Author Archive: Retro

The Hurley’s own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Forester and substitute their brother Dusty in his place. Dusty then says all the trees are infected and must be cut down. But Rex Allen is suspicious and writes to the Forestry Department.

Pete Childers, a notorious killer, is assigned as a deputy to Sheriff Bob
Hall. Hardy Keller, wanted for murder, is hiding on a ranch own by Bob’s
sweetheart, Helen Jones and her brother Fred. Childers is working with
Farley, a crooked cattle dealer. After Childers wantonly shoots down the
surrendering Kellar, Bob beats him up and fires him. Bob knows that Fred is
on familiar terms with the rustlers, but Helen won’t believe him and they
quarrel. Written by Les Adams

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Dty Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Three Texas Rangers, Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins transport the money in a strong box which they place in the Wells Fargo safe as agent Sam Benson assures them that he is the only one who knows the safe combination. Fabian conspires with Bill Gunner, Breed Crocker and Trigger Booth to steal the money and they fail, but Fabian gets it on his own. Benson is arrested, and a committee of citizens, led by Oscar Perrin accuse Captain Wyatt and the Rangers of carelessness and request the resignation of the Captain if the money is not recovered. Fabian owns the abandoned ghost town of “Mystic”, and Gunner, Crocker and Booth take him there to force him to tell where he has hidden the money, They shoot at his feet to intimidate him and [...]

During the Great Depression, when natural catastrophes including floods
destroy the homes of thousands,.crooked, con man Phineas Flagg buys up all
the ranches in Arizona’s Gunsmoke Valley at the bargain price of $2 per
acre. The displaced families are only too happy to buy what Flagg
misrepresents as 40 acres of prime farmland per family at the bargain price
of $50 an acre. What he doesn’t tell the migrants is that the entire area
has been condemned under the law of eminent domain and will soon be flooded
for the construction of a new dam. The group’s leader, Judge Warren,
initially disregards the Mesquiteers’ warnings that they’re being conned,,
but Stony’ romances his beautiful granddaughter Marion,, and the settlers
accept the Mesquiteers’ help,, but is it too late? Written by duke1029

Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason

Boxer who’s blacklisted when he throws a fight retires to life as a ranch foreman, but when his boss gets involved with a crooked promoter, Tyler puts on the gloves to redeem himself. Dir. Robert Hill

Marshal Tim Smith is sent to Rawhide to battle rustlers. When the outlaw
gang attempts to kill the new Marshal, they get the wrong man. Tim puts his
identification on the dead man and poses as a known outlaw. This gets him
into the gang where he is given the job of posing as the new Marshal. Written by Maurice VanAuken

Scott moves his family from Kentucky to Nevada to escape a bloody feud, but ends up in a sheep herder/cattleman war between members of the same feuding families. Based on the novel by Zane Grey. Dir. Henry Hathaway.