Tim McCoyFilmography

Requiem for a Gunfighter

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

Run of the Arrow

Actors: Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Several film historians, notably the late William K. Everson, have noted the striking resemblances between Run of the Arrow and the 1990 Oscar-winner Dances with Wolves. Rod Steiger stars as O'Meara, an Irish-brogued Confederate soldier with an intense dislike for Yankees. Unable to accept the Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

Down Texas Way

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: Monogram's "Rough Riders" rolled along smoothly with the 1942 entry Down Texas Way. Once again, the star trio consists of Buck Jones as Buck Roberts, Tim McCoy as Tim McCall, and Raymond Hatton as Sandy Hopkins. The plot, as always, finds Buck, Tim and Sandy cast as undercover US Marshals who Read More

Riders of the West

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Sarah Padden, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Riders of the West is another entry in Monogram's repetitious but profitable "Rough Riders" series. Back in the saddle again are Buck Jones as Buck Roberts, Tim McCoy as Tim McCall, and Raymond Hatton as Sandy Hopkins. The three heroes take on a gang of cattle rustlers, using their standard method Read More

Ghost Town Law

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Carpenter

Synopsis: The old plot device of a western "ghost town" being used as a hideout for criminals is trotted out again in Monogram's Ghost Town Law. This time around, the heroes are The Rough Riders: namely, Buck Roberts (Buck Jones), Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton). Following their Read More

Dawn on the Great Divide

Actors: Buck Jones, Rex Bell, Raymond Hatton, Mona Barrie, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: The Rough Riders--Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton and Rex Bell--endeavor to provide a wagon train safe passage through Indian country. With Jones heading the caravan and Bell and Hatton working undercover, the threesome discover that the "savages" planning to attack the settlers are actually renegade Read More

West of the Law

Synopsis: The last of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" westerns starring oldtimers Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton, West of the Law has the three lawmen coming to the aid of a beleaguered newspaper editor, Rufus Todd (Milburn Morante), who has been exposing a rash of stage robberies near Gold Creek. Read More

Below the Border

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Linda Brent, Charles King

Synopsis: The Rough Riders-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, and Raymond Hatton-go through their customary paces in the Monogram western Below the Border. Once again, the three stars play characters who are outwardly strangers to one another, but who are secretly working together to defeat a common enemy. This time Read More

The Texas Marshal

Actors: Tim McCoy, Kay Leslie, Karl Hackett, Edward Peil Sr.

Synopsis: Tim McCoy is the Texas Marshal in this better than usual PRC western. McCoy is forced to take on a hooded vigilante group called the League of Patriots. He suspects in this case that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, and he's right: The League is actually a front for a gang of gold Read More

The Gunman from Bodie

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: Veteran action and western director Spencer G. Bennet certainly opens this the second of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" oaters on a suspenseful and unusual note. On a dark and stormy night, a lone rider enters a secluded and seemingly vacant ranch house to find the slain bodies of the occupants Read More

Riders of Black Mountain

Actors: Tim McCoy, Rex Lease, Ralph Peters, Julian Rivero

Synopsis: Filmed in late 1940, the PRC western Riders of Black Mountain didn't secure a New York City playdate until December of 1941. Tim McCoy heads the cast as a US marshal who poses as a slick gambler. It's all part of his scheme to investigate a series of stagecoach robberies without alerting the Read More

Arizona Bound

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dennis Moore

Synopsis: Monogram Pictures launched its lucrative "Rough Riders" western series with 1941's Arizona Bound. Producer Scott Dunlap hoped to attract new customers by teaming two of the most popular cowboy stars in the movies, Buck Jones and Tim McCoy, throwing in another old favorite, Raymond Hatton, as Read More

Outlaws of the Rio Grande

Actors: Tim McCoy, Virginia Carpenter, Ralph Peters, Karl Hackett

Synopsis: PRC's Outlaws of the Rio Grande stars Tim McCoy in his traditional role of a US marshal. Operating around the Mexican border, McCoy is galvanized into action when his best pal is killed by a gang of counterfeiters. Going undercover, our hero heads after the gang into Mexico, intending to unmask Read More

Forbidden Trails

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Tristram Coffin, Charles King

Synopsis: The "Rough Riders"-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton-are back in the saddle in Forbidden Trails. As was customary, the stars play three wildly diverse types who are apparently strangers to one another when the film begins. In this instance, Buck Roberts (Jones) is a dude gambler, Tim McCall Read More

Texas Renegades

Actors: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Kenne Duncan, Lee Prather, Harry Harvey

Synopsis: The first of eight Tim McCoy Westerns for ultra low-budget Producers' Distributing Corp./Producers Releasing Corp., Texas Renegades features the veteran star as "Silent" Tim Smith, "the greatest lawman of them all." When the good folks of Rawhide find themselves terrorized by a mysterious gang of Read More

Straight Shooter

Actors: Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Ted Adams, Reed Howes

Synopsis: Long before the character was appropriated by Buster Crabbe, "Lightning" Bill Carson was played by Tim McCoy in a series of low-budget westerns produced by Sam Katzman. One of the last of these was Straight Shooter, filmed in the late 1930s but unreleased until 1940. This time, Carson (McCoy) goes Read More

Frontier Crusader

Actors: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Short, Lou Fulton, Karl Hackett, Ted Adams

Synopsis: Frontier Crusader was Tim McCoy's first western vehicle for the newly-formed Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). The star plays Trigger Jim Rand, an itinerant peacekeeper who springs into action when a gang of thieves steals the payroll money from a local mining company. The theft was actually Read More

Black Mountain Stage

Arizona Gangbusters

Gun Code

Actors: Tim McCoy, Lou Fulton, Carleton Young

Synopsis: Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield. This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. The crooks shake down the locals Read More

Texas Wildcats

Actors: Tim McCoy, Joan Barclay, Ben Corbett, Forrest Taylor, Ted Adams

Synopsis: In this exciting western, a mysterious masked hero helps tired settlers protect their lands from the wicked land-grabbers. One of the grabbers attempts to kill the crusader by offering a substantial reward for his capture. He does this so he can grab the land of one homesteader who is unknowingly Read More

Fighting Renegade

Actors: Tim McCoy, Joyce Bryant, Ben Corbett, Ted Adams, Budd Buster

Synopsis: In this complicated western, a group of explorers head to Mexico to hunt for an Indian burial ground. The hero, who has been unjustly accused of murdering the leader of the first expedition, begins impersonating the notorious bandito El Puma. He intercepts the latest expedition just as the leader Read More

Outlaws' Paradise

Actors: Frank Wayne, Jack C. Smith, George Morrell, Frank Lipson, Edward Cassidy

Synopsis: Ticket buyers got two Tim McCoys for the price of one with this low-budget Western, one of McCoy's eight Lightning Bill Carson oaters for producer Sam Katzman's Victory Pictures. This time government agent "Lightning Bill" impersonates a look-alike bandit about to be released from jail. But before Read More

Outlaw's Paradise

Actors: Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Joan Barclay, Ted Adams, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: Tall-in-the-saddle Tim McCoy essays a dual role in the low-budget western Outlaw's Paradise. As luck would have it, government agent Lightnin' Bill Carson (McCoy) is the exact double of outlaw leader Trigger Mallory (also McCoy). While Trigger languishes in jail, Bill takes his place, infiltrating Read More

Trigger Fingers

Actors: Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Jill Martin, Joyce Bryant, Carleton Young

Synopsis: Tim McCoy is back as hard-ridin' Lighting Bill Carson in Victory Pictures' Trigger Fingers. When rustlers invade a peaceful frontier community, troubleshooter Carson is summoned to throw the rascals out. Once more indulging his penchant for disguise, our hero dresses up as a gypsy fortune-teller Read More

Code of the Cactus

Actors: Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Dorothy Short, Ted Adams, Alden Chase

Synopsis: Tim McCoy once again played Department of Justice agent "Lightning Bill" Carson in Code of the Cactus, and once again he infiltrates the outlaws by masquerading as a foreigner, this time a Mexican named Miguel. A gang of very modern rustlers using high-powered trucks and machine guns is Read More

Phantom Ranger

Actors: Tim McCoy, Suzanne Kaaren, Karl Hackett, John Merton, Charles King

Synopsis: Phantom Ranger was the last of a quartet of Tim McCoy westerns produced by Maurice Conn for Monogram release. The star is cast as federal agent Tim Hayes, assigned to round up a counterfeiting gang. The audience knows way ahead of time that McCoy will pose as an outlaw to gain the villain's Read More

Code of the Rangers

Actors: Tim McCoy, Rex Lease, Judith Ford, Wheeler Oakman, Roger Williams

Synopsis: Code of the Rangers was one of four Monogram westerns of the 1937-38 season starring the venerable Tim McCoy. In this one, Texas Ranger Tim Strong (McCoy) tries his best to straigthen out his hotheaded brother Jack (Rex Lease). Things don't work out, and before long Tim is protecting Jack from a Read More

Lightning Carson Rides Again

Synopsis: When a man is blamed for murder and thievery, his lawman uncle chases after him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Two-Gun Justice

Actors: Tim McCoy, Betty Compson, Joan Barclay, John Merton, Al Bridge

Synopsis: In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete with paint-on mustache and Latino accent. The plot contrives to have McCoy go into his "Si, senorita" routine to infiltrate the outlaw gang headed by a nasty galoot named Read More

Six-Gun Trail

Synopsis: In this western, a government agent poses as an Asian so he can investigate a gang of jewel smugglers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

West of Rainbow's End

Actors: Tim McCoy, Walter McGrail, Frank LaRue

Synopsis: West of Rainbow's End was one of two Tim McCoy westerns directed by Monogram Pictures workhorse Alan James. Returning to the screen after a tour with the Ringling Bros. circus, McCoy is cast as a former railroad detective who emerges from retirement to solve a series of suspicious accidents. The Read More

Lightnin' Bill Carson

Actors: Tim McCoy, Lois January, Rex Lease, Harry Worth, Karl Hackett

Synopsis: The first of nine Bill Carson Westerns produced by Sigmund Neufeld and starring the stalwart Tim McCoy, Lightnin' Bill Carson was the only entry released by Puritan Pictures. Lightnin' Bill is the marshal of Blue Gap, TX, who resigns to chase down "Breed" Hawkins (John Merton) and the "Pecos" Kid Read More

Roarin' Guns

Actors: Tim McCoy, Rosalinda Price, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: An average low-budget Western from short-lived Puritan Pictures, Roarin' Guns starred Tim McCoy as Tim Corwin, an agent for the Cattlemen's Association assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton (Wheeler Oakman). Tim befriends Bob Morgan (John Elliott), a Read More

Aces and Eights

Actors: Tim McCoy, Jimmy Aubrey, Luana Walters, Wheeler Oakman, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim McCoy would make for low-budget (and short-lived) Puritan Pictures. McCoy plays the legendary Wild Bill Hickock in a prologue that depicts how Wild Bill is assassinated during Read More

The Man from Gun Town

Actors: Tim McCoy, Billie Seward, Rex Lease, Jack Clifford, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: In his second Western for low-budget Puritan Pictures, Tim McCoy comes to the aid of a pretty ranch owner whose property is in danger of being usurped by a crooked saloon owner. Ruth McArthur (Billie Seward) cannot pay her late father's debt and lawyer Eric McGillis (Robert McKenzie) advises her Read More

Roaring Guns

Actors: Tim McCoy

Synopsis: Tim McCoy's western series for Puritan Pictures were pretty shabby production-wise, but nearly always delivered the goods in the action department. McCoy plays a representative of a cattleman's association, dispatched to quell a range war. Fomenting the trouble is shifty-eyed Wheeler Oakman, who Read More

The Traitor

Actors: Tim McCoy, Karl Hackett, Jack Rockwell, Pedro Regas

Synopsis: In his final Western for Poverty Row company Puritan Pictures, Tim McCoy played a Texas Ranger going undercover in order to flush out a certain Big George (J. Frank Glendon), the leader of a gang of heroin smugglers. Pretending to have been kicked out of the ranger corps, Tim follows henchmen Read More

Border Caballero

Actors: Tim McCoy, Lois January, Ted Adams

Synopsis: Dick Tracy -- or rather his future portrayer Ralph Byrd -- found himself in the unfamiliar surroundings of the range in this Tim McCoy Western from low-budget company Puritan Pictures. Byrd played Tex Weaver, a G-man going undercover as a bank robber in order to flush out gang leader Buff Brayden Read More

Ghost Patrol

Actors: Tim McCoy, Claudia Dell, Walter Miller, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: A cowboy turned G-Man looks into a series of mysterious plane crashes in this low-budget but fairly engrossing B-Western starring Tim McCoy. Masquerading as an outlaw, Tim Caverly manages to infiltrate a gang of mail thieves holed up in a ghost town. As Tim discovers, the gang leaders, Dawson Read More

The Lion's Den

Actors: Tim McCoy, Joan Woodbury, Dick Curtis, John Merton

Synopsis: In yet another unusual Western from short-lived Puritan Pictures, Tim McCoy is a Wild West performer in a Manhattan nightclub. As Tim is performing his sharpshooting tricks with sidekick Paddy Callahan (Don Barclay), wealthy Texas rancher Knute Merwin (Arthur Millett) and his daughter, Ann (Joan Read More

The Outlaw Deputy

Actors: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Bud Osborne

Synopsis: Based on "The King of Cactusville", a 1923 short story by Johnston McCulley, the creator of Zorro, The Outlaw Deputy was the first of ten Tim McCoy Westerns from Poverty Row company Puritan Pictures. When McCoy's friend, Charlie Adams (Si Jenks), is killed by Bill Sanderson, the former cowboy and Read More

Law Beyond the Range

Synopsis: Directed by former screenwriter Ford I. Beebe, this Tim McCoy Western from Columbia co-starred Robert Allen, a handsome studio contractee groomed for Western stardom. Allen played Johnny Kane, an escaped prisoner wrongly convicted of murder. McCoy, as Texas Ranger Tim McDonald, believes in Read More

Justice of the Range

Actors: Tim McCoy, Billie Seward, Ward Bond, Guy Usher, Edward J. Le Saint

Synopsis: A superior Tim McCoy Western, Justice of the Range featured a range feud between John Mclean (Edward J. LeSaint) and his neighbor, Lafe Brennan (Jack Rutherford), each believing the other to be behind a series of cattle rustlings in Apache Basin. Hired to look into the matter by commission agent Read More

Riding Wild

Synopsis: Tim McCoy's final Western for Columbia, his home since 1931, Riding Wild is the old story of a range war between cattle barons and homesteaders. The feud begins when rancher Clay Stevens (Niles Welch) hires a gang of cattle rustlers whose crimes he blames on a group of nesters. Neighboring rancher Read More

Bulldog Courage

Synopsis: After two well-mounted entries produced by Nat Ross, the Tim McCoy Westerns from Puritan Pictures were taken over by the penny-pinching Sigmund Neufeld and the drop in quality was immediately detectable. McCoy played a dual role, as father and son. The elder McCoy, Slim Braddock, turns to robbing Read More

Square Shooter

Synopsis: In this his penultimate Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played Tim Baxter, a cowboy returning to the old homestead to prove he did not kill his uncle. Ranch foreman Jed Miller (Charles Middleton) has inherited the ranch but Tim knows the will was forged. He gathers a group of vigilantes Read More

The Revenge Rider

Actors: Tim McCoy

Synopsis: More a whodunit than a straight Western, this Tim McCoy series entry from Columbia featured a cowboy returning to his homestead to find his brother, the sheriff, killed and the family of his girl somehow involved. Dissatisfied with the investigation by newly appointed Sheriff Ludlow (Jack Read More

Fighting Shadows

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Big Bear and Wrightwood, CA, this Tim McCoy series entry from Columbia moved the stalwart hero from the range to the Pacific Northwest and gave him a handsome young co-star in Robert Allen, a former singer. McCoy played Tim O'Hara, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Read More

Beyond the Law

Actors: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Addison Richards

Synopsis: During the 1933-34 season, Columbia Pictures attempted to place its resident western star Tim McCoy in contemporary roles. Beyond the Law finds McCoy cast as a modern-day railroad detective. When ex-convict Addison Richards is framed for a train robbery, Richards' daughter Shirley Grey plays up to McCoy Read More

The Westerner

Actors: Tim McCoy, Marion Shilling, Hooper Atchley, John Dilson

Synopsis: A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not widely shown until 1936. McCoy, a rather stolid type of cowboy hero, is rather miscast as a rodeo performer competing for the affection of Juanita Barnes (Marion Shilling) Read More

Speed Wings

Actors: Tim McCoy, Evelyn Knapp, William Bakewell, Vincent Sherman, Hooper Atchley

Synopsis: Speed Wings is another 1934 "eastern" from western star Tim McCoy. This time, the star is cast as Tim, a devil-may-care stunt pilot. The various subplots include the emotional travails of young Jerry (Billy Bakewell), who vows to give up flying when he sees his best pal "crack up" before his very Read More

Straightaway

Actors: Tim McCoy, Sue Carol

Synopsis: Taking a break from westerns during the 1933-34 season, Colonel Tim McCoy was starred in such Columbia "easterners" as Straightaway. McCoy is cast as a daring racecar driver, hell-bound for the Indy 500. The villains contrive to frame our hero from murder, going so far as to fix the "guilty" Read More

The Prescott Kid

Actors: Tim McCoy, Alden Chase, Hooper Atchley

Synopsis: Filmed at the Columbia ranch in ten days in September of 1934, this Tim McCoy Western did not enjoy a wide release until October of 1936, at which time the star had left Columbia in favor of small-time Puritan Pictures. McCoy played cowboy Tim Hamlin who arrives in a town plagued by a gang of Read More

Hell Bent for Love

Actors: Tim McCoy, Lillian Bond, Bradley Page, Vincent Sherman, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a state trooper falls in love with a night club singer. The club owner is a racketeer using the nightspot as a front for his illegal business. His downfall begins when he hires thugs to beat up the cop. Later the cop gets his revenge by rallying together a group of ex-cons and Read More

Voice in the Night

Actors: Tim McCoy, Billie Seward, Joseph Crehan, Ward Bond, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: Another of western star Tim McCoy's non-westerns for Columbia, Voice in the Night casts McCoy as telephone-company owner Tim Dale. The hero's operation is a small one, but it offers formidable competition for the rival firm owned by Tim's distant relative Robinson (Joseph Crehan). The plot Read More

A Man's Game

Actors: Tim McCoy, Evelyn Knapp, Ward Bond, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: Again forsaking his traditional western garb, Tim McCoy plays a rough-and-ready fireman in Columbia's A Man's Game. During one blaze, Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up Read More

Hold the Press

Actors: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Henry Wadsworth, Oscar Apfel, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Hopscotching between westerns and modern-dress actioners in 1933, Tim McCoy once more finds himself at large in the Big City in Hold The Press. The bane of the police department, crime reporter McCoy insists upon conducting his own investigation when a baffling murder occurs. At one point, he is Read More

Silent Men

Synopsis: Tim McCoy played the classic good/bad man in this average B-Western from Columbia Pictures filmed in about a week and on a reported budget of 12,000 dollars. McCoy played Tim Richards, a cowboy who escapes from jail after serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit. He obtains a job checking Read More

Rusty Rides Alone

Actors: Tim McCoy, Barbara Weeks, Rockliffe Fellowes, Dorothy Burgess, Clarence Geldert

Synopsis: Adhering to an old Hollywood tradition, Tim McCoy's dog, Silver King, earned billing above the heroine, 1931 WAMPAS Baby Star Barbara Weeks, in this typically workmanlike Columbia Western. McCoy and Silver King come to the aid of Mollie Martin (Weeks), whose brother, Tom, has been kidnapped by Read More

Man of Action

Synopsis: In his first Western of 1933, Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy once again played a Texas Ranger, this time investigating the death of a supposed bank robber, "the Falcon." Tim and his buddy, Miguel (Julian Rivero), arrive at the Sherman ranch, whose owner (Lafe McKee) is the real victim of the robbery Read More

The Whirlwind

Synopsis: A decidedly minor entry in Tim McCoy's Western oeuvre, The Whirlwind was released in the middle of McCoy's unsuccessful "straight" melodramas. Tim played Tim (as he almost always did), a rodeo rider returning to his hometown of Sagebrush only to find the place run by power-hungry sheriff Tate Read More

Police Car 17

Actors: Tim McCoy, Evelyn Knapp, Wallis Clark, Ward Bond, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon (McCoy) and his partner Bumps O'Neill (Ward Bond) vie for the attentions of Helen Regan (Evelyn Knapp), daughter of a fellow cop. Our hero not only wins Helen but also the Read More

Daring Danger

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Edward J. Le Saint, Bobby Nelson

Synopsis: Although based on a story by William Colt McDonald, the creator of The Three Mesqueteers, this Tim McCoy effort from Columbia was a conventional Western at best. McCoy played Tim Madigan, a cowpoke coming to the aid of Jerry Norris (Alberta Vaughn), whose father (Murdock MacQuarrie) is in trouble Read More

Fighting for Justice

Synopsis: A standard Tim McCoy Western from Columbia Pictures, Fighting for Justice featured the stalwart McCoy as a cowboy whose late father was cheated out of his ranch by an unscrupulous tax attorney, Trout (Hooper Atchley). Falsifying the Bar A Ranch tax records, Trout, who is in league with Bull Read More

Western Code

Actors: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Wheeler Oakman, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: An average entry in Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy Western series, The Western Code features perennial Bad Guy Wheeler Oakman as Nick Grindle, a crooked saloon keeper who marries lovely Polly Loomis' mother for her money. The woman dies leaving everything to Grindle while Polly (Nora Lane) and her Read More

Cornered

Synopsis: Not the best of Tim McCoy's 16 Westerns for Columbia (1931-1932), Cornered, directed by action specialist B. Reeves Eason, was also far from the worst, with plenty of fast riding and shooting to please the small fry. McCoy played Sheriff Tim Laramie whose best friend, Moody Pearson (Niles Welch) Read More

End of the Trail

Synopsis: Tim McCoy played a cavalry officer dishonorably discharged for selling weapons to the Indians in this arguably his finest sound film and by many considered one of the best series Westerns produced in the 1930s. Leaving the army fort in disgrace along with his young foster son Jimmy Travers (Wally Albright Read More

Texas Cyclone

Synopsis: In this his first Western of 1932, Tim McCoy is supported by a young John Wayne. Learning that he is a dead ringer for rancher Jim Rawlins, drifter Texas Grant (McCoy) agrees to keep up the charade in order to scare off a gang of rustlers that has been terrorizing the area. The missing man's wife Read More

The Fighting Fool

Actors: Tim McCoy, Marceline Day, William V. Mong, Robert Ellis, Arthur Rankin

Synopsis: In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow." The would-be express office robber proves to be Grip Mason (Robert Ellis), who mistakenly blames Tim for his brother's death. There is a treacherous saloon femme fatale Read More

The Fighting Marshal

Actors: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Gulliver, Matthew Betz, Mary Carr, Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: Tim McCoy is falsely accused of killing his own father in this typical low-budget oater directed by the generally efficient but unexciting D. Ross Lederman. Framed in the killing of his own father, Tim Benton (McCoy) escapes from prison along with brutish Red Larkin (Matthew Betz). The fugitives Read More

Shot Gun Pass

Actors: Tim McCoy, Virginia Lee Corbin, Dick Stewart, Frank Rice

Synopsis: Directed by the mediocre J.P. McGowan, Tim McCoy's second Western for Columbia was a rather tedious affair in which McCoy played a cattle rancher who has leased grazing land from his girlfriend's (Virginia Lee Corbin) father (Dick Stewart). The Mitchell brothers, Spider (Joe Marba) and Jake (Monte Read More

The Riding Tornado

Actors: Shirley Grey, Wallace MacDonald, Russell Simpson, Montagu Love, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: A typical low-budget but competently made Columbia Western, The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ who, incognito, wins a supposed killer stallion, Pal, and a purse of 500 dollars in a small town race. Having amicably lost the money in a poker game, Tim is hired by Pal's Read More

Two-Fisted Law

Actors: Tim McCoy, Alice Day, Tully Marshall, Wheeler Oakman, Wallace MacDonald

Synopsis: Penned by prolific pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Western may have been the forerunner of McDonald's later so popular The Three Mesqueteers. John Wayne, whose character is named, appropriately, Duke, and Wallace MacDonald (no relation to William Colt) play McCoy's Read More

The One Way Trail

Actors: Tim McCoy, Doris Hill, Carroll Nye, Polly Ann Young, Al Ferguson

Synopsis: In his first Western for Columbia, Tim McCoy played one of his favorite characters, the reformed professional gambler. Returning home to visit with brother Terry (Carroll Nye), Tim Allen (McCoy) finds Terry mortally wounded by a man he identifies as the supposedly honest gambler George Beck Read More

The Indians Are Coming

Synopsis: This western serial chronicles the adventures of a young girl whose uncle has discovered gold out West. Accompanied by her father and a friend of her uncle, she journeys to her uncle's gold mine, encountering bandits, Indians on the warpath and other adventures. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

The Desert Rider

Actors: Raquel Torres, Bert Roach, Harry Woods, Jess Cavin

Synopsis: Colonel Tim McCoy, M-G-M's only series Western star, played a Pony Express rider in this well-produced but otherwise average silent Western. In the course of his duties, McCoy gets acquainted with a beautiful Spanish landowner (Raquel Torres), whose property is besieged by a gang of land grabbers Read More

The Overland Telegraph

Actors: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Janis, Frank Rice, Lawford Davidson, Clarence Geldert

Synopsis: Filmed on magnificent locations at Glacier National Park, this MGM western starring Tim McCoy came at the very end of the silent era when the medium had reached its zenith. McCoy became MGM's only series western star, and although his films were regularly dismissed as potboilers, they benefited Read More

Morgan's Last Raid

Actors: Dorothy Sebastian, Wheeler Oakman, Tim McCoy

Synopsis: Even as his parent studio MGM was gearing up for talkies, popular western star Tim McCoy ground out four silent vehicles during 1929. The second of the four was Morgan's Last Raid, in which McCoy's romantic vis-a-vis was busy MGM contractee Dorothy Sebastian. Conscripted into the Union army during Read More

Sioux Blood

Actors: Tim McCoy, Marian Douglas, Robert W. Frazer, Sidney Bracey

Synopsis: Separated during an Indian raid, childhood pals Tim McCoy and Robert Frazer grow up on each side of the Indian Wars in this fine silent Western produced by M-G-M. McCoy becomes an Indian Scout working for the cavalry, while Frazer stays with the tribe and takes the name Lone Eagle. The two meet Read More

The Law of the Range

Actors: Tim McCoy, Joan Crawford, Tenen Holtz, Rex Lease, Bodil Rosing

Synopsis: The ancient tale of brothers, separated at birth, who grow up on opposite sides of the law, is given yet another working-over in this lavish MGM western starring Tim McCoy. A former Indian language translator, McCoy was the studio's first and only attempt at creating a series western star. Sound Read More

The Adventurer

Actors: Tim McCoy, Charles Delaney, George Cowl, Dorothy Sebastian

Synopsis: This romantic adventure is set in South America and tells the story of a Yankee mining engineer who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a president whose administration has just been overthrown. His devoted daughter attempts to help her father return to power and the engineer becomes Read More

Beyond the Sierras

Actors: Tim McCoy, Roy D'Arcy, Polly Moran

Synopsis: MGM's only ever series Western hero, Tim McCoy, starred in this handsomely mounted production, which drew heavily on the Zorro legend. McCoy played the Masked Stranger, a stalwart U.S. Ranger going undercover to flush out a greedy Yankee (Roy D'Arcy) in Olde California. As always, McCoy was Read More

Wyoming

Synopsis: Filmed back-to-back with Spoilers of the West (1928) at Lander, WY, this MGM production was the eighth in a series of 14 superior Tim McCoy Westerns produced between 1926 and 1929. McCoy played Jack Colton, who as a boy grows up alongside Big Cloud, the son of Chief Chapulti (Goes in the Lodge). Read More

Riders of the Dark

Actors: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Dwan, Roy D'Arcy, Dick Sutherland

Synopsis: MGM's only series western hero, Tim McCoy, played a Texas Ranger lieutenant in this well-made but less than inspiring silent oater. The son (Rex Lease) and daughter (Dorothy Dwan) of a slain newspaper editor team up with Lieutenant Crane in order to catch their father's killer. When Molly Read More

Bushranger

Actors: Marian Douglas, Russell Simpson, Arthur Lubin, Tim McCoy

Synopsis: The team behind MGM's Tim McCoy unit went "down under" for their inspiration for this silent "Western" about a British nobleman who kills a man in a duel and is banished for life to a penal colony in faraway Australia. McCoy breaks out of prison to become a sort of Robin Hood of the Bush, stealing Read More

Foreign Devils

Actors: Tim McCoy, Claire Windsor, Cyril Chadwick, Frank Currier, Sojin

Synopsis: Taking time out from his fine series of historical westerns, Colonel Tim McCoy starred in this action melodrama set in China during the Boxer Rebellion. He plays Captain Robert Kelly, an attaché at the American Embassy in Peking, who falls for a pretty Englishwoman, Lady Patricia Rudledge (Claire Read More

The Frontiersman

Actors: Tim McCoy, Claire Windsor

Synopsis: Colonel Tim McCoy continued his string of successful historical Westerns with The Frontiersman, a muscular adventure set in 1813. John Dale (McCoy) and Abner Hawkins (Tom O'Brien) are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and Read More

California

Actors: Romaine Fielding, Tim McCoy, Lillian Leighton, Frank Currier

Synopsis: Colonel Tim McCoy's third western for MGM starred the former Indian sign language interpreter as an army captain facing demotion until successfully defeating a gang of Mexican cutthroats. Set in old California, the film depicted several real-life American heroes, including Kit Carson (Fred Warren) Read More

Spoilers of the West

Actors: Tim McCoy, William Fairbanks

Synopsis: An average Tim McCoy Western, this film benefitted from the sumptuous production values that only MGM would lavish on what essentially was a series oater. McCoy, a former real-life Native American language translator, played Lieutenant Lang, charged with keeping the peace with the Indians by Read More

Winners of the Wilderness

Actors: Tim McCoy, Joan Crawford, Roy D'Arcy

Synopsis: The Tim McCoy western Winners of the Wilderness was shot simultaneously with McCoy's War Paint, using the same locations for both. Boasting a larger budget than the average "B"-western, the film casts McCoy as a courageous Indian scout, determined to negotiate an honorable peace between the white Read More

War Paint

Actors: Tim McCoy, Pauline Starke

Synopsis: Colonel Tim McCoy had worked as an advisor on Indian sign languages and other things western during the making of James Cruze's The Covered Wagon in 1923. The newly founded MGM was the only major studio without a western line-up and tested the well-known war hero for a proposed series. McCoy Read More

Thundering Herd

Actors: Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Tim McCoy

Synopsis: Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the studio's stalwart Jack Holt as a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre. The film's highlight, a breathtaking shot of wagons careening across Read More

Fighting for Justice

Actors: Paul Weigel, Art Acord

Synopsis: Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to defend him. The lawyer sobers up just enough to be effective, and Bernard is set free -- not a minute too soon. It turns out his girlfriend Shirley (Vane Truant) has been Read More