Author Archive: Retro

The Range Busters have been sent to Dry Gulch where a gang has been holding up stages and committing murder. Arriving, Dusty shoots the gun out of the hand of Decker. The two men them plan a showdown after Decker’s hand heals. This gives the Range Busters time to prove that Decker and his men are the ones they want. When the appointed time arrives, Dusty goes off to face Decker who has hidden men in ambush.

Dude’s gang captures Stony and seeing the resemblance, Dude poses as Stony. Wanted for the robberies and murder committed by Dude, a wounded Stony escapes. After Doc Martin fixes him up, Dude’s gang kidnaps Martin to operate on Dude. Now it’s Stonys turn to pose as Dude as the Mesquiteers try to round up the gang.

Thrown out of the family mining business, young man travels west and stumbles upon a ring of mine thieves who are holding his father’s employee hostage. Written by Robert North Bradbury. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

After he watches the brutal murder of his family, a young boy grows to manhood in morbid fear of gunfights, and is hence “Branded a Coward”; especially when he’s seen cowering behind the bar during a saloon holdup. Can he find his courage in time to avenge his family? Dir. Sam Newfield

Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again–the boy hadn’t uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home–a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he’s unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman’s struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it–and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.

A stray German shepherd, a runaway teenage boy, and a runaway teenage girl end up at her uncle’s place in Oregon, where an epidemic of sheep rustling is under way.

Wandering cowboy Tyler buys a ranch from a lady who inherited the ranch from her grandfather, and claims his ghost scares away prospective buyers. Produced by Sam Katzman. Dir. Bob Hill

Advertised as the first movie shot entirely in Arizona, which it wasn’t (the first movie shot in Arizona, that is) by several country miles and years, and featuring Arizonians such as ten-year-old Ruth Reece, a singer on radio station KOY, and Doc Pardee, a horse trainer who also had the reputation as the fastest talking rodeo announcer in the profession, the story takes place on the Coburn Ranch (played by the real Gillespie Ranch in southern Arizona), a cattle empire that stretches over many thousand of acres, but has fallen on hard times because the owner, “Wild Bill” Coburn, owes the government $80,000 in back taxes. Coburn sees two solutions to the problem; one is for his thoroughbred, Sky Lancer, to win the Arizona Derby, and the other is to have his daughter Georgia marry the wealthy “Van” Van Wyck, whose horse, “The Gem” is Sky Lancer’s only rival for the derby purse. Roving cowhands [...]

To escape former buddy Pat Garrett, Doc hides Billy at his mistress’, which turns out to be a bad idea when Billy falls for her. Hughes battled censors for years to get this film released, due to its “steamy” content. Dir. Howard Robard Hughes