Author Archive: Retro

Parker, seeking revenge on Culverson, is bringing in a flood of sheep. Branning signs on at the Culverson ranch to help fight them off. Standing in his way is hired gunman and crooked lawyer Sneed. The plot is further complicated by the picture in Branning’s pocket watch.

It’s 1874 and young Dave Carson and his colt Rex are part of a wagon train. When Indians attack and wipe out the train, the two escape going separate ways. Six years later Dave is a scout for the Army and Rex is the Devil Horse greatly feared by the Indians. The two will meet again and Dave will need Rex when Indians attack the fort.

Wagon train company is hired by a railroad firm to haul a locomotive to Omaha. Since the railroad threatens to shut down wagon trains, the boss of the company tries to sabotage the train to Omaha. Dir. Edward Buzzell

When a sheriff is murdered by an escaped killer, the former sheriff must come out of retirement to send him back to jail. Dir. Harry Fraser

Ranch foreman is treated like a son by the kind owner, a fact which galls the old man’s real, no-account son. From the novel by Luke Short. Dir. Richard Thorpe

Escaped murderer returns to his gang to find some stolen cash, Steele is a government agent working undercover to foil his plans. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

When Cass and his gang attack Steve Condon and his trail herders, it apears that Steve kills his own man Bud. Later when Steve and Fuzzy take jobs on Langley’s ranch, they find that Bud was his son. Cass and Scar are after Langley’s cattle and to get rid of Steve they tell Langley that he shot his son.

Lolita Moreno leaves the Mission San Juan Capistrano, where she has been raised by the Sisters and Father Vallejo under a mystery surrounding her family and goes to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona to teach school. There she meets Navo White Eagle, who has just returned from Carlisle, and who plans to restore the reservation through irrigation and planting of citrus groves. Navo makes his goals and then discovers the land contains a tremendous copper lode which he intends to develop to help the tribe. Jim Connors, the white Indian agent, plans to steal it and, to get rid of Navo who is the only other one who knows about the copper, he murders an Indian named Yuba and blames it on Nova. Nova is given a trial by fire by the tribe and vindicated. Lorita rides to the Army post and gets the Colonel to arrest Connors and his henchman Morgan. Lorita learns [...]

A gang of swindlers led by Nord Finner (Charles King) take advantage of simple-minded Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) by “advising” him through a “mysterious voice” which he believes is that of a deceased Indian chief. Fuzzy persuades his fellow townsmen to join him in buying worthless property, but Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) comes trotting onto the scene.