Author Archive: Retro

Bad-boy Sam Elliott sweet-talks the sheriff’s unappreciated wife into helping him escape from jail. The resulting chase across desert country is no more than routine, but Vera Miles as the wife gives the film a touch of depth as an older woman who — unloved at home — falls for the manipulations of a younger man. A small town sheriff’s repressed, fortyish wife is flattered into helping a young prisoner escape the gallows. Their flight is complicated by an orphaned Indian baby and the young man’s waning interest in his accomplish. Western with a feminist touch.

When Joe Kirk the Indian Agent is murdered, His adopted son Tom Kirk heads out after the killer. Finding gambler Honest John with his father’s ring, Tom arrests him. But Honest John found the ring on the floor when Crandall, the real killer, played in his card game. Crandall kills Honest John to keep him silent. But Tom now finds the clue that will lead him to the killer.

Mountie Preston is even more determined to “get his man” when he goes on the hunt for the bad guys that killed his partner. Written by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

The robberies on Jasper Carrol’s stages have been so frequent that the stage line plans to hold a stagecoach race with the winner getting the new contract. Tom foils Cal Barker’s attempt to kill him and gets a confession from him that Kurt Morley is behind the robberies. But first Tom must win the race for Carrol although Morley’s stages have him greatly outnumbered.

Texas Rangers send an undercover agent to infiltrate an outlaw gang to find their hiding place for stolen loot. Written by Harry L. Fraser. Dir. Harry L. Fraser

Black Bart was a notorious but polite stage robber in 1899 when he was was caught and sentenced to seven years, but he apparently disappeared after serving seven years in prison. Now, ten years later in 1916 someone has adopted Bart’s m.o. and is ribbing stagecoaches again but without Bar’s good manners and respect for life. This reincarnation of the notorious bandit doesn’t have the same respect for human life. The Range Busters are assigned to ferret out the outlaw whoever he is. The only clue is that the old Bart had a penchant for gambling by betting on the number the number three. With their new identity the boys pose as strangers although they immediately become rivals for the affections of Molly Collins, daughter of a reformed alcoholic who wants to deed his in-town property to a new church, but the gang boss impersonating Bart has different plans… for a red-light area of a [...]

College kid returns home to his dad and brothers, all of whom are outlaws. When his father agrees to go straight and turn himself in, the sheriff double crosses and kills him. Written by Robert Hill & Guinn Williams. Dir. Robert F. Hill

Dave Austin’s Sheriff father has been killed. Dave now has his badge and his search for the killer leads him to the hangout of Hatfield and his gang. But when Dave’s identity becomes known, he’s condemned to die at sundown.

An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.