Author Archive: Retro

Masked smugglers and rustlers are taught a lesson by Special Investigator Edwards, while Cooley holds down the fort and plays western swing music. Produced by Richard Talmadge. Dir. Richard Talmadge

Sunset Carson is trying to raise money for a new school and his partner Sam Webster is out to stop him. When Carson plans a benefit prize-fight, Webster plans to make off with the proceeds.

The Range Busters unite once more battle a land grabber who plans to get rich when the railroad comes through. Last of the Range Busters series. Dir. Anthony Marshall

Kate Hilton, returning to her ranch in Springfield via stagecoach after learning of the murder of her father, meets U.S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie. The stage is held up and robbed of the rancher’s money, but Nevada manages to bring it in after the driver has been killed. Sandy Hopkins, also a U.S. Marshal, is posing as a cook at the only café in town. Joel Edwards now running the Wells Fargo office after Hilton was killed, and Kate are in love. J. D. Edwards, president of the land-and-cattle company, and step-father to Joel, controls all the interest in Springfield. A number of citizens have been killed for no apparent reason, and Doctor Applegate has sent for Nevada and Sandy to solve the mystery killings. Applegate is killed after he returns from a prospecting trip, but not before he has deposited some of the gold he found in the Wells Fargo safe. J.D. Edwards, in [...]

In the first of the Range Buster series, a mysterious phantom is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the owner sends for the Range Busters just before he too is killed. They quickly run into trouble with Torrance and his gang. Torance is after the Circle T but Crash doesn’t think he is the phantom. Instead he suspects it may be blind Uncle Rolf. When the phantom strikes next, Crash is ready and his identity is soon revealed.

Apathetic frontier Marshall loves a dance hall girl, but when she’s killed by an evil rancher, he begins to take his job more seriously. Dir. George Archainbaud

Horse trainer goes to work for the man who may have killed his father, hoping to exact revenge, but is disturbed to find himself becoming friends with the man instead. Karen Young’s last film, before being Blacklisted. Based on the novel “Quarter Horse” by Gordon Young. Dir. William Beaudine

The Range Busters must beat an outlaw gang to a hidden shipment of stolen gold bullion, which has been squirreled away somewhere on a creepy, haunted ranch. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

Deputy Marshal Keene goes undercover as a sheriff who is on the payroll of an outlaw gang in an attempt to clean up a border town. Written by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey