1845  Hellhounds of the Plains  Goodwill, 1927. 60 min. D-SC: Jacques Jaccard. With Yakima Canutt, Neva Gerber, Lafe McKee, Al Ferguson, Bud Osborne, Cliff Lyons, Roy Bassett, Jack Woods, Boy (horse). A cowboy is in love with the half-sister of a rancher’s son who is the leader of a gang of horse thieves. Low grade but fast paced Yakima Canutt silent feature.

1846  The Hellion  Columbia, 1961. 79 min. Color. D: Ken Annakin. SC: Harold Swanton, Patrick Kirwan and Harold Ruth. With Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Jamie Uys, Marty Wilde, Lionel Jeffries, James Booth, Al Mulock, Colin Blakely, Ronald Fraser, Zena Walker, George Moore, Bill Brewer, Jan Bruyns, Lorna Cowell. In 1860s South African Transvaal a man and his sons arrive in a remote town intent on seeking revenge against a lawman. Fairly interesting British production containing all the necessary Western plot elements.

1847  Hello, Everybody!  Paramount, 1933. 70 min. D: William A. Seiter. SC: Dorothy Yost and Lawrence Hazard. With Kate Smith, Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Charley Grapewin, George Barbier, Julia Swayne Gordon, Wade Boteler, Erville Alderson, Paul Kruger, Frank Darien, Fern Emmett, Jerry Tucker, Marguerite Campbell, Jack Pennick, William B. Davidson, Ted Collins, Russell Simpson, Frank Jenks, Edward Davis, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Hallene Hall, Lon Poff, Irving Bacon, Dennis O’Keefe, Edmund Mortimer, Hal Price, Nat Brusiloff. When the building of a dam threatens the farms near a small Western town, a local girl becomes a radio singing sensation to raise the money needed to fight the project. Kate Smith’s solo starring feature is a good one, highlighted by her singing “Twenty Million People” and “Moon Song.”

1848  Hello Trouble  Columbia, 1932. D-SC: Lambert Hillyer. With Buck Jones, Lina Basquette, Wallace MacDonald, Spec O’Donnell, Ruth Warren, Otto Hoffman, Ward Bond, Frank Rice, Russell Simpson, Alan Roscoe, Al Smith, King Baggott, Bert Roach, Walter Brennan, Morgan Galloway. A Texas Ranger after a trio of cattle rustlers shoots one of them only to learn it is his friend so he quits the service only to get involved in hunting the killer of a rancher. Somewhat slow moving and erratic Buck Jones vehicle, but still entertaining.

1849  Hell’s Crossroads  Republic, 1957. 73 min. Color. D: Franklin Adreon. SC: John K. Butler and Barry Shipman. With Stephen McNally, Peggie Castle, Robert Vaughn, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy, Grant Withers, Myron Healey, Frank Wilcox, Jean Howell, Morris Anrkum, Heenan Elliott, Eddie Baker, Chip Carson, John Patrick. A member of the James gang wants to reform but his former cohorts try to foil his efforts. Average oater with a fine cast.

1850  Hell’s Heroes  Universal, 1930. 65 min. D: William Wyler. SC: Tom Reed. With Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Maria Alba, Jose De La Cruz, Buck Connors, Walter James. Three outlaws fleeing a posse into the desert come across a dying woman and agree to take her newborn to its father. First sound version of Peter B. Kyne’s The Three Godfathers is a sturdy affair that holds up well.

1851  Hell’s Hinges  Triangle, 1915. 55 min. D: William S. Hart and Charles Swickard. SC: C. Gardner Sullivan. With William S. Hart, Clara Williams, Louise Glaum, Jack Standing, Alfred Hollingsworth, Robert McKim, J. Frank Burke, Robert Kortman, Leo Willis, Jean Hersholt, John Gilbert, Wheeler Oakman. A dishonest gambler hires a gunslinger to stop the work of a new minister but the gunman falls in love with the clergyman’s sister and helps his cause. Top notch William S. Hart film, a faithful recreation of the Old West with plenty of action and violence.

1852  Hell’s Outpost  Republic, 1954. 90 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Kenneth Gamet. With Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, John Russell, Chill Wills, Jim Davis, Kristine Miller, Ben Cooper, Taylor Holmes, Barton MacLane, Ruth Lee, Oliver Blake, Harry Woods, John Dierkes, Arthur Q. Bryan, Buzz Henry, Sue England, Almira Sessions, Don Kennedy, Paul Stader, Don Brodie, Alan Bridge, Ruth Brennan, Edward Clark, Gil Harman, James Lilburn, Elizabeth Slifer, George Dockstader. A war veteran comes to a small town determined to work his mining claim but his opposed by a crooked banker. Rugged drama with Rod Cameron as the strong hero and John Russell a bad, bad villain.

1853  Henry Goes Arizona  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939. 66 min. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Florence Ryerson and Milton Merlin. With Frank Morgan, Virginia Weidler, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Douglas Fowley, Owen Davis, Jr, Gordon Jones, Porter Hall, Chester Conklin, Ann Morriss, Olin Howland, Eddie Dunn, Ted Adams, Jack Kirk, Joe Whitehead, Robert Emmett Keane, Erville Alderson, Jim Thorpe, Matty Faust, Tenen Holtz, Robert Spinola, George Noisom. When a broke actor inherits his brother’s ranch, a gang of outlaws try to take it for themselves. Amusing genre comedy second feature.

Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas see Blood River

1854  Heritage of the Desert  Paramount, 1932. 63 min. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Harold Shumate and Frank Partos. With Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, David Landau, Gordon Wescott, Guinn Williams, Vince Barnett, Susan Fleming, Charles Stevens, Fred Burns. A young man, raised by a desert rancher, tries to stop a claim jumper from taking his property. Adequate screen adaptation of the Zane Grey novel, first filmed by Paramount in 1924 with Bebe Daniels, Lloyd Hughes, Ernest Torrance and Noah Beery; reissued as When the West Was Young.

1855  Heritage of the Desert  Paramount, 1939. 74 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston and Harrison Jacobs. With Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden, Robert Barrat, Sidney Toler, C. Henry Gordon, Willard Robertson, Paul Guifoyle, Paul Fix, John “Skins” Miller, Reginald Barlow, Frank Ellis, Charles Brinley, Hank Bell, Tex Phelps, Charles Murphy. An Easterner comes West to claim an inheritance and gets mixed up with outlaws. Very fine third screen version of the Zane Grey work.

1856  Los Hermanos Centella (The Centella Brothers)  Artistas Nacionales Asociados, 1967. 90 min. D: Fernando Fernandez. SC: Fernando Fernandez and Jose Delfos. With Dacia Gonzalez, Jaime Fernandez, Daboberto Rodriguez, Guillermo Rivas, Fernando Soto “Mantequilla“, Crox Alvarado, Agustin Fernandez, Ana Maria Garcia, Juan Garza, Jesus Gomez, Roberto Porter, Ignacio Villalbazo, Oscar Alatorre, Gloria Berrones. Years after their families are massacred by an outlaw gang, a government agent and the woman he loves seek revenge. Okay Mexican Western.

1857  Los Hemanos Diablo (The Diablo Brothers)  Alameda Films, 1959. 75 min. D: Fernando Menez and Chano Urueta. SC: Alfredo Salazar. With Maurcio Garces, Abel Salazar, Rafael Baledon, Dacia Gonzalez, Carlos Suarez, Tito Novarro, Jose Castro, Consuelo Oviedo, David Reynoso, Guillermo Rivas, Alfonso Torres, Carlos Nieto, Antonio Raxel. Three brothers fight to keep their American ranch free of Indian raiders and outlaws. Action filled oater from south of the border.

1858  Heroes of Fort Worth  Fenix Film, 1964 90 min. D: Herbert Martin (Alberto De Martino). SC: Eduardo Manzanos. With Edmund Purdom, Priscilla Steele, Paul Piaget, Aurora Julia, Isarco Ravaioli, Umberto Raho, Miguel Del Castillo, Eduardo Fajardo, Tomas Blanco. During the Civil War a group of Confederates head to Mexico to enlist the aid of Emperor Maximilian in helping their cause but they meet opposition at a Western fort. Action filled Spaghetti Western with lots of historical ingredients but few facts. Issued in Italy as La Carica del 7 Cavalleggeri (The Charge of the Seventh Cavalry).

1859  Heroes of the Alamo  Columbia, 1938. 74 min. D: Harry S. Fraser. SC: Ruby Wentz. With Earle Hodgins, Lane Chandler, Rex Lease, Roger Williams, Ed Peil, Sr., Julian Rivero, Jack C. Smith, Bruce Warren, Ruth Findlay, Lee Valianos, William Costello, Steve Clark, Sherry Tansey, Denver Dixon, George Morrell, Tex Cooper, Oscar Gahan, Ben Corbett, Lafe McKee, Slim Whitaker, Budd Buster, Frank Ellis, Richard Cramer, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Francis Walker, Tex Phelps, Milburn Morante, Curley Dresden, Herman Hack, Al Taylor, Hal Price, Merrill McCormick, Carl Mathews, Jim Corey, Dorothy Vernon, Tex Phelps, Tom Smith, Bob Roper. Texans strive for independence from Mexico, resulting in their gallant stand at the Alamo against Santa Ana’s army. Pretty good independent production from Anthony J. Xydias and issued by his Sunset Pictures in 1937 before being distributed by Columbia the next year. Reissue title: Remember the Alamo.

1860  Heroes of the Hills  Republic, 1938. 56 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Priscilla Lawson, LeRoy Mason, James Eagles, Roy Barcroft, Carleton Young, Forrest Taylor, Maston Williams, John Beach, Roger Williams, Kit Guard, Jack Kirk, Curley Dresden, Robert Hays, John Wade, Jerry Frank, Gloria Rich, I. Stanford Jolley, Bob Card, Buck Morgan, Lew Meehan, Tommy Coats, Art Dillard, Chuck Baldra. The Three Mesquiteers turn their spread into a work farm for prison trustees but when they try to get other ranchers to join the program a crooked contractor tries to thwart them. Another fine and exciting “Three Mesquiteers” entry.

1861  Heroes of the Range  Columbia, 1936. 58 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Ken Maynard, June Gale, Harry Woods, Harry Ernest, Robert Kortman, Bud McClure, Tom London, Bud Osborne, Frank Hagney, Jack Rockwell, Lafe McKee, Wally Wales, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Bud Jamison, Bob Reeves, Marin Sais, Oscar Gahan, Jack Evans, Buck Moulton. A cowboy comes to the aid of a pretty girl whose brother is in the clutches of an outlaw gang. Delightful Ken Maynard vehicle; this is the one where Ken masquerades as an outlaw and when the crooks ask him to prove his identity he says, “I know what ye want” and proceeds to play the fiddle and sing.

1862  Heroes of the Saddle  Republic, 1940. 59 min. D: William Witney. SC: Jack Natteford. With Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Patsy Lee Parsons, Loretta Weaver, Byron Foulger, Vince Barnett, William Royle, Reed Howes, Al Taylor, Kermit Maynard, Tex Terry, Matt McHugh, Harrison Greene, Jack Roper, Ethel May Halls, Patsy Carmichael, Harry Strang, Tommy Coats, Douglas Deems, Darwood Kaye, Tom Hanlon, Art Dillard, Bob Card, Chief John Big Tree, Bob Burns. When money belonging to an orphanage is reported stolen, the Three Mesquiteers investigate and find the institution is run by crooks. Modern-day setting somewhat detracts from the overall effectiveness of this series outing.

1863  Heroes of the West  Universal, 1932. 12 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor. SC: George Plympton, Basil Dickey, Joe Roach and Ella O’Neill. With Noah Beery, Jr., Diane Duval (Julie Bishop/Jacqueline Wells), Onslow Stevens, William Desmond, Martha Mattox, Philo McCullough, Harry Tenbrook, Frank Lackteen, Edmund Cobb, Jules Cowles, Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, Lafe McKee, Chief Thunderbird. Moving to Wyoming with his children, a contractor tries to complete a transcontinental railroad with the help of an engineer but they are opposed by forces trying to sabotage the project. Fair serial with a more interesting cast than plot.

1864  Hex  20th Century–Fox, 1973. 90 min. Color. D: Leo Garen. SC: Leo Garen and Steve Katz. With Keith Carradine, Robert Walker, Hilarie Thompson, Tina Herazo, Scott Glenn, Gary Busey, John Carradine, Mike Combs, Doria Cook, Patricia Ann Porter. Following World War I a motorcycle gang becomes involved with the occult in a Western town after a mysterious girl casts a spell on them. Okay horror Western; also called Grass Lands.

1865  Hi Gaucho!  RKO Radio, 1936. 60 min. D: Thomas Atkins. SC: Adele Buffington. With John Carroll, Steffi Duna, Rod LaRoque, Montagu Love, Ann Codel, Tom Ricketts, Paul Porcasi, Julian Rivero, Sam Appel, Frank Mills, Harold Daniels, Ferike Boros, Enrique DeRosas. A South American cowboy prefers a pretty Castilian senorita to taking part in a long standing family feud. Passable comedy-action program feature.

1866  Hiawatha  Allied Artists, 1952. 80 min. Color. D: Kurt Neumann. SC: Arthur Strawn and Daniel B. Ullman. With Vincent Edwards, Yvette Dugay, Keith Larsen, Morris Ankrum, Eugene Iglesias, Ian MacDonald, Stuart Randall, Katherine Emery, Stephen Chase, Armando Silvestre, Michael Tolan, Richard Bartlett, Michael Granger, Robert Bice, Henry Corden. The chief of an Indian tribe tries to bring peace with his people’s long time foes. Producer Walter Mirisch’s adaptation of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem is on the dull side.

1867  Hidalgo  Buena Vista, 2004. 136 min. Color. D: Joe Johnston. SC: John Fusco. With Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard, Adam Alexi-Malle, Said Taghmaoul, Silas Carson, Harsh Nayyar, J.K. Simmons, Adoni Maropis, Victor Talmadge, Peter Mensah, Joshua Wolf Coleman, Frankly Mwangi, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Elizabeth Berridge, C. Thomas Howell, Steven Rimkus, Jerry Hardin, Frank Collison, Chris Owen, Marshal Manesh, Philip Sounding Sides, George Gerdes, Todd Kimsey, Ednah New Rider Weber, Adam Ozturk, John Prosky, Michael Canavan, David Midthunder, Sam Sako, Jaek Miller, Mary Ellis, Zachary Badasci, Malcolm McDowell, Joseph J. Dawson. A Pony Express rider goes to Arabia to compete in a long distance race with his horse and becomes involved with a Sheik and his beautiful daughter. Sumptuous, entertaining production that flopped at the box office.

1868  Hidden Danger  Monogram, 1948. 55 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: J. Benton Cheney and Eliot Gibbons. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Max Terhune, Christine Larson, Myron Healey, Marshall Reed, Kenne Duncan, Edmund Cobb, Steve Clark, Milburn Morante, Carol Henry, Bill Hale, Boyd Stockman, Bill Potter, Bob Woodward. The head of a cattlemen’s protective group persuades local ranchers to sell him their cattle but he pays less than the market price and is soon being investigated by a lawman. Last Johnny Mack Brown series film with Raymond Hatton is a competent affair.

1869  Hidden Gold  Universal, 1932. 60 min. D: Arthur Rosson. SC: Jack Natteford and James Milhauser. With Tom Mix, Judith Barrie, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Gribbon, Donald Kirke, Wallis Clark, Roy Moore, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Bud Osborne, Gilbert “Pee Wee” Holmes, Ed LeSaint, Olin Francis. A cowboy goes to jail to get in good with an outlaw gang that has hidden loot from a robbery. Not one of Tom Mix’s better sound films.

1870  Hidden Gold  Paramount, 1940. 61 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Jack Merserveau and Gerald Geraghty. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Britt Wood, Ruth Rogers, Roy Barcroft, Minor Watson, Ethel Wales, Lee Phelps, George Anderson, Jack Rockwell, Eddie Dean, Raphael Bennett, Walter Long, Robert Kortman, Merrill McCormick, Cliff Parkinson, Art Dillard, Bruce Mitchell. After becoming a ranch foreman, Hopalong Cassidy is at odds with a crook who wants to steal a gold mine from his former outlaw partner. Pretty fair series outing.

1871  Hidden Guns  Republic, 1956. 66 min. D: Albert C. Gannaway. SC: Sam Roeca and Albert C. Gannaway. With Bruce Bennett, Richard Arlen, John Carradine, Faron Young, Angie Dickinson, Lloyd Corrigan, Damian O’Flynn, Irving Bacon, Tom Hubbard, Guinn Williams, Edmund Cobb, Ben Welden, Gordon Terry, Bill Coontz, Ron Kennedy. A sheriff and his son try to save their town from a dishonest gambler, his henchman and their hired guns. Fairly good program feature with nice work by its trio of stars.

John Carradine and Bruce Bennett in Hidden Guns (Republic, 1956).

1872  Hidden Valley  Monogram, 1932. 60 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, Francis McDonald, Ray Haller, John Elliott, Arthur Miller, V.L. Barnes, Dick Dickinson, George Hayes, Tom London, Captain Verner L. Smith. A cowboy is after a gang seeking treasure hidden in a peaceful locale. Pretty good Bob Steele vehicle with a mystery plot plus dirigible sequences and a lost Indian tribe worshiping a skull god.

1873  Hidden Valley Outlaws  Republic, 1944. 56 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: John K. Butler and Bob Williams. With Wild Bill Elliott, George “Gabby” Hayes, Anne Jeffreys, Roy Barcroft, Kenne Duncan, John James, Charles Miller, Budd Buster, Tom London, LeRoy Mason, Earle Hodgins, Yakima Canutt, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Jack Kirk, Tom Steele, Bud Geary, Frank McCarroll, Ed Cassidy, Robert Wilke, Cactus Mack, Forbes Murray, Frank O’Connor, Charles Morton, Tom Smith, Harry Leroy, Kansas Moehring. When a vicious outlaw gang terrorizes a southwest town a marshal comes to the rescue. Fast moving, entertaining “Wild Bill Elliott” film; the last in the series.

1874  The High Country  Crown-International, 1981. 101 min. D: Harvey Hart. SC: Bud Townsend. With Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl, George Sims, Bill Berry, Jim Lawrence, Walter Mills, Paul Jolicoeur, Dick Butler, Elizabeth Alderton, Barry Graham, John Duthie, Marsha Stonehouse. An escaped convict persuades an illiterate young woman to take him into Alberta’s high country in order to elude the law. Fair drama but nothing exceptional.

1875  High Hell  Paramount, 1958. 87 min. D: Burt Balaban. SC: Irene Tunich. With John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Patrick Allen, Jerold Wells, Al Mulock, Rodney Burke, Colin Craft, Nicholas Stuart. A man returns to his mountain mine to find his wife there with his partner and the three are soon snowbound for the winter. Brooding, British made melodrama.

1876  High Lonesome  Eagle-Lion, 1950. 81 min. Color. D-SC: Alan LeMay. With John Barrymore, Jr., Chill Wills, Lois Butler, Christine Miller, John Archer, Basil Ruysdael, Jack Elam, Dave Kashner, Frank Cordell, Clem Fuller, Hugh Aiken, Howard Joslin. A young man becomes involved with two escaped convicts planning to commit a murder. Fairly involved psychological Western.

1877  High Noon  United Artists, 1952. 84 min. D: Fred Zinneman. SC: Carl Forman. With Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney, Henry (Harry) Morgan, Ian MacDonald, Eve McVeagh, Harry Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, Robert Wilke, Sheb Wooley, Tom London, Ted Stanhope, Larry Blake, William Phillips, Jeanne Blackford, William Newell, Lucien Prival, Guy Beach, Howard Chamberlin, Morgan Farley, Virginia Christine, Virginia Farmer, Jack Elam, Paul Dubov, Harry Harvey, Tim Graham, Nolan Leary, Tom Greenway, Dick Elliott, John Doucette. On the eve of his wedding, a veteran marshal must face three vengeful killers without the help of the town’s citizens. Classic Western drama with several excellent performances; still it would be slow going if it were not for Tex Ritter’s singing the title song throughout.

1878  High Noon  Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), 2000. 88 min. Color. D: Ron Hardy. SC: Carl Foreman and T.S. Cook. With Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, David Lereaney, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dennis Weaver, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Matthew Walker, Frank C. Turner, Shaun Johnson, Terry M. King, Kate Newby, Brian Stollery, Noel Fisher, Joe Norman Shaw, Trevor Leigh, Colin Campbell, Jim Leyden, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Jim Shield, Royal Sproule, Tom McBeth, Andy Maton, Bob Chomyn, Jacqueline Robbins, Joyce Robbins, Brent Woolsey, Thomas Legg, Judith Buchan. A newly married lawman is challenged by a killer, who he sent to jail, and his gang. Mundane TV remake of the genre classic.

1879  Nigh Noon, Part Two: The Return of Will Kane  CBS-TV, 1980 100 min. Color. D: Jerry Jameson. SC: Elmore Leonard. With Lee Majors, David Carradine, Pernell Roberts, J.A. Preston, Michael Pataki, Katherine Cannon, Britt Leach, Frank Campanella, M. Emmet Walsh, Tracy Walter, Charles Benton, Sanford Gibbs, Stonewall Jackson, Francese Javis, Henry Max Kenrick, Kirk Koshelle, Warren Stanhope, Tiny Weller, Clint Austin. An ex-lawman, now a rancher, protects a friend wanted by a marshal and is forced to take up his guns to defend him. Average small screen follow-up to the original Nigh Noon (q.v.).

1880  High Plains Drifter  Universal, 1973. 105 min. Color. D: Clint Eastwood. SC: Ernest Tidyman. With Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis, Walter Barnes, Paul Brinegar, Dan Vadis, Jack Kosslyn, Belle Mitchell, John Mitchum, Pedro Regas, Dan Vadis, Richard Bull, Jack Kasslyn, Russ McCubbin, Carl Pitti, Chuck Waters, Buddy Van Horn, Robert Donner, John Hillerman, Anthony James, William O’Cornell, John Quade, James Gosa, Jane Auld, Reid Cruickshanks. After a gunslinger is hired by the citizens of a town to protect them against a gang of killers they being to wonder if their new sheriff is really mortal. Likable film that seems to be a cross between Spaghetti Westerns and a genre spoof.

1881  High Plains Invaders  RHI Entertainment, 2009. 87 min. D: K.T. Donaldson (Kristoffer Tabori). SC: Richard Beattie. With James Marsters, Cindy Sampson, Sebastian Knapp, Sanny van Heteren, Dan Bordeianu, Antony Byrne, Sorin Cristea, James Jordan, Angus MacInnes, Dugald Bruce Lockhart, Constantin Barbulesu, Adriana Butoi. About to be hung, an outlaw is saved when an alien attacks a remote town and he vows to destroy the insectoid. Far fetched, but not too bad sci-fi oater.

High Stakes see Two Fisted Stranger

1882  High Voltage  Pathé, 1929. 60 min. D: Howard Higgin. SC: James Gleason. With William Boyd, Owen Moore, Carol(e) Lombard, Diane Ellis, Billy Bevan, Phillips Smalley. During a snowstorm bus passengers are marooned in High Sierras church and one of them, a young woman going to jail, falls for a lineman who is wanted by the law. Although disliked by critics when first released, this early talkie holds up rather well.

1883  High, Wide and Handsome  Paramount, 1937. 112 min. D: Rouben Mamoulian. SC: Oscar Hammerstein II. With Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Patterson, Raymond Walburn, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Bickford, Ben Blue, William Frawley, Alan Hale, Irving Pichel, Stanley Andrews, James Burke, Roger Imhof, Lucien Littlefield, Purnell B. Pratt, Edward Gargan, Helen Lowell, Russell Hopton, Frank Sully, Tommy Bupp, Claire McDowell, Edward Keane, Lew Kelly, Dell Henderson, John T. Murray, Frank Shannon, Jack Clifford, Billy Bletcher, Constance Bergen, Marjorie Cameron, Pat West, Rolfe Sedan, John Maurice Sullivan, John Marshall, Ernest Wood, Philip Morris, Paul Kruger, George MacQuarrie. A circus star marries an oil driller and they become involved with farmers in 1859 Pennsylvania who try to save their lands from the railroads. Big budget musical that is on the bland side.

The Highwayman Rides see Billy the Kid (1930)

1884   Highway West  Warner Bros., 1941. 63 min. D: William McGann. SC: Allen Rivkin, Charles Kenyon and Kenneth Gamet. With Brenda Marshall, Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, William Lundigan, Willie Best, Frank Wilcox, John Ridgely, Dorothy Tree, Noel Madison, Pat Flaherty, Victor Zimmerman, William B. Davidson, Dick Rich, James Westerfield, Nat Carr, Paul Panzer, Creighton Hale, Erville Alderson, Herbert Anderson, Leo White, Dorothy Adams, Fred Graham, Guy Usher, Wade Boteler, Harry Strang, John Dilson, Douglas Evans. After her husband is sentenced to life in prison, a woman opens a desert motel-café with her younger sister and grandfather but the spouse makes a getaway and holes up with his ex-wife, who has found love with another man, and begins romancing the sister. Mediocre remake of the excellent Heat Lightning (q.v.).

1885  Las Hijas del Zorro (The Daughters of Zorro)  Pelicuas Rodriguez, S.A., 1964. 87 min. D: Federico Curiel. SC: Federico Curiel and Alfredo Ruanova. With Kitty de Hoyos, Dacia Gonzalez, Rafael Bertrand, Eduardo Fajardo, Santanon, Eric de Castillo, Alvaro Ortiz, Pancho Cordova, Luz Marquez, Rogelio Guerra, Tito Novaro. Eighteen years after Zorro is jailed by an evil military captain, his two daughters take his place to fight tyranny. Action filled Mexican adventure film followed by Las Invencibles (q.v.).

1886  El Hijo del Charro Negro (The Son of the Black Cowboy)  Radaent Films, 1961. 82 min. D: Arturo Martinez. SC: Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Jaime Fernandez, Crox Alvarado, Graciela Lara, Emma Roldan, Andres Soler, Domingo Soler, Cecilia Leger, Guillermo Alvarez Bianchi. The son of the Black Cowboy tries to rescue his childhood sweetheart after she is abducted by a rejected suitor. Fun Mexican Western in the “Charro Negro” series.

1887  El Hijo del Diablo (The Son of the Devil)  Producion Filmica Mexico, 1966. 88 min. D: Zacarias Gomez Urquiza. SC: Felipe Mier and Zacarias Gomez Urquiza. With Joaquin Cordero, Alma Delia Fuentes, Jorge Russek, Irma Serrano, Jose Baviera, Roberto Meyer. A mysterious masked avenger opposes two cruel brothers and their bandit gang as they terrorize a region with one of them lusting after a rancher’s daughter. Fast paced, enjoyable south of the border Western highlighted by Joaquin Cordero in the title role.

1888  Hills of Oklahoma  Republic, 1950. 67 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Olive Cooper and Victor Arthur. With Rex Allen, Fuzzy Knight, Elizabeth Fraser, Elisabeth Risdon, Roscoe Ates, Rex Lease, Robert Karns, Robert Emmett Keane, Trevor Bardette, Lee Phelps, Edmund Cobb, Ted Adams, Lane Bradford, Johnny Downs, Michael Carr. Rustlers try to steal a cattle herd being driven to market by the head of the cattlemen’s protective association. Average Rex Allen feature.

1889  Hills of Old Wyoming  Paramount, 1937. 79 min. D: Nate Watt. SC: Maurice Geraghty. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Gail Sheridan, Stephen Morris (Morris Ankrum), Clara Kimball Young, Earle Hodgins, Steve Clemente, Chief Big Tree, John Beach, George Chesebro, Jim Mason, Paul Gustine, Leo J. McMahon, John Powers. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky oppose crooks trying to blame Indians for cattle rustling. Colorful “Hopalong Cassidy” feature with plenty of action and the lovely title song later associated with Eddie Dean; Russell Hayden’s first film in the series as Lucky Jenkins.

1890  The Hills of Utah  Columbia, 1951. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elaine Riley, Onslow Stevens, Denver Pyle, Donna Martell, William Fawcett, Harry Lauter, Tom London, Kenne Duncan, Sandy Sanders, Teddy Infur, Lee Morgan, Boyd Stockman, Stanley Price, Bob Woodward, Tommy Ivo, Billy Griffith. Arriving in a town trying to find out who killed his father, a frontier doctor becomes embroiled in a feud between a mine operator and ranchers. Entertaining Gene Autry opus with more emphasis on drama than songs.

1891  The Hills Run Red  United Artists, 1967. 89 min. Color. D: Lee W. Beaver (Carlo Lizzani). SC: Dean Craig (Mario Pierotti). With Thomas Hunter, Henry Silva, Dan Duryea, Nando Gazzolo, Nicolettea Machiavelli, Gianna Serra, Loris Loddi, Geoffrey Copleston, Paolo Magalotti, Tiberio Mitri, Vittorio Bonos, Mirko Valentin. A mysterious gunman helps an ex-convict out for revenge against the former partner who sent him to jail and kept the payroll money they stole. Fast moving and violent Italian oater hugely helped by Dan Duryea’s work as the gunslinger; issued in Europe in 1966 as Un Fiume di Dollari (A River of Dollars).

Hired Gun see The Last Gunfighter

1892  The Hired Gun  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1957. 64 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: David Lang and Buckley Angell. With Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vincent Edwards, John Litel, Chuck Connors, Robert Burton, Guinn Williams, Reg Parton, Salvador Baquez, Pierce Lyden, Edgar Dearing, Chuck Roberson, William Tannen, Nolan Leary, Joe Haworth, Dan Riss, Bart Braverman, Beulah Archuletta. A lawman bringing a young woman back to a settlement to hang for murder becomes convinced of her innocence and tries to find the real killer. Compact and entertaining “B” drama.

1893  The Hired Hand  Universal, 1971. 98 min. Color. D: Peter Fonda. SC: Alan Sharp. With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Dardern, Ted Markland, Rita Rogers, Megan Denver, Ann Doran, Michael McClure. After being away from home for seven years a man returns to work for his ex-wife and daughter, eventually trying to free a buddy held prisoner by outlaws. Uneven film that is fairly well acted.

1894  His Brother’s Ghost  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945. 58 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Milton (Milton Raison and George Wallace Sayre). With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Charles King, Karl Hackett, Archie Hall, Frank McCarroll, Bud Osborne, Bob (John) Cason, Roy Brent, George Morrell, Richard Alexander, Carl Mathews, Charles Soldani, Art Dillard, Frank Ellis, Herman Hack, Jimmy Aubrey, Ray Henderson, Rube Dalroy. Ambushed by outlaws, a rancher sends for his twin brother and after his death the bad men see the sibling and think it is the man’s ghost. Typically cheap “Billy Carson” entry slightly distinguished by Al St. John’s work in dual roles, showing how good he could be in a dramatic part.

1895  His Fighting Blood  Ambassador, 1935. 60 min. D: John English. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Kermit Maynard, Polly Ann Young, Paul Fix, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Ted Adams, Joseph Girard, Frank LaRue, John McCarthy, Frank O’Connor, Charles King, Jack Cheatham, Ed Cecil, Theodore Lorch, The Singing Constables (Glenn Strange, Chuck Baldra, Jack Kirk). Upon his release from prison after serving a term for a crime committed by his brother, a man joins the Mounties and goes after an outlaw gang that includes his sibling. Complicated Kermit Maynard north woods melodrama.

1896  His Name Was King  Foro Film, 1971. 90 min. Color. D: Don Reynolds (Renato Savino). SC: Renato Savino. With Richard Harrison, Klaus Kinski, Anne Puskin, John Silver (Goffredo Unger), Lorenzo Fineschi, Vassili Karis, Lucio Zarina, Tom Felleghy, Giuseppe Monteverdi, John Bartha, Rick Boyd (Federico Boido), Paolo Magalotti, Ada Pometti, Giorgio Dolfin, Luciano Pigozzi, Marco Zuanelli. A bounty hunter is on the trail of gun runners who murdered his brother and raped his sister-in-law, the trail leading to Mexico where the gang is headed by his best friend, a lawman. Fair Italian Western released there as Lo Chiamavano King (They Called Him King).

His Name Was Sam Walbash, but They Call Him Amen see Savage Guns (1971)

1897  Hit and Run  Universal, 1924. 45 min. D: Edward Sedgwick. SC: Edward Sedgwick and Raymond L. Schrock. With Hoot Gibson, Marion Harland, Cyril Ring, Harold Goodwin, DeWitt Jennings, Mike Donlin, William A. Steele. A baseball player from a desert town is signed by a major team but after he romances a scout’s daughter the two are kidnapped by crooks out to fix the world series. Pleasant comedy combination of sagebrush yarn and baseball.

1898  Hit the Saddle  Republic, 1937. 57 min. D: Mack V. Wright. SC: Oliver Drake. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Rita (Hayworth) Cansino, Yakima Canutt, J.P. McGowan, Ed Cassidy, Sammy McKim, Harry Tenbrook, Robert Smith, Ed Boland, Bob Burns, Russ Powell, Allan Cavan, George Morrell, Budd Buster, Kernan Cripps, George Plues, Tex Palmer, Jack Kirk, Oscar Gahan, Rudy Sooter, Robert Hoag, Harley Luse, Sheila Terry, Herman Hack, Jack Tornek, Tex Phelps, Wally West. Two pals have a falling out when one of them romances a gold digging fandango dancer but reconcile to fight a gang rustling wild horses in a protected area. Average entry in the popular “The Three Mesquiteers’ series.

1899  Hitched  NBC-TV/Universal, 1973. 73 min. Color. D: Boris Sagal. SC: Richard Alan Simmons. With Sally Field, Tim Matheson, Neville Brand, Slim Pickens, John Fiedler, Denver Pyle, John McLiam, Kathleen Freeman, Don Knight, Bo Svenson, Bill Zuckert, Charles Lane. A young newlywed couple out West find themselves the victims of a crooked scheme. Sub-par TV movie, sequel to Lock, Stock and Barrel (q.v.).

1900  Hittin’ the Trail  Grand National, 1937. 58 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Jerry Bergh, Tommy Bupp, Earl Dwire, Jack C. Smith, Heber Snow (Hank Worden), Ed Cassidy, Snub Pollard, Archie Ricks, Charles King, Ray Whitley and The Range Ramblers, Francis Walker, George Morrell, Oscar Gahan, Joe Weaver, Tex Ritter’s Tornados, Smokey (dog). Arrested after accidentally becoming involved with an outlaw gang, a cowboy tries to prove his innocence by rounding up the bad men. Okay Tex Ritter yarn, although the series is beginning to show signs of excessive economic measures by this time; Tex sings a half-dozen songs, including “Blood on the Saddle.

Hi-Yo Silver see The Lone Ranger (1938)

1901  Hoedown  Columbia, 1950. 64 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Barry Shipman. With Eddy Arnold, Jeff Donnell, Jock (Mahoney) O’Mahoney, Guinn Williams, Carolina Cotton, Fred F. Sears, Don C. Harvey, Charles Sullivan, Douglas Fowley, Ray Walker, Harry Harvey, The Pied Pipers, The Oklahoma Wranglers (The Willis Brothers). A cowboy film star arrives at a dude ranch and finds bank robbers hiding there. Fun country music Western musical with a good job by Jock Mahoney as the movie hero.

1902  A Hole Between the Eyes  Tigielle 33, 1968. 90 min. Color. D: Joseph Warren (Giuseppe Vari). SC: Adriano Bolzoni. With Anthony Ghidra, Robert Hundar (Claudio Undari), Rosy Zichel, Corinne Fontaine, John MacDouglas (Giuseppe Addobbati), John Bryan, Giorgio Gargiullo, Elsa Janet Waterston, Mario Darnell, Luigi Marturano, Bruno Cattaneo, Giuseppe Castellano. A bounty hunter obtains one of three cards giving the location of hidden treasure and tries to find the others, one belonging to a tyrant. Average but fairly engaging Spaghetti Western with good work by Anthony Ghidra in the lead role; released in Italy as Un Boco in Fronte (A Hole in the Forehead).

A Hole in the Sky see The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky

1903  Hollywood Barn Dance  Screen Guild, 1947. 72 min. D: Bernard B. Ray. SC: Dorothy Knox Martin. With Ernest Tubb, Helen Royce, Earle Hodgins, Frank McGlynn, Dotti Hackett, Pat Combs, Jack Guthrie, Phil Arnold, Cyril Ring, The Texas Troubadours. When a country band accidentally burns down their hometown church while rehearsing they go on the road to earn money to rebuild it and get mixed up with a crooked promoter and his pretty daughter. Cheap musical made to cash in on Ernest Tubb’s popularity; he sings nine songs.

1904  Hollywood Cowboy  RKO Radio, 1937. 65 min. D: Ewing Scott. SC: Dan Jarrett and Ewing Scott. With George O’Brien, Cecilia Parker, Maude Eburne, Joe Caits, Frank Milan, Charles Middleton, Lee Shumway, Walter De Palma, Al Hill, William Royle, Al Herman, Frank Hagney, Dan Wolheim, Slim Balch, Sid Jordan, Lester Dorr, Harold Daniels, Horace B. Carpenter, Robert Walker, Donald Kerr, Hal Price, Jack Evans. While vacationing in a Western town, a cowboy film star learns local ranchers are being cheated by a protective association and decides to help them. Very good George O’Brien vehicle with a pleasant mixture of comedy and action. Reissue and TV title: Wings Over Wyoming.

1905  Hollywood, It’s a Dog’s Life  Maricopa Films, 2004. 80 min. D-SC: Byron Quisenberry. With Mike Moroff, Anne Lockhart, Brent Davis, Robert Havice, Peter Bown, Tonjua Swann, Zoe Keller, Scott Bailey, Danielle Rayne, Peggy Stewart, Mayf Nutter, Tom Schultz, Robert Hoy, Jack Williams, Jason Newman, Hank Calia, Geno Ghiselli, Sam Maloff, Kevin Quisenberry, John Nowak, Jeff Snee, Bob Diamond, Keven Whitaker, Ryan Young, April Wade, Jeremy Lucas, Ronnie Liu, Martin Kove, Tony Brubaker, Elle Travis, Robert Weiland, Robert James Elliott, Sean Quiseberry, Lillian Byrd, Wesley Scott, Kiva Lawrence, Carlyle Taylor, Zane Taylor. A former movie stuntman, now a horse trainer, lives with his two dogs and when his granddaughter moves in she becomes attached to one of them and dreams of becoming an animal trainer. Charming modern-day Western family fare. Video title: Big Chuck, Little Chuck.

1906  Hollywood Round-Up. Columbia, 1937. 63 min. D: Ewing Scott. SC: Joseph Hoffman and Monroe Shaff. With Buck Jones, Helen Twelvetrees, Grant Withers, Shemp Howard, Dickie Jones, Eddie Kane, Monty Collins, Warren Jackson, Lester Dorr, Lee Shumway, Edward Keane, Slim Whitaker, George Beranger. Because of a film star’s jealousy, a stuntman is fired but gets a job with another movie company only to become the fall guy when they rob a bank. Pretty fair Buck Jones vehicle with some pleasant kidding of the Hollywood scene.

1907  A Holy Terror  Fox, 1931. 53 min. D: Irving Cummings. SC: Ralph Brock. With George O’Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita LaRoy, James Kirkwood, Humphrey Bogart, Stanley Fields, Robert Warwick, Richard Tucker, Earl Pingree, Slim Whitaker, John Elliott, George Chandler, Fred Kohler, Jr., Buffalo Bill, Jr., Julian Rivero, Jerry Mandy, Bud Geary, Walter Hiers, Franklin Parker, Oscar Smith, Wong Chung, Otto Han, Ralph Bucko. When his father is murdered in Wyoming, a polo playing playboy heads West to find the killers. Entertaining George O’Brien vehicle based on a Max Brand novel first filmed as Trailin’ (q.v.).

1908  Hombre  20th Century–Fox, 1967. 110 min. Color. D: Martin Ritt. SC: Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. With Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Rush, Margaret Blye, Peter Lazer, Martin Balsam, Skip Ward, Frank Silvera, Val Avery, David Canary, Linda Cordova, Pete Hernandez, Merrill Isbell. A white man raised by Apaches learns to dislike his fellow passengers aboard a stagecoach but when they are attacked by outlaws he is forced to defend them. Average psychological action melodrama.

1909  El Hombre de la Furia (The Man of Fury)  Cinematografica Fermont, 1966. 95 min. D: Fernando Orozco. SC: Mario de la Pedroza, Victor Eberg and Fernando Orozco. With Javier Solis, Dacia Gonzalez, Fernando Soto “Mantequilla,” Raymond Belmonte, Ignacio Navarro, William Gomez, Cuco Sanchez, Miguel Angel Landa, Guillemo Galvez. After his rancher father is murdered and he is raised by a trio of rustlers, a young man plans to avenge the killing. Fairly good Mexican Western.

1910  Un Homre Llamado el Diablo (A Man Called the Devil)  Produciones Matouk, 1983. 90 min. Color. D: Rafael Villasenor Kuri. D: Alfonso Torres Portillo. With Vicente Fernandez, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Tere Alvarez, Manuel Ojeda, Enrique Lucero, Antonio de Hud, Raul Meraz, Leonor Llausas, Ignacio Reles. A stranger shows up in a remote town seeking revenge and affects the lives of the locals. Interesting Mexican oater produced by star Vicente Fernandez.

1911  Un Hombre Peligroso (A Dangerous Man)  Radient Film, 1965. 85 min. D: Arturo Martinez. SC: Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Ofelia Monesco, Victor Junco, Andres Soler, Guillermo Herrera, Claudio Brook, Jorge Mateos, Jose Chavez, Mario Chavez, Miguel Arenas, Emma Roldan, Tito Novaro, Jose L. Murillo, Eduardo Lugo, Federico Falcon, Jose Torvay, Pepito Velazguez. After he kills a gambler in self defense a gunman adopts his son but years later the young man learns the truth, resulting in a showdown between the two men. Rodolfo de Anda plays a character called El Zurdo (The Left-Handed) in this tense south of the border oater produced and written by his father, Raul de Anda.

1912  Hombres de Roca (Men of Stone)  Radient Films, 1960. 88 min. D: Raul de Anda, Jr. SC: Fernando Galiana. With Rodolfo de Anda, Jaime Fernandez, Victor Parra, Sonia Infante, Maura Monti, Arturo Martinez, Alfredo Gutierrez, Antonio de Anda, Jose L. Murillo, Carlos Hennings, Rita Macedo, Martin Plute, Ernesto Suarez, Federico Falcon, Jesus Gomez, Adolfo Aguilar. Made a sheriff, an ex-gunslinger has a falling out with his son who kidnaps a girl, forcing the lawman to track him. Well done Mexican Western drama produced by Raul de Anda.

1913  Home from the Hill  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960. 150 min. Color. D: Vincent Minnelli. SC: Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch. With Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, Luana Patten, Anne Seymour, Constance Ford, Ken Renard, Ray Teal, Guinn Williams, Charlie Briggs, Hilda Haynes, Denver Pyle, Dan Sheridan, Orville Sherman, Dub Taylor, Stuart Randall, Tom Gilson, the Rev. Duncan Gray, Jr., Joe Ed Russell, Burt Mustin. A wealthy Texas land baron is estranged from his wife and illegitimate son and hunted by a man who thinks he seduced his young daughter. Powerful psychological melodrama with an excellent performance by Robert Mitchum as the landowner.

1914  Home in Oklahoma  Republic, 1946. 72 min D: William Witney. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Dale Evans, Carol Hughes, George Meeker, Arthur Space, Frank Reicher, George Carleton, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Doye O’Dell, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Lanny Rees, Ruby Dandridge, George Lloyd, Johnny Walsh, The Flying “L” Ranch Quartette. A rancher is murdered and his fortune is left to a young boy with Roy Rogers and a newspaper woman trying to find the killer. An exciting and well directed Western mystery.

1915  Home in Wyomin’  Republic, 1942. 67 min. D: William Morgan. SC: Robert Tasker and M. Coates Webster. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Olin Howlin, Chick Chandler, Joe Strauch, Jr., Forrest Taylor, James Seay, George Douglas, Charles Lane, Hal Price, Bud Geary, Ken Cooper, Jean Porter, James McNamara, Kermit Maynard, Rex Lease, Roy Butler, Billy Benedict, Cyril Ring, Spade Cooley, Ted Mapes, Jack Kirk, William Kellogg, Betty Farrington, Tom Hanlon, Lee Shumway. Gene Autry becomes involved in helping the owner of a rodeo straighten out his wayward son. Good Autry opus enhanced by a mystery angle; based on a story by detective fiction master Stuart Palmer.

1916  Home on the Prairie  Republic, 1939. 58 min. D: Jack Townley. SC: Arthur Powell and Paul Franklin. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George Cleveland, Jack Mulhall, Walter Miller, Gordon Hart, Hal Price, Earle Hodgins, Ethan Laidlaw, John Beach, Jack Ingram, Bob Woodward, Dorothy Vernon, Olin Francis, Art Dillard, Fred Burns, Burr Caruth, Chuck Baldra, Sherven Brothers Rodeoliers. Crooks cause a young woman’s ranch to be quarantined by placing sick cattle there while they try to ship the rest of the diseased herd to market before the hoof-and-mouth disease is discovered. Standard Gene Autry entry.

1917  Home on the Range  Paramount, 1935. 54 min. D: Arthur Jacobson. SC: Ethel Doherty and Grant Garrett. With Jackie Coogan, Randolph Scott, Evelyn Brent, Dean Jagger, Addison Richards, Fuzzy Knight, Howard Wilson, Phillip Morris, Albert Hart, Allen Wood, Richard Carle, Ralph Remley, C.L. Sherwood, Clara Lou (Ann) Sheridan, Francis Sayles, Jack Clark, Joe Morrison, Alfred Delacambre. An outlaw gang plans to shoot a valuable racing pony belonging to two brothers. Surprisingly inferior adaptation of Zane Grey’s Code of the West, first filmed under that title by Paramount in 1925.

1918  Home on the Range  Republic, 1946. 55 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Monte Hale, Adrian Booth, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Ken Carson, Shug Fisher, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Bobby Blake, LeRoy Mason, Roy Barcroft, Kenne Duncan, Tom Chatterton, Budd Buster, Jack Kirk, John Hamilton, Frank O’Connor, Patsy Moran. Wanting to protect wildlife, a rancher finds his ideas put him at odds with area cattlemen. Monte Hale’s first starring effort is only average despite the use of Magnacolor.

1919  The Homesteaders  Allied Artists, 1953. 62 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Sol Theil and Milton Raison. With Bill Elliott, Robert Lowery, Barbara Allen, George Wallace, Emmett Lynn, Buzz Henry, Rick Vallin, Stanley Price, William Fawcett, James Seay, Tom Monroe, Ray Walker, Barbara Woodell. Outlaws are after Army dynamite on a wagon train and two Oregon homesteaders try to stop them. Well above average “B” picture; well done.

1920  Homesteaders of Paradise Valley  Republic, 1947. 59 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Earle Snell. With Allan Lane, Bobby Blake, Martha Wentworth, Ann Todd, Gene (Roth) Stutenroth, John James, Mauritz Hugo, Emmett Vogan, Milton Kibbee, Tom London, Edythe Elliott, George Chesebro, Ed Cassidy, Jack Kirk, Herman Hack, Marshall Reed, Freddie Chapman, Pat Hennigan, Frank O’Connor, Al Ferguson, Jack Sparks, Bob Burns, Roy Bucko, Post Park, Bud Geary, Foxy Callahan, Pascale Perry, Tom Steele, Cactus Mack. When homesteaders try to build a dam in their new valley home they are opposed by two brothers. Average “Red Ryder” affair.

1921  Hondo  Warner Bros., 1953. 83 min. Color. D: John Farrow. SC: James Edward Grant. With John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes, Chuck Roberson, Frank McGrath, Morry Ogden. An ex-gunman in the Southwest comes across a widow and her small son living on a ranch about to be attacked by Indians. Fine psychological Western mixed with action; nicely adapted from the Louis L’Amour story.

1922  Hondo and the Apaches  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967. 85 min. Color. D: Lee H. Katzin. SC: Andrew J. Fenady. With Robert Taylor, Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Randy Boone, Michael Rennie, Noah Beery (Jr.), Gary Clarke, Gary Merrill, John Smith, Buddy Foster, Michael Pate, Victor Lundin, Jim Davis, Steve Marlo, John Pickard, William Bryant. A loner takes an assignment from the Army to keep peace with the Indians and becomes involved with a mine owner who meets the son he has never seen. Issued abroad theatrically, this sturdy telefilm was the pilot for the TV series, “Hondo” (ABC-TV, 1967).

1923  Honeychile  Republic, 1951. 89 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Jack Townley and Charles E. Roberts. With Judy Canova, Eddie Foy, Jr., Alan Hale, Walter Catlett, Roy Barcroft, Claire Carleton, Karolyn Grimes, Brad Morrow, Leonid Kinsky, Fuzzy Knight, Gus Schilling, Irving Bacon, Roscoe Ates, Ida Moore, Sarah Edwards, Emory Parnell, Dick Elliott, Dick Wessel. A song publisher thinks a tune written by a hick girl was actually done by a famous composer. Typical Judy Canova outing for her fans; others beware.

1924  The Honkers  United Artists, 1972. 101 min. Color. D: Steve Ihnat. SC: Steve Ihnat and Stephen Lodge. With James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens, Anne Archer, Jim Davis, Joan Huntington, Richard Anderson, Ramon Bieri, Ted Eccles, Mitchell Ryan, Wayne McLaren, John Harmon, Richard O’Brien, Pitt Herbert, Larry Mahon, Chuck Henson, Jerry Gatlin. A once famous rodeo star tries to make a comeback to impress his son and re-win his estranged wife. Action filled but not very involving character study.

1925  Honky Tonk  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1941. 105 min. D: Jack Conway. SC: Marguerite Roberts and John Sanford. With Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Claire Trevor, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker, Chill Wills, Henry O’Neill, John Maxwell, Morgan Wallace, Douglas Wood, Betty Blythe, Hooper Atchley, Harry Worth, Veda Ann Borg, Dorothy Granger, Sheila Darcy, Cy Kendall, Erville Alderson, John Farrell, Don Barclay, Ray Teal, Esther Muir, Ralph (Francis X., Jr.) Bushman, Art Miles, Anne O’Neal, Russell Hicks, Henry Roquemore, Lew Harvey, Dick Curtis, Sheila Darcey, Syd Saylor, Hooper Atchley, Heinie Conklin, Alan Bridge, Ed Cassidy, Eddy Waller, Cy Kendall, Eddie Gribbon, Carl Stockdale, Horace Murphy, Will Wright, Ralph Peters, Harry Semels, Frank Mills, Dick Rush, Joe Devlin, Lew Kelly, Monte Montague, William Haade, Al Hill, Ed Brady, Jack Baxley, Howard Mitchell, John Sheehan, Jack C. Smith, Tom Chatterson, Gordon DeMain, Pat O’Malley, Lee Phelps, Tiny Newlan, Dorothy Ates, Elliott Sullivan, Dorothy Granger, John Carr, Art Belasco, Fay Holderness, Charles McAvoy, Earl Gunn, Ted Oliver, Malcolm Waite, Charles Sullivan, William Pagan. The nice daughter of a drunk falls in love with a crooked gambler who has taken over a Western town. Big budget vehicle for Clark Gable and Lana Turner is only average screen fare.

1926  Honky Tonk  NBC-TV/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1974. 74 min. Color. D: Don Taylor. SC: Douglas Heyes. With Richard Crenna, Stella Stevens, Will Geer, Margot Kidder, John Dehner, Geoffrey Lewis, Gregory Sierra, Robert Casper, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John Quade, Richard Evans, Richard Stahl. A con man comes to Nevada in the 1880s to take advantage of gold strikes in the boom towns. TV movie reworking of the 1941 film (q.v.) is fairly good.

1927  Honor of the Mounted  Monogram, 1932. 57 min. D-SC: Harry Fraser. With Tom Tyler, Stanley Blystone, Cecilia Ryland, Francis McDonald, Charles King, Tom London, William Dyer, Arthur Millet, Gordon (DeMain) Wood, Theodore (Ted) Lorch, Earl Dwire, Dick Dickinson, Perry Murdock, Cactus Mack, Barney Beasley, Harry Fraser. A Mounted Policeman, falsely blamed for a murder, tries to prove his innocence and sets out to get the culprit. Tom Tyler is the Mountie but the results are only passable, although Stanley Blystone makes a despicable villain.

1928  Honor of the Range  Universal, 1934. 61 min. D: Alan James. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, Fred Kohler, James Marcus, Frank Hagney, Eddie Barnes, Franklyn Farnum, Irving Bacon, Jack Rockwell, Albert J. Smith, Slim Whitaker, Ben Corbett, Fred McKaye, Wally Wales, Jack Kirk, Hank Bell, Art Mix, Lafe McKee, Bill Patton, Bud McClure, Nelson McDowell, Pascale Perry, Blackjack Ward, Roy Bucko, Buck Bucko, Fred Burns, Jim Corey, Cliff Lyons, Chuck Baldra. A sheriff is on the trail of an outlaw who is actually his look-alike brother. Ken Maynard, who produced this polished series outing, handles the dual roles quite well.

Poster for Honor of the Range (Universal, 1934).

1929  Honor of the West  Universal, 1939. 58 min. D: George Waggner. SC: Joseph West (George Waggner). With Bob Baker, Marjorie Bell (Marge Champion), Carleton Young, Jack Kirk, Dick Dickinson, Frank O’Connor, Reed Howes, Glenn Strange, Forrest Taylor, Murdock MacQuarrie, Walter Long, Walter Wills, Oscar Gahan, Arthur Thalasso. A sheriff after rustlers learns his girl’s brother is part of the gang. Plenty of action plus some nice songs make his one of the better Bob Baker films.

1930  Hooded Angels  Monarch, 2002. 102 min. Color. D-SC: Paul Matthews. With Gary Busey, Steven Bauer, Amanda Donohoe, Chantell Stander, Juliana Venter, David Dukas, Gideon Emery, Jenna Dover, Julie Hartley, Candice Argall, Jennifer Steyn, Anna Katerina, Michelle Bradshaw, Cordell McAueen, Greg Melvill Smith, Ron Smerczak, Daniel Lee, Andre Jacques van der Merwe, Nick Boraine, Lynne White, Dale Cutts, Russel Savadier, Wilson Dunster, Robin Smith, Conner Dowds, Marcel Van Heerden. Bounty hunters form a posse to track a deadly band of beautiful women pillaging the countryside in the post–Civil War era. Fair feminist inclined Western, also called Glory Glory.

1931  Hop-A-Long Cassidy  Paramount, 1935. 63 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Doris Schroeder. With William Boyd, James Ellison, Paula Stone, Kenneth Thomson, Robert Warwick, Charles Middleton, Frank McGlynn, Jr., George Hayes, Jim Mason, Frank Campeau, Ted Adams, Willie Fung, Franklyn Farnum, John Merton, Wally West, Monte Rawlins, Pascale Perry, Sid Jordan. The foreman of the Bar 20 ranch, Hopalong Cassidy, attempts to find out who is behind a series of rustling jobs as his boss tries to keep his water rights. Initial entry in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series is a leisurely effort, short on action but very entertaining with a fine performance by George “Gabby” Hayes as Uncle Ben. Reissue and TV title: Hopalong Cassidy Enters.

Hopalong Cassidy Enters see Hop-A-Long Cassidy

1932  Hopalong Cassidy Returns  Paramount, 1936. 74 min. D: Nate Watt. SC: Harrison Jacobs. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Gail Sheridan, Evelyn Brent, Stephen Morris (Morris Ankrum), William Janney, Irving Bacon, Grant Richards, John Beck, Ernie Adams, Al St. John, Ray Whitley, Joe Rickson, Claude Smith, Gwynne Shipman, William J. O’Brien, Bill Nestell, Leo J. McMahon, Frank Ellis, Bob Burns, Bud McClure, Jack Montgomery, George Plues, Jim Corey, Hank Bell. After his newspaper editor friend is ambushed and killed, Hopalong Cassidy takes over as sheriff of a town and finds himself at odds with a seductive female saloon owner who wants to control the area because of a nearby gold mine. One of the best of the Cassidy series with a good story, cast, locations and very fine camera work by Archie Stout.

1933  Hopalong Rides Again  Paramount, 1937. 67 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, William Duncan, Lois Wilde, William (Billy) King, Nora Lane, Harry Worth, John Rutherford, Ernie Adams, Frank Ellis, John Beach, Artie Ortego, Ben Corbett, William J. O’Brien, Blackjack Ward. A rustler uses the guise of a professor hunting for dinosaur bones in order to steal Bar 20 cattle. Action laden “Hopalong Cassidy” feature with an exciting scene of a wagon buried by an avalanche.

1934  Hoppy Serves a Writ  United Artists, 1943. 69 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory, George Reeves, Jan Christy, Hal Taliaferro, Forbes Murray, Byron Foulger, Earle Hodgins, Roy Barcroft, Ben Corbett, Robert Mitchum, Art Mix, Steve Clark, Herman Hack, Bob Burns, Cliff Parkinson, Roy Bucko. Hopalong Cassidy comes to Mesa City to stop a murder and gets involved with a gang of rustlers and their boss. Pretty good entry in the Cassidy series featuring a nifty scrap between Hoppy and villain Victor Jory.

1935  Hoppy’s Holiday  United Artists, 1947. 60 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: J. Benton Cheney, Bennett Cohen and Ande Lamb. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Andrew Tombes, Jeff Corey, Mary Ware, Leonard Penn, Donald Kirke, Holly Bane, Gil Patric, Frank Henry, Johnny Luther, Ben Corbett, Jack Evans, Jack Montgomery, Bob Burns, Rube Dalroy, Kansas Moehring, Tex Cooper, Denver Dixon, Roy Bucko, Glen Walters. While the Bar 20 boys are in town for a celebration, California Carlson is accidentally given stolen loot from a robbery and after he is arrested Hopalong Cassidy tries to locate the real criminals. Lethargic series entry containing a neat climax with the bad guys using a horseless carriage for a getaway.

1936  Horizons West  Universal-International, 1952. 81 min. Color. D: Budd Boetticher. SC: Louis Stevens. With Robert Ryan, Julia (Julie) Adams, Rock Hudson, John McIntire, Judith Braun, Raymond Burr, James Arness, Frances Bavier, Dennis Weaver, Tom Powers, Rodolfo Acosta, John Hubbard, Douglas Fowley, Walter Reed, Raymond Greenleaf, Tom Monroe, Dan White, John Harmon, Robert Bice, Dan Moore, Mae Clarke, Alberto Morin, Peter Mamakos, Eddie Parker, Monte Montague, Forbes Murray, Buddy Roosevelt, Ewing Mitchell, Frank Chase. Two brothers return from the Civil War with one becoming a sheriff while the other takes to a life of crime. Well acted but so-so oater.

A Horse Called Comanche see Tonka

1937  The Horse Soldiers  United Artists, 1959. 119 min. Color. D: John Ford. SC: John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin. With John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot Gibson, Anna Lee, Russell Simpson, Stan Lee, Carleton Young, Basil Ruysdael, Willis Bouchey, Ken Curtis, O.Z. Whitehead, Judson Pratt, Denver Pyle, Strother Martin, Hank Worden, Walter Reed, Jack Pennick, Fred Graham, Chuck Hayward, Charles Seel, Stuart Holmes, Major Sam Harris, Richard Cutting, Bing Russell, William Leslie, Ron Haggerty, William Forrest, Fred Kennedy, Bill Henry, Dan Borgaze, Jan Stine, William Wellman, Jr., Cliff Lyons. During the Civil War a Union outfit, led by two feuding officers, makes a daring move into the Confederacy to cut communication lines. Big budget production sure to satisfy fans of John Wayne and William Holden; Hoot Gibson has a nice supporting role.

1938  Horsemen of the Sierras  Columbia, 1949. 56 min. D: Fred F. Sears. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, Tommy Ivo, T. Texas Tyler, John Dehner, Jason Robards, Dan Sheridan, Jock (Mahoney) O’Mahoney, George Chesebro, Emile Avery, Ethan Laidlaw, Charles Soldani, Al Wyatt. While trying to find out who murdered a government surveyor, an undercover agent gets involved in a feud between two families. Standard “Durango Kid” drama. British title: Remember Me.

1939  Hostile Country  Lippert, 1950. 61 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Ron Ormand and Maurice Tombragel. With Jimmie (James) Ellison, Russell Hayden, Fuzzy Knight, Raymond Hatton, Betty (Julie) Adams, Tom Tyler, George J. Lewis, John Cason, Stanley Price, Bud Osborne, Dennis Moore, George Chesebro, Stephen Carr, Jimmie Martin, I. Stanford Jolley, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ray Jones, Cliff Taylor, Judith Webster, George Sowards, James Van Horn, Wally West, Carl Mathews. Shamrock and Lucky arrive in an area for the former to take over half-interest in his stepfather’s ranch and they get involved in a range feud. Some interesting camera work by Ernest Miller highlights this better than average first “Irish Cowboys” series entry; still the film is not overly interesting although Tom Tyler and John Cason are good as the villainous Brady boys. TV title: Outlaw Fury.

1940  Hostile Guns  Paramount, 1967. 91 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Steve Fisher and Sloan Nibley. With George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell, Richard Arlen, James Craig, Leo Gordon, Robert Emhardt, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Emile Meyer, Donald Barry, Fuzzy Knight, William Fawcett, Joe Brown, Reg Parton, Read Morgan, Eric Cody. A sheriff and his deputy lead a prison wagon through hostile country and are stalked by an outlaw gang with a score to settle with the lawman. Mediocre A.C. Lyles production wasting a good cast.

The Hot Horse see Once Upon a Horse

1941  Hot Lead  RKO Radio, 1951. 60 min. D: Stuart Gilmore. SC: William Lively. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Joan Dixon, Ross Elliott, John Dehner, Stanley Andrews, Robert Wilke, Kenneth MacDonald, Paul Marion, Lee MacGregor, Paul E. Burns. To gain information about gold shipments, an outlaw gang substitutes one of its members in place of the local telegrapher. Average Tim Holt series entry.

Hot Lead (1965) see Bull of the West

1942  Hot Lead and Cold Feet  Buena Vista, 1978. 90 min. Color. D: Robert Butler. SC: Joe McEveety, Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson. With Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam, Darren McGavin, John Williams, Warren Vanders, Debbie Lytton, Michael Sharrett, Dave Cass, Richard Wright, Don “Red” Barry, Jimmy Van Patten, Gregg Palmer, Ed Bakey, John Steadman, Eric Server, Paul Lukather, Hap Lawrence, Robert Rothwell, Dallas McKennon, Stanley Clements, Don Brodie, Warde Donovan, Brad Weston, Art Burke. Three brothers try to win a town’s obstacle race, opposing the dishonest activities of its mayor. Fair, but fast moving, Disney comedy oater.

Hot Spur see Love Desperados

1943  Hour of the Gun  United Artists, 1967. 101 min. Color. D: John Sturges. SC: Edward Anhalt. With James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Tolan, Frank Converse, Sam Melville, Austin Willis, Richard Bull, Larry Gates, Karl Swenson, Bill Fletcher, Robert Phillips, Jon Voight, Willliam Schallert, Lonnie Chapman, Monte Markham, William Windom, Edward Anhalt, Walter Gregg, Dave Perna, Jim Sheppard, Jorge Russek. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday give chase to Ike Clanton and the other survivors of the famous Tombstone shootout. Mediocre follow-up by director John Sturges to his earlier Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (q.v.).

1944  Houston: The Legend of Texas  Taft Entertainment Group, 1986. 156 min. Color. D: Peter Levin. SC: John Binder. With Sam Elliott, Davon Ericson, Michael Beck, Bo Hopkins, John P. Ryan, G.D. Spradlin, Richard Yniguez, James Stephens, Claudia Christian, Michael G. Gwynne, Donald Moffat, John Quade, Ned Romero, William Russ, Ritch Brinkley, John De Lancie, Peter Gonzales, Robert F. Hoy, Dennis Letts, Katharine Ross, William Schallert (narrator). Sam Houston leaves the United States senate to become the leader of the Texas independence movement. Nicely done TV biopic.

1945  How the West Was Won  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962. 162 min. Color. D: John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall. SC: James R. Webb. With John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, Eli Wallach, Walter Brennan, Raymond Massey, David Brian, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Andy Devine, Russ Tamblyn, Ken Curtis, Lee J. Cobb, Brigid Bazlen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Lee Van Cleef, Karl Swenson, Jack Lambert, Christopher Dark, Jay C. Flippen, Joseph Sawyer, James Griffith, Claude Johnson, Walter Reed, Carleton Young, Rodolfo Acosta, Dean Stanton, Kim Charney, Bing Russell, Gene Roth, Clinton Sundberg, Walter Burke, John Larch, Edward J. McKinney, Barry Harvey, Jamie Ross, Mark Allen, Craig Duncan, Charles Briggs, Paul Bryar, Tudor Owen, Chuck Roberson, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Beulah Archuletta, Spencer Tracy (narrator). The saga of western migration from the late 1830s to 1889 as seen through the eyes of three generations of pioneers. Vast, sprawling story of the development of the American West that is well acted by a big cast; the best sequence is probably director Henry Hathaway’s “The Rivers” with Walter Brennan stealing the show as a vicious river pirate.

1946  How the West Was Won  ABC-TV/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1977. 300 min. Color. D: Burt Kennedy and Daniel Mann. SC: Jim Byrnes and William Kelley. With James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Bruce Boxleitner, Anthony Zerbe, Don Murray, Brit Lind, William Kirby Cullen, Kathryn Holcomb, Vicki Schreck, Royal Dano, John Dehner, Jack Elam, David Huddleston, Robert Padilla, Richard Angarola, Bridget Hanley, Parley Baer, Paul Fix, William Conrad (narrator). The adventures of Eastern homesteaders and their mountain man uncle as they try to settle in the West after the death of the family’s father. This fine telefeature was originally shown in three parts and was the follow-up to the popular TV feature The Macahans (q.v.).

1947  The Howards of Virginia  Columbia, 1940. 117 min. D: Frank Lloyd. SC: Sidney Bochman. With Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson, Paul Kelly, Irving Bacon, Elisabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Tom Drake, Phil Taylor, Rita Quigley, Libby Taylor, Richard Gaines, George Houston, Sam McDaniel, Virginia Sale, Ralph Byrd, Dickie Jones, Buster Phelps, Wade Boteler, Mary Field, R. Wells Gordon, Charles Francis, Olaf Hytten, Emmett Vogan, J. Anthony Hughes, Lane Chandler, Brandon Hurst, Alan Ladd, Pat Somerset, James Westerfield. A young man marries into a wealthy Virginia family and against his wife’s wishes joins the colonial cause during the Revolutionary War. Overlong but authentic looking historical drama with George Houston as George Washington.

1948  Hud  Paramount, 1963. 112 min. D: Martin Ritt. SC: Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. With Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell, John Ashley, Crahan Denton, Val Avery, Sheldon Allman, Pitt Herbert, Peter Brooks, Curt Conway, Yvette Vickers, George Petrie, David Kent, Montie Montana, Carl Saxe, Sharyn Hillyer. A teenager is torn between the love of his grandfather and admiration for the man’s rebellious son. Stark, well acted modern Western based on Larry McMurtry’s novel Horseman, Pass By.

1949  Hudson’s Bay  20th Century–Fox, 1941. 95 min. D: Irving Pichel. SC: Lamar Trotti. With Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton, Virginia Field, Vincent Price, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, Morton Lowry, Robert Greig, Chief Thundercloud, Fredric Worlock, Ian Wolfe, Chief Big Tree, Jody Gilbert, Jean Del Val, Eugene Borden, Constant Franke, John Rogers, Reginald Sheffield, Dorothy Dearing, Florence Bates, Lumsden Hare, Boyd Irwin, Denis Green, Eily Malyon, Lionel Pape. Banished to Canada, an Englishman joins forces with two French trappers to form the Hudson’s Bay Company for the export of furs. Another in producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s historical film series, one of the weakest and least accurate.

1950  Human Targets  Big 4, 1932. 55 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: George Morgan. With Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr., Buzz Barton, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Nancy Price, Tom London, Edmund Cobb, Ted Adams, Leon Kent, John Ince, Edgar Lewis, Pauline Parker, Helen Gibson, Franklyn Farnum, Fred “Snowflake” Toones. A young boy, a dog and a cowboy fight for a gold claim against crooks. Surprisingly well done production from poverty row.

Hunt the Man Down see Bad Man’s River

Hunt to Kill see The White Buffalo

1951  The Hunting Party  United Artists, 1971. 102 min. Color. D: Don Medford. SC: William Norton, Gilbert Alexander and Lou Morheim. With Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland, Ronald Howard, Mitchell Ryan, L.Q. Jones, G.D. Spradlin, Bernard Kay, William Watson, Rayford Barnes, Ralph Brown, Marian Collier, Max Slaten, Carlos Bravo, Emilio Rodrigues, Deal Selmier, Ritchie Adams, Eugenio Escudero. An outlaw and his gang kidnap a woman thinking she is a school teacher who can teach them to read, but she turns out to be the wife of a land baron who comes after them with his men. A thin story and too much violence make this poor viewing.

1952  Hurricane Horseman  Willis Kent, 1931. 50 min. D: Armand L. Schaefer. SC: Oliver Drake. With Lane Chandler, Marie Quillan, Walter Miller, Yakima Canutt, Lafe McKee, Richard Alexander, Slim Whitaker, Jack Kirk, Chuck Baldra, Pascale Perry, Blackjack Ward, Hank Bell, Bill Wolfe. A gunsmith comes to the aid of a pretty senorita held for ransom by an outlaw gang. Mediocre Lane Chandler vehicle for producer Willis Kent.

1953  Hurricane Smith  Republic, 1941. 68 min. D: Bernard Vorhaus. SC: Robert Presnell. With Ray Middleton, Jane Wyatt, Harry Davenport, J. Edward Bromberg, Henry Brandon, Charles Trowbridge, Frank Darien, Howard Hickman, Emmett Vogan, Casey Johnson. When he is falsely accused of theft, a cowboy escapes, assumes a new identity and marries only to find that someone from the past has recognized him. Republic’s one try to make Ray Middleton a Western star was not successful due to a paltry script rather than the presence of Middleton, a fine actor and singer. TV title: Double Identity.

1954  I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin  Colt Produzioni Cinematografica, 1970. 93 min. Color. D: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carmineo). SC: Tito Carpi. With George Hilton, Charles Southwood, Erika Blanc, Peter Carter (Piero Lulli), Linda Sini, Nelio Pazzafini, Carlo Gaddi, Aldo Barberito, Marco Zuanelli, Lou Kamante (Luciano Rossi), John Bartha, Furio Meniconi, Franco Fantasia, Rick Boyd (Federico Boido), Gigi Bonos, Fortunato Arena, Armando Calvo, Umberto Di Grazia, Gaetano Imbro. Gunman Sartana his hired to protect gold shipments and ends up in a showdown with an outlaw gang leader called Sabbath. Average Italian Western issued there as C’e Sartana...Vendi la Pistola e Comprati la Bara (Here’s Sartana...Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin).

1955  I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death  Societa Ambrosiana Cinematografica, 1969. 102 min. Color. D: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carmineo). SC: Tito Carpi, Enzo Dell’Aquila and Ernesto Gastaldi. With John (Gianni) Garko, Frank Wolff, Ettore Manni, Klaus Kinski, Salvatore (Sal) Borghese, Renato Baldini, Jose Torres, Gordon Mitchell, Rick Boyd (Federico Boido), Tullio Altamura, Brunco Boschetti, Giovanni Petrucci, Lorenzo Piani, Samson (Sammy) Burke, John Bartha, Franco Pesce, Jean Louis, Celso Farina, Ermelinda De Felice, Giuseppe Mattei, Roberto Messina, Tchang Yu. Accused of a bank robbery, Sartana attempts to find the culprits to clear his name and is helped by a friend, but is hunted by bounty seekers. Fast moving, episodic Italian Western, the fifth in the popular “Sartana” series, made as Sono Sartana, il Vostro Becchino (Sartana, Your Gravedigger); video title: Sartana the Gravedigger.

1956  I Killed Geronimo  Eagle Lion, 1950. 63 min. D: John Hoffman. SC: Sam Neuman and Nat Tanchuck. With James Ellison, Virginia Herrick, Chief Thundercloud, Smith Ballew, Dennis Moore, Ted Adams, Myron Healey, Luther Crockett, Jean Andren, Forrest Taylor, Jack Kenney, Wesley Hudman, Sam Wolfe, Joseph C. Green, Harte Wayne. An Army captain tries to track outlaws supplying arms to the Indians and ends up in hand-to-hand combat with Geronimo. Cheap feature with little entertainment value.

1957  I Killed Wild Bill Hickok  Associated Artists/Wheeler Company, 1956. 63 min. D: Richard Talmadge. SC: John Carpenter. With John (Carpenter) Forbes, Helen Westcott, Tom Brown, I. Stanford Jolley, Denver Pyle, Frank Carpenter, Virginia Gibson. A horse dealer arrives in town with his daughter to do business with the Army but when a gunfight takes place the girl is killed and he seeks revenge by gunning for Wild Bill Hickok. Tiny budget affair from producer-writer-star John Carpenter that seeks to prove legendary Wild Bill Hickok was really a bad guy who deserved his fate.

I Live for Your Death see A Long Ride from Hell

1958  I Married Wyatt Earp  NBC-TV, 1983. 100 min. Color. D: Michael O’Herlihy. SC: I.C. Rappaport. With Marie Osmond, Bruce Boxleitner, John Bennett Perry, Jeffrey DeMunn, Allison Arngrim, Ross Martin, Ron Manning, Joe Rainer, Dee Maaske, Earl Smith, Randy Wells, Joe Corcoran, Charles Benton, Tom Assalone, Elayne Stein, Donna Brown, Linda Jergens, Ron Chapman, Claud Hereford, Kirk Kostella, Joseph Bottoms. A young woman comes to Tombstone, wins the love of marshal Wyatt Earp and sees him through the famed O.K. Corral shootout. Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, this TV film is another recounting of the famed gun battle; average.

1959  I Shot Billy the Kid  Lippert, 1950. 58 min. D: William Berke. SC: Ford Beebe and Orville Hampton. With Don Barry, Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal, Judith Allen, Wendy Lee, Barbara Woodell, Richard Lane, Sid Nelson, Archie Twitchell, John Merton, Bill Kennedy, Jack Perrin, Frank Ellis, Carol Henry, Tom Monroe. The story of Billy the Kid, from his first crime to the final showdown with Sheriff Pat Garrett. Don Barry is very good in the title role of this low budget but entertaining outing.

1960  I Shot Jesse James  Lippert/Screen Guild, 1949. 83 min. D-SC: Samuel Fuller. With John Ireland, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, J. Edward Bromberg, Victor Kilian, Barbara Woodell, Tom Tyler, Reed Hadley, Tommy Noonan, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dunn, Margia Dean, Chuck Roberson, Stanley Price, Gene Collins. Bob Ford gains fame for killing Jesse James but his life declines after the incident, even to losing the girl he loves. Fairly interesting “B” picture with a fine performance by Tom Tyler as Frank James.

1961  I Take This Woman  Paramount, 1931. 76 min. D: Marion Gering. SC: Vincent Lawrence. With Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware, Lester Vail, Charles Trowbridge, Clara Blandick, Gerald Fielding, Albert Hart, Guy Oliver, Syd Saylor, Mildred Van Horn, Leslie Palmer, Ara Haswell, Frank Darien, Lew Kelly, David Landau. Sent to a Wyoming ranch to avoid being involved in a divorce scandal, a young woman meets and marries a cowboy and is disinherited by her wealthy father. Fair screen adaptation of the Mary Roberts Rinehart story “Lost Ecstasy.”

1962  I Will Fight No More Forever  ABC-TV, 1975. 74 min. Color. D: Richard T. Heffron. SC: Jed Rosebrook and Theodore Strauss. With James Whitmore, Ned Romero, Sam Elliott, John Kauffman, Emilio Delgado, Nick Ramus, Linda Redfearn, Frank Salsedo, Vincent St. Cyr, Delro White. In 1877 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces tribe refuses to be sent to a reservation and tries to lead his people to Canada, but is opposed by the U.S. Army. Well done TV movie with appeal to history buffs.

1963  Ice Palace  Warner Bros., 1960. 143 min. Color. D: Vincent Sherman. SC: Harry Kleiner. With Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus, Ray Danton, Diane McBain, Karl Swenson, Shirley Knight, Barry Kelley, Sheridan Comerate, George Takei, Steve Harris, Sheila Bromley, Sam McDaniel, I. Stanford Jolley, John Bleifer, Judd Holdren, Norma French, Sol Gorss, J. John Launer, Clarence Straight, Robert Griffin, Sal Ponti, Alan Roberts, Carol Nicholson, Maurice Wells, William Yip, Robert “Buddy” Shaw. Two men battle over two women and the issue of Alaskan statehood during the course of several decades. There is not much to recommend this overlong soap opera except for some fairly good performances.

1964  Idaho  Republic, 1943. 70 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Roy Chanslor and Olive Cooper. With Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Virginia Grey, Harry Shannon, Ona Munson, Dick Purcell, Onslow Stevens, Arthur Hohl, Hal Taliaferro, Tristram Coffin, Roy Barcroft, Jack Mulhall, Tom London, Rex Lease, Jack Ingram, James Bush, Forrest Taylor, Jack Kirk, Fred Burns, The Robert Mitchell Boychoir. A judge, who was once an outlaw, is blackmailed by two hoodlums and a female gambling house owner when he refuses to help them rob a bank. Exciting Roy Rogers feature.

1965  The Idaho Kid  Colonly, 1936. 54 min. D: Robert F. Hill. SC: George Plympton. With Rex Bell, Marion Shilling, David Sharpe, Earl Dwire, Lafe McKee, Lane Chandler, Charles King, Phil Dunham, Dorothy Woods, Herman Hack, Ed Cassidy, George Morrell, Jimmy Aubrey, Sherry Tansey, Richard Botiller, William McCall, Jack Evans, Buck Morgan. A cowboy returns home to stop a long time feud between his father and the man who raised him. Pleasant Paul Malvern production highlighted by Rex Bell’s fine performance in the title role.

1966  If You Meet Sartana, Pray for Your Death  Paris Etolie Films/Parnass Film, 1968. 95 min. Color. D: Frank Kramer (Gianfranco Parolini). SC: Gianfranco Parolini, Werner Hauff and Renato Izzo. With John (Gianni) Garko, Klaus Kinski, Fernando Sancho, William Berger, Sydney Chaplin, Gianni Rizzo, Andrew Scott (Andrea Scotti), Carlo Tamberlani, Franco Pesce, Heidi Fischer, Maria Pia Conte, Sabine Sun, Gianfranco Parolino, Sergio Jossa, Patricia Carr, Arrigo Peri, Antonietta Florita, Ugo Adinolfi, Sal Borghese, Gilberto Galimberti. Sartana searches for a strong box filled with money and the vicious outlaws who massacred stagecoach passengers to get the loot. Pretty good first entry in the popular “Sartana” series about a frontier avenger; a French-Italian-West German co-production filmed as Se Incontri Sartana Prega per la Tua Morte (If You Meet Sartana Pray for Death) and also called Sartana and Gunfighters Die Harder.

1967  I’m from the City  RKO Radio, 1938. 66 min. D: Ben Holmes. SC: Nicholas T. Barrows, Robert St. Clair and John Grey. With Joe Penner, Lorraine Kruger, Richard Lane, Paul Guilfoyle, Kay Sutton, Ethan Laidlaw, Lafe McKee, Edmund Cobb, Kathryn Sheldon, Willie Best, Chris-Pin Martin, Clyde Kinney. A circus performer, when hypnotized by his oily manager, becomes a famous trick rider. Typical Joe Penner comedy and one that will satisfy his fans.

1968  In a Colt’s Shadow  Warner Bros., 1967. 86 min. Color. D: Giovanni Grimaldi. SC: Giovanni Grimaldi and Aldo Barni. With Stephen Forsyte, Conrado San Martin, Anne Sherman, Helga Line, Andrew Scott (Andrea Scotti), Frank Ressel, Aldo Sambrell, Jose Calvo, Graham Sooty. Two gunmen, who work together, become alienated when the younger one falls in love with the other’s daughter. Lots of violence and action in this Italian-Spanish co-production made in Italy in 1965 as All’Ombra di una Colt (In the Shadow of a Colt). TV title: In the Shadow of a Colt.

1969  In Early Arizona  Columbia, 1938. 53 min. D: Joseph Levering. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Bill Elliott, Dorothy Gulliver, Harry Woods, Art Davis, Jack Ingram, Franklyn Farnum, Charles King, Ed Cassidy, Slim Whitaker, Frank Ellis, Al Ferguson, Bud Osborne, Lester Dorr, Tom London, Kit Guard, Jack O’Shea, Frank Ball, Tex Palmer, Sherry Tansey, Dick Dorrell, Oscar Gahan, Buzz Barton, Jess Cavin, Symona Boniface, Chick Hannon, Bob Card, Cliff Lyons. A peaceful man takes up a gun and badge to clean up a town controlled by outlaws. Bill Elliott’s first starring series oater is a corker, with plenty of action, a good script and a great roundup of genre bad guys.

1970  In Line of Duty  Monogram, 1931. 60 min. D: Bert Glennon. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Sue Carol, Noah Beery, Francis McDonald, James Murray, Richard Cramer, Frank Seider, Henry Hall. A Mountie tries to bring in a man on a murder charge but learns the fugitive is his girl’s brother. North woods quickie mainly of interest because of James Murray, a tragic silent star whose career tanked in the sound era.

1971  In Old Amarillo  Republic, 1951. 67 min. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Nibley. With Roy Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards, Pinky Lee, Roy Barcroft, Pierre Watkin, Ken Howell, Elizabeth Risdon, William Holmes, Alan Bridge, Kermit Maynard, The Roy Rogers Riders, Larry J. Blake, Lee Shumway, Archie Twitchell, Frank O’Connor, Ethan Laidlaw, Jack O’Shea, Angela Stevens, Brick Sullivan, Tom Steele, Bob Burns, Al Haskell, Bert Dillard, Paul Livermore, Mike Lally, Ralph Bucko, Frank Dae. When families are hit hard by drought, a cowboy wants to bring in a scientific rainmaker but his opposed by a crook who plans to buy the ranchers’ cattle cheap to start a meat packing plant. One of the lesser efforts by Roy Rogers from the latter part of his Republic series.

1972  In Old Arizona  Fox, 1929. 95 min. D: Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings. SC: Tom Barry. With Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, J. Farrell MacDonald, Soledad Jiminez, Fred Warren, Henry Armetta, Tom Santschi, Frank Campeau, Pat Hartigan, Roy Stewart, James Bradbury, Jr., John Webb Dillon, Frank Nelson, Duke Martin, James Marcus, Joe Brown, Alphonse Ethier, Helen Lynch, Ed Peil, Sr., Jim Farley, Ivan Linow, Lola Salvi, Chris-Pin Martin. The Cisco Kid, a notorious bandit, loves a beautiful, but two timing, woman who plans to betray him to a lawman for reward money. Although a bit creaky today, this landmark production demonstrated that Westerns could adapt to sound and it also contains Warner Baxter’s Academy Award winning performance as The Cisco Kid; it was the first sound Western to have a theme song, “My Tonia,” popularized on record by Nick Lucas.

1973  In Old Caliente  Republic, 1939. 57 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Norman Houston and Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, George “Gabby” Hayes, Jack LaRue, Katherine De Mille, Frank Puglia, Harry Woods, Merrill McCormick, Paul Marion, Ethel Wales, Bill Nestell, Al Taylor, Fred Burns, Jim Corey, Blackie Whiteford, Tom Smith. After being falsely accused of betraying his employer, a wealthy Spanish landowner, a cowboy joins a wagon train and soon discovers who is trying to rustle all his ex-boss’ cattle. Better than average Roy Rogers vehicle enhanced by attractive seaside locations.

1974  In Old California  Republic, 1942. 88 min. D: William McGann. SC: Gertrude Purcell and Frances Hyland. With John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish, Patsy Kelly, Edgar Kennedy, Dick Purcell, Harry Shannon, Charles Halton, Emmett Lynn, Bob McKenzie, Milton Kibbee, Paul Sutton, Anne O’Neal, Frank McGlynn, Hooper Atchley, Jack O’Shea, Ruth Robinson, Frank Jaquet, Jack Kirk, Lynne Carver, Horace B. Carpenter, James Morton, Olin Howlin, Chester Conklin, Ralph Peters, Forrest Taylor, Richard Alexander, Donald Curtis, George Lloyd, Stanley Blystone, Slim Whitaker, Frank Ellis, Frank Hagney, Bud Osborne, Guy Usher, Minerva Urecal, Martin Garralaga, Rex Lease, Karl Hackett, Art Mix, Robert Homans, Merrill McCormick, Ed Brady, Bob Woodward, Harry McKim, Emily LaRue, Esther Estrella, Michael Miller, Lew Kelly, Bob Reeves, Cecil Weston, Fred Walburn, Matt Willis, Blackie Whiteford, Chick Hannon, Art Dillard, Frank Brownlee, Harry Tenbrook, Jessie Arnold, Zeke Canova, Joe McGuinn, Wade Crosby, Fern Emmett, Carl Miller, Jim Farley, Jack Carr, Max Waizmann, Harry Tyler, Dorothy Granger, Tom Quinn, Frank Mills, Jim Corey, Martin Faust, Frank O’Connor, Charles Murphy, Pearl Early, Sam Bernard, Heenan Elliott. A pharmacist arrives in Sacramento to set up practice and ends up at odds with the town boss who is jealous of his saloon singer girlfriend. Rather tame John Wayne outing, not one of his better features, but still fast paced with a grand cast.

1975  In Old Cheyenne  Sono Art-World Wide, 1931. 60 min. D: Stuart Paton. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver, Jay Hunt, Harry Woods, Harry Todd, Slim Whitaker, Pete Morrison, Pee Wee Holmes, Ben Corbett, Blackie Whiteford, Hank Bell. A cowboy defends a beautiful horse accused of rustling actually carried out by a dishonest ranch foreman. Cheap Rex Lease vehicle with a worn out plot.

1976  In Old Cheyenne  Republic, 1941. 58 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Olive Cooper. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Joan Woodbury, J. Farrell MacDonald, Sally Payne, William Haade, Hal Taliaferro, Billy Benedict, George Rosenor, Jack Kirk, Bob Woodward, Jim Corey, Cactus Mack, George Lloyd, Jack O’Shea, Ed Peil, Sr., Merrill McCormick, Ted Mapes, Fred Burns, Ben Corbett, Frank Ellis. The New York Inquirer sends reporter Roy Rogers to Wyoming to cover a range war between cattlemen and an outlaw gang leader. A good Roy Rogers outing that has him become engaged to Spanish dancer Joan Woodbury at the finale.

Rex Lease in In Old Cheyenne (Sono Art–World Wide, 1931).

1977  In Old Colorado  Paramount, 1941. 66 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Norton S. Parker and J. Benton Cheney. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Margaret Hayes, Morris Ankrum, Sarah Padden, Cliff Nazarro, Stanley Andrews, James Seay, Morgan Wallace, Weldon Heyburn, Glenn Strange, Eddy Waller, Philip Van Zandt, Henry Wills, Curley Dresden, John Beach, Wen Wright, Ted Wells, Bill Nestell, Denver Dixon. Hopalong Cassidy is sent to buy cattle from a woman rancher who is feuding with a fellow landowner and he soon realizes a crook is after both their spreads. Good Cassidy production with a fine cast, scenic locations and an exciting story.

In Old Los Angeles see Old Los Angeles

1978  In Old Mexico  Paramount, 1938. 67 min. D: Edward D. Venturini. SC: Harrison Jacobs. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Paul Sutton, Allan Garcia, Jane (Jan) Clayton, Trevor Bardette, Betty Amann, Glenn Strange, Anna Demetrio, Tony Roux, Fred Burns, Cliff Parkinson. In New Mexico, Hoppy, Windy and Lucky are after “The Fox,” the mysterious leader of a band of rustlers. Leisurely paced “Hopalong Cassidy” outing with nice scenery and good work by Paul Sutton as the villain.

1979  In Old Montana  Spectrum, 1939. 60 min. D: Raymond K. Johnson. SC: Jackson Parks, Homer King Gordon, Raymond K. Johnson and Barney Hutchison. With Fred Scott, Jean Carmen, John Merton, Harry Harvey, Walter McGrail, Wheeler Oakman, Gene Howard, Frank LaRue, Allan Cavan, Jane Keckley, Richard Cramer, James Kelly, Carl Mathews. A medicine show entertainer stops to visit his dad and finds the area in a range war between sheepherders and cattlemen. Passably good Fred Scott vehicle with several nice songs to help it along.

1980  In Old Monterey  Republic, 1939. 73 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Gerald Geraghty and Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, George “Gabby” Hayes, June Storey, The Hoosier Hot Shots (Charles “Gabe” Ward, Paul “Hezzie” Triesch, Ken Triesch, Frank Kettering), Sarie and Sally, The Ranch Boys (Curley Bradley, Ken Carson, Jack Ross), Stuart Hamblen, Billy Lee, Jonathan Hole, Robert Warwick, William Hall, Eddy Conrad, Curley Dresden, Victor Cox, Robert Wilke, Hal Price, Tom Steele, Jack O’Shea, Rex Lease, Edward Earle, Jim Mason, Fred Burns, Dan White, Frank Ellis, Jim Corey, I. Stanford Jolley, Shorty Carlson. An Army sergeant is sent West to convince ranchers and townspeople to support the military’s request for land to be used for bomb maneuver practice. Patriotic affair with Gene Autry in uniform; fairly good entertainment.

1981  In Old New Mexico  Monogram, 1945. 62 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Gwen Kenyon, Norman Willis, Lee “Lasses” White, Pedro de Cordoba, Frank Jaquet, Bud Osborne, Artie Ortego, Edward Earle, James Farley, Aurora Roche, Donna Dax, John (Laurenz) Lawrence, Richard Gordon, Carr-Bert Dancers, Ken Terrell, Harry Depp, The Jesters. The Cisco Kid and pal Pancho come to the aid of a nurse accused of murder. Pleasant “Cisco Kid” outing with Cisco and Pancho re-dubbed as Chico and Pablo for TV prints. Also called The Cisco Kid in In Old New Mexico.

In Old Oklahoma see War of the Wildcats

1982  In Old Sacramento  Republic, 1946. 89 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Frances Hyland and Frank Gruber. With William Elliott, Constance Moore, Hank Daniels, Ruth Donnelly, Eugene Pallette, Lionel Stander, Jack LaRue, Grant Withers, Bobby Blake, Charles Judels, Paul Hurst, Victoria Horne, Dick Wessel, Hal Taliaferro, Jack O’Shea, Marshall Reed, Eddy Waller, William Haade, Boyd Irwin, Lucien Littlefield, Ethel Wales, Kenne Duncan, William B. Davidson, Ellen Corby, Fred Burns, Elaine Lange, H.T. Tsiang, Wade Crosby. A gambler hunted by vigilantes sets out to clean up the lawless element in Sacramento. Bill Elliott’s first “A” feature is a good one; reissued as Flame of Sacramento.

1983  In Old Santa Fe  Mascot, 1934. 64 min. D: David Howard and (uncredited Joseph Kane). SC: Colbert Clark. With Ken Maynard, Evelyn Knapp, H.B. Warner, Kenneth Thomson, George Hayes, Gene Autry, Lester “Smiley” Burnette, Frankie Marvin, Wheeler Oakman, George Chesebro, Jack Rockwell, Jim Corey, Jack Kirk, Edward Hearn, Frank Ellis, Horace B. Carpenter, George Burton, Stanley Blystone, Art Dillard, Charles Brinley, William McCall, Wally West. A racing cowboy loses his steed in a crooked dude ranch event and gangsters after the place frame him on a murder charge. Well made and exciting Ken Maynard vehicle with a good story, plenty of action and a polished production; Gene Autry is impressive in his screen debut singing two songs with Ken Maynard’s vocals dubbed by Bob Nolan.

1984  In the Days of the Thundering Herd  Selig, 1914. 41 min. D: Colin Campbell. SC: Gordon Willets. With Tom Mix, Bessie Eyton, Princess Red Wing, Wheeler Oakman, John Bowers, Major Gordon Lillie (Pawnee Bill), Sally Madison. When a cowboy and his sweetheart are captured by Indians they are forced to fight off the tribe in order to gain freedom. Fast paced Tom Mix silent feature, one that will please his fans although it lacks the finesse of his later Fox efforts.

In the Shadow of a Colt see In a Colt’s Shadow

In the Valley of Death see Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death

1985  Incident at Phantom Hill  Universal, 1966. 88 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy. SC: Frank Nugent. With Robert Fuller, Dan Duryea, Jocelyn Lane, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles, Claude Akins, Noah Beery (Jr.), Paul Fix, Denver Pyle, William Phipps, Don Collier, Mickey Finn, Harlan Warde, Lila Finn, Mimi Doyle, Max Mellinger, Lia Waggner, Frank Leo. Two men and a young woman trek across the desert in search of hidden gold, battling the elements, hostile Indians and themselves. Pretty good action thriller with an impressive performance by Dan Duryea.

1986  The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race  NBC-TV/Sunn Classics, 1977. 100 min. Color. D: James L. Conway. SC: Tom Chapman and David O’Malley. With Christopher Connelly, Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Jack Kruschen, Mike Mazurki, Parley Baer, Whit Bissell, Bill Zuckert, Don Haggerty, Sam Edwards, Sandy Gibson, William Kazele, John Hansen, Robert Easton, David O’Malley, Allen Wood. Long time rivals Mark Twain and Mike Fink engage in a cross county, no holds barred, race from Missouri to California. Satisfying TV Western spoof.

1987  Independence  Sunn Classics, 1987. 104 min. Color. D: John Patterson. SC: Gordon Dawson. With John Bennett Perry, Isabella Hofman, Anthony Zerbe, Sandy McPeak, R.G. Armstrong, Macon McCalam, Amanda Wyss, Julius J. Curry III, Davin Hollscher, Christian Clemenson, Adam Gregor, Joseph Brutsman, Joshua Julian, Ola David Verploegh, John Davis Chandler, Gisli Bjorgvinsson, Paul Brinegar, Tommy Bush, Curtis Conoway, Gordon Dawson, Doug Duran, Cory Eubanks, Ben Zellar, Stephanie Dunnam, J. Michael Flynn, Jose Garcia, Scott Jones, Adam Taylor, Bruce Watson. Several years after a gang murders his family, a man plans revenge when the marauders return to molest his second wife and children. Well done television Western.

1988  Indian Agent  RKO Radio, 1948. 65 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Noah Beery, Jr., Richard Martin, Nan Leslie, Lee “Lasses” White, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Harry Woods, Claudia Drake, Robert Bray, Bud Osborne, Iron Eyes Cody. A cowboy uncovers evidence that a government agent as been selling food intended for an Indian reservation, causing the tribe to nearly starve. Good Tim Holt series entry.

1989  The Indian Fighter  United Artists, 1955. 88 min. Color. D: Andre De Toth. SC: Frank Davis and Ben Hecht. With Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Walter Abel, Diana Douglas, Eduard Franz, Alan Hale (Jr.), Lon Chaney, Elisha Cook, Michael Winkelman, Harry Landers, William Phipps, Buzz Henry, Ray Teal, Frank Cady, Hank Worden, Lane Chandler. The leader of a wagon train negotiates a treaty with an Indian chief to let his people pass peacefully through to Oregon but two bad guys soon have the tribe on the warpath. Colorful and action filled, but slight on plot.

Kirk Douglas and Elsa Martinelli in The Indian Fighter (United Artists, 1955).

Indian Love Call see Rose Marie (1936)

1990  Indian Paint  Eagle-American Films/Crown-International, 1965. 91 min. Color. D-SC: Norman Foster. With Johnny Crawford, Jay Silverheels, Pat Hogan, Robert Crawford, Jr., Robert Crawford, Sr., George J. Lewis, Joan Hollmark. A young Indian boys tries to tame a beautiful wild horse to keep him from joining a wild herd. Okay juvenile oriented feature.

Indian Scout see Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

1991  Indian Territory  Columbia, 1950. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Kirby Grant, James Griffith, Philip Van Zandt, Pat Collins, Roy Gordon, Charles Stevens, Robert Carson, Chief Thundercloud, Chief Yowlachie, Frank Lackteen, Boyd Stockman, Sandy Sanders, Frank Ellis, Frankie Marvin, Kenne Duncan, Wes Hudman, Roy Butler, Robert Hilton, John R. McKee, Bert Dodson, Chief Thundersky. A Union Army undercover agent finds out a foreign mercenary is stirring up the Indians and he tries to stop him. Entertaining Gene Autry vehicle filmed in Sepiatone.

1992  Indian Uprising  Columbia, 1952. 74 min. Color. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Kenneth Gamet and Richard Schayer. With George Montgomery, Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid, Eugene Iglesias, Joe Baer, Joseph Sawyer, Eddy Waller, Douglas Kennedy, Robert Shayne, Miguel Inclan, Hugh Sanders, Hank Patterson, Robert Griffith, Fay Roope, Robert Dover. A cavalry captain facing court martial ends up trying to thwart an attack by Geronimo and his braves. Fair action outing enhanced by Super Cinecolor.

1993  The Indians Are Coming  Universal, 1930. 12 Chapters. D: Henry MacRae. SC: Ford Beebe and George Plympton. With Tim McCoy, Allene Ray, Edmund Cobb, Francis Ford, Charles Roy, Wilbur McGaugh, Charles F. Royal, Lafe McKee, Bud Osborne, Don Francis, Bob Reeves, Jim Corey, Dick Hatton, Art Mix, Chief Thunderbird, George Plues, Les Bates, Bud McClure, Monte Montague, Frank Ellis, Jack Kirk, Bill Patton, Archie Ricks, Tex Phelps, Al Taylor, Buck Moulton, Chuck Baldra, Bob Card, Charles Le Moyne, Ben Corbett, Jack Jones, Charles Murphy, Dynamite (dog), Buck Connors (narrator). Going West with a wagon train carrying his girl and her father, a scout fights off a ruffian after the young woman and her uncle’s gold claim, as well as marauding Indians. Popular but rough hewn early sound serial.

1994  El Indio (The Indian). Producciones Rodas, S.A., 1972. 85 min. Color. D: Rodolfo de Anda. With Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Rodolfo de Anda, Jorge Rivero, Monica Favel, Jorge Russek, Emilio Fernandez, Mario Almade, Arturo Martinez, Ray Moyer, Helena Rojo, Amparo Rivelles. When a peon refuses to tell a greedy landowner the location of priceless Indian relics he is almost hung but is saved by a cowboy who unites the locals in a rebellion against their oppressors. Taut Mexican Western drama.

Indio Black see Adios, Sabata

1995  Inferno  20th Century–Fox, 1963. 87 min. Color. D: Roy Ward Baker. SC: Francis M. Cockrell. With Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull, Carl Betz, Robert Burton, Harry Carter, Everett Glass, Robert Adler, Adrienne Marden, Barbara Pepper, Dan White, Charles Tannen. After breaking his leg falling off a horse, a pompous, drunken rich man is left to perish in the desert by his beautiful wife and her boyfriend. Edgy, effective 3-D melodrama remade for TV as Ordeal (q.v.).

An Innocent Man see The Sagebrush Trail

1996  Inside Straight  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951. 89 min. D: Gerald Mayer. SC: Guy Trosper. With David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge, Paula Raymond, Claude Jarman, Jr., Lon Chaney, John Hoyt, Roland Winters, Barbara Billingsley, Hayden Rourke, Jerry Hartleben, Dale Hartlben, Lou Nova, Richard Hale, Percy Helton, John R. Hamilton, Marshall Bradford, Matt Moore, Cameron Grant, William Lewis, Sherry Hall, Philo McCullough, George Sherwood, Jack Shea, James Pierce, Harry Lauter, Mae Clarke, Richard Alexander, Dewey Robinson, John Bryant, Mitchell Lewis. In 1870s San Francisco a crooked gambler cheats everyone so he can get rich and later learns it is all without worth. Told mostly in flashbacks, this melodrama is an adequate affair, nothing more.

1997  Into the Badlands  USA Network, 1991. 89 min. Color. D: Sam Pillsbury. SC: Dick Beebe, Marjorie David and Gordon Dawson. With Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Helen Hunt, Dylan McDermott, Lisa Pelikan, Andrew Robinson, Adan Sanchez, Jerry Gardner, Glen Burns, Steve Tyler, Oryan Walsky, Loren Haynes, Michael J. Metzger, Reynaldo Cantu, Steven Schwartz-Hartley, Royce O’Donnell, Dick Beebe. A bounty hunter is on the trail of a notorious outlaw. Poorly conceived TV Western based on stories by Marcia Muller, Bryce Walton and Heck Allen.

1998  The Intruders  NBC-TV, 1970. 95 min. Color. D: William A. Graham. SC: Dean Riesner. With Don Murray, Anne Francis, Edmond O’Brien, John Saxon, Gene Evans, Edward Andrews, Shelly Novack, Dean Stanton, Stuart Margolin, Zalman King, Harrison Ford, Gavin MacLeod, Philip Alford, John Hoyt, Marlene Tracy, Ken Swofford, Robert Donner, Edward Faulkner, James Gammon, Len Wayland, Ted Gehring, Robert P. Lieb, William Phipps, Mickey Sholdar. As a former gunman tries to reform as a lawman, a half-breed Indian struggles to make a life for himself. Fair television feature.

1999  The Invaders  Kay Bee, 1912. 37 minutes. D: Francis Ford and Thomas H. Ince. SC: C. Gardner Sullivan. With Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Ann Little, Ray Myers, Chief Eagleshirt, Art Acord. After the government breaks a treaty with the Indians, two tribes unite to wipe out a team of railroad surveyors and attack a fort with a chief’s daughter trying to avert the slaughter. Well staged and acted Thomas H. Ince early silent production; well worth viewing.

2000  The Invasion of Johnson County  NBC-TV, 1976. 100 min. Color. D: Jerry Jameson. SC: Nicholas E. Bachr. With Bill Bixby, Bo Hopkins, John Hillerman, Billy Green Bush, Stephen Elliott, Lee DeBroux, M. Emmet Walsh, Mills Watson, Alan Fudge, Luke Askew, Edward Winter, David Donner, Ted Gehring. When land grabbers and their hired guns attempt to steal land from small ranchers, two men, an Easterner and a cowboy, team to stop them. Loaded with action TV movie.

Bill Bixby and Bo Hopkins in The Invasion of Johnson County (NBC-TV, 1976).

2001  Las Invencibles (The Invincible Women)  Peliculas Rodriguez, S.A., 1964. 86 min. D: Federico Curiel. SC: Federico Curiel and Alfredo Ruanova. With Kitty de Hoyos, Dacia Gonzalez, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Eduardo Fajardo, Eric del Castillo, Pancho Cordova, Rafael Bertrand, Celia Viveros, Rogelio Guerra, Fernando Curiel, Federico Curiel, Noe Murayama, Fanny Schiller. Two sisters join forces with a masked avenger out to stop a mysterious figure from taking over his niece’s estate. Satisfying follow-up to Las Hijas del Zorro (q.v.).

2002  Invitation to a Gunfighter  United Artists, 1964. 92 min. Color. D: Richard Wilson. SC: Elizabeth Wilson and Richard Wilson. With Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter, Alfred Ryder, Mike Kellin, George Segal, Clifford David, Pat Hingle, Bert Freed, Curt Conway, Clifton James, Clarke Gordon, Strother Martin, Arthur Peterson. The citizens of a Western town hire a gunman to rid them of a local killer but the plan develops a surprise twist. Too much talk and not enough action in this oater.

Janice Rule and Brad Dexter in Invitation to a Gunfighter (United Artists, 1964).

2003  The Irish Gringo  Keith Productions, 1935. 54 min. D: William C. Thompson. SC: Patrick Petersalia (Patrick Carlyle and William C. Thompson). With Pat (Patrick) Carlyle, William Farnum, Bryant Washburn, Elena Duran, Milt (Milburn) Morante, Karlyn (Karla) May, Olin Francis, Don Orlando, Ace Cain, Rudolph Cornell, Josef Swickard, Kit Guard, Marjorie Medford, Foxy Callahan, Horace B. Carpenter, Paul Blackman, Chito Montoya, Art Felix, Herman Hack, Clyde McClary, Tex Palmer, Bud Pope. A cowboy and his pals fight an outlaw gang who murdered a rancher for the secret to the Lost Dutchman gold mine. Sparse poverty row clinker worth a look for William Farnum’s hammy performance.

2004  The Iron Horse  Fox, 1924. 119 min. D: John Ford. SC: Charles Kenyon. With George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy, Cyril Chadwick, Fred Kohler, Gladys Hulette, James Marcus, J. Farrell MacDonald, James Welch, Walter Rogers, George Waggner, Jack Padjan, Charles O’Malley, Charles Newton, Charles Edward Bull, Colin Chase, Delbert Mann, Chief Big Tree, Chief White Spear, Ed Peil, James Gordon, Winston Miller, Peggy Cartwright, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Frances Teague, Will Walling. Looking for this father’s killer, a man ends up romancing his childhood sweetheart and the daughter of a builder of the Transcontinental Railroad. One of the truly great classic Westerns; a must see silent epic.

2005  The Iron Mistress  Warner Bros., 1952. 110 min. Color. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: James Webb. With Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia, Phyllis Kirk, Alf Kjellin, Douglas Dick, Anthony Caruso, Ned Young, Don Beddoe, Robert Emhardt, Richard Carlyle, Jay Novello, George J. Lewis, Darla Massey, George Voskovec, Nick Dennis, Frank Ferguson, Sara Selby, Gordon Nelson, Harold Gordon. The story of Jim Bowie, his invention of the famous knife and his love for a woman who tries to take advantage of him. Mediocre historical drama, although Virginia Mayo is quite good as the ruthless seductress.

2006  Iron Mountain Trail  Republic, 1953. 54 min. D: William Witney. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Nan Leslie, Grant Withers, Roy Barcroft, Alan Bridge, Forrest Taylor, George Lloyd, John Hamilton, Kenneth Terrell, Dee Cooper, Frank O’Connor, Post Park, Alex Montoya, Cactus Mack. Post Office inspector Rex Allen is assigned to find out why mail is being lost during clipper ship transportation. Nothing outstanding although henchman Roy Barcroft does have a pet monkey.

2007  The Iron Rider  Goodwill, 1926. 60 min. D-SC: Jacques Jaccard. With Yakima Canutt, Vola Vale, Elsie Benham, Jim Corey, Lee Sepulveda, Alfred Hewston, Nelson McDowell, Boy (horse), Lad (dog). A cowpoke who wants to marry gets into trouble when he is cheated out of his horse by a dishonest gambler while trying to win enough money to set up housekeeping. Below average silent oater greatly helped by star Yakima Canutt, who does a lot of trick riding and stunt work in addition to giving a fine performance.

2008  The Iron Sheriff  United Artists, 1957. 73 min. D: Sidney Salkow. SC: Seeleg Lester. With Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor, Darryl Hickman, Walter Sande, Frank Ferguson, King Donovan, Mort Mills, Peter Miller, Kathy Nolan, I. Stanford Jolley, Will Wright, Ray Walker, Bob Williams. When his son is accused of robbery and murder, the local lawman believes he is innocent and tries to prove it. Strong “B” Western acted by a fine cast.

2009  The Iroquis Trail  United Artists, 1950. 85 min. D: Phil Karlson. SC: Richard Shayer. With George Montgomery, Brenda Marshall, Glenn Langan, Reginald Denny, Monte Blue, Sheldon Leonard, Paul Cavanaugh, Holmes Herbert, Dan O’Herlihy, John Doucette, Don Gerner, Marcel Gourmet, Arthur Little, Jr., Esther Somers. After his brother is attacked while delivering a dispatch for the British, scout Hawkeye and his Indian guide Sagamore try to stop the evil Simon Girty and his Huron chief ally from helping the French led by General Montcalm. Okay retelling of James Fennimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans with fine work by George Montgomery as Hawkeye and Monte Blue as Sagamore.

2010  Ishi:  The Last of His Tribe  NBC-TV, 1978. 100 min. Color. D: Robert Ellis Miller. SC: Dalton Trumbo and Christopher Trumbo. With Dennis Weaver, Eloy Phil Casados, Devon Erickson, Joaquin Martinez, Geno Silva, Joseph Running Fox, Lois Red Elk, Gregory Norman Cruz, Ariliene Nofchisssey Williams, Michael Medina, Peter Brandon, Patricia Ganera, Eddy Marques, Dennis Dimster, Wayne Heffey, Miss Gold, Jay W. MacIntosh, Ernest D. Paul. In 1911 in Northern California the lone survivor of a reclusive Indian tribe is found by a rancher and nursed back to health with his story eventually revealed by an anthropologist. Well done TV movie from the novel Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber Quinn; remade as The Last of His Tribe (q.v.) in 1992.

2011  It Can Be Done Amigo  EMI/Atlantida/Terzafilms, 1971. 95 min. Color. D: Maurizio Lucidi. SC: Rafael Azcona. With Jack Palance, Bud Spencer, Fancisco Rabal, Renato Cestie, Dany Saval, Giovanni Pazzafini, Luciano Catenacci, Sal Borgese. A bounty hunter and his sister pursue a man who dishonored the woman who is put in charge of a small boy about to inherit a rich with oil deposits. Amusing, rambling Spanish-made oater with little bloodshed. Spanish title: En El Oeste Se Puede Hacer...Amigo (In the West It Can Be Done...Friend).

2012  It Happened Out West  20th Century–Fox, 1937. 59 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Earle Snell. With Paul Kelly, Judith Allen, Johnny Arthur, LeRoy Mason, Nina Campana, Steve Clemento, Frank LaRue, Reginald Barlow, Russell Hicks, Ted Adams, Henry Otho, Ben Corbett, Lew Kelly, Edwin Brady, Evelyn Zelle, Tom Forman, Archie Ricks, Charles Treadwell, Slim Lucas, Jack Shannon. Crooks try to cheat a young woman out of her dairy ranch when a silver vein is discovered on the property. Well done Sol Lesser production, an adaptation of the Harold Bell Wright novel.

It Lives by Night see The Bat People

2013  It’s a Big Country  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951. 89 min. D: Richard Thorpe, John Sturges, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, Clarence Brown, William A. Wellman and Don Hartman. SC: William Ludwig, Helen Deutsch, George Wells, Allen Rivkin, Dorothy Kingsley, Dore Schary and Isobel Lennart. With Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper, Nancy Davis, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, Marjorie Main, Fredric March, George Murphy, William Powell, S.Z. Sakall, Lewis Stone, James Whitmore, Keenan Wynn, Leon Ames, Angela Clarke, Bobby Hyatt, Sharon McManus, Elisabeth Risdon, Bill Baldwin, Mickey Martin, William H. Welsh, Ned Glass, Sherry Hall, Fred Santley, Henry Sylvester, Roger Moore, Roger Cole, Harry Stanton, Benny Burt, June Hedin, Luana Mehlberg, Jeralyn Alton, Jacqueline Kenley, David Alpert, Tiny Francone. Stories of several Americans, showing the greatness of this country, with Gary Cooper hosting a segment entitled “Texas” in which he brags about the Lone Star state backed by newsreel footage. Enjoyable patriotic fare.

2014  The Ivory-Handled Gun  Universal, 1935. 60 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Jack (John T.) Neville and Charles E. Barnes. With Buck Jones, Charlotte Wynters, Walter Miller, Carl Stockdale, Frank Rice, Joseph Girard, Robert Kortman, Stanley Blystone, Lafe McKee, Lee Shumway, Charles King, Ben Corbett, Eddie Phillips, Niles Welch, Jim Thorpe, Lew Meehan, Robert Walker, Herman Hack, Bud McClure, Blackjack Ward, Arthur Thalasso, Archie Ricks, Al Taylor, George Sowards, Jack Montgomery, Kernan Cripps, Bob Roper, Iron Eyes Cody, Charles McMurphy, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. Two men involved in a long standing feud are on opposite sides when rustlers being stealing sheep. Good Buck Jones vehicle with a surprise finale.

2015  The Jack Bull  Home Box Office (FBO), 1999. 116 min. Color. D: John Badham. SC: Dick Cusack. With John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones, Miranda Otto, John C. McGinley, John Savage, Rodney A. Grant, Kurt Fuller, Rex Linn, Jay O. Sanders, Drake Bell, Nicholas E. Gillie, Duncan Fraser, Ken Pogue, Glen Morshower, Ned Bellamy, Brent Briscoe, Scott Wilson, Valerie Planche, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Bruce Flewelling, J.C. Roberts, Esther Purves-Smith, Patrick Richards, John Payne, Corry Glass, Byme Piven, Raoul Ganeev, Dick Cusack, Robert Lewis, Jimmy Herman, Chad Nobert, Gina Williams, Madeleine Lefebvre, Rick Poltaruk, Ken Hurlburt, Tom Heaton, Campbell Lane, Bill Cusack, Ron Webber. Two ranchers are at odds when one of them abuses the horse and Indian caretaker of the other and this nearly costs Wyoming its bid for statehood. Pretty fair TV movie.

Jack London’s Klondike Fever see Klondike Fever

Jack London’s Tales of Adventure see Tales of Adventure

2016  Jack London  United Artists, 1943. 99 min. D: Alfred Santell. SC: Ernest Pascal. With Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport, Frank Craven, Virginia Mayo, Ralph Morgan, Jonathan Hale, Louise Beavers, Leonard Strong, Regis Toomey, Albert van Antwerp, Paul Hurst, Lumsden Hare, Hobart Cavanaugh, Sarah Padden, Edward Earle, Morgan Conway, Robert Homans, Arthur Loft, Wallis Clark, Ernie Adams, Sven Hugo Borg, Charles Miller, Jack Roper, Davison Clark, Dick Curtis, Ted Billings, Brooks Benedict, Pierre Watkin, Edmund Cobb, Richard Loo, Sidney D’Albrook, Olin Howland, Torben Meyer, John Kelly, Harry Semels, Jack Roper, Roy Gordon, Johnny Fisher, Rose Plummer, Evelyn Finley, Robert Katcher, John Kelly, Eddie Laughton, Harold Minjir, Frank Mills, Eddie Lee, Paul Fung, Mei Lee Foo, Charles Lung, Charlene Newman, Bruce Wong, Hank Worden, Tex Cooper. Vagabond Jack London leaves a cannery job to go on a seal hunting expedition, then prospects for gold in the Yukon and goes to college, along the way romancing several women, ending up a writer. Only a fair biopic of the famous author although Michael O’Shea is good in the title role and he is backed by a fine supporting cast.

2017  Jack McCall, Desperado  Columbia, 1953. 76 min. Color. D: Sidney Salkow. SC: John O’Dea. With George Montgomery, Angela Stevens, Douglas Kennedy, James Seay, Eugene Iglesias, William Tannen, Jay Silverheels, John Hamilton, Selmer Jackson, Stanley Blystone, Gene Roth, Joe McGuinn. During the Civil War a Southerner joins the Union army, is framed on the charge of giving information to the enemy, convicted of treason and sentenced to die, but escapes to find the man who accused him. Pretty good Sam Katzman production.

2018  Jack Slade  Allied Artists, 1953. 90 min. D: Harold Schuster. SC: Warren Douglas. With Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Barton MacLane, John Litel, Paul Langton, Harry Shannon, John Harmon, Jim Bannon, Lee Van Cleef, Ron Hargrave, David Day, Sammy Ogg, Nelson Leigh, John Halloran, Robert Reeves, Dorothy Kennedy, Duane Thorsen, Harry Landers, Ann Navarro, Steve Darrell, Hank Patterson. A rebellious young man becomes a noted lawman but eventually turns against the woman he loves and becomes a criminal. Fairly interesting account of a good man gone bad although Mark Stevens’ Jack Slade must be the grimiest leading man in movie history.

2019  The Jackals  20th Century–Fox, 1967. 93 min. Color. D: Robert D. Webb. SC: Lamar Trotti and Austin Medford. With Vincent Price, Dana Ivarson, Robert Gunner, Bob Courtnet, Bill Brewer, Johnny Whitney. The 1883 gold rush in South Africa’s Transvaal area brings a quartet of bank robbers who try to steal ore from an old prospector and his pretty granddaughter. Somewhat obscure South African reworking of Yellow Sky (q.v.) with a fine performance by Vincent Price as the prospector.

2020  Jackass Mail  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942. 80 min. D: Norman McLeod. SC: Lawrence Hazard. With Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Dick Curtis, William Haade, Darryl Hickman, Hobart Cavanaugh, Joe Yule, Esther Howard, Babe London, Al Ferguson, LeRoy Mason, Harry Fleischmann, Louis Mason, George Carleton, Bobby Larson, Mary Currier, Harry Woods, Duke York, Paul Newlan, Edward Hearn, Frank Darien, Howard Mitchell, Wade Boteler, Ruth Warren, Harry Worth, Robert Emmett O’Connor, Murdock MacQuarrie, Eddie Hart, Joe Whitehead, Malcolm White, Jack Kenney, Billy Wayne, Bobby Barber, Ted Oliver, Art Belasco, Robert Perry, Charles R. Dorety. An old-time bad man is pursued by the female owner of a mail wagon team and saloon, but escaping from a hanging posse he stops a robbery and becomes a hero. Very pleasant Wallace Beery-Marjorie Main teaming sure to delight their fans.

2021  Jaguar  Republic, 1956. 66 min. D: George Blair. SC: John Fenton Murray and Benedict Freedman. With Sabu, Chiquita, Barton MacLane, Jonathan Hale, Touch (Michael) Connors, Jay Novello, Fortunio Bonanova, Nacho Galindo, Rodd Redwing, Pepe Hern, Raymond Rosas. In order to keep others away from rich oil deposits, an old prospector uses the guise of a jaguar to eliminate his competitors. El cheapo program feature; the associate producer is Mickey Rooney.

Jail Break see Gunning for Vengeance  

2022  The James Brothers of Missouri  Republic, 1950. 12 Chapters. D: Fred C. Brannon. SC: Royal Cole, William Lively and Sol Shor. With Keith Richards, Robert Bice, Noel Neill, Roy Barcroft, Patricia Knox, Lane Bradford, Gene Roth, John Hamilton, Edmund Cobb, Hank Patterson, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Steele, Lee Roberts, Frank O’Connor, Marshall Reed, Wade Ray, Nolan Leary, David Sharpe, Art Dillard, John Crawford, Post Park, Duke Taylor, Al Ferguson, Cactus Mack, Tommy Coats, Kenneth Terrell, Robert Wilke, Forrest Burns, Herman Hack, Chick Hannon, Chuck Roberson, Bud Wolfe, Frosty Royce, Rocky Shahan. Using aliases, Jesse and Frank James join an ex–gang member’s freight line and when he is murdered by rivals they agree to help his sister run the business and capture the culprits. Fair pseudo-historical cliffhanger.

2023  James Michener’s Dynasty  NBC-TV, 1976. 100 min. Color. D: Lee Phillips. SC: Sidney Carroll. With Sarah Miles, Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, Harrison Ford, Amy Irving, Granville Van Dusen, Charles Weldon, Gerrit Graham, Stanley Clay, Tony Swartz, John Carter, Stephanie Faulkner, Rayford Barnes, Sair Price, Norbert Schiller, Ian Wolfe, Guy Raymond, Don Eitner, James Houghton, J. Jay Saunders, William Challee, Francis De Sales, Dennis Larson. In frontier Ohio of the 1820s, a man, his wife and brother-in-law turn a family business into a financial empire. Pretty fair TV movie; well acted.

Harris Yulin, Sarah Miles and Stacy Keach in James Michener’s Dynasty (NBC-TV, 1976).

2024  Jaws of Justice  Principal, 1933. 58 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Joseph Anthony Roach. With Kazan (dog), Richard Terry (Jack Perrin), Ruth Sullivan, Robert Walker, Gene Tolar, Lafe McKee, Teddy (dog). In the north country a Canadian Mounted Policeman and his loyal dog team to bring in a killer. Interesting, fast moving low budget outdoor melodrama filmed at Lake Tahoe and based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug.”

2025  The Jayhawkers  Paramount, 1959. 100 min. Color. D: Melvin Frank. SC: Melvin Frank, Joseph Petracca, Frank Fenton and A.I. Bezzerides. With Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva, Herbert Rudley, Leo Gordon, Don Megowan, Kenneth MacDonald, Ned Glass, Frank DeKova, Frank Wilcox, Al Wyatt, Richard Shannon, Barbara Knudson, Joe Forte, Howard Joslin, Tony Regan. An outlaw gang leader is pursued by a man determined to capture him but they both fall in love with the same woman. Tepid melodrama from the production team of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.

2026  Jeep Herders  Astor, 1949. 46 min. D-SC: Richard Talmadge and Harvey Perry. With John Day, June Carlson, Pat Michaels, Steve Clark, Ashley Cowan, Slim Gault, Paul Bradley, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Steele, Saul Gorss, Richard Fitch, Fred Kennedy, Frank McCarroll, Victor Metzetti (Richard Talmadge). Returning home from World War II, a man finds his ranch workers have all gone to nearby oil fields for higher wages so he hires his war buddies from a convalescent hospital to help him run the place. Low grade outing with plenty of action and stunts; originally released by Planet in 1946 in 16mm.

2027  Jeepers Creepers  Republic, 1939. 67 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With The Weavers and Elviry (Leon, Frank, June [Elviry]), Roy Rogers, Maris Wrixon, Billy Lee, Lucien Littlefield, Thurston Hall, Johnny Arthur, Loretta Weaver, Milton Kibbee, Ralph Sanford, Dan White, Bud Geary, Gladys Gale, Joe McGuinn, Robert Wilke, Curley Dresden, Si Jenks, Tex Phelps. A backwoods family is cheated out of their land by a rich industrialist so they try to get it back and humanize him in the process. Fun homespun feature with a pleasing title tune and Roy Rogers as a sheriff.

2028  Jeremiah Johnson  Warner Bros., 1972. 108 min. Color. D: Sidney Pollack. SC: John Milius and Edward Anhalt. With Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch, Allyn Ann McLerie, Charles Tyner, Paul Benedict, Matt Clark, Joaquin Martinez. A man becomes a recluse in the wilderness, learning to survive in the environment and fight an Indian curse. Somewhat interesting, but too long, adventure melodrama.

2029  Jericho  Black Knight Productions, 2000. 101 min. Color. D: Merlin Miller. SC: Frank Dana Frankolino, George Leonard Briggs and Robert Avard Miller. With Mark Valley, Leon Coffee, R. Lee Ermey, Lisa Stewart, Mark Collie, Morgana Shaw, Buck Taylor, Katerie Walker, Kevin Stapleton, Renny Rozzoni, Woody P. Snow, Lashawn McIvor, Kyle Ingram, Ryon Marshall, David Crowe, David Alvarado, Tommy Worrell, Bob Brown, James Wallace, Thomas E. Blaylock, James Ham, Gil Dorland, Jim Ryan, Kelsey Bruce, Mason McWilliams, Mike Bowlin, Bob Balderson, William L. Moody IV, Charles Gamero, Richard Curilla, Jack Lewis. An amnesiac cowboy is nursed back to health by an ex-slave preacher and the two take part in a cattle drive and run a ranch before the cowpoke discovers his secret past. Average Western mystery.

2030  Jesse and Lester  H.P. International, 1972. 97 min. Color. D: James London (Richard Harrison). SC: Renzo Genta and Richard Harrison. With Richard Harrison, Donald O’Brien, Gino Marturano, Anna Zinneman, George Wang, Rick Boyd (Federico Boido), Aldo Cecconi, John Bartha, Fernando Cerulli, Salvatore Baccaro, Fortunato Arena, Calogero Caruana, Emilio Messina, Osiride Pevarello, Luciano Rossi, Claudio Ruffini, Goffredo Unger, Daniela Meroni, Gianfranco Barra. Two half brothers who are opposites in personality join forces to obtain a stolen inheritance. Well made, amusing Italian Western originally called Due Fratelli (Two Brothers) and also known as Jesse and Lester in a Place Called Trinity, A Place Called Trinity, Trinity and Two Brothers in Trinity.

Jesse and Lester in a Place Called Trinity see Jesse and Lester

2031  Jesse James  20th Century–Fox, 1939. 105 min. Color. D: Henry King. SC: Nunnally Johnson. With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull, Slim Summerville, J. Edward Bromberg, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Donald Meek, John Russell, Jane Darwell, Charles Tannen, Claire DuBrey, Willard Robertson, Paul Sutton, Ernest Whitman, Paul Burns, Spencer Charters, Arthur Aylesworth, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Halton, George Chandler, Erville Alderson, Harry Tyler, George Breakston, John Elliott, Virginia Brissac, Don Douglas, Edward LeSaint, Wylie Grant, Harry Holman, Ethan Laidlaw, Charles Middleton, James Flavin, Eddy Waller, Victor Kilian, John Beck, Morgan Brown, George O’Hara. Brothers Jesse and Frank James become outlaws after their mother is murdered by carpetbaggers in post–Civil War Missouri. Historically inaccurate but highly entertaining, well done and finely acted; recommended. Followed by The Return of Frank James (q.v.). In the silent era Fred Thompson had the title role in Jesse James (Paramount, 1927).

2032  Jesse James at Bay  Republic, 1941. 56 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: James R. Webb. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Sally Payne, Pierre Watkin, Hal Taliaferro, Gale Storm, Roy Barcroft, Jack Kirk, Jack O’Shea, Billy Benedict, Rex Lease, Ed Peil, Sr., Jack Rockwell, Curley Dresden, Hank Bell, Fern Emmett, Budd Buster, Lloyd Ingraham, Karl Hackett, Fred Burns, Kit Guard, Chester Conklin, Theodore Lorch, Art Mix, Al Taylor, Pascale Perry, Bob Reeves, Paul Sells, Charles Moore, Bill Wolfe, Ken Card, Luke Cosgrove, Rick Anderson. When the railroad and a crooked banker try to cheat farmers out of their land they send for Jesse James to help them. Pleasant fiction with Roy Rogers in dual roles, Jesse James and gambler Clint Burns.

Advertisement for Jesse James at Bay (Republic, 1941).

2033  Jesse James, Jr.  Republic, 1942. 56 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Richard Murphy, Taylor Cavan and Doris Schroeder. With Don “Red” Barry, Lynn Merrick, Al St. John, Douglas Walton, Robert Kortman, Karl Hackett, Lee Shumway, Stanley Blystone, Jack Kirk, George Chesebro, Frank Brownlee, Forbes Murray, Jim Corey, Kermit Maynard. A cowboy tries to thwart crooks who are out to destroy a telegraph headquarters. Fun, action packed Don Barry film with good comedy support from Al St. John. TV title: Sundown Fury.

2034  Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter  Embassy, 1966. 82 min. Color. D: William Beaudine. SC: Carl K. Hittleman. With Estelita (Rodriguez), John Lupton, Jim Davis, Cal Bolder, Steven Geray, Narda Onyx, Felipe Turich, Rosa Turich, Rayford Barnes, William Fawcett, Nestor Paiva, Dan White, Page Slattery, Roger Creed. A female descendant of Dr. Frankenstein uses one her ancestor’s artificial brains to turn Jesse James’ henchman into monster. Despite its title, this is a pretty fair horror Western; issued theatrically with Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (q.v.).

2035  Jesse James Rides Again  Republic, 1947. 13 Chapters. D: Fred C. Brannon and Thomas Carr. SC: Franklin Adreon, Basil Dickey, Jesse Duffy and Sol Shor. With Clayton Moore, Linda Stirling, Roy Barcroft, John Compton, Tristram Coffin, Tom London, Holly Bane, Edmund Cobb, Gene Roth, LeRoy Mason, Ed Cassidy, Dave Anderson, Eddie Parker, Tom Steele, Dale Van Sickel, Robert Blair, Ted Mapes, Tex Terry, Gil Perkins, Tex Palmer, Emmett Lynn, Charles Morton, Duke Taylor, Monte Montague, Lee Shumway, Herman Hack, Chuck Roberson, Carl Sepulveda, Kenneth Terrell, Pascale Perry, Chester Conklin, Tommy Coats, George Chesebro, Bud Wolfe, Tom Chatterton, Charles King, Robert Riordan, Howard Mitchell, Richard Alexander, Keith Richards. Fleeing from the law for a crime he did not commit, Jesse James and a pal arrives in an area plagued by attacks from masked raiders after oil. Typical later Republic serial a great cast.

2036  Jesse James Under the Black Flag  Mesco Pictures, 1921. 69 min. D-SC: Franklin B. Coates. With Jesse James, Jr., Harry Hall, Marguerite Hungerford, F.G. McCabe, Sunshine Baker, Ralph Johnson, Hortense Espey, Jack Wall, Mrs. Cart, William Baker, Frances Coffrey, Franklin B. Coates, Diana Reed, Jack Neil. After being a member of Quantrill’s Raiders and then becoming an outlaw, Jesse James is pardoned and falls in love. The main interest in the obscure silent melodrama is seeing Jesse James, Jr., portraying his famous father.

2037  Jesse James vs. The Daltons  Columbia, 1954. 65 min. Color. D: William Castle. SC: Robert E. Kent and Samuel Newman. With Brett King, Barbara Lawrence, James Griffith, Bill Phillips, John Cliff, Rory Mallinson, William Tannen, Richard Garland, Nelson Leigh, Raymond Largay. Believing he is Jesse James’s son, a man finds himself in a showdown with the Dalton brothers. Standard 3-D production from Sam Katzman.

2038  Jesse James’ Women  United Artists, 1954. 83 min. Color. D: Donald Barry. SC: D.D. Beauchamp. With Don Barry, Jack Buetel, Peggie Castle, Lita Baron, Joyce Rhed, Betty Brueck, Laura Lee, Sam Keller. The James gang plans a robbery in a small town but ends up getting involved in romance. Don “Red” Barry directed and starred in this low budget hijacks that is more laughs than action.

2039  Jessie’s Girls  Mason Distributing, 1975. 84 min. Color. D: Al Adamson. SC: Budd Donnelly. With Sondra Currie, Rod Cameron, Geoffrey Land, Ben Frank, Regina Carrol, Jenifer Bishop, Ellen Stern, Joe Cortese, Jon Shank, Biff Yeager, Gavin Murrell, Rigg Kennedy, William Hammer, Hugh Warden, Joe Arrowsmith, John Durren. In 1879 newlyweds are attacked by an outlaw gang, the husband murdered, the wife raped, shot and left for dead but she is rescued by an old prospector who teaches her to survive and she sets out to get revenge on the killer. Tacky and violent; Rod Cameron as the prospector is the only interest. Alternate title: Wanted Woman.

2040  Jiggs and Maggie Out West  Monogram, 1950. 66 min. D: William Beaudine. SC: Barney Gerard and Adele Buffington. With Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Tim Ryan, Jim Bannon, Riley Hill, Pat Golden, June Harrison, Henry (Kulky) Kulkovich, Terry McGinnis, Billy Griffith, George McManus, Lane Chandler, Kenne Duncan, Jimmy Aubrey. Jiggs and Maggie head West when she inherits a ranch and a goldmine but a crook wants them for himself. Pleasant screen adaptation of the popular, long running comic strip “Bringing Up Father” with its author, George McManus, appearing as himself; good fun.

2041  El Jinete Sin Cabeza (The Headless Rider)  Clasa-Mohme, 1957. D: Chano Urueta. SC: Ramon Obon. With Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernandez, Pascual Garcia Pena, Crox Alvarado, Patricia Nieto, Guillermo Carmer, Alberto Pedret, Elvira Lodi, Carlos Suarez, Salvador Godinez, Fernando Oses, Salvador Lozano, Fernando Yapur. A masked rider tries to expose the machinations of a hooded cult worshipping a disembodied hand and searching for hidden treasure. Creepy, atmospheric Mexican horror Western; the title character also appeared in La Cabeza de Pancho Villa and La Marca de Satana (qq.v.).

2042  Los Jinetes de la Bruja (The Riders of the Witch)  Almada Films, 1966. 93 min. Color. D: Vicente Orona. SC: Vicente Orona and Vicente Orona, Jr. With Blanca Sanchez, Kitty de Hoyos, Fernando Almada, Mario Almada, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Roberto Canedo, Rafael del Rio, Jose A. Espinoza “Ferrusquilla,” Alicia Bonet, Consuelo Frank, Antonio Ravel, Carlos Rotzinger, Jose Eduardo Perez, Jorge Mateos, Manuel Arvide, Agustin Fernandez, Carlos Suarez. When an elderly rancher is accused of killing a puppet master, his family seeks the help of a witch who avenges the murder with her spectral horse riders. Obscure Mexican horror Western filmed in Guanajuato and issued on video as La Herencia de la Bruja (The Heritage of the Witch).

Joan of Cattle Country see Straight Shooting

Joaquin Murieta see Desperate Mission

2043  Joe Dakota  Universal-International, 1957. 79 min. Color. D: Samuel Fuller. SC: Norman Jolley and William Talman. With Jock Mahoney, Luana Patten, Charles McGraw, Barbara Lawrence, Claude Akins, Lee Van Cleef, Anthony Caruso, Paul Birch, George Dunn, Steve Darrell, Rita Lynn, Gregg Barton, Jeanne Wood, Juney Ellis, Anthony Jochim, Francis McDonald. Arriving in a town where the citizens are cold and unfriendly, a cowboy tries to humanize them and instill respect for their community. A different kind of Western that succeeds more than it fails; Jock Mahoney is fine in the lead and the supporting cast is very good.

Joe Dexter see Guns of Nevada

2044  Joe Kidd  Universal, 1972. 88 min. Color. D: John Sturges. SC: Elmore Leonard. With Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia, James Wainwright, Paul Koslo, Gregory Walcott, Dick Van Patten, Lynne Marta, John Carter, Pepe Hern, Chuck Hayward, Buddy Van Horn. Mexicans invade a remote village and a powerful land owner hires a drifter-gunman to stop them. Another in the line of features that pushed Clint Eastwood to super stardom; little better than mediocre.

Stella Garcia and Clint Eastwood in Joe Kidd (Universal, 1972).

2045  Joe Panther  Artists Creation, 1976. 110 min. Color. D-SC: Paul Krasny. With Brian Keith, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Tracey, A. Martinez, Cliff Osmond, Alan Feinstein, Lois Red Elk. Against great adversity, a young Indian brave tries to make a life for himself in the modern world and still hold onto his heritage. Okay drama.

Johnny Colt see Black Star

2046  Johnny Concho  United Artists, 1956. 85 min. D: Don McGuire. SC: David Harmon and Don McGuire. With Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Wallace Ford, William Conrad, Dorothy Adams, Christopher Dark, Howard Petrie, Harry Bartell, Willis Bouchey, Robert Osterloh, Jean Byron, Leo Gordon, Claude Akins, John Qualen, Ben Wright, Dan Russ. A cowardly bully lives in the glory of his gunman brother until he is killed, then he must learn to be a man and face up to another gunfighter. Frank Sinatra is good in the title role of this otherwise average oater.

2047  Johnny Firecloud  Entertainment Ventures, 1975. 99 min. Color. D: William A. Castleman. SC: Wilton Denmark. With Ralph Meeker, Victor Mohica, David Canary, Frank De Kova, Sachean Little Feather, Christina Hart, Jason Ledger, John F. Goff, Richard Kennedy, George “Buck” Flower, Wayne Storm, Elliott Lindsey, Sterling Franck, Seamon Glass, Barry Cooper, James A. Ward, Norman Sheridan, Michael Morrison. Returning home from the Army, an Indian learns his ex-girlfriend’s town boss father and the local sheriff are harassing his tribe and that his sister has been raped. Low budget, violent modern-day Western.

2048  Johnny Guitar  Republic, 1954. 110 min. Color. D: Nicholas Ray. SC: Philip Yordan. With Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Scott Brady, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams, Ian MacDonald, Will Wright, John Maxwell, Robert Osterloh, Frank Marlowe, Trevor Bardette, Sumner Williams, Sheb Wooley, Denver Pyle, Clem Harvey. The ruthless female owner of a small town saloon is reunited with her gunman ex-lover who she calls on to defend her against a nearby town boss and a woman cattle raiser. Tough, symbolic Western is probably the only film Joan Crawford made that is lionized by pointed heads, but overall it is mostly on the dull side.

2049  Johnny Hamlet  Transvue, 1972. 91 min. Color. D: Enzo G. Castellari. SC: Bruno Corbucci, Tito Carpi and Enzo G. Castellari. With Chip Gorman (Andrea Giordana), Gilbert Roland, Francoise Prevost, Gabriella Grimaldi, Horst Frank, Enzo Girolami, Pedro Sanchez, Stefania Careddu. A man returns home from the Civil War to find his father is dead and his mother has married his uncle. Violent affair that is a refashioning of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet; it was made in 1968 in Italy as Quella Sporca Storia del West (Dirty Story of the West) by Daiano Film/Leone Film.

Johnny Oro see Ringo and His Golden Pistol