Author Archive: Retro

Ken gets out of prison and goes after the gang who framed him for robbing a bank, and must find the man who has information which will clear his name. Dir. Harry L. Fraser

Keene voyages to Canada to nab a gunman who killed his pa in a grocery store hold-up. Produced by Robert North Bradbury, Written by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

Red Ryder must get to the bottom of things when a championship prize fight is used as cover for a bank robbery. Trouble ensues when Ryder is mistaken for one of the boxers and kidnapped. Dir. R. G. Springsteen

An attorney resorts to kidnapping the mother of a baby who has just inherited $50,000. The Range Busters must become babysitters until they can figure out a way to get Mom back. Dir. S. Roy Luby

Massey plays abolitionist John Brown, whose violent ways must be stopped by the U.S. Army. Flynn and Reagan are West Point grads who fight over de Havilland and are recruited to halt Brown’s activities by guarding the Santa Fe Trail. Dir. Michael Curtiz

Revisionist version of the events leading up to the murder of Wild Bill. Written by Johnny Carpenter. Dir. Richard Talmadge

Cowpoke overextends his credit in a oil field deal with his partner, who dies, leaving him to fight off two con artists and an outlaw who wants the land for himself. Produced by William Pine & William C. Thomas. Dir. Frank McDonald

A little girl’s father is killed because he has a hidden gold mine and the killer wants it. The little girl has the map to the mine but doesn’t know it. Everybody else knows it but doesn’t know where it is. The little orphan-girl gets “adopted” or “looked-after” by Don Adios and his two sidekicks, who search for the killer and save the gold mine for their ‘protege.’

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby’s plans to marry.