2665  Mississippi Rhythm  Monogram, 1949. 69 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Louise Rousseau. With Jimmie Davis, Veda Ann Borg, Lee “Lasses” White, James Flavin, Lyle Talbot, Sue England, Guy Beach, Paul Maxey, Paul Bryar, Joel Marston, Duke York, Wheaton Chambers, Charlie Jordan. When dishonest gamblers try to stop settlement by homesteaders, a land agent comes to their rescue. Pleasant musical drama starring two term Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis.

2666  The Missouri Breaks  United Artists, 1976. 126 min. Color. D: Arthur Penn. SC: Thomas McGuane. With Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Lloyd, Randy Quaid, Fredric Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, John McLiam, John Ryan, Sam Gilman, Steve Franken, Richard Bradford, James Greene, Luana Anders, R.L. Armstrong, Dan Ades, Charles Wagenheim. When horse thieves steal herds belonging to Mormon ranchers they agree to hire a gunman to dispose of the menace. An overlong and surprisingly poor feature with mediocre performances from the two stars.

2667  A Missouri Outlaw  Republic, 1941. 54 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Doris Schroeder and Jack Latt, Jr. With Don “Red” Barry, Lynn Merrick, Noah Beery, Al St. John, Paul Fix, Frank LaRue, Kenne Duncan, John Merton, Carleton Young, Frank Brownlee, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Karl Hackett, Lee Shumway, Ray Bennett, Bob McKenzie, Kermit Maynard, Frank McCarroll, Curley Dresden, Herman Hack. A sheriff is forced to arrest his son, a notorious gunman. Very good entry in Don Barry’s Republic series, greatly helped by the presence of pretty Lynn Merrick and the great Noah Beery.

2668  The Missouri Traveler  Buena Vista, 1958. 103 min. Color. D: Jerry Hopper. SC: Norman Shannon Hall. With Brandon de Wilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Mary Hosford, Paul Ford, Ken Curtis, Cal Tinney, Frank Cady, Mary Field, Kathleen Freeman, Will Wright, Roy Jenson, Earle Hodgins, Tony Tiner, Bill Bryant, Barry Curtis, Eddie Little Sky, Rodney Bell, Helen Brown, William Newell. In 1915 an orphaned boy tries to make a go of it in a rural Missouri town. Pleasant Walt Disney production of a bucolic nature.

2669  The Missourians  Republic, 1950. 60 min. D: George Blair. SC: Arthur Orloff. With Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Lyn Thomas, Roy Barcroft, Howard Negley, Robert Neil, Lane Bradford, John Hamilton, Sarah Padden, Charles Williams, Perry Ivins. A refugee from Poland attempts to take up ranching but is opposed by the locals although the town marshal tries to stop such prejudice. Mediocre Monte Hale feature.

2670  Mistaken Orders  Anchor/Rayart, 1926. 59 min. D: J.P. McGowan. With Helen Holmes, Jack Perrin, Henry Barrows, Hal Walters, Harry Tenbrook, Cecil Kellogg, Mack V. Wright, Arthur Millett, Alice Belcher. The daughter and playboy son of a railroad executive fight to stop sabotage and are helped by the woman’s boyfriend. Fast action silent feature highlighted by several train wrecks and a runaway engine.

2671  Mr. Horn  CBS-TV, 1979. 200 min. Color. D: Jack Starrett. SC: William Goldman. With David Carradine, Richard Widmark, Karen Black, Richard Masur, Clay Tanner, Pat McCormick, Jack Starrett, John Durren, Jeremy Slate, Enrique Lucero, Stafford Morgan, Don Collier, Lewis James Oliver, John Alderman, William Smith, Jr., Ian McLean, Marilyn Starr, Dan Vadis, James Steward, Tiger Williams, Romero Rameriz, Alexis Jacks. The story of Tom Horn, who captured Geronimo and became a bounty hunter. Overlong two part TV movie enhanced by good work from stars David Carradine and Richard Widmark.

2672  Mohawk  20th Century–Fox, 1956. 80 min. Color. D: Kurt Neumann. SC: Maurice Geraghty and Milton Krims. With Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Lori Nelson, Allison Hayes, John Hoyt, Vera Vague, Rhys Williams, Ted De Corsia, Mae Clarke, John Hudson, Tommy Cook, Michael Granger. Land owners try to top settlement in the Mohawk Valley by inciting the Indians to war but their efforts are opposed by an Easterner and his Indian girlfriend. Okay action feature enhanced by footage from Drums Along the Mohawk (q.v.).

2673  Mojave Firebrand  Republic, 1944. 55 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Wild Bill Elliott, George “Gabby” Hayes, Anne Jeffreys, LeRoy Mason, Jack Ingram, Harry McKim, Karl Hackett, Forrest Taylor, Hal Price, Marshall Reed, Kenne Duncan, Bud Geary, Jack Kirk, Fred Graham, Tom London, Frank Ellis, Tom Steele, Bob Burns, Art Dillard, Bud Osborne, Larry Steers, Horace B. Carpenter, Jess Cavin, Jack Tornek, Silver Harr, Bill Nestell, Tom Smith, Victor Cox. Crooks attempt to steal a silver mine from an old prospector but a peace officer comes to his rescue. Well made and fast moving “Wild Bill Elliott” penultimate series feature.

2674  Molly and Lawless John  Producers Distributing Corporation, 1973. 96 min. Color. D: Gary Nelson. SC: Terry Kingsley-Smith. With Vera Miles, Sam Elliott, Clu Gulagher, John Anderson, Cynthia Mayers, Charles A. Pinney, Robert Westmoreland, Melinda Chavaria, Charles LeBow, Grady Hill. An outlaw convinces a sheriff’s wife to help him escape from jail and after they run away together his interest in her wanes. Fair film helped by good acting, but nothing special.

2675  The Moment to Kill  Constantin Film, 1968. 92 min. Color. D: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Camimeo). SC: Fabio Piccioni. With George Hilton, Walter Barnes, Horst Frank, Giogrio Sammartino, Loni von Friedl, Carlo Alighiero, Renato Romero, Rudolf Schundler, Remo De Angelis, Piertro Ceccarelli. Two cowboys search for a woman who knows the location of hidden Confederate gold that is also coveted by others. Darkly photographed, hard to follow Italian-West German co-production titled Il Momente di Uccidere (The Moment to Kill).

2676  Money, Women and Guns  Universal-International, 1958. 80 min. Color. D: Richard H. Bartlett. SC: Montgomery Pittman. With Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey, Gene Evans, William Campbell, Lon Chaney, Tom Drake, James Gleason, Jeffrey Stone, Judi Meredith, Philip Terry, Richard Devon, Ian MacDonald, Don Megowan, Nolan Leary, Kelly Thordsen. When an old prospector is murdered, a detective is hired to find his heirs as well as the killer. Pleasant Western with some good performances, albeit a bit tame.

Monsieur Le Fox see Men of the North

2677  Montana  Warner Bros., 1950. 76 min. D: Ray Enright. SC: James R. Webb, Borden Chase and Charles O’Neal. With Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy, James Brown, Ian MacDonald, Charles Irwin, Paul E. Burns, Tudor Owen, Lester Mathews, Nacho Galindo, Lane Chandler, Monte Blue, Billy Vincent, Warren Jackson, Jack Perrin, Creighton Hale, Jack Mower, Gertrude Astor, Forrest Taylor, Philo McCullough, Dorothy Adams, Carl Andre, Nita Talbot, Maudie Prickett, Jessie Adams, Joe Dominguez, Almira Sessions, Joseph J. Green, David Cota, George Lee. An Australian sheep man migrates to Montana and is opposed by a woman cattle rancher. Standard genre outing.

2678  Montana Belle  RKO Radio, 1952. 82 min. Color. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Horace Webster and Norman S. Hall. With Jane Russell, George Brent, Scott Brady, Forrest Tucker, Andy Devine, Jack Lambert, Ray Teal, Rory Mallinson, Roy Barcroft, John Litel, Ned Davenport, Dick Elliott, Eugene (Gene) Roth, Stanley Andrews, Holly Bane, George Chesebro, Glenn Strange, Pierce Lyden, Dennis Moore, Gregg Barton, Kenneth MacDonald, Rex Lease, Rodney Bell, Iron Eyes Cody, Charles Soldani, Hank Bell, Franklyn Farnum, Frank Ellis. The notorious Belle Starr expands her lawless activities by joining forces with the Dalton Brothers. An oater so dull that not even Jane Russell can save it; made in 1948.

2679  Montana Desperado  Monogram, 1951. 51 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Dan Ullman. With Johnny Mack Brown, Virginia Herrick, Myron Healey, Marshall Reed, Steve Clark, Edmund Cobb, Lee Roberts, Carl Mathews, Ben Corbett. A masked rider has been killing ranchers to get their land and a cattleman tries to find out his identity. Compact affair with a good premise but cheap production values.

2680  Montana Incident  Monogram, 1952. 54 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Dan Ullman. With Whip Wilson, Rand Brooks, Noel Neill, Peggy Stewart, Hugh Prosser, Russ Whiteman, William Fawcett, Terry Frost, Marshall Reed, Lyle Talbot, Bruce Edwards, Barbara Woodell, Stanley Price. Two railroad surveyors attempt to help the people of a town ruled by a ruthless woman. Better than average Whip Wilson outing, due mainly to pretty Peggy Stewart as the villain.

2681  The Montana Kid  Monogram, 1931. 60 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Doris Hill, W.L. Thorne, G.D. Wood (Gordon DeMain), John Elliott, Paul Panzer. A cowpoke tries to help a boy whose father was murdered after being forced to sign over his ranch to a crooked gambler. A cut above most entries in the “Bill and Andy” series.

Montana Mike see Heaven Only Knows

2682  Montana Moon  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1930. 88 min. D: Malcolm St. Clair. SC: Sylvia Thalberg. With Joan Crawford, John(ny) Mack Brown, Ricardo Cortez, Dorothy Sebastian, Cliff Edwards, Benny Rubin, Karl Dane, Lloyd Ingraham, Pete Morrison, Bud McClure, George Reed. A spoiled heiress runs away from her father’s private train and meets and later marries a cowboy but she is soon romanced by a gigolo. Dated but entertaining Joan Crawford vehicle with songs like “The Moon Is Low”; Johnny Mack Brown’s first sound Western.

2683  La Montana Sin Ley (The Mountain Without Law)  Ignacio Ferres Iquano, S.A., 1953. 95 min. D: Miguel Lluch. With Jose Suarez, Isabel de Castro, Francisco Martinez Soria, Luis Induni, Jorge Morales, Carlos Orero, Maria Zaldivar. Zorro tries to expose the leader of a pirate gang. Okay Mexican feature based on the Johnston McCulley character.

2684  Montana Territory  Columbia, 1952. 64 min. Color. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Barry Shipman. With Lon McCallister, Preston Foster, Wanda Hendrix, Hugh Sanders, Clayton Moore, Jack Elam, Robert Griffith, Myron Healey, Eddy Waller, George Russell, Ethan Laidlaw, Ruth Warren, Trevor Bardette, George Chesebro, Richard Alexander, Zon Murray, Carol Henry. After witnessing a murder, a young man is made a deputy sheriff and assigned to bring in the killers. Average production with an interesting plot.

2685  Monte Walsh  National General, 1970. 98 min. Color. D: William Fraker. SC: Lukas Heller and David Zelag Goodman. With Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis, G.D. Spradlin, John Hudkins, Ray Guth, John McKee, Michael Conrad, Tom Heaton, Ted Gehring, Bo Hopkins, John McLiam, Allyn Ann McLerie, Matt Clark, Billy Green Bush, Charles Tyner, Jack Colvin, Guy Wilkerson, Roy Barcroft. In the 1890s two cowpokes find it difficult to get jobs so one becomes a storekeeper but his soon killed by a wrangler who is forced to become an outlaw and the victim’s pal vows to avenge his death. Good account of the end of the wild life of the cowboy as civilization took over the West. Worth seeing.

2686  Montezuma’s Lost Gold  Bill Burrud Productions/Gold Key Entertainment, 1978. 90 min. Color. D: John Burrud and Miles Hinshaw. SC: Jeff Fellows and John Schwartz. With Miles Hinshaw, Tom Hinshaw, Michael Carr, William Lewis, Bill Burrud (narrator) A drifter-prisoner knows the whereabouts of the legendary treasure of the Aztecs, buried in North America after the Spanish plundered Mexico. Adequate docudrama; Tod Connor sings the title song, “Gold.”

2687  Moon Over Montana  Monogram, 1946. 56 min. D: Oliver Drake. SC: Louise Rosseau and Ande Lamb. With Jimmy Wakely, Lee “Lasses” White, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Terry Frost, Louise Arthur, Woody Woodell and His Riding Rangers, Stanley Blystone, Brad Slaven, Eddie Majors, Bob Duncan, Arthur Smith, John Elliott, Ray Jones, Denver Dixon. A cowboy leads a group of cattlemen in opposing a corrupt rancher trying to get control of a railroad. Poorly done and uninteresting Jimmy Wakely musical opus.

2688  Moonlight and Cactus  Universal, 1944. 60 min. D: Edward Cline. SC: Eugene Conrad and Paul Gerard Smith. With The Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene and LaVerne), Leo Carrillo, Elyse Knox, Tom Seidel, Shemp Howard, Eddie Quillan, Murray Alper, Tom Kennedy, Frank Lackteen, Minerva Urecal, Jacqueline De Wit, Mary O’Brien, Mady Correll, Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra, Chatita and Lolita Tovar. A Naval officer returns home to his Western ranch and finds it is being run by a trio of female singers. The Andrews Sisters are out West in this pleasant blend of music, comedy and nonsense.

2689  Moonlight on the Prairie  Warner Bros., 1935. 63 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: William Jacobs. With Dick Foran, Sheila Mannors, George E. Stone, Gordon (Bill) Elliott, Joseph Sawyer, Robert Barrat, Herbert Heywood, Dickie Jones, Joseph King, Milton Kibbee, Raymond Brown, Richard Carle, Bud Osborne, Ben Corbett, Gene Alsace, Glenn Strange, Victor Potel, Cactus Mack, Jack Kirk. A rodeo’s cowboy singing star is led to believe he will be accused of murder at the show’s next stop. Dick Foran’s initial series outing is a pleasant one with a good script and cast enhanced by the star’s singing.

2690  Moonlight on the Range  Spectrum, 1937. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Fred Scott, Lois January, Al St. John, Dick Curtis, Frank LaRue, Oscar Gahan, Jimmy Aubrey, Carl Mathews, Wade Walker, William McCall, Shorty Miller, Rudy Sooter, Lew Meehan, Ed Cassidy, Tex Palmer, George Morrell, Forrest Taylor, Steve Clark, Hank Worden, Herman Hack, Jack Evans, Sherry Tansey. A cowboy hits the trail planning revenge when his look-a-like cattle rustler half-brother murders his best pal. Fred Scott plays both the hero and lead villain in this fairly good action foray that is highlighted by his singing four good songs.

Moonlight Raid see Challenge of the Range

2691  The Moonlighter  Warner Bros., 1953. 77 min. D: Roy Rowland. SC: Niven Busch. With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching, John Dierkes, Morris Ankrum, Jack Elam, Charles Halton, Norman Leavitt, Sam Flint, Myra Marsh. A cattle rustler returns home for his own funeral and meets his ex-girlfriend and her hate for him soon returns to love. Originally issued in 3-D, this dull oater has little to recommend it other than its stars; the title refers to a cattle thief.

2692  More Dead Than Alive  United Artists, 1969. 101 min. Color. D: Robert Sparr. SC: George Schenck. With Clint Walker, Anne Francis, Vincent Price, Paul Hampton, Mike Henry, Craig Littler, Beverly Powers, Clarke Gordon, William Woodson. After eighteen years in prison an ex-gunman is released and tries to live a peaceful life but his past keeps catching up with him. Mediocre drama highlighted by Vincent Price’s performance as the showman who hires the shooter as his star attraction.

2693  More Than Magic  Wrather Corporation, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy and Oscar Rudolph. SC: Thomas Seller, Robert E. Schaefer, Eric Friewald and Hilary Green Rhodes. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Allen Pinson, Wayne Burson, Mary Ellen Kay, Harry Lauter, Rand Brooks, Don C. Harvey, Tom Brown, Ben Welden, Edmond Hashim, Robert Swan, Charles Stevens, Mike Ragan, Louis Lettieri, Sandy Sanders, John Cliff, William Challee, Barbara Ann Knudsdy, Sydney Mason, David Dwight, John Maxwell, Walt LaRue, John Pickard. The Lone Ranger and Tonto try to capture a band of disappearing road agents, get on the trail of an outlaw gang and help an Indian chief in choosing his heir. Pleasant telefeature from “The Lone Ranger” (ABC-TV, 1949–57) episodes “Hot Spell in Panamint,” “Outlaws in Greasepaint” and “White Hawks’ Decision.”

2694  More Wild Wild West  CBS-TV, 1980. 100 min. Color. D: Burt Kennedy. SC: William Bowers and Tony Hayden. With Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Jonathan Winters, Harry Morgan, Rene Auberjonois, Liz Torres, Victor Buono, Jack La Lanne, Randi Brough, Candi Brough, Dr. Joyce Brothers. Two federal undercover agents are on the trail of a wily madman. Fans of “Wild Wild West” (CBS-TV, 1965–70) will enjoy this telefilm, a follow-up to The Wild Wild West Revisited (q.v.).

2695  Mosby’s Marauders  Buena Vista, 1967. 80 min. Color. D: Michael O’Herlihy. SC: Harold Swanton. With James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Jack Ging, Kurt Russell, Peggy Lipton, Donald Harron, Jeanne Cooper, James Callahan, Robert Sorrells, E.J. Andre, Michael Forest, Steve Raines, Michael Pate, Michael Kearney, Robert Random, Amzie Strickland. A young Confederate officer joins the forces of Mosby’s Marauders in a daring capture of a Union general behind enemy lines in 1863. Exciting, and fairly accurate, Walt Disney historical drama originally shown on Disney’s ABC-TV series as “Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders” on January 8, 15 and 22, 1967.

2696  Mother Lode  Agamemnon Films, 1982. 101 min. D: Charlton Heston. SC: Fraser Clarke Heston. With Charlton Heston, Nick Mancuso, Kim Basinger, John Marley, Dale Wilson, Ricky Zantolas, Marie George. A bush pilot and a young woman head into the mountains of British Columbia to look for the man’s gold-seeking buddy and find a Scottish miner who will stop at nothing to protect his claim. Very entertaining action feature with fine photography, plus good second unit work by Joe Canutt; filmed in British Columbia’s Cassair Mountains.

2697  Mountain Charlie  American National Enterprises, 1982. 96 min. Color. D: George Stapleford. SC: Karen Hoffman. With Dick Robinson, Rick Guinn, Lynne Seus, Roger Clark, John Sechser, Karl Wesson, Merlin Barlow, Wallace Bitseedy, David Sterago, Guy Faris, William Stewart, Charles Stewart, Denise Neilson, Donne Johnson. A mountain girl has her life changed when she encounters three vagabonds. Scenic family adventure fare.

2698  Mountain Family Robinson  Pacific International, 1979. 98 min. Color. D: John Cotter. SC: Arthur R. Dubs. With Robert Logan, Susan Damante Shaw, Heather Rattray, Ham Larsen, George “Buck” Flower, William Bryant, Calvin Bartlett, Jim Davidson. The government demands the Robinson family move from their cabin home in the Rocky Mountains because the land they are on is a mining, not a homestead, claim. The final film in the “Wilderness Family” trilogy is a heartwarming affair with excellent photography by James Roberson; preceded by The Wilderness Family and Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (qq.v.).

2699  Mountain Justice  Universal, 1930. 64 min. D: Harry Joe Brown. SC: Bennett Cohen and Leslie Mason. With Ken Maynard, Kathryn Crawford, Otis Harlan, Paul Hurst, Richard Carlyle, Les Bates, Gilbert “Pee Wee” Holmes, Edgar “Blue” Washington, Fred Burns, Jim Mason, Frank Ellis, Jim Corey, Bud McClure, Blackjack Ward, Buck Bucko. An Oklahoma cowboy heads to the Kentucky hills pretending to be deaf in order to find the man who shot his father. Good Ken Maynard early talkie originally called Kettle Creek.

Mountain Man see Guardian of the Wilderness

2700  The Mountain Men  Columbia, 1980. 102 min. Color. D: Richard Lang. SC: Fraser Clarke Heston. With Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Stephen Macht, Victoria Racimo, Victor Jory, Seymour Cassell, David Ackroyd, John Glover, Cal Bellini, Bill Lucking, Ken Ruta, Danny Zapien, Tim Haldeman, Bob Terhune, Chuck Roberson, Roy Jenson, Henry Wills, Bennie Dobbins. In the 1840s an aging trapper keeps searching for untouched wilderness and finds trouble with hostile Indians. Well made and beautifully photographed frontier tale, but only average.

2701  Mountain Rhythm  Republic, 1939. 61 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Maude Eburne, Ferris Taylor, Walter Fenner, Jack Pennick, Hooper Atchley, Bernard Suss, Ed Cassidy, Jack Ingram, Tom London, Frankie Marvin, Roger Williams, Slim Whitaker, Curley Dresden, Al Taylor, Herman Hack, Buck Morgan, Augie Gomez, Horace B. Carpenter, Bob Burns, Duke R. Lee, Silver Tip Baker, John Beach, Jack Baxley, Dirk Thane, Bud McClure, Lew Morphy, George Sowards, Bill Hickey. Eastern crooks want grazing land for a tourist resort and set up a government auction in order to buy it out from under the ranchers who use it. Average Gene Autry vehicle.

2702  Mounted Fury  World Wide, 1931. 63 min. D: Stuart Paton. SC: Betty Burbridge. With John Bowers, Blanche Mehaffey, Lina Basquette, Frank Rice, Robert Ellis, John Ince, George Regas, Lloyd Whitlock, Jack Trent. A Canadian Mounted Policeman is assigned to bring in a man wanted for murder. Quickie production that gives viewers a chance to see silent star John Bowers in one of his few sound efforts.

2703  The Mounted Stranger  Universal, 1930. 60 min. D-SC: Arthur Rosson. With Hoot Gibson, Louise Lorraine, Francis Ford, Milton Brown, Buddy Hunter, Fred Burns, James (Jim) Corey, Walter Patterson, Francelia Billington, Gilbert “Pee Wee” Holmes, Glenn Strange, Bud McClure, Archie Ricks. As a boy a man witnessed the murder of his father by an outlaw gang leader and years later he tries to bring the culprit to justice. Action packed Hoot Gibson early talkie, more serious than most of his features; a remake of the star’s 1924 Universal film The Ridin’ Kid from Powder River.

2704  The Mountie  Grindstone Entertainment Group, 2011. 90 min. Color. D: Wyeth Clarkson. SC: Wyeth Clarkson, Grant Sauve and Charles Johnston. With Andrew W. Walker, Jessica Pare, George Buza, Earl Pastko, Tony Munch, Andrey Ivchenko, Matthew G. Taylor, Dean Williams, John Wildman, Kestrel Martin, Ada H. Chan. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer arrives in a remote Yukon village to find a killer and uncovers vast corruption. Mediocre period drama filmed in Canada; released on video as Way of the West.

2705  Mrs. Mike  United Artists, 1949. 99 min. D: Louis King. SC: Alfred Lewis and DeWitt Bodeen. With Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, John Miljan, J.M. Kerrigan, Angela Clarke, Will Wright, Nan Boardman, Frances Morris, Joel Nester, Jean Inness, Chief Yowlachie, Clarence Straight, James Fairfax, Donald Pietro. A Mountie marries a city girl and brings her with him to a remote outpost where she learns to face the harsh realities of frontier existence. A wonderful motion picture, deftly written and finely performed by stars Dick Powell and Evelyn Keyes; a must see.

2706  Mrs. Sundance  ABC-TV/20th Century–Fox, 1974. 78 min. Color. D: Marvin Chomsky. SC: Christopher Knopf. With Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, L.Q. Jones, Arthur Hunnicutt, Lurene Tuttle, Claudette Nevins, Robert Donner, Dean Smith, Tod Shelhorse. When school teacher Etta Place learns the Sundance kid did not die with Butch Cassidy she sets out to meet him but is aware bounty hunters are on her trail. TV movie follow-up to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (q.v.) is acceptable thanks to Elizabeth Montgomery in the title role; followed by a sequel, Wanted:  The Sundance Woman (q.v.)

Mrs. Sundance Rides Again see Wanted:  The Sundance Woman

2707  El Muchacho Alegre (The Happy Boy). Clasa-Mohme, 1948. 90 min. D: Alejandro Galindo. SC: Raul de Anda. With Luis Aguilar, Victor Parra, Carmelita Gonzalez, Manuel Donde, Pascual Garcia Pena, Jorge Arriaga, Jose L. Murillo, Fernando Soto, Arturo Soto Rangel, Cecilia Leger, Gloria Lozano, Estela Matute, Sara Montes, Pepe Nava, Jose Munoz, Jose Pardave, Conchita Gentil Acros, Roberto Canedo, Eduardo Arozamena, Felipe Montoya. Three friends want the same woman but when one of them is murdered it causes the other two pals to become estranged as they try to find the killer. Highly regarded Mexican Western drama with songs, from producer-writer Raul de Anda.

2708  El Muchacho de Durango (The Kid from Durango)  Radaent Films, 1962. 90 min. D: Arturo Martinez. SC: Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Gina Romand, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Jaime Fernandez, Sonia Infante, Oscar Pulido, Tito Novaro, Ernesto Cabiati. Showing up in a Sonora town, a cowboy gets a job offer but is soon at odds with a newly arrived stranger. Okay Mexican Western from producer-writer Raul de Anda, followed by Alias El Alacran (q.v.).

2709  La Mula de Cullen Baker (The Mule of Cullen Baker)  Radaent Films, 1971. 85 min. Color. D-SC: Rene Cardona. With Rodolfo de Acosta, Anel, Jorge Russek, Carlos Agosti, Juan Gallardo, Armando Acosta, Carlos Leon, Jose Dupeyron, Gloria Chavez, Carlos Cardan, Rene Cardona, Rene Cardona III, Jose L. Murillo, Jesus Gomez, Raul Valerio, Gerardo Zepeda, Alfredo Gutierrez, Regino Herrera, Ismael Larumbe, Roger Oropeza, Christa von Humboldt. A mule riding loner takes revenge on society by becoming a ruthless gunman after coming across a cache of revolvers. Star Rodolfo de Acosta co-produced this sturdy south of the border oater with his father, Raul de Anda.

2710  Mule Feathers  Monarch Releasing, 1977. 79 min. Color. D-SC: Donald R. von Mizener. With Rory Calhoun, Angela Richardson, Richard Webb, Dee Cooper, Cathy Carricaburu, Frank Otterman, Doodles Weaver, Noble “Kid” Chissell, Arthur Roberts, Ken Smedberg, Ken Johnson, Ted Lehman, Nicholas Worth, Pat Crenshaw, Nedra Volz, Ruth Vinson, Tony Mancuso, Dorinda Carey, Robin von Mizener, Don Knotts (voice). A preacher’s talking mule relates how his master forsook the gospel in search of a cache of gold and his showdown with a mean adversary. Mind numbing excuse for a Western comedy from producer Robert F. Slatzer; made in 1975 and also known as The West Is Still Wild.

2711  Mule Train  Columbia, 1950. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Sheila Ryan, Robert Livingston, John Miljan, Frank Jaquet, Vince Barnett, Syd Saylor, Sandy Sanders, Gregg Barton, Kenne Duncan, Roy Gordon, Stanley Andrews, Robert Hilton, Robert Wilke, Robert Carson, Pat O’Malley, Eddie Parker, George Morrell, John R. McKee, George Slocum, Frank O’Connor, Norman Leavitt, Evelyn Finley, Bob Woodward. Marshal Gene Autry helps two prospectors who claim a natural cement deposit was stolen by a contractor in cahoots with a dishonest female sheriff. Another entertaining Gene Autry outing enhanced by the title song plus a trio of other country/western favorites, “Cool Water,” “The Old Chisholm Trail” and “Room Full of Roses.”

2712  Murder on the Yukon  Monogram, 1940. 59 min. D: Louis Gasnier. SC: Milton Raison. With James Newill, Polly Ann Young, Dave O’Brien, Al St. John, William Royle, Chief Thundercloud, Budd Buster, Karl Hackett, Kenne Duncan, Snub Pollard, Earl Douglas, Jack Clifford, Frank Campeau, Gertrude Chorre. Two Mounties on vacation investigate the homicides of Yukon prospectors who they suspect are the victims of counterfeiters. Nicely paced entry in the “Renfrew of the Royal Mounted” series; also called Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Murder on the Yukon.

Murieta see Desperate Mission

2713  Mustang  United Artists, 1959. 73 min. D: Peter Stephens. SC: Tom Gries. With Jack Buetel, Madelyn Trahey, Steve Keyes, Milton Swift, Robert (Bob) Gilbert, Paul Spahn, Max M. Gilford, Autumn Moon (horse). A rodeo star goes to work for a rancher and opposes a man who wants to kill a wild stallion. Poor program feature made in 1955; title song sung by Champ Butler.

2714  Mustang Country  Universal, 1976. 79 min. Color. D-SC: John Champion. With Joel McCrea, Robert Fuller, Patrick Wayne, Nika Mina, Tiger (horse), Rote (dog). On the Montana-Canadian border an aging cowboy helps a young Indian boy round up a wild stallion. Joel McCrea returned to the screen in this very entertaining drama that is a good bet for the entire family; recommended.

2715  Mutiny at Fort Sharp  Walter Manley Enterprises, 1966. 91 min. Color. D: Fernando Cerchio. SC: Ugo Liberatore and Fernando Cerchio. With Broderick Crawford, Elisa Montes, Mario Valdemarin, Umberto Ceriani, Hugo Arden, Julio Pena, Carlos Mendi, Tomas Pico, Nando Angelini. In 1864 French troops accidentally cross into Confederate territory in Texas from Mexico and are forced to join the rebels at a fort about to be besieged by Indians. Mediocre Spanish-made and poorly dubbed oater originally called Per un Dollaro di Gloria (For a Dollar of Glory); Broderick Crawford is lethargic as the Confederate fort commander.

2716  Mutiny in the Arctic  Universal, 1941. 64 min. D: John Rawlins. SC: Maurice Tombragel and Victor McLeod. With Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Anne Nagel, Don Terry, Addison Richards, Oscar O’Shea, Harry Cording, Jeff Corey, John Rogers, John Bagni, Stanley Blystone, Sam Adams, Gibson Gowland, Eddie Dew, David Sharpe, Peter Potter, Charles Sullivan, Leo Abbey, Dave Wengren. Two explorers searching for a pitchblende mountain in the Arctic are betrayed by the financier of the venture and they end up on an iceberg. Fair program feature in the Richard Arlen–Andy Devine action series for Universal.

2717  Mutiny on the Blackhawk  Universal, 1939. 66 min. D: Christy Cabanne. SC: Michael L. Simmons. With Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Constance Moore, Noah Beery, Guinn Williams, Mala, Thurston Hall, Sandra Kane, Paul Fix, Richard Lane, Mabel Albertson, Charles Trowbridge, Bill Moore, Byron Foulger, Francisco Maran, Eddy Waller, Mamo Clark. In 1840 a naval investigator looks into slave running between California and the Sandwich Islands and later the Mexican government tries to wipe out American settlers in California. Two stories in one film highlight this pretty good initial entry in the Richard Arlen–Andy Devine series.

2718  My Darling Clementine  20th Century–Fox, 1946. 97 min. D: John Ford. SC: Samuel G. Engel and Winston Miller. With Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Cathy Downs, Alan Mowbray, John Ireland, Grant Withers, Roy Roberts, Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Francis Ford, J. Farrell MacDonald, Don Garner, Ben Hall, Arthur Walsh, Jack Pennick, Louis Mercier, Mickey Simpson, Fred Libby, Harry Woods, Charles Stevens, Mae Marsh, Hank Bell. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday go after the Clanton clan when they steal the Earp’s cattle and murder his youngest brother. Pictorially interesting but historically inaccurate retelling of the events leading up to the gunfight at O.K. Corral; mainly for John Ford buffs.

2719  My Friend Flicka  20th Century–Fox, 1943. 89 min. Color. D: Harold Shumate. SC: Lillie Hayward and Frances Edwards Faragoh. With Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, Roddy McDowall, James Bell, Jeff Corey, Diana Hale, Arthur Loft, Jimmy Aubrey. Against his father’s wishes, a young boy tries to tame a wild horse he has grown to love. Fine family film, the basis for the popular series of the same title on CBS-TV from 1956 to 1957 starring Gene Evans, Anita Louise and Johnny Washbrook; followed by a sequel, Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (q.v.).

2720  My Friend Irma Goes West  Paramount, 1950. 90 min. D: Hal Walker. SC: Cy Howard and Parke Levy. With Marie Wilson, John Lund, Diana Lynn, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Lloyd Corrigan, Don Porter, Harold Huber, Joseph Vitale, Charles Evans, Kenneth Tobey, Wendell Niles, James Flavin, David Clark, Chief Yowlachie, Jimmie Dundee, George Humbert, Roy Gordon, Al Ferguson, Julia Montoya, Rose Higgins, Jasper Weldon, Gregg Palmer, Gil Herman, Link Clayton, Napoleon Whiting, Mike Mahoney, Bob Johnson, Stan Johnson, Charles Dayton, Joe Hecht, Maxie Thrower. A zany blonde goes with her roommate when the latter’s singer boyfriend and his partner are signed to a Hollywood contract by a producer who, unknown to them, has escaped from an asylum. Fair follow-up to My Friend Irma (Paramount, 1950).

My Gun Is the Law see The Colt Is My Law

2721  My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys  Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1991. 106 min. Color. D: Stuart Rosenberg. SC: Joel Don Humphreys. With Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Tess Harper, Gary Busey, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Clarence Williams III, Mickey Rooney, Cynthia H. Mackey, Bill Clymer, Benjamin Rosenberg, Megan Parlen, Jim Robinett, Jennifer Johnson, Joan Hoag, Dub Taylor, Harold Suggs, Will Hussong, Dennis Fimple, Clu Gulagher, Terry McIlvain, Robert Knott, David Honeycutt Hamilton, Theresa Bell, Rex Linn, Sarah Bratton, Clem McSpadden, Don Endsley, Gary Sievers. Returning home after many years, a cowboy goes back to the rodeo circuit to raise money after finding his father in an assisted living facility and his ex-girlfriend a widow with two children. Modern-day Western, mundane at best.

2722  My Little Chickadee  Universal, 1940. 83 min. D: Edward Cline. SC: Mae West and W.C. Fields. With Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton, George Moran, Si Jenks, James Conlin, Gene Austin, Candy and Coco (Russell “Candy” Hall and Otto “Coco” Heimel), Fuzzy Knight, Anne Nagel, Ruth Donnelly, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, William B. Davidson, Addison Richards, Jackie Searle, Fay Adler, Jan Duggan, Morgan Wallace, Wade Boteler, Harlan Briggs, Eddie Butler, Bing Conley, John Kelly, Walter McGrail, Otto Hoffman, Billy Benedict, Delmar Watson, Chester Gan, George Melford, Lita Chevret, Bob McKenzie, James Morton, Joe Whitehead, Lloyd Ingraham, Dick Rush, Hank Bell, Lane Chandler, Alan Bridge, Edward Hearn, Al Ferguson, Vester Pegg, Frank Ellis, Blackie Whiteford, Bob Burns, Charles McMurphy, Bob Reeves, Jack Roper, Dorothy Vernon, Slim Gault, Buddy Harris, Bill Wolfe. Thrown out of town by snobs, a beautiful woman meets a con man and pretends to marry him in order to gain social acceptance. The teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields is hardly a classic comedy but it is a funny affair that has delighted audiences ever since its release and is well worth viewing.

Mae West and Dick Foran in My Little Chickadee (Universal, 1940).

2723  My Name Is Nobody  Universal, 1974. 115 min. Color. D: Tonino Valerii. SC: Ernesto Gastaldi. With Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, Piero Lulli, Leo Gordon, R.G. Armstrong, Neil Summers, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, Mario Brega, Benito Stefanelli, Mark Mazza. In 1899 an aging gunman heads to retirement in New Orleans but comes across a younger shooter who soon makes him his idol. Pleasant take-off of Spaghetti Westerns made in Italy; some sources claim Sergio Leone co-directed.

2724  My Name Is Pecos  Golden Era, 1968. 83 min. Color. D: Maurizio Lucidi. With Robert Woods, Peter Carsten, Lucia Modugno, Norman Karlk, Christina Josani, Max Dean, Norman Clark (Pier Paolo Capponi), Lou Castel, Guilano Raffaeli, Morris Boone, Umi Raho, George Eastman (Luigi Montefiori), Dario De Grassi, Peter Martell, Sal Borghese, Franco Gula. A man plans to take revenge on the outlaws who murdered his family, the gang now in control of a small town. Bloody Italian Western issued there in 1966 as Il Mio Nome e Pecos (My Name is Pecos) and Due Once di Piombo (Two Ounces of Lead).

My Name Is Shanghai Joe see Shanghai Joe

2725  My Outlaw Brother  Eagle Lion, 1951. 78 min. D: Elliott Nugent. SC: Gene Fowler, Jr. and Albert L. Leavitt. With Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack, Carlos Muzquiz, Jose Torvay, Fernando Waggner. A man finds out his brother is an outlaw so he joins the Texas Rangers to fight lawlessness. More than passable feature based on Max Brand’s “South of the Rio Grande.”

2726  My Pal the King  Universal, 1932. 63 min. D: Kurt Neumann. SC: Jack Natteford and Tom J. Crizer. With Tom Mix, Finis Barton, Stuart Holmes, Mickey Rooney, Paul Hurst, Noel Francis, James Kirkwood, Jim Thorpe, Christian Frank, Clarissa Selwynne, Ferdinand Schuman-Heink, Wallis Clark. A cowboy takes his frontier show into a kingdom where plotters are trying to take the throne from a boy king. A different kind of Tom Mix film but one that is well done and quite entertaining.

2727  My Pal Trigger  Republic, 1946. 79 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Jack Townley and John K. Butler. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Dale Evans, Jack Holt, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Shug Fisher, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), LeRoy Mason, Roy Barcroft, Sam Flint, Kenne Duncan, Ralph Sanford, Francis McDonald, Harlan Briggs, William Haade, Alan Bridge, Paul E. Burns, Frank Reicher, Fred Graham, Ted Mapes, Tom London, Earle Hodgins, George Magrill, Eddie Parker. Singing star Roy Rogers helps a rancher about to lose his spread to a crooked rival, ends up in jail on a bogus charge and almost loses Trigger. Good Roy Rogers feature although Jack Holt steals the show as the villain; remade as Rodeo King and the Senorita (q.v.).

2728  My Side of the Mountain  Paramount, 1969. 100 min. Color. D: James B. Clark. SC: Ted Sherdeman, Jane Klove and Joanna Crawford. With Tommy Eccles, Theodore Bikel, Tudi Wiggins, Frank Perry, Peggi Boder, Gina Dick, Karen Pearson. A boy decides to emulate his hero Thoreau and live close to nature after his father reneges on a promised camping trip. This drama, filmed in Canada, will be especially good for family viewing.

2729  My Uncle Antoine  Gendon/Janus Films, 1972. 110 min. Color. D: Claude Jutra. SC: Clement Perron and Claude Jutra. With Jean Duceppe, Lynde Champagne, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Jacaues Gagnon, Lionel Villeneuve, Helene Loiselle, Mario Dubuc, Lise Brunelle, Alain Legendre, Serge Evers, Robin Marcous, Monique Mercure, Georges Alexander, Rene Aslvatore Catta, Jean Dubost, Benoit Marcoux, Dominique Joly, Lisa Talbot, Michel Talbot, Simeon Dallaire, Sydney Harris, Roger Garand. A teenager learns about growing up as he works as stock boy in his uncle’s store in a backwoods Canadian mining town. Leisurely paced, pleasant fare.

2730  The Mysterious Avenger  Columbia, 1936. 60 min. D: David Selman. SC: Ford Beebe. With Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Wheeler Oakman, Ed Le Saint, Lafe McKee, Hal Price, Charles Locher (Jon Hall), George Chesebro, Jack Rockwell, Edmund Cobb, Richard Botiller, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Len Slye [Roy Rogers], Tim Spencer, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Ella McKenzie, Gertrude Astor, Edward Hearn, Tom London, Bob McKenzie, Jack Carlyle, George Plues, Dick Rush, Jack Kenney, Eva McKenzie, Blackie Whiteford, Jack Evans, Bert Dillard, Joe Schilling, Blackjack Ward, William McCall, Lillian Lawrence, Jack Walters, George Burton, Cecil Kellogg, Vic Allen, Sam Coster, Ed O’Neill, Eddie Evans, Robert Wilber. A Texas Ranger returns home to help end a feud between his father and another rancher caused by a rustlers. Very sturdy Charles Starrett vehicle.

2731  The Mysterious Desperado  RKO Radio, 1949. 61 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Movita, Robert Livingston, Edward Norris, Frank Wilcox, William Tannen, Robert B. Williams, Kenneth MacDonald, Frank Lackteen, Kermit Maynard. Crooks want land recently inherited by a man and they try to frame him on a false charge so he will lose its ownership. Better than average Tim Holt feature.

The Mysterious Mr. Sheffield see The Law of the 45s

2732  The Mysterious Rider  Paramount, 1933. 61 min. D: Fred Allen. SC: Harvey Gates and Robert Niles. With Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Gail Patrick, Warren Hymer, Berton Churchill, Irving Pichel, Cora Sue Collins, E.H. Calvert, Sherwood Bailey, Niles Welch, Clarence Wilson. A cowboy takes on the guise of a hooded phantom to protect area ranchers from outlaws. Kent Taylor is good in the lead, abetted by a fine supporting cast, although it has little to do with the Zane Grey work on which it was supposedly based.; reissued as The Fighting Phantom and remade in 1938 (q.v.).

2733  The Mysterious Rider  Paramount, 1938. 78 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Maurice Geraghty. With Douglass Dumbrille, Sidney Toler, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Fields, Weldon Heyburn, Monte Blue, Stanley Andrews, Earl Dwire, Glenn Strange, Jack Rockwell, Leo McMahon, Ben Corbett, Ed Brady, Robert Kortman, Richard Alexander, Arch Hall, Price Mitchell. A drifter rides into an area plagued by outlaw raids and becomes a masked avenger to help ranchers. Like its predecessor this film bears little resemblance to the Zane Grey book but it is a corker of a good movie anyway.

2734  The Mysterious Rider  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1942. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Steve Braxton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Caroline Burke, John Merton, Edwin Brian, Jack Ingram, Slim Whitaker, Kermit Maynard, Ted Adams, Guy Wilkerson, Frank Ellis, Jimmy Aubrey, Bert Dillard, Joe Phillips, Augie Gomez. Two children are being cheated out of a mine they inherited with Billy the Kid coming to their rescue. Typically fast moving and cheap looking PRC “Bill the Kid” series entry; reissued in 1947 by Eagle Lion in a re-edited 39-minute version called Panhandle Trail.

The Mysterious Stranger see Code of the Lawless

2735  The Mystery Brand  Rayart, 1927. 52 min. D: Ben Wilson. With Ben Wilson, Neva Gerber, Al Ferguson, Ted Henderson, Lafe McKee. A representative of the Cattlemen’s Association gets on the trail of a gang of horse thieves. Nothing to brag about, but this silent effort lets the viewer see the poplar serial team of Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber in one of their many oaters. Alternate title: Lariat’s End.

2736  Mystery Man  United Artists, 1944. 58 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Eleanor Stewart, Don Costello, Francis McDonald, Jack Rockwell, Pierce Lyden, John Merton, Bob Burns, Ozie Waters, Art Mix, George Morrell, Bob Baker, Hank Bell, Bill Hunter, Bill Nestell, Lew Meehan, Herman Hack, Henry Wills, Lew Morphy. Hopalong Cassidy, California Carlson and Jimmy Rogers find themselves at odds with a gang of robbers led by a man pretending to be a respectable citizen. Rather dull Hoppy film with an exciting climax.

2737  Mystery Mountain  Mascot, 1934. 12 Chapters. D: B. Reeves Eason and Otto Brower. SC: Bennett Cohen and Armand L. Schaefer. With Ken Maynard, Verna Hillie, Edward Earle, Edmund Cobb, Lynton Brent, Syd Saylor, Carmencita Johnson, Lafe McKee, Alan Bridge, Edward Hearn, Robert Kortman, Wally Wales, Tom London, George Chesebro, Philo McCullough, Frank Ellis, Steve Clark, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Kirk, Jim Mason, Lew Meehan, Jack Rockwell, Art Mix, William Gould, Curley Dresden, Hooper Atchley, Cliff Lyons, Dick Dickinson, Al Haskell, Pascale Perry. A railroad detective is on the trail of a mysterious wrecker called “The Rattler” who is trying to stop the construction of a tunnel through a mountain containing a rich vein of gold. Fun, fast paced Mascot cliffhanger with good mystery element to heighten the suspense.

2738  The Mystery of Chalk Hill  NBC-TV/Universal, 1973. 98 min. Color. D: Harry Morgan. SC: Harold Swanton. With Richard Boone, Sharon Acker, Bruce Davison, Robert Fuller, Louise Latham, Harry Morgan, Pat Hingle, John Anderson, Henry Jones, Jeannette Nolan, Lee Paul, Bernie Hamilton, Rick Lenz, Leo Gordon, Dennis Rucker, Terry Wilson, Tony Russel. Ex-gunman turned detective Hec Ramsey wants to find the killer of a lawman’s bride-to-be and her young son. More than competent mystery–Western telefilm first shown as an episode of “Hec Ramsey” (NBC-TV, 1972–74).

The Mystery of the Golden Eye see The Golden Eye

2739  The Mystery of the Green Feather  NBC-TV/Universal, 1972. 98 min. Color. D: Herschel Daugherty. SC: John Mestor. With Richard Boone, Rory Calhoun, Marie Windsor, Lorraine Gary, Harry Morgan, Alan Hewitt, Morgan Woodward, Lloyd Bochner, John Fiedler, Dennis Rucker, Rick Lenz. Indians are blamed for the massacre of a white family after a sacred medicine bag is found at the scene but detective Hec Ramsey does not believe they are guilty and tries to prove it. Entertaining TV movie originally telecast as “The Green Feather Mystery” episode of “Hec Ramsey” (NBC-TV, 1972–74).

2740  Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen  Grand National, 1937. 60 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Edmund Kelso. With Tex Ritter, Iris Meredith, Horace Murphy, Charles King, Forrest Taylor, Earl Dwire, Joe Girard, Lafe McKee, Heber Snow (Hank Worden), Oscar Gahan, Jack C. Smith, Chick Hannon, Tex Palmer, Lynton Brent, Ray Whitley and His Range Ramblers, Allen Greer, Sherry Tansey, Ray Henderson, Victor Cox, Rube Dalroy. A masked gang murder a man for his mine and a cowpoke and his pal try to learn who is behind the crime. Well done Tex Ritter film with a good mystery plot and songs, including “Ride, Ride, Ride” and “Ridin’ Old Paint.”

2741  Mystery Ranch  Fox, 1932. 65 min. D: David Howard. SC: Al Cohn. With George O’Brien, Cecilia Parker, Charles Middleton, Roy Stewart, Charles Stevens, Forrester Harvey, Virginia Herdman, Betty Francisco, Noble Johnson, Russ Powell, Frank Rice, Steve Clemente. A cowboy attempts to rescue a young woman abducted by a vicious rancher, her late father’s business partner. Engaging horror Western highlighted by Charles Middleton’s performance as the deranged, power hungry rancher.

2742  Mystery Ranch  Reliable, 1934. 56 min. D: Ray Bernard (Bernard B. Ray). SC: Carl Krusada and Rose Gordon. With Tom Tyler, Roberta Gale, Jack (Perrin) Gable, Louise Gabo, George Chesebro, Frank Hall Crane, Charles King, Jimmy Aubrey, Tom London, Lafe McKee, Lew Meehan, Robert Walker, John Elliott, Jim Corey. A mystery writer visits a ranch where he thwarts all kinds of practical jokes but accidentally becomes involved with crooks who have stolen gold bullion. The light hearted plot helps this low grade Tom Tyler feature.

2743  Mystery Range  Victory, 1937. 55 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Basil Dickey. With Tom Tyler, Jerry Bergh, Milburn Morante, Lafe McKee, Roger Williams, Richard Alexander, Jim Corey, Slim Whitaker, Steve Clark, George Morrell, Lafe McKee, Robert Hill, Wally West, Bud Pope, Buck Morgan. A cattleman’s protective association agent masquerades as an outlaw to investigate a man trying to cheat his niece out of her ranch because the land is wanted by a railroad. Surprisingly good Sam Katzman production with fine work by Lafe McKee as the villainous uncle.

2744  Mystery Range  Dorado, 1947. 55 min. D-SC: Ande Lamb. With Lee “Lasses” White, Don Haggerty, Texas Jim Lewis, Ruth (Grace Lee) Whitney, Jack Elam, Forrest Taylor, Frank Austin, Dutch Schlickenmayer, Ed Ray, Ronald Marriott, Pat Henry, Clyde Jackman. A circuit judge and his deputy try to find the killer of a man whose brother is accused of the crime. Produced by writer-director Ande Lamb and Bart Carre for Louis Weiss, this one is near the bottom of the barrel.

2745  The Mystery Trooper  Syndicate, 1931. 10 Chapters. D: Stuart Paton. SC: Carl Krusada. With Blanche Mehaffey, Buzz Barton, Al Ferguson, Charles King, William von Brincken, William Bertram, Henry Roquemore, Jack Perrin, Lafe McKee, Tom McGuire, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Al Taylor, Dick Dickinson, Bill Nestell, Robert Walker, Harry Beery, White Cloud (horse). A group of people looking for a lost gold mine in Canada are harassed by outlaws also after the bonanza, but they are protected by a mysterious Mountie. Low grade, but diverting, cliffhanger reissued as Trail of the Royal Mounted in 1938 by Guaranteed Pictures.

2746  The Mystic Warrior  ABC-TV, 1984. 200 min. Color. D: Richard T. Heffron. SC: Jeb Rosebrook. With Robert Beltran, Nick Ramus, Devon Ericson, Victoria Racimo, Roger Campo, Will Sampson, Ned Romero, Douglas Toby, David Yanez. The story of a Plains Indian tribe in the early 1800s with a boy destined to grow into a warrior and lead his people. Long, leisurely and probably accurate attempt at recreating Native American life on the plans before and during the arrival of white settlers. Well worth watching.

2747  The Naked Dawn  Universal-International, 1955. 82 min. Color. D: Edgar G. Ulmer. SC: Nina Schneider and Herman Schneider. With Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Roy Engel, Charlita, Tony Martinez, Francis McDonald. A bandit robs a train, takes refuge with a Mexican farmer and schemes to steal the man’s pretty wife. Lionized as a classic by Edgar G. Ulmer followers, this film does make good use of color and contains fine performances by Arthur Kennedy and Betta St. John, but overall is basically a talky soap opera with a few artistic touches.

2748  The Naked Gun  Associated Film Releasing, 1956. 73 min. D: Edward Dew. SC: Ron Ormond and Jack Lewis. With Willard Parker, Mara Corday, Barton MacLane, Tom Brown, Chick Chandler, Veda Ann Borg, Timothy Carey, Billy House, Morris Ankrum, Bill Phillips, X Brands, Steve Raines, Rick Valllin, Jim Hayward, Jody McCrea, Tony McCoy, Bill Ward, Elena Di Vinci, Ben Frommer, Gil Donaldson. Attempting to deliver jewels to the heirs of an estate, an insurance agent becomes involved with crooks who are after an Aztec treasure. Poor production values hurt this otherwise acceptable drama; director Edward Dew is the Eddie Dew who starred in Westerns for Republic and Universal in the 1940s.

2749  The Naked Hills  Allied Artists, 1956. 73 min. Color. D-SC: Josef Shaftel. With David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, Jim Backus, Marcia Henderson, Denver Pyle, Myrna Dell, Lewis Russell, Frank Fenton, Fuzzy Knight, Jim Hayward, Steve Terrell, Chris Olsen. An Indiana farmer deserts his wife and family to prospect for gold in California. More than passable melodrama about gold fever.

2750  Naked in the Sun  Allied Artists, 1957. 88 min. Color. D: John Hugh. SC: John Cresswell. With James Craig, Lita Milan, Barton MacLane, Robert Wark, Jim Boles, Tony Hunter, Douglas Wilson, Bill Armstrong, Dennis Cross, Peter Dearing, Tony Morris, Mike Recco. The Osceola and Seminole Indian tribes in Florida unite to oppose an evil slave trader. Offbeat plot somewhat compensates for the obvious low budget.

2751  The Naked Spur  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953. 91 min. Color. D: Anthony Mann. SC: Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom. With James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell. A bounty hunter after a wanted man plans to use the reward money to buy back land he lost during the Civil War. Relentless chase drama with good work by its compact cast.

Naked Spur (1968) see Love Desperados

2752  Nakia  ABC-TV/Screen Gems/Columbia, 1974. 74 min. Color. D: Leonard Horn. SC: Christopher Trumbo, Michael Butler and Sy Salkowitz. With Robert Forster, Arthur Kennedy, Linda Evans, Stephen McNally, George Nader, Robert Donner, Maria Elena Cordero, Joe Kapp, Chief George Clutesi, Taylor Lacher, Jay Varella, Barbara Sigel. An Indian deputy sheriff is caught between his tribe’s desire to save an historic mission and the local citizens wanting to use the spot for a housing development. A fairly interesting television movie that was the pilot for the short lived 1974 ABC-TV series of the same title.

2753  The Narrow Trail  Paramount-Artcraft, 1917. 55 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Harvey E. Thew. With William S. Hart, Sylvia Breamer, Milton Ross, Robert Kortman. An outlaw falls for the niece of a vice king and later poses as a rich rancher in order to fleece his girl’s uncle but she will not go along with the scheme. Well made William S. Hart silent feature.

2754  Natchez Trace  Paramount, 1960. 80 min. D: Alan Crosland, Jr. SC: D.D. Beauchamp and William R. Cox. With Zachary Scott, William Campbell, Marcia Henderson, Irene James, Ann Kelly, Jim Reppert, Annette Alexander, Al Scott, Mario Galento, Frank Cunningham, Frank White, Robert Booth, Tommy Moore, Roy Haggard, Sr., Curtis Dossett, Doug Underwood, Cecil Scaiffe, Gloria Adams, Willie Adams, Kenne Duncan, Bill Ward. In the 1850s a power hungry man plans to rule an empire in Mississippi and Tennessee but when he kills a plantation owner and his daughter his fiancee plots his downfall. Okay melodrama with good work by Zachary Scott in the lead role; also called Bandits of the Natchez Trace.

2755  Nate and the Colonel  MTI, 2003. 106 min. Color. D-SC: Paul Winters. With Paul Winters, Ricco Ross, Mark S. Brien, Al Harrington, Carlos Milano, Lee Whitestar, Kansas Carradine, Victoria Ramirez, David Midthunder, Micah May, Joe Seely, Karen Genaro, Nik Winterhawk, Ken Reiching, Michael Franco, Kevin P. Kearns, Mark Irvingsen. Once boyhood friends, an ex-slave and a Confederate colonel join forces after the Civil War to help Indians harassed by the U.S. cavalry. Different but effective video Western.

2756  Naughty Marietta  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1935. 106 min. D: W.S. Van Dyke. SC: John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. With Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglass Dumbrille, Joseph Cawthorn, Cecilia Parker, Walter Kingsford, Greta Meyer, Akim Tamiroff, Harold Huber, Edward Brophy, Marjorie Main, Mary Doran, Jean Chatburn, Pat Farley, Jane Barnes, Kay English, Linda Parker, Jane Mercer, Walter Long, Olive Carey, William Desmond, Cora Sue Collins, Guy Usher, Louis Mercier, Bob McKenzie, Harry Tenbrook, Edward Keane, Edward Norris, Ralph Brooks, Richard Powell, Wilfred Lucas, Arthur Belasco, Tex Driscoll, Edward Hearn, Edmund Cobb, Charles Dunbar, Frank Hagney, Ed Brady, Dr. Edouard Lippe, Roger Gray, Henry Roquemore, William Burress, Helen Shipman, Catherine Griffith, Billy Dooley, James C. Morton, William Moore, Harry Tyler, Ben Hall. Fleeing from an unhappy romance in France, a princess arrives in the wilds of Canada where she falls in love with a captain. The first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy is a delightful screen romance filled with good music.

2757  Navajo  Lippert, 1951. 70 min. D-SC: Norman Foster. With Francis Kee Teller, John Mitchell, Billy Draper, Mrs. Teller, Sammy Ogg. A Navajo Indian boy tries to come to terms with his heritage and modern-day life on the reservation. Splendid low budget Hal Bartlett production filmed on location in northern Arizona.

Navajo Coyote see Birth of a Legend

2758  Navajo Joe  United Artists, 1967. 89 min. Color. D: Sergio Corbucci. SC: Dean Craig (Mario Pierotti) and Fernando Di Leo. With Burt Reynolds, Nicoleta Machiavelli, Aldo Sambrell, Fernando Rey, Tanya Lopert, Franca Polesello, Lucie Modungo, Pierre Cressoy, Nino Imparato, Alvaro De Luna, Valeria Sabel, Mario Lanfranchi, Lucio Rosator, Simon Arraga, Chris Huerta, Angel Ortiz, Angel Alvarez, Fianni De Stolfo, Rafael Albaicin. The survivor of a massacre plans to take revenge on an outlaw gang by systematically killing them one by one. Burt Reynolds fans may be interested in this violent Italian oater but its main asset is its rousing opening music theme by Ennio Morricone; released in Europe in 1966 as Un Dollaro a Testa (A Dollar a Head).

2759  The Navajo Kid  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945. 59 min. D-SC: Harry Fraser. With Bob Steele, Syd Saylor, Caren Marsh, Ed Cassidy, Bud Osborne, Henry Hall, Stanley Blystone, Edward Howard, Charles King (Jr.), Budd Buster, Gertrude Glorie, Rex Rossi, Bert Dillard, I. Stanford Jolley, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Carl Mathews, Ray Jones, Victor Cox, Tom Smith. When his Indian agent foster father is murdered, a cowboy sets attempts to find the killer and the identity of his natural father. Fairly good entry in Bob Steele’s final starring series.

2760  Navajo Run  American International, 1964. 75 min. D: Johnny Seven. SC: Jo Heims. With Johnny Seven, Warren Kemmerling, Virginia Vincent, Ron Soble. A young half-breed Navajo is nursed back to health by a frontier family only be hunted by the mute brother of the girl he loves. Passable low budget drama.

2761  The Navajo Trail  Monogram, 1945. 56 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Riley Hill, Edmund Cobb, Bud Osborne, Charles King, Ray Bennett, Ed Cassidy, Tom Quinn, Mary MacLaren, Josh (John) Carpenter, Earl Crawford, Jim Hood, Jasper L. Palmer. When a Texas Ranger is murdered, two of his comrades try to find the killer with one of them infiltrating a gang planning to steal horses from an Indian tribe. Good entry in the “Nevada Jack McKenzie” series.

2762  Navajo Trail Raiders  Republic, 1949. 60 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: M. Coates Webster. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Barbara Bestar, Robert Emmett Keane, Hal Landon, Dick Curtis, Dennis Moore, Ted Adams, Forrest Taylor, Marshall Reed, Steve Clark, Chick Hannon. A government man helps some friends being harassed by a band of outlaws. Fast moving “Famous Westerns” series entry.

2763  Near the Rainbow’s End  Tiffany, 1930. 57 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: Sally Winters and Charles A. Post. With Bob Steele, Louise Lorraine, Al Ferguson, Lafe McKee, Alfred Hewston, Hank Bell, Perry Murdock, Merrill McCormick, Cliff Lyons, Johnny Luther, Tex Palmer, Jim Corey, Carl Comstock. A rancher and his son fence off their range to prevent cattle thefts but when a sheep man is murdered the young man is blamed. Bob Steele’s first talkie is a pleasant affair.

2764  Near the Trail’s End  Tiffany, 1931. 55 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Bob Steele, Marion Shockley, Hooper Atchley, Si Jenks, Jay Morley, Murdock MacQuarrie, Henry Roquemore, Fred Burns, Artie Ortego, Gordon DeMain, Hank Bell, F.R. Smith, Silver Tip Baker, Perry Murdock, Herman Hack, Blackie Whiteford, Rube Dalroy, Barney Beasley, Milton Brown, Herman Willingham. When a woman sees outlaws commit two murders a cowboy helps her locate the culprits. Fair Bob Steele early sound film.

’Neath Arizona Skies see ’Neath the Arizona Skies

2765  ’Neath Canadian Skies  Screen Guild, 1946. 41 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Arthur V. Jones. With Russell Hayden, Inez Cooper, Douglas Fowley, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Mulhall, Cliff Nazarro, Richard Alexander, Kermit Maynard, Boyd Stockman, Jimmie Martin, Gil Patric, Pat Hurst, Joe Bernard, Bob Burns. Assigned to look into the murders of a prospector and a comrade, a Mountie works undercover in a town plagued by claim jumpers. Okay compact drama with nice scenic values and a good cast.

2766  ’Neath the Arizona Skies  Monogram, 1934. 52 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: B.R. (Burl) Tuttle. With John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Shirley Jane Ricketts (Shirley Jean Rickert), George Hayes, Jack Rockwell, Yakima Canutt, Weston Edwards (Harry Fraser), Buffalo Bill, Jr., Phil (Kieffer) Keefer, Frank Hall Crane, Earl Dwire, Artie Ortego, Tex Phelps, Eddie Parker, Billy Franey, George Morrell, Herman Hack, Allen Pomeroy. A cowboy is the guardian of a small Indian girl who is the heir to oil land and when outlaws kidnap the child he tries to free her. Shoddy production values hurt this otherwise fun John Wayne-Lone Star entry, filmed the same year by Victor Adamson as Circle Canyon (q.v.); also known as ’Neath Arizona Skies.

2767  ’Neath Western Skies  Syndicate, 1930. 60 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: Sally Winters. With Tom Tyler, Lotus Thompson, J.P. McGowan, Harry Woods, Hank Bell, Bobby Dunn, Alfred Hewston, Barney Furey. An outlaw gang tries to sabotage an oil driller’s operations and kidnaps his girlfriend. Early Tom Tyler outdoor talkie that should please his fans.

2768  The Nebraskan  Columbia, 1953. 68 min. Color. D: Fred F. Sears. SC: David Lang and Martin Berkeley. With Phil(ip) Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb, Lee Van Cleef, Maurice Jara, Regis Toomey, Jay Silverheels, Pat Hogan, Dennis Weaver, Boy “Red” Morgan. An Indian scout is blamed for a murder and the accusation almost sets off a war. Cheaply made oater originally issued in 3-D.

2769  Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life  CBS-TV, 1992. 97 min. Color. D: Peter Werner. SC: William D. Wittliff. With Daniel Baldwin, Luis Avalos, Chris Cooper, Sean Baca, Taylor Fry, Julia Campbell, Rene Auberjonois, Tim Scott, Bob Gunton, Miguel Sandoval, Jeff Kober, Tony Frank, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Vince Davis, M.C. Gainey, Michael Harris, Sonny Carl Davis, Julius Tennon, Annalee Jeffries, Jill Parker-Jones, Blue Deckert, Mark Voges, Dennis Hill, John Martin, Harvey Christiansen, Brady Coleman, James Prince, Richard Jones. While awaiting execution a cowboy and ex-lawman reflects on his adventurous life. Average telefilm that served as the pilot for the 1993 CBS-TV series “Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times” starring Brad Johnson, from which three paste-up features were derived: The Adventures of Ned Blessing: Dead Man’s Revenge, The Adventures of Ned Blessing: Return of the Hooded Man and The Adventures of Ned Blessing: Return to Plum Creek (qq.v.).

2770  Ned Kelly  United Artists, 1970. 103 min. Color. D: Tony Richardson. SC: Tony Richardson and Neil Hartley. With Mick Jagger, Allen Bickford, Geoff Gilmour, Mark McManus, Serge Lazareff, Peter Sumner, Ken Shorter, James Elliott, Clarissa Kaye, Diane Craig, Susan Lloyd, Bruce Barry, Janne Wesley, Ken Goodlet, Nigel Lovell, John Gray, Anne Harvey, Frank Thring, Gordon McDougall. A cowboy ends up being Australia’s most famous and wanted outlaw in the 1870s. Worth watching if you are a fan of Mick Jagger, who also did the music along with Waylon Jennings; re-titled Ned Kelly, Outlaw.

2771  Ned Kelly  Focus Features, 2003. 110 min. Color. D: Gregor Jordan. SC: John Michael McDonagh. With Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts, Joel Edgerton, Laurence Kinlan, Philip Barantini, Kerry Condon, Kris McQuade, Emily Browning, Kiri Paramore, Rachel Griffiths, Geoff Morrell, Charles “Bud” Tingwell, Saskia Burmeister, Peter Phelps, Russell Dykstra, Nick Farrell, Russell Gilbert, Brooke Harman, Molly McCaffrey, Tim Wright, Nicholas Bell, Anthony Hayes, Jonathan Hardy, Karen Davitt, Declan Simpson, Andrew S. Gilbert, John Muirhead, Eddy McShortall, Peter O’Shea, Nick Bourke, Christopher Baker, Brian Wray, Thea Gumbert, Gregan O’Leary, Chris Wilson, Graham Jahne, Clayton Jacobson, Cody O’Prey, Tasman Vaughan, Greg Saunders, Victoria Eagger, Peter Young, Alexander Ramsey, Samuel Shepherd, Talia Zucker, Laurie Jensen. After falsely being accused of a crime, Australian bandit Ned Kelly and his gang seek refuge in the outback. Okay retelling of the Ned Kelly saga.

Ned Kelly, Outlaw see Ned Kelly (1970)

2772  Neeka  Wrather Corporation, 1968. 100 min. Color. D: Jack B. Hively and Dick Moder. SC: Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer. With Lassie, Jed Allan, Robert Rockwell, Mark Miranda, Jeff Pomerantz, Philip Pine, Douglas Henderson, John Harmon, Carlo Rizzo, William Bramley. Lassie and her Forest Ranger master head to Alaska to search for a deranged hunter and soon meet an adopted Indian boy and his foster father. Okay family fare filmed in Alaska and made up of four segments of “Lassie” (CBS-TV, 1954–71): “Day of the Wolf,” “Eagle’s Dynasty,” “Glacier Canyon” and “Patsy.” Also called The Adventures of Neeka.

Nelson Nye’s Seven Sixgunners see The Seven Sixgunners

2773  Nevada  Paramount, 1927. 65 min. D: John Waters. SC: John Stone and L.G. Rigby. With Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, William Powell, Philip Strange, Ernie Adams, Christian Frank, Ivan Christy, Guy Oliver. Two outlaws try to go straight but get mixed up with cattle rustlers. Interesting silent version of the Zane Grey book teaming Gary Cooper and Ernie Adams as the two good-bad guys with William Powell as the villain; remade in 1935 (q.v.).

2774  Nevada  Paramount, 1935. 70 min. D: Charles Barton. SC: Garnett Weston and Stuart Anthony. With Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Kathleen Burke, Monte Blue, Syd Saylor, William Duncan, Richard Carle, Stanley Andrews, Frank Sheridan, Raymond Hatton, Glenn (Leif) Erickson, Jack Kennedy, Henry Roquemore, William Desmond, Frank Rice, Barney Furey, William L. Thorne. A gunman and his pal become cowboys on an Englishman’s ranch but due to their pasts they get involved with outlaws. Program feature remake of the Zane Grey book with good work by Buster Crabbe as the reformed gunfighter.

2775  Nevada  RKO Radio, 1944. 62 min. D: Edward Killy. SC: Norman Houtston. With Robert Mitchum, Anne Jeffreys, Guinn Williams, Nancy Gates, Richard Martin, Craig Reynolds, Harry Woods, Russell Hopton, Edmund Glover, Alan Ward, Harry McKim, Larry Wheat, Jack Overman, Emmett Lynn, Wheaton Chambers, Philip Morris, Mary Halsey, Patti Brill, Bryant Washburn, Bert Moorhouse, George DeNormand, Sammy Blum, Margie Stewart. A man is nearly lynched for a murder he did not commit and attempts to prove a gang of claim jumpers are the real culprits. Robert Mitchum is fine in this “B” outing, a good third filming of Zane Grey’s novel.

Nevada (1971) see The Boldest Job in the West

2776  Nevada Badmen  Monogram, 1951. 58 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coates, Jim Bannon, I. Stanford Jolley, Kenne Duncan, Bill Kennedy, Marshall Reed, Earle Hodgins, Riley Hill, Lee Roberts, Pierce Lyden, Bud Osborne. Three cattlemen attempt to find out who murdered the brother of one of them for his hidden gold claim. A good plot helps this otherwise mediocre Whip Wilson vehicle.

2777  Nevada Buckaroo  Tiffany, 1931. 59 min. D: John P. McCarthy. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Bob Steele, Dorothy Dix, George Hayes, Ed Brady, Glen Cavender, Billy Engle, Artie Ortego, Blackie Whiteford, Gordon DeMain, Arthur Millett, Merrill McCormick, John Elliott, Phil Dunham, Charles Le Moyne, Tina Menard, Perry Murdock, Frank Lanning, William McCall, F.R. Smith, Rose Plummer. Once on the wrong side of the law, a man changes his ways for a girl but runs into trouble when his old gang murders his sidekick. Well written and quick paced Bob Steele film.

2778  Nevada City  Republic, 1941. 58 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: James R. Webb. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Sally Payne, Fred Kohler, Jr., George Cleveland, Billy Lee, Joseph Crehan, Pierre Watkin, Yakima Canutt, Rex Lease, Art Mix, Jack Ingram, Syd Saylor, Hank Bell, Henry Wills, Bob Woodward, Jack Kirk, Fred Burns, Chuck Baldra, Jack C. Smith. When a crooked businessman attempts to control freight traffic in California, a cowboy tries to stop him. Fast moving, entertaining Roy Rogers feature.

2779  Nevada Smith  Paramount, 1966. 120 min. Color. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: John Michael Hayes. With Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Suzanne Pleshette, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Raf Vallone, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Pat Hingle, Martin Landau, Paul Fix, Gene Evans, Josephine Hutchinson, John Doucette, Val Avery, Lyle Bettger, Bert Freed, David McLean, Ric Roman, John Litel, Ted De Corsia, Stanley Adams, George Mitchell, Sheldon Allman, Strother Martin, Holly Bane, Iron Eyes Cody, Henry Wills, Chuck Roberson, Sandy Kenyon, John Lawrence, Merritt Bohn. A man seeks revenge on the trio of outlaws who brutally murdered his parents. Well acted and produced follow-up to The Carpetbaggers (Paramount, 1964).

2780  Nevada Smith  NBC-TV/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1975. 74 min. Color. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: Martin Rackin and John Michael Hayes. With Cliff Potts, Lorne Greene, Adam West, Warren Vanders, Jorge Luke, Jerry Gatlin, Eric Cord, Lorraine Chanel, John McKee, Alan George, Roger Cudney. Two old friends, a half-breed cowboy and his former teacher, band together to carry a shipment of explosives. So-so TV movie based on the 1966 feature (q.v.) and the pilot for an unsold series.

2781  The Nevadan  Columbia, 1950. 81 min. Color. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: George W. George and George P. Slavin. With Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Taylor, Frank Faylen, George Macready, Charles Kemper, Jeff Corey, Tom Powers, Jack O’Mahoney (Jock Mahoney), Stanley Andrews, James Kirkwood, Kate Drain Lawson, Olin Howlin, Louis Mason. A government agents works undercover with an outlaw to retrieve gold the latter stole but which is now in the possession of a gang. Good Randolph Scott fare with plenty of action coupled with an entertaining story.

2782  Never a Dull Moment  RKO Radio, 1950. 89 min. D: George Marshall. SC: Lou Breslow and Doris Anderson. With Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Gigi Perreau, Natalie Wood, Philip Ober, Jack Kirkwood, Ann Doran, Lela Bliss, Irving Bacon, Chester Conklin, Jacqueline de Wit, Gene Evans, Jimmy Hawkins, Olin Howlin, Harry Tyler, Ralph Peters, Paul Newlan, Anne O’Neal, Janine Perreau, Margaret Gibson, Jack Jackson, George Leigh, Alan Dinehart III, Jo Ann Marlowe, Art Dupuis, Kermit Maynard, Helen Dickson, Victoria Horne, Edna Holland, Virginia Mullen, Frank Yaconelli, Dan White, Carl Sklover, Bob Thom, Connie Van. An attractive composer marries a rancher and moves to his home only to miss city life besides being at odds with his children. Slow going Western romantic comedy misfire from producer Harriet Parsons.

2783  Never Cry Wolf  Buena Vista, 1983. 105 min. Color. D: Carroll Ballard. SC: Curtis Hanson, Sam Hamm and Richard Kletter. With Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster, Martha Ittimangnaq, Tom Dalgren, Walker Start; C.M. Smith, Eugene Corr, Christina Luescher (narrators). A biologist learns to survive in the Arctic while studying the habits of the white wolf to see if they are responsible for the disappearance of caribou herds. Location shooting, a good story and fine work by Charles Martin Smith as the biologist make this pleasant viewing.

Never Give an Inch see Sometimes a Great Notion

2784  The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe  ABC-TV, 1976. 74 min. D: Bruce Bilson. SC: Paul Savage. With John McIntire, Jack Elam, Jeanette Nolan, John Dehner, Liberty Williams, Renne Jarrett, Lezlie Dalton, Geoffrey Lewis, Sean McClory, Joel Gabiani, Ford Rainey, Larry Hovis, James Lydon, Randall Carver. When a sheriff is falsely jailed on a murder charge, a trio of young women, who he previously palmed off as his daughters, come to the rescue. Anemic telefeature preceded by The Daughters of Joshua Cabe and The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (qq.v.).

2785  The New Frontier  Republic, 1935. 55 min. D: Carl L. Pierson. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Warner Richmond, Alan Bridge, Murdock MacQuarrie, Allan Cavan, Sam Flint, Mary MacLaren, Theodore Lorch, Glenn Strange, Phil Kiefer, Jack Montgomery, Earl Dwire, Hooper Atchley, Jack Kirk, Frank Ball, Sherry Tansey, Herman Hack, Art Dillard, Pat Harmon, Chuck Baldra, Tex Phelps, Perry Murdock, John Ince, Cactus Mack, Eddie Parker, Tex Palmer, Fred Parker, Jack Evans, Buck Moulton. A cowboy finds out his sheriff father has been murdered by a corrupt saloon owner and he enlists the help of a bandit gang in opposing the killer and his followers. Very good John Wayne feature with a terrifically staged shootout finale.

2786  The New Frontier  Republic, 1939. 57 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Burbridge and Luci Ward. With John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Phyllis Isley (Jennifer Jones), Eddy Waller, Sammy McKim, LeRoy Mason, Harrison Greene, Reginald Barlow, Burr Caruth, Dave O’Brien, Hal Price, Jack Ingram, Bud Osborne, Slim Whitaker, Wilbur Mack, George Chesebro, Frankie Marvin, Oscar Gahan, Jody Gilbert, Herman Hack, Charles Murphy, Curley Dresden, Fred Burns, Cactus Mack, Bill Nestell, Victor Cox, Bob Reeves, John Elliott, Frank Ellis, Walt LaRue, Bud McClure, Bill Wolfe, Jim Corey, Bob Burns, Chuck Baldra, George Plues. Three cowboys convince settlers to move to a new range only to find out they have been cheated by crooked land speculators. John Wayne’s last “Three Mesquiteers” adventure is okay but not up to the standard of earlier entries; TV title: Frontier Horizon.

2787  The New Land  Warner Bros., 1973. 161 min. Color. D: Jan Troell. SC: Bengi Forslund and Jan Troell. With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Eddie Axberg, Hans Alfredson, Halvar Bjork, Allan Edwall, Peter Lindgren, Oscar Ljung. A Swedish immigrant, along with his wife and brother, settle in Minnesota in the 1850s and face a series of hardships. Somewhat overlong but engaging follow-up to director Jan Troell’s The Emigrants (Warner Bros., 1971); well worth viewing.

2788  The New Maverick  ABC-TV/Warner Bros., 1978. 100 min. Color. D: Hy Averback. SC: Juanita Bartlett. With James Garner, Jack Kelly, Charles Frank, Susan Blanchard, Eugene Roche, Susan Sullivan, George Loros, Woodrow Parfrey, Gary Allen, Henel Paige Camp, Jack Garner, Graham Jarvis. The British nephew of the notorious Maverick brothers enlists the help of his famous uncles, resulting in a series of misadventures. Nostalgic TV feature recreation of “Maverick” (ABC-TV, 1957–62) that served as the pilot for “Young Maverick” (CBS-TV, 1979–80).

2789  New Mexico  United Artists, 1951. 78 min. Color. D: Irving Reis. SC: Max Trell. With Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton, Raymond Burr, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Corrigan, Verna Felton, Ted De Corsia, John Hoyt, Donald Buka, Robert Osterloh, Ian MacDonald, William Tannen, Hans Conreid, Walter Greaza, Jack Kelly, Bob Duncan. A captain in the U.S. cavalry tries to prevent warfare in New Mexico with Indians led by Acoma. Mundane plot is given a good shot in the arm by fine production values, good direction and cast.

2790  New Moon  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940. 105 min. D: Robert Z. Leonard. SC: Jacquel Deval and Robert Arthur. With Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, H.B. Warner, Grant Mitchell, Stanley Fields, Dick Purcell, John Miljan, Ivan Simpson, William Tannen, Bunty Cutler, Claude King, Cecil Cunningham, Joe Yule, George Irving, Robert Warwick, Hillary Brooke, Rafael Storm, Winifred Harris, Edwin Maxwell, Paul E. Burns, Trevor Bardette, LeRoy Mason, Ray Walker, Gayne Whitman, Jack Perrin, Claire Rochelle, Alden Chase, Nat Pendleton, Buster Keaton, Edward Hearn, Ralph Dunn, Gino Corrado, Christian J. Frank, Ray Teal, Fred Graham, Harry Strang, Ted Oliver, Dorothy Granger, Forbes Murray, June Gittelson, Warren Rock, George Magrill, Ed O’Neill, Sarah Edwards, Max Marx, Arthur Belasco, Nick Copeland, David Alison. During the reign of King Louis XVI a woman arrives in New Orleans to look over property she has inherited and falls in love with a French political fugitive who is a bondsman. Pleasant teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy with a good Sigmund Romberg score as added dressing for this period piece. The 1930 MGM version, called Parisian Belle on TV, with Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett, is set in Russia and not frontier Louisiana.

2791  Nido de Aguilas (Nest of Eagles). Almada Films, 1965. 109 min. Color. D-SC: Vicente Orona. With Fernando Almada, Jose Elias Moreno, Jaime Fernandez, Dacia Gonzalez, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Xavier Loya, J. Antonio Brillas, Martha Elena Cervantes, Noe Murayama, Sadi Dupeyron, Manuel Arvide, Jose Raul Mena, Edmundo Espino. The female member of an outlaw gang falls in love with a farmer but a rival bandit kidnaps her. Well done Mexican Western.

2792  The Night Cry  Warner Bros., 1926. 55 min. D: Herman C. Raymaker. SC: Ewart Adamson, Paul Klein and Edward Meagher. With Rin Tin Tin, John Harron, June Marlowe, Gayne Whitman, Heine Conklin, Don Alvarado, Mary Louise Miller. A dog is unjustly accused of killing sheep when the culprit is a giant condor that steals his master’s baby and the canine sets out to rescue her. Top notch Rin Tin Tin silent feature.

2793  Night Games  NBC-TV/Paramount, 1974. 74 min. Color. D: Don Taylor. SC: E. Jack Neumann. With Barry Newman, Susan Howard, Stefanie Powers, Anjanette Comer, Joanna Cameron, Albert Salmi, Luke Askew, Jon Cypher, Henry Darrow, Ralph Meeker, William Prince, Dennis Patrick, Robert Emhardt, William Hanson, Larry Thor. A lawyer in a modern-day Arizona cattle town defends a young, socially prominent woman accused of killing her husband. Fair telefilm that served as the pilot for “Petrocelli” (NBC-TV, 1974–76).

2794  The Night Hawk  W.W. Hodkinson, 1924. 60 min. D: Stuart Paton. SC: Joseph Poland. With Harry Carey, Claire Adams, Joseph Girard, Fred Malatesta, Nicholas De Ruiz, Lee Shumway, Myles McCarthy, Fred Kelsey. Hired to murder a sheriff in the West, a New York City crook arrives on the scene only to fall in love with the lawman’s daughter. Sturdy Harry Carey silent feature.

The Night of the Desperado see Ringo’s Big Night

2795  The Night of the Grizzly  Paramount, 1966. 102 min. Color. D: Joseph Pevney. SC: Warren Douglas. With Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Kulp, Kevin Brodie, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Ron Ely, Med Florey, Leo Gordon, Don Haggerty, Sammy Jackson, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Candy Moore, Regis Toomey. Trying to settle down to ranching in Wyoming in the 1880s, a former lawman finds himself up against unexpected bills, former foes and a killer bear. Well made action melodrama enhanced by a fine cast.

2796  Night of the Wolf  Animal Planet, 2002. 89 min. Color. D: David S. Cass, Sr. SC: Paul Cooper. With Anne Archer, Robert Urich, Michael Shamus Wiles, Peter Dobson, Sally Kirkland, C. Thomas Howell, Zach Bostrom, Stephen Bridgewater, Norman Alden, James Lashly, Michele Nordin, Monty Stuart, David Atkinson. A widowed rancher is stranded in the wilderness with a trapped wolf and as her son searches for her he comes across murderous poachers. Mediocre modern-day TV fare.

2797  Night Passage  Universal-International, 1957. 90 min. Color. D: James Neilson. SC: Borden Chase. With James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster, Elaine Stewart, Brandon de Wilde, Jay C. Flippen, Herbert Anderson, Robert Wilkie, Hugh Beaumont, Jack Elam, Tommy Cook, Paul Fix, Olive Carey, James Flavin, Donald Curtis, Ellen Corby, Ted Mapes, Patsy Novak, Chuck Roberson, Kenne Duncan, John Davis, Paul Spahn, Jack Lowell, Herman Pulver. A railroad troubleshooter learns an outlaw gang, that includes his younger brother, plans to rob a train of its payroll shipment. Expansive and well done entertainment, with Dan Duryea especially good as the outlaw leader, Whitey Harbin.

2798  Night Raiders  Monogram, 1952. 52 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Maurice Tombragel. With Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell, Terry Frost, Marshall Reed, Lane Bradford, Steve Clark, Boyd Stockman, Forrest Taylor, Iron Eyes Cody, Carol Henry, Ed Cassidy, Roy Butler, Stanley Price. Two lawmen investigate mysterious raids on ranches during which nothing is stolen. The mystery angle greatly helps this otherwise pedestrian Whip Wilson adventure.

2799  The Night Rider  Artclass, 1932. 54 min. D: Fred Newmeyer. SC: Harry (Fraser) P. Crist. With Harry Carey, Elinor Fair, George Hayes, Robert Kortman, Walter Shumway, Julian Rivero, Jack Weatherby, Tom London, Slim Whitaker, Jack Kirk, Hank Bell, Ben Corbett, Bart Carre, Cliff Lyons. A lawman pretends to be a gunfighter to stop a murderous outlaw gang. Defective production values hurt this otherwise entertaining Harry Carey vehicle.

2800  The Night Rider  ABC-TV/Universal, 1979. 78 min. Color. D: Hy Averback. SC: Stephen J. Cannell. With David Selby, Kim Cattrall, Percy Rodrigues, George Grizzard, Harris Yulin, Pernell Roberts, Anthony Herrera, Anna Lee, Michael Sharrett, Hildy Brooks, Curt Lowens, Van Williams, Stuart Nisbet, Gary Allen, Whit Bissell, Edward Knight, Susan Davis, Maria Diane, Sydney Penny. When crooks kill his family for its silver mine a New Orleans gentleman turns masked avenger. Passable TV movie.

2801  The Night Riders  Second National Pictures, 1920. 63 min. D-SC: Alexander Butler. With Maudie Dunham, Albert Ray, Andrea Beaulieu, Russell Gordon, C. McCarthy, Jose De La Cruz, Goober Glen, William Ryno. In the Canadian Northwest, a man falls in love with a blind rancher’s daughter and organizes a posse to purse a raider gang led by the Red Mask. A neat plot is not executed well in this Canadian made silent yarn.

2802  The Night Riders  Republic, 1939. 58 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts. With John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Doreen McKay, Ruth Rogers, George Douglas, Tom Tyler, Kermit Maynard, Sammy McKim, Walter Wills, Ethan Laidlaw, Ed Peil, Sr., Tom London, Jack Ingram, Bill Nestell, Yakima Canutt, Glenn Strange, David Sharpe, Bud Osborne, Lee Shumway, Cactus Mack, Hal Price, Hank Worden, Roger Williams, Olin Francis, Francis Walker, Hugh Prosser, Jack Kirk, Georgia Summers, Horace Murphy, Francis Sayles, John Ince, Curley Dresden, Art Dillard, George (Montgomery) Letz, Bob Card, Eva McKenzie, Jane Keckley, David McKim, Allan Cavan, Frank O’Connor, Al Taylor. A crook uses a forged land grant to make himself the ruler of thousands of acres of land but when he forces settlers, who cannot pay his high taxes, off their properties three cowboys come to the rescue. Very good “Three Mesquiteers” series segment. Remade as Arizona Terrors (q.v.).

2803  Night Riders  Alameda Films, 1959. 77 min. Color. D: Fernando Mendez. SC: Ramon Obon. With Gaston Santos, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Carlos Ancira, Pedro de Aguillon, Quintin Bulnes, Jose Chavez, Antonio Raxel, Guillermo Alvarez Dianch. A gang of masked riders in the shape of demons terrorize a remote town and a government agent and his sidekick try to stop them. Fast paced Mexican Western issued in that country as Los Diablos del Terror (The Devils of Terror).

2804  Night Riders of Montana  Republic, 1951. 60 min. D: Fred C. Brannon. SC: M. Coates Webster. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Claudia Barrett, Roy Barcroft, Chubby Johnson, Arthur Space, Myron Healey, Mort Thompson, Lester Dorr, Ted Adams, George Chesebro, Don C. Harvey, Zon Murray, John Hamilton, Bud Osborne, Marshall Bradford. An outlaw gang plagues ranchers and a ranger working for the state is sent to halt their activities. Another action filled Allan Lane effort.

2805  Night Stage to Galveston  Columbia, 1952. 60 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Virginia Houston, Thurston Hall, Judy Nugent, Robert Livingston, Harry Cording, Robert Bice, Frank Sully, Clayton Moore, Frank Rawls, Steve Clark, Harry Lauter, Robert Peyton, Lois Austin, Kathleen O’Malley, Riley Hill, Richard Alexander, Boyd Stockman, Bob Woodward, Sandy Sanders, Ben Weldon, Gary Goodwin. Two ex-rangers, now newspapermen, work on a story about Texas state police corruption and nearly get killed when they try to save the kidnapped daughter of their publisher from crooked officials. A good story highlights this well made Gene Autry vehicle.

2806  Night Time in Nevada  Republic, 1948. 67 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Nibley. With Roy Rogers, Andy Devine, Adele Mara, Grant Withers, Marion Harmon, Joseph Crehan, Holly Bane, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Ken Carson, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), George Carleton, Steve Darrell, Hank Patterson, Rex Lease, Forrest Taylor, Bob Reeves, Jim Nolan. To cover up a murder he committed sixteen years before, a man plans to steal cattle belonging to Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers to pay off the victim’s daughter. A good, exciting and well directed Roy Rogers feature dominated by Grant Withers as the bad guy.

2807  Nightwing  Columbia, 1979. 103 min. Color. D: Arthur Hiller. SC: Steve Shagan, Bud Shrake and Martin Cruz Smith. With Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Stephen Macht, Kathryn Harrold, Strother Martin, Ben Piazza, George Clutesi, Donald Hotton, Judith Novgrod, Charles Hallahan, Pat Corley, Alice Hirson, Danny Dapien, Jose Toledo, Charlie Bird, Peter Prouse, Richard Romacito, Flavio Martinez III. A mysterious man arrives in the Arizona desert intent on killing an army of disease carrying vampire bats. Overlong and basically boring horror Western.

2808  Nikki, Wild Dog of the North  Buena Vista, 1961. 74 min. Color. D: Jack Couffer. SC: Ralph Wright and Winston Hibler. With Jean Coutu, Emile Genest, Uriel Luft, Robert Rivard, Nikki (dog), Neewa (bear); Jacques Fauteux, Dwight Hauser (narrators). A young wolf dog and a bear cub, separated from their master, are forced to survive in the wilds. Satisfying adaptation of James Oliver Curwood’s novel Nomads of the North.

2809  The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca  Buena Vista, 1960. 80 min. Color. D-SC: Norman Foster. With Robert Loggia, James Dunn, Lisa Montell, Robert F. Simon, Leonard Strong, Rico Alaniz. A New Mexico lawman defies an 80 man lynch posse in order to protect a prisoner. Issued abroad theatrically, this feature was first shown as two episodes of Walt Disney’s ABC-TV series in 1958; good entertainment.

No Man’s Land see No Man’s Range

2810  No Man’s Land  NBC-TV, 1984. 104 min. D: Rod Holcomb. SC: Juanita Bartlett. With Stella Stevens, Terri Garber, Melissa Michaelsen, Donna Dixon, Estelle Getty, Sam J. Jones, Frank Bonner, John Rhys-Davies, Janis Paige, Dack Rambo, John Quade, Buck Taylor, Jack Garner, Tony Swartz, Will Albert, Marc Alaimo, Jeremy Ross, Roz Witt, Eldon Quick. A beautiful frontier marshal and her three comely daughters fight lawlessness in the Old West. Forced TV Western comedy.

2811  No Man’s Law  Pathé, 1927. 66 min. D: Fred Jackman. SC: Frank Butler. With Rex (horse), Barbara Kent, Theodore Von Eltz, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson. Two crooks stumble onto a remote cabin where a young woman and her uncle are protected by a wild stallion. Another silent adventure with Rex the Wonder Horse and a pretty good one.

2812  No Man’s Range  Supreme, 1935. 56 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Forbes Parkhill. With Bob Steele, Roberta Gale, Buck Connors, Steve Clark, Charles K. French, Jack Rockwell, Roger Williams, Earl Dwire, Ed Cassidy, Jim Corey, Forrest Taylor, Herman Hack, Art Dillard, Clyde McClary. When outlaws rule the range a cowboy pretends to be one of them in order to bring a close to their activities. Average entry in Bob Steele’s lengthy series for producer A.W. Hackel; also called No Man’s Land.

2813  No Name on the Bullet  Universal, 1959. 77 min. Color. D: Jack Arnold. SC: Gene L. Coon. With Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Charles Drake, R.G. Armstrong, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Whit Bissell, Karl Swenson, Willis Bouchey, Edgar Stehli, Jerry Paris, Charles Watts, Simon Scott, John Alderson, Russ Bender, Jim Hyland, Bob Steele, Hank Patterson, Edgar Dearing, Harold Goodwin, William Mims, Jess Kirkpatrick, Marjorie Bennett, Charles Cane, Guy Wilkerson, Dennis Rush, Vincent Perry, Hugh Corcoran, Helen Jay, Fern Barry. Each of the citizens of a small town feel they may be the intended victim when a hired killer arrives. Okay action Audie Murphy outing.

2814  No Room to Die  Junior Film, 1969. 88 min. Color. D: Willy S. Regan (Sergio Garrone). SC: Sergio Garrone. With Antonio De Teffe (Anthony Steffen), William Berger, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mario Brega, Riccardo Garrone, Maria Angela Giordano, Giancarlo Sisti, Franco Ukmar, Guilio Mauroni, Gabriele Torrei, Giorgio Dolfin, Darar Gilberto Galimberti, Claudio Ruffini, Roberto Messina, Emilio Messina, Renzo Paarello, Angelo Susani. A preacher (Ringo) and a bounty hunter (Django) join forces to get the reward money posted on gang smuggling aliens across the border. Well made, confusing and very violent Italian oater made as Una Lunga Fila di Croci, running 97 minutes; also called Hanging for Django and Noose for Django.

2815  Nob Hill  20th Century–Fox, 1945. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Norman Reilly Raine and Wanda Tuchock. With George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner, Alan Reed, B.S. Pully, Emil Coleman, Edgar Barrier, Smith and Dale (Joe Smith, Charles Dale), J. Farrell MacDonald, Chick Chandler, Paul Hurst, Don Costello, Edward Keane, Arthur Loft, William Haade, Ralph Peters, Chief Thundercloud, Harry Strang, Otto Reichow, Harry Shannon, Syd Saylor, Claire Rochelle, Grandon Rhodes, Will Stanton, Alphonse Martell, Bud Jamison, Forbes Murray, Nestor Paiva, Benson Fong, Sven Hugo Borg, Sam Flint, Harrison Greene, Neal Hart, Sam Ash, Rory Calhoun, Freddie Chapman, Robert Greig, Joseph J. Greene, Dorothy Ford, Robert Filmer, Ralph Sanford, Julius Tannen, The Three Swifts, Arthur Thalasso, George Anderson, George Lloyd, Olive Blakeney, Charles Cane, George Reed, Barbara Sears, Susan Scott, Priscilla White, Virginia Walker, The Troupers, Tom Dillon, Paul Graeff, Vincent Graeff, Irving Gump, Eddie Hart, Freeman High, Brooks Hunt, Helen O’Hara, Virginia Lyndon, George Leigh, Eddie Lee, George T. Lee, John Kelly, Jane Jones, Edna Mae Jones, Ben Jade, William Hunter. In frontier San Francisco, a Barbary Coast saloon owner longs for respectability and dates a socialite but is loved by a singer. Slick production with a mundane plot, highlighted by Vivian Blaine singing “ I Don’t Care.”

2816  Nomads of the North  Associated First National, 1920. 50 min. D: David M. Hartford. SC: David M. Hartford and James Oliver Curwood. With Lewis Stone, Betty Blythe, Lon Chaney, Francis McDonald, Milbourne MacDonald, Spottiswoode Aitken, Gordon Muller, Charles H. Simly. A man in the north country tries to win a girl by making her think her trapper lover is dead but trouble ensues when the latter returns. Somewhat overacted but still pleasing silent adaptation of a James Oliver Curwood (he co-scripted) novel with well staged storm and forest fire scenes.

2817  A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity  Dora Film/Balcazar, 1971. D: George Martin. SC: S. Giovanni (Simonelli). With George Martin, Marina Malfatti, Klaus Kinski, Daniel Martin, Augusto Pesarini, Francisco Jose Huetos, Susanne Atkinson, Willi Colombini, Luis Ponciado, Indio Gonzales, Pajarito (Manuel Muniz), Manuel Sas, Ricardo Moyan, Manuel Brochud, Gustavo Re, Luis Induni, Alfonso Alises, Miguel Muniesa. After being hunted for six years for shooting the man who murdered his brother, a rancher returns home and promises his wife he will give up gun fighting but is soon forced to face a grasping land baron and a vicious bounty hunter. Pleasing follow-up to Clint the Nevada Loner (q.v.), utilizing footage from that feature; made as Il Ritorno de Clint il Solitario (The Return of Clint the Stranger).

2818  Noose for a Gunman  United Artists, 1960. 90 min. D: Edward L. Cahn. SC: James B. Gordon. With Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas, Ted De Corsia, Walter Sande, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey, Jr., Lane Chandler, John Hart, Leo Gordon, William Tannen, Jan Arvan, William Remick, Bob Tetrick, Kermit Maynard, William Challee, Cecil Weston. An honest gunman, banished after killing a corrupt land baron’s two sons, returns to tell the citizens that an outlaw, in cahoots with the rancher, is planning a robbery. Well made program feature with a good performance by Jim Davis as the shootist.

Noose for Django see No Room to Die

2819  North Beach and Rawhide  CBS-TV, 1985. 104 min. Color. D: Harry Falk. SC: Jimmy Sangster, John Beaird and George Yanok. With William Shatner, Tate Donovan, Christopher Penn, James Olson, Lori Loughlin, Gretchen Corbett, Beau Dremann O’Neil, Conchata Farrell, G.W. Bailey, Leo Penn, Grace Zabriskie, Geoffrey Blake, Dean Devlin, David Raynr, Nicholas Guest, J.C. Quinn, Lenny Hicks, Hugh Gillin. After getting out of prison, a man establishes a ranch to help troubled youth. Passable modern-day TV Western.

2820  North Country  American National Enterprises, 1969. 105 min. Color. D: Ron Hayes. With Jeff Graham. A woodsman makes a life for himself in the remote Alaskan wilderness. Pleasant documentary filmed on location will appeal to nature lovers; 1973 reissue runs 94 minutes.

2821  North from the Lone Star  Columbia, 1941. 58 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Charles Francis Royal. With Bill Elliott, Dorothy Fay, Dub Taylor, Richard Fiske, Arthur Loft, Jack Roper, Chuck Morrison, Claire Rochelle, Al Rhein, Edmund Cobb, Steve Clark, Art Mix, Hank Bell, Richard Botiller, Francis Walker, Lane Bradford, Oscar Gahan, Ray Jones, Jack Evans, Barney Beasley, Joe Garcia, Clem Horton, George Morrell, Tex Cooper. A crook takes over Deadwood and appoints Wild Bill Hickok its marshal but he sets out to clean up the town. Action filled “Wild Bill Hickok” series affair with a well staged saloon fight.

2822  North of Arizona  Reliable, 1935. 60 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Carl Krusada. With Jack Perrin, Blanche Mehaffey, Lane Chandler, Alan Bridge, Murdock MacQuarrie, George Chesebro, Artie Ortego, Budd Buster, Steve Clark, Frank Ellis, Blackie Whiteford, Oscar Gahan, George Morrell, Hank Bell, Ray Henderson, Barney Beasley. A cowboy joins a gang and pretends to be a part of their plans although he really wants to stop them from cheating Indians of gold ore and shipments. Not bad, with Jack Perrin a likable hero.

2823  North of Nome  Columbia, 1936. 62 min. D: William Nigh. SC: Albert DeMond. With Jack Holt, Evelyn Venable, Guinn Williams, John Miljan, Roger Imhoff, Dorothy Appleby, Paul Hurst, Frank McGlynn, George Cleveland, Ben Hendricks, Robert Glecker, Mike Morita. A seal poacher, on the run from both the law and hijackers, comes across a shipwreck and tries to rescue the survivors. Average action drama that will appeal to Jack Holt followers.

2824  North of the Border  Screen Guild, 1946. 40 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Arthur V. Jones. With Russell Hayden, Inez Cooper, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley, Anthony Warde, Jack Mulhall, Guy Beach, I. Stanford Jolley, Richard Alexander. A cowboy crosses into Canada and finds he is suspected of murdering his partner, a deed done by a gang of fur thieves and smugglers. Cheaply made but entertaining featurette.

2825  North of the Great Divide  Republic, 1950. 67 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Eric Taylor. With Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Roy Barcroft, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Jack Lambert, Keith Richards, Douglas Evans, Noble Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody, Holly Bane, Alan Bridge, Stephen Chase, Frank Lackteen, George Sowards, Al Sloey. Government agent Roy Rogers tries to protect Indian salmon rights from a murderous crook who dams up a river, catches the fish and illegally ships them to Canadian canneries. Well done Roy Rogers film badly butchered for TV with some prints in black and white.

2826  North of the Rio Grande  Paramount, 1937. 70 min. D: Nate Watt. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Stephen Morris (Morris Ankrum), Bernadene Hayes, John Rutherford, Lorraine Randall, Walter Long, Lee Colt (Lee J. Cobb), John Beach, Al Ferguson, Lafe McKee, Richard Cramer, George Plues, Harry Bernard, Lee Brooks, Bill Nestell, Horace B. Carpenter, Fred Burns, Silver Tip Baker, Hank Bell, William H. O’Brien, Ted Billings, Al Haskell, Herman Hack, Carl Mathews, Cliff Lyons, Buck Morgan, Charles Murphy, Cliff Parkinson, George Morrell. Hopalong Cassidy poses as a bad man to uncover the identity of “The Lone Wolf,” the leader of a robbery gang that killed his brother. Slow moving series entry which livens up at the finale.

2827  North of the Rockies  Columbia, 1942. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Herbert Dalmas. With Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, Shirley Patterson, Frank Mitchell, Larry Parks, John Miljan, Ian MacDonald, Lloyd Bridges, Gertrude F. Hoffman, Earl Gunn, Boyd Irwin, Art Dillard, David Harper, Francis Sayles. A Canadian Mountie and a U.S. marshal find themselves at odds as they try to capture a gang of fur smugglers. Well made outing hurt by having its two stars spending most of their screen time as opponents.

2828  North of the Yukon  Columbia, 1939. 59 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Charles Starrett, Linda Winters (Dorothy Comingore), The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Lane Chandler, Paul Sutton, Robert Fiske, Vernon Steele, Edmund Cobb, Tom London, Kenne Duncan, Hal Taliaferro, Richard Botiller, Harry Cording, Ed Brady. Royal Canadian Mounted policemen brothers search for the fur thieves who murdered a trader. Action filled, well made north woods drama.

2829  North to Alaska  20th Century–Fox, 1960. 122 min. Color. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: John Lee Mahin, Martin Rackin and Claude Binyon. With John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Capucine, Fabian, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Shaughnessy, Karl Swenson, Kathleen Freeman, John Qualen, Stanley Adams, Stephen Courtleigh, Douglas Dick, Jerry O’Sullivan, Ollie O’Toole, Tudor Owen, Lilyan Chauvin, Marcel Hillaire, Richard Deacon, James Griffith, Max Hellinger, Richard Collier, Esther Dale, Fortune Gordien, Roy Jenson, Charles Seel, Rayford Barnes, Fred Graham, Alan Carney, Peter Bourne, Tom Dillon, Arlene Harris, Paul Maxey, Oscar Beregi, Kermit Maynard, Maurice Delamore. Two prospectors strike it rich in Alaska and one sends the other south to claim his fiancee who turns out to be married, so he tries to find a substitute. Big, brawling, entertaining tongue-in-cheek adventure feature.

2830  North to the Klondike  Universal, 1942. 60 min. D: Erle C. Kenton. SC: Clarence Upson Young, Lou Sarecky and George Bricker. With Broderick Crawford, Lon Chaney, Evelyn Ankers, Andy Devine, Stanley Andrews, Willie Fung, Keye Luke, Dorothy Granger, Lloyd Corrigan, Riley Hill, Paul Dubov, Armand Cortes, Fred Cordova, Monte Blue, Spade Cooley, Tony Paton, Jeff Corey, Robert Homans, Lee Phelps, William Ruhl. A mining engineer joins forces with farmers in Alaska who are being run off their lands by a trader who thinks there is gold in the area. Good adaptation of Jack London’s Gold Hunters of the North with a dilly of a brawl between good guy Broderick Crawford and baddie Lon Chaney.

2831  North West Mounted Police  Paramount, 1940. 125 min. Color. D: Cecil B. DeMille. SC: Alan LeMay, Jesse Lasky, Jr. and C. Gardner Sullivan. With Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft, Lynne Overman, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Hampden, Lon Chaney, Jr., Montagu Love, Francis McDonald, George E. Stone, Willard Robertson, Regis Toomey, Richard Denning, Douglas Kennedy, Clara Blandick, Ralph Byrd, Lane Chandler, Julia Faye, Jack Pennick, Rod Cameron, James Seay, Jack Chapin, Eric Alden, Wallace Reid, Jr., Bud Geary, Evan Thomas, Davison Clark, Chief Thundercloud, Harry Burns, Lou Merrill, Ynez Seabury, Philip Terry, Soledad Jiminez, Kermit Maynard, Anthony Caruso, Paul Sutton, James Flavin, Archie Twitchell, Nestor Paiva, Ray Mala, Monte Blue, Chief Yowlachie, David Newell, Robert Ryan, Eva Puig, Weldon Heyburn, Emory Parnell, George Regas, Norma Nelson, John Laird, James Dundee. A Texas Ranger arrives in Canada on the trail of a wanted man and becomes involved with the Mounties in stopping an Indian uprising. Much maligned but very entertaining and well made Cecil B. DeMille production.

2832  Northern Frontier  Ambassador, 1935. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Barry Barringer. With Kermit Maynard, Eleanor Hunt, J. Farrell MacDonald, LeRoy Mason, Charles King, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Russell Hopton, Nelson McDowell, Walter Brennan, Gertrude Astor, Dick Curtis, Henry Hall, Kernan Cripps, Jack Chisholm, Lloyd Ingraham, Lafe McKee, Tyrone Power, Jr., Artie Ortego. A Mountie is after a murderous outlaw gang engaged in stealing furs and counterfeiting currency. Not the best in Kermit Maynard’s series for producer Maurice Conn but still worth seeing, mainly for its fine cast and nice scenery; look for Tyrone Power in a bit as a mounted policeman.

2833  Northern Lights  Cine Manifest, 1979. 90 min. Color. D-SC: John Hanson and Rob Nilsson. With Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Henry Martinson, Joe Spano, Ray Ness, Helen Ness, Marianne Astrom-DeFina, Gary Hanish, Joe Ness, Thorbjorn Rue, Nick Eldridge. Farmers in North Dakota in the 1910s fight railroads and market monopolies while trying to form a grange. Interesting independent historical drama.

2834  Northern Patrol  Allied Artists, 1953. 62 min. D: Rex Bailey. SC: Warren Douglas. With Kirby Grant, Marian Carr, Emmett Lynn, Bill Phipps, Claudia Drake, Frank Sully, Dale Van Sickel, Gloria Talbott, Richard Walsh, Frank Lackteen, Chinook (dog). When crooks plan to plunder a sacred Indian burial ground they are opposed by a lone mounted policeman and his loyal dog. Cheaply made but enjoyable north woods tale supposedly based on a James Oliver Curwood’s Nomads of the North.

2835  Northern Pursuit  Warner Bros., 1943. 94 min. D: Raoul Walsh. SC: Frank Gruber and Alvah Bessie. With Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart, Tom Tully, Bernard Nedell, Warren Douglas, Monte Blue, Alec Craig, Tom Fadden, Carl Harbaugh, Fred Kelsey, Herbert Heywood, Arno Frey, Robert Hutton, Robert Kent, John Forsythe, Jay Silverheels, Russell Hicks, Milton Kibbee, Lester Mathews, George Urchel, Joe Herrera. A Mountie pretends to be a turncoat in order to infiltrate Nazis working around Hudson Bay during World War II. Surprisingly none-too-entertaining Errol Flynn feature.

2836  Northwest Outpost  Republic, 1947. 91 min. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Elizabeth Meehan and Richard Sale. With Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut, Elsa Lanchester, Hugo Haas, Erno Verebes, Lenore Ulric, Peter Whitney, Tamara Shayne, George Sorel, Rick Vallin, Henry Brandon, Michael Visaroff, Muni Seroff, Nina Hansen, Eugene Sigaloff, Michael Mark, Richard Alexander, George Paris, Ray Teal, Inna Guest, John Bleifer, John Peters, Jay Silverheels, Constantine Romanoff, Peter Seal, The American G.I. Chorus. In pioneer California a Russian woman tries to defeat the plans of her evil husband and ends up falling in love with a dashing ranger. Republic’s attempt to revive the romantic operetta with a new score by Rudolf Friml was defeated by this lumbering production.

2837  Northwest Passage  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940. 126 min. Color. D: King Vidor. SC: Lawrence Stallings and Talbot Jennings. With Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Donald MacBride, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Walton, Addison Richards, Hugh Sothern, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Lester Mathews, Truman Bradley, Andrew Pena, Tom London, Eddie Parker, Hank Worden, Don Castle, Rand Brooks, Kent Rogers, Verna Felton, Richard Cramer, Ray Teal, Edward Gargan, John Merton, Gibson Gowland, Frank Hagney, Gwendolen Logan, Addie McPhail, Helen MacKellar, Arthur Aylesworth, Ted Oliver, Lawrence Porter, Tony Guerrero, Ferdinand Munier, George Eldredge, Fredric Worlock. Major Robert Rogers leads his Rangers in an arduous trek to stop the Indians at St. Francis in Canada to break the French hold on the area in 1759. Colorful and entertaining feature based on Kenneth Roberts’ best seller; film contains some fine character performances, especially Addison Richards as a mad ranger.

Truman Bradley, Spencer Tracy, in front, and Robert Young in Northwest Passage (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940).

2838  Northwest Rangers  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942. 64 min. D: Joe Newman. SC: Gordon Kahn and David Lang. With James Craig, William Lundigan, Patricia Dane, John Carradine, Jack Holt, Keenan Wynn, Grant Withers, Darryl Hickman, Drew Roddy, John Butler, Philip Van Zandt, Michael Brown, Luis Alberni, Jim Farley, Alec Craig, Kay Medford, Hugh Beaumont, Alexander Granach, Mitchell Lewis, Ray Teal, Al Hill, George Carleton, Howard Hickman, Herbert Heyes, Emmett Vogan, Patrick McVey, William Tannen, Roy Barcroft, Ivan “Dusty” Miller, Hubert Brill, LeRoy Mason, Mark Daniels, Hooper Atchley, Howard Mitchell, Dick Rush, Murdock MacQuarrie, Robert Winkler. Two boys grow up together, one becomes a gambler and the other a ranger, and eventually they are forced into a showdown. Great cast but low budget affair that is fairly entertaining.

2839  Northwest Stampede  Eagle-Lion, 1948. 76 min. Color. D: Albert S. Rogell. SC: Art Arthur and Lillie Hayward. With James Craig, Joan Leslie, Jack Oakie, Chill Wills, Victor Kilian, Stanley Andrews, Lane Chandler, Ray Bennett, Harry Shannon, Lane Bradford, Kermit Maynard, Harry V. Cheshire, Eddie Acuff, Lee Roberts, Flame (dog). A lady rancher is at odd with her rodeo champion foreman who wants to corral a wild stallion. The cast and the scenery help breathe life into this average feature.

2840  Northwest Territory  Monogram, 1951. 61 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Bill Raynor. With Kirby Grant, Gloria Saunders, Warren Douglas, Pat Mitchell, Tristram Coffin, John Crawford, Duke York, Don C. Harvey, Sam Flint, Chinook (dog). Outlaws murder an old man for his oil claim and a Mountie, who brought the victim’s grandson-heir to the area, sets out to track down the killers. Action filled, compact program film with good work by Kirby Grant as Corporal Rod Webb.

2841  Northwest Trail  Screen Guild, 1945. 66 min. Color. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Harvey Gates and L.J. Swabacher. With Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury, John Litel, Ian Keith, Raymond Hatton, Madge Bellamy, Poodles Hanneford, Grace Hanneford, George Meeker, Charles Middleton, John Hamilton, Al Ferguson, Bud Osborne, Bob Duncan, Bill Hammond, Josh (John) Carpenter. When a woman brings money to her uncle for the purchase of timberland it is stolen and a Mountie tries to find the thieves. Colorful action outing with a fine performance by Bob Steele as the law officer.

2842  Not Above Suspicion  Wrather Corporation, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy and Oscar Rudolph. SC: Herbert Purdom, Robert Leslie Bellem, Thomas Seller and Charles Carson. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Allen Pinson, Wayne Burson, Dennis Moore, Tristram Coffin, Roy Barcroft, Richard Benedict, Francis McDonald, Florence Lake, Tyler MacDuff, Harry Strang, Rick Vallin, Jason Johnson, Alan Wells, Robert Burton, Gregg Barton, Melinda Byron, Joseph Sargent. The Lone Ranger and Tonto try to stop a crook from taking over a town, fight renegade Indians and disrupt a plot to murder a rancher. Okay telefeature from “The Lone Ranger” (ABC-TV, 1949–57) episodes “The Avenger,” “Journey to San Carlos” and “Mission for Tonto.”

2843  Not Exactly Gentlemen  Fox, 1931. 70 min. D: Benjamin Stoloff. SC: William Counselman, Dudley Nichols and Emmett Flynn. With Victor McLaglen, Fay Wray, Lew Cody, Robert Warwick, Eddie Gribbon, David Worth, Joyce Compton, Louise Huntington, Franklyn Farnum, Carol Wines, James Farley. Three rascals raid a wagon train and ride off with a pretty girl whose father has a map to the gold mine they seek. Average early talkie with some well staged land rush scenes; originally called Three Rogues.

2844  Notch Number One  Arrow, 1924. 55 min. D: Ben Wilson. SC: Daniel F. Whitcomb. With Ben Wilson, Marjorie Daw, Reed Howes, Merrill McCormick, Arthur Mackley, Yakima Canutt. A cowboy, who thinks he killed his boss after smoking loco weed, is helped by the ranch foreman who takes the blame for the crime, actually committed by a fired cowhand. Only one and one-half reels exist from this interesting poverty row production.

2845  Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), 1998. 90 min. Color. D: Kari Skogland. SC: David Barlow and Charles Lazer. With Chad Willett, Ted Atherton, Sarah Chalke, Falconer Abraham, Zachary Bennett, Marion Bennett, Ryan Gosling, Dan MacDonald, Jonathan Whittaker, Robin Brule, John Keller, Richard McMillan, Graham McPhearson, Neil Crone, W.J. Matheson, Mark Lutz, Andrew Smith, Leslie Urquhart, Paul O’Sullivan, Vincent Corazza, Curtis Parker, Nigel Hamer, Bob Martin, Jen Cohen, Sheree Jeacocke. A New York City stockbroker realizes his goal of owning ranch in British Columbia and marries his dream girl but faces trouble from a banker who wants the land. Charming Canadian Western set in the pre–World War II era; it was followed by a TV series of the same title telecast on the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) during the 1999–2000, with Ted Atherton and Sarah Chalke repeating their film roles.

2846  Now They Call Him Sacramento  Filmax, 1972. 90 min. Color. D: Al Bagrain (Alfonso Balcazar). SC: Alfonso Balcazar and Giovanni Simonelli. With Michael Forest, Fred Harrison (Fernando Bilboa), Malisa Longo, Paolo Gozlino, Luis Bonos, Gaspar Gonzalez, Pajarito (Manuel Muniz), Antonio Almoros, Antonio Molino Rojo, Fernando Rubio, Johnny (Juan) Fairen, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Juan Torres, Manuel Bronchud, Mario Del Vago, Irene D’Astrea, Cesar Ojinaga. Three bandits steal settlers’ money for their banker boss so he can get their lands but the trio soon retrieve it after falling for some pretty homesteaders. Fairly pleasing, light hearted Spaghetti Western, filmed as I Bandoleros della Dodicesima Ora (The Bandits of the Twelfth Hour) and also called Desperado.

2847  Oath of Vengeance  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Mady Lawrence, Karl Hackett, Marin Sais, Jack Ingram, Charles King, Kermit Maynard, Frank Ellis, Hal Price, Budd Buster, Jimmy Aubrey, John Cason, Frank McCarroll, Augie Gomez, Herman Hack, Jack Kenney, Rose Plummer, Hank Bell, Jack Evans, Morgan Flowers, Wally West, Ray Henderson, Ralph Bucko, Tex Palmer. When Fuzzy Q. Jones purchases a ranch and finds he cannot settle down, he and Billy Carson try to prove the innocence of a young man accused of murder. Another tacky entry in the long running “Billy Carson” series.

Oath of Zorro see Behind the Mask of Zorro

2848  Oblivion  Sequential One Filmworks, 1994. 94 min. Color. D: Sam Irvin. SC: Peter David. With Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster, Isaac Hayes, Julie Newmar, Carel Struycken, George Takei, Musetta Vander, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Irwin Keyes, Mike Genoevese, Frank Roman, Jeff Moldovan, Joe Muzio, Craig Anthony Muzio, Tim Miller, Peter David, Nadine Emilie Voindrouh, Sam Irvin. In a frontier town of the future, the citizens are cowed by a lizard man and his gang who have murdered the sheriff but are opposed by the victim’s son and a female cyborg deputy. Confusing sci-fi Western, followed by Oblivion 2: Backlash (q.v.).

2849  Oblivion 2: Backlash  Full Moon Pictures, 1996. 83 min. Color. D: Sam Irvin. SC: Peter David. With Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster, Isaac Hayes, Julie Newmar, Carel Struycken, George Takaei, Musetta Vander, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Irwin Keyes, Maxwell Caufield, Mike Genovese, Jeff Weston, Frank Roman, Brent Huff, Jeff Moldovan, Michael C. Mahon, Craig Muzio, Joe Muzio, Tim Miller, Peter David, Nadine Emilie Voindrouh, Sam Irvin. In the future world town of Oblivion, a bounty hunter arrives to capture a beautiful outlaw who has won a valuable mine that is coveted by a half-lizard outlaw. Futuristic Western that is better than its predecessor, Oblivion (q.v.).

2850  Oh, Susanna!  Republic, 1936. 56 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Oliver Drake. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Donald Kirke, Earle Hodgins, The Light Crust Doughboys, Clara Kimball Young, Boothe Howard, Ed Peil, Sr., Frankie Marvin, Carl Stockdale, Gerald Roscoe, Roger Gray, Fred Burns, Walter James, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Earl Dwire, Bruce Mitchell, Jack Kirk, George Morrell, Horace B. Carpenter, Tommy Coats, Pascale Perry, William McCall, Silver Tip Baker. After outlaws knock him out and steal his clothes, Gene Autry is mistaken for a bad man and when his pals help him to escape he becomes the object of a manhunt. More music and pseudo-Western nonsense that made Gene Autry the era’s top genre star.

2851  Oh, Susanna  Republic, 1951. 90 min. Color. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Charles Marquis Warren. With Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills, Jim Davis, William Ching, Wally Cassell, Douglas Kennedy, James Lydon, William Haade, John Compton, James Flavin, Charles Stevens, Alan Bridge, Marshall Reed, John Pickard, Ruth Brennan, Louise Kane, Marion Randolph. At a frontier outpost, two Army rivals battle each other and the possibility of a Sioux uprising. Melodrama leans more toward dialogue than action but the fine cast carries it off okay.

2852  The Oil Raider  Mayfair, 1934. 59 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: George Morgan and Homer King Gordon. With Buster Crabbe, Gloria Shea, George Irving, Max Wagner, Emmett Vogan, Harold Minjir, Tom London, Wally Wales, Chuck Morrison, Tetsu Komai. A wildcatter borrows money from an investment banker to complete an oil drilling project but when the banker suffers marked reverses and needs funds he hires a dishonest rival driller to sabotage the operation. Fairly good low budget program feature from producer Lester Scott, Jr.

2853  Oklahoma!  Magna Corporation, 1955. 143 min. Color. D: Fred Zinneman. SC: Sonya Levien and William Ludwig. With Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, Rod Steiger, Barbara Lawrence, Jay C. Flippen, Roy Barcroft, James Mitchell, Bambi Lynn, Marc Platt, Rex Lease, Al Ferguson, Russell Simpson, Buddy Roosevelt, Ben Johnson, Rory Mallinson, Donald Kerr, Jane Fischer, Jennie Workman, Lizanne Truex, Evelyn Taylor, Virginia Bosler, Kelly Brown, Dolores Starr, Nancy Kilgas, Jerry Dealey. A cowboy falls in love with a pretty girl and asks her to a dance but has trouble with a rival. Enjoyable screen adaptation of the popular Broadway musical.

2854  Oklahoma!  BBC-TV, 1999. 180 min. Color. D: Trevor Nunn. SC: Oscar Hammerstein II and Lynn Riggs. With Hugh Jackman, Josefina Gabrielle, David Shelmerdine, Jimmy Johnston, Shuler Hensley, Maureen Lipman, Vicki Simon, Peter Polycarpou, Rebecca Thornhill, Sidney Livingston, Stuart Milligan. Well done, stylish filming of the London stage revival of the 1943 Oscar Hammerstein II-Lynn Riggs musical.

2855  Oklahoma!  UNC-TV, 2011. 180 min. Color. D: David Stern. SC: Oscar Hammerstein II and Lynn Riggs. With Kyle Guglielmo, Rebecca Moyes, Devon Diffenderfer, Caroline Kava, Braxton Molinaro, Jennifer Webb, Charles Osborne, Jillian Ratledge, Tommy Burnett, Gabriel Arant, Andrew Robert Bodd, Diandra Langenbach, Benjamin Rush. More than passable filmed stage production of the famed musical made by the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television.

Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae in Oklahoma! (Magna Corporation, 1955).

2856  Oklahoma Annie  Republic, 1952. 90 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Jack Townley. With Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers, Roy Barcroft, Emmett Lynn, Frank Ferguson, Minerva Urecal, Houseley Stevenson, Almira Sessions, Allen Jenkins, Maxine Gates, Emory Parnell, Denver Pyle, House Peters, Jr., Andrew Tombes, Fuzzy Knight, Si Jenks, Marion Martin, Herbert Vigran, Hal Price, Fred Hoose, Lee Phelps, Bobby Taylor, William Fawcett, Bob Reeves. A backwoods girl running a gun shop falls for the town’s new sheriff and when she wants him to arrest a saloon owner he makes her his deputy. Fun Judy Canova vehicle.

2857  Oklahoma Badlands  Republic, 1948. 59 min. D: Yakima Canutt. SC: Bob Williams. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Mildred Coles, Roy Barcroft, Gene (Roth) Stutenroth, Earle Hodgins, Jay Kirby, Terry Frost, Hank Patterson, House Peters, Jr., Jack Kirk, Bob Woodward, Claire Whitney, Dale Van Sickel. When a man is about to lose his ranch due to rustlers, a lawman pretends to be a friend from the East in order to help him. Director Yakima Canutt keeps this Allan Lane vehicle moving at a good clip.

2858  Oklahoma Blues  Monogram, 1948. 56 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Virginia Belmont, I. Stanford Jolley, Zon Murray, George J. Lewis, Steve Clark, Frank LaRue, Milburn Morante, Charles King, Bob Woodward, J.C. Lytton, Dick Reinhart, Don Weston, Arthur “Fiddlin‘“ Smith, George Morrell, Artie Ortego, Victor Cox, Jack Hendricks. A singing cowboy finds himself in between two towns fighting for the location of the county seat. A bit more action than usual for a Jimmy Wakely musical, but still none too good.

Arthur Smith, Frank LaRue, George Morrell, Dick Reinhart, Virginia Belmont, Jimmy Wakely, Don Weston and Dub Taylor in Oklahoma Blues (Monogram, 1948).

2859  Oklahoma Crude  Columbia, 1973. 105 min. Color. D: Stanley Kramer. SC: Marc Norman. With George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, Jack Palance, John Mills, William Lucking, Harvey James, Ted Gehring, Cliff Osmond, Rafael Campos, Woodrow Parfrey, John Hudkins, Harvey Parry, Bob Herron, Jerry Brown, Jim Burk, Henry Wills, Hal Smith, Cody Bearpaw, James Jester, Larry D. Mann, John Dierkes, Karl Lucas, Wayne Storm, Billy Varga. A drifter is hired by the woman owner of an oil well to help her fight the encroachment of a large petroleum company. Modern-day drama cannot decide if it is serious or comedic.

2860  Oklahoma Cyclone  Tiffany, 1930. 60 min. D: John P. McCarthy. SC: Ford Beebe. With Bob Steele, Nita Ray, Al St. John, Charles L. King, Slim Whitaker, Shorty Hendricks, Emilio Fernandez, Hector Sarno, Fred Burns, Cliff Lyons, John Ince. A cowboy infiltrates an outlaw gang as he searches for his missing sheriff father and promptly falls for a pretty senorita. Early talkie is a bit shaky in its production values but Bob Steele’s (who croons a couple of tunes) fans will not mind.

2861  Oklahoma Frontier  Universal, 1939. 59 min. D-SC: Ford Beebe. With Johnny Mack Brown, Anne Gwynne, Fuzzy Knight, Bob Baker, James Blaine, Lane Chandler, Anthony Warde, Robert Kortman, Harry Tenbrook, Charles King, Horace Murphy, George Chesebro, Jose De La Cruz, Lloyd Ingraham, The Texas Rangers, Alan Bridge, Hank Worden, Hank Bell, Blackie Whiteford, Roy Harris, George Magrill, Tom Smith, Robert Cummings, Frank Mayo, Dick Rush. Crooks after water rights frame a cowboy for the murder of his best friend and the accused man’s girl tries to save him. Somewhat complicated oater with plenty of action.

2862  Oklahoma Jim  Monogram, 1931. 61 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Harry Fraser and G.A. Durlam. With Bill Cody, Marion Burns, Andy Shuford, William Desmond, Si Jenks, Franklyn Farnum, John Elliott, Ed Brady, G.D. Wood (Gordon DeMain), Earl Dwire, Iron Eyes Cody, Ann Ross, Artie Ortego. A saloon owner causes the death of an Indian maiden and places the blame on a gambler who has fallen in love with the man’s late partner’s daughter. Laggard Bill Cody outing, poorly recorded with lots of stock footage.

2863  Oklahoma Justice  Monogram, 1951. 56 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Phyllis Coates, Barbara Allen, Kenne Duncan, Lane Bradford, Marshall Reed, Zon Murray, I. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Price, Bruce Edwards, Richard Avonde, Lyle Talbot, Carl Mathews, Ed Cassidy, George DeNormand. With the assistance of his stagecoach driver pal, a lawman pretends to be an outlaw to locate a robbery gang. First feature teaming Johnny Mack Brown and James Ellison is only average.

2864  The Oklahoma Kid  Warner Bros., 1939. 85 min. D: Lloyd Bacon. SC: Warren Duff, Robert Buckner and Edward E. Paramore. With James Cagney, Rosemary Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Harvey Stephens, Hugh Sothern, Charles Middleton, Edward Pawley, Ward Bond, Lew Harvey, Trevor Bardette, John Miljan, Arthur Aylesworth, Irving Bacon, Joe Devlin, Wade Boteler, Dan Wolheim, Ray Mayer, Robert Kortman, Tex Cooper, John Harron, Stuart Holmes, Jeffrey Sayre, Frank Mayo, Jack Mower, Alan Bridge, Don Barclay, Horace Murphy, Robert Homans, George Lloyd, Soledad Jiminez, Clem Bevans, Ed Brady, Tom Chatterton, Elliott Sullivan, George Chesebro, Olin Francis, Al Jennings, Blackjack Ward, Jack Kenney, Gene Alsace, Jess Cavin, Kit Guard, Morgan Flowers. In the 1890s a daredevil bandit in Oklahoma Territory robs from the rich and gives to the poor as he tries to avenge his father’s murder. Rather strange Western with James Cagney as a singing hero and Humphrey Bogart as a dastardly villain; best viewed as tongue-in-cheek.

2865  Oklahoma Passage  Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, 1989. 300 min. Color. D: Kenneth A. Meyer. SC: Kevin Meyer. With Jeanette Nolan, Robin Brooks, Chris Todd, Charles Benton, Eldon G. Hallum, Byron Bourg, James Fields, Lou Michaels, Thesa Rogers Loving, Charles Ballinger, Carter Mullally, Jr., Daniel Kamit, Melvin Holt, Rex Linn, Frank Otterman, Whitman Mayo, Megan Mullally, Paul Newsom, Jeff MacKay, Tom Ward; Hoyt Axton, Ben Johnson, Dale Robertson, G.D. Spradlin and General Thomas Stafford (hosts). TV miniseries detailing the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to the Oklahoma Territory and its resulting history. A fine historical production incorporating footage from the 1931 version of Cimarron (q.v.).

2866  Oklahoma Raiders  Universal, 1944. 56 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Tex Ritter, Jennifer Holt, Fuzzy Knight, Dennis Moore, Jack Ingram, George Eldredge, John Elliott, Slim Whitaker, I. Stanford Jolley, Richard Alexander, Herbert Rawlinson, Ethan Laidlaw, Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys (Wesley Tuttle, Jimmie Dean, Paul Sells), Steve Keyes, William Desmond, Bob Baker, Lane Chandler, Frank Ellis, Michael Vallon, Gil Patric, Bill Sloan. A Union Army lieutenant in the Civil War is sent to Oklahoma in the guise of a drifter to stop a masked bandit called El Vengador, who has been leading raids on the cavalry. Nice Tex Ritter vehicle with plenty of action, a good story and supporting cast plus five pleasant songs, including “Cowboy’s Dream” and “Starlight on the Prairie.” British title: Riders of Oklahoma.

2867  Oklahoma Renegades  Republic, 1940. 57 min. D: Nate Watt. SC: Earle Snell and Doris Schroeder. With Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Florine McKinney, Lee “Lasses” White, Al Herman, William Ruhl, Eddie Dean, James Seay, Harold Daniels, Jack Lescoulie, Frosty Royce, Yakima Canutt, Art Dillard, Harry Strang, Ken Terrell, Frankie Marvin, Hank Bell, Jack Lawrence, Tom Smith, Al Taylor, Ted Mapes, Pascale Perry. Coming home after serving in the Spanish-American War, three cowboys help veterans trying to homestead but are being harassed by local ranchers. Fairly pleasing effort in “The Three Mesquiteers” series; Raymond Hatton and Duncan Renaldo’s last film as part of the Mesquiteers.

2868  Oklahoma Territory  United Artists, 1960. 67 min. D: Edward L. Cahn. SC: Orville Hampton. With Bill Williams, Gloria Talbott, Ted De Corsia, Grant Richards, Walter Sande, X Brands, Walter Baldwin, Grandon Rhodes, Kenne Duncan, Charles Stevens, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Bob Woodward, John Cliff. When the local Indian commissioner is murdered a chief is charged with the crime but the district attorney believes him innocent and tries to find the real killer. Low budget but adequate entertainment.

2869  Oklahoma Terror  Monogram, 1938. 50 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Joseph West (George Waggner). With Jack Randall, Al St. John, Virginia Carroll, Davison Clark, Norman Willis, Glenn Strange, Warren McCollum, Tristram Coffin, Ralph Peters, Slim Whitaker, Nelson McDowell, Don Rowan, Brandon Beach. Following the Civil War, a cowboy tries to learn who killed his stage line manager father and organizes vigilantes to clean up lawlessness. Pretty good Jack Randall film.