1435  The Friendly Persuasion  ABC-TV/International Television Productions/Allied Artists, 1975. 100 min. D: Joseph Sargent. SC: William P. Wood. With Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Clifton James, Michael O’Keefe, Kevin O’Keefe, Tracie Savage, Sparky Marcus, Paul Benjamin, Erik Holland, Maria Grimm, Bob Minor. During the Civil War a Hoosier Quaker couple jeopardize themselves and their family when they harbor two runaway slaves. Pretty fair TV remake of the Jessamyn West book.

1436  Frisco Kid  Warner Bros., 1935. 77 min. D: Lloyd Bacon. SC: Warren Duff and Seton I. Miller. With James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lily Damita, Donald Woods, Barton MacLane, George E. Stone, Addison Richards, Joseph King, Robert McWade, Joseph Crehan, Robert Strange, Joseph Sawyer, Fred Kohler, Edward McWade, Claudia Coleman, John Wray, Lee Phelps, Don Barclay, Jack Curtis, Milton Kibbee, Karl Hackett, Wilfred Lucas, James Farley, Charles Middleton, Landers Stevens, Frank Sheridan, Edward Keane, Ed LeSaint, Dick Rush, William Desmond, Helene Chadwick. When he opposes gambling on the San Francisco waterfront, a sailor emerges as a kingpin only to be threatened by vigilantes. Warner Bros.’ answer to Samuel Goldwyn’s Barbary Coast (q.v.) is nothing more than an imitation.

1437  The Frisco Kid  Warner Bros., 1979. 122 min. Color. D: Robert Aldrich. SC: Michael Ellis and Frank Shaun. With Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George Ralph DiCenzo, Leo Fuchs, Penny Peyser, William Smith, Jack Tomack, Cliff Pellow, Alan Rich. En route to head his new congregation in 1850 San Francisco, a penniless Polish Orthodox Rabbi teams with a good-hearted outlaw. Lame, overlong genre comedy.

1438  Frisco Sal  Universal, 1945. 63 min. D: George Waggner. SC: Curt Siodmak and Gerald Geraghty. With Susanna Foster, Alan Curtis, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Thomas Gomez, Colette Lyons, Samuel S. Hinds, Fuzzy Knight, Ernie Adams, George Lloyd, Reed Howes, Beatrice Roberts, Ethan Laidlaw, Harry Hayden, Jack O’Shea, Billy Wayne, Billy Green, Bert Fiske, Syd Saylor, Earle Hodgins, Billy Wilkerson, Carlyle Blackwell, Dick Dickinson, Cyril Ring, Kit Guard, Lois Austin, James Carlisle, Isabelle La Mal. After her brother is murdered, a singer from New England comes to California to avenge his death. Vehicle for beautiful singer-actress Susanna Foster; basically for her fans.

1439  Frisco Tornado  Republic, 1950. 61 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: M. Coates Webster. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Martha Hyer, Stephen Chase, Ross Ford, Mauritz Hugo, Lane Bradford, Hal Price, Rex Lease, George Chesebro, Edmund Cobb, Ted Adams, Bud Geary. When outlaws force ranchers to submit to a protection racket, a U.S. marshal plans to break up their illegal activities. Another fast moving segment in Allan Lane’s “Famous Westerns” series.

1440  From Broadway to Cheyenne  Monogram, 1932. 62 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Rex Bell, Marceline Day, Robert Ellis, Roy D’Arcy, Gwen Lee, George Hayes, Huntley Gordon, Matthew Betz, John Elliott, Alan Bridge, Theodore Lorch, Gordon (DeMain) D. Wood, Ernie Adams, Earl Dwire, Si Jenks, Hank Bell, Dick Dickinson, Harry Semels, Rae Daggett, Silvertip Baker. Two cowpokes head East to the big city and run into trouble with hoodlums and romance. Title tells all in this average Rex Bell vehicle; also called Broadway to Cheyenne.

1441  From Hell to Texas  20th Century–Fox, 1958. 100 min. Color. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Robert Buckner and Wendell Mayes. With Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chills Wills, Dennis Hopper, R.G. Armstrong, Jay C. Flippen, Margo, John Larch, Ken Scott, Rodolfo Acosta, Harry Carey, Jr., Jose Torvay, Malcolm Atterbury, Salvador Baquez, Jerry Oddo, Dayton Lummis, James Philbrook, Tom Greenway, Rush Williams, Silvia Pineiro, Adelina Pedroza, Anna Navarro, Julia Montoya, Jon Lormer, Harry Fleer. After accidentally killing a rancher’s son, a young man flees into the desert pursed by the dead man’s father and two brothers and is helped by a cattle man and his tomboy daughter. Colorful, entertaining feature strong on characterization.

1442  From Noon Till Three  United Artists, 1976. 99 min. Color. D-SC: Frank D. Gilroy. With Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas V. Fowley, Stan Haze, Damon Douglas, Betty Cole, Don “Red” Barry, Sonny Jones, Hector Morales, Howard Brunner. When she thinks her third-rate outlaw lover has been killed, a pretty widow writes a best selling book about their three hour romance and he becomes a legend. Excellent Western satire; probably Charles Bronson’s most underrated film.

1443  Frontier Agent  Monogram, 1945. 56 min. D: Vernon Keays. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Reno Blair, Kenneth MacDonald, Dennis Moore, Riley Hill, Frank LaRue, Ted Adams, William Ruhl, Lane Bradford, Bob Woodward, Boyd Stockman. A land promoter tries to sabotage the completion of a telegraph line while a trouble-shooter for the company comes to the aid of a rancher who is using his own money to complete the project. Action filled Johnny Mack Brown entry, with a good script.

1444  Frontier Badmen  Universal, 1943. 80 min. D: William McGann and Ford Beebe. SC: Gerald Geraghty and Morgan B. Cox. With Robert Paige, Anne Gwynne, Noah Beery, Jr., Diana Barrymore, Leo Carrillo, Lon Chaney, Andy Devine, Thomas Gomez, Tex Ritter, William Farnum, Frank Lackteen, Robert Homans, Tom Fadden, Norman Willis, Arthur Loft, Jack Rockwell, Stanley Price, Carl Sepulveda, William Desmond, Gil Patric, Eddy Waller, Charles Wagenheim, Frank Austin, William Ruhl, Fern Emmett, George Eldredge, Earle Hodgins, Bob Reeves, Kermit Maynard, Michael Miller, Jack C. Smith, Beverlee Mitchell. In 1869 a cattleman organizes an exchange for the sale of various herds after a syndicate takes over the Chisholm Trail. Authentic looking oater with a good script, excellent cast and plenty of action; well above average.

1445  Frontier Crusader  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1940. 63 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: William Lively. With Tim McCoy, Dorothy Short, Forrest Taylor, Ted Adams, John Merton, Lou Fulton, Karl Hackett, Hal Price, Kenne Duncan, Frank LaRue, George Chesebro, Frank Ellis, Carl Mathews, Reed Howes, Lane Bradford, Sherry Tansey. A mysterious riders shows up as outlaws plan to rob a payroll in order to get control of a mine. Well scripted and effective Tim McCoy feature.

1446  Frontier Days  Spectrum, 1934. 61 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: James Shawkey. With Bill Cody, Ada Ince, Wheeler Oakman, Franklyn Farnum, Lafe McKee, William Desmond, Bill Cody, Jr., Victor Potel, Bob McKenzie, Harrison Martel. A town’s leading citizen (banker, justice of the peace, lawyer) has a man killed for his ranch with the Pinto Kid blamed for the crime. Slow moving Bill Cody affair hampered by sub-par production values.

1447  Frontier Feud  Monogram, 1945. 54 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Dennis Moore, Jack Ingram, Lloyd Ingraham, Mary MacLaren, Steve Clark, Jack Rockwell, Edwin Parker, Terry Frost, Frank LaRue, Ted Mapes, Charles King, Edmund Cobb, Stanley Price, Dan White, Lynton Brent, Wally West, Pierce Lyden, Frank McCarroll, Horace B. Carpenter, Ray Jones, Ray Henderson, Rube Dalroy. Two cowpokes arrive in an Arizona town to find a rancher about to be lynched for the murder of a rival. Okay entry in the “Nevada Jack McKenzie” series.

Frontier Fighters see Western Cyclone

1448  Frontier Fugitives  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 57 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Lorraine Miller, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Ingram, Frank Ellis, Jack Hendricks, Charles King, Karl Hackett, Budd Buster, Robert Kortman, Carl Mathews, George Morrell. The Texas Rangers get mixed up with a crook who kills a trapper for his hidden furs only to learn he is associated with a dishonest Indian agent. Rambling, stilted affair saved only by Tex Ritter singing “Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry,” “I’ll Wait for You, Dear” and “Long Time Gone.” British title: Fugitives of the Frontier.

Frontier Fury (1941) see The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury

1449  Frontier Fury  Columbia, 1943. 55 min. D: William Berke. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Charles Starrett, Roma Aldrich, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jimmie Davis and His Singing Buckaroos, Johnny Bond, Clancy Cooper, I. Stanford Jolley, Edmund Cobb, Bruce Bennett, Ted Mapes, Billy Wilkerson, Stanley Brown, Joel Friedkin, Frank LaRue, Chief Yowlachie, Elmo Lincoln, Franklyn Farnum, Jack Rockwell, Eddie Borden, Jack Kirk, George Russell, Jessie Arnold. When funds belonging to Indians are stolen, a government agent is fired and he attempts to find the robbers. Pleasant Charles Starrett action drama.

1450  Frontier Gal  Universal, 1945. 84 min. Color. D: Charles Lamont. SC: Michael Fessler and Ernest Pagano. With Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Andy Devine, Fuzzy Knight, Sheldon Leonard, Andrew Tombes, Beverly Sue Simmons, Clara Blandick, Frank Lackteen, Claire Carleton, Eddie Dunn, Harold Goodwin, Jan Wiley, Rex Lease, George Eldredge, Jack Ingram, Jack Overman, Edward Howard, Joseph Haworth, Lloyd Ingraham, Joan Shawlee, Jack O’Shea, Billy Engle, Cliff Lyons, Eddie Borden, William Desmond, Kit Guard, Jack Rutherford, Lou Wood, Karen Randle, Joseph E. Bernard, Eddie Lee. After a one night honeymoon with a fiery French woman, a man returns home from prison to find his wife owns a saloon and he is the father of a little girl. Colorful, brawling oater that will more than satisfy fans of its two stars. British title: The Bride Wasn’t Willing.

1451  Frontier Gambler  Associated Releasing, 1956. 75 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Orville Hampton. With John Bromfield, Coleen Gray, Jim Davis, Kent Taylor, Margia Dean, Veda Ann Borg, Tracey Roberts, Stanley Andrews, Roy Engel, Frank Sully, Pierce Lyden, Rick Vallin, John Merton. When the female ruler of a small town is murdered and her ex-lover accused of the crime, a deputy marshal is sent to investigate. Good script and a quartet of fine stars help this low budget entry.

1452  Frontier Gun  20th Century–Fox, 1959. 70 min. D: Paul Landres. SC: Stephen Kandel. With John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Barton MacLane, Robert Strauss, Morris Ankrum, James Griffith, Lyn Thomas, Leslie Bradley, Doodles Weaver, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane), Claire DuBrey. Riding into a remote town, a man becomes its unwilling sheriff and has to stand up to the local bosses, a gambler and saloon owner. Average oater.

1453  Frontier Gun Law  Columbia, 1946. 60 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Jean Stevens, Al Trace and His Silly Symphonies, Jack Guthrie, Weldon Heyburn, Jack Rockwell, Frank LaRue, John Elliott, Robert Kortman, Stanley Price, Bill Nestell, Hank Worden, John Tyrrell. The Durango Kid chases an outlaw band called “The Phantoms” that have been raiding area ranchers. Pretty fair “Durango Kid” entry; British title: Menacing Shadows.

Frontier Hellcat see Among Vultures

Frontier Horizon see The New Frontier (1939)

1454  Frontier Investigator  Republic, 1949. 60 min. D: Fred C. Brannon. SC: Robert Williams. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Clayton Moore, Gail Davis, Roy Barcroft, Robert Emmett Keane, Marshall Reed, Francis Ford, Claire Whitney, Harry Lauter, Tom London, George Lloyd, Hank Bell, Tom Steele. A lawman is on the trail of a killer who murders victims with a special telescopic device mounted on his rifle. There is plenty of action in this Allan Lane outing; also called Frontier Marshal.

1455  Frontier Justice  First Division/Grand National, 1935. 58 min. D: Robert McGowan. SC: W. Scott Darling. With Hoot Gibson, Jane Barnes, Richard Cramer, Franklyn Farnum, Lloyd Ingraham, Joseph Girard, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Roger Williams, George Yoeman, John Elliott, Lafe McKee, Henry Hall, Jack Hendricks, The Beverly Hill Billies (Rudy Sooter, Aleth Hansen, Harley Luse), Bill Patton, Sherry Tansey, Steve Clark, Pat Harmon, William McCall, Olin Francis, Jack Evans, Fred Parker, Barney Beasley, Clyde McClary, Silvertip Baker. Returning home, a man finds his father has been committed to an asylum and their heavily mortgaged ranch suffering from rustling raids. Complicated but entertaining Hoot Gibson film hurt by a low budget; based on the novel by Col. George B. Rodney.

1456  Frontier Law  Universal, 1943. 59 min. D-SC: Elmer Clifton. With Russell Hayden, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Dennis Moore, Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys, Jack Ingram, Hal Taliaferro, George Eldredge, I. Stanford Jolley, Frank LaRue, James Farley, Michael Vallon, Tex Cooper, Neal Hart, Earle Hodgins, Bob Reeves, Harry Tenbrook, Art Fowler, Pascale Perry, Frosty Royce, Hank Bell, Victor Cox, Roy Butler. Two cowboys ride into a locale plagued by cattle rustlers and learn their pal is working for the gang leader. Fair Universal programmer with Russell Hayden (doubled by Rod Cameron) replacing ailing Tex Ritter.

1457  Frontier Marshal  Fox, 1934. 66 min. D: Lewis Seiler. SC: William Conselman and Stuart Anthony. With George O’Brien, Irene Bentley, George E. Stone, Alan Edwards, Ruth Gillette, Berton Churchill, Frank Conroy, Ward Bond, Ed LeSaint, Russell Simpson, Jerry Foster. A lawman arrives in Tombstone, Arizona, where the crooked mayor controls all the dishonest elements after killing his banking partner. First screen version of Stuart N. Lake’s novel Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal (although Earp is called Michael Wyatt here) and it is a good one.

1458  Frontier Marshal  20th Century–Fox, 1939. 71 min. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Sam Hellman. With Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine, Edward Norris, Eddie Foy, Jr., Ward Bond, Lon Chaney, Jr., Tom Tyler, Chris-Pin Martin, Joseph Sawyer, Del Henderson, Harry Hayden, Ventura Ybarra, Si Jenks, Gloria Roy, Pat O’Malley, Charles Stevens, Harry Woods, Richard Alexander, Hank Mann, Ed LeSaint, Heinie Conklin, George Melford, Fern Emmett, Kathryn Sheldon, Ferris Taylor, Arthur Aylesworth, Eddie Dunn, Philo McCullough, Ethan Laidlaw, Margaret Brayton, John Butler, John Bleifer, Hank Bell, Harlan Briggs, Dick Elliott, Jimmy Aubrey, Post Park, Henry Clive. Sheriff Wyatt Earp, with the help of Doc Holliday, tries to bring law and order to the town of Tombstone, Arizona. Second filming of Stuart N. Lake’s book contains an excellent recreation of the shootout at the O.K. Corral.

Frontier Marshal (1949) see Frontier Investigator

1459  Frontier Outlaws  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 58 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Marin Sais, Charles King, Jack Ingram, Kermit Maynard, Ed Cassidy, Emmett Lynn, Budd Buster, Frank Ellis, Bert Dillard, Ray Henderson, Wally West, Dan White, Silver Harr, John Cason, Tex Cooper, Jimmy Aubrey, George Morrell, Horace B. Carpenter, Jack Tornek, Silver Tip Baker, Herman Hack, Carl Mathews, Artie Ortego, Tex Williams. Billy Carson is framed for murder after opposing an outlaw gang trying to take over a valley. Low grade, but entertaining second “Billy Carson” series entry.

1460  Frontier Outpost  Columbia, 1950. 55 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, Steve Darrell, Fred F. Sears, Hank Penny and Slim Duncan, Robert Wilke, Paul Campbell, Jock (Mahoney) O’Mahoney, Bud Osborne, Chuck Roberson, Pierre Watkin, Dick Wessel, Everett Glass. The Durango Kid robs a stage carrying a government gold shipment so the money cannot be stolen by outlaws. Rather jumbled “Durango Kid” episode.

1461  The Frontier Phantom  Western Adventure, 1952. 56 min. D: Ron Ormond. SC: Maurice Tombragel and June Carr. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Virginia Herrick, Archie Twitchell, Clarke Stevens, Bud Osborne, Cliff Taylor, Kenne Duncan, George Chesebro, Sandy Sanders, Buck Garrett, Jack O’Shea, Frank Ellis, Roy Butler, Larry Barton, Dee Cooper, Dan White, Ted Adams, Lee Roberts, Nancy Saunders, John Merton, Steve Dunhill, Dee Cooper, Artie Ortego, Al Haskell. Two U.S. marshals try to find out who is the ringleader of a counterfeiting outfit and one of them takes on the guise of his outlaw brother. Lash LaRue’s final starring series Western is exciting and action filled; contains footage from Outlaw Country (q.v.).

Lash LaRue, Dan White and Jack O’Shea in The Frontier Phantom (Western Adventure, 1952) in a scene originally from Outlaw Country (Western Adventure, 1949).

1462  Frontier Pony Express  Republic, 1939. 58 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane, Noble Johnson, Monte Blue, Donald Dillaway, William Royle, Ethel Wales, Bud Osborne, George (Montgomery) Letz, Charles King, Fred Burns, Jack Kirk, Ernie Adams, Hank Bell, Jack O’Shea, Chris-Pin Martin, House Peters, Jr., Art Dillard. In 1861 a crooked senator plans to set up a republic in California by pretending to aid the Confederacy, using the Pony Express in his scheme. A very pleasant Roy Rogers film; includes the songs “Rusty Spurs” and “My Old Kentucky Home.”

1463  Frontier Revenge  Screen Guild/Western Adventure, 1948. 58 min. D-SC: Ray Taylor. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Peggy Stewart, Jim Bannon, Ray Bennett, Sarah Padden, Jimmie Martin, Jack Hendricks, Lee Morgan, Sandy Sanders, Billy Dix, Cliff Taylor, Steve Raines, Bud Osborne, Charles Chesebro, Kermit Maynard, Jack Evans. In order to unmask the leader of an outlaw gang terrorizing a small town, Lash and Fuzzy pose as two famous outlaws and join the marauders. Okay Lash LaRue vehicle; a remake of Panamint’s Bad Man (q.v.), also directed by Ray Taylor.

1464  Frontier Scout  Grand National, 1938. 62 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Frances Guihan. With George Houston, Beth Marion, Al St. John, Dave O’Brien, Guy Chase, Jack Ingram, Jack C. Smith, Dorothy Fay, Slim Whitaker, Kenne Duncan, Carl Mathews, Kit Guard, Bob Woodward, Walter Byron, Budd Buster, Frank LaRue, Minerva Urecal, Mantan Moreland, Roger Williams, Joe Girard, Jim Thorpe. Wild Bill Hickok helps ranchers plagued by cattle rustlers and Indian raids. George Houston’s first Western is a sturdy affair, sure to please his fans.

1465  Frontier Town  Grand National, 1938. 60 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Lindsley Parsons. With Tex Ritter, Ann Evers, Snub Pollard, Horace Murphy, Charles King, Forrest Taylor, Jack C. Smith, Ed Cassidy, Karl Hackett, Lynton Brent, Don Marion, Hank Worden, John Elliott, Jimmie LeFieur’s Saddle Pals. Despite the events being fixed by a gang of crooks, a singing cowboy tries to win the big prize money at a rodeo. Cheaply made but fairly exciting Tex Ritter vehicle, helped by the star singing a few good songs.

1466  Frontier Uprising  United Artists, 1961. 68 min. D: Edward L. Cahn. SC: Owen Harris. With Jim Davis, Nancy Hadley, Ken Mayer, Nestor Paiva, Don O’Kelly, Stuart Randall, David Renard, Tudor Owen, Addison Richards, Jan Arvan, Sid Kane, Barbara Mansell. A wagon train heads West to California with its passengers not knowing the U.S. and Mexico are at war with the latter making an alliance with local Indians. More than passable small budget affair, with Jim Davis doing a good job as a frontier scout.

1467  Frontier Vengeance  Republic, 1940. 54 min. D: Nate Watt. SC: Bennett Cohen and Barry Shipman. With Don “Red” Barry, Betty Moran, George Offerman, Jr., Ivan Miller, Yakima Canutt, Kenneth MacDonald, Cindy Walker, Jack Rockwell, Griff Barnett, Jack Lawrence, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Obed Packard. When a crooked stage line operator tries to run a rival company out of business, a driver steps in to help the female owner. Typically breezy Don Barry film.

1468  Frontiers of ’49  Columbia, 1939. 54 min. D: Joseph Lovering. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Bill Elliott, Luana de Alcaniz, Hal Taliaferro, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Al Ferguson, Jack Walters, Octavio Girard, Carlos Villarias, Jose De La Cruz, Kit Guard, Bud Osborne, Jack Ingram, Lee Shumway, Ed Cassidy, Tex Palmer, Buzz Barton, Chick Hannon, Fred Parker. Two government men are sent to California to stop the dictatorial activities of a crook forcing many Spanish ranchers off their ranchos. Compact and action filled Bill Elliott vehicle.

1469  The Frontiersman  Paramount, 1938. 74 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston and Harrison Jacobs. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George Hayes, Evelyn Venable, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Young, Charles A. Hughes, Dickie Jones, Roy Barcroft, Emily Fitzroy, John Beach, George Morrell, Jim Corey, Robert Mitchell and His St. Brendan’s Boys Choir, Dorothy Vernon, Jack Evans, Rube Dalroy, Charles Brinley, Jess Cavin, Blackjack Ward. A crook, who is in love with a school teacher, rustles Bar 20 cattle and then murders his partner. Mediocre entry in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series, interesting only for silent film stars William Duncan (as Buck Peters) and Clara Kimball Young; contains useless filler of the St. Brendan’s Boys Choir in a school sequence.

Fuerte Perdido see Massacre at Fort Perdition

1470  The Fugitive  Monogram, 1933. 61 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Harry O. Jones (Harry Fraser). With Rex Bell, Cecilia Parker, George Hayes, Robert Kortman, Tom London, Gordon DeMain, Theodore Lorch, Dick Dickinson, Earl Dwire, George Nash, Lloyd Whitlock, Phil Dunham, Tommy Coats, Arthur Thalasso. A cowboy, falsely accused of a crime, must run from the law until he can prove his innocence. Low budget Rex Bell outing.

1471  The Fugitive  RKO Radio, 1947. 104 min. D: John Ford. SC: Dudley Nichols. With Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond, Leo Carrillo, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen, Fortunio Bonanova, Chris-Pin Martin, Miguel Inclan, Fernando Fernandez, Jose Torvay. A priest, who supports the revolutionary cause in Mexico, is hunted by the police and befriended by a man who later turns him in for money. Low key John Ford film that will please Henry Fonda fans.

The Fugitive (1966) see El Fugitivo

1472  Fugitive from Sonora  Republic, 1943. 55 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Don “Red” Barry, Lynn Merrick, Wally Vernon, Harry Cording, Ethan Laidlaw, Frank McCarroll, Pierce Lyden, Kenne Duncan, Karl Hackett, Slim Whitaker, Art Dillard, Augie Gomez, Kansas Moehring. A one-time outlaw comes to a town and tries to stop a range war between homesteaders and cattlemen. Another good one in Don Barry’s Republic series; it introduced Barry’s long time comedy sidekick Wally Vernon.

1473  Fugitive of the Plains  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1943. 56 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George W. Sayre. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Maxine Leslie, Jack Ingram, Kermit Maynard, Karl Hackett, Hal Price, George Chesebro, Frank Ellis, John Merton, Budd Buster, Artie Ortego, Carl Sepulveda, Curley Dresden, Art Dillard, Jimmy Aubrey, Tex Harper, Hank Bell, Kansas Moehring. Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones help a young woman forced into lawlessness by crooks. Standard “Billy the Kid” series entry; reissued in 1947 by Eagle Lion as Raiders of Red Rock (38 min.). Also called Billy the Kid in Fugitive of the Plains.

1474  The Fugitive Sheriff  Columbia, 1936. 58 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Ken Maynard, Beth Marion, Walter Miller, Hal Price, John Elliott, Arthur Millett, Virginia True Boardman, Frank Ball, Edwin (Edmund) Cobb, William Gould, Art Mix, Vernon Dent, Fred Burns, Frank Ellis, Slim Whitaker, Horace Murphy, Theodore Lorch, Bob Burns, Horace B. Carpenter, Oscar Gahan, William McCall, Lafe McKee, Glenn Strange, Bud McClure, Bud Osborne, Rudy Sooter, Lew Meehan, Bob Reeves, Fred Parker, Tex Cooper, Jack King, Bud Jamison, Bob Card, Herman Hack, Art Dillard, Tex Palmer, Al Taylor, Blackjack Ward, Silvertip Baker, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. After being elected town sheriff, a cowboy is framed for a train robbery and has to prove his innocence. Average Ken Maynard vehicle, his last for Columbia.

1475  Fugitive Valley  Monogram, 1941. 60 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: John Vlahos and Robert Finkle. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Julie Duncan, Glenn Strange, Robert Kortman, Tom London, Reed Howes, Ed Brady, Carl Mathews, Ed Peil, Sr., Doye O’Dell, Frank McCarroll, Ray Jones. In Arizona, outlaws led by “The Whip” terrorize the countryside and the Range Busters get into the gang to stop them. Okay “Range Buster” series affair with a bit too much humor although Glenn Strange and Robert Kortman are great in villainous roles; some footage later used in Bullets and Saddles (q.v.).

Fugitives of the Frontier see Frontier Fugitives

Fugitive’s Run see Cowboy’s Run

1476  El Fugitivo (The Fugitive)  Productora Filmica Mexico, 1966. 95 min. Color. D: Emilio Gomez Muriel. SC: Emilio Gomez Muriel and Alfred Ruanova. With Luis Aguilar, Lucha Villa, Amparo Rivelles, Alma Delia Fuentes, Jorge Russek, Jose Chavez, Rita Macedo, Victor Alcocer, Ramon Bugarini, Raul Ramirez, Arturo Castro “Bigoton,” Roberto Canedo, Arturo Correa, Rafael del Rio. Falsely convicted of a crime, a man plots revenge against the former friend whose testimony put him in prison. Okay Mexican Western featuring the masked hero Black Rider.

1477  Full House for the Devil  Devon Film/Flora Film, 1968. 87 min. Color. D: Giovanni Fago. SC: Ernesto Gastaldi. With George Hilton, Paul Stevens (Paolo Gozlino), Claudie Lange, Gerard Herter, Krista Nell, Carlo Gaddi, Aldo Cecconi, Paul Muller, Ferruccio Viotti, Rex Purdom, Gill Rolland, Angela Ellison, Adriana Giuffre, Pietro Tordi, Ugo Adinolfi, Silvio Bagolini, Robert Anthony (Espartaco Santoni), Aldolfo Belletti, Renato Pinciroli, Mirko Valentin, Rodolfo Valadier, Franco Aloisi, Pino Sciacqua, Freddy Unger. An effete gunman and a bumbling bandit form an alliance to take revenge on the land speculator who murdered a minister. Standard Spaghetti Western with a violent shootout; filmed in Italy and issued there as Uno di Piu all’Inferno (One More to Hell) and also called To Hell and Back.

1478  The Furies  Paramount, 1950. 109 min. D: Anthony Mann. SC: Charles Schnee. With Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey, Gilbert Roland, Judith Anderson, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Movita, Myrna Dell, Charles Evans, Craig Kelly, Eddy Waller, Arthur Hunnicutt, Nolan Leary, Jane Novak, Pepe Hern, Lou Steele, Rosemary Petit, James Davies, Douglas Grange, Joe Dominguez, Sam Finn. A stubborn, self-made cattle rancher clashes with the strong willed daughter he cannot control. None-too-interesting psychological Western with a lot of hidden undertones for those with a symbolic bent.

1479  The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family  Pacific International, 1978. 105 min. Color. D: Frank Zuniga. SC: Arthur R. Dubs. With Robert Logan, Susan Damante Shaw, Hollye Holmes, Ham Larsen, George “Buck” Flowers, Brian Cutler. A modern-day family, having deserted the big city for the pioneer life in the Rocky Mountains, further experiences the joys and tribulations of going through a harsh winter. The second of a three part series and just as good as the others; preceded by The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (q.v.) and followed by Mountain Family Robinson (q.v.). Also called Wilderness Family, Part Two.

1480  Fury at Furnace Creek  20th Century–Fox, 1948. 88 min. D: H. Bruce Humberstone. SC: Charles G. Booth. With Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Reginald Gardiner, Albert Dekker, Fred Clark, Charles Kemper, Robert Warwick, George Cleveland, Roy Roberts, Willard Robertson, Griff Barnett, Frank Orth, J. Farrell MacDonald, Jay Silverheels, Robert Adler, Mauritz Hugo, Howard Negley, Harry Carter, Harlan Briggs, Si Jenks, Guy Wilkerson, Edmund Cobb, Kermit Maynard, Paul Newlan, Ted Mapes, George Chesebro, Al Hill, Minerva Urecal, Ray Teal, Alan Bridge, Oscar O’Shea, Jerry Miley. A man tries to prove his father did not cause a massacre and uncovers evidence that three no-accounts were the real culprits. Routine oater with Victor Mature trying hard as the avenger.

1481  Fury at Gunsight Pass  Columbia, 1956. 68 min. D: Fred F. Sears. SC: David Lang. With David Brian, Neville Brand, Richard Long, Lisa Davis, Kathleen Warren, Percy Helton, Morris Ankrum, Addison Richards, Joe Forte, Wally Vernon, Paul E. Burns, Frank Fenton, James Anderson, George Keymas, Robert Anderson, I. Stanford Jolley, Harry Harvey. When a wedding halts their attempt to rob a bank, an outlaw gang decides to take over the town. An out-of-the ordinary plot adds some spice to this low budget affair from producer Wallace MacDonald.

1482  Fury at Showdown  United Artists, 1957. 75 min. D: Gerd Oswald. SC: Jason Thomas. With John Derek, John Smith, Carolyn Craig, Nick Adams, Gage Clarke, Robert Griffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Rusty Lane, Frances Morris, Tyler MacDuff, Robert Adler, Norman Leavitt, Ken Christy. A one-time outlaw is branded a coward for refusing to use a gun but when a bad man takes his girl hostage he comes to her defense. Brooding Western with fine performances.

1483  Fury in Paradise  Filmmakers/Alfonso Sanchez-Tello, 1956. 77 min. Color. D-SC: George Bruce. With Peter Thompson, Carlos Rivas, Rea Iturbi, Eduardo Noriega, Felipe Nolan, Claud Brooks. An American tourist in Mexico nearly ends up before a firing squad after getting involved with a man and his pretty daughter, who turn out to be revolutionaries. Low budget melodrama filmed in Mexico.

1484  Fury of the Apaches  Castilla, 1966. 84 min. Color. D: Joe Lacy (Jose M. Elorrieta). SC: Jose M. Elorrieta and Jose Luis Navarro. With Frank Latimore, Yvonne Bastion, Georges Gordon, Liza Moreno, George Martin, Angel Ortiz, Nuria Torray, Jesus Puente. A cavalry unit rescues settlers attacked by Indians and they are taken to a nearby fort to await another assault. Adequate Spanish-made oater also called Apache Fury; a remake of Massacre at Fort Perdition (q.v.).

1485  Fury River  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962. 74 min. D: Jacques Tourneur, Alan Crosland, Jr., Joe Waggner and Otto Lang. SC: Gerald Drayson Adams, Anthony Ellis and Sloan Nibley. With Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Philip Tonge, Lisa Davis, Larry Chance, Jim Hayward, Pat Hogan, Lisa Gaye, Harry Lauter, Luis Van Rooten, Denny Miller, Paul Picerni, Rayford Barnes. Rogers’ Rangers search for a waterway to the ocean while they battle the French and Indians in frontier Canada. Average telefeature from episodes of “Northwest Passage” (NBC-TV, 1958–59) and issued abroad theatrically.

1486  Fuzzy Settles Down  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Louise Rousseau. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patti McCarthy, Charles King, John Merton, Frank McCarroll, Robert Hill, Ted Mapes, Tex Palmer, Ed Peil, Sr., John Elliott, Hal Price, Horace B. Carpenter, Ray Jones, Artie Ortego, Wally West, Steve Clark, Ben Corbett, John Cason, Holly Bane, Herman Hack, Dan White, Jack Tornek, Morgan Flowers, George Morrell, Ray Henderson, Chick Hannon, Jimmy Aubrey, Hank Bell, Silver Tip Baker. Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones capture two notorious outlaws and Fuzzy uses his portion of the reward money to buy a newspaper in a town where the citizens want a telegraph line in order to break up a gang of rustlers. Low grade but entertaining.

1487  The Gal Who Took the West  Universal-International, 1949. 84 min. Color. D: Frederick De Cordova. SC: William Bowers and Oscar Brodney. With Yvonne De Carlo, Scott Brady, Charles Coburn, John Russell, Myrna Dell, James Millican, Clem Bevans, Bob Stevenson, Houseley Stevenson, Robin Short, Russell Simpson, John Litel, James Todd, Edward Earle, Jack Ingram, Francis McDonald, Glenn Strange, William Tannen, Steve Darrell, Pierce Lyden, Ross Elliott, John James, Howard Negley, Charles Cane, William Haade, Louise Lorimer, Forrest Taylor, Paul Brinegar, House Peters, Jr., Russ Whiteman, Roger Moore, Forbes Murray, Gary Teague, Richard Farmer, Martin Cichy, Audrey Young, Ann Pierce, Jane Fulton, Patricial Hall, Charles Jordan, George Stern, William Donnelly, Steve Crandall, Jon Riffel, Fraser McWinn, Peggy Leon, Ella Ethridge, Vera Kirman, William Norton Bailey, David Alison, Mildred Sellers, Louise Bates, Philip Ahn, Helen Dickson, Harlan Hoagland, Chalky Williams, Paul Palmer, Patrick Griffin. An opera singer comes to Arizona in the 1890s and two feuding brothers fall in love with her. Seriocomic Western is not good on either count; mediocre.

1488  The Gallant Defender  Columbia, 1935. 60 min. D: David Selman. SC: Ford Beebe. With Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Harry Woods, Ed LeSaint, Jack Clifford, Alan Bridge, George Chesebro, Edmund Cobb, Frank Ellis, Jack Rockwell, Tom London, Stanley Blystone, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Len Slye [Roy Rogers], Tim Spencer, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Lew Meehan, Merrill McCormick, Glenn Strange, Al Ferguson, Slim Whitaker, Bud Osborne, George Billings, Buck Connors, Oscar Gahan, Jack Kirk, Richard Botiller, Bud McClure, Al Haskell, Chuck Baldra, Ray Jones, Tom Smith, Pascale Perry, Bob Card. A cowboy helps homesteaders harassed by cattlemen who do not want them to settle on their range land. Charles Starrett’s initial series film is a sturdy affair enhanced by Ford Beebe’s fine script.

1489  The Gallant Fool  Monogram, 1933. 61 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert North Bradbury and Harry O. (Fraser) Jones. With Bob Steele, Arletta Duncan, John Elliott, Theodore Lorch, Perry Murdock, George Hayes, Si Jenks, Art Mix, George Nash, Pascale Perry, Vane Calvert, Anne Howard, Herman Hack, Blackie Whiteford, Bob Burns, Billy Franey, Dick Dickinson, Steve Clemente, Silvertip Baker. After being falsely accused of murder, a man takes refuge in a circus with his small son. Nicely done and action filled Bob Steele vehicle.

1490  The Gallant Legion  Republic, 1946. 88 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Gerald Adams. With William Elliott, Adrian Booth, Joseph Schildkraut, Bruce Cabot, Andy Devine, Jack Holt, Adele Mara, Grant Withers, James Brown, Hal Taliaferro, Russell Hicks, Herbert Rawlinson, Marshall Reed, Harry Woods, Roy Barcroft, Bud Osborne, Hank Bell, Jack Ingram, George Chesebro, Jack Perrin, Noble Johnson, Rex Lease, John Hamilton, Emmett Vogan, Trevor Bardette, Gene Roth, Ferris Taylor, Iron Eyes Cody, Kermit Maynard, Jack Kirk, Merrill McCormick, Fred Kohler, Glenn Strange, Tex Terry, Joseph Crehan, Lester Sharpe. When a crooked politician tries to split Texas in half by disbanding the Texas Rangers, a lawman attempts to stop him and is helped by a female reporter. Very fine William Elliott film, strong in story, action and cast.

1491  Galloping Dynamite  Ambassador, 1937. 58 min D: Harry Fraser. SC: Sherman Lowe and Charles Condon. With Kermit Maynard, Ariane Allen, John Merton, John Ward, Stanley Blystone, David Sharpe, Earl Dwire, Francis Walker, Tracy Layne, Bob Burns, Allen Greer, Budd Buster, Bruce Mitchell, Oscar Gahan. A Texas Ranger finds out three men have murdered his prospector brother to get a ranch containing a valuable vein of gold. Kermit Maynard joins the legion of singing cowboys in this average outing.

1492  Galloping Gallagher  Film Booking Offices (FBO), 1924. 50 min. D: Albert S. Rogell. SC: Marion Jackson. With Fred Thomson, Hazel Keener, Frank Hagney, Nelson McDowell, Shorty Hendrix, Andy Morris, Lew Meehan, Bob Reeves, George F. Marion, Silver King (horse). A newly elected sheriff, with the help of his horse, rids a town of outlaws and saves a lady preacher from the clutches of their leader, a crooked banker. Fast paced Fred Thomson film that only survives in a 29-minute version.

1493  Galloping On  Action/Weiss Brothers/Artclass, 1925. 53 min. D: Richard Thorpe. SC: Frank L. Ingraham and Betty Burbridge. With Wally Wales, Jessie Cruzon, Louise Lester, Charles “Slim” Whitaker, Richard Belfield, Gretchen Waterman, Art Phillips, Lawrence Underwood. Returning home after being falsely sent to prison, a man learns the crook who framed him, now the town banker, wants to send him back and he is helped by a young girl in getting evidence against the bad man. A good silent “B” item with a top notch performance by Wally Wales in the lead role.

1494  Galloping Romeo  Monogram, 1933. 60 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Harry O. (Fraser) Jones. With Bob Steele, Doris Hill, George Hayes, Frank Ball, Ernie Adams, Lafe McKee, Ed Brady, George Nash, Earl Dwire, Hal Price, Dick Dickinson, Tex Palmer, Silvertip Baker. A cowboy teams with an old timer to prove his innocence when he is unjustly accused of a crime. Okay Bob Steele outing that has too much footage from his previous films.

1495  Galloping Through  Sunset, 1923. 50 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Jack Hoxie, Priscilla Banner, William Lester, Lorraine Lorimer, William McCall, Tom Lingham, Janet Ford, Scout (horse). A cowpoke helps a family of homesteaders when the husband is accused of a crime he did not commit. Jack Hoxie vehicle his fans will like.

1496  Galloping Thru  Monogram, 1932. 58 min. D: Lloyd Nosler. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, Alan Bridge, Si Jenks, Stanley Blystone, G.D. Woods (Gordon DeMain), John Elliott, Artie Ortego, Art Mix. A cowboy returns home to see his father murdered and tries to find the assailant. Low grade, but action filled, Tom Tyler outing.

1497  Galloping Thunder  Columbia, 1946. 54 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Adelle Roberts, Merle Travis and His Bronco Busters, Richard Bailey, Edmund Cobb, Kermit Maynard, Ray Bennett, Curt Barrett, John Merton, Nolan Leary, Budd Buster, Forrest Taylor, Merrill McCormick, Roy Butler, Bob Reeves, Gordon Harrison. Outlaws are preventing ranchers from shipping mustang herds to the government for Army use and an agent, the Durango Kid, is sent to investigate. Only a passable effort in the “Durango Kid” series.

1498  Gallowwalker  Intandem Films, 2010. 90 min. Color. D: Andrew Goth. SC: Andrew Goth and Joanne Reay. With Wesley Snipes, Tanit Phoenix, Riley Smith, Patrick Bergin, Dallas Page, Jenny Gago, Simona Brhikova, Alvssa Pridham, Kevin Howarth, Steven Elder, Alex Avant, Hector Hank, Jack Bowyer, Arthur Berenzin, Jonathan Garcia, Joe Zmztsky, Vito Vilonel, Sean Naude, Pierre Roos, William Venter, Shani Maritz, Derek Soutwork, Vicky Moller-Forbes, Frederick Haraseb, Roberto Husselmann, Derek Griffith, Martin Strauss, Wotan Swiegers. A cursed gunman, hunted by a band of outlaws he shot and killed, is aided by a young warrior. So-so horror Western.

The Gambler see Kenny Rogers as the Gambler

The Gambler—The Adventure Continues see Kenny Rogers as the Gambler—The Adventure Continues

The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues see Kenny Rogers as the Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues

1499  The Gambler from Natchez  20th Century–Fox, 1954. 88 min. Color. D: Henry Levin. SC: Gerald Drayson Adams and Irving Wallace. With Dale Robertson, Debra Paget, Kevin McCarthy, Thomas Gomez, Lisa Davis, Douglas Dick, John Wengraf, Jay Novello, Woody Strode, Peter Mamakos, Donald Randolph. When a man is falsely accused of cheating at cards and gunned down by three men, his son plans to avenge his murder. Entertaining frontier drama set in the 1840s.

1500  The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw  NBC-TV, 1991. 240 min. Color. D: Dick Lowry. SC: Jeb Rosebrook and Joe Byrne. With Kenny Rogers, Rick Rossovich, Reba McEntire, Claude Akins, Dion Anderson, Gene Barry, Paul Brinegar, Jere Burns, David Carradine, Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Juli Donald, James Drury, Linda Evans, Brian Keith, Jack Kelly, Patrick Macnee, Doug McClure, Hugh O’Brian, Park Overall, Christopher Rich, Mickey Rooney, Brad Sullivan, Dub Taylor, Clint Walker, Lisa Rieffel, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Zelda Rubinstein, Ray McKinnon, Alma Martinez, Teri Copley, Kent Broadhurst, Mary Cadorette, Melissa Hurley, Tammy Anderson, Marianne Gordon, Christopher Cody Rogers, Sean Staek, Dell Young, Jorge Cervera, Jr., Sam Whippie, Tim Choate, Kelly Junkerman, Ann Gillespie, Debra Christofferson, Norman Large, Pepper Sweeney, Mike Pniewski, Kevin Furlong, Dean Cochran, Don S. Davis, Pete Antico, Max Grodenchik, Rex Linn, John Fleck, Kelley Menighan Hensley, Jack Lilley, Doug McDonald. After winning a big game, a gambler and his four madam financial backers head to San Francisco for one final high stakes play but they are pursued by outlaws who want their money. Enjoyable, nostalgic TV Western with several series actors (Gene Barry, Paul Brinegar, David Carradine, Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, James Drury, Brian Keith, Jack Kelly, Doug McClure, Hugh O’Brian, Clint Walker) reprising their noted small screen characters.

1501  The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger  Hallmark Channel, 2009. 95 min. Color. D: Anne Wheeler. SC: Bob Barbash and Larry Cohen. With Dean Cain, James Tupper, Allison Hossack, Keith Mackechnie, Michael Eklund, John Desantis, Teach Grant, Serge Houde, Alejandro Abellan, Garwin Sanford, Sheldon Yamkovy, Quentin Schneider, Eli Zaquodakis, Jonathan Field, Kyle Thomson, Mike Mitchell, Dean Wray, John Shield, Raugi Yu, Chad Krowchuk. Two rival gamblers win a ranch and both want the same woman but end up uniting to fend off bandits. Pleasant TV Western comedy.

1502  The Gambler Wore a Gun  United Artists, 1961. 66 min. D: Edward L. Cahn. SC: Owen Harris. With Jim Davis, Merry Anders, Mark Allen, Addison Richards, Don Dorrell, Robert Anderson, Keith Richards, John Craig, Charles Cane, Joe McGuinn, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Boyd Stockman, Jack Kenney, Brad Trumbull. An honest gambler buys a ranch but cannot take possession because the owner died without signing the final papers, and in trying to help the dead man’s children he learns the place is being used by outlaws for hiding stolen cattle. Competent programmer remake of The Lone Gun (q.v.).

1503  The Gambling Terror  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton and Fred Myton. With Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Charles King, Ted Adams, Earl Dwire, Dick Curtis, Horace Murphy, Bobby Nelson, Frank Ellis, Frank Ball, Budd Buster, Lloyd Ingraham, Sherry Tansey, Steve Clark, George Morrell, Art Dillard, Tex Palmer, Jack Montgomery, Herman Hack, Oscar Gahan, Buck Morgan, Clyde McClary, Ray Henderson, Roy Bucko. A man pretends to be a gambler to stop a crook running a cattle protection racket. Okay Johnny Mack Brown entry in his series for producer A.W. Hackel.

1504  Gangs of Sonora  Republic, 1941. 56 min. D: John English. SC: Albert De Mond and Doris Schroeder. With Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, June Johnson, Bud McTaggart, Helen MacKellar, Robert Frazer, William Farnum, Budd Buster, Hal Price, Wally West, Bud Osborne, Bud Geary, Jack Kirk, Griff Barnett, Curley Dresden, Burr Caruth, Max Waizmann, Jack O’Shea, Al Taylor, Buddy Roosevelt, Herman Hack, Jack Lawrence. Three cowboys come to the aid of newspaperwoman Kansas Kate after a dishonest rival tries to take over her business. Pleasing outing for “The Three Mesquiteers.”

1505  Gangster’s Den  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945. 55 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Sidney Logan, Charles King, I. Stanford Jolley, Emmett Lynn, Kermit Maynard, Ed Cassidy, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Bob (John) Cason, Michael Owen, Wally West, Herman Hack, Steve Clark, Jimmy Aubrey, Artie Ortego, Frank McCarroll, Art Fowler, Jack Montgomery, Morgan Flowers, Art Mix, Matty Roubert, Jack Evans, Horace B. Carpenter, Foxy Callahan, Victor Cox, Rube Dalroy. Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones help a young woman whose ranch is coveted by a crook. Good “Billy Carson” series entry with Charles King not playing a villain for a change; here he is a lovable drunk in a brief, but hilarious, barroom sequence.

1506  Gangsters of the Frontier  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 58 min. D-SC: Elmer Clifton. With Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Patti McCarty, Harry Harvey, Betty Miles, I. Stanford Jolley, Marshall Reed, Clarke Stevens, Charles King, Ted Mapes, Henry Hall, Wally West, Robert Barron, Herman Hack, Victor Cox, Ray Henderson, Lew Morphy, George Morrell, Jack Evans. The Texas Rangers come to a small town taken over by two brothers, prison escapees who are forcing the townspeople to work in the local mines. Dreary entry in “The Texas Rangers” series although Tex Ritter does well by the songs, including “Please Remember Me” and “Ride, Ranger, Ride.” British title: Raiders of the Frontier.

1507  Garden of Evil  20th Century–Fox, 1954. 100 min. Color. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Frank Fenton. With Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Fernando Wagner, Arturo Soto Bangel, Manuel Donde, Antonio Bribiesca, Salvado Terroba. A woman hires three soldiers of fortune to find her husband who disappeared in the Mexican gold fields. Fans of the stars will have a good time with this steamy melodrama.

1508  Garringo  Interpeninsular, 1969. 84 min. Color. D: Rafael Romero Merchant. SC: Joaquin Romero Merchant and Vittorio Salerno. With Anthony Steffen, Peter Lee Lawrence, Solvi Stubing, Jose Bodalo, Raf Baldassarre, Luis Barboo, Frank Brana, Luis Marin, Luis Induni, Barta Barri, Alfonso Rojas, Tito Garcia, Rossana Rovere, Marta Monterrey, Lorenzo Robelod, Antonio Molino Rojo, Guillermo Mendez, Xan das Bolas, Carlos Romero Merchant, Mario Morales. A merciless Army lieutenant is assigned to hunt down the gunman who killed a fellow officer. Somewhat different Spaghetti Western in that the madman hates all officers because some of them executed his father years before; also called Dead Are Countless.

1509  The Gas House Kids Go West  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1947. 62 min. D: William Beaudine. SC: Robert E. Kent, Robert A. McGowan and Eugene Conrad. With Chili Williams, John Sheldon, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Vince Barnett, Bennie Bartlett, Tommy Bond, Emory Parnell, William Wright, Lela Bliss, Ronn Martin, Ray Dalcianne, Rudy Wissler. Youngsters win a trip to California so they deliver a car to a dealer but they find out the auto has been stolen. Typical low grade segment in PRC’s “Gas House Kids” series.

1510  The Gatling Gun  Ellman Enterprises, 1971. 93 min. Color. D: Robert Gordon. SC: Joseph Van Winkle and Mark Hanna. With Guy Stockwell, Robert Fuller, Barbara Luna, Woody Strode, Patrick Wayne, Pat Buttram, John Carradine, Phil Harris, Judy Jordan, Carlos Rivas, Tommy Cooke, Steve Conte. A cavalry officer and his men must protect a gatling gun and a westward bound family from marauding Indians. Action filled tale with well staged battle scenes.

1511  The Gaucho  United Artists, 1928. 95 min. D: F. Richard Jones. SC: Lotta Woods. With Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Geraine Greer, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Michael Vavitch, Charles Stevens, Nigel de Brulier, Albert MacQuarrie, Mary Pickford. A gaucho is turned over to the law by the one who loves him because she is jealous of his interest in a “miracle girl.” Fun, fast moving Douglas Fairbanks romp.

1512  Gaucho Serenade  Republic, 1940. 66 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Betty Burbridge and Bradford Ropes. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Duncan Renaldo, Cliff Severn, Jr., Lester Matthews, Smith Ballew, Joseph Crehan, William Ruhl, Wade Boteler, Ted Adams, Fred Burns, Jean Porter, Julian Rivero, George Lloyd, Ed Cassidy, Olaf Hytten, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Jack Kirk, Harry Strang, Hank Worden, Jim Corey, Tom London, Walter Miller, Frankie Marvin, Gene Morgan, Al Taylor. Gene Autry and his pals get mixed up with a group of show girls and a pompous singing cowboy. Limp and action less Gene Autry film that did produce the title song and “The Singing Hills,” both hit records for the star and Dick Todd. Reissued as Keep Rollin’.

1513  Gauchos of El Dorado  Republic, 1941. 56 min. D: Lester Orleback. SC: Albert DeMond. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Lois Collier, Duncan Renaldo, Yakima Canutt, Norman Willis, Rosina Galli, William Ruhl, Edmund Cobb, Eddie Dean, Terry Frost, John Merton, Si Jenks, Ted Mapes, Bob Woodward, Horace B. Carpenter, Tony Roux, Ray Bennett, Virginia Farmer, Jack Holmes, Al Taylor, Bud Geary, Matt Roubert, Roy Bucko, Ray Jones, Lynton Brent, Bob Burns. A dishonest banker and his cohorts try to cheat a woman out of her ranch in order to get its rich bauxite deposits but they are opposed by the Three Mesquiteers. Another fast episode in the long running Republic series; one of four remakes of Gun Law (1933) [q.v.].

1514  El Gavilan Pollero (The Chicken Hawk)  Mier and Brooks, 1950. 107 min. D-SC: Rogelio A. Gonzalez. With Pedro Infante, Lilia Prado, Antonio Badu, Ana Maria Villasenor, Armando Arriola, Jose Munoz, Heckor Mateos, Victor Alcocer. A singing adventurer is pitted against his friend by the woman he loves. Okay Mexican musical comedy Western.

1515  Los Gavilanes Negros (The Black Sparrowhawks)  Filmadora Chapultepec, 1966. 85 min. D: Chano Urueta. SC: Pedro Galindo, Jr. and Jose Maria Fernandez Unsain. With Luis Aguilar, Irma Serrano, Fernando Casanova, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Ramon Bugarini, Guillermo Rivas, Carlos Leon, Notahel (Nathanael) Leon, Armando Acosta, Jose Luis Fernandez, Felipe del Castillo, Carlos Guarneros “Don Cuco.” A woman falls in love with a man who has been hurt by love in the past and refuses to become involved in romance. Routine Mexican romantic Western comedy.

1516  The Gay Amigo  United Artists, 1949. 62 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Doris Schroeder. With Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Armida, Joseph Sawyer, Fred Kohler, Jr., Walter Baldwin, Kenneth MacDonald, George DeNormand, Clayton Moore, Fred Crane, Helen Servis, Bud Osborne, Sam Flint, Beverly Jons, Al Ferguson, David Sharpe, Lee Tong Foo, Dick Elliott, Billy Wayne. The Cisco Kid and Pancho are blamed by the cavalry for a series of robberies committed by a gang disguised as Mexicans and masterminded by two corrupt businessmen. Fast moving “Cisco Kid” dual bill item. TV title: The Daring Rogue.

1517  The Gay Buckaroo  Allied, 1932. 61 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Philip Graham White. With Hoot Gibson, Merna Kennedy, Roy D’Arcy, Ed Peil, Sr. Charles King, Lafe McKee, Sidney DeGrey, Skeeter Bill Robbins, The Hoot Gibson Cowboys, Glenn Strange, Maston Williams, Kit Guard, Ben Corbett, George Sowards, Lem Sowards, Milton Brown, William Gillis, Goober Glenn. A rancher and a gambler are rivals for the love of a pretty girl. Hoot Gibson opus that is on the slow side.

1518  The Gay Caballero  Fox, 1932. 60 min. D: Alfred Werker. SC: Barry Conners and Philip Klein. With George O’Brien, Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro, Linda Watkins, C. Henry Gordon, Weldon Heyburn, Willard Robertson, Martin Garralaga, Juan Torena, Al Garcia, Cecilia Parker, Lew Meehan, Charles Stevens, Wesley Giraud, Harry Semels, George Reed. A college football hero returns to his Western ranch home to find a crooked Mexican cattle baron has taken control of his family and their money. Well made and entertaining George O’Brien vehicle.

1519  The Gay Caballero  20th Century–Fox, 1940. 58 min. D: Otto Brower. SC: Albert Duffy and John Larkin. With Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Chris-Pin Martin, Robert Sterling, Janet Beecher, Edmund MacDonald, Jacqueline Dalya, Hooper Atchley, C. Montague Shaw, Ethan Laidlaw, George Magrill, LeRoy Mason, Jim Pierce, John Byron, Tom London, Dave Morris, Jack Stoney, Lee Shumway, Frank Lackteen. The Cisco Kid comes to the rescue of a young woman being swindled out of her ranch by two crooks. Delightful “Cisco Kid” feature that moves along at a fast clip.

1520  The Gay Cavalier  Monogram, 1946. 65 min. D: William Nigh. SC: Charles Belden. With Gilbert Roland, Ramsay Ames, Martin Garralaga, Nacho Galindo, Helen Gerald, Drew Allen, Tristram Coffin, Iris Flores, John Merton, Frank LaRue, Ray Bennett, Artie Ortego, Pierre Andre, Joseph Burlando, Iris Bocignon, Terry Frost, Pierce Lyden, Dusty Rhodes, Delmar Costello, Ralph Johns, Alex Montoya, Jack La Tour, Gabriel Peralta, Bob Butt, Mike J. Rodriguez, Clem Fuller, Lynton Brent, Elvira Aldana, George J. Lewis, Wally West, Dorothy Michaels, Don Driggers, Ernie Adams, Jack Cheatham, Larry Steers, Dee Cooper, Eddie Majors, Ted Mapes. When a rancher is plagued by outlaw attacks the Cisco Kid comes to his defense. Gilbert Roland is dashing as Cisco, Ramsay Ames is nice to look at and the Roland-Tristram Coffin sword fight is exciting, but overall this “Cisco Kid” entry is only passable entertainment.

1521  The Gay Desperado  United Artists, 1936. 88 min. D: Rouben Mamoulian. SC: Wallace Smith. With Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber, Mischa Auer, Stanley Fields, James Blakeley, Paul Hurst, Adrian Rosley, Allan Garcia, Frank Puglia, Michael Visaroff, Chris-Pin Martin, Harry Semels, George Du Count, Alphonso Pedroza, Len Brixton, Travolores Chinacos, M. Alvarez Maciste. A Mexican bandit, influenced by American gangster movies, kidnaps a singing caballero along with a feisty heiress and her fiance. Picturesque musical-comedy spoof of Westerns and gangster films; pleasant entertainment highlighted by Nino Martini’s singing.

1522  The Gay Ranchero  Republic, 1948. 72 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Nibley. With Roy Rogers, Tito Guizar, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Estelita Rodriguez, George Meeker, LeRoy Mason, Dennis Moore, Keith Richards, Betty Gagnon, Robert Rose, Ken Terrell, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Doye O’Dell, Tim Spencer, Pat Brady, Hugh and Karl Farr), David Sharpe. A lawman and a bullfighter team to thwart hijackers after gold shipments from taking over an airport. Pleasant Roy Rogers musical Western.

1523  Gene Autry and the Mounties  Columbia, 1951. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elena Verdugo, Carleton Young, Herbert Rawlinson, Richard Emory, Trevor Bardette, Francis McDonald, Jim Frasher, Gregg Barton, House Peters, Jr., Jody Gilbert, Nolan Leary, Boyd Stockman, Teddy Infuhr, Billy Gray, Roy Butler, Chris Allen. Two Montana marshals joins forces with a Mounted Policeman to bring in a bank robber. Average, but scenic, Gene Autry vehicle.

1524  General Custer at Little Big Horn  Sunset, 1926. 60 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Carrie E. Rawles and L.V. O’Connor. With Roy Stewart, Helen Lynch, Edmund Cobb, John Beck, Arthur Morrison, Nora Lindley, Andre Farneur. A scout and an evil Army captain both romance a pioneer girl with the military man causing an Indian uprising that leads to the Battle of Little Big Horn. Considering its limited budget, this silent historical romance from producer Anthony J. Xydias is pretty good; also called With General Custer at Little Big Horn and With Custer at Little Big Horn.

Genius see A Genius, Two Friends and an Idiot

1525  A Genius, Two Friends and an Idiot  Tobis Filmkunst, 1975. 126 min. Color. D: Damiano Damiani. SC: Damiano Damiani, Ernesto Gastaldi and Fulvio Morsella. With Terence Hill, Patrick McGoohan, Miou Miou, Robert Charlebois, Raimund Harmstorf, Piero Vida, Rik Battaglia, Mario Valgoi, Mario Brega, Frederick von Ledebur, Jean Martin, Klaus Kinski, Clara Colosimo, Ferdinando Cerulli, Benito Stefanelli, Renato Baldini, Roy Bosier, Gerard Boucaron, Miriam Mahler, Carla Cassola, Vittorio Fanfoni, Armando Bottin, Valerio Ruggeri, Lina Franchi, Pietro Torrisi, Karl Braun. A crook teams with a dim-witted half-breed and a none too bright young woman to cheat an Army major out of $300,000 but end up caught in an Indian attack. Light hearted French-Italian-West German Spaghetti Western filmed as Un Genio, due Compari, un Pollo (A Genius, Two Friends, a Dupe) and also known as Genius and Trinity Is Back Again.

1526  Gentle Annie  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1944. 80 min. D: Andrew Martin. SC: Lawrence Hazard. With James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Barton MacLane, Morris Ankrum, Henry (Harry) Morgan, Paul Langton, John Philliber, Noah Beery, Frank Darien, Robert Emmett O’Connor, John Merton, Lee Phelps, Arthur Space, Norman Willis, Lee Shumway, Art Miles, Jack Clifford, Wade Crosby, Charles Williams, Jim Farley. A woman and her two sons commit a series of robberies and are tracked by a marshal disguised as a bum. Low key and amusing production with Marjorie Main stealing the show as the outlaw gang leader; based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor.

1527  Gentle Savage  Cinemation Industries, 1973. 85 min. Color. D-SC: Sean MacGregor. With William Smith, Gene Evans, Joe Flynn, Barbara Luna, R.G. Armstrong, Ned Romero, Henry Brandon, Robert Tessier, Arch Johnson, Kevin Hagen, Betty Ann Carr, Cody Bearpaw, Richard Schuyler, Larry Watson, Robert Reynolds, Darlene Conley, C.J. Hincks, Owen Orr, Robert Reynolds. In order to cover up the rape and murder of his stepdaughter, a man blames the crimes on an Indian who is hunted by two lawmen. Pretty good drama produced by star William Smith.

1528  The Gentleman from Arizona  Monogram, 1939. 71 min. Color. D: Earl Haley. SC: Earl Haley and Jack O’Donnell. With John King, Joan Barclay, J. Farrell MacDonald, Craig Reynolds, Ruthie Reece, Nora Lane, Johnny Morris, Doc Pardee. A wandering cowboy comes to a ranch looking for a job and ends up entering a big horse race. Innocuous little programmer shot in an early Cinecolor process.

Gentleman from California see The Californian

1529  The Gentleman from Texas  Monogram, 1946. 55 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Claudia Drake, Reno Blair, Christine McIntyre, Tristram Coffin, Marshall Reed, Ted Adams, Frank LaRue, Steve Clark, Terry Frost, Tom Carter, Jack Rockwell, Lynton Brent, Pierce Lyden, Curt Barrett and The Trailsmen, George Morrell, Artie Ortego, Wally West, Chick Hannon, Rube Dalroy. Two lawmen arrive in a town where a crook has taken over by bullying the citizens. Nicely done Johnny Mack Brown entry with Tristram Coffin especially good as the bad man.

1530  Gentleman Killer  Castilla Films, 1967. 97 min. Color. D: George Finley (Giorgio Stegani). SC: Jaime J. Balcazar. With Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Silvia Solar, Vidal Molina, Benito Stefaneli, Angel Lombardo, Gaspar Gonzalez, Antonio Iranzo, Anna Orso, Frank Oliveras, Juan Torres, Luis Barboo, Joaquin Blanco, Raul Aparici, Tomas Torres, Carlos Frigola, Isidro Martin, Jose Halufi, Valentino Macchi. A stranger looking for his brother’s killer rides into a disputed border town ruled by marauding outlaws. Lots of fast action and a good music score by Bruno Nicolai highlight this Italian-Spanish co-production released in Europe as Gentleman Jo...Uccidi (Gentleman Jo...Killer).

1531  Gentlemen with Guns  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 53 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patricia Knox, Steve Darrell, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Budd Buster, Frank Ellis, George Morrell, Herman Hack, Jack Evans, Art Dillard, Bert Dillard. When Fuzzy refuses to sell the water rights on his land, a crook has him framed for murder and Billy Carson rides to the rescue. Not one of the better “Billy Carson” episodes.

1532  Geronimo  Paramount, 1939. 89 min. D-SC: Paul H. Sloane. With Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry, Ralph Morgan, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Gateson, Kitty Kelly, Monte Blue, Addison Richards, Pierre Watkin, Joseph Crehan, Chief Thundercloud, Joe Dominguez, William Haade, Ivan Miller, Frank M. Thomas, Syd Saylor, Richard Denning, Steve Gaylord, Francis Ford, Russell Simpson, Archie Twitchell, Pat West, Cecil Kellogg, Harry Templeton, Guy Wilkerson. An Army captain tries to stop a war between whites and Indians. Trite melodrama made up of lots of stock footage and despite its title Geronimo (Chief Thundercloud) is barely in evidence.

1533  Geronimo  United Artists, 1962. 101 min. Color. D: Arnold Laven. SC: Pat Fielder. With Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Ross Martin, Pat Conway, Adam West, Enid Jaynes, Lawrence Dobkin, Denver Pyle, Armando Silvestre, John Anderson, Joe Higgins, Robert Hughes, Mario Navarro, Bill Hughes, James Burk. After bad treatment from a dishonest Indian agent, Geronimo puts together a small band of braves and plans to attack the U.S. cavalry. Anemic retelling of the Geronimo saga.

1534  Geronimo:  An American Legend  Columbia, 1993. 115 min. Color. D: Walter Hill. SC: John Milius and Larry Gross. With Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon, Rodney A. Grant, Kevin Tighe, Steve Reevis, Carlos Palomino, Victor Aaron, Stuart Proud Eagle Grant, Stephen McHattie, John Finn, Lee de Broux, Rino Thunder, Hoke Howell, Richard Martin, Jr., J. Young, Raleigh Wilson, Jackie Old Coyote, Monty Bass, Pato Hoffman, Scott Crabbe, Patricia Pretzinger, Roger Callard, Juddson Keith Linn, Mark Boone Junior, M.C. Gainey, Michael Ruud, Michael Minjarez, Burnette Bennett, Davina Smith, Jonathan Ward, Luis Contreras, Jacquelin Lee, Jim Manygoats, Scott Wilson, Eva Larson, Jim Beaver. Geronimo and his band of braves break away from the Apache reservation and fight government troops in order to stay free. Fairly well done historical Western; big budget but a box office bust.

1535  Geronimo’s Revenge  Buena Vista, 1965. 61 min. Color. D: James Neilson and Harry Keller. SC: D.P. Harmon. With Tom Tryon, Darryl Hickman, Betty Lynn, Brian Corcoran, Onslow Stevens, Harry Carey, Jr., Allan Lane, Pat Hogan, Charles Maxwell, James Edwards, Annette Gorman, Jay Silverheels. A Texas Ranger tries to help the chief of the Natchez Indians when Geronimo disobeys orders and goes on the warpath. Standard action film originally telecast as a segment of the “Texas John Slaughter” series on Walt Disney’s ABC-TV program on March 4, 1960, and issued abroad theatrically.

1536  Get Mean  Strange Films, 1976. 90 min. Color. D: Ferdinando Baldi. SC: Lloyd Battista and Wolfe Lowenthal. With Tony Anthony, Lloyd Battista, Diana Lorys, Raf Baldassare, David Dreyer, Mirta Miller. A stranger single handedly attacks a fortress, the stronghold of the man who tried to kill him, and finds a treasure. Outlandish, violent Spaghetti Western produced by star Tony Anthony and taking place in Medieval times.

1537  Ghost City  Monogram, 1932. 60 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Helen Forrest, Walter Miller, Charles King, Walter Shumway, Si Jenks, Al Taylor, Kate Campbell, Jack Carlisle, Thomas Curran, Hank Bell. A cowboy helps a young woman who is trying to obtain her rightful gold filed inheritance from a crook. Fair Billy Cody-Andy Shuford series vehicle.

1538  Ghost Dance  Trans World Entertainment, 1980. 96 min. Color. D: Peter F. Buffa. SC: Peter F. Buffa and Robert M. Sutton. With Julie Amato, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal, Frank Sotonoma Salsedo, James Andronica, Patricia Alice Albrecht, Deloris Maaske, J. Christopher Senter, Henry Max Kendrick, Felicia Leon, Ramon Chavez, Frank A. Soto, Jim Brockett, Kirk Irving Koskella, Susan Carol Stymore, Donald L. Shanks, Quentin Sondergaard, Peter Garcia, Patrick Garcia, Inez Perez, Joe Faust, Gil Escandon, Don Zapian, Laurie Ball. An Indian shaman becomes a mad killer when the spirit of a dead warrior takes over his body. Low grade horror Western.

1539  Ghost Dancing  ABC-TV, 1983. 100 min. Color. D: David Greene. SC: Phil Penningroth. With Dorothy McGuire, Bruce Davison, Bill Erwin, Richard Farnsworth, Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Victoria Racimo, Rod Colbin, Richard Lineback, Karen Machon, Fran Ryan, Sierra Pecheur, John Bellah, Scotch Byerly, Robert Clotworthy, Henry Hamilton, Eleanor Zee. When a city uses its authority to drain the water from a fertile valley, a poor widow rancher destroys the pipeline in hopes of bringing the area’s plight to public attention. Nicely done TV movie enhanced by Dorothy McGuire’s strong performance as the protagonist.

1540  Ghost Guns  Monogram, 1944. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Frank H. Young. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Evelyn Finley, John Merton, Tom Quinn, Sarah Padden, Marshall Reed, Ernie Adams, Jack Ingram, Frank LaRue, Steve Clark, Bob (John) Cason, George Morrell, Riley Hill, Ray Jones, Dick Rush, Jack Evans, Chick Hannon, Dee Cooper, Dick Dickinson. Two U.S. marshals try to get to the bottom of the murders of ranchers and the rustling of their cattle by crooks out to take over a valley because a railroad spur will be built there. Good segment in Johnny Mack Brown’s “Nevada Jack McKenzie” programmers.

1541  Ghost of Crossbones Canyon  Monogram, 1952. 56 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Maurice Tombragel. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Russell Simpson, John Doucette, Bart Davidson, Gordon Jones, Mike Ragan, Ray Bennett, Marjorie Bennett, Sam Flint, Joe Greene, James Guifoyle, Billy Bletcher. On the trail of robbers, Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles arrive in a ghost town allegedly haunted by the spirit of a famous outlaw. Average paste-up feature from two episodes of the “Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58) TV series, “The Tax Collecting Story” and “Ghost Town Story.” Issued theatrically in some areas under the Allied Artists banner.

1542  Ghost of Hidden Valley  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 56 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Ellen Coyle. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Jean Carlin, John Meredith, John Cason, Charles King, Jimmy Aubrey, George Morrell, Bert Dillard, Karl Hackett, Silver Harr, Zon Murray, Bob Burns, Milburn Morante, Wally West, Ray Henderson, Herman Hack, Denver Dixon, Jack Evans. Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones are on the trail of cattle rustlers who use a range belonging to a young married couple to hide stolen herds. Passable “Billy Carson” series entry.

1543  Ghost of Zorro  Republic, 1949. 12 Chapters. D: Fred C. Brannon. SC: Royal Cole, William Lively and Sol Shor. With Clayton Moore, Pamela Blake, Roy Barcroft, George J. Lewis, Gene Roth, John Crawford, I. Stanford Jolley, Steve Clark, Steve Darrell, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Steele, Marshall Reed, Jack O’Shea, Holly Bane, Bob Reeves, Eddie Parker, Stanley Blystone, Joe Yrigoyen, George Chesebro, Charles King, Kenneth Terrell, Robert Wilke, Art Dillard, Frank Ellis, Chuck Roberson. When crooks try to halt the construction of a telegraph line, a descendant of Don Diego takes on the guise of Zorro to stop them. Fast moving cliffhanger released in a feature version in 1959.

1544  Ghost Patrol  Puritan, 1938. 56 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Tim McCoy, Claudia Dell, Walter Miller, Wheeler Oakman, Lloyd Ingraham, Dick Curtis, Slim Whitaker, Artie Ortego, Art Dillard, Frank Ellis, Bruce Mitchell, Jack Cheatham, Blackie Whiteford. A scientist invents a ray machine that outlaws use to bring down mail shipment planes in order to rob them. The sci-fi element adds some zest to this fast moving Tim McCoy vehicle.

1545  The Ghost Rider  Superior/First Division, 1935. 56 min. D: Jack (Jevne) Levine. SC: John West (Jack Jevne). With Rex Lease, Bobby Nelson, Ann Carol, William Desmond, Franklyn Farnum, Art Mix, Bill Patton, Lloyd (Ingraham) Ingram, Blackie (Whiteford) Whitcomb, Roger Williams, Ed (Eddie) Parker, Lafe McKee, Jack (Blackjack) Ward, John Alexander, Ed Coxen, Ernie Adams, Jack Kirk, Denver Dixon. A deputy sheriff after outlaws finds himself helped by a ghostly masked phantom. Cheap Louis Weiss production enhanced by its mystery plot.

1546  The Ghost Rider  Monogram, 1943. 54 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Beverly Boyd, Harry Woods, Charles King, Edmund Cobb, Bud Osborne, Milburn Morante, George Morrell, Tom Seidel, Artie Ortego, George DeNormand, Bill Hunter, Wally West, Bill Nestell, Jack Daley, Horace B. Carpenter, Ray Miller, Art Fowler, Jess Cavin, Herman Hack, Foxy Callahan, Kansas Moehring, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. A man known as “The Ghost Rider” tries to find his father’s killer and teams with a U.S. marshal to catch him. Good start to the “Nevada Jack McKenzie” series starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton.

1547  Ghost Riders  New World, 1987. 85 min. Color. D: Alan L. Stewart. SC: James Desmarais and Clay McBride. With Bill Shaw, Jim Peters, Ricky Long, Cari Powell, Mike Sammns, Arland Bishop, Beverly Cleveland, James Desmarais, Cari Young, Bill Moses, Wade “Jesse” Mason, Steve Fincher, Doc Lipsey, Gerald Stewart, David Miller. Hanged members of an outlaw gang return from the dead to take vengeance on the descendants of those who sent them to the gallows. Low grade horror Western made in Texas.

1548  Ghost Riders  K and K Motion Pictures, 1993. 75 min. Color. D-SC: Ronald Koontz. With Ronald Koontz, Doss Bryant, Vernon Koontz, Barbara Manns, Genia Richardson, Doyle Thomason, Ted Thomason, Barry Rentz, Joel Koontz, Mike Koontz, Danny Branson, Jerry Earles, Steve Thomason, Ronnie Sanders, Roger Leonard, Bart Leonard, Scott Foster, Kermite Omen, Jr., Mark Styers, David Soloman, Todd Carver. Gunfights, bank holdups and cattle drives are retained in the memories of a remote Western town. Obscure production made in North Carolina by writer-director-editor-photographer and star Ronald Koontz.

Ghost Riders of the West see The Phantom Rider (1946)

1549  Ghost Rock  Lion’s Gate, 2004. 101 min. Color. D: Dustin Rikert. SC: Michael Worth. With Gary Busey, Michael Worth, Jeff Fahey, Adrienne Barbeau, Craig Wasson, Jenya Lano, James Hong, John Laughlin, Rance Howard, David Jean Thomas, Christa Sauls, April Hong, Peter Kwong, Michiko Nishiwaki, Daniel Southworth, Shane Lacey, Pauline Hemmer, Mike Vaughn, Conroy Kanter, Renee Roland, Yan Birch, Peggy Seagren, Joyce Westergaard, Shauna Sand-Lamas, Art Monte, Peter Sherayko, Lindy Teague, Dustin Rikert, Wade Rikert, Kyle Rikert, Jonathan DePaz, Sal Cardile, Jennifer Walden, Tom Ford, Greg Debeneditti, Preston Gamblin, Rob Jensen, Bobby Havens, Kathy Messick, Todd Swindell, Matt B. Davis, Jennifer Masisaac, Philip Zabriskie, Holly Baron, Jerusha Rubi, Jamie Vaughan. Two decades after he survived a massacre, a man returns to where it happened and joins forces with a female gunfighter to kill the town boss responsible. Not bad action filled, revenge motivated drama.

1550  Ghost Town  Commodore, 1936. 60 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Monroe Talbot. With Harry Carey, Ruth Findlay, Jane Novak, David Sharpe, Lee Shumway, Ed Cassidy, Roger Williams, Earl Dwire, Phil Dunham, Chuck Morrison, Sonny (horse). When claim jumpers go after a mine, a cowboy tries to help its owner. Low budget but quite satisfying Harry Carey film from producer William Berke.

Ghost Town (1941) see The Lone Rider in Ghost Town

1551  Ghost Town  United Artists, 1956. 75 min. D: Allen Miner. SC: Jameson Brewer. With Kent Taylor, John Smith, Marian Carr, John Doucette, William Phillips, Serena Sande, Gary Murray. After a stagecoach arrives at a way station recently raided by Indians, the passengers decide to head for a ghost town in order to avoid the hostilities. More than passable programmer.

1552  Ghost Town  New World, 1988. 85 min. Color. D: Richard Governor. SC: Duke Sandefur. With Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover, Zitto Kazann, Blake Conway, Laura Schaefer, Michael Alldredge, Ken Kolb, Will Hannah, Henry Max Kendrick, James Oscar Lee, Charles Robert Harden, Edward Gabel, Jackson Fisher, Julie Kausier. A deputy sheriff arrives in a ghost town looking for missing girls and finds it haunted by an outlaw gang. Early effort from executive producer Charles Band is a better than average horror Western.

Ghost Town—The Movie see Dean Tester’s Ghost Town

1553  Ghost Town Gold  Republic, 1936. 57 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: John Rathmell and Oliver Drake. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Kay Hughes, Yakima Canutt, Frank Hagney, LeRoy Mason, Burr Caruth, Robert Kortman, Milburn Morante, Horace Murphy, Earle Hodgins, Ed Peil, Sr., Harry Harvey, Hank Worden, Bud Osborne, Bob Burns, I. Stanford Jolley, Wally West, Don Roberts, F. Herrick, Robert C. Thomas, Harry Tenbrook, Budd Buster, Charles Sullivan, Billy Franey, Horace B. Carpenter, Jess Cavin, Bill Hickey, Art Dillard, Rube Dalroy. The Three Mesquiteers are after an outlaw gang that hides its stolen loot in a ghost town. Second entry in “The Three Mesquiteers” series based on the William Colt MacDonald characters is solid entertainment; it is the first one with the great Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin (and, of course, Elmer).

1554  Ghost Town Law  Monogram, 1942. 62 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Carpenter, Murdock MacQuarrie, Charles King, Howard Masters, Ben Corbett, Tom London, Milburn Morante, Robert Walker, Jack Baxley, Eddie Phillips, Jack Ingram, Frank Lackteen, Artie Ortego. While investigating the murders of two fellow lawmen, the Rough Riders help a woman whose brother has disappeared. A mystery element and good staging help to makes this an entertaining “Rough Riders” romp.

1555  Ghost Town Renegades  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1947. 58 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Patricia Harper. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Terry Frost, Steve Clark, Lane Bradford, Lee Roberts, William Fawcett, Henry Hall, Dee Cooper, Mason Wynn. The Cheyenne Kid and his pal Fuzzy Q. Jones try to stop crooks from taking over a property for its gold, causing the Kid to be framed for murder. Action filled Lash LaRue vehicle.

1556  Ghost Town Riders  Universal, 1938. 54 min. D: George Waggner. SC: Joseph West (George Waggner). With Bob Baker, Fay (McKenzie) Shannon, George Cleveland, Hank Worden, Forrest Taylor, Glenn Strange, Jack Kirk, Martin Turner, Reed Howes, Murdock MacQuarrie, Merrill McCormick, George Morrell, Frank Ellis, Oscar Gahan, Tex Phelps. While leading a horse herd, two cowboys arrive in a ghost town where a gang plans to start a fake gold rush. Pretty good Bob Baker feature predating writer-director George Waggner’s Universal horror efforts.

1557  Ghost Valley  RKO Pathé, 1932. 54 min. D: Fred Allen. SC: Adele Buffington. With Tom Keene, Merna Kennedy, Buck Moulton, Kate Campbell, Harry Brown, Mitchell Harris, Harry Semels, Ted Adams, Al Taylor, Slim Whitaker, George Hayes, Tom London, Jack Kirk, Yakima Canutt. Mysterious happenings take place after a young woman and her brother inherit a gold mine and a cowboy tries to help them. Eerie and atmospheric Tom Keene vehicle; solid entertainment.

1558  Ghost Valley Raiders  Republic, 1940. 54 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Don “Red” Barry, Lona Andre, LeRoy Mason, Tom London, Jack Ingram, Horace Murphy, Ralph Peters, Curley Dresden, Yakima Canutt, John Beach, Bud Osborne, Al Taylor, Jack Montgomery, Fred Burns. A cowboy assumes another identity in trying to capture a notorious stagecoach robber. Don Barry’s initial series feature shows why he quickly established himself as one of the genre’s most popular and durable players.

1559  Ghosts That Still Walk  Gold Key, 1977. 96 min. Color. D-SC: James T. Flocker. With Matt Boston, Ann Douglas, Caroline Howe, Jerry Jensen, Rita Crafts, Phil Catalli, Lee James, Janice Renney, David Kane. The spirit of an Native American mummy takes over a boy’s body and murders his family. Cheap Western ghost tale.

1560  Giant  Warner Bros., 1956. 201 min. Color. D: George Stevens. SC: Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat. With Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers, Sal Mineo, Robert Nichols, Dennis Hopper, Elsa Cardenas, Fran Bennett, Earl Holliman, Paul Fix, Judith Evelyn, Carolyn Craig, Rodney (Rod) Taylor, Alexander Scourby, Monte Hale, Mary Ann Edwards, Charles Watts, Maurice Jara, Victor Millan, Sheb Wooley, Ray Whitley, Tina Menard, Mickey Simpson, Noreen Nash, Guy Teague, Max Terhune, Ray Bennett, Barbara Barrie, George Dunne, Slim Talbot, Tex Driscoll. A wealthy Texas rancher marries a strong willed woman as they face problems with worker discontent and an ambitious foreman who becomes a rich oilman. Over long but good adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel; the film has developed a cult following.

Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in Giant (Warner Bros., 1956).

1561  The Giant Gila Monster  Hollywood Pictures, 1959. 74 min. D: Ray Kellogg. SC: Jay Simms. With Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Pat Reaves, Shug Fisher, Jerry Cortwright, Beverly Thurman, Clarke Browne, Pat Simmons, Fred Graham, Grady Vaughn, Howard Ware, Don Flourney, Bob Thompson. The denizens of a New Mexico desert town are terrorized by a giant lizard. El cheapo production from producer Ken Curtis, with a silly (and non-scary) blow-up monster; also available in a colorized edition.

1562  The Girl and the Gambler  RKO Radio, 1939. 63 min. D: Lew Landers. SC: Joseph A. Fields and Clarence Upson Young. With Leo Carrillo, Steffi Duna, Tim Holt, Donald MacBride, Chris-Pin Martin, Paul Fix, Julian Rivero, Frank Puglia, Esther Muir, Paul Sutton, Charles Stevens, Frank Lackteen, Edward Raquello, Henry Roquemore. An American falls in love with a Mexican girl who is also being wooed by a revolutionary leader. Okay remake of The Dove (United Artists, 1927) and also done previously by RKO as Girl of the Rio (q.v.) in which Leo Carrillo also played the Pancho Villa-type rebel.

1563  Girl Crazy  RKO Radio, 1932. 75 min. D: William A. Seiter. SC: Tim Whelan. With Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Eddie Quillan, Mitzi Green, Brooks Benedict, Kitty Kelly, Arline Judge, Stanley Fields, Lita Chevret, Chris-Pin Martin, Monte Collins, Nat Pendleton, Rochelle Hudson, Dick Curtis, Frank Ellis, Bob Reeves, Ethan Laidlaw, Jim Mason, Artie Ortego, Jerry Mandy, High Eagle, Al Cooke, Esther Garcia, Josefina Ramos, Max Steiner. Sent to an Arizona town by his father to get him away from women, a man is helped by his zany pal and a cab driver in fighting local bad men. Only average screen version of the Broadway production with music by George and Ira Gershwin; re-takes were directed by Norman Taurog who helmed the 1943 remake (q.v.).

1564  Girl Crazy  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1943. 99 min. D: Norman Taurog. SC: Fred F. Finklehoffe. With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Frances Rafferty, Howard Freeman, Henry O’Neill, Sidney Miller, Eve Whitney, Carole Gallagher, Kay Williams, Jess Lee Brooks, Roger Moore, Charles Coleman, Harry Depp, Richard Kipling, Henry Roquemore, Alphonse Martel, Barbara Bedford, Victor Potel, William Beaudine, Jr., Irving Bacon, George Offerman, Jr., Georgia Carroll, Noreen Nash, Inez Cooper, Hazel Brooks, Don Taylor, James Warren, Helen Dickson, Julia Griffith, Lillian West, Bess Flowers, Harry C. Bradley, Bill Hazlett, Spec O’Donnell, Frank Jaquet, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Butler, Bob Lowell, John Eaton, Rose Higgins, Kathleen Williams, Leo Diamond Harmonica Band. A youthful playboy is sent to a Western college by his publisher father to avoid gold diggers and upon arriving he flirts with the postmistress. While better than the 1932 (q.v.) outing, this second filming of the Gershwins’ musical is not top notch although the finale staged by Busby Berkeley (the film’s initial director) is worth seeing. Filmed a third time in 1958 as When the Boys Meet the Girls (q.v.).

1565  The Girl from Alaska  Republic, 1942. 75 min. D: Nick Grinde. SC: Edward T. Lowe and Robert Ormond Case. With Ray Middleton, Jean Parker, Jerome Cowan, Robert Barrat, Ray Mala, Francis McDonald, Raymond Hatton, Milton Parsons, Nestor Paiva, Edmund Cobb, Jack O’Shea, Frank Lackteen, Johnnhy Kascier, Matty Roubert, Bob Jameson, Iron Eyes Cody, Bill Wilkerson, Augie Gomez, Art Dupuis. A prospector wanted by the law is used by a gang in Alaska to cheat a young woman out of her gold claim. Robert Ormond Case co-adapted his story “The Golden Porage” for this pretty good melodrama.

1566  The Girl from Calgary  Monogram, 1932. 66 min. D: Phil Whitman. SC: Leon D’Usseau. With Fifi D’Orsay, Paul Kelly, Astrid Allwyn, Robert Warwick, Eddie Fetherston, Edwin Maxwell, Adrienne Dore, Geneva Mitchell, Rolfe Sedan, Tiny Sanford, Harry Bowen. A pretty Canadian rodeo champion sets her cap for the man she plans to marry. Standard light hearted action programmer.

1567  Girl from God’s Country  Republic, 1940. 54 min. D: Sidney Salkow. SC: Elizabeth Meehan, Robert Lee Johnson and Malcolm Stuart Boylan. With Chester Morris, Jane Wyatt, Charles Bickford, (Ray) Mala, Kate Lawson, John Bleifer, Mamo Clark, Ferike Boros, Don Zelaya, Clem Bevans, Edward Gargan, Spencer Charters, Thomas Jackson, Victor Potel, Si Jenks, Gene Morgan, Ace (dog). Hunted by the law for the mercy killing of his father, a doctor is helped by a pretty nurse in Alaska. Fairly pleasing drama.

1568  The Girl from San Lorenzo  United Artists, 1950. 59 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Ford Beebe. With Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Jane Adams, Leonard Penn, Edmund Cobb, David Sharpe, Lee Phelps, Bill Lester, Don C. Harvey, Byron Foulger, Wes Hudman, Henry Wills. Outlaws carry out a series of stage robberies and place the blame on the Cisco Kid and Pancho. The final theatrical release in “The Cisco Kid” series is action filled. Also called Don Amigo.

1569  Girl in the Woods  Republic, 1957. 71 min. D: Tom Gries. SC: Oliver Crawford and Marcel Klauber. With Forrest Tucker, Maggie Hayes, Barton MacLane, Diana Francis, Murvyn Vye, Paul Langton, Joyce Compton, Kim Charney, Mickey Finn, Bartlett Robinson, George Lynn. A veteran lumberman comes to work for a new outfit and trouble erupts with a rival over a young woman. Cheaply made but passable north woods melodrama.

1570  The Girl of the Golden West  First National, 1930. 100 min. D: John Francis Dillon. SC: Waldemar Young. With Ann Harding, James Rennie, Harry Bannister, Ben Hendricks, Jr., J. Farrell MacDonald, George Cooper, Johnny Walker, Richard Carlyle, Arthur Stone, Arthur Houseman, Norman McNeil, Fred Warren, Joe Girard, Newton House, Princess Noola, Chief Yowlachie, Francis Ford, Russell Simpson, Cy Kendall, Richard Tucker, Frank McGlynn, E. Alyn Warren, Chief Big Tree, Victor Potel, Pedro Regas, Virginia Howell, Hank Bell, Nick Thompson, Alberto Morin, Joe Dominguez, Tom Mahoney. A pretty saloon owner falls in love with a notorious bandit and wins his freedom in a poker game with a lawman. Fair first sound version of the David Belasco play, filmed in 1915 by Cecil B. DeMille for Paramount and again in 1923 by Associated First National with J. Warren Kerrigan, Sylvia Breamer, Russell Simpson and Rosemary Theby.

1571  The Girl of the Golden West  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1938. 120 min. D: Robert Z. Leonard. SC: Isabel Dawn and Boyce McGrew. With Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen, Cliff Edwards, Leonard Penn, Priscilla Lawson, Bob Murphy, Olin Howland, Billy Bevan, Brandon Tynan, H.B. Warner, Monty Woolley, Charles Grapewin, Noah Beery, Bill Cody, Jr., Ynez Seabury, Victor Potel, Nick Thompson, Chief Big Tree, Russell Simpson, Curley Wright, Pedro Regas, Alberto Morin, Joe Dominguez, Frank McGlynn, Cy Kendall, E. Alyn Warren, Hank Bell, Francis Ford, Richard Tucker. A young woman competes in a battle of wits with a sheriff who is after her bandit lover. David Belasco’s 1905 evergreen is brought to the screen for the fourth time (Cecil B. DeMille filmed the first version in 1914 and Associated First National did a remake in 1923 followed by the 1930 [q.v.] feature) but not even a score by Gus Kahn and Sigmund Romberg can save the aged story; for fans of Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

1572  The Girl of the Rio  RKO Radio, 1932. 69 min. D: Herbert Brenon. SC: Elizabeth Meehan. With Dolores Del Rio, Leo Carrillo, Norman Foster, Ralph Ince, Lucille Gleason, Edna Murphy, Stanley Fields, Frank Campeau. A beautiful Mexican cabaret entertainer falls in love with a cardsharp and gambles for his life with an outlaw. Fairly charming Dolores Del Rio movie from Willard Mack’s play The Dove and first made under that title by United Artists in 1928 with Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery, and done for a third time by RKO in 1939 as The Girl and the Gambler (q.v.) with Leo Carrillo repeating the role of the bandit.

1573  Girl Rush  RKO Radio, 1944. 65 min. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: Robert E. Kent. With Alan Carney, Wally Brown, Frances Langford, Robert Mitchum, Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen), Paul Hurst, Patti Brill, Sarah Padden, Cy Kendall, John Merton, Diana King, Rita Corday, Elaine Riley, Rosemary La Planche, Daun Kennedy, Virginia Belmont, Michael Vallon, Sherry Hall, Kernan Cripps, Wheaton Chambers, Chilli Williams, Ernie Adams, Dale Van Sickel, Kenneth Terrell, Bud Osborne, Byron Foulger. When all their patrons head for the gold fields in 1849, a show troupe follows them to entertain the miners. Average Western musical comedy.

1574  Git Along Little Dogies  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Judith Allen, William Farnum, Weldon Heyburn, The Maple City Four, Carleton Young, Will and Gladys Ahern, Willie Fung, The Cabin Kids, G. Raymond Nye, Frankie Marvin, George Morrell, Horace B. Carpenter, Earl Dwire, Lynton Brent, Jack Kirk, Al Taylor, Frank Ellis, Jack C. Smith, Murdock MacQuarrie, Oscar Gahan, Monte Montague, Sam McDaniel, Eddie Parker, Bob Burns. Oil drillers vie with cattlemen over range land while Gene Autry tries to clear up the conflict and romance a banker’s daughter. Pleasant Gene Autry production with its nice blend of songs and action.

Glory Glory see Hooded Angels

1575  The Glory Guys  United Artists, 1965. 112 min. Color. D: Arnold Laven. SC: Sam Peckinpah. With Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Michael Anderson, Jr., Senta Berger, James Caan, Andrew Duggan, Slim Pickens, Peter Breck, Jeanne Cooper, Laurel Goodwin, Adam Williams, Erik Holland, Wayne Rogers, Alice Backus. A soldier, with a troop of untrained recruits, is ordered by his superiors to do battle with rampaging Sioux Indians. Filmed in Mexico, this oater is a pedestrian drama with little to recommend it.

1576  The Glory Trail  Crescent, 1937. 64 min. D: Lynn Shores. SC: John T. Neville. With Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, E.H. Calvert, Frank Melton, William Royle, Walter Long, Allen Greer, William Crowell, Harve Foster, Ann Hovey, John Lester Johnson, Etta McDaniel, James Bush, Jack Ingram, Oscar Gahan, Carl Mathews, Fred Parker, Denver Dixon, Tom Steele. After the Civil War a cowboy takes part in the settlement of the West and the events leading to the Bozeman Massacre. Colorful historical drama in the series produced by E.B. Derr starring Tom Keene.

Go for Broke see All Out

Go Kill and Come Back see Any Gun Can Play

1577  Go West  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940. 80 min. D: Edward Buzzell. SC: Irving Brecher. With The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico), John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Robert Barrat, Walter Woolf King, June MacCloy, George Lessey, Mitchell Lewis, Tully Marshall, Clem Bevans, Joe Yule, Arthur Houseman, Joan Woodbury, Iris Adrian, Edgar Dearing, Edward Gargan, Billy Wayne, Barbara Bedford, Frederick Burton, Harry Tyler, Lew Harvey, Slim Lucas, Fred Warren, Henry Sylvester. Three zanies head West to reclaim a land deed stolen by a crook. None-too-good Marx Brothers vehicle, only a fair satire and certainly not much of a Western; for diehard Marx Brothers fans.

1578  Go West, Young Girl  ABC-TV/Columbia, 1978. 74 min. Color. D: Alan J. Levi. SC: George Yanok. With Karen Valentine, Sandra Will, Stuart Whitman, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Bell, Carl Bellini, David Dukes, Charles Frank, Richard Kelton, William Larsen, John Quade, Gregg Palmer, Pepe Callahan. Two young women, a New England writer and a cavalry officer’s widow, team to hunt for Billy the Kid. Fairly amusing Western comedy made for TV.

1579  Go West, Young Lady  Columbia, 1941. 70 min. D: Frank R. Strayer. SC: Richard Flournoy and Karen De Wolf. With Penny Singleton, Glenn Ford, Ann Miller, Charles Ruggles, Allen Jenkins, Onslow Stevens, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Edith Meiser, Bill Hazlett, Jed Prouty, Kermit Maynard, The Foursome, Kenneth MacDonald, Stanley Brown, George Chesebro, Al Ferguson, Edmund Cobb, Bud Osborne, Ned Glass, Hank Bell, Fern Emmett, Bill Wilkerson, Art Miles, Waffles, Dorothy Vaughn. A saloon keeper sends for his nephew who turns out to be a pretty young lady plagued by a series of misadventures. Tepid Western musical comedy that is buoyed by Penny Singleton’s singing and Ann Miller’s dancing.

1580  God Forgives: His Life Is Mine  Italian International, 1968. 90 min. Color. D: Paolo Bianchi. SC: Fernando Di Leo. With Dean Reed, Peter Martell, Piero Lulli, Agnes Spaak, Linda Veras, Ivano Staccioli, Fidel Gonzales, Ivan Scratuglia, Piero Mazzinghi, Rossella Bergamonti, Bruno Arie, Giuseppe Alizeri, Appio Cartei. A bounty hunter takes the job of stopping a banker who is the head of a gold robbery gang operating on the Mexican border. Star Dean Reed sings the title song in this better than average Italian production filmed as Dio li Crea...Io li Ammazzo! (God Made Them...I Kill Them).

1581  God Forgives, I Don’t  American International, 1969. 101 min. Color. D-SC: Giuseppe Colizzi. With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Frank Wolff, Gina Rovere, Jose Manuel Martin, Frank Brana, Tito Garcia, Paco Sanz, Giovanni Lenzi, Luis Barboo. A gunman and an insurance salesman team to find loot hidden by a brutal gunman who they think is dead but is really on their trail. Slow moving Italian oater issued there in 1966 by Crono Cinematografica/PEFSA as Dio Perdona...lo No! (God Forgives...I Don’t!).

1582  God Holds the Bullet  Danny Film, 1967. 90 min. Color. D: Amerigo Anton. SC: Mario Amendola. With Robert Mark (Rod Dana), Larry Ward, Gordon Mitchell, Elina De Witt, Fabrizio Moroni, Andrea Bosic, Albert Farley (Alberto Farnese), Benjamin May (Beniamino Maggio), Tony Rogers, Mary Land, Men Fury (Furio Meniconi), Remo Capitani, Ivan Giovanni Scratuglia, Renato Terra, Walter Conroy. A mysterious fiddler, actually a wanted man, shows up in a small town and falls in love with a woman whose family is in the middle of a deadly feud. Lots of slaughter and other violence are the main ingredients in this Spaghetti Western released in Italy in 1966 by Regalfilm as Uccidi o Muori (Kill or Die); also known as Kill or Be Killed and Ringo Against Johnny Colt.

1583  The Godchild  ABC-TV/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1974. 78 min. Color. D: John Badham. SC: Ron Bishop. With Jack Palance, Jack Warden, Keith Carradine, Ed Lauter, Jose Perez, Bill McKinney, Jesse Vint, Fionnuala Flanagan, John Quade, Simon Deckard, Ed Bakey, Kermit Murdock. Three Civil War deserters rob a bank and head into the desert pursued by cavalry and Indians, find a dying woman and agree to take her newborn baby to safety. Not bad television adaptation of the oft-filmed Peter B. Kyne’s story “Three Godfathers.”

1584  Godmonster of Indian Flats  Ellman Film Enterprises, 1973. 89 min. Color. D-SC: Fredric Hobbs. With Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Peggy Browne, Richard Marion, Karen Ingenthron, Robert Hirschfeld, Steven Kent Browne, Erica Gavin, Terry Wills, Evalyn Stanley, Carolyn Beaupre, Andre Brummer, Marianne Browne, Ann Wagner, Gordon Lane, Ann Lane, P.S. Kreiger, Frank Ford, Walter Daniels, Richard Walton, George Costello. A scientist believes a mutant sheep exposed to a mysterious chemical may hold the key to creation. Obscure, pitiful horror Western.

1585  God’s Country  Action Pictures/Screen Guild, 1946. 62 min. Color. D: Robert Tansey. SC: Frances Kavanaugh. With Robert Lowery, Helen Gilbert, William Farnum, Buster Keaton, Si Jenks, Stanley Andrews, Trevor Bardette, Estelle Zarco, Juan Reyes, Al Ferguson, Sandy McTavish, Howard King, Turk Monroe, Old Tarr, White Cloud, Lee Roberts, Timber Cross, River Starr, Little Eagle, Whip Wilson. On the lam from the law, a man and his pal come to the north country and help a young woman and her father save their forest from a dishonest lumber company boss. Nice color and a good James Oliver Curwood story make this very pleasant viewing.

1586  God’s Country and the Man  Syndicate, 1931. 59 min. D: John P. McCarthy. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Tom Tyler, Lillian Bond, Alan Bridge, Andy Shuford, Jack Perrin, Ernie Adams, Gordon De Main, Slim Whitaker, Fern Emmett, Carmen LaRoux, Henry Roquemore, Merrill McCormick, William Bertram, Al Taylor, Al Haskell, Tom Smith. A Texas ranger and his ex-outlaw sidekick try to bring to justice a murderous gang leader. Fairly good Tom Tyler early talkie with Alan Bridge as a fiddle playing killer. Also called Man’s Country and Rose of the Rio Grande.

1587  God’s Country and the Man  Monogram, 1937. 56 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tom Keene, Betty Compson, Charlotte Henry, Charles King, Billy Bletcher, Eddie Parker, Bob McKenzie, Merrill McCormick, Sherry Tansey, Glenn Strange, Lafe McKee, Milburn Morante, Henry Hall, Chick Hannon, Tex Palmer, Jack Evans, Tex Cooper, Bud Pope. A cowboy is after the gang leader who murdered his father. Tom Keene’s first Monogram series vehicle is a pretty sturdy outing with stock footage from The Trail Beyond (q.v.).

1588  God’s Country and the Woman  Warner Bros., 1937. 71 min. Color. D: William Keighley. SC: Norman Reilly Raine. With George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, Alan Hale, Joseph King, El Brendel, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards, Roscoe Ates, Billy Bevan, Bert Roach, Victor Potel, Mary Treen, Herbert Rawlinson, Harry Hayden, Pat Moriarty, Max Wagner, Susan Fleming, Eily Malyon. A playboy arrives in the north woods to manage a lumber company and gets involved in a business dispute with the female owner of a rival outfit. Okay action drama originally assigned to Bette Davis, who refused it.

1589  God’s Gun  Cannon Films, 1977. 90 min. Color. D-SC: Frank Kramer (Gianfranco Parolini). With Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Leif Garrett, Sybil Danning, Robert Lipton, Cody Palance, Ian Sadler, Pnina Golan, Zila Carni, Heinz Bernard, Didi Lukov, Ricardo David, Chin Chin, Rafi Ben Ami, Franco Pesce, Carolyn Stellar. A gunman and his five gang members terrorize a town until a former bounty hunter, whose priest brother was murdered by the outlaws, stands up to them. Fair action oater filmed in Israel.

1590  Goin’ South  Paramount, 1978. 101 min. Color. D: Jack Nicholson. SC: Al Ramus, Charles Shyer and Alan Mendel. With Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, Veronica Cartwright, John Belushi, Richard Bradford, Lucy Lee Flippen, Jeff Morris, Danny De Vito, Tracey Walter, Gerald H. Reynolds, Luana Anders, George W. Smith, Ed Begley, Jr., Britt Leack, R.L. Armstrong, Dennis Fimple. In order to save himself from the gallows a crook agrees to marry a pretty spinster but she turns out to be a stern taskmaster. Dull going.

1591  Goin’ to Town  Paramount, 1935. 74 min. D: Alexander Hall. SC: Mae West. With Mae West, Paul Cavanaugh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Ivan Lebedeff, Fred Kohler, Monroe Owsley, Grant Withers, Luis Alberni, Tito Coral, Lucio Villegas, Mona Rico, Wade Boteler, Paul Harvey, Joe Frye, Adrienne D’Ambricourt, Bert Roach, Tom London, Syd Saylor, Irving Bacon, Francis Ford, Dewey Robinson, Julian Rivero, Stanley Price, Morgan Wallace, Tom Ricketts, J.P. McGowan, Jack Pennick, James Pierce, Leonid Kinsky, Lew Kelley, Jules Cowles, George Guhl, Virginia Hammond, Nell Craig, Cyril Ring, Frank Mundin. A dance hall singer marries a rich cattle baron and when he dies she inherits his money and tries to become socially prominent. Typically bawdy and funny Mae West feature.

1592  Gold  Majestic, 1932. 58 min. D: Otto Brower. SC: W. Scott Darling. With Jack Hoxie, Alice Day, Hooper Atchley, Tom London, Robert Kortman, Lafe McKee, Matthew Betz, Jack Clifford, Jack Byron, Jack Kirk, Hank Bell, Dynamite (horse). When his partner in a gold claim is murdered, the victim’s daughter blames a cowpoke for the crime and he tries to find the killer. Dull and slow moving, the film contains a most austere finale with villain Hooper Atchley tied to a wagon disguised as an intended victim and gunned down by his own men.

1593  Gold Fever  Monogram, 1952. 63 min. D: Leslie Goodwins. SC: Edgar B. Anderson, Jr. and Cliff Lancaster. With John Calvert, Ann Cornell, Ralph Morgan, Gene Roth, Tom Kennedy, Judd Holdren, George Morrell, Danny Reese, Robert Graham. A man puts up money for an old prospector to work a hidden claim but crooks get wind of the operation and try to take over. Star John Calvert produced this cheaply made melodrama.

1594  Gold Is Where You Find It  First National, 1938. 90 min. Color. D: Michael Curtiz. SC: Warren Duff and Robert Buckner. With George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Marcia Ralston, Barton MacLane, Tim Holt, Sidney Toler, Henry O’Neill, Willie Best, Robert McWade, George Hayes, Harry Davenport, Russell Simpson, Clarence Kolb, Moroni Olsen, Granville Bates, Robert Homans, Eddy Chandler, Wilfred Lucas, Edmund Cobb, Douglas Wood, James Farley, Charles Halton, Erville Alderson, Cy Kendall, Guy Wilkerson, Karl Hackett, Milton Kibbee, Spec O’Donnell, Richard Botiller, Jack Mower, Arthur Aylesworth, Chester Gan, Jack Rutherford, John Harron, Sarah Edwards, Alan Davis, Cliff Saum, Al Herman, Frank Pharr, Walter Rogers. When gold is discovered on California farmland a terrible feud erupts between ranchers and miners. Elaborate and action filled feature.

1595  Gold Mine in the Sky  Republic, 1938. 60 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Betty Bur- bridge and Jack Natteford. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Craig Reynolds, Cupid Ainsworth, LeRoy Mason, Frankie Marvin, Robert Homans, Eddie Cherkose, Ben Corbett, Milburn Morante, Jim Corey, George Guhl, Jack Kirk, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, The Stafford Sisters, J.L. Franks’ Golden West Cowboys, George (Montgomery) Letz, Charles King, Lew Kelly, Joe Whitehead, Earl Dwire, Maudie Prickett, Al Taylor, Art Dillard, Herman Hack, George Plues. Gene Autry is made the administrator of a property owned by a wild spending young woman and when he refuses to turn it into a dude ranch her boyfriend hires Chicago gangsters to eliminate him. Interesting Gene Autry movie with enough action and music, plus a good plot, to entertain his fans.

1596  Gold of the Seven Saints  Warner Bros., 1961. 88 min. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: Leigh Brackett. With Clint Walker, Roger Moore, Leticia Roman, Robert Middleton, Chill Wills, Gene Evans, Roberto Contreras, Jack C. Williams, Art Stewart. Two trappers make a gold strike but end up being chased across the desert by marauders. Utah locations are the film’s main interest.

1597  Gold Raiders  United Artists, 1951. 56 min. D: Edward Bernds. SC: Daniel Ullman and William Lively. With George O’Brien, The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard), Sheila Ryan, Clem Bevans, Monte Blue, Lyle Talbot, John Merton, Al Baffert, Hugh Hooker, Bill Ward, Fuzzy Knight, Dick Crockett, Roy Canada. An ex-marshal sells miners insurance to protect their gold shipments while three zanies with a traveling store end up chasing the crooks. Fans of The Three Stooges will like this one.

1598  The Gold Rush  United Artists, 1925. 85 min. D-SC: Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Betty Morrissey, Malcolm Waite, Henry Bergman. The Lone Prospector finds adventure in the Klondike as he falls for a saloon girl and helps a friend reclaim a stolen gold mine. Chaplin’s classic comedy is as fresh today as when originally released; recommended.

1599  Gold Rush Maisie  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940. 82 min. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Betty Reinhardt and Mary C. McCall, Jr. With Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, Virginia Weidler, John F. Hamilton, Mary Nash, Slim Summerville, Scotty Beckett, Irving Bacon, Louis Mason, Victor Kilian, Wallace Reed, Jr., Clem Bevans, John Sheehan, Charles Judels, Virginia Sale, Frank Orth, Kathryn Sheldon, Eddy Waller, Charles Middleton, Eddie Gribbon, Ray Teal, Cy Kendall, Barbara Bedford, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Middlemass, Henry Roquemore, Eddy Chandler, Ivan “Dusty” Miller, Wesley Giraud, Anna Chandler, Lee Phelps, Lew Harvey, Jessie Arnold, Dorothy Appleby, Margaret Bert, Naomi Childers, Ed O’Neill, Albert Russell, Henry Sylvester, Martie Faust. An out of work entertainer ends up at a mining camp and joins a poor family in searching for gold but soon softens the heart of a rancher and takes up farming. Definitely one of the lesser entries in the long running “Maisie” series.

Gold Strike River see The Lucky Texan

Gold Train see 30 Winchesters for El Diablo

1600  The Golden Eye  Monogram, 1948. 69 min. D: William Beaudine. SC: Scott Darling. With Roland Winters, Wanda McKay, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Bruce Kellogg, Tim Ryan, Evelyn Brent, Ralph Dunn, Lois Austin, Forrest Taylor, Lee “Lasses” White, Edmund Cobb, John Merton, Tom Tyler, George L. Spaulding, Jean Fong, Richard Loo, Lee Tung Foo, Michael Gaddis, Sam Flint, Geraldine Cobb. Charlie Chan is called to an Arizona mine to help a man who has been injured and he uncovers a smuggling ring. Atmospheric Chan mystery in a Western setting; also called The Mystery of the Golden Eye.

1601  Golden Girl  20th Century–Fox, 1951. 108 min. Color. D: Lloyd Bacon. SC: Walter Bullock, Charles O’Neal and Gladys Lehman. With Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day, James Barton, Una Merkel, Raymond Walburn, Gene Sheldon, Carmen D’Antonio, Michael Ross, Harry Carter, Lovyss Bradley, Emory Parnell, Luther Crockett, Harris Brown, Kermit Maynard, Robert Nash, Jessie Arnold, Jimmie Dodd, Harry Seymour, Emmett Lynn, Duke York, Roger Moore, Nolan Leary, Chuck Hamilton, Kit Guard, George Magrill, Joe Dominguez, George Navarro, George Regas, Rico Alaniz, Alex Montoya, J. Farrell MacDonald, Kathryn Sheldon, Jean Moorehead, Claire Howard, Jack Davidson, Sherry Hall, Ferris Taylor, Frank Mills. In California during the Civil War, actress Lotta Crabtree falls in love with a man who is a Confederate spy. Pleasant entertainment more for its musical numbers than plot.

Golden Lady see The Fighting Frontiersman  

1602  The Golden Stallion  Mascot, 1927. 10 Chapters. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Carl Krusada and William Lester. With Maurice “Lefty” Flynn, Molly Malone, Joe Bonomo, Josef Swickard, Burr McIntosh, Billy Franey, Tom London, White Fury (horse). A Mounted Policeman tries to stop an outlaw gang from capturing a horse that has the clue to a fabulous treasure branded on its neck. Fast paced silent serial also issued in an enjoyable feature version.

1603  The Golden Stallion  Republic, 1949. 67 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Nibley. With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Chester Conklin, Douglas Evans, Greg McClure, Frank Fenton, Dale Van Sickel, Clarence Straight, Karl Hackett, Mauritz Hugo, Buff Brady, Jack Sparks. A horse trader uncovers a band of diamond smugglers who use a herd to smuggle gems across the U.S.-Mexican border. Action film with good photography but marred by inane Pat Brady and “Nellybelle.”

1604  The Golden Trail  Monogram, 1940. 52 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Rolland Lynch, Robert Emmett (Tansey) and Roger Merton. With Tex Ritter, Arkansas Slim Andrews, Ina Guest, Patsy Moran, Gene Alsace, Stanley Price, Warner Richmond, Eddie Dean, Forrest Taylor, Frank LaRue, Chuck Morrison, Chick Hannon, Tex Palmer, Denver Dixon, Sherry Tansey, James Pierce, Hal Price, Ernie Adams, Richard Cramer, Bill Wells. A mining town is controlled by murderous crooks who want two workers out of the way and frame them with false evidence. Pretty fair Tex Ritter film with the star singing a song he co-wrote, “Gold is Where You Find It.”

1605  The Golden West  Fox, 1932. 74 min. D: David Howard. SC: Gordon Rigby. With George O’Brien, Janet Chandler, Marion Burns, Onslow Stevens, Julia Swayne Gordon, Everett Corrigan, Edmund Breese, Sam West, Arthur Pierson, Bert Hanlon, Hattie McDaniel, Charles Stevens, Stanley Blystone, George Regas, Dorothy Ward, Sam Adams, Ed Dillon, Chief Big Tree, John War Eagle. After his father is killed by Indians, a young man grows up with the tribe, learns to hate whites and leads an attack on settlers. Fine adaptation of the Zane Grey novel, a remake of The Last Trail (1927).

The Golden Yukon see The Grub Stake

1606  Goldtown Ghost Raiders  Columbia, 1953. 59 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Kirk Rile, Carleton Young, Neyle Morrow, Denver Pyle, John Doucette, Steve Conte. A frontier circuit judge must decide if a man must go back to prison for killing his ex-partner a second time, since the victim survived the first attempt. Okay Gene Autry film enhanced by a good script.

1607  Gone to Texas  CBS-TV, 1986. 144 min. Color. D: Peter Levin. SC: John Binder. With Sam Elliott, Claudia Christian, Devon Ericson, Michael C. Gwynne, Donald Moffat, John Quade, Ned Romero, William Russ, John P. Ryan, James Stephens, Richard Yriguez, Michael Beck, Bo Hopkins, G.D. Spradlin, Ritch Brinkley, John de Lancie, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Javier Grajeda, Cynthia Cuprill, Blue Deckert, Abrossio Guerra, Jerry Heynes, Robert F. Hoy, Brad Leland, Dennis Letts, Ivy Pryce, Andrew Stahl, Dave Tanner, Joe Morales, David Perfia, Luis Munoz, John B. Wells, John Nixon, Jimmy Ray Pickens, Kevin R. Young, Katharine Ross, William Schallert (narrator). From being governor of Tennessee, Sam Houston becomes the leader of the Texas independence movement against Mexico. Fair TV biopic.

Gone with the West see Little Moon and Jud McGraw

A Good Day for Fighting see Custer of the West

1608  Good Day for a Hanging  Columbia, 1958. 85 min. Color. D: Nathan Juran. SC: Daniel B. Ullman and Maurice Zinn. With Fred MacMurray, Maggie Hayes, Robert Vaughn, Joan Blackman, James Drury, Edmond Ryan, Wendell Holmes, Stacy Harris, Kathryn Card, Emile Meyer, Bing Russell, Russell Thorson, Denver Pyle, Phil Chambers, Howard McNear, Rusty Swope, Harry Lauter, Gregg Barton, Tom London, William Fawcett, Bob Bice. A lawman brings in a wanted killer only to discover the citizens do not care if the man stands trial since they believe him innocent. Well done, but neglected, oater.

1609  A Good Day to Die  CBS-TV, 1995. 175 min. Color. D: David Greene. SC: Joyce Eliason. With Sidney Poitier, Michael Moriarty, Joanna Going, Hart Bochner, Regina Taylor, Bill Wirth, Shirley Knight, Grace Zabriskie, Basil Wallace, James Caviezel, Robert Guillaume, Farrah Fawcett, John Pyper Ferguson, Byron Chief-Moon, Kevin McNutty, Katherine Isobel, Michael LaPlante, Zachary Savard, Jesse Lipscombe, Wilma Pelly, Lindsey Campbell, Brent Stait, Charles Andre, Eric Keenleyside, Jack Ackroyd, Tom Schanley, Brian Jensen, Dale Wilson, Michael Elias, Crystal Verge, Donna Belleville, Michelle Thrush, Edward C.K. Richardson III, Joshua Myers. A black gunfighter joins the Army in massacring a Cheyenne village and years later while helping his people build a settlement he is confronted by a now grown survivor of the carnage. Vapid attempt to elucidate racism in the Old West; also called Children of the Dust.

A Good Day for Fighting see Custer of the West

1610  The Good Guys and the Bad Guys  Warner Bros., 1969. 90 min. Color. D: Burt Kennedy. SC: Ronald M. Cohan and Dennis Shryack. With Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine, Tina Louise, Douglas V. Fowley, Lois Nettleton, Martin Balsam, John David Chandler, John Carradine, Marie Windsor, Dick Peabody, Kathleen Freeman, Jimmy Murphy, Garrett Lewis, Nick Dennis. A has-been lawman and his long time outlaw foe, who has been discarded by his gang, join forces to thwart a train robbery. Fanciful Western comedy with fine work by Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy in the lead roles.

1611  The Good Old Boys  Turner Network Television (TNT), 1995. 130 min. Color. D: Tommy Lee Jones. SC: Tommy Lee Jones and J.T. Allen. With Tommy Lee Jones, Terry Kinney, Frances McDormand, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Wilford Brimley, Walter Oikewicz, Matt Damon, Blayne Weaver, Bruce McGill, Larry Mahan, Richard Jones, Karen Jones, Park Overall, Laura Poe, Joaquin Jackson, Jeff Gore, Norberto Navarette, Margaret Bowman, James N. Harrell, Bernard Engel, Larry Lynch, Rodger Boyce, Joe Sears, Tony Epper, Jimmy Don Cox, Cliff Teinert, Patrick Scott, Ted J. Crum, Tom Hadley, Clay M. Lindley. A cowboy must choose between his family, a new love and a desire to roam free. Adequate TV movie directed and co-written by star Tommy Lee Jones.

1612  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  United Artists, 1968. 155 min. Color. D: Sergio Leone. SC: Sergio Leone and Luciano Vincenzoni. With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Aldo Giuffre, Chelo Alonso, Rada Rassimov, Silvana Bacci, Mario Brega, Lugi Pistilli, Livio Lorenzon, Enzo Petito, Al Muloch. Three Civil War veterans form an uneasy alliance as they search for a cash box full of gold hidden in an unmarked grave. Overrated and overlong, this is still probably the most famous Spaghetti Western and it is not without interest, especially for Lee Van Cleef’s portrayal of a sadist killer. Released in Italy in 1966 as Il Buono, il Bruto, il Cattivo (The Good, the Bad, the Wicked).

Above: Advertisement for The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (Warner Bros., 1969). Left: Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (United Artists, 1968).

1613  Goodnight for Justice  Hallmark Channel, 2011. 88 min. Color. D: Jason Priestley. SC: Tippi Dobrofsky and Neal Dobrofosky. With Luke Perry, Lara Gilchrist, Winston Rekert, Daryl Shuttleworth, Darren Moore, Sean Wei Mah, Darla Fay, Sam Duke, Adom Osei, Melanie Papalia, John Shaw, Michael Teigen, Brett Dier, Hal Myshrall, John Tench, Reg Tupper, Maya Massar, Hayden Davies, Luis Javier. After witnessing the murder of his family as a boy, a man becomes a circuit judge, dispensing justice on the frontier until he gets a clue to the killings. Average made-for-TV flick.

Goodbye Texas see Adios, Texas

1614  Gordon of Ghost City  Universal, 1933. 12 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Ella O’Neill, Basil Dickey, George Plympton, Harry O. Hoyt and Het Mannheim. With Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Walter Miller, William Desmond, Francis Ford, Edmund Cobb, Tom Ricketts, Hugh Enfield, Bud Osborne, Dick Rich, Ethan Laidlaw, Jim Corey, Bill Steele, Artie Ortego, Tom London, Cliff Lyons. When a mysterious figure and his outlaw gang attempt to gain control of a gold strike, a cowboy is hired to bring peace to the area. Fast paced and very entertaining cliffhanger; Buck Jones’ initial serial and his fans will love it.

Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid see Billy the Kid (1989)

1615  La Gran Aventura del Zorro (The Great Adventure of Zorro)  Cine Vision/Estudios America, S.A., 1976. 90 min. Color. D: Raul de Anda. SC: Raul de Anda, Raul de Anda, Jr. and Rodolfo de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Ricardo Carrion, Helena Rojo, Jorge Russek, Carlos Lopez Montezuma, Jorge Arvizu, Carlos Leon, Jorge Marcos, Jose L. Murillo. Zorro is blamed for the murder of a ranch owner, the culprit being the man who bought the spread and then took back his money after committing the crime. Well done Mexican “Zorro” feature.

1616  Grand Canyon  Screen Guild, 1949. 69 min. D: Paul Landres. SC: Jack Harvey and Milton Luban. With Richard Arlen, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, James Millican, Olin Howlin, Grady Sutton, Joyce Compton, Charlie Williams, Margia Dean, Stanley Price, Holly Bane, Anna May Slaughter, Zon Murray, Frank Hagney, Noble “Kid” Chissell. A movie director who connives to make a film on location in the Grand Canyon discovers a local prospector and elevates him to stardom. Pretty bad Robert Lippert production (which mentions the company name at every opportunity) and not even star Richard Arlen can save it.

1617  Grand Canyon Massacre  Titanus, 1964. 89 min. Color. D: Stanley Corbett (Sergio Corbucci and Albert Band). SC: Albert Band, Sergio Corbucci and Fede Arnaud. With James Mitchum, Jill Powers, George Ardisson, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Burt Nelson, Eduardo Ciannelli, Andrea Girodana, Nando Poggi, Benito Stefanelli, Milla Sannoner, Renato Terra Caizzi, Medar Vladimir, Gavrik Vlastimir, Attilio Severini. While hunting his father’s killer, a young man becomes embroiled in a range feud over pasture land. Early Spaghetti Western with James Mitchum as a lackluster hero and a script short on action; released in Italy as Massacro al Grande Canyon (Massacre at Grand Canyon). Rod Dana sings the title song.

1618  Grand Canyon Trail  Republic, 1948. 67 min. D: William Witney. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, Andy Devine, Jane Frazee, Robert Livingston, Roy Barcroft, James Finlayson, Emmett Lynn, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Charles Coleman, Kenneth Terrell, Zon Murray, Tommy Coats. Roy Rogers and pal Cookie Bullfincher try to combat a crook looking for the location of a silver vein in a ghost town. Good blend of action, comedy and suspense with Robert Livingston a fine villain and Jimmy Finlayson providing slapstick comedy relief as the local sheriff.

1619  The Grand Duel  Cinema Shares, 1974. 92 min. Color. D: Giancarlo Santi. SC: Ernesto Gastaldi. With Lee Van Cleef, Peter O’Brien (Alberto Dentice), Marc Mazza, Klaus Grunberg, Horst Frank, Jess Hahn, Anthony Vernon (Antonio Casale), Dominique Darel, Sandra Cardini, Gastone Pescussi, Elvira Cortese, Anna Maria Gherardi, Hans Terofal, Salvatore Baccaro, Ray O’Connor (Remo Capitani), Franco Balducci, Giovanni Filidoro, Angelo Susani, Giovanni Cianfrigilia, Giorgio Trestini, Furio Meniconi, Franco Fantasia, Ottorino Polentini, Bob Clark. A veteran gunfighter becomes the self-appointed protector of a young man sought by an outlaw gang for the murder of their leader. Another typically violent European Western starring Lee Van Cleef, although this one uses the mystery element to good effect. An Italian-West German co-production it was released in Italy in 1972 as Il Grande Duello (The Grand Duel); also called Big Gundown and Storm Rider.

1620  Grandpa Goes to Town  Republic, 1940. 54 min. D: Gus Meins. SC: Jack Townley. With James Gleason, Lucille Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport, Lois Ranson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Tommy Ryan, Ledda Godoy, Noah Beery, Douglas Meins, Gary Owen, Ray Turner, Lee “Lasses” White, Walter Miller, Emmett Lynn, Joe Caits, Arturo Godoy. When a family inherits a bankrupt hotel in a Nevada ghost town the false rumor of a gold strike causes a boom. Adequate “Higgins Family” series entry.

1621  Grandsons of Zorro  Dania Film/Medusa, 1975. 100 min. Color. D: Mariano Laurenti. SC: Mario Mariani, Mariano Laurent and Luci Tortelli. With Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mario Colli, Gianni Musi, Pedro Sanchez, Paola Tedesco, Maurizio Arena, Vito Pecory, Ugo Bonardi, Rod Licari, Mario Carotenuto, Grazia di Marza, Renato Malavasi, Vittorio Daverio. After dreaming of becoming Zorro, a meek man is given a special potion that turns him into a master swordsman so he can save his girl from a lecher. Unbearable Franco and Ciccio Italian spoof of “Zorro,” made there as Il Sogno di Zorro (The Grandsons of Zorro) and also called Dream of Zorro.

1622  Granny Get Your Gun  Warner Bros., 1940. 56 min. D: George Amy. SC: Kenneth Gamet. With May Robson, Margot Stevenson, Harry Davenport, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans, William B. Davidson, Clay Clement, Arthur Aylesworth, Granville Bates, Ann Todd, Vera Lewis, Max Hoffman, Archie Twitchell, Walter Wilson, Nat Carr. When her granddaughter is falsely accused of murder, an elderly woman returns to Nevada, where she made a fortune as a gold miner, to find the killer. Slim adaptation of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Case of the Dangerous Dowager although May Robson and Harry Davenport are delightful in the lead roles.

Grass Lands see Hex

1623  Grayeagle  American International, 1977. 104 min. Color. D-SC: Charles B. Pierce. With Ben Johnson, Alex Cord, Lana Wood, Iron Eyes Cody, Jack Elam, Paul Fix, Jacob Daniels, Charles B. Pierce. A rancher goes in search of his daughter who has been kidnapped by an Indian brave and eventually learns a startling truth. Murky, over long drama helped by a good cast.

1624  Greaser’s Palace  Cinema 5, 1972. 91 min. Color. D-SC: Robert Downey. With Allan Arbus, Albert Henderson, Elsie Downey, Luana Anders, Woodrow Chambliss, Michael Sullivan, James Antonio, George Morgan, Ron Nealy, Larry Moyer, John Paul Hudson, Jackson Haynes, Lawrence Wolf, Alex Hitchcock, Pablo Ferro, Toni Basil, Stan Gottlieb, Herve Vellechaize, Rex King, Joe Madden, Don Smolen, Donald Calfe. In a sleazy Western town a gunman comes to realize he is really Jesus Christ and begins to perform miracles. Low jinks production full of “inside humor.”

1625  The Great Adventure  Pacific International, 1976. 87 min. D: Paul Elliotts (Gianfranco Baldanello). SC: Jay Anson and Elliot Geisinger. With Jack Palance, Joan Collins, Fred Romero (Fernando Romero), Elisabetta Virgili, Manuel de Blas, Remo de Angelis. Stranded in the Alaskan Rockies, a young boy finds companionship and protection with a faithful dog. Average outdoor drama loosely based on a Jack London story and made in Europe.

1626  The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok  Columbia, 1938. 15 Chapters. D: Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson. SC: George Rosener, Charles Arthur Powell and George Arthur Durlam. With Gordon (Bill) Elliott, Monte Blue, Carole Wayne, Frankie Darro, Dickie Jones, Sammy McKim, Kermit Maynard, Roscoe Ates, Monty Collins, Reed Hadley, Chief Thundercloud, Mala, Walter Willis, J.P. McGowan, Eddy Waller, George Chesebro, Alan Bridge, Jack Perrin, Slim Whitaker, Walter Miller, Lee Phelps, Robert Fiske, Earle Hodgins, Earl Dwire, Ed Brady, Ray Jones, Edmund Cobb, Art Mix, Hal Taliaferro, Blackie Whiteford, Kenne Duncan, Budd Buster, Richard Cramer, Jack Rockwell, Francis Walker, Herman Hack, Bill Patton, Frank Lackteen, William Gould, Ethan Laidlaw, Tom London, Lew Meehan, Frank Ellis, Steve Cark, Buck Connors, Hank Bell, Edward Hearn, George Morrell, Robert Walker, Horace B. Carpenter, Richard Botiller, Carl Mathews, Ray Henderson, Al Haskell, Iron Eyes Cody, Jack Evans, Gene Alsace, Ted Mapes, Charles Brinley, Bob Burns, Al Thompson, Chuck Hamilton, Blackjack Ward, Bud McClure, Jack Montgomery, Artie Ortego, Curley Dresden, Allan Cavan, Ernie Adams, David McKim, Jesse Graves, Bruce Lane. Abilene marshal Wild Bill Hickok organizes a group of youngsters called the “Flaming Arrows” to help him combat renegade phantom raiders trying to stop a cattle drive from Texas over the Chisholm Trail. Well made and exciting cliffhanger that launched Bill Elliott to genre stardom; a grand supporting cast.

1627  The Great Alaskan Mystery  Universal, 1944. 13 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins. SC: Maurice Tombragel and George H. Plympton. With Milburn Stone, Marjorie Weaver, Edgar Kennedy, Samuel S. Hinds, Martin Kosleck, Ralph Morgan, Joseph Crehan, Fuzzy Knight, Harry Cording, Anthony Warde, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Jay Novello, Edward Gargan, Jack Clifford, Perc Launders, George Chesebro, Edmund Cobb, Reed Howes, Ray Bennett, Jack Ingram, Jack Rockwell, Stanley Price, Ed Peil, Sr., Artie Ortego, Bill Hunter, Dick Rush, Clarence Straight, Ben Taggart, Jean Trent, Charles Sullivan, Kernan Cripps, Curley Dresden, Roy Bucko, Kenneth Terrell, Carl Vernell, Joel Allen, James Dime, Carey Harrison, Bill Healy. An expedition heads to Alaska hoping to locate an old mine containing ore for a new weapon but one of them is really an enemy agent. Action filled wartime chapter play combining the spy and sci-fi genres.

1628  The Great American Cowboy  American National Enterprises/Sun International, 1974. 90 min. Color. D: Keith Merrill. SC: Douglas Kent Hall. With Joel McCrea (narrator), Larry Mahan, Phil Lyne, Elias Arriola. The story of the year long quest for the world’s rodeo championship between veteran star Larry Mahan and young competitor Phil Lyne. Academy Award winning documentary that contains exciting rodeo footage and pleasing narration by Joel McCrea.

1629  The Great American Indian  Doty-Dayton, 1974. 90 min. Color. D: Keith Merrill. The lives of Native Americans, how they live today, their history and heritage. Well done documentary from the people that made The Great American Cowboy (q.v.).

1630  The Great American Wilderness  Bill Burrud Productions, 1977. 95 min. Color. D: Barry Clark. With Marvin Miller (narrator). A travelogue of the wilds of North America, including the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, deserts of the Southwest and the Arctic. Just the type of fare to please nature lovers.

1631  The Great Bank Robbery  Warner Bros.–Seven Arts, 1969. 98 min. Color. D: Hy Averback. SC: William Peter Blatty. With Kim Novak, Zero Mostel, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff, Larry Storch, John Anderson, Sam Jaffe, Mako, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ruth Warrick, John Fiedler, John Larch, Peter Whitney, Norman Alden, Grady Sutton, Bob Steele, Mickey Simpson, Guy Wilkerson, Burt Mustin, Philo McCullough, William Zuckert, Jerry Summers, Byron Keith, Ben Aliza, Roy Agata, Bob Mitchell Boys’ Choir. A woman and her friends pose as church leaders in order to rob a bank built by the notorious James, Dalton and Younger brothers. Poor Western comedy.

The Great Bar 20 see Gunfighter (1999)

The Great Barrier see Silent Barriers

1632  The Great Call of the Wilderness  American National Enterprises, 1976. 95 min. Color. With Larry Jones. In the American Northwest, a man fights to build a large natural preserve for the local animal life. Another okay drama for outdoors fans.

1633  Great Day in the Morning  RKO Radio, 1956. 92 min. Color. D: Jacques Tourneur. SC: Lesser Samuels. With Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr, Leo Gordon, Regis Toomey, Peter Whitney, Dan White, Donald McDonald, Lane Chandler, Dennis Moore, Kermit Maynard, Ben Corbett. During the Colorado gold rush, trouble develops between prospectors along with secession activities. Colorful adaptation of Robert Hardy Andrews’ novel.

1634  The Great Divide  First National, 1929. 73 min. D: Reginald Barker. SC: Fred Myton and Paul Perez. With Dorothy Makaill, Ian Keith, Myrna Loy, Lucien Littlefield, Creighton Hale, George Fawcett, Claude Gillingwater, Roy Stewart, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Jean Laverty, Marjorie Kane. An arrogant Eastern debutante vacations in the West with her fiance and friends but finds herself courted by a mine owner. Picturesque early talkie from William Vaughn Moody’s 1909 play; first filmed in 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Alice Terry, Conway Tearle and Wallace Beery.

The Great Gundown see 40 Graves for 40 Guns

1635  The Great Jesse James Raid  Lippert, 1953. 73 min. Color. D: Reginald LeBorg. SC: Richard Landau. With Willard Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal, Wallace Ford, James Anderson, Jim Bannon, Richard Cutting, Barbara Woodell, Marin Sais, Earle Hodgins, Joan Arnold, Steve Pendleton, Rory Mallinson, Frank Ellis, Ted Mapes, Fred Graham, Ray Jones. A “retired” Jesse James agrees to join Bob Ford in stealing gold hidden in a closed mine tunnel. Tawdry melodrama made to get box office mileage from the tabloid romance between plump Barbara Payton and Tom Neal, although neither has much to do in the proceedings.

1636  The Great K and A Train Robbery  Fox, 1926. 53 min D: Lewis Seiler. SC: John Stone. With Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, William Walling, Harry Grippe, Carl Miller, Ed Peil, Sr., Curtis McHenry, Sammy Cohen. A railroad detective disguises himself as a bandit to board a train plagued by robberies and expose the culprits. Grand Tom Mix and Tony silent Western; very entertaining. John Wayne appeared as an extra.

1637  The Great Locomotive Chase  Buena Vista, 1956. 85 min. Color. D: Francis D. Lyon. SC: Lawrence S. Watkin. With Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Eddie Firestone, Kenneth Tobey, Don Megowan, Claude Jarman, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr., Lennie Geer, Stan Jones, Slim Pickens, Morgan Woodward, Harvey Hester. A Union spy leads a group of volunteers into the South disguised as Confederates with a plan to steal a train and take it North. Fine Disney action drama.

1638  The Great Man’s Lady  Paramount, 1942. 90 min. D: William A. Wellman. SC: W.L. River. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Katherine Stevens, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Lillian Yarbo, Damian O’Flynn, Charles Lane, George Chandler, Anna Q. Nilsson, George P. Huntley, Milton Parsons, Etta McDaniel, Mary Treen, Helen Lynd, Lucien Littlefield, Frank M. Thomas, William B. Davidson, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, John Hamilton, Monte Blue, Eleanor Stewart, Theodore Von Eltz, George Irving, Fern Emmett, Pat O’Malley, Irving Bacon, Lee Phelps, Lee Moore, Charles Williams, Hank Bell, Ottola Nesmith, David Clyde, Bob Perry, Buck Mack. A young woman falls in love with a man who wants to build an oil empire but eventually he loses her to a gambler. Interesting performances aid this rather stilted drama.

1639  The Great Meadow  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1931. 75 min. D: Charles Brabin. SC: Elizabeth Roberts. With Eleanor Boardman, Johnny Mack Brown, Lucille LaVerne, Anita Louise, Gavin Gordon, Guinn Williams, Russell Simpson, Sarah Padden, Helen Jerome Eddy, William Bakewell, Andy Shuford, James Marcus, Gardner James, Chief Whitespear. Pioneers join a wagon train and travel from Virginia to settle new land in Kentucky. Dated historical melodrama with some good action sequences and an early genre role for Johnny Mack Brown as the wagon master.