Author Archive: Retro

Tex and sidekick Grass join McGill’s traveling show. When Price has McGill’s wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay.

From out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Sky King” was the familiar opening to television’s premier aviation program. Operating from his Flying Crown Ranch in Arizona, Sky King, his niece Penny and their Cessna 310 airplane “Songbird” were constantly involved in one adventure after another. Viewed by many children in the 1950’s, this program was responsible for inspiring many later aviation careers.

The Hooter gets hired on as foreman of a financially struggling ranch, defending the owners from a villainous rancher, who happens to be the crooked partner of Gibson’s rancher dad. Dir. Norman Spencer

The Rancher’s Protection Association forces landowners to knuckle under to their demands, but retired ballplayer-turned-rancher Gehrig, his sister and her boyfriend Ballew are out to unite the ranchers against them. The Iron Horse’s only feature film appearance; he died three years later. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Ray Taylor

The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They’re trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake. Roy is a game warden investigating the dynamiting.

Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork’s and the O’Neil’s. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O’Neil. Tom Rork has found a bullet with markings on it that he hopes will clear Danny and bring in the real killer.

Gunfighter Ken Wayne gets hired at Thorton’s sheep ranch to help fight the cattleman Moran and his gang. In Moran’s gang is Whispering Carlyle, the man that raised Wayne and taught him how to shoot, and who has never been beaten on the draw. They both hope they will not have to face each other when the showdown comes.

As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.

Tough cowboy stalks his brother’s killer to the area of a brutal range war, and his reputation as a gunslinger causes both sides to bid for his services. Dir. Sam Newfield