mister Roberts. In the enjoyable low-budget "road" flick The Great Smokey Roadblock, Fonda plays a worn-out trucker named Elegant John. Anxious to make one last, big haul before retiring, Fonda loses his 18-wheeler to the repo men. He steals Read More

Burnt Offerings

Actors: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Bette Davis

Synopsis: Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy from its inhabitants and selects its own "keeper" from the family of Ben and Marian Rolf (Oliver Reed & Karen Black), who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful Read More

The Creature from Black Lake

Actors: Dennis Fimple

Synopsis: When Bigfoot is sighted near a Louisiana lake, two college students (Dennis Fimple, John David Carson) camp out to confirm the legendary monster's identity. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Winds of Autumn

Actors: Charles B. Pierce, Earl E. Smith, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: In this children's adventure, an 11-year-old Quaker youth sets across the prairies of Montana to avenge his parents' murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Country Blue

Synopsis: Jack Conrad directs and stars in this tense heist film concerning a young and inexperienced bank robber who walks away from his latest job with just $1,500. Realizing that he has left behind $25,000 and determined not to look like a fool, the ambitious bandit returns to the same bank once again Read More

Flash and the Firecat

Synopsis: A duo of daring lawbreakers, who call themselves Flash (Roger Davis) and Firecat (Tricia Sembera), speed, steal, and evade the grasp of the local law enforcement officers as they high-tail it around California in their dune buggy. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Poor Pretty Eddie

Synopsis: In this low-budget, violent and trashy exploitation outing, an African-American singer is kidnapped and forced to endure all sorts of torments and indignities at the hands of a white, psycho Southern family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return

Actors: Brooke Adams, Dan Dailey

Synopsis: [124828] This TV movie is a sequel to 1972's Daughters of Joshua Cabe (which was also a TV movie). Cabe (Dan Dailey) is an itinerant western trapper hoping to gain extra homesteading land by pretending to have a family. He hires three "fallen women" (Ronne Troup, Brooke Adams and Christina Hart) Read More

The Fortune

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Florence Stanley, Scatman Crothers, Richard B. Shull

Synopsis: Three's a crowd in Mike Nichols's period caper comedy -- or is it? To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women across state lines for "immoral purposes," not-yet-divorced Nicky (Warren Beatty) has felonious buddy Oscar (Jack Nicholson) marry Nicky's runaway heiress sweetheart Freddy Read More

Hearts of the West

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's Read More

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach

Synopsis: As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and sweet drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) meet cute when Thunderbolt jumps into Lightfoot's Read More

Emergency!: Surprise

Synopsis: The doctors and paramedics encounter unexpected difficulties while planning a surprise party for head nurse Dixie (Julie London)--especially when it appears that she won't even show up due to a broken ankle. Back on the job, the team rushes to the rescue when a 1000-pound advertising sign Read More

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Shootout in a One-Dog Town is a rare foray into straight-faced adventure by "comedy western" specialist Burt Kennedy. Richard Crenna stars as a banker in a heat-parched Southwestern town. Richard Egan and his gang mosey into town with the barely concealed intention of relieving the Read More

Tom Sawyer

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: Mark Twain's classic tale is brought to the screen for the fourth time, this time with a tuneful score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, who also wrote the screen adaptation. Johnny Whitaker stars as Tom Sawyer, with Jeff East in his first film role as Huck Finn. Jodie Foster is also on Read More

This is a Hijack

Synopsis: A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Brock's Last Case

Synopsis: Richard Widmark is Brock, a salty NYC cop who retires to a small town in California. Brock's plans to become a peaceful orange farmer are interrupted when his Native American ranch hand (Henry Darrow) is accused of murdering the local sheriff. Before long, Brock himself has been appointed sheriff Read More

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More

Emergency!: Syndrome

Synopsis: The Rampart emergency staff must find bed space for its own members when Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is trapped under a pile of fallen debris and Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) comes down with tonsilitis--and even the station's doggie mascot Boot undergoes surgery. At the same time, famous actor Read More

Wild in the Sky

Actors: Brandon de Wilde

Synopsis: This action/comedy picture follows the adventures of a group of anti-war, anti-establishment guerillas, who come up with a scheme to destroy Fort Knox with an atom bomb. The most notable feature of this film is that it features Brandon de Wilde in his last performance. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

The Getaway

Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri

Synopsis: In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to Read More

Junior Bonner

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to Read More

The Wild Country

Actors: Frank de Kova, Jack Elam, Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard

Synopsis: Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved to what they thought would be a fully functional ranch in Wyoming. Instead they find a broken down ruin. In addition to having to rebuild and battle the elements, they have Read More

Bonanza: Easy Come, Easy Go

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ann Prentiss, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: The cantankerous Calhouns-nouveau riche prospector Luke Calhoun (Dub Taylor) and his man-hungry daughter Meena (Ann Prentiss-return to Bonanza in the December 12, 1971 episode "Easy Come, Easy Go." As Meena again tries to snare a husband, Luke-reduced to poverty by a crooked land deal-accepts Read More

Evel Knievel

Actors: Ben Bentley, Roger Edington, Ten Henningsen, George Hamilton

Synopsis: George Hamilton produced and stars in this appealing bio-pic about real-life stunt daredevil Evel Knievel. Knievel's famous motorcycle stunts and early life are remembered in flashback by the performer in the moments before a big jump. The cast includes familiar drive-in movie faces like Vic Tayback Read More

Man and Boy

Actors: Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster, George Spell, Bill Cosby

Synopsis: This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his son (George Spell) have to track his stolen Read More

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Actors: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Joan Blondell, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: This Western action/comedy is told in the same tongue-in-cheek manner as its predecessor, Support Your Local Sheriff. Goldie (Marie Windsor), a madam, is a formidable woman, and Latigo Smith (James Garner) knows perfectly well that his disreputable ways will be trimmed considerably should she Read More

The Partridge Family: Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?

Synopsis: The Partridges join the "Save the Whales" movement thanks to Laurie (Susan Dey), who has talked them into recording her own composition "Song of the Humpback Whale". In search of authentic whale sounds, the family heads to Marineland of the Pacific, where they're given a crash course in Read More

Bonanza: An Earthquake Called Callahan

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor French, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: Ponderosa ranchhand Dusty Rhodes (Lou Frizzell) has landed in jail. The only man who can clear Dusty is an itinerant, ill-tempered wrestler named Tom Callahan (Victor French), who is nowhere to be found. While searching for the reluctant witness, Joe Cartwright not only runs afoul of Callahan but Read More

Bonanza: The Horse Traders

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Dub Taylor, Ann Prentiss

Synopsis: Introduced in the earlier episode "Meena", the scraggly Calhouns make a return Bonanza appearance in the April 5, 1970 episode "The Horse Traders." Having struck it rich, unkempt miner Luke Calhoun (Dub Taylor) and his feisty daughter Meena (Ann Prentiss) now wear fancy clothes and reek of Read More

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana, Lee Majors

Synopsis: Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella (Barbara Hershey), takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle Oman Hedgepath (Lee J. Cobb). L.B. Jones (Roscoe Read More

Menace on the Mountain

Synopsis: A father-and-son team battle to protect their Southern farm from military deserters during the Civil War. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Tick, Tick, Tick

Actors: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud

Synopsis: When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any elective office) in anyone's memory in his rural southern county. He also sets off an ominous rumblings as the entire county seems split apart by his presence -- Mayor Parks Read More

A Man Called Horse

Actors: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei

Synopsis: A Man Called Horse stars Richard Harris as Lord John Morgan, an English peer cast somewhat adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Lord Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. The Englishman passes many of the Read More

Death of a Gunfighter

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western drama concerning Marshal Frank Patch (Richard Widmark), who, even though he has kept the peace in Cottonwood Springs for over twenty years, is now considered a local joke by Read More

The Reivers

Actors: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Adapted from William Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers top-bills Steve McQueen, but the major character is feisty 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin, played by Mitch Vogel. Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, Lucius finds himself (through a hectic series of circumstances) in a bordello, where Read More

The Wild Bunch

Actors: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates

Synopsis: "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Read More

The Undefeated

Actors: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo

Synopsis: This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson). After a crushing defeat, Langdon torches his plantation rather than have it fall into enemy hands. A group of Southerners accept the Read More

Bonanza: Meena

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ann Prentiss

Synopsis: Originally telecast on November 16, 1969, "Meena" was the first of three Bonanza episodes featuring the troublesome Calhouns. When Joe Cartwright is kidnapped by bumbling crooks Jesse (Victor French), Owen (Robert Donner), and Virge (George Morgan), he is rescued by pretty Meena Calhoun (Ann Read More

The Learning Tree

Actors: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar, Mira Waters

Synopsis: Gordon Parks' adaptation of his own novel The Learning Tree stars Kyle Johnson as Newt, a black teenager living in 1920s Kansas. He is an intelligent even-tempered young man who meets the many racial prejudices he faces with composure and pride. His best friend Marcus (Alex Clarke) is hot-headed Read More

The Money Jungle

Actors: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Leslie Parrish, Nehemiah Persoff, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling rights. Detective Blake Heller (John Ericson) is the hard drinking sleuth hired by the oil companies to try and keep the proceedings above board. He contends with a group that Read More

Three Guns for Texas

Actors: Neville Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith, Martin Milner, Philip Carey

Synopsis: Three Guns For Texas is a routine western. Taken from the television series "Laredo," three 30-minute episodes are strung together. The only continuity seems to be the plot of Texas Rangers fighting a renegade band of Indians led by Linda Little Trees (Shelley Morrison). Neville Brand, Peter Read More

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Actors: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt

Synopsis: This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on the western frontier. The hapless dentist is saved by the expert gun handling of Penny (Barbara Rhoades), a reformed bandit trying to earn a pardon by intercepting gun Read More

Bandolero!

Actors: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine

Synopsis: James Stewart and Dean Martin are atypically cast as outlaws in Bandolero! The film begins as Dee Bishop (Martin) and his gang are about to be hanged. The Scripture-spouting executioner turns out to be Dee's brother Mace (Stewart), who helps the desperadoes escape. They are pursued by a sheriff (George Kennedy Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Emmett's Brother-in-Law

Actors: Paul Hartman, Dub Taylor, Jack Dodson

Synopsis: Dub Taylor guest-stars as Ben, the brother-in-law of Mayberry's fix-it man Emmett Clark. Conspiring with Emmett's wife Martha (Mary Lansing), Ben tries to convince Emmett to go into the insurance business. Soon, however, Martha realizes that Emmett will never be happy without a hammer or Read More

Johnny Banco

Synopsis: In this comedy, a casino owner in Barcelona absconds with a gangster's fortune and is chased to Monte Carlo where he impersonates a millionaire. While there he weds a wealthy American widow. When the gangster learns of the marriage, he and the thief's ex-mistress team up and head for Monte Carlo Read More

Don't Make Waves

Actors: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, Sharon Tate

Synopsis: British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) is a footloose tourist who meets Laura Califatti (Claudia Cardinale) when she accidentally edges his car off the highway. Laura invites Carlo to her home; he seems Read More

Bonanza: The Gold Detector

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Wally Cox, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Ever the champion of the underdog, Hoss Cartwright is determined to prove that the gold mine owned by his friend McNulty (Wally Cox) is not as worthless as everyone claims. To this end, Hoss is gulled into purchasing a "gold detector"-which, amazingly, actually seems to work! A gang of Read More

The Monkees: Hillbilly Honeymoon

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: Stranded in Swineville, U.S.A., the Monkees find themselves in the middle of the long-standing feud between the Weskitts and the Chubbers. Inevitably, Davy falls in love with Ella Mae Chubber (played by former F-Troop regular Melody Patterson), which gets him in trouble with Ella Mae's secret Read More

Bonanza: Ponderosa Explosion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Sen Yung, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: In this comic episode, Hoss and Joe Cartwright embark on yet another big-business scheme. Investing in two rabbits, our heroes intend to make a fortune selling rabbit skins. Alas, neither brother has the heart to take a knife to the cute little bunnies, which of course proceed to multiply at an Read More

Bonnie and Clyde

Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true Read More

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Bryan Russell, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: This rambunctious Disney comedy was based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. Roddy McDowall plays Griffin, the very proper butler of Bostonian Bryan Russell. When Russell runs off to California during the 1849 gold rush, Griffin dutifully tags along. Master and butler team up Read More

The Hallelujah Trail

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily Read More

The Cincinnati Kid

Actors: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game Read More

My Favorite Martian: Poor Little Rich Cat

Synopsis: Outraged when a pet cat named Max receives a $650,000 inheritance, Martin (Ray Walston) demands that Tim (Bill Bixby) write an editorial condemning such financial frivolity. Later on, Martin has a Martian-to-cat chat with Max, and learns of the existence of a second will leaving the money to a Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Mountain Wedding

Actors: Howard Morris, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: First telecast April 29, 1963, "Mountain Wedding" served to introduce Howard Morris as rock-throwing village idiot Ernest T. Bass. Hopelessly in love with Charlene Darling (Maggie Peterson), Ernest T. will not be dissuaded by the fact that "Chawrl-leyunn" is already married to Dud Wash (Hoke Read More

Spencer's Mountain

Actors: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Wally Cox

Synopsis: For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons, Spencer's Mountain sure has a lot in it about sex. Henry Fonda gives an interesting portrayal in one of his more unusual roles, as Clay Spencer, the hard-drinkin', hard-livin' Read More

Black Gold

Actors: Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins

Synopsis: A group of wildcatting oil drillers battle an Oklahoma oil baron for the rights of a potentially high yield field. The roughnecks fight on the job and in the saloons while hoping for the big gusher that will make them all rich. A catastrophic accident threatens to wipe out the hard work of the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: High Noon in Mayberry

Actors: Leo Gordon

Synopsis: Andy learns to his chagrin that ex-convict Luke Comstock (Leo Gordon) is coming back to Mayberry. Inasmuch as Andy was responsible for sending Luke to jail, everyone in town fears the worst-none more so than Barney, who organizes local lunkheads Gomer Pyle and Billy Ray Belfast (Dub Taylor) into a Read More

Sweet Bird of Youth

Actors: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Sr., Rip Torn

Synopsis: Paul Newman recreates his Broadway role in the 1962 film version of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Newman plays handsome hustler Chance Wayne, who romances fading film star Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine Page) in hopes of winning a movie contract for himself. The mercenary Wayne and the Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

Actors: James Best, Sherry Jackson, Edgar Buchanan, Lance Fuller, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: Writer-director Montgomery Pittman's final Twilight Zone offering was the bucolic comedy "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank." As the youthful title character (James Best) lies in his coffin during his funeral, the assembled mourners listen to the droning words of the local pastor (William Fawcett) Read More

The Mooncussers

Synopsis: This children's movie details the adventure of a boy (Kevin Corcoran) who tries to unravel the secrets of the Mooncussers, a group of pirates who destroy ships by guiding them onto rocks with a fake lighthouse. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Parrish

Actors: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens

Synopsis: A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the eponymous title role. Parrish's mother Ellen (Claudette Colbert in her last movie role) happens to marry one of two competing tobacco growers in the Connecticut River Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

Synopsis: Wealthy J.J. Gideon (Otto Kruger) disapproves of the romance between his grandson David (Karl Held) and David's secretary Dorine (Patricia Barry). As it happens, Gideon has good reason to be upset: Dorine is a duplicitous golddigger who swindles David out of $10,000, claiming that she needs it to Read More

Home from the Hill

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: William Humphrey's novel Home From the Hill is compressed into 150 minutes for this MGM all-starrer. Robert Mitchum plays Capt. Wade Hunnicutt, a Texas millionaire, married to Hannah (Eleanor Parker). The Hunnicutts have two children of approximately the same age: Wade's biological son, Theron (George Hamilton Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Guitar Player

Actors: James Best

Synopsis: James Best makes the first of two Andy Griffith Show appearances as itinerant guitarist Jim Lindsey. Tossed in the Mayberry jail, Jim is afforded an opportunity to crack the Big Time when Sheriff Andy Taylor "coincidentally" places the members of the Bobby Fleet Band-including Bobby (Henry Slate) Read More

A Hole in the Head

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being unbelievably unrealistic, the story is pulled off because everyone else is convincing. Tony is a widower in need of a financial bailout for himself and his son, so he asks for help Read More

No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Read More

Hot Rod Gang

Actors: John Ashley, Jody Fair, Gene Vincent, Steve Drexel, Henry McCann

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will only bequeath him their fortune if he behaves like a proper gentleman. His aunts would have apoplexy if they new that their "perfect gentleman" had created a hot-rod club Read More

Street of Darkness

Synopsis: In this adventurous yarn, a group of former Army buddies have a reunion in New Orleans and decide to go looking for buried treasure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Auntie Mame

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith

Synopsis: Auntie Mame began as a novel by Patrick Dennis (aka Ed Fitzgerald), then was adapted into a long-running Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1958 film version permits Rosalind Russell to recreate her stage role as Mame Dennis, the flamboyant, devil-may-care aunt of young Read More

The Fastest Gun Alive

Actors: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One day he gets drunk and shows off his own considerable skills with a pistol. Unfortunately, this attracts the attention of the man who fancies himself the town's fastest draw Read More

You Can't Run Away From It

Actors: June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Paul Gilbert, Jim Backus

Synopsis: You Can't Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) is literally kidnapped from the altar by her Read More

Tall Man Riding

Actors: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, John Baragrey

Synopsis: Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after being forced out of town by land baron Tucker Ordway (Robert Barrett), Larry Madden (Randolph Scott) returns to wreak vengeance against Ordway and claim the land that is Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy Goes to a Rodeo

Actors: Dub Taylor, John Gallaudet, Doye O'Dell

Synopsis: When Ricky (Desi Arnaz) is unable to appear in Fred's lodge variety show, Fred (William Frawley) enlists the "talents" of Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance). Since the show is going to have a Western theme, Fred asks his old pal Rattlesnake Jones (Dub Taylor) to act as technical advisor Read More

I Died a Thousand Times

Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Read More

The Bounty Hunter

Actors: Randolph Scott, Marie Windsor, Howard Petrie, Harry Antrim

Synopsis: Randolph Scott once more contributes mightily to Warner Bros.' annual box-office gross in the well-mounted western The Bounty Hunter. Filmed in 3D but released "flat", the film casts Scott as the title character, who is hired by the Pinkertons to bring in three train robbers. Riding into the town Read More

Riding Shotgun

Actors: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon, Joe Sawyer, James Millican

Synopsis: In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook. Gunplay ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Star is Born

Actors: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal return to the screen of Judy Garland after a four-year absence. The remake adheres closely to the plotline of the 1937 original: An alcoholic film star, on his last Read More

Them!

Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out only one word: "Them!" Any aficionado of 1950s horror films can readily tell you that "Them" are giant ants, a byproduct of the radiation attending the atomic bomb tests of Read More

Dragnet

Actors: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson, Stacy Harris

Synopsis: At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to direct several feature films--the first of which, but of course, was 1954's Dragnet. This time around, the "true story" in which "only the names are changed to protect the Read More

Crime Wave

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor) working. As he starts to pump the gas, he doesn't see the third man come around the side until it's too late and he's knocked cold. The trio carries out their robbery but Read More

The Charge at Feather River

Actors: Guy Madison, Frank Lovejoy, Helen Westcott, Vera Miles, Dick Wesson

Synopsis: With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was originally released in 3D. Fresh from his TV success as Wild Bill Hickok, Guy Madison stars as frontiersman Miles Archer (his character name will be amusing to fans of The Maltese Falcon Read More

The Story of Will Rogers

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). We see Will court his future wife, Betty (Jane Wyman), just before he strikes out on his own as a rodeo performer. Attempting to Read More

Riding High

Actors: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired 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

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

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

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

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

Lawless Code

Synopsis: Ostensibly a Jimmy Wakely musical Western -- the singer's final starring vehicle -- The Lawless Code is really a showcase for Riley Hill, a young supporting actor who had played young henchmen for years under the name Roy Harris. While Wakely is barely given enough to warble "Trail to Mexico," Hill 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

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

Outlaw Brand

Synopsis: Hired to catch a killer horse named Midnight, Jimmy Wakely and sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) get themselves in trouble with a couple of confidence artists, Monica (Christine Larson) and Brent (Leonard Penn). The latter accidentally kills Jimmy's employer, horse breeder Tom Chadwick (Tom Chatterton 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

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

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

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

Ridin' Down the Trail

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy crooner finds himself entangled with ruthless rustlers posing as Rangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lawless Empire

Actors: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Mildred Law, Johnny Walsh

Synopsis: The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) comes to the aid of a young preacher (Tex Harding), who is battling a gang of land grabbers operating out of Dusty Gulch. As it turns out, The Kid, alias Steve Ranson, has a personal quarrel with town boss Blaze Howard (John Calvert), who had his brother, the Read More

Frontier Gunlaw

Sagebrush Heroes

Outlaws of the Rockies

Actors: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Carole Mathews, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starrett is back in the saddle as the masked do-gooder Durango, aka easygoing sheriff Steve Williams. Accused of being a member of an outlaw gang, Williams is forced to don his Durango disguise to bring Read More

Blazing the Western Trail

Actors: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Al Bridge

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures once again trotted out the old tale of rival stage lines competing for the valuable government mail contract in this routine entry in the long-running Durango Kid series. This time, the Halliday stage line of Quanto Basin is all but forced out of business when old man Halliday Read More

Both Barrels Blazing

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures "borrowed" a few pages from Damon Runyon when crafting this entry in the Durango Kid B-Western series. When an elderly desert rat realizes that the granddaughter he has never seen is due to arrive in Long Bend, the downtrodden old sod is too ashamed to admit that the money spent Read More

Rough Ridin' Justice

Rustlers of the Badlands

Texas Panhandle

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

Synopsis: In this western, the good-guy and his trusty side-kick rescue a pretty gal whose father's cows are threatened by villainous rustlers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Vigilantes Ride

Cowboy from Lonesome River

Synopsis: This western features a singing cowboy, a brave hero, and a bumbling sidekick who band together to defeat a ruthless range boss. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Saddle Leather Law

Sundown Valley

Actors: Charles Starrett, Jeanne Bates, Jessie Arnold, Clancy Cooper

Synopsis: In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant. Unfortunately, the tough plant manager has plans of his own and action ensues until the villains are vanquished. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cowboy Canteen

Synopsis: In this western, a rancher turns his property into a dude ranch for soldiers after he is drafted. Featured upon this ranch are entertaining shows with music from Tex Ritter, Roy Acuff, and the Mills Brothers. Songs include: "Spot In Arizona," "You Man You," "Wait For The Light To Shine," "Walking Read More

The Last Horseman

Actors: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, Ann Savage, John Maxwell

Synopsis: Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia. The foreman of the Bar W ranch, Lucky Rawlins finds himself cheated out of a check for 12,000 dollars (the proceeds from a cattle drive). Unbeknownst Read More

Silver City Raiders

Actors: Russell Hayden, Bob Wills, Dub Taylor, Alma Carroll, Paul Sutton

Synopsis: With Silver City Raiders, perennial western sidekick Russell Hayden launched his own starring series. Hayden plays "Lucky", the same character he'd previously essayed in the Hopalong Cassidy films. This time around, Lucky tries to prove that crooked land baron Dawson (Paul Sutton) doesn't have Read More

Riders of the Northwest Mounted

Synopsis: Riders of the Northwest Mounted was one of a handful of "northerns" produced by Columbia's B-western unit. Stalwart Russell Hayden and prankish Dub Taylor go through their paces in Mountie garb and Smokey-the-bear hats. They're on the trail of escaped criminal Dick Curtis, who has the whole great Read More

Cowboy in the Clouds

Actors: Charles Starrett, Dub Taylor, Julie Duncan, Jimmy Wakely, Davison Clark

Synopsis: This western features a flying cowboy. He is a rancher who became a pilot. As a pilot he staunchly defends the newly formed Civil Air Patrol from the cattle barons who fail to see the value of airplanes on the range. The flying rancher proves that they are indeed valuable after he flies into a Read More

Saddles and Sagebrush

Synopsis: After faithfully serving in supporting roles in Columbia's Charles Starrett westerns, Russell Hayden was awarded his own series in 1943. Starrett's Saddles and Sagebrush is nothing special plotwise, but it does show off the star to best advantage actionwise. In trying to keep the peace by Read More

What's Buzzin' Cousin?

Actors: Ann Miller, John Hubbard, Freddy Martin, Leslie Brooks

Synopsis: Ann Miller goes through her usual twinkle-toed paces in the quickie Columbia musical What's Buzzin', Cousin? The pencil-thin plotline involves attorney Jimmie Ross (John Hubbard), who moonlights as a singer with the Freddie Martin Orchestra. Using his legal and showbiz know-how, Jimmie revitalizes Read More

The Lone Prairie

Synopsis: Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Tornado in the Saddle

Synopsis: A good entry in one of the better B-Western series of the 1940s, A Tornado in the Saddle starred Russell Hayden as the new sheriff of Crestview. Hot on the trail of a gang of claim jumpers led by Dalton (Tristram Coffin) and Slim (Donald Curtis), the novice lawman also has to deal with hotheaded Read More

North from Lone Star

Actors: Richard Fiske, Dorothy Fay, Dub Taylor, Arthur Loft

Synopsis: Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly fictional western from Columbia. Unlike the historic character, Elliott's gunfighter survives his encounter with the South Dakota hellhole, where he arrives to aid Read More

King of Dodge City

Actors: Tex Ritter, Judith Linden, Dub Taylor, Guy Usher

Synopsis: Columbia's King of Dodge City was the first of several westerns costarring "Wild Bill" Elliot and singing cowboy Tex Ritter. Though Elliot is billed first, the plot and action are evenly divided between the two B-picture favorites. The story takes place in Kansas, just after the Civil War. Wild Read More

The Return of Daniel Boone

Actors: Betty Miles, Dub Taylor, Ray Bennett, Walter Soderling

Synopsis: Having previously portrayed Wild Bill Hickok on screen, cowboy hero Bill Elliot impersonates another famed frontiersman in The Return of Daniel Boone. Somehow finding himself in the 19th century west, Daniel Boone takes on a pair of clever crooks, one of whom (Walter Soderling) serves as mayor of Read More

Beyond the Sacramento

Actors: Art Mix, Bud Osborne, Evelyn Keyes, Dub Taylor, Blackjack Ward, John Dilson, George McKay, Jack Low, Bradley Page

Synopsis: That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia Pictures. This time, sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) discovers that two old enemies, swindlers Cord Crowley (Bradley Page) and Jeff Adams (Frank LaRue), are fooling the good Read More

Hands Across the Rockies

Synopsis: As Wild Bill Hickok and sidekick Cannonball stalk a murderer, they encounter the killer's fiancee. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Son of Davy Crockett

Actors: Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Kenneth MacDonald, Richard Fiske

Synopsis: Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During the Reconstruction era, Davy Jr. (Elliot) is hired by President Grant (Harrison Greene) to convince the residents of a small territory on the Texas border to align Read More

Wildcat of Tucson

Actors: Evelyn Young, Stanley Brown, Dub Taylor, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: Wild Bill Hickok is once more impersonated by Will Bill Elliot in the Columbia western Wildcat of Tucson. This time, Hickok is saddled with an irresponsible brother named Dave (Stanley Brown). Falling in with a bad crowd, Dave ends up victimized by claim jumpers, forcing Wild Bill to leave his Read More

Across the Sierras

Actors: Luana Walters, Dub Taylor, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: The taciturn William Elliott stars in this above-average entry in Columbia's "Wild Bill Hickock" B-Western series. Returning to town with Larry Armstrong (Richard Fiske), an old friend he has just saved from a lynch mob, Hickock learns that Mitch Carew (Dick Curtis), a prison parolee, has killed Read More

The Return of Wild Bill

Actors: Iris Meredith, George Lloyd, Luana Walters, Edward J. Le Saint

Synopsis: Like its predecessor The Man From Tumbleweeds, the 1940 Bill Elliot western The Return of Wild Bill was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, whose innovative choice of camera angles was always well worth watching. Returning to his home town after a long absence, Wild Bill Saunders (Elliot) discovers that Read More

Pioneers of the Frontier

Actors: Dick Curtis, Dub Taylor, Stanley Brown

Synopsis: The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the title character who discovers that his uncle Mort (Lafe McKee) has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley (Dick Curtis). But before he can right Read More

One Man's Law

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Janet Waldo, George Cleveland, Dub Taylor, Edmund Cobb

Synopsis: Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans to build a railroad are threatened by an outlaw gang, hero Jack (Barry) arrives in town to set things right. Jack's reputation as a two-gun terror with a price on his head Read More

Prairie Schooners

Actors: Evelyn Young, Dub Taylor, Ray Teal

Synopsis: An average Columbia B-Western, Prairie Schooners once again features William Elliott as a highly fictitious Wild Bill Hickock. When local farmers are ready to string up nasty banker Dalton Stull (Kenneth Harlan), who had taken advantage of a drought to foreclose on their loans, Wild Bill agrees Read More

The Man from Tumbleweeds

Actors: Iris Meredith, Francis Walker

Synopsis: In the third of his four Wild Bill Saunders Westerns, Bill Elliott, "the Peaceable Man," is assigned by Governor Dawson (Don Beddoe) to put a stop to the reign of terror, including cold-blooded murder, perpetrated by Powder Kilgore (Raphael Bennett). When the state legislature refuses to fund a Read More

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Actors: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey

Synopsis: Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior 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

You Can't Take It with You

Actors: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington

Synopsis: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore Read More