Author Archive: Retro

When Stone’s men rob the stage, Deputy Bates catches Breed Hawkins only to
be killed by him. Stone makes a drunken Pecos Kid think he did it. Bill
Carson gets a confession that Breed was the killer but it comes too late as
the Sheriff and his posse had already hung the Kid. When the Kid’s brother
takes revenge by killing the posse and the Sheriff, Bill heads out to face
him. Written by Maurice VanAuken

The sixth film of Monogram’s eight-film series, “The Rough Riders”, has U.
S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to
a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond
Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the
murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town,
except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn’t on an assignment as a
Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry
Woods), who intends to take over the dead man’s property and whose men are
holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with
and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge
with the news that the latter’s long-missing wife is returning, and in a
[...]

Hired guns threaten ranchers.

Barton’s mine foreman is receiving gold bullion from gangsters in the East, putting it through the mine’s smelter, and then shipping it out. When Barton finds out, Murdocks men make him a prisoner. Arriving at the same time, Alamo hears the story of the Masked Phantom and then becomes that Phantom fighting Murdock and his men and attempting to find Barton.

Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help Merwin by being part of Welsh’s gang he hires on as Single-Shot. But soon the real Single-Shot appears.

Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch, has him killed, and then presents the note. The Pinto Kid, investigating cattle rustlers, accidentally drops his glove at the murder scene and now has a price on his head. He has Beth Wilson turn him and use the reward money to reclaim the note. Now he has to escape jail and find the real killers.

Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern’s bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.

This one begins after the Civil War when the Overland Telegraph Company is persuaded by rancher Jim Kerrigan to allow his own men to extend the line to Baxter Springs, guaranteeing to pay for the construction himself if it isn’t finished at the end of two months. Land promoter Burton Wheelock will lose money if the line is completed and gets ex-rustler Larry Foster, fiancée of Sandra Kerrigan, to sabotage the work. Telegraph company trouble-shooter Johnny Mack, investigating the sabotage, saves Kerrigan’s men Joe Farr and Cappy from masked outlaws. Henchman Mugsy is captured by Johnny, while Larry, Slim and the other henchmen escape after shooting telegraph patrolman Nevada. Larry kills Mugsy before he can identify the gang leader. Henchman Straker is captured by Johnny and jailed. Slim steals Johnny’s identification card from his saddle bag, and it is found near the jail when Wheelock’s men help Straker break jail and kill a deputy sheriff. [...]

A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible.