Author Archive: Retro

John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin’s cover.

John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines.

The second of the Duke’s films for Lone Star Productions, this one casts him as an accused killer in search of the real culprit. On the lam from the law, Wayne teams up with gunslinger Lane Chandler, never suspecting that Chandler is the man he is looking for. The relationship between Wayne and Chandler, at first friendly and then adversarial, is handled with more depth than was normal in a quickie western.

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G-Man John joins a medicine show to track down a counterfeiting operation, but realizes too late he’s on the wrong trail. Dir. Carl Pierson

In the opening sequence, The Duke walks into a saloon to find everyone inside has been killed. This sets the tone for an offbeat western as Wayne goes after the baddies, who are holed up in a cave hidden behind a waterfall. Watch for “Gabby” in a different role as a mute, hunchbacked store clerk. Dir. Harry L. Fraser

The Duke adopts a young Indian girl who has been kidnapped for the deed to her inheritance, a $50,000 oil field. Dir. Harry Fraser

Wayne masquerades as an outlaw to bring his father’s murderer to justice. He ends up taming a shrewish rancher’s daughter and finding his long-lost brother along the way. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

Singing rancher discovers a subterranean city under his ranch while fending off the crooks who are after radium deposits on his land. Feature version of the serial “The Phantom Empire”, which was Autry’s first starring role. Dir. Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason