Hank PattersonFilmography

The Beverly Hillbillies: Drysdale and Friend

Synopsis: Returning from their Hooterville holiday, Granny and Elly May arrive in Beverly Hills to discover that both Mr. Drysdale -- and Elly's pet bear -- are nowhere to be found. It seems that Drysdale, with bear in tow, had set out for Hooterville to meet the Clampett ladies, unaware that his car Read More

Green Acres: Season 05

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season five of Green Acres begins as the ramshackle farm of Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) is invaded by Lisa's Hungarian mother (Lilia Skala), a bejeweled countess. As "Mudder" remains on the premises for weeks and weeks, the male citizenry of Hooterville, notably hotelier Read More

Green Acres: Season 04

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: It's hard to believe that the producers of Green Acres could come up with fourth-season episodes that are even crazier than those seen in the previous three seasons, but that's just what happens as city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) continue to weather the trials and Read More

Green Acres: Season 03

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season three of Green Acres begins as attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) is nominated for the political post of state senator. Alas, this dream come true is destined to become as much a comic nightmare as city slicker Oliver's efforts to become a successful farmer in the bucolic Read More

Green Acres: Season 02

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) make the best of another year of "farm livin'" in bucolic Hooterville as Green Acres enters its second season. Still stubbornly determined to make a profit on his rundown farm, Oliver continues to be flustered by such local looneys as Read More

Petticoat Junction: Hooterville Valley Project

Synopsis: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) is back with yet another scheme to put the Hooterville Cannonball out of business. In fact, he's gotten pretty expansive since his last visit: Now he intends to put all of Hooterville out of business as well! It seems that Homer has convinced the stage legislators to Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Windfall

Synopsis: The 100th episode of Petticoat Junction finds Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) in the town of Pixley, ostensibly looking for a job but actually loafing about as usual. However, Joe does manage to increase his "riches"--or so he thinks--when the Bradley's dog digs up a tin can full of money. Future Vega$ Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate Sells the Hotel

Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benaderet) becomes convinced that her daughters would rather live in a big city like New York rather than a tiny whistle-stop like Hooterville. This explains why Kate puts the Shady Rest Hotel up for sale and prepares to move. But since this is only the third of Petticoat Junction's Read More

Green Acres: Season 01

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City-bred attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his chic, sophisticated wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), undergo quite a period of adjustment throughout the first season of Green Acres. Having insisted upon bundling himself and his wife to a 160-acre farm just outside the bucolic town of Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: If I Had a Quarter Million

Actors: Howard McNear, Robert Brubaker

Synopsis: Stumbling upon a satchel containing $250,000 in stolen bank money, Barney uses the dough to bring the bandits out into the open. Alas, Barney's master plan comes undone when the money is claimed by an "FBI agent"-who turns out to be one of the crooks. Featured in the cast are Al Checco as Read More

Green Acres [TV Series]

Actors: Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The third of producer Paul Henning's enormously successful "rustic" comedies of the 1960s, Green Acres made its CBS bow on September 15, 1965. Reversing the situation established on Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies, in which a group of yokels was transplanted to luxurious Beverly Hills, Green Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Matter of Communication

Synopsis: The Bradley girls have reached the age when they want to spend all their time on the telephone. Unfortunately, the nearest receivers are miles away, and Kate (Bea Benadaret) can't afford to install a special line to the Shady Rest. Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) comes to the rescue with the aid of Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme

Synopsis: In the first episode of the two-part story, despicable railroad executive Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) has managed to become president of the Pixley Bank. In this capacity, he threatens to foreclose on the Shady Rest Hotel unless the Hooterville Cannonball is scrapped. Rather than see this happen Read More

Petticoat Junction: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jinx?

Synopsis: Lately, everything Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) does is wrong, and everything he touches has a tendency to break. Word spreads that Joe is a jinx, and as a result he is treated like a leper by the rest of the community. Kate (Bea Benadaret) takes it upon herself to prove that Joe is not a walking Read More

Petticoat Junction: Visit from the Governor

Synopsis: Ever seeking opportunities to bring prestige to the Shady Rest Hotel, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) tries to stir up interest in inviting the state governor to visit Hooterville. Unfortunately, no one else in town is willing to support Joe in his efforts, forcing him to take drastic (and potentially Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Chicken Killer

Synopsis: In one of Petticoat Junction's rare fantasy episodes, the Bradley girls' beloved dog (played by future Benji star Higgins) is accused of being a chicken killer by sadistic dogcatcher Hinky Mittenfloss (brilliantly played by the inimitable, squeaky-voiced Percy Helton). Thrown into a dog pound that Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Genghis Keane Story

Synopsis: In the final episode of Petticoat Junction's first season, Kate (Bea Benadaret) braces herself for a visit from her former schoolteacher Adelaide Keane (played by Benadaret's fellow old-time-radio veteran Lurene Tuttle), who was so stern and tough that she was known to one and all as "Genghis" Read More

Petticoat Junction: Race Against the Stork

Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benadaret) invites her pregnant friend Elsie (Olive Sturgess) to stay at the Shady Rest until the baby comes. Meanwhile, enterprising Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) works out a "foolproof" plan to make sure that the obstetrician arrives on time when he's needed. And of course, this being a Read More

Petticoat Junction: Charley Abandons the Cannonball

Synopsis: Charley Pratt (Smiley Burnette), one of the two engineers of the Hooterville Cannonball, has never been known as the sensitve type. But when it appears that no one wants to pay him any attention, Charley goes into a funk--one so deep that he quits his job. Bob Hastings, a busy comic actor best Read More

The Twilight Zone: Come Wander With Me

Actors: Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher, Hank Patterson

Synopsis: Written by Anthony Wilson, this episode stars Gary Crosby as cynical folksinger Floyd Burney. Venturing into backwoods country in search of inspiration and new material, Floyd makes the acquaintance of young Mary Rachel (Bonnie Beecher), who has the facility for extemporizing folksong lyrics. But Read More

The Twilight Zone: Ring-A-Ding Girl

Actors: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, Bing Russell, Hank Patterson

Synopsis: Famous for her collection of valuable rings, movie star Bunny Blake (Maggie McNamara) is inexorably drawn back to her home town by an unusual ring which seems to talk to her. Upon her arrival, Bunny continues heeding the messages conveyed by the ring, and in so doing averts a tragedy -- for Read More

Petticoat Junction: Please Buy My Violets

Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benadaret) is confused when Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) begins buying up old bug-spray cans. It turns out that Joe is off on another of his get-rich-quick schemes, in this case the manufacture and sale of his own brand of cologne, "Lord and Lady Violet." Joe boasts that this business Read More

The Twilight Zone: Kick the Can

Actors: Ernest Truex, Russell Collins, John Marley, Burt Mustin, Marjorie Bennett

Synopsis: Written by George Clayton Johnson, this elegiac Twilight Zone episode stars 72-year-old Ernest Truex as Charles Whitley, a reluctant resident of the Sunnyvale Rest Home. Becoming convinced that he'll never truly grow old so long as he "thinks young," Charlie begins indulging in such children's Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Hunt

Synopsis: Richard Connell's venerable suspense yarn "The Most Dangerous Game" was the obvious inspiration for this nail-biting episode. Summoned to Oregon to help lumberwoman Vanessa Stuart (Joan Elan) fend off her enemies, Paladin (Richard Boone) arrives to discover that he has been lured into a trap. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Jonah

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to dive into Crystal Lake and recover $20,000 in stolen gold. This proves to be a challenging task thanks to a half-crazed fisherman, Jonas Quincy (Harry Carey Jr.) who refuses to let Paladin dive until an elusive trout is caught. Meanwhile, the gold thieves sit on Read More

The Untouchables: Double Cross

Synopsis: Ubiquitous Untouchables guest star Nehemiah Persoff makes his final appearance as criminal mastermind Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. Determined to drive Guzik out of the bootlegging business, Elliot Ness secretly begins supplying Jake's rivals with illegal booze. Ness hopes this heightened competition Read More

The Untouchables: The Jamaica Ginger Story

Synopsis: "Jamaica Ginger" is the street name for a dangerous grade of wood alcohol, capable of blinding or killing anyone who consumes it. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) must prevent this lethal rotgut from being brought into the United States and distributed by bootlegger Rafael Torres (Michael Ansara). Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: El Paso Stage

Synopsis: Those familiar with Buddy Ebsen via his amiable portrayals of Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones will be shocked by this episode, wherein Ebsen is cast as Elmo Crane, the corrupt, psychotic and thoroughly detestable marshal of El Paso. After years of being victimized and extorted by the venal Crane Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Blind Circle

Synopsis: With the West becoming increasingly civilized, the Cattlemen's Association has decided to expunge the violence of the past by offering a blanket amnesty to the last of the old cattle rustlers. But the Association has reckoned without their main bounty hunter, an embittered man named Jess Larker Read More

Gunfighters of Abilene

Actors: Barton MacLane, Judith Ames, Arthur Space, Eugenia Paul

Synopsis: One of the busiest directors of westerns at this time, Edward L. Cahn helms this uninspired saddle saga about love and betrayal. Kip (Buster Crabbe) is a gunslinger with a score to settle. Seth (Barton MacLane), a villainous land baron, frames Kip's brother for a crime he never committed and Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Lady on the Wall

Synopsis: The only pleasure afforded the half-crazed residents of a ghost town called Bonanza is the faded portrait of a beautiful woman which hangs on the wall of the saloon. When the portrait turns up missing, the locals blame the only stranger in their midst--namely, Paladin (Richard Boone). Ultimately Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Unforgiven

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is summoned to the deathbed of an old enemy, a Civil War general named Crommer (David White). Hoping to make amends with several other long-standing enemies, Crommer wants Paladin to deliver his forgiveness to a man named Caterall (Joel Ashley). But Caterall is convinced Read More

The Lone Texan

Actors: Willard Parker, Grant Williams, Audrey Dalton, Douglas Kennedy, June Blair

Synopsis: A routine western with a classic theme, the "lone Texan" of the title is Clint Banister (Willard Parker) who finds trouble at home when he returns after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. Given his military history, he is hardly welcomed with open arms. In addition to the animosity of Read More

Maverick: The Saga of Waco Williams

Synopsis: Wayde Preston took a break from his starring duties on the Warner Bros. western series Colt. 45 for a guest stint in this episode of Maverick. Preston is cast as Waco Williams, a trigger-happy gent who manages to get into trouble even when he goes out of the way to avoid it. Riding into Bent City Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: In An Evil Time

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to track down elderly outlaw Pappy French (Hank Patterson), who years earlier had robbed the bank of Mercede and absconded with $50,000 in gold, leaving his partners in the lurch. Upon meeting Pappy, Paladin grows rather fond of the old coot, who with a broken leg Read More

Escape from Red Rock

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Eilene Janssen, Gary Murray, Jay C. Flippen, William Phipps

Synopsis: In this Western, a rancher must perform a robbery lest the outlaw chief that holds his wounded brother hostage lets him die. The rancher does the job, then escapes to Mexico with his girl. En route, they marry. They soon find a cabin in the middle of Indian country. The Apaches had killed all the Read More

Attack of the Puppet People

Actors: John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn

Synopsis: Attack of the Puppet People is one of the few "mad scientist" opuses of the 1950s to be motivated by loneliness rather than megalomania. John Hoyt plays Franz, a seedy European doll-maker who harbors a crush on his secretary Sally (June Kenney). When Sally makes plans to marry Franz' top employee Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Gun Shy

Synopsis: After a jade chess set owned by the uncle of hotel bellhop Hey Boy (Kam Tong) is stolen, Paladin (Richard Boone) agrees to track down the thieves and reclaim the loot. Riding to a lonely Montana town in hopes of intercepting the outlaws, Paladin spends the night in a rundown boarding house owned Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Terrified Typist

Synopsis: George Baxter (Jack Raine), a courier for the South African Diamond Company, arrives at his firm's California office to find the place in a state of disarray, with a strange girl (Joanna Moore) standing the middle of the room. Baxter concludes that the place has been robbed, but before he can say Read More

Terror in a Texas Town

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugenio Martín, Ned Young

Synopsis: This near-legendary western stars Sterling Hayden as George Hanson, the son of a Swedish seaman-turned-farmer (Ted Stanhope). When he runs afoul of town boss Ed McNeil (Sebastian Cabot), Hanson's father is gunned down by McNeil's henchman Johnny Crale (Ned Young). Knowing full well that he can Read More

Earth vs. the Spider

Actors: Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth, Hal Torey

Synopsis: A man driving along a lonely back road at night is suddenly startled by what he sees, and is promptly killed by something that crashes through his windshield. The next day, in the nearby town of River Falls, teenagers Carol Flynn (June Kenney) and Mike Simpson (Gene Persson) decide to go looking Read More

The Decks Ran Red

Actors: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, Stuart Whitman, Katherine Bard

Synopsis: In this sea-going suspense drama, Edwin Rumill (James Mason) is the former first mate of an ocean liner who leaps at the chance to have a vessel under his full command. However, the S.S. Berwind is no ship to write home about, a freighter from the mothball fleet whose captain has recently died. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Duel at Florence

Synopsis: Though his usual fee is a flat thousand dollars, Paladin willingly accepts the $82.17 offered him by timid young barber Ernie Teller (Dean Harens). It seems that Ernie is in love with a proud and haughty beauty named Belle Hooper (Bonnie Bolding), but two tough gunslingers are already vying for Read More

Monster on the Campus

Actors: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, a college professor must deal with the cataclysmic consequences that ensue when a transmogrifying dragonfly bites a prehistoric fish from Madagascar. Soon after the bite, the strange fish becomes gigantic and begins passing on its new ability to morph all it comes in contact Read More

The Storm Rider

Actors: Scott Brady, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Olin Howland, William Fawcett

Synopsis: Edward Bernds, graduate of Columbia's "Three Stooges" shorts and Allied Artists' "Bowery Boys" epics, expertly guides The Storm Rider through its paces. Scott Brady plays an ex-gunslinger who is hired by a group of ranchers to protect them from covetous land baron Roy Engel. Unbeknownst to the Read More

The Amazing Colossal Man

Actors: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, James Seay, Larry Thor

Synopsis: A "Shock Theater" perennial since it was first released to television in the early 1960s (stretch-framed to pad out its running time), The Amazing Colossal Man is firmly in the "So Bad It's Good" category. While overseeing the atomic tests in the Nevada desert, Army colonel Glenn Langan is exposed Read More

The First Traveling Saleslady

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, James Arness, Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling Saleslady. Ginger and Broadway favorite Carol Channing (whose only starring film this was) play a pair of corset salespersons who head westward in 1897 to hawk their wares. Read More

Julie

Actors: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Julie is most enjoyable if one doesn't take it too seriously. Doris Day plays Julie Benton, whose off-the-coop musician husband Lyle Benton (Louis Jourdan) confesses that he in fact killed Julie's first husband. She immediately recognizes that he is so possessive of her that he would sooner rub Read More

Tarantula

Actors: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott

Synopsis: A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county sheriff (Nestor Paiva) tentatively identifies the dead man as Eric Jacobs, a laboratory assistant to Professor Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), a research scientist living a few miles Read More

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders [Serial]

Synopsis: This pedestrian chapterplay added William Henry -- renamed Bill Henry for the occasion -- to the long list of lesser known journeymen actors elevated for economy purposes to stardom during the last years of American movie serials. As the title suggests, Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders Read More

Blades of the Musketeers

Actors: Robert Clarke, John Hubbard, Mel Archer, Keith Richards, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: The Dumas-inspired Blades of the Musketeers began life as an hour-long TV show, produced by Hal Roach Jr. as a possible series pilot. Robert Clarke, who'd previous headlined a pilot for a never-sold "Robin Hood" series, plays D'Artagnan, while the rest of the Musketeers are portrayed by John Hubbard Read More

California Conquest

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, Lisa Ferraday, Eugene Iglesias

Synopsis: California Conquest is set in the early 19th century, when California was fighting for its independence from Mexico--and as such was up for grabs so far as several other nations were concerned. Wealthy landowner Fredo Brios (John Dehner) feverishly opposes all efforts by Californians seeking to Read More

Indian Uprising

Actors: George Montgomery, Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid, Eugene Iglesias, John Baer

Synopsis: Columbia's Colorado Uprising was neither expensive enough to qualify as an "A" picture nor inexpensive enough to qualify as a "B." It was simply a "programmer," and as such was eminently suitable for solo playdates or double-feature berths. George Montgomery stars as cavalry captain McCloud, whose Read More

Silver City Bonanza

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Mary Ellen Kay, Billy Kimbley

Synopsis: Rex Allen, aka "The Arizona Cowboy," again stars as himself in Republic's Silver City Bonanza. Allen and his sidekick Gabe Horne (Buddy Ebsen) are hot on the trail of a murderer who has stabbed a blind man to death. Their chief witness is the victim's seeing-eye dog, who is a better actor than Read More

Don Daredevil Rides Again [Serial]

Synopsis: Stock-footage from Republic Pictures' earlier Zorro serials was served up once again in this 12 chapter cliffhanger, this time without the financially strapped studio having to credit Zorro creator Johnston McCulley or pay any royalties. Zorro simply became "Don Daredevil" (Ken Curtis), a foppish Read More

James Brothers of Missouri [Serial]

Synopsis: This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a prominent member) to become normal everyday citizens. Of course, there's no room in the Wild West for reformed outlaws, and the duo inevitably find themselves caught up in showdowns and robberies. Read More

The Gunfighter

Actors: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Cliff Clark, Angela Clarke, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, David Clarke, Ellen Corby, Karl Malden

Synopsis: In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child Read More

Desperadoes of the West [Serial]

Synopsis: A cooperative of independent oil men goes up against a greedy Eastern syndicate in this Republic Pictures serial directed by Fred C. Brannon. Colonel Arnold (Cliff Clark), his daughter Sally (Judy Clark) and Ward Gordon (Richard Powers) furnish the leadership of the cooperative but are constantly Read More

Code of the Silver Sage

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, Kay Christopher

Synopsis: Code of the Silver Rage is more of the same from Republic western star Allan "Rocky" Lane. This time, Rocky plays U.S. cavalry intelligence officer Lt. Rocky Lane, assigned to protect the President of the United States from harm when the Chief Executive visits the treacherous Arizona Territory. Read More

Red Canyon

Actors: Ann Blyth, Howard Duff, George Brent, Edgar Buchanan, John McIntire

Synopsis: Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and 1959. Howard Duff plays wandering cowpoke Lin Sloane, who spends most of the film trying to capture a fabled wild stallion. While thus occupied, he finds time to romance Lucy Read More

Riders in the Sky

Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Pat Buttram, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this success into a film, which proved to be one of Autry's best postwar efforts. The basic plot concerns Autry's efforts to clear rancher Ralph Lawson (Steve Darrell) of a Read More

The Cowboy and the Indians

Actors: Gene Autry, Sheila Ryan, Frank Richards, Hank Patterson, Jay Silverheels

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy comes to the aid of the Indians. The story begins as hero, Gene Autry, begins an investigation of a series of Indian raids. They had been stealing food from homesteads located around the reservation. Autry is appalled to discover that they have been taking the food Read More

Relentless

Actors: Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman, Willard Parker, Akim Tamiroff, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Described by one critic as a western version of The 39 Steps, Relentless stars Robert Young as a cowboy on the lam. Framed for murder, Young must find the one man who can clear him, while a posse dogs his trail. He briefly becomes an outlaw, hoping to make contact with his quarry by befriending Read More

The Denver Kid

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller

Synopsis: Allan Lane goes in search of his dead friend's brother in this fast-paced Western from Republic Pictures. Instead of finding his brother Tim as he had been promised, Fletcher Roberts (Bruce Edwards) is confronted by Jason Fox (Rory Mallinson), a criminal who needs Fletcher's horses to equip a gang Read More

Night Time in Nevada

Actors: Roy Rogers, Adele Mara, Andy Devine, Grant Withers, Marie Harmon

Synopsis: Roy Rogers plays Roy Rogers, as ever, in Night Time in Nevada. This time Roy is a cattle owner whose stock is stolen by Grant Withers. It is Withers' hope to sell the livestock, thereby covering funds that he's been appropriating from leading lady Adele Mara's trust fund. Roy is able to vanquish 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

Robin Hood of Texas

Actors: Stanley Andrews, Gene Autry, Michael Branden, Al Bridge, Paul Bryar

Synopsis: A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan song for Republic Pictures, lovingly restored by UCLA and Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Swindled out of their savings, Gene and the Cass County Boys mistakenly get mixed up Read More

Bells of San Angelo

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Andy Devine, John McGuire, Olaf Hytten

Synopsis: The Bells of San Angelo was the second Republic Roy Rogers western to be filmed in the "new" Trucolor process (actually the old Magnacolor process). Set in the modern west, the story involves a silver-smuggling racket headed by rotten Rex Gridley (John McGuire). In a novel scripting touch, Roy Rogers 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

Under Colorado Skies

Actors: Monte Hale, Adrian Booth, Paul Hurst, William Haade, John Alvin

Synopsis: Filmed in "glorious" Trucolor, a low-budget substitute for Technicolor, Under Colorado Skies remains a standard B-Western, neither better nor worse than the majority of late-1940s sagebrush fare from genre specialist Republic Pictures. Monte Hale stars as a medical student moonlighting as a bank Read More

Abilene Town

Actors: Randolph Scott, Helen Boyce, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Dick Curtis, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of the big cattle drives out of Texas. The town is growing faster than a lot of citizens are prepared to deal with it, especially as homesteaders start moving in, fighting for Read More

Santa Fe Uprising

Synopsis: This fast-paced western, geared entirely to the small-fry, was the first in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder" series to star Allan Lane. Lane had taken over from William Elliot, who had been promised A-westerns only by company president Herbert I. Yates. Ryder and his young Indian pal Read More

I Ring Doorbells

Actors: Anne Gwynne, Robert Shayne, Roscoe Karns, Pierre Watkin, Harry Shannon

Synopsis: Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her. In order to do so, he cons the gal's maid Read More

The El Paso Kid

Actors: Sunset Carson, Marie Harmon, Hank Patterson, Edmund Cobb, Robert Filmer

Synopsis: In this Western, an outlaw tries to escape from a gang of robbers after they refuse to assist a gang member wounded during a stagecoach caper. He and the wounded outlaw leave and try to steal a stagecoach as their ex-gang robs it. The sheriff's daughter observes the incident. Believing that the Read More

Wild Beauty

Synopsis: In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save his beloved steed from the cruel industrialist who has been slaughtering horses and using their hides for making shoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More