Author Archive: Retro

Rogers restores the peace during the Lincoln County War, but is mistaken for the legendary Billy the Kid. Dir. Joseph Kane

Night raiders are burning down the ranchers’ barns and poisoning their cattle. Sheriff Gabby, unable to cope, goes east to get help from Roy, descendant of two famous sheriffs. Roy is a young entomologist who would rather study bugs than strap on guns. He finally gives in to Gabby’s wishes and ends the terror.

Rogers and company leave the ranch and go to the big city out East to stop a powerful Wall Street conglomerate from stripping them of their land, which contains a valuable mineral. Produced by Joseph Kane. Dir. Joseph Kane

U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale’s father’s Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.

A prospector whose gold was stolen by an outlaw teams up with a kid whose parents were murdered and sister kidnapped by the same outlaw.

A priest and his twin brother take turns defending a small town from the vicious Clayton gang.

College chums Wayne and Beery Jr go on a trip to the Northwest to find girls and gold, and wind up with a map to hidden treasure. From the novel “The Wolf Hunters” by James Oliver Curwood. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

U.S. Marshal must solve several murders when he rides into a town victimized by outlaws headed by a mysterious figure. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

Who wouldn’t love a flick in which Lassie, compelled by burning hatred, tracks down the man who killed his beloved owner? It’s not quite as bleak as all that, (if it had taken place in a city, it would have been the sole entry in the “Lassie-noir” genre) but it IS a startlingly dark work, for a 50’s family-movie audience.