Author Archive: Retro

Notorious killer escapes to the Canadian Northwest, where he kidnaps a famous mystery writer and hides out at his woodland retreat. Mountie Maynard must save the day. From the novel “The Fatal Note” by James Oliver Curwood. Dir. Charles Hutchinson

Staying one step ahead of the law, the Apache Kid helps out a cowboy in trouble.

Englishwoman comes to a dude ranch and falls in love with ranch hand, but goes back to England when she thinks he spurned her. The determined cowpoke follows her to England, where he is way out of his element. Dir. Edward F. Cline

The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo rides into a gunfight in which a homesteader is killed, and discovers that the local ranchers are being threatened to clear out. Dir. Robert Hill

Bad guys try to use force to obtain control of a stage line, and it’s up to Cameron to foil their plans. Produced by Oliver Drake. Dir. Lewis D. Collins

Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn’t have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.

Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse, leading to a mystery involving his son and a government agent.

The legendary pioneer guides settlers from North Carolina into the unexplored regions of Kentucky, where a renegade land-grabber is stirring up the natives. Dir. David Howard

When three deputy marshals meet mysterious deaths near Buffalo Gap, the U.S. Marshal sends his top two trouble-shooters, Cheyenne Davis and Fuzzy Jones, to investigate. Cheyenne discovers that all the honest people in the vicinity are being driven from their lands by a gang led by Bill Judd. Further investigating disclose that a mysterious man is giving orders to Judd. Cheyenne rounds up the gang and its mysterious leader and restores law-and-order to Buffalo Gap.