Author Archive: Retro

This gentle, tuneful western is one of cowboy crooner Roy Rogers’ best and most successful films; it is also his personal favorite. The fanciful tale tells how Rogers obtained his magnificent horse Trigger and begins with horse trader Rogers as he prepares to breed his best mare with his best friend’s glorious Palomino stallion. Trouble comes in the form of a villainous gambler who has similar plans for his own mare. He attempts to rustle the stud, but the attempt fails, the stallion escapes and breeds with Roger’s mare. Angrily, the gambler shows up and shoots the beautiful horse, leaving Rogers to shoulder the blame. Fortunately, Roy and his impregnated mare flee. Later she gives birth to Trigger who helps Rogers get revenge after he grows up.

James finds out a crooked banker is cheating the settlers, so he starts robbing banks and trains to raise money for them. Rogers does double-duty as James and as a look-a-like outlaw. Dir. Joseph Kane

Pinkerton detective infiltrates an outlaw gang to prove that a bank robbery was actually commited by some crooked bankers. Dir. Joseph Kane

Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone and Roy is mistaken for the bad guy gunslinger for whom the crooked mayor sent. Dir. Joseph Kane

The Kid searches for the man who killed his brother, and takes a job in a gambling hall where he discovers his new boss is the murderer. Produced by Joseph Kane, Written by Gerald Geraghty and Joseph Kane. Dir. Joseph Kane

Villainous resort owner Carradine kills a rancher to get the oil on another ranch, and pins the murder on Roy. Dir. Joseph Kane

Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his “protection”. Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day

Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an
area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the
gang’s boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the
bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now
wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead
the entire gang into a trap. Written by Maurice VanAuken

Roy Rogers, a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp
sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker where young first-offenders
can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. Andrew Willard,
through whose range a new highway is being built, is being secretly robbed
of his pure-bred cattle by his crooked foreman Devery who has marketed the
cattle and replaced them with scrub stock.He then has the herd stampeded
into a landslide set off by dynamite by Roy’s young crew to make them
appear responsible for the loss of the “valuable” cattle. Roy takes the
blame and is ordered off of the property by Willard, over the protests of
his niece June. Then Devery has two of his men, whom he has planted on the
guest ranch ran by Splinters McGonigle, steal a diamond brooch belonging to
Mrs. Edsel and the blame is placed [...]