Author Archive: Retro

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 [...]

The “Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo” plays a sheriff’s deputy who must put an end to the mean bandit who killed his daddy. There’s a problem, however…the bandit’s sister is the deputy’s fiancee. Dir. Sam Newfield

Hoppy goes undercover as a eastern tenderfoot to catch the men who murdered a rancher and stole a wad of money from him. Dir. Lesley Selander

Gunsmith Chandler travels the West in search of work repairing revolvers. He puts his expertise to good use as he attempts to rescue a lovely Spanish woman who has been kidnapped by a group of outlaws. Dir. Armand Schaefer

Tex Ritter is a sheriff who will be ridden out of town on a rail unless he can capture a bandit. Brown is a falsely accused man who teams up with Ritter in his search for the outlaw. And Fuzzy? Well, he’s Little Joe! Produced by Oliver Drake. Dir. Lewis D. Collins

To get back at a sheriff, an outlaw kidnaps his young son, who grows up in the bad guy’s gang and ends up facing his own father in a shootout. Dir. Robert North Bradbury

The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo intervenes when bandits try to steal $25,000 from a pretty blonde lady. Written by Tom Gibson. Dir. Tom Gibson

While searching for his father’s killer, a cowboy rides into a border town, where he teams up with the local sheriff to clean up some bad guys. Dir. Ira Webb

A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit