Author Archive: Retro

Kate Hilton, returning to her ranch in Springfield via stagecoach after learning of the murder of her father, meets U.S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie. The stage is held up and robbed of the rancher’s money, but Nevada manages to bring it in after the driver has been killed. Sandy Hopkins, also a U.S. Marshal, is posing as a cook at the only café in town. Joel Edwards now running the Wells Fargo office after Hilton was killed, and Kate are in love. J. D. Edwards, president of the land-and-cattle company, and step-father to Joel, controls all the interest in Springfield. A number of citizens have been killed for no apparent reason, and Doctor Applegate has sent for Nevada and Sandy to solve the mystery killings. Applegate is killed after he returns from a prospecting trip, but not before he has deposited some of the gold he found in the Wells Fargo safe. J.D. Edwards, in [...]

In the first of the Range Buster series, a mysterious phantom is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the owner sends for the Range Busters just before he too is killed. They quickly run into trouble with Torrance and his gang. Torance is after the Circle T but Crash doesn’t think he is the phantom. Instead he suspects it may be blind Uncle Rolf. When the phantom strikes next, Crash is ready and his identity is soon revealed.

Apathetic frontier Marshall loves a dance hall girl, but when she’s killed by an evil rancher, he begins to take his job more seriously. Dir. George Archainbaud

Horse trainer goes to work for the man who may have killed his father, hoping to exact revenge, but is disturbed to find himself becoming friends with the man instead. Karen Young’s last film, before being Blacklisted. Based on the novel “Quarter Horse” by Gordon Young. Dir. William Beaudine

The Range Busters must beat an outlaw gang to a hidden shipment of stolen gold bullion, which has been squirreled away somewhere on a creepy, haunted ranch. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

Deputy Marshal Keene goes undercover as a sheriff who is on the payroll of an outlaw gang in an attempt to clean up a border town. Written by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.

In the 11th of 16 films in PRC’s “Lone Rider” series, Tom Cameron/The Lone Rider and Fuzzy Jones rescue a wounded man from a gang of outlaws and discover he is their old friend Smoky Hammer, half-owner of the B-X Ranch whom they are on the way to meet. Smoky’s father was murdered years before, leaving a daughter Tess, who has been raised by ranch foreman Sid Clayton as his own daughter. Smoky, who has not been back in years, decides to play dead from the attack, in order to discover what is in back of the attack. The B-X Ranch charges toll for the cattle that pass through on the way to the free-grazing ranch land, and this has caused expense and hardship on the ranchers. Tess objects to this unreasonable toll but can not get a satisfactory answer from her, she thinks, father. Gil Harkness, working with Clayton, thinks he has killed Smoky [...]

Billy “The Kid” Carson and his sidekick Fuzzy must apprehend a crooked, murdering hotel owner who plans to make a fortune when the railroad comes through town. Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield