Author Archive: Retro

Villains stage midnight raids on a young cowgirl’s ranch, killing off all her employees, until a stranger hires on to help her. Dir. S. Roy Luby

An Indian and a deserted African American Soldier meet in a desert and are both trying to start a new life. They become friends and decide to start a farm together. When the Indian goes to a nearby town to buy some chickens. In his absence the deserted soldier is attacked and the farm destroyed by some racist neighbors. It’s time for some payback!

Our heroic trio are mistaken for a gang of silk thieves, and must quickly discover the real bad guys. Dir. Jon English

A group of travelers in the Southwest band together to search for gold on Indian burial grounds. Convict Ben Trask attempts to maintain order within the group as they are faced with greed and danger.

The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.

A ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.

Gene Autry’s horse “Champion” (Champion) is stolen by escaped convicts Jake Fargon (Walter Sande), Pete Reagon (Jock Mahoney) and Charlie Lewis (Francis McDonald). Twenty years earlier Fargo and Lewis had been captured by City Marshal Steve Autry (Gene Autry)and sent to prison after the theft of $30,000 from “Big Tim” Hanlon (Thurston Hall), a bonanza king. Gene (Gene Autry)traces the convicts to the ghost town in which the loot had been hidden way, where he also finds Hanlon and school teacher Ruth Lambert (Nan Leslie). Loco John (Clem Bevans)warns Gene the killers are around. The convicts pursue Gene and his friends through the spooky buildings.

The Sundance Kids widow Etta Place joins up with Pancho Villa.

A group of wagon train pioneers who are early followers of the Church of Latter Day Saints find persecution at every turn, as they are run out of each new town they hope to call home. With nowhere else to go, they turn their sites to unsettled lands, where they battle both the environment and the native peoples already living there in order to create the community that would come to be Salt Lake City. Following the band of Mormons on their journey, this drama is based on the real life story of their leader Brigham Young.