William WitneyFilmography

Get Down and Boogie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This low-budget entry in the "blaxploitation" genre of the 1970s is so stereotypical that it's almost a parody of the genre (which might well have been the intention). You might get some moderate interest out of the fact that future Magnum PI co-star Roger E. Mosley plays the male lead. Otherwise Read More

Darktown Strutters

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A tough biker gang comprised of African-American women heads off to find a member's mother and her abductor in this exploitation comedy ostensibly designed to make fun of racial stereotypes. The film was later retitled Get Down and Boogie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this violent low-budget actioner from Roger and Gene Corman, two battered prisoners decide they've had enough and attempt to escape the notorious island. Papillon it isn't. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This jungle adventure is comprised of two episodes from the 1966-69 TV show. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

40 Guns to Apache Pass

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The directorial reins of 40 Guns to Apache Pass are in the expert hands of actionmeister William Witney, who helmed many of Audie Murphy's latter-day vehicles. Here Murphy plays a Cavalry captain who takes on the entire Apache nation virtually single-handedly. He is undermined by villainous Read More

Bonanza: Sense of Duty

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Gene Rutherford

Synopsis: Written by John Hawkins and Gil Lasky, "Sense of Duty" served to introduce new Bonanza regular David Canary as Candy. Donning a military uniform for the first time in years, Ben Cartwright is placed in command of the 116th Virginia City Militia, a unit including his own sons Joe and Hoss. Ben's Read More

Bonanza: The Sure Thing

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kim Darby, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright purchaeses a stallion from drunken lout Burt Loughlin (Tom Tully), hoping to fulfill the fondest dreams of Burt's sweet daughter Trudy (Kim Darby). It is Trudy's wish to ride the stallion to victory in a upcoming high-stakes race. But Ben's good intentions may be undone by Burt, who Read More

Bonanza: Something Hurt, Something Wild

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Lynn Loring, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: On September 11, 1966, the eighth episode of Bonanza got off to a strong start with the episode titled "Something Hurt, Something Wild." The long-standing friendship between the Cartwrights and Jed Ferguson is shattered when Jed's daughter Laurie (Lynn Loring) screamingly accuses Joe Cartwright of Read More

Bonanza: The Pursued, Part One

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eric Fleming, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: Written by Thomas Thompson and Marc Michaels, "The Pursued" was the second of Bonanza's two-part stories. In Beehive, Nevada, the Cartwrights arranged to buy horses from Mormon rancher Heber Clawson (Eric Fleming). Soon they become involved in Clawson's stubborn determination to remain in Beehive Read More

Bonanza: Horse of a Different Hue

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Charlie Ruggles, Julie Parrish

Synopsis: At the request of gallant Colonel Fairchild (Charles Ruggles) and his lovely daughter Patty Lou (Julie Parrish), Ben Cartwright agrees to arrange a championship horse race. What Ben doesn't know is that the Colonel has fixed the outcome of the race to rid himself of nasty creditor Jack Geller Read More

Ride the Wind

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This western is the movie-length pilot for the long-running television series Bonanza. The story follows the Cartwright clan as they help keep the nearly bankrupt Pony Express from going under. They also work to keep the angry Paiute Indians at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lost Island of Kioga

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this adventure re-edited from the 1938 serial Hawk of the Wilderness, a savage white man (Bruce Bennett) rescues a band of shipwreck survivors. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Jory, Noah Beery, Jr., Rod Cameron, Dorothy Green

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

Bonanza: Peace Officer

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eric Fleming, Ted Knight

Synopsis: In Sheriff Coffee's absence, Virginia City's mayor (Ted Knight) hires ruthlessly efficient lawman Wes Dann (Eric Fleming) as peacekeeper. At first an admirer of Dann, Joe Cartwright soon learns that the cold-blooded temporary sheriff is less interested in upholding the law than meting out his own Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part Two

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Rod Cameron, Tom Lowell

Synopsis: In Part Two of "Ride the Wind", Curtis Wade (Rod Cameron takes over from the late Charles Ludlow as head of the new Pony Express service. Determined to keep the service running and to finish the route despite attacks by the Paiutes, Wade is driven not so much by duty as by his ego, which has been Read More

Branded: The Ghost of Murietta

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) heads to Los Angeles to deliver a gold shipment worth $50,000. At the same time, Mexican teenager Juan Molinera (Jose DeVega) dreams of reviving the memory of notorious bandido Joaquin Murietta. To do this, Juan intends to steal the gold in Jason's possession--a task Read More

Branded: McCord's Way

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Despite his dishonorable discharge from the Army, Jason (Chuck Connors) is asked to be sheriff in the small town where he has recently killed a gunslinger. It soon develops that Jason doesn't have much in the way of job security. In the past year alone, the town has had three other sheriffs--all Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the second episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has infiltrated a group of insurrectionists who plan to assassinate President Grant. When Jason's cover is blown, the assassins boldly make a public attempt on both his life and Grant's--leaving an incriminating dagger behind. Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is again summoned to Washington by President Grant (William Bryant). This time, Jason is asked to infiltrate a group of insurrectionists who may or may not be plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government. Read More

Bonanza: Tommy

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mike Witney

Synopsis: The wife of vicious outlaw Jess Miller (Michael Witney), long-suffering Allie (Janet De Gore takes refuge at the Ponderosa, where she grew up. Jess wants to forcibly take Allie back-but he wants nothing to do with their son Tommy (Teddy Quinn, a deaf mute. Frank Puglia appears as the kindly Padre. Read More

Bonanza: The Pursued, Part Two

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eric Fleming, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: In Part Two of "The Pursued", Mormon rancher Heber Clawson (Eric Fleming) is burned out of his home and shot to death by a bigoted mob, spurred on by a demented self-ordained minister. It is up to the Cartwrights to provide safe passage for Heber's two wives Susannah (Dina Merrill) and Elizabeth Read More

The Girls on the Beach

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Wilson, Martin West, Noreen Corcoran, Peter Brooks, Michael Love

Synopsis: The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Or so the members of the Alpha Beta sorority who are trying to raise $10,000 during Spring Break to save their sorority house believe. When the Fab Four do not show, the ingenious girls must create a passable imitation by imitating them themselves. Read More

Arizona Raiders

Crew: Director

Actors: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Ben Cooper, Gloria Talbott, Fred Graham

Synopsis: Action expert William Witney glosses over the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in Arizona Raiders. Audie Murphy and Ben Cooper play members of Quantrill's Raiders, hoping to avenge the fallen South after the Civil War. Murphy and Cooper are captured by a Union officer (Buster Crabbe) (effectively Read More

Bonanza: Lothario Larkin

Crew: Director

Bonanza: The Trap

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Steve Cochran

Synopsis: When her husband Booth (Steve Cochran) is murdered, Hallie Shannon (Joan Freeman) is convinced that her former sweetheart Joe Cartwright committed the dirty deed so that Joe and Hallie could be together again. Unfortunately, Booth's twin brother Buck (also Steve Cochran) is of the same opinion-and Read More

Bonanza: The Lonely Runner

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Gilbert Roland, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: Gilbert Roland guest-stars as poor but proud horse rangher Jim Acton. Hoping to get back on his financial feet, Acton is devastated when his prize mare is legally awared to Sam Whipple (Ken Lynch). Not long afterward, Acton kills Sam in self defense, but an overeager deputy named Pete (Pat Conway) Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Final Escape

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward Byrnes, Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Stacy Harris, Betsy Hals

Synopsis: Career criminal Paul Perry (Edd Byrnes) has earned a measure of fame for his daring escapes from various jails and prisons. But it looks like Perry's luck has run out when he sentenced to serve a 15-year sentence in a maximum-security prison farm, where head guard Captain Tollman (Stephen McNally) Read More

Bonanza: The Wild One

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Aldo Ray

Synopsis: "The Wild One" is ornery Lafe Jessup (Aldo Ray), a pugnacious horse wrangler who'd sooner pick a fight than eat or sleep. While trying to pummel Hoss Cartwright, Lafe is interrupted by Prudence (Kathryn Hays), the Quaker wife whom he'd deserted a few months back. Prudence announces that Lafe is Read More

Bonanza: Between Heaven and Earth

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: This compelling Bonanza episode focuses almost exclusively on Little Joe Cartwright. Plagued by a fear of heights, Joe suffers severe nightmares after losing his rifle on precarious Eagles Peak. The only way Joe will find peace is to "conquer" the peak and retrieve his weapon-but he may not live Read More

Apache Rifles

Crew: Director

Actors: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: This western presents a more sympathetic view of Native Americans than is usually found in the genre as it tells the tale of the army commander of an Arizona outpost who despises all Indians until he falls in love with a beautiful missionary girl. He must change his ways because one of her parents Read More

Bonanza: The Saga of Squaw Charlie

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Charlie (Anthony Caruso) is an old and somewhat shabby Indian. Regularly taunted and persecuted by the self-righteous townfolk. Charlie has only two friends in the world: Ben Cartwright, and a little girl named Angela (Vicki Ros). Things take a nasty turn when Angela vanishes and Charlie is Read More

Bonanza: The Long Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, James Coburn

Synopsis: Hoping to meet the deadline for a crucial business transaction, Adam Cartwright rushes to the town of Bowline, with a bank draft in hand. En route, he is ambushed by, and forced to change clothes with, an escaped convict named Poindexter (Bing Russell, who later joined Bonanza in the semiregular Read More

Bonanza: The Deserter

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: The Cartwrights are visited by Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody (Claude Akins), who is searching for an Army deserter. The fugitive turns out to be Bill Winters (Robert Sampson), the Cartwrights' well-liked neighbor-and, as it happens, Colonel Dunwoody's son. Meanwhile, the Shoshones plan to wreak Read More

Bonanza: The Deadly Ones

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: Will Kuluva guest-stars as General Diaz, a self-styled Mexican patriot who raids gold shipments in order to finance his campaign against the Emperor Maximillian. Taking the Cartwrights hostage, Juarez forces Ben to assist in the robbery of a gold wagon. At first hostile towards Diaz, Ben comes to Read More

Bonanza: The Auld Sod

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, James Dunn

Synopsis: James Dunn guest-stars as Danny Lynch, an elderly Ponderosa ranch hand. Upon learning that his mother Nellie (Cheerio Meredith) has left Ireland to pay him a visit, Danny goes into a panic: For lo these many years, he has been lying to his mother that he is in charge of the Ponderosa. To Read More

Bonanza: The Jackknife

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Bethel Leslie

Synopsis: Hoping to catch a band of cattle rustlers, the Cartwrights lay a trap for the bandits, while Adam Cartwright scouts the area for possible thieves. Coming upon the injured Matthew Grant (John Archer), Adam assumes that Grant is one of the rustlers. Knowing that his father Ben intends to shoot first Read More

Bonanza: The Gamble

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: While on a cattle drive, the Cartwright men make a stopover in the town of Alkali. The next morning, the Cartwrights are tossed into the local jail, accused of robbing the town's bank and killing several innocent bystanders. Escaping from his cell, Joe Cartwright tries to summon help before his Read More

The Cat Burglar

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cat Burglar is an unofficial reworking of 1953's Pickup on South Street. Burglar Jack Hogan steals a briefcase which, unbeknownst to him, contains a valuable secret scientific formula. The owner of the briefcase was on the verge of selling the formula to an unnamed (but somewhat slavic-sounding) Read More

The Long Rope

Crew: Director

Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Alan Hale, Jr., Robert J. Wilke, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Talented action film director William Witney shows the depth of his skills in turning this one-week-in-production wonder into a passable, entertaining, one-hour western. The focus of attention is a trial in a town with no respect for the law, where the federal judge (Hugh Marlowe) valiantly tries Read More

Bonanza: The Infernal Machine

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eddie Ryder

Synopsis: "The Infernal Machine" is a horseless carriage, invented by Hoss Cartwright's friend Daniel Pettibone (Eddie Ryder). Attempting to obtain financing for Dan's creation, Hoss is turned down by everyone except a city slicker named Throckmorton (Willard Waterman). Once this glib stranger agrees to Read More

Bonanza: The Lonely House

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Faith Domergue

Synopsis: Wounded bandit Track (Paul Richards) takes refuge at the home of widow Lee Bolden (Faith Domergue). Another of Lee's house guests, Joe Cartwright, recognizes Trock as a fugitive from justice. At first prepared to reveal Trock's identity, Joe hesitates when he realizes that Lee is falling in love Read More

Bonanza: The Burma Rarity

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Beatrice Kay

Synopsis: Con artists Morgan (Wally Brown) and Axe (Dave Willock) flimflam Clementine Hawkins (Beatrice Kay), a former dance-hall girl turned boarding-house keeper, with an elaborate scam involving "The Burma Rarity", a priceless emerald. Inasmuch as Ben Cartwright introduced Clementine to the crooks, he Read More

Bonanza: The Gift

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Martin Landau

Synopsis: Originally scheduled to air on March 18, 1961, the Bonanza episode "The Gift" finally made its first appearance on April 1 of that same year. Determined to capture a white Arabian stallion as a birthday present for his father, Joe Cartwright makes a treacherous desert journey to Yuma, Arizona. Read More

Bonanza: Tax Collector

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathie Browne

Synopsis: At the behest of a local bureaucrat, good-for-nothing Jock Henry (Eddie Firestone) becomes Virginia City's tax collector. Jock also becomes drunk with power, levying huge, unfair assessments against everybody in the vicinity. Thus it is when Jock is faced with a series of profound personal crises Read More

Master of the World

Crew: Director

Actors: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, David Frankham

Synopsis: Master of the World was adapted by Richard Matheson from two Jules Verne novels, Robur le Conquerant (1896) and its sequel, Maitre du Monde (1904)--with more than a little of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea thrown in. Set in 1868, the story is galvanized by an ominous warning of impending doom Read More

Disneyland: Zorro: Adios El Cuhillo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of a two-part Zorro adventure, bandit leader El Cuhillo (Gilbert Roland) has been thwarted in his plans to rob Los Angeles' warehouse by dashing masked do-gooder Zorro (Guy Williams). Somewhat playfully, Zorro's alter ego, Don Diego, keeps tabs on the incognito El Cuhillo Read More

The Secret of the Purple Reef

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Richards, Margia Dean, Peter Falk, Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: Two film neophytes are of note in this otherwise lengthy, routine murder mystery by director William H. Witney -- Peter Falk as Webber, the villain, and Richard Chamberlain as Dean, a younger brother to the main protagonist Mark Christopher (Jeff Richards). Mark and his brother become suspicious Read More

Valley of the Redwoods

Crew: Director

Actors: John Hudson, Lynn Bernay, Ed Nelson, Michael Forest, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: Weakly etched characters are one of the problems in this simple story of three thieves on the run. Wayne (John Hudson), Jan (Lyn Bernay), and Dino (Ed Nelson) try pulling off a heist of a lumber company's payroll, and everything seems to go wrong right from the beginning, in spite of Dino's Read More

Disneyland: Zorro: El Bandido

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part Zorro adventure, dashing Mexican bandit leader El Cuchillo (Gilbert Roland) and his gang are diverted from robbing a stagecoach by alluring señorita Chulita (Rita Moreno). Changing his plans, El Cuchillo decides to hide out in the pueblo of Los Angeles to steal a Read More

Paratroop Command

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Bakalyan, Ken Lynch, Jack Hogan, Jimmy Murphy, Jeff Morris

Synopsis: This routine wartime drama of bravery and misunderstanding stars (Richard Bakalyan) as Charlie, a soldier who suffers the scorn of his paratroop unit because he accidentally kills one of their own men. The setting is World War II in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. There seems to be no clear way Read More

The Cool and the Crazy

Crew: Director

Actors: Scott Marlowe, Dick Bakalyan, Dick Jones, Shelby Storck

Synopsis: This over-the-top '50s juvenile delinquency melodrama has developed a cult following for its rabid anti-marijuana message and a thoroughly enjoyable performance by teen-pic icon Dick Bakalyan as one of the teenagers gone bad. A reform-school graduate turns some long-in-the-tooth high schoolers Read More

The Bonnie Parker Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Turkel, William Stevens

Synopsis: Dorothy Provine gives her all to the title role in The Bonnie Parker Story. Billed in the picture's ad campaign as "the cigar-smoking she-devil of the thirties", the tommy-gun wielding Bonnie cuts quite a swath across the South after her husband (Richard Bakalyan) is sent to jail for life . Read More

Juvenile Jungle

Crew: Director

Actors: Corey Allen, Rebecca Welles, Richard Bakalyan, Anne Whitfield, Joe di Reda

Synopsis: Juvenile Jungle looks suspiciously like a standard kidnap drama, rewritten to conform with the "juvernile delinquent" cycle of the late 1950s. Gang leader Hal McQueen (Corey Allen) goes out of his way to ingratiate himself with Caroline Elliot (Anne Whitfield), the daughter of a wealthy Read More

Jet Attack / Paratroop Command

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Jet Attack, a brainwashed scientist is rescued by a paramilitary team; in Paratroop Command, a soldier sets off North African land mines to regain his honor after killing one of his own men. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Young and Wild

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Evans, Scott Marlowe, Carolyn Kearney, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation drama. The kids got into trouble while joy-riding down a California road in a stolen car. For malicious fun, they deliberately sideswipe a car and then accidentally hit another Read More

Panama Sal

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Kemmer, Carlos Rivas, Harry Jackson, Joe Flynn

Synopsis: Long before she was "domesticated" as Consuela in TV's Marcus Welby MD, Elena Verdugo was the hip-swinging heroine of Panama Sal. The story finds Sal Regan (Verdugo) singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis (Edward Kemmer) takes a liking to Sal Read More

Stranger at My Door

Crew: Director

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Patricia Medina, Skip Homeier, Stephen Wootton, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Action specialist William Witney was the director of the leisurely, sensitive western Stranger at My Door. MacDonald Carey plays a frontier minister, who much against the wishes of his wife and child invites a fugitive outlaw (Skip Homeier) into his home. At first the outlaw takes advantage of Read More

A Strange Adventure

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young man with a love of hot cars and fast women gets into real trouble when he finds himself involved with a beautiful bank robber who forces him to help her hijack an armored car. At her insistence they end up hiding out in a remote cabin in the High Sierras. ~ Sandra Read More

The Fighting Chance

Crew: Director

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

Headline Hunters

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this drama, the eagerness of a rookie reporter gets him into deep trouble after he finds himself entangled with big city racketeers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

City of Shadows

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor McLaglen, John Baer, Kathleen Crowley, Anthony Caruso, June Vincent

Synopsis: After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law Read More

Santa Fe Passage

Crew: Director

Actors: John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Slim Pickens, Irene Tedrow

Synopsis: In this western, a man is falsely accused of betraying a wagon train to the Apaches and is punished by his employers, but not fired. His boss gives him a second chance and the man is assigned to make sure that an arms shipment makes it safely through the Indian land. The woman who owns the Read More

Attila, Flagello di Dio

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Colette Regis

Synopsis: Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun. Anthony Quinn stars as the legendary barbaric King of the Huns who wreaked havoc upon Rome, threatening to topple the entire empire. Sophia Loren costars as Honoria, the beautiful Read More

The Outcast

Crew: Director

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

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

Iron Mountain Trail

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Grant Withers, Nan Leslie

Synopsis: Postal inspector Rex Allen rides hell bent for leather in order to save an innocent man from hanging in this enjoyable Western from Republic Pictures. When Allen suggests shipping the mail from San Francisco to San Diego via stagecoach instead of clipper ship, Roger McCall (Grant Withers), the Read More

Old Overland Trail

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Roy Barcroft, Virginia Hall

Synopsis: "Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen heads the cast of Republic's Old Overland Trail. Rex plays an operative for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, assigned to pacify a disgruntled Apache tribe. Villain John Anchor (Roy Barcroft), a railroad contractor, has been stirring up trouble with the Indians as part of a Read More

Down Laredo Way

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Dona Drake, Marjorie Lord, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Rex Allen joins the circus in Down Laredo Way. It all begins when Allen and his sidekick Slim Pickens come to the aid of little Taffy (Judy Nugent), whose acrobat father is killed in an accident. Or was it an accident? After all, the dead man's partner, Valerie (Marjorie Lord), has Read More

Shadows of Tombstone

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Jeanne Cooper, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Shadows of Tombstone is a fair-to-middling Rex Allen western. This time out, Rex and his sidekick Slim (Slim Pickens) try to prove that sheriff Webb (Emory Parnell) is a crook. Webb is in league with shady saloon-owner Mike (Roy Barcroft) and renegade bandit Delgado (Ric Roman), who hold the Read More

The Last Musketeer

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Mary Ellen Kay, James Anderson

Synopsis: Though he doesn't wield a sword nor wear a plumed hat, singing cowboy Rex Allen qualifies as The Last Musketeer in this Republic western. Allen is called upon to stem the underhanded activities of land baron Russ Tasker (James Anderson). It is Tasker's intention to buy up all the local farmland Read More

The Wac from Walla Walla

Crew: Director

Actors: Judy Canova, Stephen Dunne, George Cleveland, June Vincent, Irene Ryan

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a rambunctious small-town girl inadvertently joins the Army and decides to make the best of it. Songs include: "Lovey," "If Only Dreams Came True," "Boy, Oh Boy," "Song of the Women's Army Corps." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Army Capers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Army Capers was the bland British title of the raucous Republic musical The Wac From Walla Walla. Hillbilly songstress Judy Canova is the eponymous heroine, who accidentally enlists in the army at the outset of the film. Canova proves the equal of any man in uniform when she foils the insidious Read More

Old Oklahoma Plains

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Elaine Edwards, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Rex Allen, his horse Koko, and his sidekick Slim Pickens play themselves in Old Oklahoma Plains. Set in the 1920s, the film finds Allen trying to convince local ranchers to allow the army room for their tank maneuvers. Rabble-rouser Roy Barcroft, certain that the tank will make horses obsolete Read More

South Pacific Trail

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Stock footage abound in this otherwise average Rex Allen musical Western from Republic Pictures. When crooked ranch foreman Link Felton (Roy Barcroft) diverts the "Comanche Limited" into an old mineshaft, causing the engine to explode, everyone believes that ranch owner Carlos Alvarez (Nestor Paiva Read More

Pals of the Golden West

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pinky Lee, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: In Roy Rogers' final big-screen effort, the cowboy hero plays a U.S. Border Patrolman assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over from Mexico. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Colorado Sundown

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens, June Vincent

Synopsis: Rather than the usual cattlemen vs. sheep men conflict, this above-average Rex Allen western contrasts ranchers of all kinds with the Hurley Lumber Mill company, whose destructive business methods cause flashfloods that threatens to destroy all the grazing land in Pine Valley. Assuming to be the Read More

Border Saddlemates

Crew: Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Rex Allen and his faithful horse Koko head the cast in Border Saddlemates. This time, Rex in on the trail of counterfeiters (Republic's favorite villains of the 1951-52 season). Criminal mastermind Steve Baxter (Roy Barcroft) is smuggling fake money across the Mexican border while Read More

In Old Amarillo

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards, Pinky Lee

Synopsis: Yet another Roy Rogers Western whose title refers to a song, In Old Amarillo actually takes place in and around Amarillo of 1951. Fired by cattleman George Hills (Minor Watson), foreman Clint Burnside (Roy Barcroft) plans to avenge himself by ruining Hills' wastrel son, Philip (Ken Howell). Along Read More

South of Caliente

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pinky Lee, Douglas Fowley, Ric Roman

Synopsis: After a string of winners, Roy Rogers faltered a bit with South of Caliente. Rogers, playing himself, is the owner of a trailer-van service who is hired to transport a prize horse across the Mexican border. En route, Roy is bushwhacked and the horse stolen. The animal's owner Doris Stewart (Dale Evans Read More

The Wild Blue Yonder

Actors: Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker, the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy of Republic, star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of beautiful nurse Vera Hruba Ralston, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Read More

Spoilers of the Plains

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Grant Withers

Synopsis: Roy Rogers enters the atomic age with this sci-fi western directed by serial ace William Witney. Our hero runs a pipeline near a site where Dr. Manning (William Forrest) and his daughter Frankie (Penny Edwards) are experimenting with long-range weather forecasting by using rockets. Enter nasty Read More

Heart of the Rockies

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Trigger, "The Smartest Horse in the Movies," enjoy above-the-title billing in Heart of the Rockies. This time, Rogers (playing himself) is pitted against Andrew Willard, a crooked but very powerful landowner, played with relish by Ralph Morgan. Opposing the construction of a new Read More

Trail of Robin Hood

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Rex Allen

Synopsis: Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers' starring films. Roy comes to the rescue of veteran cowboy star Jack Holt (playing himself) when the latter's Christmas-tree business is jeopardized by greedy rivals. With the Read More

Trigger, Jr.

Crew: Director

Actors: Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: According to Roy Rogers himself, this action-packed western remained one of his favorites. The manager of a traveling show, Rogers is wintering at a ranch belonging to wheelchair-bound Colonel Harkrider (George Cleveland), his daughter Kay (Dale Evans) and grandson Larry (Peter Miles). The latter Read More

North of the Great Divide

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Roy Rogers goes "PC" in North of the Great Divide. In this one, Roy champions the cause of the Oseka Indians, whose supply of salmon has been cut off. The perpetrator is fish-cannery owner Banning (Roy Barcroft), who has been hogging the salmon for his own business. Not only that, Banning Read More

Sunset in the West

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Will Wright

Synopsis: Sunset in the West finds Roy Rogers playing a deputy sheriff in a wide-open town. Roy must contend with a vicious gun-smuggling ring, this time aided and abetted by a bloodhound (not Rogers' "wonder dog" Bullet). The climax, set aboard a moving freight-car festooned with cases of live ammunitions Read More

Twilight in the Sierras

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Russ Vincent

Synopsis: The King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West perform their noublesse oblige in Twilight in the Sierras. Roy Rogers plays a US marshal, pursuing a vicious gang of counterfeiters. Dale Evans (not yet Mrs. Rogers) hasn't got much to do but provide love interest, warble a few tunes, and Read More

The Golden Stallion

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: Part of the Roy Rogers series, this film focuses on Roy Roger's horse, Trigger, and his infatuation with a handsome palomino mare. When Trigger discovers the mare being beaten by her lowlife owner, he kills him, leaving Rogers to take the blame. However, it seems that Trigger's new girlfriend Read More

Bells of Coronado

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Grant Withers

Synopsis: Bells of Coronado was another of Roy Rogers' always-entertaining Republic "specials," blessed with script and production values that would have done any "A" picture proud. Roy plays an undercover insurance investigator who hopes to ascertain the whereabouts of a vein of gold ore--and to solve the Read More

Susanna Pass

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Martin Garralaga

Synopsis: Republic's Trucolor "special" Susanna Pass stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, King and Queen of the West. Rogers plays "himself," while Evans is cast as female doctor Kay Parker. The villains this time around are trying to force a fish hatchery owner out of business so they can drill for underwater Read More

Down Dakota Way

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Montie Montana, Elizabeth Risdon, Byron Barr

Synopsis: In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) before the latter can report his findings to the Read More

Eyes of Texas

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Andy Devine, Nana Bryant, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Few Roy Rogers westerns were as gratuitously violent as the 1948 release Eyes of Texas. This time, Rogers' principal antagonist is a woman lawyer named Hattie Waters (Nana Bryant). With a battalion of homicidal henchmen at her beck and call, Hattie attempts to grab up all the valuable ranch Read More

Grand Canyon Trail

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Robert Livingston, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Released in Republic Pictures' low-budget Trucolor and filmed at the majestic location of the title, Grand Canyon Trail stars Roy Rogers is a rancher going up against a crooked mining engineer played by fellow Western star Robert Livingston. The latter, Bill Regan, has conned eastern silver Read More

The Far Frontier

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Gail Davis, Andy Devine, Francis Ford, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Roy Rogers stars in the full-color Republic "special" The Far Frontier. This time, Roy deals with a plot to smuggle fugitive criminals into the U.S. Old reliable heavy Roy Barcroft plays Bart Carroll, the head bad guy, who'll mow down anyone--friend and foe alike--to avoid capture. Rogers has a Read More

The Gay Ranchero

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Tito Guizar, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Estelita Rodriguez

Synopsis: One of the better Roy Rogers films of its period, The Gay Ranchero also happens to be one of the more violent Rogers efforts. The villains want to gain control of a private airport, and aren't above sabotage and murder to get what they want. Riding to the rescue is sheriff Rogers, who is aided by Read More

Night Time in Nevada

Crew: Director

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

Under California Stars

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, George Lloyd, Wade Crosby

Synopsis: Opening with a brief look at Republic Pictures' back lot in Studio City, CA, this average Roy Rogers songfest settles down to weightier matters after Roy returns to the old homestead to perform a radio broadcast. Peace and quiet, however, are rudely interrupted when someone kidnaps the cowboy Read More

On the Old Spanish Trail

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Tito Guizar, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Estelita Rodriguez

Synopsis: With the defection of Gene Autry from the Republic lot, Roy Rogers was truly the King of the Singing Cowboys. In On the Old Spanish Trail, Rogers is for the first time teamed with Latin American singing favorite Tito Guizar. The plot finds Roy and Tito involved with a travelling cowboy tentshow in Read More

Springtime in the Sierras

Crew: Director

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

On the Spanish Main

Crew: Director

Apache Rose

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Olin Howland, George Meeker, John Laurenz

Synopsis: Apache Rose is a "typical" Roy Rogers-Dale Evans musical western: few surprises, but plenty of entertainment value. Rogers plays an oil man who hopes to get drilling rights to an old Spanish settlement in California. The villains plot to grab up the land from themselves, exploiting a handful of Read More

Bells of San Angelo

Crew: Director

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

Home in Oklahoma

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Carolyn Hughes, George Meeker

Synopsis: One of the better Roy Rogers vehicles of its period, Home in Oklahoma casts Rogers as a crusading frontier newspaper editor. Forsworn to find the murderers of a prominent cattle rancher, Roy teams up with big-city journalist Connie Edwards (Dale Evans) and grizzled ranch foreman Gabby Whittaker Read More

Heldorado

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Paul Harvey, Barry Mitchell

Synopsis: In the tradition of several of the Gene Autry vehicles of the 1930s, Roy Rogers' Helldorado is built around a real-life frontier celebration. In this instance, the story is set against the backdrop of Las Vegas' annual "Heldorado Week", at which time the Old West came to life in the form of Read More

The Crimson Ghost [Serial]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the most entertaining serials to be released by Republic Pictures, this mystery employed yet another inscrutable invention, a counter atomic device known as Cyclotrode X, sought after by yet another cloaked villain, The Crimson Ghost of the title. But just like the well-known criminologist Read More

Roll on Texas Moon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Roll on Texas Moon was the first of 26 Roy Rogers vehicles directed by fast-action specialist William Witney. The plot concerns a deadly feud between cattle ranchers and sheepherders, with the villains playing both ends down the middle. Working on behalf of the cattlemen, Rogers tries to avoid an Read More

Song of the Sierras

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As with his previous music Western vehicle, Moon over Montana (1946), former radio crooner Jimmy Wakely composed the title song for this film. With Wesley Tuttle and His Texas Stars as his backup group, Wakely also warbled Paul Westmoreland's Detour, De Camptown Ladies, by Stephen Foster, and I Read More

G-Men vs. the Black Dragon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A typical war time Republic Pictures serial, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon featured the combined efforts of three allied operatives -- Rex Bennett of the USA (Rod Cameron), Vivian Marsh of the British Secret Service (Constance Worth, an Australian) and Chang Sing (Roland Got) of the Chinese Read More

The Fighting Devil Dogs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this serial action film, a group of criminals, led by a costumed villain named the Lightning, are in possession of a dangerous device. A pair of marines set out to find the weapon and foil the crooks. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Dragon of Manzanar

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Black Dragon of Manzanar is a 100-minute abridgment of the 1943 Republic series G-Men vs. the Black Dragon, reedited for television in 1966. Set during World War II the 15- episode serial concerns the smashing of the Japanese Black Dragon Society. American investigator Rod Cameron and British Read More

King of the Mounties

Crew: Director

Spy Smasher Returns

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Spy Smasher Returns is a 100-minute abridgement of Republic's 12-chapter serial Spy Smasher. The original 1942 chapter play was based on the comic book character created in 1940 by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and Bill Parker. As in the comics, Spy Smasher's alter ego is playboy Alan Armstrong, here Read More

Spy Smasher

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the best serials ever made, Spy Smasher has managed to find favor even among non-serial aficionados. Like his fellow masked avenger, Batman, Spy Smasher possessed no super-human powers but was a mere mortal of flesh and blood. In brief, Spy Smasher, alias Alan Armstrong (Kane Richmond, and Read More

Perils of Nyoka

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nyoka Gordon (Kay Aldridge) leads an expedition into the most remote part of the Libyan desert in search of her father, Professor Henry Gordon (Robert Strange), who disappeared while seeking out the long-lost golden tablets of Hippocrates. The tablets, among other attributes, are reputed to Read More

Outlaws of Pine Ridge

Crew: Director

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, Noah Beery, Sr., Donald Kirke, Emmett Lynn

Synopsis: Director William Witney puts his distinctive stamp on the Don "Red" Barry western Outlaws of Pine Ridge by opening the picture with a body sailing through the plate-glass window of a frontier saloon. Barry stars as gun-slingin' Chips Barrett, who makes it his mission in life to prevent the Read More

The Adventures of Captain Marvel [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan, Jr., William Benedict, Louise Currie

Synopsis: The Adventures of Captain Marvel is a 12-episode Republic serial based on the comic book character of the same name. Young Billy Batson (Frank Coghlan Jr.) is part of a scientific expedition in a remote section of Siam. Trapped in an ancient tomb, Billy happens upon an ancient shaman acronymically Read More

King of the Texas Rangers [Serial]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who killed his father. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Jungle Girl [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr, Eddie Acuff

Synopsis: Unavailable for decades, this 15-chapter serial from Republic Pictures was finally re-released on video tape in the late 1990s. Based on a story by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Girl featured former Paramount starlet Frances Gifford as Nyoka, a white girl raised by her father, Dr. Read More

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. [Serial]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In yet another full-length version of an earlier serial, Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is out to get the bizarre Ghost, a dastardly member of the vigilante group known only as the Council of Eight. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Murder on the Santa Fe Trail

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It is 1870 and in the opening chapter of Republic's Adventures of Red Rider, the government is ready to buy up available lands west of the Pecos in order to erect the transcontinental railroad. An interested witness to this important decision is crooked lawyer Calvin Drake (Harry Worth), who has Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Horsemen of Death

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although the runaway coach took a horrendous plunge into the raging river in chapter one of Adventures of Red Ryder, chapter two reveals that all three passengers -- Red (Donald Barry), Beth (Vivian Austin), and Shark, the hired killer (Ray Teal) -- emerged unscathed. Shark manages to get away at Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Trail's End

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although he was knocked unconscious right in the path of the posse in chapter two of Adventures of Red Ryder, Red (Donald Barry) recovers in the nick of time and is saved by his friend, Cherokee Sims (Hal Taliaferro). Villainous Pecos Bates (Bud Geary), however, was not so lucky. Back in Mesquite Read More

Down Argentine Way

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis: Hollywood's handful of Technicolor cameras got a real workout on 20th Century-Fox's Down Argentine Way. Don Ameche stars as Ricardo Quintana, the charming son of a less charming Argentine horse breeder (Henry Stephenson). Betty Grable is vacationing American heiress Glenda Crawford, who "collects" Read More

Heroes of the Saddle

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell (Patsy Lee Parsons), the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana (Kermit Maynard). Legal technicalities Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder [Serial]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fred Harmon's popular comic strip and radio hero Red Ryder came to the screen in this above-average Republic serial directed by the team of William Witney and John English. Don Barry, until this film mainly playing villains, was cast in the title-role, a rancher organizing the local land owners in Read More

Drums of Fu Manchu

Crew: Director

Actors: Henry Brandon, William Royle, Robert Kellard, Gloria Franklin, Olaf Hytten

Synopsis: Every time that sinister Oriental megalomaniac Dr. Fu Manchu is ready to kill, sounds of strange drums can be heard coming from -- well, nowhere really. In 1939, Republic Pictures purchased the rights to the first six of British pulp fiction writer Sax Rohmer's popular "Fu Manchu" stories. The Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Water Rustlers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the last moment before the ore wagon crashes into a seemingly trapped Red Ryder (Donald Barry), the hero manages to stop the wagon with a huge piece of wood. Back at the Circle R Ranch, the Duchess (Maude Pierce Allen), Red's aunt, is preparing to mortgage her property in order to help her Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: One Second to Live

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Knocked unconscious in chapter nine of The Adventures of Red Ryder, Red (Donald Barry) recovers just in time to escape the explosion in the recorder's office. Learning that Ace Hanlon (Noah Beery) is the secret owner of the nefarious S&L Land Company, Red tails the villain to a rendezvous with his Read More

Doctor Satan's Robot

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Wilcox, C. Montague Shaw, Ella Neal

Synopsis: Eduardo Cianelli (his first name changed to "Edward" on this occasion) is the not-so-mysterious title character in the 15-chapter Republic serial The Mysterious Dr. Satan. A criminal genius, Dr. Satan has developed a "killer robot" to do his bidding. In order to perfect his invention, he must get Read More

King of the Royal Mounted

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The twelve-chapter serial King of the Royal Mounted stars Allan Lane as Zane Grey's fictional Canadian Mountie Sergeant King. The story involves King hunting down some foreign spies who have entered Canada in order to take back materials that will help wage war against Great Britain. ~ Perry Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Blazing Wells

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although it appeared in the conclusion of chapter seven of Adventures of Red Ryder that Red (Donald Barry) was felled by a hail of bullets, the victim proves to be the killer Matt Grimes (Ernest Sarracino). Eluding his pursuers, Red returns to Mesquite where he turns himself in to Sheriff Dade (Carleton Young Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Avalanche

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Red Ryder (Donald Barry) manages to escape the blazing water tower, but the Circle R's troubles are just beginning. With the water supply poisoned by crooked lawyer Calvin Drake (Harry Worth) and his co-conspirator Ace Hanlon (Noah Beery), the Duchess (Maude Pierce Allen), Red's aunt, may not be Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Hangman's Noose

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Red Ryder (Donald Barry) manages to drag the unconscious Beth Andrews (Vivian Austin) out of harms way, but the pass to the Wilson ranch is now no longer passable for the Circle R cattle. When crooked attorney Calvin Drake (Harry Worth) learns that the ranch may receive water from neighbor Ed Read More

Adventures of Red Ryder: Framed

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Managing to hold on to the reins of his stagecoach despite the nefarious attempts by Slade (Reed Howes) to sabotage the race, Red Ryder (Donald Barry) drives his team to victory and wins the 1,000-dollar purse. Realizing that Red is now able to meet his payments and thus save the Double R Ranch Read More

Hi-Yo Silver

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Powell, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity established by the Lone Ranger radio program (which had been running since 1933), the film offers five leading man, any one of whom might be the legendary "masked rider of the Read More

Mysterious Doctor Satan

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this fast-paced sci-fi serial from Republic, a crazed, megalomaniacal scientist attempts to use his many deadly robots to take over the world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Men with Steel Faces

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: In hopes of cashing in on the popularity of "Number One Cowboy" Gene Autry, a fly-by-night firm called Times Pictures reissued a shortened version of Autry's 1935 Mascot serial Phantom Empire under the title Men with Steel Faces. It will be remembered that the original plotline of this 12-episode Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 06 - Zorro to the Rescue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having survived the exploding wagon, Zorro and his legion return the stolen ammunition to San Mendolito with the message that the masked avenger "always fulfills his promise." Questioning Volita (Sheila Darcy), council members Felipe (Leander de Cordova) and Manuel (John Merton) are told that Read More

Tracy's G-Men

Crew: Director

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 12 - Unmasked

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Believing that Zorro (Reed Hadley) has perished in an explosion, Don del Oro, the false Yaqui god, assigns the tribe to attack San Mendolito. In an aside to his henchmen, the villain reveals that he is a member of the San Mendolito council and that they must "send the government troops on a fool's Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 07 - The Fugitive

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After cleverly extricating himself from the torture chamber and rescuing Ramon (William Corson) and his sister Volita (Sheila Darcy), Zorro (Reed Hadley) changes back into his foppish alter ego, Don Diego. Confessing his newfound suspicions of Manuel (John Merton), Diego hatches a plan with Ramon Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 09 - The Golden Arrow

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Saved by an air pocket inside the mountain, Zorro (Reed Hadley) and Ramon (William Corson) swim to safety. Outside, they quickly capture the fleeing Manuel (John Merton), who is finally ready to name Don del Oro's true identity. "I owe him nothing now," says Manuel, "Don del Oro is. . ." Just then Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 08 - Flowing Death

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Surviving Manuel's bullets, Zorro (Reed Hadley) manages to get away just as the runaway stage crashes into a ravine. With the assistance of Ramon (William Corson), Zorro brings the unconscious Manuel to the cabin of José (Jimmy Fawcett), one of the legionnaires. Dressed in Manuel's uniform and Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 10 - Mystery Wagon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The golden arrow hits a mirror instead of Don Diego (Reed Hadley), but the would-be Yaqui assassin seems to have disappeared into thin air. Both Diego and Ramon (William Corson) suspect that the Indian may be hiding inside a water wagon destined for the San Mendolito mine. But mine-superintendent Read More

Daredevils of the Red Circle [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Quigley, David Sharpe, Carole Landis, Miles Mander

Synopsis: Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment swearing vengeance on his former partner (Miles Mander) in this action adventure serial efficiently directed by the team of William Witney and John English. Kidnapping his Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Reed Hadley, Carleton Young, Sheila D'Arcy, Guy D'Ennery

Synopsis: In 1824, Benito Juarez (Carlton Young), the president of the new Mexican Republic, worries that vitally important gold shipments from the San Mendolito Mines shall never reach Mexico City. The president's understandable fears are quelled, however, by local nobleman Don Francisco (Guy D'Ennery) Read More

Dick Tracy's G-Men

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Irving Pichel, Ted Pearson, Phyllis Isley, Walter Miller

Synopsis: Dick Tracy's G-Men is the second of three Republic serials starring Ralph Byrd as Chester Gould's granite-jawed comic strip plainclothesman. Tracy's foe in this one is notorious international spy Zarnoff (Irving Pichel), who will stop at nothing to sabotage America's military defense system. Not Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 04 - The Bridge of Peril

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having extricated himself from his latest peril, Zorro (Reed Hadley) discovers a gun left by one of Don del Oro's henchmen. Attempting to find the weapon's owner, he breaks into the Hernandez Armeria, where he is confronted with no less than three thugs. Once again, Zorro uses his wits and Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 11 - Face to Face

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With the water wagon's secret compartment performing as a buoy, Zorro (Reed Hadley) survives the plunge into the river. Returning to Ramon's home, he learns that Kala (Paul Marion), a Yaqui prince, is to be tried for the theft of firearms that might have enabled the evil Don del Oro to reach his Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 03 - Descending Doom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the third chapter of Zorro's Fighting Legion, our masked, whip-wielding hero (Reed Hadley) manages to save his friend Ramon (William Corson) just before the old mission explodes. Assigned to trail a couple of Don del Oro's henchmen, Zorro's servant Juan (Budd Buster) discovers a secret room in Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 02 - The Flaming "Z"

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having cheated death in an avalanche, Don Diego (Reed Hadley), aka Zorro, manages to get the gold safely to Mexico City, where he is greeted by a grateful President Juarez Carleton Young). Back in San Mendolito, Manuel (John Merton), the commandant, publicly blames Zorro and not the Yaqui Indians Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 05 - The Decoy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Easily surviving the collapsing bridge, Zorro (Reed Hadley), who is still attempting to prevent the shipment of ammunition to Juarez (Carleton Young) from being hijacked by Don del Oro and his hirelings, lights the flaming "Z" to alert his Fighting Legion. In the meantime, Don del Oro's chief Read More

Zorro's Fighting Legion: Chapter 01 - The Golden God

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In 1824, Benito Juarez (Carlton Young), the president of the new Mexican republic, worries that vitally important gold shipments from the San Mendolito Mines will never reach Mexico City. The president's understandable fears are quelled, however, by local nobleman Don Francisco (Guy D'Ennery), who Read More

Lone Ranger Rides Again

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Livingston, Chief Thundercloud, Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: This second Republic-serial adaptation of the popular radio series The Lone Ranger abandons the "mystery" angle of the first (1938's The Lone Ranger) in favor of a straightforward action tale. Robert Livingston stars as Bill Andrews, alias the "Masked Rider of the Plains," while Chief Thundercloud Read More

Dick Tracy Returns [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Lynne Roberts, Charles B. Middleton, Jerry Tucker, David Sharpe

Synopsis: The 15-chapter Republic serial Dick Tracy Returns also represents the return of Ralph Byrd in the role of Chester Gould's stalwart comic-strip detective. For the purposes of the film, Tracy has joined the G-Men in pursuit of criminal mastermind Pa Stark (Charles Middleton) and his killer brood. Read More

Hawk of the Wilderness [Serial]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This 12-episode serial stars Herman Brix as Kioga, a young man who is raised by natives after wrecking his ship on a remote island. He eventually has to protect his land from invading pirates. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Hal Taliaferro, Herman Brix

Synopsis: Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who vowed to fight for justice after his older brother was killed. The 1938 Republic serial version of The Lone Ranger muddies the "true identity" waters by offering us five Read More

The Torpedo of Doom

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Powell, Herman Brix, Eleanor Stewart, Montagu Love, Hugh Sothern

Synopsis: The United States Marine Corps. became the focus of this typical Republic Pictures serial directed by two of the best in the business, William Witney and John English. The villain was yet another cloaked figure -- this time an inventor whose contribution to mankind was a weapon capable of Read More

The Trigger Trio

Crew: Director

Actors: Max "Alibi" Terhune, Ralph Byrd, Sandra Corday, Robert Warwick

Synopsis: In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agricultural Service who had come to investigate an outbreak of anthrax. The killer is fearful that the official would quarantine his entire herd. Unfortunately for the foolish Read More

The Painted Stallion [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, Sammy McKim, LeRoy Mason, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Western favorites Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Hoot Gibson head the cast of the 12-chapter Republic serial The Painted Stallion. Corrigan plays American federal agent Steve Clark, on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile, Walter Read More

S.O.S. Coast Guard [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Maxine Doyle, Herbert Rawlinson, Richard Alexander

Synopsis: In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain hard to Read More

Zorro Rides Again [Serial]

Crew: Director

Actors: John Carroll, Helen Christian, Reed Howes, Duncan Renaldo, Richard Alexander

Synopsis: Actually it's the great-grandson of legendary 19th century do-gooder Zorro who rides in this 12-chapter Republic serial. Villainous modern-day tycoon Marsden (Noah Beery) supervises the activities of a western outlaw gang from the plush confines of his Manhattan skyscraper. It is Marsden's hope to Read More

The Vigilantes Are Coming [Serial]

Actors: Fred Kohler

Synopsis: Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are killed by the evil General Burr (Fred Kohler). Seeking revenge, Loring dons a black cape and mask, calls himself "The Eagle," and goes about bringing Burr and his men to Read More

The Phantom Empire [Serial]

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy Ross King) establish a group of Junior Thunder Riders to emulate a mysterious band of horsemen that seems to vanish into thin air. Read More