Author Archive: Retro

Williams gets embroiled in a railroad scandal that involves the kidnapping of a young girl who has a valuable railroad map. Written by Shirle Castle (aka Shirley Ulmer-Edgar’s wife). Dir. John Warner (Edgar G. Ulmer)

In a remake of Dawn Trail, Bob Mason is wounded chasing the killers of his father. During his recovery, his nurse is Alice whom his friend Ben plans to marry. He eventually learns the killer was Alice’s brother Rudd. But Rudd convinces Ben that Bob is taking Alice away from him. So Ben removes the bullets from Bob’s gun just before Bob goes off to face Rudd.

After a man rides into town to sell his ranch, he disappears without a trace, and it’s up to Tyler to find the kidnappers. Produced by Sam Katzman. Dir. Sam Katzman

Frazier and his gang are rustling horses. When the wild horse Tarzan frees Frazier’s horses. Frazier gets the Sheriff to declare Tarzan an outlaw and have him shot. But Tarzan is Ken’s favorite and he now tries to protect him.

Maynard joins a gang to get revenge on the outlaw who abducted and killed his partner. Dir. Phil Rosen

Fast talking con man becomes a door-to-door law book salesman as a favor to his sister, but is mistaken for a real lawyer when he gets mixed up with some outlaws. One of “Skeeter” Bill’s last films. Dir. George Melford

Both the Range Busters and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden, Rance has his man imitating ghosts. The gold is in a steel cased organ but a certain combination of organ stops need to be pulled to obtain the gold.

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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.