Author Archive: Retro

Fast talking con man becomes a door-to-door law book salesman as a favor to his sister, but is mistaken for a real lawyer when he gets mixed up with some outlaws. One of “Skeeter” Bill’s last films. Dir. George Melford

Both the Range Busters and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden, Rance has his man imitating ghosts. The gold is in a steel cased organ but a certain combination of organ stops need to be pulled to obtain the gold.

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Four episodes of “Dusty’s Trail” (1973) coupled together into a feature film. In a similar situation to “Gilligan’s Island” (1964) and even starring Bob Denver again, Dusty is a bumbling assistant to Wagonmaster Callahan. Thanks to Dusty’s bungling, they are soon separated from the wagon train and lost in the wilderness. The characters parallel those of Gilligan’s show.

Comedy version of Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” with Rogers as Ichabod Crane.

Don Diego is fighting for the peons against the Commandante. Shortly after the Governor and his daughter Isabella arrive, the Governor is killed and marked with a Z. When Don Diego’s identity as Zorro is revealed to Isabella, she has the Commandante arrest him as the killer. But he convinces her the Commandante was the killer as the Z was backwards.

Honest cowboy is sent to the gallows for a murder that was comitted by an outlaw gang leader whom he resembles. Produced by Buck Jones. Dir. Lesley Selander

Cowboy returns from WWI to find that someone intercepted his letters home, and has taken everything from him by spreading the rumor that he died in the war. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

After the sheriff is gunned down, his wife Garland pins on the badge, forcing bad girl Hayes to hire a gunslinger to kill her off. But hired killer Ireland faces a moral dilemma when he falls in love with the woman he’s to kill. Dir. Roger Corman