615  Call of the Canyon  Republic, 1942. 71 min. D: Joseph Santley. SC: Olive Cooper. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ruth Terry, Joe Strauch, Jr., Thurston Hall, Cliff Nazarro, Dorothea Kent, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Edmund MacDonald, Marc Lawrence, John Holland, Eddy Waller, Budd Buster, Frank Jaquet, Lorin Baker, Johnny Duncan, Ray Bennett, Anthony Marsh, Fred Santley, Frank Ward, Earle Hodgins, John Harmon, Al Taylor, Frankie Marvin, Bob Burns, Charles Williams, Joy Barton. While in the big city trying to get fair prices for ranchers from a meat packer, Gene Autry gets involved with a pretty radio singer who ends up renting his ranch from his pal Frog. Very well done Gene Autry musical oater.

616  Call of the Coyote  Imperial, 1934. 50 min. D: Patrick (Pat) Carlyle. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Ken Thompson, Pat Carlyle, Sally (Darling) Dolling, Merrill McCormick, Baby Marie Bracco, Charles Stevens, Barthlett (Bartlett/Bart) Carre, Morgan Galloway, Wallace Sheperd, Jack Pollard, Howard Fossett, Jack Evans. A gold mine owner is murdered by his partner leaving an orphaned little girl and a map which is discovered by a caballero who vows revenge for the killing. Rock bottom cinema from a story by director-star Pat Carlyle with Merrill McCormick playing both the villain and his victim and top billed Ken Thompson apparently invisible; some video prints run 44 minutes but are no less painful.

617  Call of the Desert  Syndicate, 1930. 55 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: Sally Winters and Barney Williams. With Tom Tyler, Sheila (Bromley) LeGay, Cliff Lyons, Bud Osborne, Bobby Dunn. A cowboy rides into the desert in search of a gold claim left by his father with his partner leaving him for dead and stealing the map. Fairly entertaining and fast moving Tom Tyler vehicle with a scenic opening of snow in the desert. Issued with a music score but no dialogue.

618  Call of the Forest  Lippert, 1949. 74 min. D: John F. Link. SC: Craig Burns. With Robert Lowery, Ken Curtis, Chief Thundercloud, Martha Sherrill, Charles Hughes, Tom Hanley, Fred Gildart, Eula Guy, Black Diamond (horse), Jimmy (crow), Ready (raccoon), Ripple (deer), Fuzzy (bear). The adventures of a young boy and the animals he befriends in the great north woods. Pleasant youth oriented outing.

619  The Call of the Klondike  Rayart, 1926. 45 min. D: Oscar Apfel. SC: John F. (Jack) Natteford. With Gaston Glass, Dorothy Dwan, Earl Metcalfe, Sam Allen, William Lowery, Olin Francis, Harold Holland, Jimmy Aubrey, Lightning Girl (dog). A young woman and her father rescue a mining engineer in the Klondike and later in Alaska the man, now a miner accused of murdering his partner, escapes from jail to save her from the advances of a crook. Okay silent melodrama that originally ran one hour but only survives in a truncated version.

620  Call of the Klondike  Monogram, 1950. 67 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Charles Lang. With Kirby Grant, Anne Gwynne, Lynne Roberts, Tom Neal, Russell Simpson, Paul Bryar, Duke York, Pat Gleason, Marc Krah, Chinook (dog). A Mountie and a woman search for the latter’s missing father and when they find his gold mine they are attacked by crooks. One of the better efforts in the Kirby Grant series based on the stories of James Oliver Curwood.

621  Call of the Prairie  Paramount, 1936. 63 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Doris Schroeder and Vernon Smith. With William Boyd, James Ellison, Muriel Evans, George Hayes, Chester Conklin, Alan Bridge, Hank Mann, Willie Fung, Howard Lang, Al Hill, John Merton, Jim Mason, Chill Wills and His Avalon Boys, John St. Polis, Bob McKenzie, Tom London, Pascale Perry, Denver Dixon. An outlaw gang frames Johnny Nelson for a series of crimes but Hopalong Cassidy comes to his rescue. Fine entry in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series.

622  Call of the Rockies  Syndicate, 1931. 62 min. D: Raymond K. Johnson. With Ben Lyon, Marie Prevost, Gladys Johnston, Anders Randolf, Russell Simpson, James (Jim) Mason, Tex Driscoll, The Four Hawks. Three crooks, including a beautiful girl, try to swindle pioneers who plan to settle a secluded valley but the woman falls in love with one of the homesteaders. Financed by the Mormon church and filmed as a silent in Utah in 1928, this mundane feature did not see theatrical release until 1931 when, with a talking prologue relating the story added on, it was previewed as All Faces West and also called West of the Rockies.

623  Call of the Rockies  Columbia, 1938. 54 min. D: Alan James. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Donald Grayson, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Dick Curtis, Edward Le Saint, Edmund Cobb, Art Mix, John Tyrrell, George Chesebro, Alan Bridge, Glenn Strange, Jack Rockwell, Franklyn Farnum, Fred Burns, Hank Bell. A cowboy helps a young woman who is in debt and about to lose her ranch to a dishonest land dealer. Entertaining Charles Starrett series Western.

624  Call of the Rockies  Republic, 1944. 58 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Bob Williams. With Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson, Ellen Hall, Kirk Alyn, Harry Woods, Frank Jaquet, Charles Williams, Jack Kirk, Tom London, Robert Kortman, Edmund Cobb, Jack O’Shea, Rex Lease, Frank McCarroll, Bud Geary, Robert Wilke, Kit Guard, Carl Sepulveda, Horace B. Carpenter. Two freight haulers lose their cargo and learn a mine owner and a doctor are in cahoots in trying to control all the area lodes. Sunset Carson’s first starring film (he is second billed behind Smiley Burnette) is a fast paced rip-snorter and what the star lacks in the thespian department he more than makes up for in his ability to fight and ride.

625  Call of the West  Columbia, 1930. 70 min. D: Albert Ray. SC: Colin Clements. With Dorothy Revier, Matt Moore, Catherine Clark Ward, Tom O’Brien, Alan Roscoe, Victor Potel, Nick De Ruiz, Joe De La Cruz, Blanche Rose, Bud Osborne. While in Texas a cabaret entertainer marries a rancher but when he joins a posse to track down rustlers she returns to New York City and is romanced by a former suitor. Trite early talkie.

626  Call of the Wild  United Artists, 1935. 91 min. D: William A. Wellman. SC: Gene Fowler and Leonard Praskins. With Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy, Sidney Toler, Charles Stevens, Katherine De Mille, James Burke, John T. Murray, Bob Perry, Sid Grauman, Herman Bing, Wade Boteler, John Ince, Syd Saylor, Joan Woodbury, Arthur Aylesworth, Lalo Encinas, Tommy Jackson, Russ Powell, George MacQuarrie, Frank Whitson, Tyler Brooke, Arthur Housman, Marie Wells, LeRoy Mason, Frank Campeau, Perry Ivins, Walter McGrail, Frank Moran, John Ince, Pat Flaherty, Larry McGrath, Jack Stoney, Helene Chadwick, Mary MacLaren, Ted Lorch, Bud Osborne, Frank Mills, Harry Wood, Buck (dog). Two prospectors search for gold in the frozen Klondike with one finding love and both being threatened by a vicious claim jumper. Likable version of the Jack London story with more romance than London; Reginald Owen is a delight as the bad guy.

627  Call of the Wild  Intercontinental Releasing Corporation, 1973. 102 min. Color. D: Ken Annakin. SC: Hubert Frank and Tibor Reves. With Charlton Heston, Michele Mercier, Maria Rohm, George Eastman, Raymond Harmstorf, Friedhelm Lehmann, Horst Heuck, Sancho Garcia. An adventurer and his dog travel over the north most parts of the Pacific Ocean, from the waters of Alaska to the gold fields of the Yukon, where they see men driven by greed for wealth. West German production of Jack London’s novel, filmed in Finland and somewhat weakened by its handling of the material. Issued in West Germany in 1973 as Ruf Der Wildnis (Call of the Wild) by CCC Filmkunst.

628  Call of the Wild  NBC-TV, 1976. 100 min. Color. D: Jerry Jameson. SC: James Dickey. With John Beck, Bernard Fresson, John McLiam, Michael Pataki, Penelope Windust, Billy Green Bush, Johnny Tillotson, Ray Guth, Dennis Burkley. In 1903 a young prospector and a veteran trapper face the wilds of the Yukon in search of gold. Pretty good telefilm of the Jack London work.

629  Call of the Wilderness  Associated Exhibitors, 1926. 55 min. D: Jack Nelson. SC: Van Pelt Brothers and Lon Young. With Sandow (dog), Lewis Sargent, Edna Marion, Sydney DeGrey, Albert J. Smith, Max Asher, Tom Connelly, George Harvey. A free spirited man and his dog settle in a small Western town where he is at odds with a prospector after buying land from an agent with a pretty daughter. Lethargic modern-day Western headlining long forgotten Rin Tin Tin rival Sandow.

Call of the Wilderness (1932) see Trailing the Killer

630  Call of the Yukon  Republic, 1938. 70 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Gertrude Orr and William Bartlett. With Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot, Ray Mala, Garry Owen, Ivan Miller, James Lono, Emory Parnell, Al St. John, Anthony Hughes, Nina Campana, Buck (dog). A trapper and a woman writer, along with two canines, search for gold and a story in the wilds of the Yukon. Fair adventure yarn with many animals and scenic avalanche footage.

631  Call the Mesquiteers  Republic, 1938. 55 min. D: John English. SC: Luci Ward. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lynne Roberts, Sammy McKim, Earle Hodgins, Eddy Waller, Maston Williams, Eddie Hart, Pat Gleason, Roger Williams, Warren Jackson, Hal Price, Frank Ellis, Curley Dresden, Jack Ingram, Ralph Peters, Ethan Laidlaw, Tom Steele, Al Taylor, Jim Corey, Bob Burns, Bob Card, Francis Walker, Loren Riebe, Flash (dog). Mistaken for train robbers, the Three Mesquiteers get involved with a medicine show operator and his two offspring in a ghost town as they try to clear themselves and expose silk smugglers. Slick, speedy entry in “The Three Mesquiteers” series.

Call to Glory see Ride to Glory

632  Callaway Went Thataway  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951. 91 min. D-SC: Norman Panama and Melvin Frank. With Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Jesse White, Fay Roope, Natalie Schaefer, Douglas Kennedy, Elizabeth Fraser, Johnny Indrisano, Stan Freberg, Don Haggerty, Dorothy Andre, Glenn Strange, Mae Clarke, Hugh Beaumont, Earle Hodgins, Douglas Fowley, Ethan Laidlaw, Emmett Lynn, Rocky Camron, Ned Glass, Paul Bryar, Dorothy Andre, Billy Dix, John Banner, Carl Sepulveda, Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams. Two advertising agents resurrect the old films of a forgotten cowboy star, making him popular again on television but when he cannot be found a double is used to make more movies. A delightful spoof of the “Hopalong Cassidy” craze with Howard Keel as both a drunken, woman chasing cowboy star and his real life double. Well worth seeing.

633  The Calling of Dan Matthews  Columbia, 1936. 63 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Dan Jarrett, Don Swift and Karl Brown. With Richard Arlen, Charlotte Wynters, Douglass Dumbrille, Mary Kornman, Donald Cook, Carlyle Blackwell, Jr., Frederick Burton, Lee Moran, Tommy Dugan, Edward McWade. A militant clergyman fights corruption and gangsters in the modern-day West. Fairly good programmer from Harold Bell Wright’s 1909 novel.

634  Calling Wild Bill Elliott  Republic, 1943. 55 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Anthony Coldeway. With Wild Bill Elliott, George “Gabby” Hayes, Anne Jeffreys, Buzz Henry, Fred Kohler, Jr., Roy Barcroft, Herbert Heyes, Eve March, Charles King, Frank Hagney, Bud Geary, Lyndon Brent, Frank McCarroll, Burr Caruth, Forbes Murray, Ted Mapes, Herman Hack, Yakima Canutt, Al Taylor, Budd Buster, George Hazel, Hank Bell, Forbes Murray, Bill Nestell, Fred Burns, Horace B. Carpenter, Rose Plummer, Foxy Callahan, Lew Morphy, Jack Evans, Roy Bucko. In order to catch a corrupt a cattle baron, Wild Bill Elliott poses as the governor of a new territory. First film in Bill Elliott’s Republic series, this is a fast moving adventure, short on plot but heavy on fights, chases, etc.

635  Caminos de Sangre (Path of Blood)  Clasa-Mohme, 1945. 90 min. D-SC: Rolando Aguilar. With Luis Aguilar, Amanda del Llano, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, El Chicote (Armando Soto La Marina), Miguel Inclan, Salvador Quiroz, Lauro Benitz, Maria Gentil Arcos, Jose L. Murillo, Alicia Rodriguez. When his little sister is wounded by an outlaw gang, a cowboy sets out to bring the marauders to justice. Good Mexican adventure from prolific producer Raul de Anda, who wrote the story.

636  Campbell’s Kingdom  Lopert, 1958. 102 min. Color. D: Ralph Thomas. SC: Robin Estridge and Hammond Innes. With Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice, Athene Seyler, Robert Brown, John Laurie, Sidney James, Mary Merrall, George Murcell, Ronald Brand, Finlay Currie, Peter Illing, Stanley Maxted, Gordon Tanner, Richard McNamara. In the Canadian Rockies, a land owner is at odds with a man who wants to build a huge dam. British-made adventure, produced in Canada, which is very entertaining. Released in Great Britain in 1957 by the Rank Organization.

637  Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders  Republic, 1953. 12 Chapters. D: Franklin Adreon. SC: Ronald Davidson. With Bill Henry, Susan Morrow, Arthur Space, Dale Van Sickel, Pierre Watkin, Mike Ragan, Stanley Andrews, Harry Lauter, Hank Patterson, Edmund Cobb, Gayle Kellogg, Tom Steele, Jean Wright, Bob Reeves, Fred Graham, George DeNormand, William Fawcett, Jane Wood, Joe Yrigoyen, Carey Loftin, Drew Cahill, Kenner Kemp, Duke Taylor, Duane Thorsen, Gordon Armitage, Paul Palmer, Bob Jamison, Earl Bunn, Jimmy Fawcett, David Sharpe. The Canadian Mounted Police are on the trail of a gang of foreign agents mysteriously working in the upper reaches of the country. Slow moving cliffhanger, re-edited into a 100 minute TV feature called Missile Base at Taniak.

Lobby card for Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (Republic, 1953).

638  Canadian Pacific  20th Century–Fox, 1949. 95 min. Color. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Jack De Witt and Kenneth Gamet. With Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson, J. Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat, Walter Sande, Don Haggerty, Grandon Rhodes, Mary Kent, John Parrish, John Hamilton, Richard Wessel, Howard Negley, Richard Alexander. A railroad advance man becomes romantically involved with both a female doctor and a frontier gal while fighting Indians and trappers out to halt his mission. Handsome Randolph Scott epic in Cinecolor.

639  The Canadians  20th Century–Fox, 1961. 85 min. Color. D-SC: Burt Kennedy. With Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Teresa Stratas, Burt Metcalfe, John Sutton, Jack Creley, Scott Peters, Richard Alden, Michael Pate. Following the Custer massacre, the Sioux Indians move to Canada and there a trio of Mounties convince them to remain peaceful or be driven back south of the border. Fairly colorful yarn that wastes opera singer Teresa Stratas as an Indian squaw.

640  Cannon  CBS-TV, 1971. 100 min. Color. D: George McGowan. SC: Ed Hume. With William Conrad, Vera Miles, J.D. Cannon, Lynda Day (George), Barry Sullivan, Keenan Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Earl Holliman, John Fiedler, Lawrence Pressman, Ross Hagen. In a modern Western town a private detective uncovers local corruption while trying to help an ex-girlfriend accused of murdering her husband. Entertaining TV movie, the pilot for the popular “Cannon” (CBS-TV, 1971–76) series.

641  Canon for Cordoba  United Artists, 1970. 104 min. Color. D: Paul Wendkos. SC: Stephen Kandell. With George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Peter Duel, Don Gordon, Nico Minardos, John Russell, Francine York, John Larch, Charles Stainaker, John Clark, Gabrielle Tinti, Hans Meyer. An Army intelligence officer and a small group of men attempt to recover canons stolen from General Pershing’s army by Mexican revolutionaries. Average action outing that attempts to imitate European Westerns of the period.

642  Can’t Help Singing  Universal, 1944. 90 min. Color. D: Frank Ryan. SC: Lewis R. Foster and Frank Ryan. With Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce, June Vincent, Ray Collins, Olin Howlin, Leonid Kinsky, Clara Blandick, Thomas Gomez, Andrew Tombes, George Cleveland, Olin Howlin, Edward Earle, Almira Sessions, Chester Conklin, George Eldredge, Roscoe Ates, Barbara Pepper, Ruby Dandridge, Harry Woods, Glenn Strange, Frank Hagney, Forrest Taylor, Bob McKenzie, Dennis Moore, George J. Lewis, James Bush, Max Wagner, Eddie Hart, Renie Riano, Herbert Heywood, Frank Lackteen, Nina Campana, Jay Novello, Jody Gilbert, Heinie Conklin, Jimmy Aubrey, Irving Bacon, Gertrude Astor, Virginia Sale, Jack Clifford, Art Miles, Robert Homans, Kernan Cripps, Joseph E. Bernard, Frank Darien, Fred Steele, George Lloyd, John James, Bob Perry, Frank Melton, Eddie Acuff, Phil Warren, Victor Potel, Harry Semels, Nana Bryant, Fern Emmett, William Desmond, Theodore Rand, Geneva Holt, Gladys Blake, Manuel Paris, Jim Thorpe, Iron Eyes Cody. In 1849 a young girl, over her senator father’s objections, heads to California to marry an Army lieutenant but finds romance along the trail. Sprightly musical-comedy-Western sure to delight Deanna Durbin fans.

643  Canyon Ambush  Monogram, 1952. 53 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Joseph Poland. With Johnny Mack Brown, Phyllis Coates, Lee Roberts, Dennis Moore, Hugh Prosser, Marshall Reed, Denver Pyle, Pierce Lyden, Carol Henry, Stanley Price, Frank Ellis, Russ Whiteman. A government agent arrives in a community to help the local sheriff and concerned citizens in combating a gang led by a masked rider. There is fair entertainment in Johnny Mack Brown’s final series outing.

644  Canyon City  Republic, 1943. 56 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Robert Yost. With Don “Red” Barry, Helen Talbot, Wally Vernon, Twinkle Watts, LeRoy Mason, Pierce Lyden, Forbes Murray, Ed Peil, Sr., Eddie Gribbon, Tom London, Morgan Conway, Emmett Vogan, Stanley Andrews, Roy Barcroft, Jack Kirk, Kenne Duncan, Bud Geary, Bud Osborne, Hank Worden. The Nevada Kid helps locals in their fight with an Eastern gangster out to steal their land. Not the best of Don Barry’s Westerns, especially with little Twinkle Watts along as some kind of sidekick.

645  Canyon Crossroads  United Artists, 1955. 83 min. D: Alfred Werker. SC: Emmett Murphy and Leonard Heideman. With Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott, Russell Collins, Charles Wagenheim, Richard Hale, Tommy Cook. A man searches for uranium in Utah while crooks plan to get the claim before he can record its location. Taut modern-day Western using helicopters more than horses.

646  Canyon Hawks  Big 4, 1930. 55 min. D-SC: Alvin J. Neitz (Alan James). With Yakima Canutt, Buzz Barton, Rene Borden, Wally Wales, Robert Walker, Bob Reeves, Cliff Lyons, Bobby Dunn. A cowboy befriends a young woman and her brother, selling them land for their sheep herd, and later comes to her rescue when she is abducted by a bad man. Low grade effort that gives fans a chance to see Yakima Canutt in a talkie starring role.

647  Canyon of Missing Men  Syndicate, 1930. 55 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: George H. Williams. With Tom Tyler, Shelia (Bromley) LeGay, Bud Osborne, Tom Forman, J.P. McGowan, Cliff Lyons, Bobby Dunn, Arden Ellis, Perry Murdock, Bill Nestell, Rube Dalroy, Jack Low. An outlaw falls for a rancher’s daughter and betrays his gang when they kidnap her for ransom. Fair silent (with sound effects) Tom Tyler item with mostly outdoor shots and a slight story.

648  Canyon Passage  Universal, 1946. 99 min. Color. D: Jacques Tourneur. SC: Ernest Pascal. With Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Patricia Roc, Hoagy Carmichael, Ward Bond, Andy Devine, Stanley Ridges, Lloyd Bridges, Fay Holden, Victor Cutler, Tad Devine, Denny Devine, Onslow Stevens, Rose Hobart, Dorothy Peterson, Halliwell Hobbes, James Cardwell, Ray Teal, Virginia Patton, Francis McDonald, Erville Alderson, Ralph Peters, Jack Rockwell, Gene Roth, Karl Hackett, Jack Clifford, Richard Alexander, Chief Yowlachie, Wallace Scott, Peter Whitney, Harry Shannon, Chester Clute, Frank Ferguson, Eddie Dunn, Harlan Briggs, Rex Lease, Jack Ingram, Ann Burr. In 1856 a store owner-mule freight hauler and a crooked gambling banker both love the same woman in the rugged Oregon country. Beautifully produced feature showing both the glory and harshness of frontier life; a very good motion picture.

649  Canyon Raiders  Monogram, 1951. 54 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Jay Gilgore. With Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coates, Jim Bannon, Bill Kennedy, Barbara Woodell, I. Stanford Jolley, Marshal Reed, Riley Hill, William Fawcett, Bob Woodward, Ray Jones. Two ranchers try to stop a gang that rustled 500 horses and plans to sell them to the Army with a forged bill of sale. There is enough action to carry this Whip Wilson vehicle.

650  Canyon River  Allied Artists, 1956. 80 min. Color. D: Harmon Jones. SC: Daniel B. Ullman. With George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves, Richard Eyer, Walter Sande, Robert Wilke, Alan Hale (Jr.), John Harmon, Jack Lambert, William Fawcett, Bud Osborne, Lee Roberts. The foreman of a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming has his life saved by an outlaw gang leader but when the bandits attack he is forced to fight them. Average oater helped by George Montgomery and color; a remake of The Longhorn (q.v.).

651  Captain Apache  Scotia International, 1971. 95 min. Color. D: Alexander Singer. SC: Philip Yordan and Milton Sperling. With Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Elisa Montes, Tony Vogel, Hugh McDermott, Charles Stalnaker, Charley Bravo, Faith Clift, Dan Van Husen, D. Pollock, George Margo, Jose Bodalo. When the Indian commissioner is murdered an Apache warrior is assigned by the Army to find out to committed the crime. Tepid British produced oater with all the violence of Continental Westerns and Lee Van Cleef singing the title song. Alternate title: Deathwork.

652  Captain John Smith and Pocahontas  United Artists, 1953. 75 min. Color. D: Lew Landers. SC: Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen. With Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrence, Alan Hale (Jr.), Robert Clarke, Stuart Randall, James Seay, Philip Van Zandt, Shepard Menken, Douglass Dumbrille, Anthony Eustral, Henry Rowland, Franchesca di Scaffa, Joan Nixon. Captain John Smith tries to establish a colony in Virginia despite being opposed by those who want to hunt for gold or use it as a base for privateers; he tries to make peace with the Indians only to be captured. Colorful, but average, romantic history.

653  Captain Thunder  Warner Bros., 1930. 66 min. D: Alan Crosland. SC: Gordon Rigby and William K. Wells. With Victor Varconi, Fay Wray, Charles Judels, Don Alvarado, Robert Elliott, Natalie Moorhead, Bert Roach, Frank Campeau, Robert Emmett Keane, John St. Polis. A dashing Mexican bandit helps a young man who tries to capture him when the latter’s pretty fiancee is forced to marry a rival. Static early talkie.

654  The Capture  RKO Radio, 1950. 81 min. D: John Sturges. SC: Niven Busch. With Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Duncan Renaldo, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt, Barry Kelley, William Bakewell, Milton Parsons, Edwin Rand, Frank Matts, Felipe Turich, Rosa Turich, Paul Marion, Manuel Paris, Rodolfo Hoyos, Rico DeMontez, Paul Fierro, Vito Soctti, Tina Menard, Charles Morton, Pepe Hern, Rico Alaniz, Chuck Roberson, Alberto Morin, Manuel Lopez, Alex Gerry, Paul Regas, Harry Vejar, Gil Herman, Tommy Lee, Francisco Villalobos. A detective feels he may have killed the wrong man in a robbery attempt and tries to reinvestigate the case. Modern-day drama with much of its footage in rural Mexico; good viewing.

655  The Capture of Bigfoot  Studio Film Corporation, 1979. 93 min. Color. D: Bill Rebane. SC: Ingrid Neumayer and Bill Rebane. With Stafford Morgan, Katherine Hopkins, Richard Kennedy, George “Buck” Flower, John Goff, Otis Young, John Eimerman, Randy Scott, Durwood McDonald, Greg Gault, Wally Flaherty, Nelson C. Sheppo, William Dexter, Harry Youstos, Doug Ibold, Verkina Flower, Mitzi Kress, Woody Jarvis, Bill Cannon, Mitch Irish, Jeana Tomasino, Patty Holzmann. A diverse group, including a lawman, two hunters, a forest ranger and a trapper, try to snare two Bigfoot creatures lurking around a snowy, remote community. Almost as mind numbing as the cold climate in which it was filmed.

656  Capture of Billy the Kid  Republic, 1952. 54 min. D: Fred C. Brannon. SC: M. Coates Webster and Richard Wormser. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Penny Edwards, Grant Withers, Clem Bevans, Roy Barcroft, Mauritz Hugo, Frank McCarroll. Outlaws after a treasure hidden by Billy the Kid are hunted by a marshal out to round them up and uncover the loot. Nicely paced Allan Lane series effort; his fans will like it.

657  The Capture of Grizzly Adams  NBC-TV, 1982. 100 min. Color. D-SC: Arthur Heinemann. With Dan Haggerty, Kim Darby, Chuck Connors, Noah Beery (Jr.), Keenan Wynn, June Lockhart, Peggy Stewart, Sidney Penny, G.W. Bailey. A mountain man is framed on a fake murder charge by those who want him out of the way. Average TV movie based on the feature The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (q.v.) and the 1977–78 NBC-TV series of the same title.

658  The Caravan Trail  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 57 min. Color. D: Robert Emmett (Tansey). SC: Frances Kavanaugh. With Eddie Dean, Emmett Lynn, Al “Lash” LaRue, Jean Carlin, Robert Malcolm, Charles King, Robert Barron, Forrest Taylor, Bob Duncan, Jack O’Shea, Terry Frost, George Chesebro, Bud Osborne, Lee Roberts, Wylie Grant, Lee Bennett, Lloyd Ingraham, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Ray Jones, Cliff Parkinson. The leader of a wagon train enlists the assistance of an outlaw in stopping land grabbers who have stolen the pioneer’s homesteads. Passable Eddie vehicle that helped launch Lash LaRue’s series; best when Eddie Dean sings “Wagon Wheels.”

El Carcel de Cananea see Pursuit Across the Desert

659  The Cariboo Trail  20th Century–Fox, 1950. 81 min. Color. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Frank Gruber. With Randolph Scott, Karin Booth, George “Gabby” Hayes, Bill Williams, Douglas Kennedy, Jim Davis, Dale Robertson, Mary Stuart, James Griffith, Lee Tung Foo, Anthony Hughes, Mary Kent, Ray Hyke, Jerry Root, Cliff Clark, Fred Libby, Dorothy Adams, Michael Barret, Smith Ballew, Kermit Maynard, Tom Monroe. While searching for the location of a ranch in Canada, a cattleman discovers gold. Typically good Randolph Scott feature with beautiful locations.

660  Carnival Boat  RKO Pathé, 1932. 62 min. D: Alfred S. Rogell. SC: James Seymour. With Bill (William) Boyd, Ginger Rogers, Hobart Bosworth, Fred Kohler, Marie Prevost, Edgar Kennedy, Harry Sweet, Charles Sellon, Eddy Chandler, Walter Percival, Jack Carlyle, Joe Smith Marba, Jim Mason, Sam Harris, Bob Perry, Larry McGrath, Hal Price, Charles Sullivan. The head of a logging camp is at odds with his son when the young man marries a carnival boat entertainer while a rival logger plots to take over his position. Engaging north woods drama enhanced by the teaming of William Boyd and Ginger Rogers, the latter being especially good as entertainer Honey.

661  Carolina Cannonball  Republic, 1955. 74 min. D: Charles Lamont. SC: Barry Shipman. With Judy Canova, Andy Clyde, Ross Elliott, Sig Rumann, Leon Askin, Jack Kruschen, Frank Wilcox, Roy Barcroft, Emil Sitka. A group of bumbling foreign agents capture an atomic controlled missile but end up causing it to land on a woman’s ranch. Later, but still typical, Judy Canova comedy corn-fare that will appeal to her fans.

662  Carolina Moon  Republic, 1940. 65 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Winston Miller. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Eddy Waller, Hardie Albright, Texas Jim Lewis and His Texas Cowboys, Frank Dale, Terry Nibert, Robert Fiske, Etta McDaniel, Paul White, Fred Ritter, Ralph Sanford, Jack Kirk. Rodeo performers Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse try to help a man and his daughter who are being cheated out of their prize horse by crooks but the girl believes Gene is in league with the hoodlums. Fairly vapid Gene Autry vehicle.

663  Carry on Cowboy  Anglo-Amalgamated/Filmways, 1966. 95 min. Color. D: Gerald Thomas. SC: Talbot Rothwell. With Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Percy Herbert, Angela Douglas, Davy Kaye, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth, Sydney Bromley, Sally Douglas, Jon Pertwee, Edina Romay, Peter Gilmore, Garry Colleano. The evil Rumpo Kid kills the sheriff and takes over the town of Stodge City before being faced by a marshal from the British Sanitary Engineers. Typically loony segment in the British “Carry On...” series. Also called The Rumpo Kid.

664  Carson City  Warner Bros., 1953. 87 min. Color. D: Andre De Toth. SC: Sloan Nibley and Winston Miller. With Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb, James Millican, Larry Keating, George Cleveland, William Haade, Thurston Hall, Vince Barnett, Don Beddoe, Jack Woody, James Smith, Guy Tongue, Billy Vincent, Ida Moore, Sarah Edwards, Edgar Dearing, Russ Clark, Iris Adrian, Nick Thompson, Frank McCarroll, Post Park, Jack Daly, Mickey Simpson, Edmund Cobb, John Halloran, Mikel Conrad, Zon Murray, House Peters, Jr., Rory Mallinson, Ray Bennett, Karen Hale, Stanley Blystone, Stanley Andrews, Richard Reeves, George Eldredge, Charles Evans, Kenneth MacDonald, George Sherwood, Pierce Lyden, Lee O’Pace. A railroad boss is at odds with a miner and a young girl who do not want him to complete his construction job. Rugged Randolph Scott oater; well worth seeing.

665  Carson City Cyclone  Republic 1943. 55 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Don “Red” Barry, Lynn Merrick, Noah Beery, Emmett Lynn, Bryant Washburn, Stuart Hamblen, Roy Barcroft, Bud Osborne, Jack Kirk, Bud Geary, Curley Dresden, Reed Howes, Tom London, Frank Ellis, Horace B. Carpenter, Ed Cassidy, Tom Steele, Jack O’Shea, Frank McCarroll, Roy Brent. During a court trial a novice lawyer is accused of bribing a witness and he tries to find the real culprit. More than passable Don Barry entry with good villainy by Noah Beery.

666  Carson City Kid  Republic, 1940. 57 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Robert Yost and Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Berry, Jr., Pauline Moore, Francis McDonald, Hal Taliaferro, Arthur Loft, Chester Gan, Paul Hurst, George Rosener, Hank Bell, Ted Mapes, Jack Ingram, Jack Kirk, Jack Rockwell, Art Dillard, Hal Price, Yakima Canutt, Kit Guard, Curley Dresden, Oscar Gahan. In 1849 Sonora gambling house owner Jessop is sought by a bandit, The Carson City Kid, who believes he is responsible for the murder of his younger brother. Top notch Roy Rogers film dominated by Bob Steele, given special billing as the villain; it also includes the song “Sonora Moon.”

667  Carson City Raiders  Republic, 1948. 60 min. D: Yakima Canutt. SC: Earle Snell. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Beverly Jons, Frank Reicher, Hal Landon, Steve Darrell, Harold Goodwin, Dale Van Sickel, Edmund Cobb, Holly Bane, Robert Wilke, Herman Hack. A U.S. marshal tries to capture a murderer but the victim’s son wants to avenge the killing himself. Another fine entry in the Allan Lane “Famous Westerns” series, with lots story movement from director Yakima Canutt.

668  Caryl of the Mountains  Reliable, 1936. 60 min. D: Bernard B. Ray. SC: Tom Gibson. With Rin Tin Tin, Jr., Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Lois Wild(e), Joseph Swickard, Earl Dwire, Robert Walker, George Chesebro, Steve Clark, Jack Hendricks. A Mountie and his faithful German shepherd dog are on the trail of an outlaw. Low budget quickie for fans of the Royal Mounted; supposedly based on a James Oliver Curwood work.

669  La Casa Colorada (The Colorada House)  Ventura, 1947. 110 min. D: Miguel Morayta. With Pedro Armendariz, Dolores Camarillo, Lidia Franco, Jorge Arriaga, Roberto Cobo, Gilberto Gonzalez, Rita Macedo, Jose Eduardo Perez, Joaquin Roche, Amanda del Llano, Ramon G. Larrea, Jose Romero, Armando Silvestre. A revolutionary fighting government forces because his parents were killed by them finds his life stabilized by a woman. Interesting Mexican Western melodrama.

670  Cassidy of Bar 20  Paramount, 1938. 59 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Frank Darien, Nora Lane, Robert Fiske, John Elliott, Margaret Marquis, Carleton Young, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Gordon Hart, Ed Cassidy, John Beach, Wen Wright, Jim Toney, Charles Murphy. The Bar 20 boys go to the aid of Hoppy’s ex-sweetheart and come up against a crooked landowner. Pretty fair outing in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series.

671  Cast a Long Shadow  United Artists, 1959. 82 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Martin G. Goldsmith. With Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, John Dehner, James Best, Denver Pyle, Ann Doran, Robert Foulk, Rita Flynn, Wright King, Stacy Harris, Terry Frost, Rusty Wescoatt, Kermit Maynard, Ray Jones, Dale Van Sickel. Troubled by being illegitimate, a young man turns to the bottle but given the responsibility of running a ranch he begins to make something of his life. None-too-interesting Audie Murphy vehicle.

672  The Castaway Cowboy  Buena Vista, 1974. 91 min. Color. D: Bernard McEveety. SC: Don Tait. With James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Shug Fisher, Elizabeth Smith, Gregory Sierra, Manu Tupou. A cowboy shipwrecked in Hawaii meets a young widow and her son whose land is sought by a crook and he proceeds to turn it into a cattle ranch. Pleasant Walt Disney affair with the Old West transferred to Hawaii.

673  The Cat  Embassy, 1966. 87 min. Color. D: Ellis Kadison. SC: William Redlin and Laird Koenig. With Roger Perry, Peggy Ann Garner, Barry Coe, Dwayne Redlin, George “Shug” Fisher, Ted Darby, John Todd Roberts, Richard Webb, Les Bradley. A young boy looking for a wildcat witnesses a rustler murder a rancher. Appealing family film.

674  Cat Ballou  Columbia, 1965. 96 min. Color. D: Elliott Silverstein. SC: Walter Newman. With Lee Marvin, Jane Fonda, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat “King” Cole, Stubby Kaye, Tom Nardini, John Marley, Reginald Denny, Jay C. Flippen, Arthur Hunnicutt, Bruce Cabot, Burt Mustin, Paul Gilbert, Harvey Clark, Oscar Blank, Ted White, Carol Veazie, Erik Sorenson. A timid schoolmarm comes West and soon becomes a wanted outlaw who teams with a drunken gunman to take on his notorious gunfighter brother. Overrated comedy does not hold up well although Lee Marvin’s Oscar winning performance is worth watching.

Cathouse Girls see Blazing Stewardesses

675  Catlow  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971. 101 min. Color. D: Sam Wanamaker. SC: Scott Finch and J.J. Griffith. With Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Daliah Lavi, Leonard Nimoy, Jo Ann Pflug, Jeff Corey, David Ladd, Bessie Love, Michael Delano, Julian Mateos. While trying to steal two million dollars in gold from a pack train, an outlaw is forced to avoid his marshal friend and a bounty hunter, both of whom are after him. Average Western filmed in Spain.

676  Cattle Annie and Little Britches  Universal, 1981. 95 min. Color. D: Lamont Johnson. SC: David Eyre and Robert Ward. With Burt Lancaster, Rod Steiger, John Savage, Diane Lane, Amanda Plummer, Scott Glenn, Michael Conrad, Steven Ford, Roger Cudney, Jr., John Quade, Jerry Gatlin, Yvette Sweetman, Tom Delaney, Matthew Taylor, Redmond Gleesoni, Buck Taylor, William Russ, Ken Call, Chad Hastings, Perry Lang, John Sterlini, Mike Moroff, John Hock, Russ Hoverson. Two feisty young girls track down the remnants of the once notorious Doolin-Dalton gang and urge them to return to lawlessness. Pleasant tongue-in-cheek affair filmed in Mexico.

677  Cattle Drive  Universal-International, 1951. 77 min. Color. D: Kurt Neumann. SC: Jack Natteford and Lillie Hayward. With Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames, Henry Brandon, Bob Steele, Howard Petrie, Griff Barnett, Chuck Roberson, Harry Carey, Jr., Carol Henry. The sheltered young son of a railroad tycoon learns life’s values as he goes with a veteran cowboy on a cattle drive across the desert. A different kind of Western and quite entertaining.

678  Cattle Empire  20th Century–Fox, 1958. 83 min. Color. D: Charles Marquis Warren. SC: Andre Boehm and Eric Norden. With Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Phyllis Coates, Don Haggerty, Bing Russell, Paul Brinegar, Hal K. Dawson, Richard Shannon, Charles Gray, Patrick O’Moore, Steve Raines, Nesdon Booth, Bill Hale, Howard Culver, Bill McGraw. When it becomes imperative they get their cattle to market, a group of citizens ask a trail boss, a man they once sent to jail, to lead their herd and he agrees but plans to double cross them. Entertaining Joel McCrea oater with several neat plot twists.

679  Cattle King  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1963. 88 min. Color. D: Tay Garnett. SC: Thomas Thompson. With Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield, Robert Loggia, Robert Middleton, Larry Gates, Malcolm Atterbury, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Ray Teal, Richard Devon, Robert Ivers, Maggie Pierce, John Mitchum. In 1883 Wyoming Territory a rich rancher wants to have fenced in ranges but other cattlemen oppose him and the situation becomes so tense President Chester A. Arthur is forced to intervene. Fairly interesting Western with a novel plot, but Larry Gates looks nothing like Chester A. Arthur.

680  Cattle Queen  United International, 1951. 72 min. D-SC: Robert Emmett Tansey. With Maria Hart, Drake Smith, William Fawcett, Robert Gardette, John Carpenter, Edward Clark, Emile Meyer, Jim (James) Pierce, Joe Bailey, Douglas Wood, Alvin Lockwood, I. Stanford Jolley, Lane Chandler, William Norton Bailey, Frank Marlowe, Roger Anderson, Vern Teters, Steve Conte, Robert H. Robinson, Whitey Hughes. A woman ranch owner battles for her rights as she assists a town in cleaning up lawlessness with the aid of paroled criminals. Sparse affair, starring whip carrying Maria Hart, from producer-co-star John Carpenter.

681  Cattle Queen of Montana  RKO Radio, 1954. 88 min. Color. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Robert Blees and Howard Estabrook. With Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam, Yvette Dugay, Morris Ankrum, Chubby Johnson, Myron Healey, Rodd Redwing, Paul Birch, Byron Foulger, Burt Mustin, Roy Gordon. An Army undercover agent helps a woman rancher whose father was murdered by a renegade white and his Indian accomplice. Filmed in SuperScope near the Glacier National park, this one has little interest for anyone outside fans of its two stars.

682  The Cattle Raiders  Columbia, 1938. 61 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Joseph Poland and Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Donald Grayson, Iris Meredith, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Lloyd Perryman, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Dick Curtis, Allen Brook, Ed LeSaint, Edmund Cobb, George Chesebro, Art Mix, Ed Coxen, Steve Clark, Alan Sears, Ed Peil, Sr., Jim Thorpe, Hank Bell, Blackie Whiteford, Jack Clifford, Frank Ellis, Curley Dresden, Merrill McCormick, Forrest Taylor, Horace B. Carpenter, George Morrell, Bob Burns, Wally West, Jim Mason, Clem Horton. A man is falsely accused of murder by a pal who is deeply in debt to a dishonest cattle dealer. Action filled Charles Starrett vehicle.

683  Cattle Stampede  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1943. 59 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Glenn Strange, Charles King, Ed Cassidy, Hansel Warner, Ray Bennett, Frank Ellis, Steve Clark, Roy Brent, Reed Howes, John Elliott, Budd Buster, Hank Bell, Tex Cooper, Ted Adams, Frank McCarroll, Ray Jones, George Morrell, Carl Mathews, Art Dillard, Curley Dresden, Roy Bucko, Hal Price, Rose Plummer, Wally West, Ed Peil, Sr. Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones assist a cattleman who is caught in the middle of a range war. Crude, but fans of the PRC series will like this one. Also called Billy the Kid in Cattle Stampede.

684  The Cattle Thief  Columbia, 1936. 57 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Ken Maynard, Geneva Mitchell, Ward Bond, Roger Williams, Jim Mason, Sheldon Lewis, Edward Cecil, Jack Kirk, Edward Hearn, Glenn Strange, Al Taylor, Dick Rush, Bud McClure, Jack King. A cattlemen’s association agent masquerades as a dimwit peddler to get the goods on an outlaw gang trying to cheat ranchers out of their land. Fine Ken Maynard vehicle with the star showing just how good he could be in a character role. Inside joke: the name of the owner of the Bottleneck Ranch is Carl Pierson, a well known film editor and sometime director.

685  Cattle Town  Warner Bros., 1952. 71 min. D: Noel Smith. SC: Tom Blackburn. With Dennis Morgan, Rita Moreno, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni, Amanda Blake, George O’Hanlon, Ray Teal, Jay Novello, Robert Wilke, Sheb Wooley, Charles Meredith, Merv Griffin, Boyd Morgan, Carol Henry. When trouble erupts between cattlemen and a land baron, a gunfighter is brought in to restore peace. Throwaway Dennis Morgan vehicle made on the cheap.

686  Caught  Paramount, 1931. 71 min. D: Edward Sloman. SC: Agnes Brand Leahy and Kenne Thompson. With Richard Arlen, Frances Dee, Louise Dresser, Syd Saylor, Edward J. LeSaint, Tom Kennedy, Martin Burton, Marcia Manners, Guy Oliver, Charles K. French, Jim Mason, Jack Clifford. An Army lieutenant is on the trail of saloon owner Calamity Jane who is wanted for a series of crimes. Dresser gives an interesting true-to-life unglamorous portrayal of Calamity Jane in this appealing drama.

687  Cavalcade of the West  Diversion, 1936. 59 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Norman Houston. With Hoot Gibson, Rex Lease, Marion Shilling, Adam Goodwin, Nina Guilbert, Steve Clark, Earl Dwire, Phil Dunham, Bob McKenzie, Jerry Tucker, Barry Downing, Budd Buster, Blackie Whiteford, Milburn Morante, Oscar Gahan, Francis Walker, Herman Hack, Jack Evans, Art Dillard, William McCall, Dick Morehead. On the trail of an outlaw, a Pony Express rider learns the man he seeks is his long lost brother. A sparse budget hurts this otherwise acceptable Hoot Gibson feature from producer Walter Futter.

688  Cavalier of the West  Artclass, 1931. 65 min. D-SC: J.P. McCarthy. With Harry Carey, Kane Richmond, Carmen LaRoux, Paul Panzer, Ted Adams, George Hayes, Lew Meehan, Ben Corbett, Maston Williams, Carlotta Monti, Elena Verdugo. With war between Indians and settlers imminent, an Army captain tries to restore peace. Harry Carey fans should like this low grade effort.

689  Cavalry  Republic, 1936. 63 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: George Plympton. With Bob Steele, Frances Grant, Karl Hackett, William Welch, Earl Ross, Hal Price, Ed Cassidy, Perry Murdock, Budd Buster, Earl Dwire, William Desmond, Horace B. Carpenter. After the Civil War subversives attempt to set up a separate state in the West and the Army sends a cavalry officer to stop them. Good Bob Steele effort, well paced with a literate script.

Cavalry Charge see The Last Outpost

690  Cavalry Command  Parade, 1963. 88 min. Color. D-SC: Eddie Romero. With John Agar, Richard Arlen, Myron Healey, Alica Verge, Pancho Magalona, William Phipps, Eddie Infante. During the American occupation of the Philippines in 1902, cavalry troops who befriend the people are opposed by a guerilla leader. So-So Philippine made oater, interesting because of its trio of stars.

Pancho Magalona, Richard Arlen, William Phipps and John Agar in Cavalry Command (Parade, 1963).

691  Cavalry Scout  Monogram, 1951. 78 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Dan Ullman and Thomas Blackburn. With Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim Davis, James Millican, James Arness, John Doucette, William Phillips, Stephen Chase, Rory Mallinson, Paul Bryar, Bud Osborne, Chief Yowlachie. When two Gatling guns and other weapons are stolen from an Army arsenal, a civilian scout is assigned to find them. Fast moving oater that will more than pass muster for Rod Cameron fans.

692  Cave of the Outlaws  Universal-International, 1951. 75 min. Color. D: William Castle. SC: Elizabeth Wilson. With Macdonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Hugh O’Brian, Houseley Stevenson, Charles Horvath, Kenneth MacDonald, Russ Tamblyn, John Carpenter, Jack Ingram. An ex-convict searches for gold hidden after a Wells Fargo holdup and on his trail and looking for the loot are an investigator and a crooked miner. Considering the cast and story, this film should have been a lot better.

The Century Turns see Hec Ramsey

The Challenge see Across the Badlands

693  The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin  Burt Leonard Productions, 1957. 90 min. D: Robert G. Walker. SC: Lee Berg, Jennings Cobb and John O’Dea. With Rin Tin Tin V (dog), James Brown, Lee Aaker, Joseph Sawyer, Rand Brooks, Pierre Watkin. An orphan boy and his dog, both adopted as honorary troopers by the cavalry soldiers of Fort Apache, aid the military and locals against lawlessness. Enjoyable telefeature culled from episodes of “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin” (ABC-TV, 1954–59); released on video as The Courage of Rin Tin Tin.

694  Challenge of the MacKennas  Picturemedia, 1969. 101 min. Color. D: Leon Klimovsky. SC: Jose L. Navarro. With John Ireland, Robert Woods, Annabella Incontrera, Roberto Camardiel, Daniela Giordano, Vidal Molina, Ken Wood (Giovanni Cianfriglia). A rancher rules the land with an iron hand but begins to be opposed by a gunman and his own family. Typically violent Spaghetti Western made in Italy by Filmar/Atlantida Films. Also called Badlands Drifter.

695  Challenge of the Range  Columbia, 1949. 56 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Paula Raymond, William (Billy) Halop, Steve Darrell, Henry Hall, Robert Filmer, George Chesebro, John McKee, Frank McCarroll, John Cason, Kermit Maynard, Edmund Cobb, Ray Bennett, Cactus Mack, The Sunshine Boys (Eddie Wallace, J.D. Sumner, M.H. Richman, Freddie Daniel), Jock Mahoney, Leroy Johnson, Emile Avery, Matty Roubert, Pat O’Malley, Milton Kibbee, Marshall Reed, Frank O’Connor, Rose Plummer. The Durango Kid gets involved when ranchers accuse each other of acts of lawlessness, resulting in a range war. Good entry in “The Durango Kid” series that utilizes footage from a previous entry, Galloping Thunder (q.v.). British title: Moonlight Raid.

696  Challenge to Be Free  Pacific International, 1976. 88 min. Color. D: Tay Garnett and Ford Beebe. SC: Chuck Keen, Anne Bosworth and Tay Garnett. With Mike Mazurki, Jimmy Kane, Fritz Ford, Vic Christy, Tay Garnett, John McIntire (narrator). A trapper who loves animals is hunted by the law through the Yukon after he accidentally shoots a trooper. Filmed in the Yukon in 1972 as The Mad Trapper, this somewhat crude production makes for good entertainment, especially for the scenery and Mike Mazurki in the title role. The story was also used for Death Hunt (q.v.).

Challenge to Survive see Land of No Return

697  Challenge to White Fang  Premiere Releasing, 1974. 98 min. Color. D: Lucio Fulci. SC: Alberto Silvestri, Roberto Gianviti and Lucio Fulci. With Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, John Steiner, Harry Carey, Jr., Raimund Harmstorf, Yanti Somer, Werner Pochath, Hannelore Elsner, Renato De Carmine, Renato Cestie, Donald O’Brien, Rolf Hartmann, John Bartha, Paolo Magalotti, Sergio Smacchi, Ezio Marano, Stanislaus Gunawan, Vittorio Fanfoni, Carla Mancini, Goffredo Unger, Pietro Torrisi, Riccardo Petrazzi, Missaele. In northern Canada a young boy befriends a wolf dog and they help a writer and his friend stop a ruthless despot from taking over a small town. So-so, overly violent Italian feature with sub-par production values; made as Il Ritorno di Zanna Bianca (The Return of White Fang) and a sequel to White Fang (1972) [q.v.].

698  Champions of Justice  Wrather Corporation, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy and Oscar Randolph. SC: Thomas Seller, Doane Hoag, Robert E. Schaefer, Eric Friewald and Robert Leslie Bellem. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Allen Pinson, Wayne Burson, Myron Healey, Dennis Moore, David Sharpe, Harry Strang, Don C. Harvey, Steve Raines, George Barrows, Robert Homans, Sydney Mason, Watson Downs, Dan Barton, Walt LaRue, Brad Jackson, Florence Lake, Carlos Vera, Linda Wrather, Tom Noel, Byron Foulger, Kathryn Riehl, Nolan Leary, William Fawcett, Zon Murray. The Lone Ranger and Tonto are almost hung for a murder committed by an outlaw gang; they try to keep a boy from going to the wrong side of the law; and they unravel the mystery of a man’s murder. Well done telefilm from “The Lone Ranger” (ABC-TV, 1949–57) episodes “The Angel and the Outlaw,” “Blind Witness” and “Clover in the Dust.”

699  La Chamuscada (The Scorched)  Producionnes Matonk, 1971. 90 min. Color. D: Alberto Mariscal. SC: Luis Alcoriza and Juan de la Cabada. With Luis Aguilar, Rodolfo de Anda, Emilio Fernandez, Irma Serrano, Adriana Roel, Enrique Rocha, Jose Alfredo Jiminez, Guillermo A. Bianchi, Robert Guinart, Consuelo Frank, Victor Alcocer, Carlos Leon, Tito Novaro, Eva Calvo, Diana Ochoa, Colo Cora, Ricardo Fuentes, Raymon Rey, Rodolfo Rey. During the Mexican Revolution a peon joins the rebels in opposing government forces. Entertaining Mexican historical drama.

Charge! see Those Dirty Dogs

700  The Charge at Feather River  Warner Bros., 1953. 96 min. Color. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: James R. Webb. With Guy Madison, Frank Lovejoy, Vera Miles, Helen Wescott, Dick Wesson, Onslow Stevens, Steve Brodie, Ron Hagerthy, Fay Roope, Neville Brand, Henry Kulky, Lane Chandler, Fred Carson, James Brown, Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Ben Corbett, Ralph Brooke, Carl Andre, Fred Kennedy, Dub Taylor, John Pickard, Vivian Mason, Dennis Dengate. Two women are kidnapped by Indians and the cavalry rescues them only to start an uprising. Nothing special in this oater, originally issued in 3-D.

701  Charley-One-Eye  Paramount, 1973. 96 min. Color. D: Don Chaffey. SC: Keith Leonard. With Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Jill Peason, Aldo Sambrell, Rafael Albaicin, Alex Davion, Johnny Sekka, Madeline Hinde, Patrick Mower, Imogene Hassall, Edward Woodward, William Mervyn, David Lodge, Luis Aller. A black army deserter and a wounded Indian join forces to survive in the desert only to find themselves trailed by a bounty hunter. More drama than action in this British production.

702  Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging  NBC-TV/Universal, 1977. 100 min. Color. D: Richard Michaels. SC: Peter S. Fischer. With Clu Gulager, Ralph Bellamy, Blair Brown, Christopher Connelly, Pernell Roberts, Stella Stevens, Carmen Matthews, George Furth, Tricia O’Neil. A private detective is hired by a rancher to return a girl he believes is his long lost daughter, while the man’s wife and cohorts work to stop the sleuth. Mediocre TV Western, a pilot for a series that did not sell.

703  Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar  Buena Vista, 1970. 75 min. Color. D: Winston Hibler. SC: Jack Speirs. With Rex Allen (narrator), Ron Brown, Brian Russell, Linda Wallace, Jim Wilson, Clifford Peterson, Lewis Sample, Edward C. Moller. Members of a north woods logging camp befriend a small cougar. Very pleasant Disney family film.

704  Charro!  National General, 1969. 98 min. Color. D-SC: Charles Marquis Warren. With Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle, Solomon Sturges, Lynn Kellogg, Paul Brinegar, James Sikking, Harry Landers, Tony Young, James Almanazar, Charles H. Gray, Rodd Redwing, Gary Walbert, Duane Grey, John Pickard, J. Edward McKinley, Robert Luster, Chrisa Lang, Robert Karnes. In a border town, a former outlaw must face members of his gang while romancing a pretty saloon owner. Elvis Presley tries his best (he sings only the title song) but is defeated by a mediocre production.

705  El Charro de las Calaveras (The Rider of the Skulls)  Columbia, 1965. D-SC: Alfredo Salazar. With Dagoberto Rodriguez, David Silva, Alicia Caro, Pascual Garcia Pena, Laura Martinez, Rosario Montes, Carlos del Muro, Jose Luis Cabrera, Gabriel Agrasanchez, Alfonso Ortiz, Alfredo Salazar. A masked cowboy avenger finds himself up against a headless swordsman, a vampire and a werewolf, plus a witch and a talking corpse. Fun Mexican three part horror Western hampered by tacky looking monsters.

706  El Charro Negro (The Black Cowboy)  Cinexport Distributing, 1940. 70 min. D-SC: Raul de Anda. With Pedro Armendariz, Carolina Barrett, Emilio Fernandez, Raul de Anda, Alfonso Bedoya, Miguel Inclan, Roberto Canedo, Manuel Noriega, Max Largla, Agustin Isunza, Consuelo Segane, Luis G. Barreiro, Miguel Angel Ferriz. An outlaw who robs the men to whom he sold land is pursed by a cowboy, with both outfitted in black. Nicely done Mexican Western with fine heroics by Pedro Armendariz and villainy by Emilio Fernandez.

707  El Charro Negro Contra la Banda de los Cuervos (The Black Cowboy Against the Band of the Ravens)  Radeant Films, 1962. 87 min. D: Arturo Martinez. SC: Fernando Faliana, Carlos E. Taboada and Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Fernando Soto “Mantequilla,” Laila Buentello, Alejandro Parodi, Lucha Villa, Miguel Manzano, Pascual Garcia Pena, Miguel Arenas, David Reynoso, Mario Chavez, Roberto Moreno, Armando Arreola, Jose Hernandez, Emilio Garibay, Agustin Fernandez. A masked rider and his two pals attempt to rid a village of an outlaw and his gang. Typical Mexican Western adventure in the “Charro Negro” series.

708  El Charro Negro en el Norte (The Black Cowboy in the North)  Peliculas Mexicanas, S.A., 1949. 73 min. D: Raul de Anda. SC: Gabriel Ramirez Osante. With Raul de Anda, Carmen Gonzalez, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Raul de Anda, Jr., El Chicote (Armando Soto La Marina), Jorge Arriaga, Agustin Isunza, Jose L. Murillo, Emilio Garibay, Jose Munoz, Gregorio Acosta. After their father is killed by gunmen, a young woman and her little brother try to keep the title to a gold mine and are helped by a cowboy dressed in black. Action filled outing in Mexican producer-writer-star Raul de Anda’s “Charro Negro” films.

709  Chato’s Land  United Artists, 1972. 92 min. Color. D: Michael Winner. SC: Gerald Wilson. With Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, Ralph Waite, Richard Jordan, Victor French, William Watson, Roddy McMillan, Paul Young, Lee Patterson, Rudy Ugland, Raul Castro, Sonia Rangan, Clive Endersby, Peter Dyneley, Hugh McDermott, Verna Harvey, Sally Adez, Rebecca Wilson, Florencio Amarilla, Clestino Gonzalez, Roland Grant, Louis Amarilla. When an Indian is forced to kill a lawman, a posse murders his family and follows him into the desert only to become the hunted. Well-made Western reworking of The Lost Patrol (RKO Radio, 1935); filmed in Spain and originally running 100 minutes.

710  Chatterbox  Republic, 1943. 77 min. D: Joseph Santley. SC: George Carleton Brown and Frank Gill, Jr. With Joe E. Brown, Judy Canova, Rosemary Lane, John Hubbard, Gus Schilling, Chester Clute, Anne Jeffreys, Emmett Vogan, George Byron, Billy Bletcher, The Mills Brothers, Spade Cooley, Roy Barcroft, Marie Windsor, Earle Hodgins, Pierce Lyden, Tex Williams, Robert “Buzz” Henry, Matty Kemp, Frank Melton, Ben Taggart, Charles Williams, Tom Quinn, Nora Lane, Herbert Heyes, Sam Flint, Gary Bruce, Judy Clark, Dorothy Andre, Maxine Doyle, Mary Kenyon, Jane Weeks, Edward Earle, Mary Armstrong, Gordon DeMain, Ray Parsons, Ruth Robinson, Art Whitney, Joe Phillips, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Starling, Bill Yrigoyen, Joe Yrigoyen. A fading Hollywood cowboy star gets involved with a yokel girl while on location and she not only saves his reputation but becomes his co-star and fiancee. Fun genre spoof nicely pairing Joe E. Brown and Judy Canova.

The Cheat see The Lone Hand Texan

Cheatin’ Hearts see Paper Hearts

The Cheat’s Last Throw see Heading West

711  Check Your Guns  Eagle Lion, 1948. 55 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Nancy Gates, George Chesebro, Andy Parker and The Plainsmen, I. Stanford Jolley, Mikel Conrad, Lane Bradford, Terry Frost, Mason Wynn, Dee Cooper, William Fawcett, Ted Adams, Marshall Reed, Steve Clark, Frank Ellis, Budd Buster, Wally West. After wandering into a remote town, a cowboy is made its sheriff and tries to stop an outlaw gang. Passable Eddie Dean musical vehicle.

Checkmate see The Desert Horseman

712  Cherokee Flash  Republic, 1945. 58 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Sunset Carson, Linda Stirling, Roy Barcroft, Bud Geary, George Chesebro, Fred Graham, Tom London, John Merton, Frank Jaquet, Joe McGuinn, Pierce Lyden, James Lynn, Edmund Cobb, Bud Osborne, Bill Woolf, Hank Bell, Chick Hannon, Tommy Coats, Cactus Mack, George Sowards, Duke Green. A once famous outlaw is falsely blamed for a robbery committed by his old gang and his stepson tries to clear his name. Sturdy Sunset Carson fare with Roy Barcroft as a good guy for a change.

713  The Cherokee Kid  Home Box Office (HBO), 1996. 91 min. Color. D: Paris Barclay. SC: Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue. With Sinbad, James Coburn, Gregory Hines, A Martinez, Ernie Hudson, Mark Pellegrino, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Hal Williams, Burt Reynolds, Obba Babatunde, Reginald T. Dorsey, Dawnn Lewis, Lorraine Toussaint, Paris Barclay, W. Earl Brown, Herb Jeffries, Michael Kagan, Carlos Cervantes, Roy Fegan, Troy Garity, Walton Goggins, Kareem R. Woods, Hattie Winston, James Lashly, Jim Lewis, Jr., Ivory Ocean, Jack Rubens, Spice Williams, Stuart Proud Eagle Grant, Martin Grey, DeJuan Guy, Alaina Reed-Hall, Edward B. Hicks, Charles Hyman, Jim Cody Williams, Tim Kazurinsky, Robert L. Minor, Angela Means, June Kyoto Lu, Tim Sampson, Nancy Legehan, Arnetia Walker, Roxanne Reese. A black man plans to get revenge on the crook who murdered his family and he learns the ways of survival from various characters before a final showdown with a hired gun who may have killed his brother. Vapid TV Western feature wasting a good cast.

714  Cherokee Strip  Warner Bros., 1937. 55 min. D: Noel Smith. SC: Joseph K. Watson and Luci Ward. With Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, David Carlyle (Robert Paige), Helen Valkis, Edmund Cobb, Gordon Hart, Joseph Crehan, Frank Faylen, Milton Kibbee, Jack Mower, Tom Brower, Walter Soderling, Tommy Bupp, Glenn Strange, Bud Osborne, Ben Corbett, Artie Ortego, Jack Kirk. Settlers out for free homesteads in the Oklahoma Territory take part in land rush as a cowboy has his horse lamed by a man who wants the parcel he plans to claim. Better than average Dick Foran vehicle, thanks to the plot and the song “My Little Buckaroo.”

715  Cherokee Strip  Paramount, 1940. 86 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston and Bernard McConville. With Richard Dix, Florence Rice, Victor Jory, Andy Clyde, William Henry, Tom Tyler, George E. Stone, Morris Ankrum, Charles Trowbridge, Douglas Fowley, Addison Richards, Hal Taliaferro, William Haade, Ray Teal, Jack Rockwell, Tex Cooper, Robert Winkler. A newly appointed lawman tries to bring order to the town of Goliath in the Cherokee Strip. Entertaining Richard Dix feature, well produced and action filled.

716  Cherokee Uprising  Monogram, 1950. 60 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Dan Ullman. With Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Lois Hall, Iron Eyes Cody, Sam Flint, Forrest Taylor, Marshall Reed, Chief Yowlachie, Lee Roberts, Stanley Price, Lyle Talbot, Edith Mills. A government agent tries to find out what is behind a threatened Indian revolt. Standard, but more than passable, Whip Wilson entry.

717  Chetan, Indian Boy  Autoren, 1972. 94 min. Color. D-SC: Mark Bohm. With Marquard Bohm, Deschingis Bowakow, Willi Schultes, Horst Schram. In the northwest wilderness a shepherd frees an Indian lad held captive by a farmer who comes searching for him. Nicely done West German production issued in that country as Tschetan der Indianer Junge (Chetan the Indian Boy).

718  Cheyenne  Warner Bros., 1947. 100 min. D: Raoul Walsh. SC: Alan LeMay and Thomas Williamson. With Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, Arthur Kennedy, John Ridgely, Barton MacLane, Tom Tyler, Bob Steele, John Compton, John Alvin, Monte Blue, Ann O’Neal, Tom Fadden, Britt Wood, Lee “Lasses” White, Snub Pollard, Ethan Laidlaw, Robert Filmer, Ray Teal, Kenneth MacDonald, Ben Corbett, Philo McCullough, Houseley Stevenson, Clancy Cooper, Artie Ortego, Jack Norman, Bob Alderette, Carl Harbaugh, Jasper Palmer, Jameson Slade, Hubert Brill. While trying to capture an outlaw, a gambler falls in love with the man’s wife. A good cast and steady direction greatly aid this “A” effort. TV title: The Wyoming Kid.

719  Cheyenne  1996. Bruder Releasing. 90 min. Color. D: Dimitri Logothetis. SC: Frederick Bailey. With Bobbie Phillips, Gary Hudson, Bo Svenson, M.C. Hammer, Bobby Bell, Tobin Bell, Ritchie Montgomery, Cole McKay, Dimitri Logothetis, Jay Nethercott, Dennis Burkley, John Diab, Shaun Monson, Dave Marshall, Juan Fernandez, Jared Chandler, Joe Hutchins, George Purcells, Charlie Hutchins, Verle Green, Aaron Heck. After shooting her brutal, two-timing spouse and taking his money, a feisty young woman is trailed by a bounty hunter hired by the husband and another reward claimer with his evil Indian dwarf associate. R-rated Western filmed in Utah makes for fair viewing.

720  Cheyenne Autumn  Warner Bros., 1964. 145 min. Color. D: John Ford. SC: James R. Webb. With Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Karl Malden, Edward G. Robinson, Sal Mineo, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Kennedy, Elizabeth Allen, John Carradine, Patrick Wayne, Victor Jory, Mike Mazurki, George O’Brien, Sean McClory, Judson Pratt, Carmen D’Antonio, Ken Curtis, Walter Baldwin, Shug Fisher, Nancy Hsueh, Chuck Roberson, Harry Carey, Jr., Ben Johnson, Jimmy O’Hara, Chuck Hayward, Lee Bradley, Walter Reed, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Denver Pyle, John Qualen, Dan Borgaze, Dean Smith, Bing Russell. Nearly 300 Cheyenne Indians try to return to their homes in the Dakotas from an Oklahoma reservation but are pursed by the cavalry. Although not a totally successful film, John Ford’s final Western is more hit than miss; it is nice to see George O’Brien again and Mike Mazurki excels in a part Victor McLaglen would have done two decades before.

721  Cheyenne Cyclone  Willis Kent, 1932. 57 min. D: Armand L. Schaefer. SC: Oliver Drake. With Lane Chandler, Connie LaMont, Frankie Darro, Edward Hearn, J. Frank Glendon, Josephine Hill, Henry Roquemore, Yakima Canutt, Marie Quillan, Jay Hunt, Charles “Slim” Whitaker, Jack Kirk, Helen Gibson, Hank Bell, Bart Carre. Stranded in a small town with an acting troupe, a cowboy goes to work for a rancher who is about to lose his cattle to a crook. Rawboned Saturday matinee fodder, although Lane Chandler is a likable Western hero.

722  The Cheyenne Kid  West Coast Pictures, 1930. 55 min. D: Jacques Jaccard. SC: Jacques Jaccard and Yakima Canutt. With Buffalo Bill, Jr., Joan Jaccard, Yakima Canutt, Jack Mower, Frank Ellis, Fred Burns, Violet McKay, Tom Forman, Lafe McKee, Cliff Lyons. Falsely accused of a payroll car holdup, a cowboy accidentally shoots a young woman and ends up in jail but a U.S. marshal believes he is innocent. Slow moving, complicated poverty row item co-authored by Yakima Canutt.

723  The Cheyenne Kid  RKO Radio, 1933. 54 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Kenne Thompson. With Tom Keene, Mary Mason, Roscoe Ates, Alan Bridge, Otto Hoffman, Alan Roscoe, Anderson Lawlor, Ken Cooper, Gordon James, Bill Hurley, Buff Jones. An easy going cowboy is blamed for a murder and to prove his innocence tries to find the real killer. Likable Tom Keene feature.

724  The Cheyenne Kid  Monogram, 1940. 50 min. D: Raymond K. Johnson. SC: Tom Gibson. With Jack Randall, Louise Stanley, Kenneth (Kenne) Duncan, Frank Yaconelli, Reed Howes, Charles King, George Chesebro, Forrest Taylor, Tex Palmer. A notorious outlaw wants to reform and goes to work for a cattleman but crooks try to frame him on murder and rustling charges. Fairly entertaining Jack Randall vehicle.

725  Cheyenne Rides Again  Victory, 1937. 56 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Basil Dickey. With Tom Tyler, Lucille Brown, Jimmie Fox, Lon Chaney, Jr., Roger Williams, Ed Cassidy, Theodore Lorch, Bud Pope, Francis Walker, Carmen LaRoux, Jed Martin, Slim Whitaker, Bob Hill, Merrill McCormick, Oscar Gahan, Jack C. Smith, Wilbur McCauley. A detective for the cattlemen’s association tries to pass himself off as an outlaw in order to infiltrate a gang. Action filled entry in Tom Tyler’s Victor series, heavy on outdoor scenes.

726  Cheyenne Roundup  Universal, 1942. 59 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Elmer Clifton and Bernard McConville. With Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft, Robert Barron, Gil Patrick, The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Jimmy Wakely, Johnny Bond, Scotty Harrell), William Desmond, Kenne Duncan, Kermit Maynard, Budd Buster, Carl Mathews. An outlaw attempts to murder a lawman who is after him but is himself killed as his twin brother pretends to be him in order to help clean up the territory. Satisfactory remake of Bad Man from Red Butte (q.v.) with a good song, “On the Rainbow Trail.”

727  The Cheyenne Social Club  National General, 1970. 103 min. Color. D: Gene Kelly. SC: James Lee Barrett. With James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Anne Langdon, Elaine Devry, Robert Middleton, Arch Johnson, Dabbs Greer, Jackie Russell, Jackie Joseph, Sharon De Bord, Richard Collier, Charles Tyner, Jean Willes, Robert Wilke, Carl Reindel, J. Pat O’Malley, Jason Wingreen, John Dehner, Hal Baylor, Charlotte Stewart, Albert Morin, Myron Healey, Warren Kemmerling, Dick Johnstone, Red Morgan, Bill Davis, Richard Alexander. Two lowbrow cowboys find themselves the owners of a brothel and have to defend the honor of their “girls.” Fairly pleasant comedy; the final screen teaming of James Stewart and Henry Fonda.

728  Cheyenne Takes Over  Eagle Lion, 1947. 56 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Arthur E. Orloff. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Nancy Gates, George Chesebro, Lee Morgan, John Merton, Steve Clark, Bob Woodward, Marshall Reed, Budd Buster, Carl Mathews, Dee Cooper, Brad Slaven, Hank Bell. U.S. marshals Cheyenne Davis and Fuzzy Q. Jones help a young woman who witnessed the murder of a man over a ranch. A slow drama with mediocre production values, dominated by George Chesebro as the bad guy.

729  The Cheyenne Tornado  Willis Kent, 1935. 55 min. D: William A. O’Connor. SC: Oliver Drake. With Reb Russell, Victoria Vinton, Roger Williams, Edmund Cobb, Tina Menard, Perry Winton, Richard Botiller, Ed Porter, Lafe McKee, Bart Carre, Tracy Layne, Jack King, Hank Bell, Art Dillard, Bert Dillard, Jack Evans, Oscar Gahan, Clyde McClary, Bud Pope, Lew Morphy, Arthur Thalasso, Jack Jones, Bill Hickey. The Cheyenne Kid tries to help a female cattle rancher whose father was supposedly murdered by sheep owners but he comes to believe some one else is behind the trouble. Rock bottom Willis Kent production with Smiley Burnette singing the title song.

730  Cheyenne Warrior  Libra Pictures, 1994. 90 min. Color. D: Mark Griffiths. SC: Michael B. Druxman. With Kelly Preston, Bo Hopkins, Dan Haggerty, Clint Howard, Rick Dean, Charles Powell, Noah Colton, Louise Baker, Pato Hoffman, Nik Winterhawk, Patricia Van Ingen, Frankie Avina, Joseph Wolves Kill, Terrance Fredericks, Mark S. Brien, Mark Cota, Jules Desjarlais, Dan Clark, Jesse Flores, Ezra Gabey, Lewis Ninham. Just before the Civil War, a young woman pioneer and a Cheyenne brave survive an Indian attack and begin to feel a mutual attraction. Well made TV Western.

731  Cheyenne Wildcat  Republic, 1944. 56 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Randall Faye. With Wild Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart, Francis McDonald, Roy Barcroft, Tom London, Tom Chatterton, Kenne Duncan, Bud Geary, Steve Clark, Jack Kirk, Bud Osborne, Robert Wilke, Rex Lease, Tom Steele, Forrest Taylor, Franklyn Farnum, Horace B. Carpenter, Frank Ellis, Bob Burns, Jack O’Shea, Frederick Howard, Dickie Dillon, Charles King, Lucille Ward, Rudy Bowman, Merlyn Nelson, Jack Tornek, Tom Smith, Willie Keefer, Wade Crosby, Charles Morton. Red Ryder and Little Beaver assist the citizens of Cheyenne whose bank is being sought by a crook from the East. Nicely done entry in the “Red Ryder” series.

732  Un Chico Valiente (A Valiant Boy)  Cinematografica Grovas, 1958. 90 min. D: Mauricio de la Serna. SC: Mauricio de la Serna and Josefina Vicens. With Joaquin Cordero, Irma Castillon, Celia Tejeda, Marina Camacho, Jose Dupeyron, Ramon Sanchez, Raul Guerrero, Jose Munoz, Salvador Terroba, Gabriel Gracida, Jose Rojo de la Vega, Carlos Leon, Jose Eduarod Perez, Emilio Garibay, Chela Najera, Jose Eduardo Perez. With his horse and dog, a boy runs away from home when his sister plans to marry their ranch foreman and joins a gang, unaware they are rustlers. Okay juvenile Mexican Western.

733  Chief Crazy Horse  Universal-International, 1955. 86 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: Gerald Drayson Adams and Franklin Coen. With Victor Mature, Suzan Ball, John Lund, Ray Danton, Keith Larsen, Paul Guifoyle, David Janssen, Robert Warwick, James Millican, Morris Ankrum, Donald Randolph, Robert F. Simon, Stuart Randall, Pat Hogan, Dennis Weaver, John Peters, Henry Wills, Charles Horvath, David Miller. Young brave Crazy Horse believes in the old prophecy that a warrior will destroy the whites and he proves it to be true by defeating General Custer. Predictable oater focusing on the famous Indian chief with Victor Mature stalwart in the title role. British title: Valley of Fury.

734  Child Bride of Short Creek  NBC-TV, 1981. 104 min. Color. D: Robert Michael Lewis. SC: Joyce Eliason. With Christopher Atkins, Diane Lane, Conrad Bain, Kiel Martin, Helen Hunt, Warren Vanders, Joan Shawlee, Babetta Dick, Melinda Almquist, Julianne Slocum, C. Duane Tuft, Trisha Lynn Tibbs, X.V. Kelly. A Korean War veteran attempts to stop his polygamist father from marrying an underage girl. Nicely done drama based on a true story and set in Arizona in the 1950s.

735  A Child of the Prairie  Aywon, 1924. 45 min. D-SC: Tom Mix. With Tom Mix, Louella Maxam, Baby Norma, Edward J. Brady, Leo Maloney, Fay Robinson, Frank Campeau. A gambler steals the wife and child of a rancher and the little girl grows up to be reunited with her father who wants revenge on the bad man. Fairly interesting silent made up of two Tom Mix Selig shorts.

The Children’s West see A Stranger in Town (1969)

736  China 9, Liberty 37  Lorimar/Titanus/Compagnia Europea Cinematographica, 1978. 102 min. Color. D: Monte Hellman. SC: Jerry Harvey and Douglas Verturelli. With Warren Oates, Fabio Testi, Jenny Agutter, Sam Peckinpaugh, Isabel Mestres, Gianrico Tondivelli, Franco Interlenghi, Carlos (Charley) Bravo, Helga Line, Paco Benlloch, Richard C. Adams, Sydney Lassick, Natalie Kim, Luis Prendes, Yvonne Sentis, Frank Clement, Matthieu Ettori, David Thompson, Ramano Puppo, Tony Brandt, Piero Fondi, Luciano Sapdoni, Daniel Panes, Jose Murillo, Raphael Albaicon, Luis Barboo. Saved from execution by corrupt railroad tycoons, a man is sent to murder a former gunman for his land and finds the intended victim’s young wife is willing to help him. Well acted but rather tiresome U.S.-Italian-Spanish co-production. Ronee Blakley sings the theme song; the film’s title is a trail sign.

Chinchero see The Last Movie

737  Chingachgook, the Great Snake  VEB Progress Film—Vertrieb, 1967. 92 min. Color. D: Richard Groschopp. SC: Wolfgang Ebeling and Richard Groschopp. With Gojko Mitic, Rolf Romer, Helmut Schreiber, Jurgen Frohriep, Lilo Grahn, Andrea Drahota, Johannes Knitell, A.P. Hoffman, Heinz Klevenow, Jr., Milian Jablonsky, Horst Preusker, Rudolf Ulrich, Karl Zugowski, Gunter Schaumburg, Hans-Peter Pieper. The story of the struggle between the British and the French for the New World in the area of Lake Ontario. Colorful, but stilted, East German screen adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer filmed as Chingachgook, die Grosse Schlange (Chingachgook, the Great Snake).

738  Chino  Intercontinental Releasing Corporation, 1976. 98 min. Color. D: John Sturges. SC: Dino Maiuri, Massimo De Rita and Clair Huffaker. With Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten, Marcel Buzzuffi, Melissa Chimenti, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Adolfo Thous, Florencia Amarilla, Corrado Gaida, Diana Lorys, Melissa Chimenti. In 1880 a half-breed horse raiser befriends a teenage boy who helps him on his ranch but their life is interrupted when the man falls in love with the sister of a powerful neighbor who vows to destroy him. Entertaining, colorful Charles Bronson vehicle, made in Spain and issued abroad in 1973 by CIC as The Valdez Horses.

739  Chip of the Flying U  Universal, 1939. D: Ralph Staub. SC: Larry Rhine and Andrew Bennison. With Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Doris Weston, Forrest Taylor, Anthony Warde, Karl Hackett, Henry Hall, Claire Whitney, Ferris Taylor, Kermit Maynard, Cecil Kellogg, The Texas Rangers, Hank Bell, Harry Tenbrook, Chester Conklin, Victor Potel, Hank Worden, Charles K. French, Budd Buster, Frank Ellis. Foreign agents rob a bank and shoot its president with the foreman of a nearby ranch being blamed for the crime. Entertaining, but unfaithful, adaptation of Bertha Muzzy Porter’s chestnut which was first filmed by Selig in 1914 as a Tom Mix vehicle. In 1920 Bud Osborne starred as Chip in The Galloping Dude and six years later Hoot Gibson had the title role when it was done again under its original title.

740  The Chisholms  CBS-TV, 1979. 270 min. Color. D: Mel Stuart. SC: Evan Hunter. With Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, Brian Kerwin, Jimmy Van Patten, Stacey Nelkin, Susan Swift, Charles Frank, Glynnis O’Connor, Sandra Griego, David Hayward, Anthony Zerbe, Brian Keith, Doug Kershaw, Tom Taylor, Gavin Troster, Dean Hill, David Allen, Don Shanks. The story of a pioneer family’s journey from Virginia to Wyoming and their eventual settlement in California. Originally telecast as a mini-series, this well done drama was issued theatrically in a shorter version in 1979 by New Line International Releasing.

741  Chisum  Warner Bros., 1970. 110 min. Color. D: Andrew V. McLaglen. SC: Andrew J. Fenaday. With John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Pamela McMyler, Geoffrey Deuel, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Bruce Cabot, Andrew Prine, Patric Knowles, Richard Jaeckel, Lynda Day (George), John Agar, Lloyd Battista, Robert Donner, Ray Teal, Edward Faulkner, Ron Soble, John Mitchum, Glenn Langan, Alan Baxter, Alberto Morin, William Bryant, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Christopher Mitchum, Abraham Sofaer, Gregg Palmer, Chuck Roberson, Hank Worden, Ralph Volkie, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, John Pickard. New Mexico cattle baron John Chisum opposes crooks who are trying to steal his lands, resulting in the famous Lincoln County Cattle Wars. Big, brawling John Wayne action filled production; quite entertaining and one his last really exciting vehicles.

The Chopper see Blood Shack

742  The Christmas Kid  Producers Releasing Organization, 1968. 87 min. Color. D: Sidney Pink. SC: Jim Henaghan and Rodrigo Rivero. With Jeffrey Hunter, Louis Hayward, Gustavo Rojo, Perla Cristal, Luis Prendes, Reginald Gilliam, Fernando Hilbeck, Jack Taylor, Eric Chapman, Carl Rapp. A loner rebelling against society takes a stand to stop a corrupt gambler from taking over a town. Cheaply made but engaging European Western.

Christmas Miracle at Sage Creek see Miracle at Sage Creek

743  Christmas Mountain  Gold Coast, 1980. 90 min. Color. D: Pierre De Moro. SC: Mark Miller. With Slim Pickens, Mark Miller, Barbara Stanger, Tina Minard, Fran Ryan, John Hart, Brian Poelman. Caught in the mountains in a blizzard, an aging cowboy learns the true meaning of Christmas when he finds shelter with a widow and her children. Obscure but rewarding holiday fare re-titled The Cowboy Angels for video.

Chuck Moll see The Unholy Four

744  Chuka  Paramount, 1967. 105 min. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: Richard Jessup. With Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, James Whitmore, Angela Dorian (Victoria Vetri), Louis Hayward, Michael Cole, Hugh Reilly, Barry O’Hara, Joseph Sirola, Marco Antonio, Gerald York, Lucky Carson. A gunman arrives at a fort to tell the Indian hating soldiers that unless the tribes are given food there will be warfare. Interesting concept that is not totally successful, resulting in a mediocre movie.

745  El Ciclon (The Cyclone)  Madera, 1957. 83 min. D: Gilberto Martinez Solares. SC: Felipe Mier Miranda and Jose Pichel. With Miguel Aceves Mejia, Flor Silvestre, Sonia Furio, Raul Ramirez, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Juan Garcia, Ceclia Vieros, Jose Luis Fernandez, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Emilio Garibay, Agustin Isunza. A lawman and his pal go to a rural town to get revenge for the death of the peacemaker’s brother. Fair Mexican Western drama with music; from a story by director Gilberto Martinez Solares.

746  Cielito Lindo (Beautiful Sky)  Peliculas Nacionales, 1957. 90 min. D: Miguel M. Delgado. SC: Eduardo Galindo and Ramon Perez. With Rosita Quintana, Luis Aguilar, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Pedro Galindo, Alfredo Varela, Jr., Miguel Manzano, Genaro de Alba, Luis Aragon, Amgraso Arzamena, Alfonso Torres, Roberto Meyer, Eldonia Hernandez, Jose Munoz, Emilio Garibay, Carlos Guameros. A revolutionary in love with the daughter of a Federalist family is captured and sentenced to die but his lady love tries to save him. Pleasant Mexican musical drama.

747  Cimarron  RKO, 1931. 131 min. D: Wesley Ruggles. SC: Howard Estabrook. With Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O’Neil, William Collier, Jr., Roscoe Ates, George E. Stone, Stanley Fields, Robert McWade, Edna May Oliver, Frank Darien, Eugene Jackson, Dolores Brown, Gloria Vonic, Otto Hoffman, William Orlamond, Frank Dillaway, Junior Johnson, Douglas Scott, Lillian Lane, Henry Roquemore, Nell Craig, Bob McKenzie, Robert Kortman, Bud Flanagan (Dennis O’Keefe), William Janney, Frank Beal, Nancy Dover, Clara Hunt. A young woman marries a drifter-gunfighter and they get in the Oklahoma land rush but go their separate ways, she becoming a newspaper editor and later a member of Congress, while dies as an oil worker. This dated adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel won three Oscars, including best film and script, and is still worth viewing.

748  Cimarron  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960. 140 min. Color. D: Anthony Mann. SC: Arnold Schulman. With Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O’Connell, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge, Vic Morrow, Robert Keith, Charles McGraw, Harry Morgan, David Opatoshu, Aline MacMahon, Lili Darvas, Edgar Buchanan, Mary Wickes, Royal Dano, L.Q. Jones, George Brelin, Vladimir Sokoloff, Helen Westcott, Ivan Triesault, Eddie Little Sky, Dawn Little Sky. A man with wanderlust marries a pretty girl and moves to the Oklahoma Territory where they split up, she to become a success while he drifts into obscurity. Indifferent remake of the Edna Ferber work, relying too much on color and modern film techniques and not enough on the book.

749  The Cimarron Kid  Universal-International, 1951. 84 min. Color. D: Ted Richmond. SC: Louis Stevens. With Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Dugay, John Hudson, Leif Erickson, Noah Berry, Jr., John Hubbard, Hugh O’Brian, Palmer Lee (Gregg Palmer), Rand Brooks, William Reynolds, Roy Roberts, David Wolfe, John Bromfield, Frank Silvera, Richard Garland, Eugene Baxter, Frank Ferguson, Tristram Coffin, Rory Mallinson, Jack Ingram, Harry Harvey, David Sharpe. A gunman, who leads a gang of bank robbers, falls in love with a woman who tries to get him to give up his life of crime. Average Audie Murphy vehicle, helped by Technicolor and a fine cast.

750  Cinco Asesinos Esperan (Five Waiting Killers). Alameda Films, 1964. 70 min. D: Chano Urueta. SC: Ramon Obon. With Carlos Cortes, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Noe Murayama, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Arturo Martinez, Sonia Infante, Alicia Caro, Jose Dupeyron, Humberto Dupeyron, Alfred Wally Barron, Luis Lomeli, Carlos Rotzinger. A sheriff finds his family is being threatened by an outlaw gang. More than passable Mexican Western.

751  Cipolla Colt  Worldwide Entertainment Group, 1976. 96 min. Color. D: Enzo Girolami (Enzo G. Castellari). SC: Sergio Donati and Luciano Vincenzoni. With Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden, Martin Balsam, Emma Cohen, Leo Anchoriz, Ramano Puppo, Neno Zamperla, Massimo Vanni, Helmut Brasch, Duilio Curciani, Fernando Castro, Wal Davis, Dan van Husen, Dick Butkus, Daniel Martin, George (Jorge) Rigaud, Charly (Carlos) Bravo, David Warbeck, Antonio Pica, Xan das Bolas, Juan Antonio Rubio, Enzo G. Castellari, Manuel Zarzo. An onion farmer wants to settle on land he has purchased but the orphans of the former owner will not leave and an oil baron covets the property. Sloppy Italian genre comedy with too much slapstick; also called Spaghetti Western. Reissued by Joseph Green Pictures in 1980.

752  Circle Canyon  Superior, 1934. 48 min. D: Victor Adamson (Denver Dixon). SC: B.R. (Burl) Tuttle. With Buddy Roosevelt, June Mathews, Clarise Woods, Bob Williamson (John Tyke), Allen Holbrook, Clyde McClary, Harry Leland, Bud Osborne, Mark Harrison, Ernest Scott, William McCall, Sherry Tansey, Barney Beasley, Tex Miller. A cowboy tries to protect his adopted daughter from outlaws who want her oil land. Bottom rung Buddy Roosevelt oater, also filmed the same year as ’Neath the Arizona Skies (q.v.).

753  Circle of Death  Willis Kent, 1935. 60 min. D: J. Frank Glendon. SC: Roy Claire (S. Roy Luby) and Willis Kent. With Montie Montana, Tove Linden, Henry Hall, Yakima Canutt, Ben Corbett, J. Frank Glendon, Jack Carson, John Ince, Princess Ah-Tee-Ha, Richard Botiller, Chief Standing Bear, Slim Whitaker, Hank Bell, Budd Buster, Bart Carre, George Morrell, Olin Francis, Marin Sais, Bob Burns. The son of an Indian chief, actually a white man rescued by braves years before following a massacre, helps a rancher who is being blackmailed by those who believe there is gold on his land. Near the bottom of the barrel but still worth a look to see the great Montie Montana in his only starring Western.

754  The Circus Cyclone  Universal, 1925. 55 min. D-SC: Albert S. Rogell. With Art Acord, Nancy Deaver, Albert J. Smith, Jim Corey, Cesare Gravina, Hilliard Karr, George F. Austin, Moe McCrea, Ben Corbett, Raven (horse), Rex (dog). A cowboy helps a pretty circus bareback rider lusted after by her boss who tries to frame her clown father for a bank robbery. Only part of this action filled Art Acord Universal Blue Steak Western is known to exist.

Cisco see El Cisco

755  The Cisco Kid  Fox, 1931. 60 min. D: Irving Cummings. SC: Alfred A. Cohn. With Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Conchita Montenegro, Nora Lane, Frederick Burt, Willard Robertson, James Bradbury, Jr., Jack (John Webb) Dillon, Charles Stevens, Chris-Pin Martin, Douglas Haig, Marilyn Knowlden, Rita Flynn, Consuelo Castillo de Bonzo. The Cisco Kid steals $5,000 to help a young woman pay off her ranch and that amount is placed on his head as reward money. Pleasing follow up to Warner Baxter’s Academy Award winning performance as the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (q.v.).

The Cisco Kid (1966) see El Cisco

756  The Cisco Kid  Turner Pictures, 1994. 91 min. Color. D: Luis Valdez. SC: Luis Valdez and Michael Kane. With Jimmy Smits, Cheech Marin, Sadie Frost, Bruce Payne, Ron Pearlman, Tony Amendola, Tim Thompson, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Phil Esparza, Clayton Landey, Charles McGaugh, Tony Pandolfo, Roger Cudney, Joaquin Garrido, Guillermo Rios, Miguel Sandoval, Tomas Goros, Rufino Echegoyen, Teresa Lagunes, Honorato Magaloni, Luis Valdez, Yareli Arizmendi, Marisol Valdez, Julius Jansland, Mario Ecati Zapata, Mario Alberto, Boris Peguero, Maya Zapaa, Gerardo Zepeda, Lorena Victoria, Valentina Ponzanneli, Pedro Altamirano, Geraldo Martinez, Rojo Grau, Guido Bolanos, Roberto Olivo, Roberto Antunez, Pablo Zuack, Lakin Valdez, Mario Valdez, Luisa Coronel, Amelia Zapata, Alexandra Vicencio, Moctesuma Esparza, Susan Benedict, Corinna Duran, Patricia Brown, Claire Lewin, Carolyn Caldera, Herendia Silva. The Cisco Kid joins forces with Pancho, who he meets in jail, to sell weapons purchased from two former Confederates to revolutionaries trying to overthrow Emperor Maximilian in 1867 Mexico. Revisionist look at the O. Henry character in a none too good TV movie.

757  The Cisco Kid and the Lady  20th Century–Fox, 1940. 74 min. D: Herbert I. Leeds. SC: Frances Hyland. With Cesar Romero, Marjorie Weaver, Chris-Pin Martin, George Montgomery, Virginia Field, Robert Barrat, Harry Green, John Beach, Ward Bond, J. Anthony Hughes, James Burke, Harry Hayden, James Flavin, Ruth Warren, Gloria Ann White, Eddy Waller, Adrian Morris, Ivan Miller, Virginia Brissac, Eddie Dunn, Arthur Rankin, Harry Strang, Lester Door, Paul Sutton, Paul E. Burns. The Cisco Kid gets involved with a crook trying to steal a gold mine, an orphaned baby and a woman who loves another man. First of a half-dozen “Cisco Kid” adventures headlining Cesar Romero; too long on romance and running time and too short on action.

The Cisco Kid in In Old New Mexico see In Old New Mexico

The Cisco Kid in South of the Rio Grande see South of the Rio Grande

758  The Cisco Kid Returns  Monogram, 1945. 64 min. D: John P. McCarthy. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Roger Pryor, Cecilia Callejo, Anthony Warde, Fritz Leiber, Vicky Lane, Jan Wiley, Sharon Smith, Cy Kendall, Eva Puig, Bud Osborne, Bob Duncan, Carl Mathews, Emmett Lynn, Elmer Napier, Jerry Shields, Walter Clinton, Neyle Morrow. The Cisco Kid and Pancho suspect a respected businessman of being behind a series of crimes. Duncan Renaldo’s first appearance as “The Cisco Kid” is a standard affair that will appeal to his fans. TV title: The Daring Adventurer.

759  City of Badmen  20th Century–Fox, 1953. 82 min. Color. D: Harmon Jones. SC: George W. George and George F. Slavin. With Dale Robertson, Jeanne Crain, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges, Carole Mathews, Carl Betz, Whitfield Connor, Hugh Sanders, Rodolfo Acosta, Pasquel Garcia Pena, Harry Carter, Robert Adler, John Doucette, Alan Dexter, Don Haggerty, Leo Gordon, Gil Perkins, John Day, James Best, Richard Cutting, Douglas Evans, Kit Carson, Barbara Fuller, Anthony Jochim, George Melford, George Selk, Charles Tannen, Tristram Coffin, Reed Howes, I. Stanford Jolley, Percy Helton, Frank Ferguson, Earle Hodgins. When the heavyweight championship boxing bout between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons is staged in Carson City, Nevada, in 1897, outlaws plan to steal the box office receipts. Pretty good Western crime melodrama, highlighted by the restaging of the famous fight which was also the subject of Vigilantes of Boomtown (q.v.).

760  City Slickers  Columbia, 1991. 112 min. Color. D: Ron Underwood. SC: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. With Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, Jack Palance, Noble Willingham, Tracey Walter, Josh Mostel, David Paymer, Bill Henderson, Jeffrey Tambor, Phil Lewis, Kyle Secor, Dean Hallo, Karla Tamburelli, Yeardley Smith, Roberto Costanzo, Walker Brandt, Molly McClure, Jane Alden, Lindsay Crystal, Jake Gyllenhaal, Danielle Harris, Eddie Palmer, Howard Honig, Fred Malo, Jayne Meadows, Alan Charof, Anne Lockhart, Lana Underwood, Robert Mickelson. A trio of middle aged businessmen decide to get away from it all and take part in a two week cattle drive where they come under the wing of hardened trail boss. Big box office comedy with Jack Palance winning a best supporting actor Oscar for his role of Curly Washburn.

761  City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold  Columbia, 1994. 116 min. Color. D: Paul Weiland. SC: Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. With Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill McKinney, Lindsay Crystal, Beth Grant, Noble Willingham, David Paymer, Josh Mostel, Jayne Meadows, Alan Charof, Kenneth S. Allan, Jennifer Crystal, Molly McClure, Helen Siff, Irmise Brown, Bill McIntosh, Mario Roberts, Bob Balaban, James Boyd III, Kent Kasper, Lesley Boone. A radio advertising salesman teams with a friend and freeloader brother in trying to find gold hidden in the Arizona desert as revealed on a map left by an old cowboy. Fair follow up to City Slickers that was not nearly as successful financially; wonderful Utah locations.

762  The Civilized Men  NBC-TV/Universal, 1969. 74 min. Color. With Robert Stack, Jack Kelly, Rod Cameron, Jill St. John, Kaz Garas, Susan Saint James, Phil Philbin. A former F.B.I. Agent, how the senior editor of a news magazine, travels to Florida to investigate modern-day cattle rustling on ranches there. Very good telefeature, originally an shown November 28, 1969, as a segment of “The Name of the Game” (NBC-TV, 1968–72).

763  The Claim  United Artists, 2000. 120 min. Color. D: Michael Winterbottom. SC: Frank Cottrell Boyce. With Peter Mullan, Milia Jovoich, Wes Bently, Nastassia Kinski, Sarah Polley, Shirley Henderson, Julian Richings, Sean McGinley, Randy Birch, Tom McCamus, Frank Zotter, Artur Ciastkowski, Barry Ward, Karolina Muller, David Leareney, Valene Plache, Marie Brassard, Phillips Peak, Kate Hennig, Fernando Savalos, Marc Hollogne, Ron Anderson, Marty Antoni, Lydia Lau, Royal Sproule, Duncan Fraser, Karen Minish. Two decades after he sold his wife and daughter for a gold claim, a wealthy town boss is beset by a young woman claiming to be his offspring and surveyors working for an incoming railroad. Very fine adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Claim Jumpers see Lucky Texan

764  Clancy of the Mounted  Universal, 1932. 12 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Basil Dickey, Harry O. Hoyt and Ella O’Neill. With Tom Tyler, Jacqueline Wells (Julie Bishop), Earl McCarthy, William Desmond, Rosalie Roy, W.L. Thomas, Leon Duval, Francis Ford, Tom London, Edmund Cobb, William Thorne, Al Ferguson, Fred Humes, Frank Lackteen, Monte Montague, Steve Clemente. Crooks after a dead man’s gold mine frame a Mountie’s brother on a murder charge and the lawman is assigned to bring him to trial. Tom Tyler fans will love his action packed cliffhanger.

765  Clash of the Wolves  Warner Bros., 1925. 60 min. D: Noel Mason Smith. SC: Charles A. Logue. With Rin Tin Tin, June Marlowe, Charles Farrell, Heinie Conklin, Will Walling, Pat Hartigan. A half-breed dog, the leader of a wolf pack, has a price on his head but his befriended by a borax prospector who he aids when a rival tries to kill him. Action filled Rin Tin Tin vehicle; good entertainment.

The Claw Strikes see Landrush

766  Claws  Alaska Pictures, 1977. 90 min. Color. D: Richard Bansbach and R.E. Pierson. SC: Chuck D. Keen and Brian Russell. With Myron Healey, Leon Ames, Jason Evers, Anthony Caruso, Carla Layton, Glenn Sipes, Buck Young, Fred Otah. A killer grizzly terrorizes the north woods and hunters plan to destroy the beast. Beautifully photographed adventure tale made in Alaska and similar to Grizzly (q.v.); also called The Devil Bear.

767  Clearing the Range  Allied, 1931. 65 min. D: Otto Brower. SC: Jack Natteford. With Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Hooper Atchley, Robert Homans, Ed Peil, Sr., George Mendoza, Edward Hearn, Maston Williams, Ben Corbett, Jim Corey, Eva Grippon. In trying to find out to killed his brother, a cowpoke pretends to be both a pacifist and the bandit El Capitan. Slow moving, nicely photographed (by Ernest Miller) with exciting fight sequences.

768  Climb an Angry Mountain  NBC-TV/Warner Bros., 1972. 100 min. Color. D: Leonard Horn. SC: Joseph Cavelli and Sam Rolfe. With Fess Parker, Marj Dusay, Arthur Hunnicutt, Barry Nelson, Stella Stevens, Joe Kapp, Clay O’Brien, Jewel Branch, Richard Brian Harris, Casey Tibbs, Kenneth Washington, J.C. McElroy. An Indian running from the law kidnaps a sheriff’s son and heads up California’s Mount Shasta, with the lawman and a New York City policeman, at odds over police procedure, in pursuit. Better than average telefeature with pleasant scenic values.

769  Clint the Nevada Loner  Balcazar/International Germania Film/Lux Film, 1967. 92 min. Color. D: Alfonso Balcazar. SC: Alfonso Balcazar and Jose Antonio de la Loma. With George Martin, Marianne Koch, Gerhard Riedmann, Pinkas Braun, Xan das Bolas, Osvaldo Genazzani, Beni Deus, Francisco Jose Huetos, Remo De Angelis, Fernando Sancho, Renato Baldini, Walter Barnes, Gustavo Re, Luis Barboo, Paolo Gozlino. A gunman returns home and is taken back by his wife after he promises to give up his guns but a confrontation with a cattle baron and his gang causes him to lose the respect of his son. Well done Spaghetti Western followed by There’s a Noose Waiting for You Trinity (q.v.); also called Clint the Stranger.

Clint the Stranger see Clint the Nevada Loner

The Clue see Outcasts of Mesa Flats

770  Cocaine Cowboys  International Harmony, 1979. 87 min. Color. D: Ulli Lommel. SC: Ulli Lommel, Spencer Compton, Tom. Sullivan and Victor Bockris. With Jack Palance, Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol, Suzanna Love, Esther Bedham-Faran, Winnie Hollman, Richard Young, Tony Manafo, Richard Bassett, Pete Huckabee, The Cowboy Island Band. A rock group working on an album and planning a tour also makes a living smuggling dope. Strictly amateur night at Andy Warhol’s house, where this “Eastern Western” dud was filmed; the nadir of Jack Palance’s film career.

771  The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County  Universal, 1970. 97 min. Color. D: Tony Leader. SC: Ranald MacDougall. With Dan Blocker, Nanette Nabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam, Jack Cassidy, Henry Jones, Stubby Kaye, Mickey Rooney, Noah Beery, Jr., Marge Champion, Donald Barry, Hamilton Camp, Tom Basham, Iron Eyes Cody, James McCallion, Byron Foulger, Ray Ballard. Fearing they will lose their blacksmith, whose mail order bride failed to arrive, the citizens of a Western town try to find him a mate. Dull comedy made for TV but first issued to theatres.

772  Code of Honor  Syndicate, 1930. 55 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Mahlon Hamilton, Doris Hill, Lafe McKee, Robert Graves, Jr., Stanley Taylor, Jimmy Aubrey, Harry Holden, William Dyer. A gambler falls for a young woman and goes up against a crook who has used her brother to obtain the land grant to her father’s ranch. Obscure, cheaply made, early talkie.

773  Code of the Cactus  Victory, 1939. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Edward Halperin. With Tim McCoy, Dorothy Short, Dave O’Brien, Ben Corbett, Ted Adams, Alden Chase, Forrest Taylor, Bob Terry, Slim Whitaker, Frank Wayne, Kermit Maynard, Art Davis, Carl Mathews, Carl Sepulveda, Jimmy Aubrey, Clyde McClary, Jack King, Robert Walker, Lew Porter, George Morrell, Milburn Morante, Tex Palmer, James Sheridan, Jim Corey, Bob Card, Lee Burns, Reed Howes. Ranchers enlist the help of lawman Lightning Bill Carson to help stop a rang of rustlers using trucks to steal their cattle. Low budget but fast moving Tim McCoy “Lightning Bill Carson” entry.

774  Code of the Fearless  Spectrum, 1939. 56 min. D: Raymond K. Johnson. SC: Fred Myton. With Fred Scott, Claire Rochelle, John Merton, Walter McGrail, George Sherwood, Harry Harvey, William Woods, Don Gallaher, Roger Williams, Carl Mathews, Frank LaRue, Gene Howard, James “Buddy” Kelly, Art Mix, George Morrell, Phil Dunham, Denver Dixon. A Texas Ranger pretends to be drummed out of the service to infiltrate an outlaw gang. The same old plot ploy does nothing for this average Fred Scott vehicle, nor do a trio of mediocre songs.

775  Code of the Lawless  Universal, 1945. 60 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Patricia Harper. With Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight, Poni (Jane) Adams, Hugh Prosser, Barbara Sears, Edward M. Howard, Stanley Andrews, Rune H. Hultman, Rex Lease, Budd Buster, Edmund Cobb, Roy Brent, Pierce Lyden, Bob McKenzie, Pietro Sosso, Carey Harrison, Blackie Whiteford, Fred Graham, Brick Sullivan. A government agent poses as the son of the boss of a holding company illegally taxing local ranchers. Kirby Grant’s second Universal film is an acceptable affair. Also called The Mysterious Stranger.

776  Code of the Mounted  Ambassador, 1935. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George W. Sayre. With Kermit Maynard, Robert Warwick, Lillian Miles, Syd Saylor, Wheeler Oakman, Eddie Phillips, Dick Curtis, Stanley Blystone, Roger Williams, Jim Thorpe, Jack Perrin, George Morrell, Artie Ortego, Frank McCarroll, Dick Botiller, Art Dillard, Carl Mathews, Jack Casey, Lester Dorr, Pascale Perry, Ben Hendricks, Jr. Two constables are assigned to bring in the gang responsible for the murders of fur trappers. Scenic action filled James Oliver Curwood adaptation later reworked as Dawn on the Great Divide (q.v.).

777  Code of the Outlaw  Republic, 1942. 57 min. D: John English. SC: Barry Shipman. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Melinda Leighton, Weldon Heyburn, Bennie Bartlett, Don (Donald) Curtis, John Ince, Kenne Duncan, Phil Dunham, Max Waizmann, Chuck Morrison, Carleton Young, Al Taylor, Robert Frazer, Richard Alexander, Forrest Taylor, Jack Ingram, Wally West, Ed Peil, Sr., Bud Osborne, Hank Worden, Cactus Mack, Pascale Perry, Chuck Baldra, Sonny Bupp, Harry McKim, Jack Kirk, Bob Burns, Adele Smith, George Billings, Merlyn Nelson. An outlaw responsible for a mine payroll theft is hunted by the Three Mesquiteers. Typically fast entry in the Republic series with its likable trio stars, but not as good as those of yore.

Code of the Plains see The Renegade

778  Code of the Pony Express  Columbia, 1950. 15 Chapters. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: David Matthews, Lewis Clay and Charles Condon. With Jock O’Mahoney (Mahoney), Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett, Tom London, Helena Dare, George J. Lewis, Pierce Lyden, Jack Ingram, Rick Vallin, Frank Ellis, Ross Elliott, Ben Corbett, Rusty Wescoatt. The Army assigns an undercover agent to find out who is behind a series of stagecoach raids, the work of a shady lawyer and his gang who work for an eastern syndicate out to corral transportation routes. Passable Columbia cliffhanger.

779  Code of the Prairie  Republic, 1944. 56 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Albert DeMond and Anthony Coldeway. With Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Weldon Heyburn, Tom Chatterton, Roy Barcroft, Bud Geary, Tom London, Jack Kirk, Tom Steele, Robert Wilke, Frank Ellis, Rex Lease, Henry Wills, Kenneth Terrell, Charles King, Nolan Leary, Hank Bell, Karl Hackett, Jack O’Shea, Horace B. Carpenter. A cowboy and his photographer pal help a woman and her father who plan to start a newspaper but are opposed by an outlaw gang secretly led by the town barber. Nifty Sunset Carson vehicle with Smiley Burnette along for some fun as the picture taker.

780  Code of the Range  Columbia, 1936. 55 min. D: C.C. Coleman, Jr. SC: Ford Beebe. With Charles Starrett, Mary Blake, Ed Coxen, Allan Cavan, Ed Peil, Sr., Edmund Cobb, Ed LeSaint, Ralph McCullough, George Chesebro, Art Mix, Albert J. Smith. Cattlemen are at odds with each other over allowing sheep men to use range land for grazing their herds and a saloon owner attempts to inflame the situation for his own gain. Quite good Charles Starrett film which is very well written.

781  Code of the Rangers  Monogram, 1938. 56 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Stanley Roberts. With Tim McCoy, Judith Ford, Rex Lease, Wheeler Oakman, Frank LaRue, Roger Williams, Zeke Clements, Kit Guard, Frank McCarroll, Jack Ingram, Budd Buster, Ed Peil, Sr., Hal Price, Herman Hack. Two brothers are Texas Rangers but one joins with outlaws and it is up to the other one to bring him to justice. Well paced Tim McCoy entry with good-bad guy work by Wheeler Oakman.

782  Code of the Rangers  Sundown Productions, 1972. 58 min. D: Frank James. SC: Travis Cole. With Tex Hill, Linda Leon, Tony Harris, Billy Young, Ben Traywick. A Texas Ranger and his pals team with a saloon girl to thwart a dishonest politician trying to control a frontier town. Totally inept production not released until 2005 by Film Baby on DVD in a mercifully short 30-minute version.

Code of the Redmen see King of the Stallions

783  Code of the Saddle  Monogram, 1947. 53 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Eliot Biggons. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Kay Morley, Riley Hill, William Norton Bailey, Zon Murray, Gary Garrett, Ken Duncan, Jr., Ted Adams, Bud Osborne, Boyd Stockman, Ray Jones, Chick Hannon. A rancher is murdered and two cowboys visiting him and his daughter attempt to find the killer, although a neighbor has been accused of the crime by the sheriff. A good story enhances this Johnny Mack Brown vehicle.

784  Code of the Silver Sage  Republic, 1950. 60 min. D: Fred C. Brannon. SC: Arthur Orloff. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Kay Christopher, Roy Barcroft, Rex Lease, Lane Bradford, William Ruhl, Richard Emory, Forrest Taylor, Kenne Duncan, Hank Patterson, John Butler. A madman plans to become dictator of the Arizona Territory and a U.S. cavalry lieutenant is sent to stop him. Another good one for Allan Lane; full of action with an interesting story line.

785  Code of the West  Syndicate, 1929. 53 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: G.A. Durlam and Sally Winters. With Bob Custer, Vivian Ray, Bobby Dunn, Martin Cichy, Cliff Lyons, Bud Osborne, Tom Bay, Buck Bucko, Merrill McCormick, Dick Dickinson, Alfred Hewston. A railroad agent teams with a sheriff to capture a gang stealing express mail and then collecting on the insurance. Average silent Bob Custer entry.

786  Code of the West  RKO Radio, 1947. 57 min. D: William Berke. SC: Norman Houston. With James Warren, Debra Allen, John Laurenz, Steve Brodie, Robert Clarke, Carol Foreman, Rita Lynn, Harry Woods, Raymond Burr, Harry Harvey, Phil Warren, Emmett Lynn, Forrest Taylor, William Desmond. Two cowboys try to help a man and his daughter who want to open an honest bank but are opposed by a corrupt town boss. Okay adaptation of the Zane Grey story.

Coffin for the Sheriff see Lone and Angry Man

787  A Cold Day in Hell  Lions Gate, 2001. 95 min. Color. D: Christopher Forbes. SC: Christopher Forbes and Jim Hilton. With Michael Madsen, Ronald Bumgardner, Kimberly Campbell, Stan Fink, Ed Janostak, Michael Hilton, Jim Hilton, Tomme Hilton, Debra Carlsen, Heather Clark, Braxton Williams, David Topp, Dave Long, Tripp Courtney, Richard Kinsey, W. Clay Lee, Angela Lewis, Sara Lewis, Dave Long, Allison Tysinger, Christopher Forbes. Having lost his wife and home, a Civil War veteran heads to the high country hoping to lose himself in the wilderness. Mediocre low budget affair.

788  Cold River  Shapiro, 1979. 94 min. Color. D-SC: Fred G. Sullivan. With Suzanne Weber, Pat Petersen, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Earl Jones, Brad Sullivan, Elizabeth Hubbard, Augusta Dabney. Modern-day outdoor adventure film about a man and an woman and their attempts to tame a raging river. Nice locations make this a pleasant adaptation of William Judson’s best selling book.

Cold Vengeance see The Dawn Rider

789  Cole Younger, Gunfighter  Allied Artists, 1958. 78 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Daniel Manwaring. With Frank Lovejoy, Abby Dalton, James Best, Jan Merlin, Douglas Spencer, Frank Ferguson, Myron Healey, George Keymas, Dan Sheridan, John Mitchum, Ainslie Pryor. In early 1870s Texas, Cole Younger gets a reputation as a gunfighter for his opposition to corrupt lawmen. Frank Lovejoy handles the title role well and the film moves along at a good clip. Remake of The Desperado (q.v.).

790  Colorado  Republic, 1940. 57 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Louis Stevens and Harrison Jacobs. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Pauline Moore, Milburn Stone, Maude Eburne, Hal Taliaferro, Vestor Pegg, Fred Burns, Lloyd Ingraham, Jay Novello, Tex Palmer, Joseph Crehan, Ed Cassidy, Robert Fiske, Stanley Andrews. During the Civil War a Union lieutenant and his sidekick are sent to Denver to find out who is causing trouble with the Indians. Good Roy Rogers drama, fast paced and well acted with a fine desert finale.

791  Colorado Ambush  Monogram, 1951. 51 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Myron Healey. With Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall, Myron Healey, Tommy Farrell, Christine McIntyre, Lyle Talbot, Lee Roberts, Marshall Bradford, John Hart. A ranger investigates the murders of three Wells Fargo agents and learns a man supplying horses to the freight hauler is also giving information to a hotel hostess. Myron Healey wrote this one and he also plays the dastardly villain, the highlight of this more than passable Johnny Mack Brown entry.

792  Colorado Kid  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Charles Francis Royal. With Bob Steele, Marion Weldon, Karl Hackett, Ted Adams, Ernie Adams, Frank LaRue, Horace Murphy, Kenne Duncan, Budd Buster, Frank Ball, John Merton, Horace B. Carpenter, Wally West. When he is unjustly accused of murder a cowboy escapes from jail to prove his innocence. Pretty action filled Bob Steele affair, slickly produced.

793  Colorado Pioneers  Republic, 1945. 57 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Earle Snell. With Wild Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Roy Barcroft, Bud Geary, Billy Cummings, Freddie Chapman, Frank Jaquet, Tom London, Monte Hale, Buckwheat Thomas, George Chesebro, Emmett Vogan, Tom Chatterton, Ed Cassidy, Fred Graham, Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woolf, Jack Rockwell, George Morrell, Jack Kirk, Roger Williams, Richard Lydon, Howard M. Mitchell, Frank O’Connor, Cliff Parkinson, Gary Armstrong, Bobby Anderson, Robert Goldschmidt, Romey Foley, Wally West, Rose Plummer, Chick Hannon, Jess Cavin. A gang of tough city kids sent West to be reformed help Red Ryder in stopping a rancher after the Duchess’ land. An out-of-the-ordinary plot adds some zest to this “Red Ryder” segment.

794  Colorado Ranger  Lippert, 1950. 57 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Ron Ormond and Maurice Tombragel. With James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Fuzzy Knight, Raymond Hatton, Betty (Julie) Adams, Tom Tyler, George J. Lewis, John Cason, Stanley Price, Dennis Moore, George Chesebro, Bud Osborne, Gene Roth, I. Stanford Jolley, Stephen Carr, Jimmie Martin, Joseph Richards. Shamrock and Lucky arrive at the former’s family ranch to get his mother’s inheritance and find his stepfather has been kidnapped. Arid entry in “The Irish Cowboys” series, with little to recommend it except its cast. TV title: Guns of Justice.

795  Colorado Serenade  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 68 min. Color. D: Robert Emmett Tansey. SC: Frances Kavanaugh. With Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, May Kenyon, David Sharpe, Forrest Taylor, Dennis Moore, Abigail Adams, Warner Richmond, Lee Bennett, Bob McKenzie, Bob Duncan, Charles King, Herman Hack, John Carpenter, George DeNormand, John Bridge. Two cowboys save a judge from being ambushed and learn one of the attackers is the man’s son, who refuses to believe the jurist is his father. Action filled Eddie Dean vehicle, one of his better starring efforts.

796  Colorado Sundown  Republic, 1952. 67 min. D: William Witney. SC: Eric Taylor and William Lively. With Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens, June Vincent, Fred Graham, John Daheim, Louise Beavers, Chester Clute, Clarence Straight, The Republic Rhythm Riders, Rex Lease, Tex Terry, Harry Harvey, Bud Osborne, Hal Price. While trying got help a friend keep a spread he inherited, a fellow rancher is accused of murder. Nicely done Rex Allen film, with emphasis on lots of movement.

797  Colorado Sunset  Republic, 1939. 61 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Bur bridge and Stanley Roberts. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Robert Barrat, William Farnum, Patsy Montana, Frankie Marvin, Purnell B. Pratt, Kermit Maynard, Jack Ingram, Elmo Lincoln, Ethan Laidlaw, Fred Burns, Jack Kirk, Budd Buster, Ed Cassidy, Slim Whitaker, Murdock MacQuarrie, Ralph Peters, The CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers, Francis Ford, Herman Hack, Chuck Baldra. A musical troupe buys a cattle ranch but the herd turns out to be milk cows and they find they are being pressured by crooks to join a combine. Pretty fair Gene Autry vehicle featuring the great Patsy Montana.

798  Colorado Territory  Warner Bros., 1949. 94 min. D: Raoul Walsh. SC: John Twist and Edmund H. North. With Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell, Morris Ankrum, Basil Ruysdael, Frank Puglia, Ian Wolfe, Harry Woods, Houseley Stevenson, Victor Kilian, Oliver Blake, Monte Blue, Charles Horvath, Hallene Hill, Fred Kelsey, Maudie Prickett, Artie Ortego, Jack Daly, Irene Elinor, Jack Montgomery, Bert Dillard, Ben Corbett, Frosty Royce, Glenn Thompson, Charles Miller, Steve Stephens, Merlyn Nelson, Carl Harbough, Paul Kruger, George Bell, Robert Filmer, Carl Andre, Harry Strang, Grey Eyes. An outlaw escapes from jail and joined by his girlfriend tries to hide but is trapped by a posse in a mountain area. Raoul Walsh’s Western remake of his gangster classic High Sierra (Warner Bros., 1941); a very good motion picture re-done by Warners in 1955 as the crime drama I Died a Thousand Times.

799  Colorado Trail  Columbia, 1938. 55 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Charles Francis Royal. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Ed LeSaint, Alan Bridge, Robert Fiske, Dick Curtis, Hank Bell, Ed Peil, Sr., Edmund Cobb, Jack Clifford, Richard Botiller. A young man joins cattlemen in a range war with his father on the opposite side. Pretty fair Charles Starrett film.

800  Colt Comrades  United Artists, 1943. 67 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Michael Wilson. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, George Reeves, Lois Sherman, Earle Hodgins, Victor Jory, Douglas Fowley, Herbert Rawlinson, Robert Mitchum, Jack Mulhall, Russell Simpson, Dewey Robinson, Art Dillard, William Gould, Jack Shannon, Cliff Lyons, Bill Wolfe, Fred Kohler, Jr., Henry Wills, Blackjack Ward, Jim Corey, Roy Bucko, Ralph Bucko, Tex Phelps, George Sowards, Tex Cooper, George Plues. Crooks frame Hopalong Cassidy for cattle rustling and he has to prove his innocence. Standard entry in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series.

801  Colt .45  Warner Bros., 1950. 74 min. Color. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Thomas Blackburn. With Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Lloyd Bridges, Alan Hale, Ian MacDonald, Chief Thundercloud, Luther Crockett, Walter Coy, Charles Evans, Buddy Roosevelt, Hal Taliaferro, Art Miles, Barry Reagan, Howard Negley, Paul Newlan, Aurora Navarro, Franklyn Fanrum, Ed Peil, Sr., Jack Watt, Carl Andre, Ben Corbett, Artie Ortego, Bob Burrows, William Steele. When his gun samples are stolen by an outlaw, a salesman is accused of being a member of the gang and attempts to capture the thief and prove his innocence. Pretty good Randolph Scott opus. TV title: Thunder Cloud.

802  The Colt Is My Law  Proscensa, 1966. 93 min. Color. D: Al Bradley (Alfonso Brescia). SC: Al Bradley (Alfonso Brescia), Franco Cobianchi, Ramon Comas and Mario Musy. With Anthony Clark (Angel del Pozo), Lucy Gilly (Luciana Gilli/Lucia Gil Fernandez), Michael Martin (Miguel de la Riva/Michael Rivers), Peter White (Pietro Tordi), Jim Clay (Aldo Cecconi), Grant Laramie (Germano Longo), Henry Colt (Enrico Glori), Rafael Alcantara, Livio Lorenzon, Nino Nini, Franco Cobianchi, Milo Quesada, Stella Finney, Charles Johnson, Dan Silver. A railroad payroll disappears from a small town and two federal marshals try to get to the bottom of the trouble. Tepid, but violent, Spaghetti Western filmed as La Colt e la Mia Legge (The Colt is My Law) and released in the U.S. as My Gun Is the Law and in England as The Colt Is My Law. Issued on video as La Rey del Revolver (The Law of the Revolver).

803  Column South  Universal-International, 1953. 84 min. Color. D: Frederick De Cordova. SC: William Sackheim. With Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Ray Collins, Palmer Lee (Gregg Palmer), Ralph Moody, Dennis Weaver, Johnny Downs, Russell Johnson, Bob Steele, Jack Kelly, Ray Montgomery, Richard Garland, James Best, Ed Rand, Rico Alaniz. In order to prevent fighting between Indians and Army troops, agitated by an intolerant captain, a young lieutenant tries to help the Navajos before they are forced into war. Fairly interesting Audie Murphy cavalry affair.

804  Comanche  United Artists, 1956. D: George Sherman. SC: Carl Krueger. With Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Linda Cristal, John Litel, Henry Brandon, Nestor Paiva, Mike Mazurki, Stacy Harris, Lowell Gilmore, Reed Sherman. Trying to halt skirmishes along the U.S.-Mexican border and to bring last peace with the Indians, two scouts are assigned to task of locating the Comanche chief and offering him peace. Director George Sherman infuses quite a bit of action into this oater to cover up a mundane story.

805  Comanche Moon  CBS-TV, 2008. 360 min. Color. D: Simon Wincer. SC: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. With Karl Urban, Steve Zahn, Ryan Merriman, Val Kilmer, Rachel Griffith, Linda Cardellini, Troy Baker, Melanie Lynskey, James Rebhorn, Arron Shiver, Wes Studi, Wally Welch, Elizabeth Banks, Adam Beach, Toby Metcalf, David Midthunder, Steve Reevis, Keith Robinson, Ray McKinnon, Rod Rondeaux, Kristine Sutherland, Frederick Lopez, Josh Berry, Scott Augare, Bill Flynn, Geraldine Keams, Jack Burning, Jake Busey, Brady Coleman, Grover Coulson, Jonathan Joss, Bill Flynn, Sal Lopez, Tatanka Means, Savion Rose, Nathon S. Lewis, Jonathan Scorza, T.A. Taylor, Christy Summer Lopez, Sarah Majors, Byran Lane, Jack Caffrey, Barbara Bartleson. Two Texas Rangers are on the trail of outlaws and also get involved with fighting Comanches. Big budget TV miniseries that is a confusing pre-sequel to Lonesome Dove (q.v.).

806  Comanche Station  Columbia, 1960. 74 min. Color. D: Budd Boetticher. SC: Burt Kennedy. With Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust, Rand Brooks, Dyke Johnson, Foster Hood, Joe Molina, Vince St. Cyr, John Patrick Noland. A man enlists the aid of three outlaws in helping him find his wife who has been captured by Indians. Entertaining Randolph Scott feature, very well made and paced.

807  Comanche Territory  Universal-International, 1950. 76 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: Oscar Brodney and Lewis Meltzer. With Maureen O’Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer, Charles Drake, Pedro de Cordoba, Ian MacDonald, Rick Vallin, Parley Baer, James Best, Edmund Cobb, Glenn Strange, Iron Eyes Cody, Terry Frost, John Carpenter, I. Stanford Jolley, John Cason. When outlaws try to steal Indian lands because of rich silver deposits, frontiersman Jim Bowie comes to the rescue. Historical fiction turned into romantic pap.

808  The Comancheros  20th Century–Fox, 1961. 107 min. Color. D: Michael Curtiz (and uncredited John Wayne). SC: James Edward Grant and Clair Huffaker. With John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Joan O’Brien, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan, Guinn Williams, Bob Steele, Henry Daniell, Richard Devon, Steve Baylor, John Dierkes, Roger Mobley, Luisa Triana, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Aissa Wayne, George J. Lewis, Gregg Palmer, Don Brodie, Jon Lormer, Phil Arnold, Alan Carney, Ralph Volkie, Dennis Cole. A captain in the Texas Rangers teams with a gambler to thwart run runners and then carry a consignment of weapons to the stronghold of the Comancheros, white men allied with the Indians. Top notch John Wayne vehicle with lots of action and good humor; Guinn Williams has a great cameo as a dense gun runner.

809  Come On, Cowboy!  Toddy Pictures, 1948. 72 min. With Mantan Moreland, Maurytne Brent, Johnny Lee, F.E. Miller, Fred Wilson. A man is sent West to prepare his boss’ ranch for his arrival with a new bride not knowing outlaws are using it as a hideout, claiming the place is haunted. Obscure black cast comedy with songs, highlighted by the repartee between Mantan Moreland and Johnny Lee.

810  Come on Cowboys!  Republic, 1937. 59 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Maxine Doyle, Ed Peil, Sr., Horace Murphy, Ann Bennett, Ed Cassidy, Roger Williams, Willie Fung, Fern Emmett, Yakima Canutt, Merrill McCormick, Al Taylor, George Plues, Milburn Morante, Carleton Young, George Morrell, Ernie Adams, Jim Corey, Jack Kirk, George Burton, Loren Riebe, Victor Allen, Jack O’Shea, Ernie Adams, Henry Hall, Tom Smith, Rose Plummer, James A. Marcus, Oscar Gahan. When an old pal from the circus gets involved with crooks the Three Mesquiteers come to his rescue. Action filled entry in “The Three Mesquiteers’ series with some big-top excitement thrown in for good measure.

811  Come on Danger  RKO Radio, 1932. 60 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Tom Keene, Julie Haydon, Roscoe Ates, Robert Ellis, Wade Boteler, William Scott, Harry Tenbrook, Bud Osborne, Roy Stewart, Frank Lackteen, Nell Craig, Monte Montague, Hank Potts, Puff Jones. A ranger and his pal set out to capture the lawman’s brother’s killer only to find the gang leader they are after is a young woman framed for the crime. Mature and well executed Tom Keene production remade as Renegade Ranger (q.v.) and again under its original title (q.v.) in 1942.

812  Come On, Danger!  RKO Radio, 1942. 58 min. D: Edward Killy. SC: Norton S. Parker. With Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley, Lee “Lasses” White, Karl Hackett, Bud McTaggart, Glenn Strange, Davison Clark, John Elliott, Slim Whitaker, Henry Roquemore, Evelyn Dickson, Kate Harrington. A Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in the female leader of a gang of outlaws and after she is wounded he discovers a crooked tax collector is behind the trouble. Passable third version of the 1932 Tom Keene film (q.v.), remade earlier as Renegade Ranger (q.v.).

813  Come On, Rangers  Republic, 1938. 57 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Gerald Geraghty and Jack Natteford. With Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Purnell B. Pratt, Harry Woods, Bruce MacFarlane, Lane Chandler, Chester Gunnels, Lee Powell, Robert Kortman, George (Montgomery) Letz, Frank McCarroll, Chick Hannon, Jack Kirk, Al Taylor, Horace B. Carpenter, Robert Wilke, Al Ferguson, Allan Cavan, Ben Corbett, Burr Caruth. Due to the lack of funds the Texas Rangers are disbanded and crooks pour into the state under the control of a dishonest senator behind a protection racket using a gang of raiders. Very entertaining and well made early Roy Rogers vehicle.

814  Come On, Tarzan  World Wide, 1932. 61 min. D-SC: Alan James. With Ken Maynard, Merna Kennedy, Kate Campbell, Niles Welch, Roy Stewart, Ben Corbett, Bob McKenzie, Jack Rockwell, Nelson McDowell, Jack Mower, Edmund Cobb, Robert Walker, Hank Bell, Slim Whitaker, Jim Corey, Blackjack Ward, Al Taylor, Bud McClure. A ranch foreman, at odds with his pretty female boss, fights outlaws who are killing horses to be used as dog food. A bit different for Ken Maynard, but still a good film.

815  The Comeback Trail  Dynamic Entertainment, 1982. 76 min. Color. D-SC: Harry Hurwitz. With Buster Crabbe, Chuck McCann, Ina Balin, Robert Staats, Jara Kahout, Henny Youngman, Professor Irwin Corey, Monti Rock III, Joe Franklin, Lenny Schultz, Hugh Hefner, Mike Gentry. Two dishonest movie producers hire a faded cowboy star to appear in their film, only they plan to kill him and collect the insurance. Western comedy made in 1970 that got some release in Canada in 1979 as Crazy Movie; except for Buster Crabbe, who is very good as one-time star Duke Montana, the film is a real bust.

816  Comes a Horseman  United Artists, 1978. 118 min. Color. D: Alan J. Pakula. SC: Dennis Lynton Clark. With Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards, George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth, Jim Davis, Mark Harmon, Macon McCalman, Basil Hoffman, James Kline, James Keach, Clifford A. Pellon. Small ranchers in 1940s Colorado are being squeezed out by a land hungry tyrant. Standard, but well made, production filmed in Colorado’s Wet Mountain Valley and sporting a good performance by Richard Farnsworth as Dodger.

817  Comin’ at Ya!  Filmways, 1981. 91 min. Color. D: Ferdinando Baldi. SC: Lloyd Battista, Wolf Lowenthal and Gene Quintana. With Tony Anthony, Gene Quintana, Victoria Abil, Ricardo Palacios, Lewis Gordon. Two evil brothers working the white slave trade kidnap a cowboy’s girlfriend and later leave her to die in the desert. Lumbering 3-D Spaghetti Western produced by star Tony Anthony.

818  Comin’ Round the Mountain  Republic, 1936. 55 min. D: Mack V. Wright. SC: Oliver Drake, Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, LeRoy Mason, Raymond Brown, Ken Cooper, Tracy Layne, Bob McKenzie, John Ince, Frank Lackteen, Frankie Marvin, Jim Corey, Al Taylor, Steve Clark, Frank Ellis, Hank Bell, Richard Botiller. Gene Autry comes to the aid of a young woman ranch owner who has had money stolen from her. Well made Gene Autry film.

819  The Command  Warner Bros., 1953. 88 min. Color. D: David Butler. SC: Russell Hughes and Samuel Fuller. With Guy Madison, Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, Carl Benton Reid, Harvey Lembeck, Ray Teal, Bob Nichols, Don Shelton, Gregg Barton, Red Morgan, Jim Bannon, Reed Howes, Kermit Maynard, Iron Eyes Cody, Chubby Johnson. An Army captain leads his troops and civilians through Wyoming Territory, battling Indians and smallpox, in order to take possession of the area. Fairly good adaptation of James Warner Bellah’s novel.