Author Archive: Retro

Schmidt is the head of a group of spies building an arsenal along the border. Tim from the American side and Gringo from the Mexican side have been sent to investigate. But when they arrive they find the men they were to meet murdered and themselves arrested for the murders.

An extortion gang, headed by Banker J. M. Bradley, controls the cowtown of Miller’s Flats and saloon owner McClure aids Bradley in operating a so-called “business protectice organization”. Garrett, reform editor of the newspaper is murdered, and Marshal Tim Hammond arrives to find his father, Parson Hammond, has also been killed. Garrett’s young son, Jerry, takes Tim to his sister Betty, who is now editing the paper. Slim Doyle, collector for the gang, is beaten up by Tim as he tries to collect money from Betty. Under the name of Hays, Tim opens up a blacksmith shop. Bradley discovers Tim’s true identity and orders him eliminated. With the aid of Sheriff Kramer, Tim has Slim arrested on a trumped-up charge of murder, and then incites the townspeople to stage a “fake” attack on the jail to lynch Slim, who breaks down and offers to confess. Betty is informed by telephone that the gang has kidnapped [...]

Marshals Nevada and Sandy are sent to investigate a series of bank robberies. Nevada joins the outlaw gang while Sandy becomes the town cobbler. Nevada learns that Slade is the boss of the gang but that there is someone on the inside tipping them off.

In this western, set in the Western wilderness, a wily and dangerous wild stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses, threatens all that enter his domain including humans. Both Indians and cowboys are after the stallion Only brave Chief Ha-Ha-Wi can tame him.

The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a two man medicine show, they quickly become involved. When Fred tries to bring the two sides together, Joe Allison is shot and Fred blamed. With Fred in jail and a lynch mob on the way, Doc tries to break his friend out.

In “Undercover Man”, Steve McLain (

With writer Bennett Cohen recycling the same script he had used at Republic in 1941 for Don Barry’s “Desert Bandit”, this 50th entry in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series finds Ranger Hopalong Cassidy falling into disrepute and leaving the service, because of the death of his pal and young protégé Tim Mason, who had lost his good standing through the suspicion that he was implicated with a band of smugglers, who had been using his ranch as a hideout. With the aid of his pals, California Carlson and Jimmy Rogers, Cassidy tracks down the outlaw gang, invades their hideout, and captures or kills the leaders, and regains both his and Tim’s good names, while revealing his discharge from the Rangers was a plot hatched by him and Ranger Captain Jennings.

When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don’t wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.

A Boston schoolteacher transforms lives at Bar 20 Ranch, while a corrupt mayor plots livestock theft