Author Archive: Retro

Following completion of the “Trail Blazers” series, Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson were paired in three other Monogram westerns, with the only connection to the “Trail Blazers” series being Steele and Gibson in the cast and production and distribution by Monogram, with various Monogram people serving as production supervisors i.e., William Strobach on this entry and Victor Hammond on the other two. This one finds Jack Slade (Mauritz Hugo) and Mary Conway,alias Blanche (Veda Ann Borg), being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens (Steve Clark) and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him. His son, Bob Stevens (Bob Steele) and friend Parkford (Hoot Gibson) become U.S. Marshals and proceed to rid the town of the cut-throat gang that has been terrorizing the citizens. Bob goes undercover as an outlaw and works his way into the gang, while Hoot poses as a Dude who goes about making fiery [...]

Captain in the U.S. Cavalry tries to promote peace between Natives and white men, but when a chief’s son is accidentally killed, the tribe goes on the warpath. Dir. Irving G. Reis

U.S. Marshal becomes “The Morning Glory Kid”, a deceased outlaw, in order to infiltrate a gang of bandits. Dir. Harry L. Fraser

Big city mobsters travel to the west where they begin claim-jumpin’ and gold-pilferin’, using a supposedly haunted ghost town as a base of operations. All seems to be going well until The Lone Rider rides into town. Dir. Sam Newfield

New York banker advises an Arizona rancher on selling her dairy farm, but learns that a local foreman is trying to get the silver-laden land for himself. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Howard P. Bretherton

In this well made western, the builders of the railroad have a problem: the civil war will start at any moment, and the sympathizers of the south will do everything they can to sabotage it. After many incidents they go to Washington to ask for the army to help them, but as the war had not started, they send only one man:Sterling Hayden, and he sure knows how to deal with it. Very entertaining, worth seeing for anybody who likes westerns

Tex put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing them to work for them in the gold mines. Dave and Tex then organize the ranchers into the Territorial Rangers. After blowing up the mines to keep the gang from getting the gold, they are ready for the showdown between the two sides.

Cowboys fight outlaws during the Civil War.

A cowboy finds himself in jail for rustling cattle. His buddy gets the idea to form a lynch mob in the hopes of arranging his escape once the mob takes him out of jail. However, things don’t quite work out the way he planned.