Author Archive: Retro

Rodeo horse trainer is torn between his girl and his horse. Color.

After Jack and Jimmy get paid for delivering horses, Jimmy rides off to pay
the hands. Plug Perkins gets Cheyenne to kill him but Cheyenne leaves a
plate from his harmonica at the scene. Jack finds the plate and catches up
with Cheyenne just as Perkins is about to shoot him. After saving
Cheyenne’s life, he has a plan that will trick Cheyenne into a confession. Written by Maurice VanAuken

When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after
Hadley’s ranch. After Eddie Dean foils Kirby’s robbery attempt, Kirby
forces the assistant land agent Tuttle to sell the ranch to him. But Eddie
learns of the forgery thru Tuttle’s boss and goes after Kirby. Written by Maurice VanAuken

Baker joins the Cattleman’s Protection Agency to catch a band of rustlers, who happen to be the same group of baddies who murdered his father. Produced by Trem Carr. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis

Texas Ranger Tim is forced to turn in his badge when he lets two criminals go, and he joins an outlaw gang to get even. Or, is it all a ruse to catch some more bad guys? Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield

California attempts to break free from Mexico and join the Union, but two brothers end up on opposing sides of the conflict. Dir. Hamil Petroff

Abused and dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-rides, out-smokes, out-shoots, and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the Old West, usually wearing male garb. One man who’s her equal is Larry Blackie with whom she has an on-again, off-again relationship which is often argumentative and sometimes violent. Together they become involved in a robbery which goes awry. Belle has to rescue Larry and though he’s grateful, he now wants to go his own way. However, he expresses the hope that someday they’ll once more cross paths and then … who knows?

While travelling to visit his outlaw brother in Mexico, a man unknowingly begins travelling with a Texas Ranger who is after his brother. From the novel “South of the Rio Grande” by Max Brand. Dir. Elliott Nugent

Texas Ranger Sergeant Jim Steele (Jim Newill) spots Pete Dawson (Bud Osborne) taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them, Tex Wyatt (Dave O’Brien), the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt (Forrest Taylor), whom he hasn’t seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that, in the Rangers, he is there strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson’s trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof. Jim, Tex and Ranger Panhandle Perkins (Guy Wilkerson) find Dawson and his men at the Oasis Trading Post where, forgetting his orders, Tex tries to arrest him. A fight ensues until Jean Lorin (Iris Meredith), the Post owner, covers the fighters with a gun and demands they stop. Dawson escapes and Captain Wyatt dismisses Tex from the Ranger Service for [...]