Author Archive: Retro

Perrin and Rice ride to El Rio and save the life of a pretty mexican dancer, who in turn gives them information to help foil a smuggler. Dir. Bernard B. Ray

Singing cowboy assists a sick old woman in her fight against a crooked lawyer, while falling in love with her daughter. Based on the novel “The Dude Ranger” by Zane Grey. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Gus Meins

Tobias Simms (James Craig) is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the “El Paso Kid”, and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe (Lynn Bari). Throughout the film, he tells his worried wife “just one more time”, but is unable to stop, angering Zoe greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics when he helps the Widow Weeks (Una Merkel) save her farm. This was Eagle-Lion Studios first big budget film.

Frontier Marshals go after an escaped outlaw, but when they find him in a corrupt town, the lawless sheriff tosses Marshal Bill in jail! Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield

Ex-GI, slowly losing his eyesight, begins training a “seeing-eye horse” to help him get around. First, he must prove the animal can be trained, as its slated for destruction because of its wild nature. Produced by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

FBI agent tracks gangsters who have tired of big city hassles and headed west to threaten cattle ranchers with their protection rackets. Produced by William A. Berke. Dir. William A. Berke

The Government has approved Betty Castelar’s Spanish land grant and notification is sent via pony express. Porter is after her ranch and waylay’s rider Buck Carson to get the letter. Left to die in the desert, he is saved by Castelar’s horse and brought to her ranch. When Porter later arrives, a peculiar mannerism lets Buck identify him as the gang leader and he vows to get the letter back.

A group of bandits waiting to rob a stagecoach ride into town and end up protecting a pretty young girl from her crooked, murderous guardian. Dir. Bernard B. Ray

Wanted woman ends up in a border town near Mexico where she marries a newspaperman in an attempt to get the law off her trail. But what happens when her other husband shows up? Dir. Allan Dwan