Author Archive: Retro

Marshal Cheyenne Davis (Lash La Rue), aka The Cheyenne Kid is on his way to Mesa City to help his pal Sheriff “Fuzzy” Jones (Al St. John) settle an old feud between the Harts and the Condons. Posing as an outlaw, Cheyenne is accepted by gang leader Jack Barton (Bob Duncan) and is told his job will be to continue stirring up trouble between the Harts and Condons. The plan is to make the two families kill each other off, so that a mine they own jointly, can be obtained at a price far below its value. Cheyenne’s plan appears to fail when Fuzzy comes in and identifies him as a Marshal, but Cheyenne gets rid of him and tells Barton he has posed as a Marshal in the past and Barton seems convinced. Cheyenne later tells Fuzzy to make no arrests until the top man is found. A wounded Jim Condon (Buster Slaven) and [...]

A young man tries to make peace between his father who has disowned him, and his dad’s worst enemy, who raised him; but they seem to be more concerned with water rights than with him. Dir. Robert Hill

The simplified plot has two different gangs attempting to wrest control of valuable Oklahoma oil lands from an orphaned girl, who is aided in her fight by her adopted father Chris Morrell.

Officer brokers peach deal with Indians in early America.

Corrupt judge goes after a Freight Line, but Tex is there to foil his plans and rescue the line owner’s daughter. Written by Robert Emmett Tansey. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

In the 1860s just prior to the Civil War, a group of Confederate sympathizers try to stop the Kansas Pacific Railroad before it reaches the West Coast. Dir. Ray Nazarro

Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race.

A small-town sheriff’s wife is flattered into helping a young prisoner escape the gallows. Their flight is complicated by an orphaned Indian baby and the young man’s waning interest in her.

In a trapper’s cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer. He finds Tom who was at the cabin and his fingerprints match those on the gun. But Stone thinks Tom was framed and one of the two other men present is guilty. So he gets the Inspector to employ an old trick he thinks will get a confession from them.