Westerns

Abilene Town (1946)

Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of the big cattle drives out of Texas. The town is growing faster than a lot of citizens are prepared to deal with it, especially as homesteaders start moving in, fighting for space with the cattlemen. Dan has kept the peace, such as it is, by keeping the saloons, gambling, and guns on one side of Main Street and the shop-owners, farmers, women, and children on the other.

Director: Edwin L. Marin

Cast: Randolph Scott, Edgar Buchanan, Dick Curtis, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 90 minutes.

Aces And Eights (1936)

A crooked cardsharp ambles into town, intent on taking the townspeople for all they've got. You can lay even money, though, that Tim McCoy will empty his sleeves of sneaky tricks real fast!

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Jimmy Aubrey, Joseph Girard, Frank Glendon, Earl Hodgins, Rex Lease, Tim McCoy, John Merton, Wheeler Oakman, Charles Stevens, Luana Walters

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Adventures Of Gallant Bess (1948)

A rodeo cowboy captures a wild mare and trains it for show, but his dreams of stardom cause trouble between him and his girl in this Western drama.

Director: Lew Landers

Cast: Gallant Bess, Harry V. Cheshire, Cliff Clark, Eevlynn Eaton, Ed Gargan, John Harmon, Fuzzy Knight, Audrey Long, James Millican, Cameron Mitchell

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.

Alias John Law (1935)

After a feud between a group of black hats and a marshal, Bob Steele is deputized. But soon the head of the gang is impersonating him, trying to snag some much-desired land that really belongs to Steele.

Director: Robert N. Bradbury

Cast: Steve Clark, Buck Connors, Jack Cowell, Earl Dwire, Roberta Gale, Bob McKenzie, Jack Rockwell, Bob Steele, Roger Williams

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 50 minutes.

Ambush Valley (1936)

There's lots of action in this rousing saddle saga starring Bob Custer as the hero who woos a Western gal and topples the bad guys in his inimitable style.

Director: Franklin Shamray

Cast: Jack Anderson, Vane Calvert, Ed Cassidy, Bob Custer, Denver Dixon, John Elliott, O. Gahan, Jack Gilman, Eddie Phillips, Victoria Vinton, Wally Wales, Wally West, Roger Williams

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 48 minutes.

American Empire (1942)

Deception, intrigue and violence combine in this fast-paced melodrama about the rise of a cattle empire in post-Civil War Texas. Travelling to the Lone Star State with hopes of making a fortune as ranchers, two lifelong friends find their relationship threatened when their American dream comes true.

Director: William McGann

Cast: Robert H. Barrat, Leo Carrillo, Richard Dix, Cliff Edwards, William Farnum, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Chris Pin Martin, Etta McDaniel, Merrill Guy Rodin, Jack La Rue, Earl Spainard, Hal Taliaferro, Jack Trent, Richard Webb, Guinn Williams

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 81 minutes.

The Angel and the Badman (1947)

John Wayne plays Quirt Evans, a gunslinger with a nasty rep who is injured and nursed back to health by a Quaker family.

Director: James Edward Grant

Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon

Western, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 100 minutes.

Apache Blood (1975)

Chief Yellow Shirt (Ray Danton) is hunting down white men because they broke a treaty. He and all three of his braves find a small squad of U.S. soldiers and take after them.

Director: Tom Quillen

Cast: Ray Danton, Dewitt Lee, Troy Nabors, Diane Taylor, Eva Kovacs

Western, Color, Runtime 89 minutes.

The Arizona Kid (1939)

"The Arizona Kid," leads a mission to round up a band of renegade soldiers working for the Confederacy.

Director: Joseph Kane

Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally March, Stuart Hamblen

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

Arizona Stagecoach (1942)

In this western the three Range Busters go undercover, take on a gang of ruthless outlaws, and bring them to justice.

Director: S. Roy Luby

Cast: Nell O'Day, Kermit Maynard, Jack Ingram, Frank Ellis

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 57 minutes.

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)

Roy and Gabby have to establish fair business practices in the town of Deadwood, currently dominated by entrepreneurs who scare off potential competitors. Songs include "Call Of The Dusty Trail," "Joe O'Brady," and "Home on the Rangeland."

Director: Joseph Kane

Cast: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Carol Adams, Henry Brandon, Herbert Rawlinson, Sally Payne, Hal Taliaferro, Jay Novello, Horace Murphy, Monte Blue, Ralf Harolde, Jack Kirk

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 53 minutes.

Bells Of San Angelo (1947)

Roy Rogers plays a border patrol officer who has to round up smugglers.

Director: William Witney

Cast: Trigger , Eddie Acuff, Keefe Brasselle, Whitey Christy, Andy Devine, Dale Evans, Fred Graham, Olaf Hytten, Fritz Leiber, James Linn, John McGuire, Bob Nolan, Eddie Parker, Hank Patterson, Roy Rogers, David Sharpe, Charles Sullivan, Fred S. Toones, Ray Turner, Luana Walters

Western, Color, Runtime: 76 minutes.

The Big Show (1936)

Filmed on location at the Texas Centennial in Dallas, this unusual Gene Autry outing finds him in a dual role: an egotistical film cowboy named Tom Ford and his good-natured stunt double (named, of course, Gene Autry). The fun starts when Ford is booked to appear at the Texas fair and Autry agrees to fill in for him.

Director: Mack V. Wright

Cast: Champion , Gene Autry, Beverly Hill Billies, Light Crust Dough Boys, Jones Boys, Smiley Burnette, Grace Durkin, Oscar and Elmer, Kay Hughes, June Johnson, Charles Judels, Christine Maple, William Newell, Wedgewood Nowell, Sally Payne, Sons of the Pioneers, Mary Russell, Antrim Short, Max Terhune, Harry Worth

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

Billy The Kid Trapped (1942)

In "Billy the Kid Trapped," young Mr. Bonney will be fitted for a noose unless he can convince the marshal that the crime he is being charged with was committed by someone else.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Ted Adams, Budd Buster, Buster Crabbe, Jack Ingram, Anne Jeffreys, Milton Kibbee, Walter McGrail, Eddie Phillips, Al St. John, Glenn Strange

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.

Billy The Kid Returns (1938)

An early starring role for Roy Rogers casts him as the famed frontier gunslinger, now reformed and ready to clean up lawless Lincoln County. Smiley Burnette, Lynne Roberts co-star.

Director: Joseph Kane, Joe Kane

Cast: Trigger , Roy Barcroft, Wade Boteler, The Wiere Bros., Smiley Burnette, Frederick Burton, Steve Condos, Kenne Duncan, Mary Hart, Robert Emmett Keane, Jack Kirk, Janet Martin, Chris Pin Martin, LeRoy Mason, Horace Murphy, Bob Nolan, Duncan Renaldo, Roy Rogers, Fred Kohler Sr., Edwin Stanley, Larry Steers, Onslow Stevens, Ruth Terry, Mary Treen, Morgan Wallace, Guinn Williams

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 53 minutes.

Blue Steel (1934)

Outlaws wreak havoc in a town, but John Wayne flashes "Blue Steel" and saves the day, battling the bad guys and rescuing Eleanor Hunt.

Director: Robert Bradbury

Cast: Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland, Earl Dwire, Gabby Hayes, Eleanor Hunt, Lafe McKee, George Nash, Edward Peil Sr., John Wayne

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

Boot Hill Bandits (1942)

Assigned to find a stolen stagecoach loaded with cash, a U.S. marshal's investigation is complicated when he is nearly killed by the outlaw who pulled off the heist. Faking his own death, the lawman enlists the help of the famed Range Busters to bring the crook and his Boot Hill Bandits to justice. Ray Corrigan, John "Dusty" King, Max Terhune star.

Director: S. Roy Luby

Cast: James Aubrey, Jean Brooks, Budd Buster, George Chesebro, Steve Clark, Ray Corrigan, Dick Cramer, I. Stanford Jolley, John "Dusty" King, John Merton, Milt Morante, Glenn Strange, Max Terhune

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 56 minutes.

Border Caballero (1936)

Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Tim McCoy, Lois January, Ralph Byrd, J. Frank Glendon, Ted Adams, John Merton, Earle Hodgins

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.

Border Patrol (1943)

Texas Ranger Hopalong Cassidy tries to stop a ruthless mine owner who uses Mexicans illegally as slave laborers.

Directors: George Archainbaud, Lesley Selander

Cast: Kirk Alyn, George Anderson, Morris Ankrum, Stephen Barclay, Roy Barcroft, Trevor Bardette, Bob Bentley, William Boyd, Rand Brooks, Ben Corbett, Harry Cording, Louise Currie, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Eddie Dean, Claudia Drake, Douglass Dumbrille, Robert Frazer, Minna Gombell, Georgia Hawkins, Russell Hayden, Earle Hodgins, Robert Emmett Keane, Jay Kirby, Bob Kortman, Pierce Lyden

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 65 minutes.

The Border Patrolman (1936)

When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.

Director: David Howard

Cast: George O'Brien, Polly Ann Young, Smiley Burnette, LeRoy Mason, Mary Doran, Al Hill, William P. Carleton, Tom London, George MacQuarrie, Cyril Ring, John St. Polis

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.

Border Vengeance (1934)

After discovering 40 head of cattle are missing, a rancher is murdered, but the wrong family is accused of the crimes and forced to flee over the border.

Director: Ray Heinz

Cast: Rebel , June Bupp, Fred Burns, Mary Jane Carey, Benny Corbett, Norman Feusier, Clarence Geldert, Pat Harmon, Marty Joyce, Kenneth MacDonald, Ed Phillips, Reb Russell, Charles Whittaker

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 57 minutes.

Born to the Saddle  (1953)

While investigating his father's death, a man becomes friendly with the rancher he thinks killed his father.

Director: William Beaudine

Cast: Chuck Courtney, Donald Woods, Leif Erickson, Rand Brooks, Glenn Strange, Dolores Prest, Robert J. Anderson, Lucille Thompson, Fred Kohler Jr., Dan White

Western, Color, Runtime: 75 minutes.

Broadway To Cheyenne (1932)

West meets East as Rex Bell plays a cowpoke who comes East and gets caught up in the excitement of the Big City. But back home, Marceline Day is being cheated, and Rex must return to see that justice is done. George "Gabby" Hayes, Matthew Betz, and Gwen Lee also star. AKA: "From Broadway to Cheyenne."

Director: Harry Fraser

Cast: Ernest Adams, Rex Bell, Matthew Betz, Al Bridge, Roy D'Arcy, Rae Daggett, Marceline Day, Dick Dickinson, Earl Dwire, John Elliott, Robert Ellis, Huntley Gordon, Gabby Hayes, Gwen Lee, Harry Semels, G. D. Wood

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 52 minutes.

Brand of the Devil (1944)

Jolley is the leader of the Devil's Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending not to know each other. But eventually their identities become known and they are captured by the gang.

Director: Harry L. Fraser

Cast: Dave O'Brien, James Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Ellen Hall, I. Stanford Jolley, Charles King, Reed Howes, Budd Buster, Karl Hackett, Kermit Maynard, Ed Cassidy

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 57 minutes.

Bulldog Courage (1935)

A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Eddie Buzzard, Eddie Cobb, John W. Cowell, John Elliott, Paul Fix, William Karl Hackett, Eddie Hearn, Tim McCoy, Jack Rockwell, Jane Woodbury

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Cavalcade of the West (1936)

Hoot Gibson stars in this tale of justice, western style, focusing on the story of two brothers, one of whom is kidnapped by outlaws and ends up on the wrong side of the law.

Director: Harry Fraser

Cast: Steve Clarke, Barry Downing, Phil Dunham, Earl Dwire, Hoot Gibson, Adam Goodman, Nina Guilbert, Rex Lease, Robt. McKenzie, Marion Shilling, Jerry Tucker

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Cavalry (1936)

Trying to impress the young lady he's taken a hankerin' to, Bob Steele leads troopers waging war against insurgent Indians, evil rustlers and just about anybody wearing a black hat.

Director: Robert N. Bradbury

Cast: Bud Buster, Edward Cassidy, Bill Desmond, Frances Grant, Karl Hackett, Perry Murdock, Hal Price, Earl Ross, Bob Steele, Martin Turner, William Welsh

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Code of the Cactus (1939)

Lightning Bill Carson tries to stop cattle rustlers by posing as a Mexican.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Dorothy Short, Fred Adams, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, Dave O'Brien, Forrest Taylor, Bob Terry, Slim Whitaker, Frank Wayne

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.

Colorado Sundown (1952)

Rex Allen and his miracle horse Koko foil a murder and land fraud caper masterminded by a crooked brother and sister, yet the cowboy still has time to sing "Pine Valley Stage" and "Down by the Riverside." With Slim Pickens, Mary Ellen Kay, Louise Beavers.

Director: William Witney

Cast: Koko , Rex Allen, Louise Beavers, Stan Blystone, Edward Cassidy, Chester Clute, Russ Conway, John Daheim, Fred Graham, Harry Harvey, Stan Jones, Mary Ellen Kay, Rex Lease, Slim Pickens, Hal Price, The Republic Rhythm Riders, Clarence Straight, Tex Terry, June Vincent, Joe Yrigoyen

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 67 minutes.

Cowboy Counsellor  (1932)

A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.

Director: George Melford

Cast: Hoot Gibson, Sheila Bromley, Jack Rutherford, Skeeter Bill Robbins, Al Bridge, Fred Gilman, Bobby Nelson, William Humphrey, Gordon De Main, Merrill McCormick, Sam Allen

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Cowboy Holiday (1934)

A cowboy tries to help his lawman friend, who will lose his job if he doesn't bring in a bandit known as the Juarez Kid.

Director: Robert F. Hill

Cast: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Janet Chandler, Julian Rivero, Richard Alexander, John Elliott, Julia Bejarano, Alma Chester

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.

Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)

In what turned out to be his last film before his death, Buck Jones leads Rough Riders Rex Bell and Raymond Hatton into action against what they think are hostile Indians. It turns out ruthless white hombres are wearing war paint and feathers to crash a railroad settlement.

Director: Howard Bretherton

Cast: Roy Barcroft, Mona Barrie, Rex Bell, Betty Blythe, Steve Clark, Tristram Coffin, Maude Eburne, Robert Frazer, Raymond Hatton, Silver, a horse, Warren Jackson, Buck Jones, Robert Lowery, Christine McIntyre, Dennis Moore, Lee Shumway, Jan Wiley, Harry Woods

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 70 minutes.

Deadwood '76 (1965)

A whacked-out sagebrush saga with Arch Hall, Jr. as a handsome young gunslinger who arrives in a frontier town only to be mistaken for Billy the Kid and forced into defending himself...against Wild Bill Hickok! With Jack Lester, Melissa Morgan and Arch Hall, Sr..

Director: James Landis

Cast: Harold Bizzy, John Bryant, John Cardos, LaDonna Cottier, Richard S. Cowl, Robert Dix, Arch Hall Jr., Jack Lester, Little Jack Little, Rex Marlow, Read Morgan, Melissa Morgan, David Reed, Gordon Schwenk, Ray Vegas, William Watters, Willard Willingham

Western, Color, Runtime: 96 minutes.

Desert Escape (1940)

A wrongfully condemned man escapes imprisonment and decides to clear his name by participating in a deadly game of survival with the men who framed him. Aka "Marked Men".

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Isabel Jewell, John Dilson, Paul Bryar

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 64 minutes.

The Dude Bandit (1933)

After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.

Director: George Melford

Cast: Hooper Atchley, Fred Burns, Horace Carpenter, Hoot Gibson, Fred Gilman, Neal Hart, Gordon De Main, Lafe McKee, Art Mix, Skeeter Bill Robbins, Gloria Shea

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.