Author Archive: Retro

Four episodes of “Dusty’s Trail” (1973) coupled together into a feature film. In a similar situation to “Gilligan’s Island” (1964) and even starring Bob Denver again, Dusty is a bumbling assistant to Wagonmaster Callahan. Thanks to Dusty’s bungling, they are soon separated from the wagon train and lost in the wilderness. The characters parallel those of Gilligan’s show.

Comedy version of Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” with Rogers as Ichabod Crane.

Don Diego is fighting for the peons against the Commandante. Shortly after the Governor and his daughter Isabella arrive, the Governor is killed and marked with a Z. When Don Diego’s identity as Zorro is revealed to Isabella, she has the Commandante arrest him as the killer. But he convinces her the Commandante was the killer as the Z was backwards.

Honest cowboy is sent to the gallows for a murder that was comitted by an outlaw gang leader whom he resembles. Produced by Buck Jones. Dir. Lesley Selander

Cowboy returns from WWI to find that someone intercepted his letters home, and has taken everything from him by spreading the rumor that he died in the war. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

After the sheriff is gunned down, his wife Garland pins on the badge, forcing bad girl Hayes to hire a gunslinger to kill her off. But hired killer Ireland faces a moral dilemma when he falls in love with the woman he’s to kill. Dir. Roger Corman

Jane Travers asks Hoppy to help protect her next caravan against robbers. Westcott and Martin are out to stop them and have their men dressed as soldiers to escort the caravan. The fake soldiers don’t fool Hoppy and he and the Bar 20 boys foil that plan. Martin’s men then capture everyone but Hoppy and send them off to the firing squad. Now Hoppy has to find a way to save them singlehandedly.

Kirk Allenby is hired by the Cattleman’s Association to track down and arrest a rancher who they believe is stealing cattle. Allenby finds his quarry but is astounded to discover that that man, Bob Enright, looks enough like him to be his twin. He is forced to shoot Enright, but as the man lay dying he gets Allenby to promise that he will help Enright’s sister, who is being forced to marry the real boss of the cattle rustling operation, who has framed Enright in order to take over his ranch.

Railroad investigator Tex must get to the bottom of a mysterious “ghost train” that has been seen in the territory. Sightings seem to coincide with large disappearances of cattle. Dir. Al Herman