Author Archive: Retro

Ranch foreman is treated like a son by the kind owner, a fact which galls the old man’s real, no-account son. From the novel by Luke Short. Dir. Richard Thorpe

Escaped murderer returns to his gang to find some stolen cash, Steele is a government agent working undercover to foil his plans. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

When Cass and his gang attack Steve Condon and his trail herders, it apears that Steve kills his own man Bud. Later when Steve and Fuzzy take jobs on Langley’s ranch, they find that Bud was his son. Cass and Scar are after Langley’s cattle and to get rid of Steve they tell Langley that he shot his son.

Lolita Moreno leaves the Mission San Juan Capistrano, where she has been raised by the Sisters and Father Vallejo under a mystery surrounding her family and goes to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona to teach school. There she meets Navo White Eagle, who has just returned from Carlisle, and who plans to restore the reservation through irrigation and planting of citrus groves. Navo makes his goals and then discovers the land contains a tremendous copper lode which he intends to develop to help the tribe. Jim Connors, the white Indian agent, plans to steal it and, to get rid of Navo who is the only other one who knows about the copper, he murders an Indian named Yuba and blames it on Nova. Nova is given a trial by fire by the tribe and vindicated. Lorita rides to the Army post and gets the Colonel to arrest Connors and his henchman Morgan. Lorita learns [...]

A gang of swindlers led by Nord Finner (Charles King) take advantage of simple-minded Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) by “advising” him through a “mysterious voice” which he believes is that of a deceased Indian chief. Fuzzy persuades his fellow townsmen to join him in buying worthless property, but Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) comes trotting onto the scene.

Tyler must find his brother who was framed by a gang of murdering bank robbers, and prove his innocence. Dir. Sam Katzman

Seeker Dean has found the gold he has been looking for for 15 years. Heading for the Government office, Boone Jackson kills him. Kickabout finds a cryptogram as to the gold’s location and Sergeant Kinkaid solves the puzzle. But Jackson learns of the gold’s location and to get it, he sets out to dynamite the dam that would flood the entire communuty.

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.

A reporter traveling through the desert stops at a ghost-town and is thrust back in time to when the town was destroyed by killers and desperadoes.