Author Archive: Retro

Seeker Dean has found the gold he has been looking for for 15 years. Heading for the Government office, Boone Jackson kills him. Kickabout finds a cryptogram as to the gold’s location and Sergeant Kinkaid solves the puzzle. But Jackson learns of the gold’s location and to get it, he sets out to dynamite the dam that would flood the entire communuty.

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.

A reporter traveling through the desert stops at a ghost-town and is thrust back in time to when the town was destroyed by killers and desperadoes.

Kentucky loses his horse in a rigged horse race and gets framed for the murder of a stagecoach driver.

When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temporary Sheriff. When henchman try to wreck the newpaper they take up the fight. First they get Fuzzy to run for Sheriff. Then Billy gets a confession from Slade as to the Sheriff’s killer. On election day with the newspaper once again wrecked, they try to get out a paper with Slade’s confession.

Jim Brandon returns from prison having been framed for robbery. At the time of the robbery his partner supposedly committed suicide. Jim’s first break in proving his innocence comes when he finds the fatal bullet does not match the weapon that was used.

Prominent rancher and a Texas Ranger are murdered and Keene goes undercover as an outlaw to catch the killer. Written and Produced by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert Emmett Tansey

Father and son lawman team set out to better a town by doing away with a well-connected hustler who’s murdering those in his way. “Greek chorus” adds an odd twist to this unique western. Dir. Albert C. Gannaway

The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan, Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance, frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name… but, the subplots provided by writer Eric Howard, who taught a short-story writing class at the University of Southern California, makes it play like a precursor to current soap operas on daytime television; Sally Moore, staying at Jerry’s ranch since her mother died, because she thinks her stepfather Les Daggett displays an unhealthy attitude toward her, causes some talk among the boys down at the saloon about her and Jerry, who really loves Mary but Mary thinks he [...]