3075  The Phantom Empire  Mascot, 1935. 12 Chapters. D: Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason. SC: John Rathmell, Armand L. Schaefer, Wallace MacDonald, Gerald Geraghty and Hy Freedman. With Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy, Wheeler Oakman, Charles K. French, Warner Richmond, J. Frank Glendon, Smiley Burnette, William Moore, Ed Peil, Sr., Jack Carlyle, Frank Ellis, Wally Wales, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Fred Burns, Stanley Blystone, Richard Talmadge, Bob Card, Bruce Mitchell, Frankie Marvin, Slim Whitaker, Wally West, Bob Burns, George Magrill, Henry Hall, Peter Potter, Ray (Corrigan) Bernard. Crooks are after a valuable mineral deposit on a radio singer’s ranch and while fighting them he and his two juvenile pals find a secret underground civilization. Gene Autry’s first starring film is a flavorful combination of the Western and sci-fi genres; later released in feature versions as Men with Steel Faces and Radio Ranch.

3076  The Phantom Flyer  Universal, 1928. 45 min. D: Bruce Mitchell. SC: Bruce Mitchell and Gardner Bradford. With Al Wilson, Lillian Gilmore, Buck Connors, Billy “Red” Jones, Don Fuller, Myrtis Crinley, Mary Cornwallis, Larry Steers. A homesteader and his family find themselves at odds with a female cattle rancher after their water rights. Colorful silent action feature with lots of exciting aerial footage of star Al Wilson, here playing a border patrol aviator. Also called The Phantom Ranger.

3077  Phantom Gold  Columbia, 1938. 56 min. D: Joseph Lovering. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Jack Luden, Beth Marion, Barry Downing, Slim Whitaker, Hal Taliaferro, Art Davis, Jack Ingram, Marin Sais, Buzz Barton, Jimmy Robinson, Forrest Taylor, Jack Rockwell, Harry Harvey, Charles King, George Morrell, Jack O’Shea, Tex Palmer, Tuffy (dog). Outlaws plan a gold rush by salting an old mine but are opposed by a cowboy, his two buddies and the young boy and dog they rescued. Jack Luden’s final series film is mediocre at best.

3078  The Phantom of Santa Fe  Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, 1936. 87 min. Color. D: Jacques Jaccard. SC: Charles F. Royal. With Norman Kerry, Nina Quartero, Frank Mayo, Monte Montague, Tom O’Brien, Carmelita Geraghty, Jack Mower, Frank Ellis, Merrill McCormick, Fernando Valdez. A man pretends to be a coward to disguise himself as the “Hawk,” a masked avenger opposed to a crook and his gang who have stolen a treasure. Made in 1931 as The Hawk, this feature was re-recorded and re-edited before receiving theatrical release five years later; pretty poor stuff.

3079  The Phantom of the Desert  Syndicate, 1930. 55 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Carl Krusada. With Jack Perrin, Eva Novak, Josef Swickard, Lila Eccles, Ben Corbett, Edward Earle, Robert Walker, Pete Morrison. Two cowpokes go to work for a rancher whose horses are supposedly being rustled by a wild stallion and one of them tries to get to the bottom of the trouble. Likable Jack Perrin early talkie spotlighting his beautiful steed Starlight.

3080  Phantom of the Plains  Republic, 1945. 58 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Earle Snell and Charles Kenyon. With Wild Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Ian Keith, William Haade, Virginia Christine, Jack Rockwell, Tom London, Earle Hodgins, Bud Geary, Henry Hall, Fred Graham, Neal Hart, Jack Kirk, Bob Burns, Jack Tornek, Rose Plummer. When the Duchess falls in love with an Englishman, Red Ryder does not trust the man and finds out he is a wife murderer. So-so “Red Ryder” episode.

3081  Phantom of the Range  Victory, 1936. 58 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Basil Dickey. With Tom Tyler, Beth Marion, Sammy Cohen, Forrest Taylor, Soledad Jiminez, Charles King, John Elliott, Richard Cramer, Steve Clark, Robert Hill, Johnny Luther, Francis Walker, Denver Dixon, Clyde McClary, Jack Evans, Bud Pope, Tiny Sanford, Tex Phelps. A cattlemen’s association investigator is after a gang seeking secret treasure. Shoddy Sam Katzman production and one that hardly enhances Tom Tyler’s genre reputation.

3082  The Phantom of the West  Mascot, 1931. 10 Chapters. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: Ford Beebe. With Tom Tyler, Dorothy Gulliver, William Desmond, Tom Santschi, Tom Dugan, Philo McCullough, Joe Bonomo, Kermit Maynard, Frank Lanning, Frank Hagney, Dick Dickinson, Hallee Sullivan, Al Taylor, Ernie Adams. A phantom murders several citizens while a rancher tries to solve the mystery of who killed his father. Mascot’s second sound serial, and Tom Tyler’s talkie debut, is an interesting affair with a good mystery angle and the usual genre thrills.

3083  Phantom Patrol  Ambassador, 1936. 60 min. D: Charles Hutchison. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Kermit Maynard, Joan Barclay, Dick Curtis, Harry Worth, George Cleveland, Paul Fix, Julian Rivero, Eddie Phillips, Roger Williams, Lester Dorr. A Mountie impersonates an American detective story writer in order to round up a gang of crooks. Average Kermit Maynard vehicle for producer Maurice Conn, supposedly based on James Oliver Curwood’s Fatal Note.

Phantom Pinto see Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto

3084  The Phantom Plainsmen  Republic, 1942. 57 min. D: John English. SC: Robert Yost and Barry Shipman. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Lois Collier, Robert O. Davis (Rudolph Anders), Charles F. Miller, Alex Callam, Monte Montague, Henry Rowland, Richard Crane, Jack Kirk, Ed Cassidy, Vince Barnett, Lloyd Ingraham, Al Taylor, Bud Geary, Herman Hack. Three cowboys work for a horse rancher whose son is abducted by Nazis so he will sell them his herd. Interesting, patriotic “Three Mesquiteers” series entry.

3085  Phantom Rancher  Colony, 1940. 61 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: William Lively. With Ken Maynard, Dorothy Short, Harry Harvey, Ted Adams, Dave O’Brien, Tom London, John Elliott, Reed Howes, Steve Clark, Carl Mathews, Sherry Tansey, Wally West, George Morrell, Herman Hack. A cowboy arrives to take over his late uncle’s ranch and becomes a masked phantom to oppose a land grabber. Ken Maynard was getting hefty when he made this entertaining oater but he was still quite agile.

The Phantom Ranger (1928) see The Phantom Flyer

3086  Phantom Ranger  Monogram, 1938. 54 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Tim McCoy, Suzanne Kaaren, John Merton, Charles King, Karl Hackett, Tom London, Richard Cramer, John St. Polis, Edward Earle, Harry Strang, Bruce Warren, Bob McKenzie, Jimmy Aubrey, Donald Dean, Herb Holcombe, Wally West, Horace B. Carpenter, Sherry Tansey, George Morrell, Herman Hack, Frank Ellis, Victor Cox, Ray Henderson, Clyde McClary. A Secret Service is sent to round up a gang responsible for flooding an area with counterfeit currency. Low grade but okay modern sagebrush yarn.

3087  The Phantom Rider  Universal, 1936. 15 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor. SC: George Plympton, Basil Dickey and Ella O’Neill. With Buck Jones, Marla Shelton, Diana Gibson, Joey Ray, Harry Woods, Frank LaRue, George Cooper, Eddie Gribbon, Helen Shipman, Jim Mason, Charles Lemoyne, Charles King, Jim Corey, Lee Shumway, Clem Bevans, Cecil Weston, Matt McHugh, Jim Thorpe, Cactus Mack, Charles K. French, Tom London, Slim Whitaker, Frank Ellis, Drew Stanfield, Art Mix, Bob Reeves, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Glenn Strange, Blackjack Ward, Horace Murphy, Allen Holbrook, Hank Bell, Lafe McKee, Priscilla Lawson, George Plues, Olin Francis, Iron Eyes Cody, Paul Regas, Eva McKenzie, Bob Card. With crooks trying to steal a young woman’s ranch, a government agent takes on the guise of a masked rider to thwart them. Well paced serial sure to delight Buck Jones fans.

3088  The Phantom Rider  Republic, 1946. 12 Chapters. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet and Fred C. Brannon. SC: Albert DeMond, Basil Dickey, Jesse Duffy, Lynn Perkins and Barney A. Sarecky. With Robert Kent, Peggy Stewart, LeRoy Mason, George J. Lewis, Kenne Duncan, Hal Taliaferro, Chief Thundercloud, Monte Hale, Tom London, Roy Barcroft, John Hamilton, Hugh Prosser, Jack Kirk, Rex Lease, Tommy Coats, Joe Yrigoyen, Bill Yrigoyen, Jack O’Shea, Cliff Lyons, Walt LaRue, Cliff Parkinson, Carl Sepulveda, George Carleton, Dave Van Sickel, Tom Steele, George Chesebro, Wayne Burson, Post Park, Fred Graham, Bob Duncan, Augie Gomez, Robert Wilke, John Roy, Cactus Mack, Eddie Parker, Ted Mapes, Duke Taylor, Hal Price, Henry Wills, Tex Cooper, Bud Bailey, James Linn. A frontier doctor becomes a masked phantom to bring justice to an area threatened by outlaws inciting Indians to go on the warpath. Pretty fair cliffhanger; issued in a feature version as Ghost Riders of the West.

3089  The Phantom Stage  Universal, 1939. 58 min. D: George Waggner. SC: Joseph West (George Waggner). With Bob Baker, Marjorie Reynolds, George Cleveland, Forrest Taylor, Reed Howes, Tex Palmer, Murdock MacQuarrie, Glenn Strange, Jack Kirk, Ernie Adams, Dick Rush. Two cowpokes try to help a young woman about to lose her stage line because of gold shipment robberies. Only fair Bob Baker vehicle.

3090  The Phantom Stagecoach  Columbia, 1957. 69 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: David Lang. With William Bishop, Richard Webb, Kathleen Crowley, Hugh Sanders, John Doucette, Frank Ferguson, Ray Teal, Percy Helton, Maudie Prickett, Lane Bradford, Eddy Waller, Robert Anderson, John Lehmann, Dennis Moore, Kermit Maynard. Stage line owners have a dispute over right-of-way, leading to gunplay. Only average “B” second bill feature.

3091  Phantom Stallion  Republic, 1954. 54 min. D: Harry Keller. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Carla Balenda, Harry Shannon, Don Haggerty, Peter Price, Rosa Turich, Zon Murray, Rocky Shahan, Charles La Torre. A cowboy helps a ranch owner whose best horses are disappearing, the culprits supposedly a stallion and his herd. Standard Rex Allen outing with the plot twist of having the rancher’s niece as the main villain.

3092  The Phantom Thunderbolt  World Wide/Fox, 1933. 63 min. D-SC: Alan James. With Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Frank Rice, Robert Kortman, William Gould, Harry Holman, Frank Beal, Wilfred Lucas, William Robyns, Nelson McDowell, Lew Meehan, Jack Rockwell, Frank Ellis, Robert Walker, Horace B. Carpenter, Johnny Luther, Bud McClure, Archie Ricks, Blackjack Ward, Silver Tip Baker. The Thunderbolt Kid is hired by the leaders of Coyote Gulch to stop a lawless gang that is keeping a railroad from going through the area. Rawboned but action filled Ken Maynard vehicle.

3093  Phantom Trails  Allied Artists, 1955. 54 min. D: Frank McDonald and Wesley Barry. SC: Maurice Tombragel and William Raynor. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Steve Brodie, Harry Harvey, Byron Foulger, Robert Filmer, Burt Wendland, Steve Pendleton, Hank Patterson, Ethan Laidlaw, Paul Bryar, William Vedder. Wild Bill Hickok has his partner Jingles pretend to be a ghost to capture a gang attacking local farmers and Hickok joins looters in order to arrest them. Pretty good big screen feature made up of “A Close Shave for the Marshal” and “Ghost Rider” episodes of “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” that was on TV from 1951 to 1958.

3094  Phantom Valley  Columbia, 1948. 56 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Hunter, Sam Flint, Ozie Waters and His Colorado Rangers, Joel Friedkin, Robert Filmer, Mikel Conrad, Zon Murray, Fred F. Sears, Teddy Infuhr, Jerry Jerome, Denver Dixon. A new sheriff arrives in a town where ranchers and homesteaders are at war due to attacks by an outlaw gang. Better than average “Durango Kid” whodunit feature.

3095  Pierre of the Plains  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942. 66 min. D: George B. Seitz. SC: Lawrence Kimble. With John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Bruce Cabot, Phil Brown, Reginald Owen, Evelyn Ankers, Henry Travers, Raymond Hatton, Patrick McVey, Sheldon Leonard, Lois Ransom, Charles Stevens, Frederic Worlock, Iron Eyes Cody. A Canadian Mounted Police officer in love with a pretty innkeeper tries to foil lawlessness in the Northwest. John Carroll is okay as the daredevil title hero but he has to carry this otherwise tame effort.

3096  Pillars of the Sky  Universal-International, 1956. 95 min. Color. D: George Marshall. SC: Sam Rolfe. With Jeff Chandler, Dorothy Malone, Ward Bond, Keith Andes, Lee Marvin, Sydney Chaplin, Willis Bouchey, Michael Ansara, Olive Carey, Charles Horvath, Orlando Rodriguez, Glen Kramer, Floyd Simmons, Pat Hogan, Felix Noriega, Paul Smith, Martin Milner, Robert Ellis, Robert Botrian, Walter Coy, Alberto Morin, Richard Hale, Frank De Kova, Terry Wilson, Phil Kieffer, Gilbert Connor. A hard drinking Army sergeant is forced to fight off Indians with men he does not like but soon learns to respect their skills and bravery. Another of the seemingly aimless 1950s adult oaters about a man reformed by responsibility and a good woman; only fair.

3097  The Pinto Bandit  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 57 min. D-SC: Elmer Clifton. With Dave O’Brien, Jim Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Mady Lawrence, James Martin, Jack Ingram, Ed Cassidy, Budd Buster, Karl Hackett, Robert Kortman, Charles King, Jimmy Aubrey, Kermit Maynard, Don Weston, Herman Hack, Carl Mathews, Ray Henderson. A ranger trio enters a three man relay race for a mail contract in hopes of capturing the masked bandit stealing postal shipments between two towns. Okay entry in “The Texas Rangers” series.

3098  Pinto Canyon  Metropolitan, 1940. 55 min. D: Raymond Johnson. SC: Carl Krusada. With Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Kenne Duncan, Ted Adams, Steve Clark, Budd Buster, Murdock MacQuarrie, George Chesebro, Jimmy Aubrey, Carl Mathews, Buzz Barton, Silver Tip baker, Ray Jones, Denver Dixon. A lawman is on the trail of a gang of cattle thieves. Badly made and boring Bob Steele vehicle for producer Harry S. Webb.

3099  The Pinto Kid  Film Bookings Office (FBO), 1928. 55 min. D: Louis King. SC: Oliver Drake, Jean Dupont, John Twist and Frank T. Daugherty. With Buzz Barton, Frank Rice, James Welsh, Gloria Lee, Milburn Morante, Hugh Trevor, Bill Patton, Walter Shumway. A young boy and his adult pal save a pretty ranch owner from quicksand and stop a crook from taking her property. A welcome chance to see juvenile star Buzz Barton in one of his starring silent Westerns.

3100  The Pinto Kid  Columbia, 1941. 61 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Fred Myton. With Charles Starrett, Louise Currie, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Hugh and Karl Farr, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady), Paul Sutton, Hank Bell, Francis Walker, Ernie Adams, Jack Rockwell, Roger Gray, Richard Botiller, Steve Clark, Frank Ellis, Art Dillard. After a cattleman is framed by a gang leader for a bank robbery he takes refuge at a young woman’s ranch but she is kidnapped by the outlaws. Standard Charles Starrett adventure.

3101  Pinto Rustlers  Reliable, 1936. 56 min. D: Henri Samuels (Harry S. Webb). SC: Robert Tansey. With Tom Tyler, George Walsh, Al St. John, Catherine Cotter, Earl Dwire, William Gould, George Chesebro, Roger Williams, Bud Osborne, Murdock MacQuarrie, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Milburn Morante, Sherry Tansey, Richard Cramer, Wally West, Bob Burns. Rustlers kill his father and a man pretends to be an outlaw so he can join the gang to get the goods on them. Pretty fair Tom Tyler oater for which R.G. Springsteen was the assistant director.

Pioneer Builders see The Conquerors

3102  Pioneer Days  Monogram, 1940. 51 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Jack Randall, June Wilkins, Frank Yaconelli, Ted Adams, Nelson McDowell, Bud Osborne, Robert Walker, Glenn Strange, George Chesebro, Lafe McKee, Richard Cramer, Jimmy Aubrey, Denver Dixon. A cowboy helps a woman who has inherited half interest in a saloon while her partner wants the place for himself and tries to cheat her. Average Jack Randall vehicle.

3103  Pioneer Justice  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1947. 56 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Adrian Page. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Jennifer Holt, William Fawcett, Jack Ingram, Dee Cooper, Lane Bradford, Henry Hall, Terry Frost, Slim Whitaker, Wally West, Bob Woodward, Steve Drake. U.S. marshals Cheyenne Davis and Fuzzy Q. Jones help homesteaders who have been victims of killings and property seizures. Very good Lash LaRue feature; non-stop action from the start.

3104  Pioneer Marshal  Republic, 1949. 60 min. D: Philip Ford. SC: Bob Williams. With Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Nan Leslie, Damian O’Flynn, Roy Barcroft, Myron Healey, Ray Walker, John Hamilton, Marshall Reed, Clarence Straight, Robert Williams. A lawman infiltrates a town used by outlaws as he tracks down a notorious gunman. Well made Monte Hale film with an exciting climactic gunfight.

3105  Pioneer Trail  Columbia, 1938. 55 min. D: Joseph Lovering. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Jack Luden, Joan Barclay, Hal Taliaferro, Marin Sais, Slim Whitaker, Leon Beaumont, Eva McKenzie, Hal Price, Richard Botiller, Tom London, Bud Osborne, Bob McKenzie, Art Mix, Fred Burns, Peter Palmer, Tuffy (dog). A foreman convinces area ranchers to take their herds to market in one big drive in order to get better prices but he is captured by a female outlaw and her gang. Low grade Jack Luden vehicle with more heroics from Tuffy the dog than the star.

3106  Pioneer Woman  ABC-TV/Filmways, 1973. 74 min. D: Buzz Kulik. SC: Suzanne Clauser. With Joanna Pettet, William Shatner, David Janssen, Lance LeGault, Helen Hunt, Russell Baer, Linda Kupecek, Lloyd Berry, Robert Koons, Agatha Mercer. In 1867 a woman struggles to keep her family together in Wyoming Territory and continue homesteading after her husband is killed. Fair made-for-TV feature.

3107  The Pioneers  Monogram, 1941. 59 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Charles Alderson. With Tex Ritter, Wanda McKay, Red Foley and His Saddle Pals, Arkansas Slim Andrews, Doye O’Dell, George Chesebro, Del Lawrence, Post Park, Karl Hackett, Lynton Brent, Chick Hannon, Gene Alsace, Jack C. Smith, Chief Many Treaties, Art Dillard, Charles Soldani, Tex Palmer, Sherry Tansey. A singing cowboy leads a group of settlers to their destination, fighting Indians and outlaws along the way. Poor Tex Ritter feature, supposedly based on James Fenimore Cooper, that is full of stock footage and too much music; the Indiana attack sequence is from Fighting with Kit Carson (q.v.).

3108  Pioneer’s Gold  Sanford Productions, 1924. 61 min. D-SC: Denver Dixon (Victor Adamson). With Pete Morrison, Kathryn McGuire, Virginia Warwick, Spottiswoode Aitken, Louise Emmons, Madge Lorese Bates, Merrill McCormick, Les Bates, George King, George Sowards. A rancher plans to leave his wealth to relatives, hoping they will marry but the two are kidnapped and imposters take their place. Meandering, low grade poverty row silent affair from producer F.M. Sanford.

3109  Pioneers of the Frontier  Columbia, 1940. 58 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Fred Myton. With Bill Elliott, Linda Winters (Dorothy Comingore), Dub Taylor, Dick Curtis, Lafe McKee, Stanley Brown, Richard Fiske, Carl Stockdale, Ralph McCullough, Alan Bridge, Edmund Cobb, George Chesebro, Lynton Brent, Jack Kirk, Ralph Peters, Blackjack Ward, Ed Coxen, Hank Bell, Jay Wilsey (Buffalo Bill, Jr.), Francis Walker, Buddy Cox, George Morrell, Art Dillard, Jim Corey, Ray Jones, Bob Card. A ruthless gunman murders his kindly land baron boss and takes over the range but the dead man’s nephew arrives to help local settlers oppose his tyranny. Very good “Wild Bill Saunders” series thriller with an excellent performance by Dick Curtis as the brutal bully.

3110  Pioneers of the West  Bill Mix Productions, 1927. 50 min. D-SC: Marcel Perez. With Dick Carter, Dorothy Earle, Bud Osborne, Gene Crosby, Olin Francis. A Pony Express rider tries to stop an Indian uprising led by a renegade, his rival for a pretty white squaw also wanted by the tribe’s chief. Cheap silent that is fun to watch; produced by Bill Mix, star Dick Carter’s real name.

3111  Pioneers of the West  Republic, 1940. 56 min. D: Lester Orlebeck. SC: Jack Natteford, Karen DeWolf and Gerald Geraghty. With Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery, Beatrice Roberts, Lane Chandler, George Cleveland, Hal Taliaferro, Yakima Canutt, John Dilson, Joe McGuinn, Earl Askam, George Chesebro, Jack Kirk, Herman Hack, Bob Burns, Tex Terry, Art Dillard, Ray Jones, Artie Ortego, Chuck Baldra, Chief Big Tree, Frankie Marvin, Duke Taylor, Jane Keckley, Hansel Warner, Cecil Weston, Iron Eyes Cody. Settlers swindled out of their lands are helped by the Three Mesquiteers as they cross Indian territory by wagon train. Good “Three Mesquiteers” entry enhanced by a fine cast of veteran players.

3112  Pirates of Monterrey  Universal-International, 1947. 75 min. Color. D: Alfred Werker. SC: Sam Hellman and Margaret Buell Wilder. With Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny, Philip Reed, Gilbert Roland, Gale Sondergaard, Tamara Shayne, Robert Warwick, Michael Raffetto, Neyle Morrow, Victor Varconi, Charles Wagenheim, George J. Lewis, Joe Barnard, George Navarro, Victor Romito, Don Driggers, George Magrill, Lucio Villegas, Chris-Pin Martin, Julia Andre, Fred Cordova, Dick Dickinson. In 1840s California a Spanish noblewoman arrives to wed a soldier but falls for an American aiding the Mexican government is trying to put down a rebellion. Dull Maria Montez outing with good support from Rod Cameron and Gilbert Roland.

3113  The Pirates of the Mississippi  Rapid Film, 1963. 95 min. Color. D: Jurgen Roland. SC: Werner P. Zibaso and Johannes Kas. With Horst Frank, Brad Harris, Hansjorg Felmy, Sabine Sinjen, Dorothea Parker, Tony Kendall, Dan Vadis, Jeanette Batti, Paolo Solvay. River pirates steal an Indian land grant during a mail robbery and take over a town but the Cherokees save the settlers and take revenge on the marauders. Far out, but sumptuous, West German oater for fans of this type of fare; made as Die Flusspiraten vom Mississippi (The River Pirates of the Mississippi).

3114  Pirates of the Plains. Colorado Motion Picture Company, 1914. 36 min. D: Otis Thayer. With Colin Chase, Josephine Wells, Joe Ryan. A horse thief frames his rodeo rider champion brother on a murder charge but after being wounded in a gunfight confesses and the victim’s fiancee rushes to save him from the gallows. Well made and photographed silent, filmed in Colorado.

3115  Pirates of the Prairie  RKO Radio, 1942. 57 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Doris Schroeder and J. Benton Cheney. With Tim Holt, Nell O’Day, Cliff Edwards, Roy Barcroft, John Elliott, Karl Hackett, Richard Cramer, Ed Cassidy, Eddie Dew, Merrill McCormick, Reed Howes, Charles King, Bud Geary, Lee Shumway, Russell Wade, Ben Corbett, Frank McCarroll, Artie Ortego, George Morrell. A U.S. marshal is after a gang of masked riders stealing land in order to sell it for a big profit when the railroad comes through. Good Tim Holt affair with plenty of action.

3116  Pirates on Horseback  Paramount, 1941. 66 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Ethel La Blanche and J. Benton Cheney. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart, Morris Ankrum, William Haade, Dennis Moore, Henry Hall, Britt Wood, Chief Thundercloud, Bruce Mitchell, Wen Wright, Henry Wills, George Sowards, Chuck Morrison, Tom Smith, Ray Henderson, Tex Harper, Silver Tip Baker. Hopalong Cassidy and his pals trail an outlaw gang trying to locate a hidden gold mine. Another well made entry in the popular “Hopalong Cassidy” series, this one enhanced by a mystery plot.

3117  Pistol for a Hundred Coffins  Sanchez Ramada, 1968. 83 min. Color. D: Umberto Lenzi. SC: Marco Leto and Vittorio Salerno. With Peter Lee Lawrence, John Ireland, Gloria Osuna, Eduardo Fajardo, Julio Pena, Raf Baldassare, Piero Lulli, Franco Pesce, Andrea Scotti (Andrew Scott), Calisto Calisti, Franco Narducci, Ivan Scratuglia, Paola Natale, Giovanni Petti, Francisco (Frank) Brana, Luis de Jejada, Armando Calvo, Victor Israel, Alfonso Rojas, Jose Jaspe, Giovanni Petrucci, Miguel Del Castillo, Miguel Guzman, Joaquin Parra, Gino Turini, Leonidas Guerra. Coming home from the Civil War, a soldier finds his parents have been murdered and he takes the job as local sheriff to get the gang that committed the killings. Better than usual Italian-Spanish co-production with an especially good performance by John Ireland as a gunslinger minister; released in Europe as Una Pistola per Cento Bare (A Pistol for One Hundred Coffins).

3118  A Pistol for Ringo  Embassy, 1966. 97 min. Color. D-SC: Duccio Tessari. With Montgomery Wood (Giuliano Gemma), Fernando Sancho, Hally Hammond, George Martin, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas, Jose Manuel Martin, Paco Sanz, Parajito. A sheriff enlists the help of a gunman to save the ranch where his fiancee and her father are held prisoners by a wounded Mexican bandit and his gang. Another brutal Spaghetti Western with a plot and cast similar to its successor, The Return of Ringo (q.v.); released in Italy as Una Pistola per Ringo (A Pistol for Ringo) and on video as Ballad of Death Valley and A Gun for Ringo.

3119  Pistol Harvest  RKO Radio, 1951. 60 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Joan Dixon, Guy Edward Hearn, Mauritz Hugo, Robert Clarke, William Griffith, Lee Phelps, Robert Wilke, Joan Freeman. When their boss is murdered by rustlers, two cowboys try to track down the killers. Average Tim Holt feature.

3120  Pistol Packin’ Mama  Republic, 1943. 64 min. D: Frank Woodruff. SC: Edward Dein and Fred Schiller. With Ruth Terry, Robert Livingston, Wally Vernon, Jack LaRue, Kirk Alyn, Helen Talbot, Eddie Parker, Lydia Bilbrook, George Lessey, Joseph Kirk, The (Nat) King Cole Trio. After being cheated by a slick East coast night club proprietor, a Nevada gambling house owner goes to New York City, changes her name and goes up against him and gangsters. Peripheral modern-day Western inspired by Al Dexter’s hit song.

Pistol Packin’ Preacher see Leave Your Guns at the Door!

Pistolero of Red River see The Last Challenge

3121  Pistoleros  Constantin Film, 1967. 98 min. Color. D-SC: Alfio Caltabinao. With Anthony Ghidra, Angelo Infanti, Anthony Freeman, Al Northon, Dan May, Monica Teuber, Ivan Scraguglia, Ellen Schwiers, Peter Jacob, Lanfranco Ceccarelli, Giovanni Gianfriglia, Nicola Balini. Two outlaw siblings attempt to rob a train but are beaten to it by a gang who abducts a young woman as a hostage with the brothers taking revenge. Retread Italian-West German oater that moves at a fair clip; released in Europe as Ballata per un Pistolero (Ballad of a Gunman) with actor Hermann Nehlsen credited in the West German version.

3122  Pistoleros Asesinos (Killer Gunmen)  Peraco, 1982. 85 min. Color. D: Angel Rodriguez Vaquez. With Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, Federico Villa, Victor Alcocer, Polo Ortin, Armando Soto La Marina, Gilberto Trujillo, Dolores Camarillo, Maria de Lourdes. A cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rancher who is being forced to marry her father’s blackmailer. Dour Mexican Western melodrama.

3123  Pistoleros Bajo el Sol (Gunmen Under the Sun)  Filmadora Chapultepec, 1972. 93 min. Color. D: Ruben Galindo. With Fernando Almada, Sasha Montenegro, Juan Gallardo, Maria Fernanda, Raul Hernandez, Bruno Rey, Marco Antonio Campos, Alfredo Gutierrez, Federico Falcon, Marcela Mozzarella, Marcelo Vittamil, Mario Cit, Regino Herrera, Carlos Jordan, Hernando Name, Jorge Patino. After outlaws murder his brother, a man hunts them down in revenge, is left by the gang to die in the desert and is rescued by a widow later raped by one of the outlaws. Violent Mexican oater.

3124  Pistoleros del Oeste (Gunmen of the West)  Alameda Films, 1965. 95 min. D: Rene Cordona. SC: Abel Salazar. With Abel Salazar, Rosa de Castilla, Luz Maria Aguilar, Conrado Cortes, Eleazar Garcia, Hector Suarez, Emilio Brillas, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodriguez, Enrique Rocha, Nathaniel (Frankenstein) Leon, Luis Aragon, Emilio Garibay, Armando Gutierrez, Antonio Raxel, Sergio Ramos, Pascual Garcia Pena, Evangelina Elizondo. Kidnapping the wrong woman, two gunslingers find themselves in deep trouble when they try to exchange her for the ransom money. Fun Mexican Western comedy produced and written by star Abel Salazar.

3125  A Place Called Glory  Embassy, 1966. 92 min. Color. D: Sheldon Reynolds. SC: Edward Di Lorenzo, Jerold Hayden Boyd and Fernando Lamas. With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marianne Koch, Jorge Rigaud, Gerard Tichy, Angel Del Pozo, Aldo Sambrell, Santiago Intanon, Hans Nielsen, Wolfgang Lukschy, Victor Israel. In the town of Glory, two gunmen plan to oppose each other in a duel but end up joining forces to stop an bandit gang. Pretty good West German Western (co-written by actor Fernando Lamas) with fine work by Lex Barker and Pierre Brice in the leads; released in its homeland as Die Holle von Manitoba (The Hell of Manitoba) by Omnia Deutsche Film Export.

A Place Called Trinity see Jesse and Lester

3126  The Plainsman  Paramount, 1936. 115 min. D: Cecil B. DeMille. SC: Waldemar Young, Harold Lamb and Lynn Riggs. With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall, Helen Burgess, John Miljan, Victor Varconi, Paul Harvey, Frank McGlynn, Granville Bates, Purnell Pratt, Pat Moriarty, Charles Judels, Harry Woods, Anthony Quinn, Francis McDonald, George MacQuarrie, George Hayes, Fuzzy Knight, George Ernest, Fred Kohler, Frank Albertson, Francis Ford, Irving Bacon, Edgar Dearing, Edwin Maxwell, John Hyams, Bruce Warren, Mark Strong, Charles Stevens, Arthur Aylesworth, George Cleveland, Lona Andre, Leila McIntyre, Harry Stubbs, Davison Clark, C.W. Herzinger, William Humphrey, Sidney Jarvis, Wadsworth Harris, Bud Flanagan (Dennis O’Keefe), Gail Sheridan, Lane Chandler, Franklyn Farnum, Douglas Wood, Bud Osborne, Noble Johnson, Ted Oliver, Jim Mason, William Royle, Tex Driscoll, Francis Sayles, Hank Bell, Jonathan Hale, Hank Worden, Earl Askam, Paul Newlan, Chief Thundercloud, Edgar “Blue” Washington, Richard Alexander, Hooper Atchley, Frank Ellis, Max Davidson, Buck Connors, Ken Cooper, Frank Cordell, Bob Burns, Jess Cavin, Jack Clifford, Sonny Chorre, Richard Robles, David Clyde, Walter McGrail, Wesley Giraud, Nelson McDowell, Chuck Hamilton, Philo McCullough, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Duke R. Lee, Jane Keckley, Cecil Kellogg, Slim Hightower, Wilbur Mack, Frank Layton, Carl Miller, Jimmy Phillips, Oscar Rudolph, Louise Stuart, Jack Walters, Frank Watson, Robert Wilber, Don Rowan. Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill Cody team to oppose a gun runner selling to the Indians out to get General Custer. Highly inaccurate but quite entertaining Cecil B. DeMille epic.

3127  The Plainsman  Universal, 1966. 92 min. Color. D: David Lowell Rich. SC: Michael Blankfort. With Don Murray, Abby Dalton, Guy Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Henry Silva, Simon Oakland, Leslie Nielsen, Edward Binns, Michael Evans, Percy Rodriguez, Terry Wilson, Walter Burke, Emily Banks. A renegade white man is selling guns to the Indians planning to attack General Custer with Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill Cody trying to stop him. Bland remake of the 1938 (q.v.) film with little to recommend it.

3128  The Plainsman and the Lady  Republic 1946. 82 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Richard Wormser. With William Elliott, Vera Ralson, Gail Patrick, Joseph Schildkraut, Donald Barry, Andy Clyde, Raymond Walburn, Reinhold Schunzel, Paul Hurst, William B. Davidson, Charles Judels, Eva Puig, Jack Lambert, Stuart Hamblen, Noble Johnson, Hal Taliaferro, Byron Foulger, Pierre Watkin, Eddy Waller, Charles Morton, Martin Garralaga, Guy Beach, Joseph Crehan, Grady Sutton, Eddie Parks, Norman Willis, Tex Terry, Chuck Roberson, Rex Lease, Henry Wills, Hank Bell, Roy Barcroft, Jack O’Shea, Carl Sepulveda, Daniel Day Tolman, David Williams, Lola and Fernando. Before the Civil War a rich cattleman helps a banker and his pretty daughter establish the Pony Express between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, despite the machinations of a crooked stagecoach operator and his murderous henchman. Slick Bill Elliott “A” film that benefits from good production values with nice support from Don Barry as the gunman and Gail Patrick as the heroine’s social climbing sister.

3129  Plainsong  Ed Stabile, 1983. 88 min. Color. D-SC: Ed Stabile. With Teresanne Joseph, Jessica Nelson, Lyn Traverse, Steve Geiger, Sandon McCall, Carl Kielblock. A man and a group of women arrive in Kansas in the 1880s and find themselves in the middle of a range war. Mini-budget New Jersey filmed drama has little to offer genre fans.

3130  The Pledge  Hallmark Channel, 2008. 79 min. Color. D: Armand Mastroianni. SC: Jim Byrnes. With Luke Perry, C. Thomas Howell, Kim Coates, Jaclyn DeSantis, Francesco Quinn, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Wyatt Smith, Nicholas Guest, Alex Paez, Johann Urb, Daniel Wisler, James Keane, Chip Sickler, Jeffrey Markle, Lisa Brenner, Franc Ross, Laci Greenfield, Jordan Timsit. A lawman seeks revenge against a land baron who ordered the murder of his wife and son so he could get his family’s land. Nice photography highlights this more than passable TV oater; also called A Gunfighter’s Pledge.

3131  Plunder of the Sun  Warner Bros., 1953. 81 min. D: John Farrow. SC: Jonathan Latimer. With Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Sean McClory, Eduardo Noriega, Julio Villareal, Charles Rooner, Douglass Dumbrille, Mona Barrie, Carlos Muzquiz, Juan Garcia, Margarito Luna, Victorio Blanco. An expedition in Mexico sets out to find Aztec treasure. Mystery writer Jonathan Latimer’s script would have benefited from more action and less talk in an otherwise okay melodrama.

3132  The Plunderers  Republic, 1948. 87 min. Color. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Gerald Geraghty and Gerald Adams. With Rod Cameron, Ilona Massey, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, George Cleveland, Grant Withers, Taylor Holmes, Paul Fix, Francis Ford, James Flavin, Maude Eburne, Russell Hicks, Mary Ruth Wade, Clayton Moore, Roy Barcroft, Hank Bell, Rex Lease, Louis R. Faust, John Hart, Bud Osborne, Kenneth MacDonald, Steve Clark, Tex Terry, Forrest Taylor, Guy Wilkerson, House Peters, Jr., Monte Montague, Hugh Prosser, Jack O’Shea, Augie Gomez, Hank Patterson, Al Murphy, Wheaton Chambers, Kenneth Terrell, Tex Cooper, Craig Lawrence, Dewey Troub, Garrett Craig, John Hilton. An Army officer is sent to bring in a young outlaw but they join forces when attacked by rampaging Indians. Fairly good action laden production.

3133  The Plunderers  Allied Artists, 1960. 94 min. D: Joseph Pevney. SC: Bob Barbash. With Jeff Chandler, Dolores Hart, Marsha Hunt, John Saxon, Jay C. Flippen, Ray Stricklyn, James Westerfield, Harvey Stephens, Vaughn Taylor, William Challee, Ken Patterson, Dee Pollack, Roger Torrey, Joseph Hamilton, Ray Ferrell, Ella Ethridge. A quartet of hellions attempt to take over a Western town but are opposed by a Civil War veteran. Nicely done oater from producer Lindsley Parsons.

3134  The Plunderers of Painted Flats  Republic, 1959. 70 min. D: Albert C. Gannaway. SC: Phil Shaken and John Greene. With John Carroll, Corinne Calvet, Skip Homeier, Edmund Lowe, George Macready, Bea Benadaret, Madge Kennedy, Joe Besser, Allan Lurie, Candy Candido, Herbert Vigran, Burt Topper, Roy Gordon, Bob Kline, Bill Foster, Lee Redman, Wade Lane, David Waldor, John Kidd. A town boss wants to run settlers out of the area and hires a notorious gunman to do his bidding, but one of the intended victims is a young man out to kill the gunslinger for murdering his father. Mediocre production greatly helped by fine performances, especially Edmund Lowe as an aged shootist and Corinne Calvet as a woman with a past; Republic Pictures final production.

3135  The Pocatello Kid  Tiffany, 1931. 61min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: W. Scott Darling. With Ken Maynard, Marceline Day, Richard Cramer, Charles King, Lafe McKee, Lew Meehan, Jack Rockwell, Bert Lindley, Bob Reeves, Bud Osborne, Jack (Blackjack) Ward, Arthur Millett, Jack King, Archie Ricks, Jim Corey, Al Taylor, Bob Card. Falsely thinking he is responsible for the death of his dishonest lawman brother, a cowboy takes his place and plans to stop a rustling gang. Slow moving Ken Maynard feature, hardly one of the star’s better efforts.

3136  Pocket Money  National General, 1972. 102 min. Color. D: Stuart Rosenberg. SC: Terry Malick. With Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Kelly Jean Peters, Fred Graham, Wayne Rogers, Hector Elizondo, Mickey Gilbert, Gregg Sierra, Matt Clark, Claudio Miranda, Richard Farnsworth, Ken Freehill, Bruce Davis Bayne, Terry Malick. A down-on-his-luck cowpoke heads to Mexico to buy cattle from a crooked dealer and enlists the help of a shiftless pal in getting the goods on the man. Poor genre “comedy” somewhat saved by Lee Marvin’s mugging.

Paul Newman in Pocket Money (National General, 1972).

3137  Poco  Cinema Shares, 1977. 88 min. Color. D: Dwight Brooks. SC: William E. Carville. With Chill Wills, Michaelle Ashburn, Clint Ritchie, Sherry Bain, John Steadman, Tom Roy Lowe. A small dog, lost after a car wreck, treks through the desert in search of his owner, a disabled little girl. Pleasing family feature.

3138  Poker Alice  CBS-TV, 1987. 104 min. Color. D: Arthur Allan Seidelman. SC: James Lee Barrett. With Elizabeth Taylor, George Hamilton, Tom Skerritt, Richard Mulligan, Paul Drake, Susan Tyrrell, Pat Corley, David Wayne, Merrya Small, Liz Torres, Gary Grubbs, Annabella Price, Gary Bisig, John Bennett Perry, Ed Adams, Sid Dawson, Jack Dunlop, Marten Goslins, William M. Hannah, Henry Max Kendrick, Stephen Jace Kent, Gloria Manon, John Pearce, Caroline Reed, Bob Shelton. A beautiful woman gambler outwits a variety of male gamers before finding true love with a bounty hunter. Glossy TV movie centered around its glamorous star.

3139  The Pony Express  Paramount, 1925. 90 min. D: James Cruze. SC: Walter Woods. With Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrance, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft, Frank Lackteen, Ed Peil, Sr., William Turner, Al Hart, Charles Gerson, Rose Tapley, Vondell Darr, Hank Bell, Ernie Adams, Toby Wing. During the Civil War the Knights of the Golden Circle try to get California to secede from the Union with the plan opposed by a Pony Express rider. Fine silent feature with a good story and plenty of action.

3140  The Pony Express  Paramount, 1953. 101 min. Color. D: Jerry Hopper. SC: Charles Marquis Warren. With Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, Jan Sterling, Michael Moore, Porter Hall, Richard Shannon, Henry Brandon, Stuart Randall, Lewis Martin, Pat Hogan, James Davies, Eric Alden, Willard Willingham, Frank Wilcox, Len Hendry, Charles Hamilton, Bob Templeton. Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok team to establish the Pony Express across the West and stop the secession of California from the Union during the Civil War. Okay yarn has colorful characters and good movement.

3141  Pony Express Rider  Doty-Dayton, 1976. 100 min. Color. D: Robert Totten. SC: Dan Greer, Hal Harrison, Jr. and Robert Totten. With Stewart Petersen, Jack Elam, Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Caulfield, Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor, Buck Taylor, Maureen McCormack, Ace Reis. While looking for his father’s killer, a young man finds a murdered Pony Express rider and decides to finish his mail run. Okay action film helped by a good cast.

3142  Pony Post  Universal, 1940. 61 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Sherman Lowe. With Johnny Mack Brown, Nell O’Day, Dorothy Short, Ray Teal, Tom Chatterton, Kermit Maynard, Stanley Blystone, Jack Rockwell, Edmund Cobb, Lloyd Ingraham, Iron Eyes Cody, Charles King, Worth Crouch, Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders (Johnny Bond, Dick Reinhart), Lane Chandler, Frank McCarroll, Chuck Morrison, George Hazel, Frank McCarroll, Bill Wolfe. A Pony Express operator runs into opposition from outlaws and Indians when he tries to open a relay station in an isolated valley. More than passable Johnny Mack Brown vehicle.

3143  Pony Soldier  20th Century–Fox, 1952. 82 min. Color. D: Joseph M. Newman. SC: John D. Higgins. With Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Penny Edwards, Thomas Gomez, Robert Horton, Anthony Numken, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Howard Petrie, Stuart Randall, Richard Shackelford, James Hayward, Muriel Landers, Frank De Kova, Louis Heminger, John War Eagle. A Mountie tries to keep Cree Indians from going on the warpath as he escorts them back to the reservation. Colorful but not exceptional Northwest Mounted Police drama.

3144  Por Mis Pistolas (By My Pistols)  Columbia/Posa Films, 1968. 123 min. Color. D: Miguel M. Delgado. SC: Mario Moreno (Cantinflas) and Marco Antonio Almazon. With Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), Isela Vega, Jorge Rado, Alfonso Mejia, Gloria Coral, Quintin Bulnes, Manuel Alvarado, Rhea (Frichina), Carlos Cardon, John Kelly, Eduardo Alcarez, Pedro Galvan, Agustin Isunza, Carlos Pouliot, Jose Torvay. An easygoing druggist heads West where he gets mixed up with Indians, outlaws and a lost mine. Action packed comedy from Mexican star Cantinflas.

3145  El Porto Salvaje (The Wild Appearance)  Alameda Films, 1958. 90 min. D: Rafael Baledon. With Gaston Santos, Rodolfo Landa, Lilia Martinez, Carmen Montejo. When a wild stallion is accused of several killings, a cowboy and his pal try to prove his innocence by finding the real culprits. Routine south of the border oater.

Portrait of a Dead Girl see McCloud:  Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?

3146  Posse  Paramount, 1975. 94 min. Color. D: Kirk Douglas. SC: William Roberts and Christopher Knof. With Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Alfonso Arau, David Canary, Luke Askew, Beth Brickell, Katherine Woodville, Mark Roberts, Dick O’Neill, Bill Burton, Allan Warnick, Roger Behrstock. An ambitious, dishonest politician tries to get himself elected to the senate by hunting a wanted man, but the outlaw turns the tables on him. Offbeat and interesting oater from producer-director-star Kirk Douglas, with the good guy and the bad man changing roles at the finale.

3147  Posse  Gramercy Pictures, 1993. 111 min. Color. D: Mario Van Pebbles. SC: Sy Richardson and Dario Scardapane. With Mario Van Pebbles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tiny Lister, Big Daddy Kane, Billy Zane, Blair Underwood, Melvin Van Pebbles, Salli Richardson, Tone Loc, Pam Grier, Vesta (Williams), Isaac Hayes, Richard Jordan, Paul Bartel, Stephen J. Cannell, Richard Edson, Nipsey Russell, Reginald VelJohnson, Woody Strode, Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin, Aaron Neville, James Bigwood, Mark Buntzman, Ismael Calderon, Tracy Lee Chavis, James E. Christopher, Lawrence Cook, Richard Grant, Thomas Steven Hall, Robert Hooks, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Jeffrey Lloyd Layne, Robert May, T.J. McClain, Christopher Michael, Bob Minor, Steve Reevis, Sy Richardson, Dario Scardapane, Frank A. Soto, David Jean Thomas, Mark Twogood, Karen Williams. The black leader of a group of infantry men prowls the West looking for the gang that hung their father. Confusing revenge motif dampens this otherwise moderately okay outing.

3148  Posse from Heaven  P.M. Films, 1975. 87 min. Color. D: Phillip Pine. SC: Ward Wood and Phillip Pine. With Fanne Foxe, Todd Compton, Sherry Bain, Ward Wood, Dick Burch. A non-too-bright young man is sent to the Old West by God to save it from sin and the Archangel Gabriel comes along, reincarnated as a horse, to protect him. Hard-to-believe Western fantasy made on the cheap.

3149  Posse from Hell  Universal-International, 1961. 89 min. Color. D: Herbert Coleman. SC: Clair Huffaker. With Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert, Vic Morrow, Robert Keith, Ward Ramsey, Rodolfo Acosta, Royal Dano, Frank Overton, James Bell, Paul Carr, Lee Van Cleef, Ray Teal, Forrest Lewis, Charles Horvath, Harry Lauter, Henry Wills, Stuart Randell, Allan Lane, Rand Brooks, I. Stanford Jolley, Kenneth MacDonald, Steve Darrell. When four escaped convicts murder the town marshal, an ex-gunman friend of the lawman forms a posse to catch the killers. Clair Huffaker adapted his novel for this film but the end result is nothing exceptional.

3150  Powder River  20th Century–Fox, 1953. 77 min. Color. D: Louis King. SC: Geoffrey Homes. With Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, Cameron Mitchell, Penny Edwards, Carl Betz, John Dehner, Raymond Greenleaf, Victor Sutherland, Ethan Laidlaw, Robert Wilke, Harry Carter, Robert Adler, Post Park, Richard Garrick, James Griffith, Stanley Andrews, Frank Ferguson, Henry Kulky, Walter Sande, Zon Murray, Ray Bennett, Arthur MacDonald, Val Setz, Harry Hines, Hank Worden, Robert Foulk, Doodles Weaver, Mae Marsh, Emmett Vogan, Eddy Waller, George Lynn, Edward Hearn, John Berardino, Paul E. Burns, Phil Chambers, Ruth Warren, Paul Newlan, Harry Seymour. After his buddy is murdered, a man takes the job of town sheriff in order to capture the gambler he suspects of the crime, but he too is killed. Minor, but rather interesting oater with a good cast.

3151  Powder River Rustlers  Republic, 1949. 60 min. D: Philip ford. SC: Richard Wormser. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Gerry Ganzer, Roy Barcroft, Bud Geary, Cliff Clark, Francis McDonald, Douglas Evans, Bruce Edwards, Stanley Blystone, Eddie Parker, Herman Hack. A government agent investigates a scheme to bilk locals through a bridge building contract. Although it contains some action, this is one of the more drab “Famous Westerns” entries.

3152  Powderkeg  CBS-TV/Filmways, 1971. 93 min. Color. D-SC: Douglas Heyes. With Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Fernando Lamas, Luciana Paluzzi, John McIntire, Michael Ansara, Tisha Sterling, Reni Santoni, Melodie Johnson, William Bryant, Joe DeSantis, Jay Novello, Jim L. (James) Brown, Roy Jenson. In 1914 outlaws hijack a train and hold its passenger hostages as two troubleshooters are hired to capture the gang. Pretty fair action drama that resulted in the brief series “The Bearcats” (CBS-TV, 1971).

3153  Powdersmoke Range  RKO Radio, 1935. 72 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Adele Buffington. With Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Guinn Williams, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Boots Mallory, Ray Mayer, Sam Hardy, Adrian Morris, Wally Wales, Art Mix, Buddy Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Franklyn Farnum, William Desmond, William Farnum, Buzz Barton, Ethan Laidlaw, Irving Bacon, Henry Roquemore, Bob McKenzie, Frank Rice, Eddie Dunn, Barney Furey, Jim Mason, Nelson McDowell, Frank Ellis, Phil Dunham, Tex Palmer, George Sowards, Lem Sowards, Silver Tip Baker, Silver Harr, Charles Murphy. When their pal is framed on a murder charge by a crook and his lawman cohort, three cowboys come to his defense but are forced to go up against a notorious hired gunman. Slick, well acted and produced version of William Colt MacDonald’s novel, this initial film to include all “Three Mesquiteers” is a who’s who of genre stars; well worth viewing.

Guinn Williams, Buzz Barton, Hoot Gibson, Art Mix and Harry Carey in Powdersmoke Range (RKO Radio, 1935).

Power of Justice see Beyond the Sacramento

Power of Possession see Lawless Empire

3154  The Prairie  Screen Guild, 1947. 80 min. D: Frank Wisbar. SC: Arthur St. Claire. With Lenore Aubert, Alan Baxter, Russ Vincent, Jack (John) Mitchum, Charles Evans, Edna Holland, Chief Thundercloud, Fred Coby, Bill Murphy, David Gerber, George Morrell, Don Lynch, Chief Yowlachie, Jay Silverheels, Beth Taylor, Frank Hemingway (narrator). The story of the trials and tribulations of pioneers as they settle upstate New York in the pre–Revolution period, battling Indians and the elements. Paltry adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper work.

3155  Prairie Badmen  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 55 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patricia Knox, Charles King, Ed Cassidy, Kermit Maynard, John Cason, Steve Clark, Frank Ellis, John L. (Budd) Buster. Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones try to help a medicine showman return gold he found to its owner but an outlaw gang also wants it. Typically shoddy entry in the “Billy Carson” series.

3156  Prairie Chickens  United Artists, 1943. 46 min. D: Hal Roach, Jr. SC: Arnold Belgrade and Earle Snell. With Noah Beery, Jr., Jimmy Rogers, Marjorie Reynolds, Joseph Sawyer, Raymond Hatton, Rosemary LaPlanche, Jack Norton, Edward Gargan, Frank Faylen, Dudley Dickerson, Mary Ann Deighton, Mike Mazurki, Noel Neill, Ray Teal, Ethan Laidlaw, Glenn Strange, Jayne Hazzard, Nancy Brinkman. Two cowpokes get involved with a man who has just inherited a ranch. Last of the trio of mediocre featurettes Hal Roach produced with Noah Beery, Jr., and Jimmy Rogers (Will’s son); the highlight is Jack Norton’s usual tipsy portrayal of the rancher.

3157  Prairie Express  Monogram, 1947. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Anthony Coldeway and J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Belmont, Robert Winkler, William Ruhl, Marshall Reed, Gary Garrett, Ted Adams, Curly Gibson, Frank LaRue, Steve Darrell, Hank Worden, Carl Mathews, Boyd Stockman, Steve Clark, Artie Ortego, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Hendricks. A respected citizen is behind a gang out to force a family off their ranch so the land can be bought cheap and sold to the railroad. Average Johnny Mack Brown–Raymond Hatton series affair.

3158  Prairie Fever  ION Television, 2008. 81 min. Color. D: Stephen Bridgewater and Davis S. Cass, Sr. SC: Steven H. Berman. With Kevin Sorbo, Lance Henriksen, Dominique Swain, Jamie Anne Allman, Jillian Armenante, Felicia Day, Lucy Lee Flippin, Robert Norsworthy, Blake Gibbons, Don Swayze, Richard Clarke Larsen, Silas Weir Mitchell, Ken Magee, Chris McKenna, E.E.Bell, Michael Bonnabel, Michael Ensign, Jacob Bruce, Caryn Mower, Mark Brooks, Monty Stuart, Jerry Wills, Richard Bucher, Gianfranco Tordi, Caroline Neville, Mark Kulka. A one time lawman, now a drunk, agrees to take three unstable mail order brides to Carson City and he joins forces with a female crook when one of the women’s mean minded husbands pursues them. The title refers to mental illness in this okay video Western.

3159  Prairie Gunsmoke  Columbia, 1942. 56 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Fred Myton. With Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, Virginia Carroll, Frank Mitchell, Hal Price, Tristram Coffin, Joe McGuinn, Frosty Royce, Rick Anderson, Art Mix, Francis Walker, Ray Jones, Ted Mapes, Glenn Strange, Steve Clark, Paul Conrad, Herman Hack, Horace B. Carpenter, Milburn Morante, George Morrell, Fred Parker, Jack Evans, Tex Cooper. Although Wild Bill Hickok comes to a frontier town to help citizens and ranchers harassed by rustlers, he finds he is distrusted by the locals. Good action filled “Wild Bill Hickok” entry, the last in the series.

3160  Prairie Justice  Universal, 1938. 58 min. D: George Waggner. SC: Joseph West (George Waggner). With Bob Baker, Dorothy Fay, Hal Taliaferro, Jack Rockwell, Carleton Young, Jack Kirk, Forrest Taylor, Glenn Strange, Tex Palmer, Slim Whitaker, Murdock MacQuarrie, Chuck Baldra, Dick Dickinson, Jimmy Phillips, Archie Ricks, Victor Cox, George Plues, George Hazel, Tex Phelps, Wimpy (dog). When cattle rustlers murder his father a cowboy gets on their trail for revenge. Routine Bob Baker series vehicle.

3161  The Prairie King  Universal, 1927. 57 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Frank Howard Clark and William Wallace Cook. With Hoot Gibson, Barbara Worth, Albert Prisco, Charles Sellon, Rosa Gore, Sidney Jarvis, George Periolat, Robert Homans, Jim Corey, Jack Randall, Andrew Waldron. A mine owner leaves his property to a cowboy, a young woman and a man who will go to any lengths to get the total bequest for himself. Typically breezy Hoot Gibson silent affair.

3162  Prairie Law  RKO Radio, 1940. 58 min. D: David Howard. SC: Doris Schroeder and Arthur V. Jones. With George O’Brien, Virginia Vale, J. Farrell MacDonald, Slim Whitaker, Dick Hogan, Cy Kendall, Paul Everton, Henry Hall, Monte Montague, Quen Ramsey, Lloyd Ingraham, Bud Osborne, Ferris Taylor, Ben Corbett, Hank Bell, Cactus Mack, Frank O’Connor, Jack O’Shea, Ed Brady, Hank Worden, Frank Ellis, Billy Benedict, Jack Henderson. Crooks bring settlers to range land with false promises of plenty of water but the scheme is soon opposed by a cattleman who wants to help the homesteaders. Fine George O’Brien film with a good plot and cast.

3163  Prairie Moon  Republic, 1938. 58 min. D: Ralph Staub. SC: Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Shirley Deane, Tommy Ryan, Warner Richmond, Tom London, William Pawley, Walter Tetley, David Gorcey, Stanley Andrews, Peter Potter, Bud Osborne, Ray Bennett, Jack Rockwell, Merrill McCormick, Hal Price, Lew Meehan, Jack Kirk, Frankie Marvin, Mira McKinney, Dan White, Al Taylor, Fred Burns, Chuck Baldra, Art Baker, Buster Slaven. Gene and Frog become the guardians of three youths whose father was a gangster and the boys help rustlers hide cattle on their ranch. Pretty fair Gene Autry musical with the old ploy of having cattle sequestered behind a waterfall.

Prairie Outlaws see Wild West

3164  Prairie Pals  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1942. 60 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: Patricia Harper. With Bill “Cowboy Rambler” Boyd, Art Davis, Lee Powell, Esther Estrella, Charles King, John Merton, Kermit Maynard, I. Stanford Jolley, Karl Hackett, Bob Burns, Al St. John, Art Dillard, Curley Dresden, Frank McCarroll, Bill Patton, Carl Mathews, Frank Ellis, Jack (J. Merrill) Holmes, Bert Dillard, Al Taylor, George Morrell, Jack Kenney, Morgan Flowers. Outlaws kidnap a scientist working on a formula to extract gold from rock and a trio of lawmen try to rescue him. Tacky next to the last outing in the low grade “Frontier Marshals” series.

3165  Prairie Pioneers  Republic, 1941. 58 min. D: Lester Orlebeck. SC: Barry Shipman. With Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Esther Estrella, Robert Kellard, Guy D’Ennery, Davison Clark, Jack Ingram, Kenneth MacDonald, Lee Shumway, Mary MacLaren, Yakima Canutt, Wheaton Chambers, Jack Kirk, Carleton Young, Frank Ellis, Cactus Mack, Curley Dresden, Frank McCarroll, Leander De Cordova, Rosa Turich, Pascale Perry, Bob Burns, Dan White, Al Taylor, Tom Smith, Silver Tip Baker, Roy Bucko, Chuck Baldra, Jim Corey, George Plues, Ray Henderson. A half-breed outlaw is trying to steal a gold mine and three cowboys are out to stop him. Not one of the better “Three Mesquiteers” features despite a fine supporting cast of genre favorites.

3166  The Prairie Pirate  Producers Distributing Corporation, 1925. 60 min. D: Edmund Mortimer. SC: Anthony Dillon. With Harry Carey, Jean Dumas, Lloyd Whitlock, Trilby Clark, Robert Edeson, Tote Du Crow, Evelyn Selbie, Fred Kohler. After his sister is murdered, a cowboy becomes an outlaw in order to track down the killer. Entertaining Harry Carey silent oater.

3167  Prairie Raiders  Columbia, 1947. 55 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Nancy Saunders, Robert Scott, Ozie Waters and His Colorado Rangers, Hugh Prosser, Lane Bradford, Ray Bennett, Doug Coppin, Steve Clark, Tommy Coats, Frank LaRue, John Cason, Sam Flint, Scotty Harrell, Eddie Kirk. A rancher leases land from the Interior Department so he can round up and sell horses but is faced with competition from outlaws. Another look-a-like “Durango Kid” film.

3168  Prairie Roundup  Columbia, 1951. 53 min. D: Fred F. Sears. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Mary Castle, Frank Fenton, The Sunshine Boys (Eddie Wallace, Freddie Daniel, M.H. Richman, J.D. Sumner), Lane Chandler, Frank Sully, Paul Campbell, Forrest Taylor, Don C. Harvey, George Baxter, John Cason, Al Wyatt, Allan Sears, Glenn Thompson, Ace Richmond, Blackie Whiteford. Falsely accused of murder by an outlaw gang, a cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his pal and the two take jobs on a ranch owned by a young woman whose cattle the bad men plan to rustle. Fast moving “Durango Kid” affair.

3169  Prairie Rustlers  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945. 56 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Evelyn Finley, Karl Hackett, Bud Osborne, Marin Sais, I. Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Tex Cooper, Dorothy Vernon, Tex Williams, Wally West, Jimmy Aubrey, John Cason, Al Ferguson, Dean Eaker, George Bamby, Carl Mathews, Ray Jones, Al Haskell, Jack Evans. Because of a close resemblance to his outlaw cousin, Billy Carson is accused of the desperado’s crimes. No better or worse than most of the “Billy Carson” features.

3170  Prairie Schooners  Columbia, 1940. 58 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Robert Lee Johnson and Fred Myton. With Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young, Dub Taylor, Kenneth Harlan, Ray Teal, Bob Burns, Netta Parker, Richard Fiske, Edmund Cobb, Jim Thorpe, George Morrell, Merrill McCormick, Sammy Stein. Wild Bill Hickok leads a wagon train of settlers, who have lost their lands due to foreclosures, west to search for gold and along the way they are attacked by Indians. Action filled initial entry in the “Wild Bill Hickok” series starring Bill Elliott.

3171  Prairie Stranger  Columbia, 1941. 58 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Winston Miller. With Charles Starrett, Cliff Edwards, Patti McCarty, Lew Preston and His Ranch Hands, Forbes Murray, Frank LaRue, Archie Twitchell, Francis Walker, Edmund Cobb, Jim Corey, Russ Powell, George Morrell, Chester Conklin, Monty Collins, Hank Bell, George Sherwood, Edward Hearn, Lynn Lewis, John Tyrrell, Ray Jones, Jack Tornek, Rube Dalroy. A frontier doctor opens a practice in a Nevada town and finds he is opposed by a rival and accused of poisoning cattle. Nicely done third and final entry in the all-too-brief “Doc Monroe” series, based on the books by James L. Rubel.

3172  Prairie Thunder  Warner Bros., 1937. 54 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Dick Foran, Ellen Clancy (Janet Shaw), Wilfred Lucas, Frank Orth, Frank Ellis, Yakima Canutt, Arthur J. Smith, George Chesebro, J.P. McGowan, John Harron, Frank McCarroll, Slim Whitaker, Henry Otho, Art Mix, Jim Corey, Iron Eyes Cody. A cavalry scout learns a freight operator has been inciting Indians to disrupt the construction of telegraph lines. Dick Foran’s final Warner Bros.’ series Western is a pretty good one.

3173  Prescott Kid  Columbia, 1934. 60 min. D: David Selman. SC: Ford Beebe. With Tim McCoy, Sheila Mannors, Alden Chase, Hooper Atchley, Joseph (Sawyer) Sauers, Albert J. Smith, Carlos De Valdez, Ernie Adams, Steve Clark, Slim Whitaker, Charles King, Bud Osborne, Art Mix, Tom London, Edmund Cobb, Walter Brennan, Lew Meehan, Jack Rockwell, Blackie Whiteford, Bill Patton, Bob Burns, Al Haskell, Fred Burns, Rose Plummer, Lionel Backus, Roy Bucko, Bob Card. Riding into a small town, a man is mistaken for the expected marshal and runs up against a gang of crooks. Exceedingly well done Tim McCoy film; worth watching.

The Price of Crime see Law of the Canyon

3174  The Price of Death  Overseas Film Company, 1971. 91 min. Color. D: Vincent Thomas (Lorenzo Gicca Palli). SC: Enzo Gicca (Lorenzo Gicca Palli). With Gianni Garko, Klaus Kinski, Gely Genka, Franco Abbina, Luciano Lorcas, Laura Gianoli, Giancarlo Prete, Luigi Castellato, Alan Collins (Luciano Pigozzi), Franca De Stratis, Andrea Scotti (Andrew Scott), Alfredo Rizzo, Giuseppe Castellano, Silvana Bacci, Fortunato Arena, Osiride Pevarello, Tchang Yu, Augusto Funari, Fulvio Pellegrino. An unpopular citizen is accused of killing several people in a robbery and a gunman is hired by a lawyer and a hooker to prove his innocence. Better than average Spaghetti Western with an intriguing mystery angle; produced in Italy by Mida Cinematographic as Il Venditore di Morte (The Seller of Death).

3175  The Price of Power  Golden Era, 1969. 96 min. Color. D: Tonino Valerii. SC: Massimo Patrizi. With Giuliano Gemma, Van Johnson, Warren Vanders, Fernando Rey, Jose Suarez, Benito Stefanelli, Maria Jesus Cuadra, Ray Saunders, Maria Luisa Sala, Antonio Casas, Manolo Zarzo, Frank Brana, Jose Calvo, Angel Alvarez, Julio Pena, Francisco Sanz. In post–Civil War Texas a man wants revenge on those who falsely accused his buddy of killing the governor, resulting in his friend’s death by a mob. Interesting pseudo-historical Italian action feature issued in that country by Patry Film/Film Montana as Il Prezzo de Potere (The Price of Power), running 122 minutes.

3176  Pride of the Plains  Republic, 1944. 56 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: John K. Butler and Bob Williams. With Robert Livingston, Smiley Burnette, Nancy Gay, Stephen Barclay, Kenneth MacDonald, Charles Miller, Kenne Duncan, Jack Kirk, Bud Geary, Yakima Canutt, Budd Buster, Bud Osborne, Horace B. Carpenter, Kansas Moehring. A lawman is on the trail of an outlaw gang rustling cattle sold to be canned for animal food. Bob Livingston’s first of two “John Paul Revere” films is a good one.

3177  Pride of the West  Paramount, 1938. 56 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: NateWatt. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George Hayes, Charlotte Field, Earle Hodgins, Billy King, Kenneth Harlan, Art Mix, Glenn Strange, James Craig, Bruce Mitchell, Willie Fung, George Morrell, Earl Askam, Jim Toney, Horace B. Carpenter, Henry Otho, Leo J. McMahon, Wen Wright, Jess Cavin, Johnny Luther, Charles Murphy. A realty agent uses a stagecoach robber to help him defraud citizens and Hopalong Cassidy gets on their trail. Action packed entry in the popular series based on the Clarence H. Mulford characters.

3178  Prince of the Plains  Republic, 1949. 60 min. D: Philip Ford. SC: Louise Rousseau and Albert DeMond. With Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Shirley Davis, Roy Barcroft, Rory Mallinson, Harry Lauter, Lane Bradford, George Carleton, Edmund Cobb, Holly Bane, Frank Jaquet, Tom Chatterton. An outlaw gang raids and terrorizes ranchers while a cowboy tries to stop them. More than passable Monte Hale feature that should please his fans.

3179  The Prisoner of Shark Island  20th Century–Fox, 1936. 95 min. D: John Ford. SC: Nunnally Johnson. With Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O.P. Heggie, Harry Carey, Francis Ford, John McGuire, Francis McDonald, Douglas Wood, John Carradine, Joyce Kay, Fred Kohler, Ernest Whitman, Paul Fix, Frank Shannon, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Leila McIntyre, Etta McDaniel, J.M. Kerrigan, Arthur Loft, Paul McVey, Maurice Murphy, Paul Stanton, Wilfred Lucas, Stanley Blystone, Paul Kruger, Vester Pegg, Merrill McCormick, J.P. McGowan, Harry Strang, Arthur Millett, Jack Pennick, Jan Dugan, James Marcus, Lloyd Whitlock, Murdock MacQuarrie, Dick Elliott, Bud Geary, Robert Homans, Cecil Weston, Beulah Hall Jones, Duke R. Lee, Paul McAllister, John Lester Johnson, Raymond Turner, Gus Reed, Earl Eby, Robert Dudley, Cyril Thornton, Charles Haefeli, Henry Washington. Dr. Samuel Mudd is accused of helping John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination and is sentenced to life in the hellhole at Dry Tortugas Island but after a failed escape attempt he redeems himself during a yellow fever epidemic. Grand historical drama highlighted by Warner Baxter’s wonderful portrayal of Dr. Mudd.

John McGuire, Fred Kohler, Jr., Gloria Stuart, Joyce Kay, Warner Baxter and Claude Gillingwater, Sr., in The Prisoner of Shark Island (20th Century–Fox, 1936).

3180  The Professionals  Columbia, 1966. 117 min. Color. D-SC: Richard Brooks. With Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Bellamy, Woody Strode, Joe De Santis, Rafael Bertrand, Jorge Martinez De Hoyos, Maria Gomez, Jose Chavez, Carlos Romero, Vaughn Taylor, Robert Conteras, Don Carlos, John Lopez, John McKee, Eddie Little Sky, Leigh Chapman, Elizabeth Campbell, Phil Parslow. A wealthy man hires a quartet of mercenaries to return his young wife kidnapped by a bandit outlaw during the 1917 Mexican Revolution. More than adequate action melodrama.

Promise Fulfilled see The Wildcat of Tucson  

3181  Promise the Moon  Sullivan Entertainment, 1997. 94 min. Color. D: Ken Jubenvill. SC: Kevin Sullivan and Peter Behren. With Henry Czemy, Colette Stevenson, Shawn Ashmore, Aidam Devine, Richard Donat, Ken James, Gloria May Eshkibook, David Fox, Gordon Michael Woolveth, Frank Crudele, Richard McMillan, J.W. Caroll, James Nicholson, Maja Ardal, Robert Haley. After his rancher boss dies, a worker looks after the man’s deaf son and his Indian woman guardian as he tries to stop a banker from foreclosing on the property. Heartwarming modern TV drama filmed in Canada.

3182  The Proposition  The Works, 2005. 104 min. Color. D: John Hillcoat. SC: Nick Cave. With Richard Wilson, Noah Taylor, Jeremy Madrona, Jae Mamuyac, Guy Pearce, Mick Roughan, Shane Watt, Ray Winstone, Robert Morgan, David Gulpilli, Bryan Probets, Oliver Ackland, Danny Huston, David Vallon, Daniel Parker, Carl Rush, Gary Waddell, Iain Gardiner, Emily Watson, Bogdan Koca, Sue Dwyer, Lance Medlin, John Hurt, David Wenham, Rodney Boschman, Boris Brkic, Ned Rose, Leah Purcell, Tom Budge, Tom E. Lewis, Ralph Cotterill, Max Age, Jerry Solomon. A lawman promises to pardon two outlaw brothers if they will kill their older sibling within nine days after their gang massacred a farm family. Violent, well made Australian Western about the early settlement of that nation.

3183  The Proud and the Damned  Prestige, 1972. 97 min. Color. D-SC: Ferde Grofe, Jr. With Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, Jose Greco, Henry Capps, Peter Ford, Smoky Roberts, Maria Grimm, Dana Lorca, Anita Quinn, Conrad Parkman, Alvaro Ruiz. Four Civil War veterans drift into Latin America and are forced to help a military dictator. Fair drama helped by Chuck Connors and Cesar Romero.

3184  Proud Men  ABC-TV, 1987. 96 min. Color. D: William A. Graham. SC: Jeff Andrus. With Charlton Heston, Peter Strauss, Nan Martin, Alan Autry, Belinda Balaski, Maria Mayenzet, Red West, Gregory Kupiec, Buck Taylor, Mark McIntire, Darren Prentice, Billy Ray Sharkey, Dale Swan, Bud Walls, Steve Whittaker, John Woodbridge. A dying cattle rancher and his Vietnam War deserter son try to resolve their personal bitterness before it is too late. Thoughtful modern-day Western.

3185  The Proud Ones  20th Century–Fox, 1956. 94 min. Color. D: Robert D. Webb. SC: Edmund North and Joseph Petracca. With Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Middleton, Walter Brennan, Arthur O’Connell, Ken Clark, Rodolfo Acosta, George Mathews, Fay Roope, Edward Platt, Whit Bissell, Paul Burns, Richard Deacon, Lois Ray, Jack Low, Kenneth Terrell, Don Brodie, Jackie Coogan, Juanita Close, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Mather, Steve Darrell. A young man, bent on getting revenge on the lawman who killed his father, arrives in a small town with two hired guns to carry out his plan. Fairly interesting psychological yarn, enhanced by good performances.

3186  The Proud Rebel  Buena Vista, 1958. 103 min. Color. D: Michael Curtiz. SC: Joseph Petracca and Lillie Hayward. With Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd, Cecil Kellaway, Dean Stanton, Tom Pittman, Henry Hull, Eli Mintz, James Westerfield, John Carradine, Mary Wickes, Percy Helton, Dan White, King (dog). A woman who refuses to sell out to a rich sheep farmer hires a convict, falsely imprisoned by the man, to help her work the place and fight their mutual enemy. Rather interesting Disney feature with a good cast and plot.

3187  Public Cowboy No. 1  Republic, 1937. 59 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Oliver Drake. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, William Farnum, James C. Morton, Maston Williams, Arthur Loft, Frankie Marvin, House Peters, Jr., Frank LaRue, Milburn Morante, Hal Price, Jack Ingram, Ray Bennett, Frank Ellis, George Plues, Jim Mason, Bob Burns. Ranchers are stymied by the loss of cattle until a singing cowboy discovers that rustlers are using modern methods like radios, airplanes and refrigerated trucks. Popular and well done Gene Autry vehicle.

3188  Pueblo Terror  Artclass, 1931. 59 min. D: Alvin J. Neitz (Alan James). SC: L.V. Jefferson. With Buffalo Bill, Jr., Wanda Hawley, Jack Harvey, Jim Spencer, Aline Goodwin, Art Mix, Yakima Canutt, Horace B. Carpenter, Al Ferguson, Hank Bell, Robert Walker, Herman Hack, Frank Ball, Chuck Baldra, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. A man, returning home to Paradise Valley after being gone three years, must prove his innocence when framed for a murder committed by a ranch foreman in cahoots with a crook out to take over area ranches. Feeble poverty row effort headlining laconic Buffalo Bill, Jr. (Jay Wilsey).

3189  El Puma  Filmadora Independiente, 1958. 77 min. D: Rene Cardona. SC: Jesus Cardenas. With Rene Cardona, Jr., Sofia Alvarez, Lorena Velazquez, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Guerrero, Rene Cardona, Andres Soler, Miguel Manzano, David Reynoso, Jorge Alzaga, Victor Velazquez, Ada Carrasco, Armando Gutierrez, Rafael Estrada, Emilio Garibay, Dacia Gonzalez. Alienated from his rancher father, a frontier lawyer is forced to become a gunman when opposed by a bandit. Pretty fair Mexican Western that spawned two sequels, La Ley del Mas Rapido and A Tiro Limpio (qq.v.).

3190  Punos de Roca (Fists of Rock)  Alameda Films, 1960. 90 min. D: Rafael Baledon. With Rafael Bertrand, Olivia Michel, Alfonso Mejia, Pedro de Aguillon, Quintin Buines, Guillermo Cramer, Jose Chavez, Maria Idalia, Jose Baviera. A cowboy comes across massacred settlers and assists the Mexican army in its struggle with marauding Indians in hopes of finding the real killers. Gritty Mexican oater.

3191  Pure Country  Warner Bros., 1992. 112 min. Color. D: Christopher Cain. SC: Rex McGee. With George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren, Isabel Glasser, Kyle Chandler, John Doe, Rory Calhoun, Molly McClure, James Terry McIlvain, Toby Metcalf, Mark Walters, Sharon Thomas, Gil Glasgow, Julie Johnson, Fred Ellis, Fred Fontana, Kristen Michaels, Jeff Prettyman, David Anthony, Mike D. Daily, Gene Elders, Terry Hale, Rondel Huckaby, Mike A. Kennedy, Benny McArthur, Rick McRae, Tom Christopher, Jeffrey R. Fontana, Evelyn Furtak, Eric Randall, Loretta Holloway, Roy Kieffer, Bob Tallman. A burned out country music star finds romance as he seeks to return to his Western heritage. Pleasant George Strait vehicle in which he demonstrates his riding and roping skills in addition to singing.

3192  Purgatory  Turner Network Television (TNT), 1999. 95 min. Color. D: Uli Edel. SC: Gordon Dawson. With Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts, Randy Quaid, Peter Stormare, Brad Rowe, Donnie Whalberg, John David Souther, Amelia Heinie, Shannon Kenny, John Dennis Johnston, Saginaw Grant, Richard Edson, Gregory Scott Cummins, John Diehl, R.G. Armstrong, Michael Shaner, Les Lannon, Phil Hawn. Trailed by a posse, a gang arrives in a remote town where famous dead outlaws await judgment as to whether they will go to heaven or hell. Curio TV horror Western, well done but somewhat confusing.

3193  The Purple Hills  20th Century–Fox, 1961. 60 min. Color. D: Maury Dexter. SC: Edith Cash Pearl and Russell (Russ) Bender. With Gene Nelson, Kent Taylor, Joanna Barnes, Russ Bender, Jerry Summers, Jack Carr, Danny Zapien, Jack Riggs, Medford Salway. When a cowboy kills an outlaw in Indian Territory he finds he is hunted by tribesmen as he attempts to take the body in for the reward. Compact little “B” effort.

Jerry Summers, Joanna Barnes, Russ Bender, Kent Taylor and Gene Nelson in The Purple Hills (20th Century–Fox, 1961).

3194  The Purple Vigilantes  Republic, 1938. 58 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Burbridge and Oliver Drake. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Joan Barclay, Earle Hodgins, Earl Dwire, Jack Perrin, Francis Sayles, George Chesebro, Robert Fiske, Ernie Adams, William Gould, Harry Strang, Ed Cassidy, Frank O’Connor, Jason Robards, Niles Welch, Allan Cavan, Jack Kirk, George (Montgomery) Letz, Lee Shumway, Ed Peil, Sr., Frank Ellis, Curley Dresden, Murdock MacQuarrie, Frankie Marvin, Bob Burns, Merrill McCormick, Dot Farley, Bill Patton, Wally West, Jim Corey, Fred Burns, Herman Hack, Tom Smith, Brandon Beach, Billy Bletcher (voice). Outlaws use the guise of a vigilante group to terrorize the locals until three cowboy pals get on their trail. Well made entry in the popular “Three Mesquiteers” series.

Pursued (1928) see The Arizona Kid (1928)

3195  Pursued  Warner Bros., 1947. 100 min. D: Raoul Walsh SC: Niven Busch. With Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale, John Rodney, Harry Carey, Jr., Clifton Young, Ernest Severn, Charles Bates, Peggy Miller, Norman Jolley, Lane Chandler, Elmer Ellingwood, Jack Montgomery, Ian MacDonald, Kathy Jeanne Johnson, Mickey Little, Scotty Hugenberg, Ray Teal, Eddy Waller, Russ Clark, Jack Davis, Crane Whitley, Carl Harbough, Lester Dorr, Bill Sundholm, Paul Scardon, Harry Lamont, Erville Alderson, Sherman Saunders, Al Kundee, Ben Corbett, Charles Miller, Tom Fadden, Virginia Brissac, Ervin Richardson, Louise Volding, Ian Wolfe, Ian Coffey. A young man haunted by his past sets out to find his father’s murderer. Psychological Western that is a bit hard to follow but is fairly entertaining with fine work by Robert Mitchum as a Spanish-American War veteran.

3196  Pursuit  Key International, 1975. 86 min. Color. D: Thomas Quillen. SC: DeWitt Lee and Jack Lee. With Ray Danton, DeWitt Lee, Troy Nabors, Diane Taylor, Eva Kovacs, Jason Clark. An Army scout wounded by a bear is tracked through the desert by an Indian brave who wants to kill him. Suspenseful R-rated thriller.

3197  Pursuit Across the Desert  Cinematografica Intercontinental, 1960. 75 min. Color. D: Gilberto Gazcon. SC: Gilberto Gazcon, Fernando Mendez and Raul de Anda. With Pedro Armendariz, Teresa Velasquez (Tere Velazquez), Sonia Furio, Agustin de Anda, Andres Soler, Carlos Lopez Moctezunna, Felix Gonzales, Jose Chavez. Although he knows he is innocent, a lawman attempts to return an accused murderer who escaped from jail. Well done Mexican drama, originally called La Carcel de Cananea (The Jail of Cananea).

Put on the Spot see Rio Grande Romance

3198  Pyramid of the Sun God  Gloria Film, 1965. 98 min. D: Robert Siodmak. SC: Ladislas Fodor, R.A. Stemmle and Georg Marischka. With Lex Barker, Gerard Barray, Michele Girardon, Hans Nielsen, Rik Battaglia, Gustavo Rojo, Teresa Lorca, Ralf Wolter, Kelo Henderson, Alessandra Panaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Antun Nalis, Vladimir Popovic, Branimir Tori Jankovic, Nada Radovic, Peter Buntic, Petar Obradovic, Jovan Rancic, Willy Egger, Rolf Rolphs, John Kirby, Jeff Corey, Fausto Tozzi, Jovan Nikolic. In Mexico in the 1860s two German emissaries originally allied with Emperor Maxmilian change sides and support the revolution led by Juarez, as both groups seek ancient Aztec treasure. Action filled West German follow up to The Treasure of the Aztecs (q.v.), filmed back-to-back with that feature as Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes (The Pyramid of the Sun Gods).

3199  Quantez  Universal-International, 1957. 80 min. Color. D: Harry Keller. SC: R. Wright Campbell. With Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, John Gavin, James Barton, Sydney Chaplin, John Larch, Michael Ansara. Several people are held prisoner in a saloon by a group of bank robbers who are heading for Mexico. Compact little melodrama that is well acted.

3200  Quantrill’s Raiders  Allied Artists, 1958. 71 min. Color. D: Edward Bernds. SC: Polly James. With Steve Cochran, Diane Brewster, Leo Gordon, Gale Robbins, Will Wright, Kim Charney, Myron Healey, Robert Foulk, Glenn Strange, Lane Chandler, Guy Prescott, Thomas Browne Henry, Dan White, Robert Colbert. General Robert E. Lee sends a Confederate captain to contact Quantrill about raiding a Kansas arsenal but the emissary soon turns against the guerrilla leader. Not much historical fact here but there is some action with Leo Gordon believable as Quantrill.

3201  Quebec  Paramount, 1951. 85 min. Color. D: George Templeton. SC: Alan LeMay. With John Barrymore, Jr., Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Arnold Moss, Don Haggerty, Patsy Ruth Miller, Howard Joslin, Paul Guevremont, Adrian Belanger. During the 1837 Canadian rebellion against England a rebel leader falls in love with the wife of the British commander. Average historical effort.

3202  Queen of the Yukon  Monogram, 1940. 73 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Joseph West (George Waggner). With Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, Melvin Lang, George Cleveland, Guy Usher, June Carlson, Dave O’Brien, Tristram Coffin, John Merton, I. Stanford Jolley, J. Merrill Holmes, Gene O’Donnell, Jack Daley, Johnny Morris, C.E. Anderson. An aging dance hall hostess tries to protect her daughter from her way of life during the gold rush days. Taken from a Jack London story, this program feature offers a fine performance by veteran star Irene Rich in the title role.

3203  The Quest  NBC-TV/Columbia, 1976. 100 min. Color. D: Lee H. Katzin. SC: Tracy Keenan Wynn. With Tim Matheson, Kurt Russell, Brian Keith, Keenan Wynn, Will Hutchins, Neville Brand, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward, Art Lund, Mark Lambert, Gregory Walcott, Iron Eyes Cody, Luke Askew, Irene Yah-Ling Sun, Nick Ramus, Nathan Jung, Michael Swan. Two brothers search for their sister who was taken from them as a child and now lives with the Indians. Pretty fair TV movie that resulted in a series of the same title which had a brief run on NBC-TV in 1976.

Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson in The Quest (NBC-TV, 1976).

3204  The Quest: The Longest Drive  Columbia Pictures Television, 1976. 89 min. Color. D: Bernard McEveety. SC: Michael Michaelian and Katharyn Michaelian Powers. With Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Dan O’Herlihy, Keenan Wynn, Woody Strode, Erik Estrada, Sander Johnson, Cooper Huckabee, John Rubinstein, Gary Lockwood, Dick Davalos, Angela May, Meegan King, John Alvin, Duncan McLeod, Judith Hanson, Glenn Buttkus, Bill Smillie, Frank Salsedo, Peter Haas, Reid Rondell, Mary Angela, Jane Kellem. A pair of siblings go on a cattle drive to Colorado and have a series of adventures with Indians, rustlers, homesteaders, thirst and a stampede. Okay TV movie derived from the “The Quest” (NBC-TV, 1976).

3205  The Quick and the Dead  Home Box Office (HBO), 1987. 91 min. Color. D: Robert Day. SC: James Lee Barrett. With Sam Elliot, Kate Capshaw, Tom Conti, Matt Clark, Kenny Morrison, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jerry Potter, Billy Streater, Del Shores, R.K. Tolbert, Jeffrey M. Meyer, Kurt D. Lott, Hardy Rawls, Larry Sellors, Bill Stedman. A frontiersman assists newly arrived settlers besieged by outlaws with the wife finding herself attracted to the defender. Entertaining TV movie adaptation of Louis L’Amour’s novel.

3206  The Quick and the Dead  Tri-Star Pictures, 1995. 107 min. Color. D: Sam Raimi. SC: Simon Moore. With Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell, Roberts Blossom, Kevin Conway, Keith David, Lance Henriksen, Pat Hingle, Gary Sinise, Mark Boone Junior, Olivia Burnette, Fay Masterson, Raynor Scheine, Woody Strode, Jerry Swindall, Scott Spiegel, Jonothon Gill, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Lennie Loftin, Matthew Gold, Arturo Gastelu, David Cornell, Josef Rainer, Stacey Ramsower, Tony Boggs, Scott Ryder, Timothy Patrick Quill, Solomon Abrams, John Cameron, Michael Stone, Butch Molina, Gregory Goossen, Mike Garris, Oliver Dear. A female shootist arrives in a town where the boss has set up a contest trying to force a reformed gunslinger, now a minister, to again take up shooting irons. Money making but confusing Western.

3207  The Quick and the Undead  North Entertainment, 2006. 78 min. Color. D-SC: Gerald Nott. With Clint Glenn, Parrish Randall, Nicola Giacobbe, Dion Day, Jeff Swarthout, Derik Van Derbeken, Erin McCarthy, Elysia Skye, Paul Molnar, Kim Solow, Toar Campbell, Brian Koehler, Vito La Morte, John Reynolds, Jason Rogel, Jarod Scott. After a virus effected the world’s population eighty-five years before, a bounty hunter makes a living destroying zombies but he also tracks the human gang who tried to kill him. Cheap, poorly acted video horror Western.

3208  The Quick Gun  Columbia, 1964. 88 min. Color. D: Sidney Salkow. SC: Robert E. Kent. With Audie Murphy, Merry Anders, James Best, Ted De Corsia, Walter Sande, Rex Holman, Charles Meredith, Frank Ferguson, Mort Mills, Gregg Palmer, Frank Gerstle, Stephen Roberts, Paul Bryar, Raymond Hatton, William Fawcett, Rick Vallin, William Tannen. A cowboy returns home to find rejection because two years before he was forced to kill the area land baron’s son in self defense. Nothing special about this redemption plotted Audie Murphy feature.

3209  Quick on the Trigger  Columbia, 1948. 55 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lyle Talbot, Helen Parrish, George Eldredge, The Sunshine Boys (Eddie Wallace, J.D. Sumner, Freddie Daniel, M.H. Richman), Ted Adams, Alan Bridge, Russell Arms, Budd Buster, Blackie Whiteford, Tex Cooper, Bud Osborne, Russell Meeker, George Morrell, Sandy Sanders. When outlaws attack a young woman’s stage line the sheriff captures one of them and he turns out to be her brother but when the man is murdered in his cell the lawman is blamed. Well written “Durango Kid” entry. British title: Condemned in Error.

3210  Quick Trigger Lee  Big 4, 1931. 60 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: George Morgan. With Bob Custer, Caryl Lincoln, Monte Montague, Lee De Cordova, Richard Carlyle, Frank Ellis, Al Taylor, J.P. McGowan, Chuck Baldra, Ray Henderson. A gunman helps a nearly blind prospector about to be swindled out of his mine by a crook and his son. Pedestrian low grade oater not helped by stoic star Bob Custer.

3211  The Quiet Gun  20th Century–Fox, 1957. 79 min. D: William F. Claxton. SC: Eric Norden. With Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Cleo Moore, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef, Tom Brown, Lewis Martin, Hank Worden, Everett Glass, Edith Evanson, Vince Barnett, Gene Roth, Gerald Milton. A saloon owner and his girlfriend hatch a plot that forces a rancher into committing murder. Strangely violent Western with a good cast and direction.

3212  Quigley Down Under  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1990. 119 min. Color. D: Simon Wincer. SC: John Hill. With Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner, Jerome Ehlers, Conor McDermottoe, Roger Ward, Ben Mendelsohn, Steve Dodd, Karen Davitt, Kylie Foster, William Zappa, Jonathan Sweet, Jon Ewing, Tim Hughes, David Slingsby, Danny Adcock, Maeliosa Stafford, Ollie Hall, Danny Baldwin, Jim Willoughby, Spike Cherrie, Gerald Egan, Guy Norris, Mark Minchinton, Brian Ellison, Mark Pennell, Everlyn Krape, Eamon Kelly. Hired to work for an Australian rancher, an American sharpshooter becomes a fugitive after he refuses to kill aborigines. Above average Aussie Western that looks at the dark side of continental settlement.

3213  Quincannon, Frontier Scout  United Artists, 1956. 83 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: John C. Higgins and Don Martin. With Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, John Smith, Ron Randell, John Doucette, Morris Ankrum, Peter Mamakos, Ed Hashim, Tom London. A former Army officer, now a scout, agrees to lead an expedition into hostile territory in order to find stolen rifles. Tony Martin is very good in the title role of this pleasant program feature, although, surprisingly, he does not sing the title song.

Spanish lobby card for Quincannon, Frontier Scout (United Artists, 1956).

3214  Rachel and the Stranger  RKO Radio, 1948. 92 min. D: Norman Foster. SC: Waldo Salt. With Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully, Sara Haden, Frank Ferguson, Walter Baldwin, Regina Wallace, Fred Conlan. A farmer buys a bond servant for a wife but finds she is attracted to his vagabond hunter pal. Well modulated frontier fare with just the right amount of drama and humor plus excellent work from its trio of stars.

3215  Racing Blood  20th Century–Fox, 1954. 76 min. Color. D: Wesley Barry. SC: Sam Roeca and Wesley Barry. With Bill Williams, Jean Porter, Jimmy Boyd, George Cleveland, Frankie Darro, John Eldredge, Sam Flint, Fred Kohler, Jr., Fred Kelsey, George Steele, Bobby Johnson. A colt, which was supposed to have been destroyed at birth due to a split hoof, is raised by a stable boy and his uncle. Fair family film trading on the popularity of child singing star Jimmy Boyd.

Racketeer Round-Up see Gunners and Guns

3216  Racketeers of the Range  RKO Radio, 1939. 62 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: Oliver Drake. With George O’Brien, Marjorie Reynolds, Chill Wills, Ray Whitley, Gay Seabrook, Robert Fiske, Ben Corbett, Bud Osborne, John Dilson, Monte Montague, Cactus Mack, Frankie Marvin, Ed Peil, Sr., Frank O’Connor, Mary Gordon, Stanley Andrews, Wilfred Lucas, Harry Cording, Dick Hunter. A dishonest lawyer tries to cheat a woman out of her packing plant and a rival takes over the operation to save ranchers from being fleeced by the crook. Well done and every entertaining George O’Brien vehicle.

Radio Ranch see The Phantom Empire

3217  Rage  Columbia, 1967. 103 min. Color. D: Gilberto Gazcon. SC: Teddi Sherman and Gilberto Gazcon. With Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso, Armando Silvestre, Ariadna Welter, Jose Elias Moreno, David Silva, Valentin Trujillo, Jorge Russek, Raul Martinez. A physician makes a desperate flight across the Mexican desert as he tries to reach a medical clinic after being bitten by a rabid dog. Good screen fare, enhanced by Glenn Ford’s fine work as the doctor.

3218  Rage  Warner Bros., 1972. 100 min. Color. D: George C. Scott. SC: Philip Friedman and Dan Kleinman. With George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, Nicholas Beauvy, Paul Stevens, Stephen Young, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Walden, William Jordan, Dabbs Greer, John Dierkes, Lou Frizzell, Ed Lauter, Terry Wilson, Fielding Greaves. A rancher wants revenge for the death of his son, who was killed as a result of an Army chemical experiment. Fair melodrama promising more than it delivers.

3219  Rage at Dawn  RKO Radio, 1955. 87 min. Color. D: TimWhelan. SC: Horace McCoy. With Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, J. Carrol Naish, Edgar Buchanan, Kenneth Tobey, Howard Petrie, Myron Healey, Ray Teal, Ralph Moody, Guy Prescott, Mike Ragan, Phil Chambers, George Wallace, Dennis Moore, James Lydon, Arthur Space, William Forrest, Denver Pyle, Trevor Bardette, Henry Wills, William Phipps, Holly Bane, Richard Garland, Dan White, Chubby Johnson. Two undercover agents pose as outlaws to capture the Reno Brothers as they arrive at the ranch of the gang’s sister, who is shielding them against her better judgment. Fine Randolph Scott feature with a good script, direction and cast; originally called Seven Bad Men.

3220  Ragtime Cowboy Joe  Universal, 1940. 60 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Sherman Lowe. With Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O’Day, Marilyn (Lynn) Merrick, Dick Curtis, Walter Soderling, Roy Barcroft, Harry Tenbrook, Wilfred Lucas, Harold Goodwin, Ed Cassidy, Buck Moulton, George Plues, Viola Vonn, Kermit Maynard, Jack Clifford, William Gould, Bud Osborne, Bob O’Connor, Eddie Parker, Slim Whitaker, Frank McCarroll, The Texas Rangers. A cattlemen’s association detective is after a dishonest lawyer and his cohort who are rustling from a ranch so they can obtain it to sell to the railroad. The hackneyed plot gets good service in this Johnny Mack Brown opus.

3221  The Raid  20th Century–Fox, 1954. 83 min. Color. D: Hugo Fregonese. SC: Sidney Boehm. With Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves, Douglas Spencer, Paul Cavanagh, Will Wright, James Best, John Dierkes, Helen Ford, Harry Hines, Simon Scott, Claude Akins, Edmund Cobb, Roy Glenn, Lee Aaker, Richard Eyer, Robert Easton, Ethan Laidlaw, Kermit Maynard, Howard Wright, William Schallert, Kenneth Terrell, Frank McClure, James Stone, Stanley Blystone, George Keymas, Jack Low, John Berardino, Arthur Tovey, Dolores Fuller. During the Civil War a young widow and her son try to thwart the plans of several Confederate soldiers who have escaped from a military prison and plan to loot their town. Well done drama.

3222  The Raiders  Universal-International, 1952. 80 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Polly James and Lillie Hayward. With Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton, Hugh O’Brian, Richard Martin, Palmer Lee (Gregg Palmer), William Reynolds, William Bishop, Morris Ankrum, Dennis Weaver, Margaret Field, John Kellogg, Frank Wilcox, Lane Bradford, Riley Hill, Neyle Morrow, Carlos Rivero, George J. Lewis, Francis McDonald, I. Stanford Jolley, Clayton Moore, Dennis Weaver, Dennis Ross, Edmund Cobb, Edward Earle, Riley Hill, Sydney Mason, Virginia Mullen, Max Wagner, Buddy Roosevelt, Clem Fuller, Ethan Laidlaw, Paul Kruger, Larry Hudson, Philo McCullough, Frank Ellis, Monte Montague, William Fawcett, Paul Newlan, Lee Morgan, Rush Williams, Eddie Parker, Leo Curley, Marvin Press. In 1849 California two men who have been wronged by local authorities team to destroy a crooked judge, the leader of an outlaw gang. Feature delivers in the entertainment department; reissue and TV title: Riders of Vengeance.

3223  The Raiders  Universal, 1964. 75 min. Color. D: Herschel Daugherty. SC: Gene L. Coon. With Brian Keith, Robert Culp, Judi Meredith, James McMullan, Alfred Ryder, Simon Oakland, Ben Cooper, Trevor Bardette, Harry Carey, Jr., Richard Cutting, Addison Richards, Cliff Osmond, Paul Birch, Richard Deacon, Michael Burns. Texans try to drive cattle herds to the Kansas railheads but are ambushed as Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane come to their rescue. Action filled little oater that has the look of a TV movie.

3224  Raiders of Ghost City  Universal, 1944. 13 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins. SC: Luci Ward and Morgan Cox. With Dennis Moore, Wanda McKay, Lionel Atwill, Joseph Sawyer, Regis Toomey, Virginia Christine, Eddy Waller, Emmett Vogan, Addison Richards, Charles Wagenheim, Edmund Cobb, Jack Ingram, Jack Rockwell, Ernie Adams, George Eldredge, Rex Lease, Gene Garrick, Chief Thundercloud, Herman Hack, Chick Hannon, Denny Morton, Richard Hunter. Near the end of the Civil War a Union Secret Service operative gets on the trail of a gang of supposed Confederates who have been hijacking California gold shipments. Pretty good Universal cliffhanger enhanced by a fine cast.

3225  Raiders of Old California  Republic, 1957. 72 min. D: Albert C. Gannaway. SC: Sam Roeca and Thomas C. Hubbard. With Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Louis Jean Heydt, Harry Lauter, Douglas Fowley, Lee Van Cleef, Larry Dobkin, Bill Coontz, Don Diamond, Rick Vallin, Tom Hubbard. As the Mexican War comes to a close a group of cavalry officers in California attempt to set up their own empire. Low budget not uninteresting drama; okay for action fans.

3226  Raiders of Red Gap  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1943. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Robert Livingston, Al St. John, Myrna Dell, Ed Cassidy, Charles King, Kermit Maynard, Roy Brent, Frank Ellis, George Chesebro, Reed Howes, Bud Osborne, Jimmy Aubrey, Merrill McCormick, George Morrell, Wally West, Slim Whitaker, Curley Dresden, Pascale Perry. A crooked, greedy rancher wants all the area’s cattle so he hires the Lone Rider, thinking he is an outlaw, to kill off his neighbors but has the tables turned on him. Pretty fair “Lone Rider” entry, the last in the series.

Raiders of Red Rock see Fugitive of the Plains

3227  Raiders of San Joaquin  Universal, 1943. 60 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Elmer Clifton and Morgan Cox. With Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Henry Hall, Joseph Bernard, George Eldredge, Henry Roquemore, John Elliott, Michael Vallon, Jack O’Shea, Jack Ingram, Carl Sepulveda, Budd Buster, The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Jimmy Wakely, Johnny Bond, Scotty Harrell), Slim Whitaker, Roy Brent, Earle Hodgins. A man becomes a fugitive when his father is murdered by railroaders trying to burn out area ranchers but he gets help from the son of the company’s vice president. Action filled teaming of Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter plus some nice songs composed by Oliver Drake.

3228  Raiders of Sunset Pass  Republic, 1943. 57 min. D: John English. SC: John K. Butler. With Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Jennifer Holt, Roy Barcroft, Charles Miller, LeRoy Mason, Maxine Doyle, Kenne Duncan, Jack Kirk, Jack Rockwell, Hank Bell, Budd Buster, Jack Ingram, Frank McCarroll, Fred Burns, Al Taylor, Mozelle Cravens, Nancy Worth, Isabel La Mal, Dorothy Andre, Kansas Moehring, George Byron, Larry Sewart. During World War II there is a manpower shortage on the range so a lawman gets cowgirls to round up needed cattle but they are opposed by an outlaw gang. Novel idea is used to good advantage in this “John Paul Revere” series oater but a weak hero does not help.

3229  Raiders of the Border  Monogram, 1944. 58 min. D: John P. McCarthy. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Craig Woods, Ellen Hall, Raphael (Ray) Bennett, Edmund Cobb, Ernie Adams, Richard Alexander, Lynton Brent, Stanley Price, Kermit Maynard, Ben Corbett, Herman Hack, Kansas Moehring. Two lawmen track outlaws along the Mexican border who rustle cattle and trade them for stolen jewels. Well scripted and action filled “Nevada Jack McKenzie” feature.

Raiders of the Frontier see Gangsters of the Frontier  

3230  Raiders of the Range  Republic, 1942. 55 min. D: John English. SC: Barry Shipman. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Lois Collier, Frank Jaquet, Fred Kohler, Jr., Dennis Moore, Tom Chatterton, Charles Miller, Max Waizmann, Hal Price, Bud Geary, Jack Ingram, Al Taylor, Chuck Morrison, Bob Woodward, Monte Montague, Tom Steele, Kenneth Terrell, Richard Alexander, Cactus Mack, John Cason, Charles Phillips, Joel Friedkin, David Sharpe, Frank McCarroll, John Tyrrell, Pascale Perry, Bill Nestell. Outlaws are after a man’s property because it contains rich oil deposits and a trio of cowboys come to his rescue when the crooks sabotage his drilling efforts. Fair entry from the latter days of “The Three Mesquiteers” series.

3231  Raiders of the South  Monogram, 1947. 55 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Evelyn Brent, Marshall Reed, Reno Blair, John Merton, John Hamilton, Pierce Lyden, Cactus Mack, Eddie Parker, Ted Adams, Frank LaRue, George Morrell, Curt Barrett and The Trailsmen, Ray Jones, Artie Ortego, Dee Cooper. In Texas during Reconstruction a Secret Service agent poses as an ex–Confederate to stop a lawyer’s scheme to start an empire by a land grab. Interesting low budget drama greatly helped by series stars Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton and leading lady Evelyn Brent.

3232  Raiders of the West  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1942. 64 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: Oliver Drake. With Bill “Cowboy Rambler” Boyd, Art Davis, Lee Powell, Virginia Carroll, Rex Lease, Glenn Strange, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Milton Kibbee, Lynton Brent, John Elliott, Eddie Dean, Curley Dresden, William Desmond, Dale (Gale) Sherwood, Kenne Duncan, Bill Cody, Jr., Reed Howes, Hal Price, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Carl Sepulveda, Frank Ellis, John Cason, Carl Mathews, Wally West, George Morrell, Arch Hall, Lane Bradford, Tex Palmer, Hank Bell, Fred MacKaye. Trying to capture outlaws, two range detectives pretend to be entertainers and get a job with the man they suspect is the gang leader. Vapid “Frontier Marshals” outing, wasting a fine supporting cast.

3233  Raiders of Tomahawk Creek  Columbia, 1950. 55 min. D: Fred F. Sears. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starett, Smiley Burnette, Kay Buckley, Edgar Dearing, Billy Kimbley, Paul Marion, Paul McGuire, Bill Hale, Ted Mapes, Lee Morgan. A new Indian agent tries to find out the reason for the killings of several area ranchers, deeds committed by his predecessor who wants native lands because he has discovered a valuable silver deposit. Okay “Durango Kid” adventure.

3234  Rails into Laramie  Universal-International, 1954. 81 min. Color. D: Jesse Hibbs. SC: D.D. Beauchamp and Joseph Hoffman. With John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea, Joyce MacKenzie, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Ralph Dumke, Lee Van Cleef, Myron Healey, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith, Alexander Campbell, George Chandler, Charles Horvath, Steve (Stephen) Chase, Rex Lease, Ric Roman, Forrest Taylor, Gilbert Fallman, Tim Graham, Frank J. Scannell, Gayne Whitman, Bruno Ve Sota, Harry Wilson, Max Wagner, Ferris Taylor, Jack Stoney, Franklyn Farnum, Charles Sherlock, Paul Brinegar, Kernan Cripps, Roy Butler, Kenneth MacDonald, Hal K. Dawson, Kermit Maynard, Dean Fredericks, Christiane Martel, Race Gentry, Sol Gorss, Paul McGuire, John Harmon, Don Nagel, Larry Hudson, Eddie Parker, Anthony Jochim, Ethan Laidlaw, Kenner G. Kemp, Donald Kerr, Jack Lomas, Robert Keys, Brick Sullivan, Dale Van Sickel, Rusty Wescoatt, John Cliff. In the 1870s an Army sergeant tries to get a rail line built to Laramie, Wyoming, in spite of local crooks and sabotage. Entertaining and colorful oater; Rex Allen sings the title song.

Rainbow see Gringo

3235  Rainbow Over Texas  Monogram, 1940. 62 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Roland Lynch, Roger Merton and Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Dorothy Fay, Warner Richmond, Dennis Moore, Arkansas Slim Andrews, Jim Pierce, Chuck Morrison, John Merton, Romaine Loudermilk and His Ranch House Cowboys, Tommy Southworth, Steve Lorber. Outlaws take over a town and close its school with a singing cowboy coming to the rescue. Fairly good Tex Ritter vehicle in which he performs a trio of songs, including the title tune.

3236  Rainbow Over Texas  Republic, 1946. 65 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Dale Evans, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Ken Carson, Shug Fisher, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Sheldon Leonard, Robert Emmett Keane, Gerald Oliver Smith, Minerva Urecal, George J. Lewis, Kenne Duncan, Pierce Lyden, Dick Elliott, Bud Osborne, George Chesebro, Jo Ann Dean. Movie star Roy Rogers, along with the Sons of the Pioneers, returns to a Texas town and tries to rid it of crooks. Mediocre Western musical.

3237  Rainbow Over the Range  Monogram, 1940. 60 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Roger Merton and Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Dorothy Fay, Arkansas Slim Andrews, Gene Alsace, Warner Richmond, Jim Pierce, Chuck Morrison, Dennis Moore, Art Wilcox and His Arizona Rangers, Tommy Southworth, Sherry Tansey, Tex Palmer. Outlaws rustle cavalry horses and an U.S. marshal and his pal are assigned to investigate. A pleasant Tex Ritter musical Western drama filmed in Arizona.

3238  Rainbow Over the Rockies  Monogram, 1947. 54 min. D: Oliver Drake. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Jimmy Wakely, Lee “Lasses” White, Dennis Moore, Pat Starling, Wesley Tuttle and His Texas Stars, Budd Buster, Zon Murray, Carl Sepulveda, Bob Gilbert, Billy Dix, Jack Baxley. Two ranchers are pushed into a feud instigated by rustlers wanting their herds. Low grade Jimmy Wakely musical vehicle.

3239  Rainbow Ranch  Monogram, 1933. 55 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Phil Dunham. With Rex Bell, Cecilia Parker, Robert Kortman, Henry Hall, George Nash, Gordon DeMain, Phil Dunham, Tiny Sanford, Jerry Storm, Tex Palmer, Archie Ricks, Vane Calvert, Harry Bowen. A cowboy returns home to find his father murdered and his girl and water rights stolen by a crook. So-so Rex Bell outing.

3240  The Rainbow Trail  Fox, 1925. 58 min. D-SC: Lynn Reynolds. With Tom Mix, Anne Cornwall, George Bancroft, Lucien Littlefield, Mark Hamilton, Vivian Oakland, Thomas Delmar, Fred De Silva, Steve Clemento, Carol Holloway, Diana Muller. A man tries to free his uncle who has been trapped in a canyon by an outlaw and his gang. Tom Mix plays dual roles in this follow-up to Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage (q.v.), an entertaining silent initially filmed in 1918 by Fox starring William Farnum.

3241  The Rainbow Trail  Fox, 1932. 65 min. D: David Howard. SC: Barry Connors and Philip Klein. With George O’Brien, Cecilia Parker, Minna Gombell, Roscoe Ates, J.M. Kerrigan, James Kirkwood, W.L. Thorne, Robert Frazer, Ruth Donnelly, Niles Welch, Landers Stevens, Laska Winters, Edward Hearn, Alice Ward, George Burton, Iron Eyes Cody, Tom Smith, Vinegar Roan, Edward Burns, Ralph Bucko, Johnny Luther, Cliff Lyons, Frank McGrath, Herman Nowlin, Cy Clegg, Dick Hunter, Little Pine, Clint Sharp. A cowboy joins a convoy searching for travelers trapped years before in a valley filled with gold as they tried to escape from a notorious outlaw. Polished third version of 1915 Zane Grey novel.

3242  Rainbow Valley  Monogram, 1935. 52 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Lindsley Parsons. With John Wayne, Lucille Brown, LeRoy Mason, George Hayes, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Bert Dillard, Lloyd Ingraham, Lafe McKee, Frank Ellis, Art Dillard, Frank Ball, Fern Emmett, Henry Roquemore, Eddie Parker, Herman Hack, Artie Ortego, Jack Evans, Tex Palmer, Tommy Coats, Buck Morgan, Tex Phelps. An undercover agent pretends to be an escaped convict to get the goods on a gang after a tract of valuable land. A rather complicated plot does not hurt the overall entertainment value of this pleasant Lone Star Western from producer Paul Malvern that contains a terrific finale shootout.

3243  Rainbow’s End  First Division, 1935. 59 min. D: Norman Spencer. SC: Rollo Ward. With Hoot Gibson, June Gale, Oscar Apfel, Warner Richmond, Buddy Roosevelt, Ada Ince, Stanley Blystone, John Elliott, Henry Roquemore, Fred Gilman, Jerry Mandy. After a falling out with his businessman father, a cowpoke becomes foreman of a ranch where the old man holds the mortgage and a crook tries to get him to foreclose so he can get possession of the property. Modern Western with a good story and lots of comedy, the latter typical for Hoot Gibson.

3244  The Rainmaker  Paramount, 1956. 121 min. Color. D: Joseph Anthony. SC: N. Richard Nash. With Katharine Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Cameron Prud’Homme, Wallace Ford, Yvonne Lime, Dottie Bee Baker, Dan White, Stan Jones, John Benson, James Stone, Tony Merrill, Joe Brown, Ken Becker. A fake rainmaker comes to a drought stricken ranch in the Southwest and remains to romance a lonely spinster. Talkative but pleasant offbeat drama.

3245  Ramona  20th Century–Fox, 1936. 94 min. Color. D: Henry King. SC: Lamar Trotti. With Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, Jane Darwell, Katherine De Mille, J. Carrol Naish, Victor Kilian, John Carradine, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles Waldron, Claire DuBrey, Russell Simpson, William Benedict, Chief Thundercloud, Erville Alderson, Donald Reed, Cecil Weston, D’Arcy Corrigan, Ethan Laidlaw, Kathryn Sheldon, Charles Middleton, Tom London, Richard Botiller, Sam Appel, Anita Ray, Carmen Bailey, Solidad Gonzales, Allan Jones, Robert Spindola, Martin Faust, Del Campo, Lee Kohlmar, D’Arcy Corrigan, Carmen La Roux, Tito Renaldo, Joe De La Cruz, Gertrude Chorre, Fred Godoy, Manuel Lopez. A half-breed Indian girl and a chief’s son marry in Old California but find themselves the victims of prejudice. Colorful but somewhat miscast fourth screen version of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel; first filmed in 1910 by director D.W. Griffith with Mary Pickford and Henry B. Walthall, followed by a 1916 Clune Producing Company release starring Adda Gleason and Monroe Salisbury and a 1928 United Artists outing with Dolores Del Rio and Warner Baxter containing synchronized sound effects.

3246  Rampage at Apache Wells  Columbia, 1966. 91 min. Color. D: Harald Philipp. SC: Fred Denger and Harald Philipp. With Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Macha Meril, Harald Leipnitz, Antje Weissgerber, Mario Girotti (Terence Hill), Walter Barnes, Heinz Erhart, Gerd Frickhoffer, Petar Poetrovic, Paddy Fox (Milan Srdoc), Milivoje Popovic-Mavid, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, Dusan Janicijevic, Davor Antolic. Frontiersman Old Surehand and his Indian friend Winnetou oppose an outlaw and his gang who have been cheating whites and Comanches out of their lands. One of the better European Westerns of the 1960s with fine work by Stewart Granger as Old Surehand; produced in West Germany in 1965 by Rialto-Film/Jadran-Film as Der Olprinz (The Oil Prince).

3247  Ramrod  United Artists, 1947. 94 min. D: Andre De Toth. SC: John Moffitt, Graham Baker and Cecile Kramer. With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Preston Foster, Charles Ruggles, Arleen Whelan, Donald Crisp, Lloyd Bridges, Don DeFore, Ian MacDonald, Sarah Padden, Nestor Paiva, Trevor Bardette, Hal Taliaferro, Wally Cassell, Ray Teal, Jeff Corey, Rose Higgens, Chic York, Cliff Parkinson, Ward Wood, John Powers, Victor Potel, Holly Bane, Houseley Stevenson, Robert Wood. The rebellious young female owner of a sheep ranch feuds with her father and hires a cowboy to do her bidding. Well done oater with good acting by the three leads.

3248  The Ramrodder  Entertainment Ventures, 1969. 92 min. Color. D-SC: Van Guylder. With Jim (Roger) Gentry, Julia Blackburn, Brave Eagle (Robert Aiken), Kathy Williams, David Rosenkranz, Bob Beausoleil, Kathy Share, Kedric Wolfe, Marcia (Marsha) Jordan. An Indian chief’s daughter comes to the rescue of a cowboy falsely accused of raping and killing a young maiden. Poorly done adult Western filmed at the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, California.

3249  Ramsbottom Rides Again  British Lion, 1956. 93 min. D: John Baxter. SC: John Baxter, Basil Thomas, Geoffrey Orme, Arthur Askey and Glenn Melvyn. With Arthur Askey, Glenn Melvyn, Betty Marsden, Shani Wallis, Frankie Vaughan, Jerry Desmonde, Danny Ross, Anthea Askey, June Grant, Sabrina, Donald Stewart, Billy Percy, Dennis Wyndham, Gary Wayne, Campbell Singer, Marne Maitland, Beckett Bould, Sam Kydd, Deryck Guyler, Edie Martin, Leonard Williams, John Carson. After inheriting land in Canada, a pub owner moves there with his family and finds himself up against a bad man who controls the area. Typical over the top British comedy set in the wilds of Canada.

3250  Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake  Titan International, 1980. 96 min. Color. D: Bill Rebane and Jerry Gregoris. SC: Lyona Oenez, Jerry Gregoris and Mike Landers. With Karen Diarmid, Alan Ross, Brad Ellingson, Julie Wheaton, Glenn Sherer, Doreen Moze, Jerry Gregoris, Jim Iquiente, Bruno Aclin, Lorry Getz, Michael J. Skewes, Paul Callaeay, Richard Lange, Angel Rebane. On a remote island an ancient Indian god takes revenge on those who try to steal his gold. Picturesque Georgia filmed cheapie with a scary monster resembling the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

3251  Ranchers and Rascals  William Steiner, 1925. 57 min. D: Leo D. Maloney. With Leo D. Maloney, Josephine Hill, Whitehorse, Evelyn Thatcher, Barney Furey, Patricia Darling, Tom London, Bud Osborne, Bullet (dog). A cowboy, who only wants a peaceful life as he plans to marry, gets involved with a runaway wife, two malicious neighbors and a small baby. Amusing silent Leo Maloney feature.

3252  Rancho Deluxe  United Artists, 1975. 93 min. Color. D: Frank Perry. SC: Thomas McGuane. With Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Slim Pickens, Clifton James, Charlene Dallas, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Bright, Patti D’Arbanville, Maggie Wellman, Bert Conway, Anthony Palmer, Sandy Kenyon, Helen Craig, Joseph (Joe) Spinell, Richard McMurray, Danna Hansen, Doria Cooke, Richard Cavanaugh, Patti Jerome, Arnold Huppert, Esther Black, Ronda Copland, Jimmy Buffett, Dwight Riley, Jim Melin, Tim Schaeffer, Warren Oates, John Quade, Wilma Riley, Bob Wetzel, John Rogers, Joseph Sullivan, Ben Mar, Jr. Two pals pick off cattle from a rich rancher and then decide to rustle his entire herd. Passable low key comedy oater with several defects although Slim Pickens is a sheer delight as the supposedly decrepit, bumbling range investigator.

3253  Rancho Grande  United Artists, 1936. 95 min. D: Fernando de Fuentes. SC: Guz Aguila and Fernando de Fuentes. With Tito Guizar, Rene Cardona, Esther Fernandez, Lorenzo Barcelata, Emma Roldan, Carlos Lopez “Chaflan,” Margarita Cortes, Dolores Camarillo, Manolo Noriega, Hernan Vera, Alfonso Sanchez Tello, Armando Aleman, Gaspar Nunez, Lucha Avila, Emilio Fernandez, Olga Falcon. The owner of a large rancho and his general manager both love the same woman. Pleasant Mexican Western romantic musical released in the U.S. as Out on the Big Ranch in a dubbed version by Cinexport Distributing. Director Fernando de Fuentes remade it in 1949 starring Jorge Negrete, Lilia de Valle and Eduardo Noriega.

3254  Rancho Grande  Republic, 1940. 68 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Bradford Ropes. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Dick Hogan, Ellen Lowe, Ferris Taylor, Joseph De Stefani, Roscoe Ates, Rex Lease, Ann Baldwin, Roy Barcroft, The Pals of the Golden West, Edna Lawrence, Jack Ingram, Bud Osborne, Slim Whitaker, Richard Webb, Hank Bell, Eddie Parker, Horace B. Carpenter, Jim Corey, Frankie Marvin, Chuck Baldra, The Brewer Kids, St. Joseph’s School Boys’ Choir. A foreman and his pal try to help the heirs of the ranch where they work with crooks who want the land for an irrigation project. Too much music and not enough action hamper this Gene Autry vehicle. TV title: El Rancho Grande.

3255  Rancho Notorious  RKO Radio, 1952. 89 min. D: Fritz Lang. SC: Daniel Taradash. With Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry, William Frawley, Lisa Ferraday, John Raven, Jack Elam, George Reeves, Frank Ferguson, Francis McDonald, Dan Seymour, John Kellogg, Redd Redwing, Stuart Randall, Roger Anderson, I. Stanford Jolley, Felipe Turich, John Doucette, Jose Dominguez, Lane Chandler, Fuzzy Knight, Lloyd Gough, Harry Woods, William Haade, Kermit Maynard, Fred Graham, Russell Johnson, Dick Elliott, Ray Jones. A man hunts for the killer of his girlfriend and ends up at a place run by a woman who protects outlaws. There is not much to recommend this attempt to re-establish Marlene Dietrich’s image from Destry Rides Again (1939) [q.v.].

3256  Randy Rides Alone  Monogram, 1934. 53 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Lindsley Parsons. With John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Tex Phelps, Artie Ortego, Herman Hack, Mack V. Wright, Horace B. Carpenter, Perry Murdock, Tommy Coats, Tex Palmer. A drifter is falsely accused of robbery and murder but with the help of a young woman he tries to find the real culprits. Rawboned Monogram Lone Star Western greatly helped by George “Gabby” Hayes as the villain.

3257  Range Beyond the Blue  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1947. 53 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Patricia Harper. With Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Helen Mowery, Ted Adams, Bob Duncan, Bill Hammond, George Turner, Ted French, Brad Slavin, Steve Clark, The Sunshine Boys (Eddie Wallace, J.D. Sumner, M.H. Richman, Freddie Daniel). A stage line is being robbed only when gold shipments are aboard so an investigator is called in to corral the thieves. Dreary oater, except for Eddie dean singing the title song and the novelty ditty “The Pony with the Uncombed Hair.”

3258  The Range Busters  Monogram, 1940. 55 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: John Rathmell. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Luana Walters, LeRoy Mason, Earle Hodgins, Frank LaRue, Kermit Maynard, Bruce King, Duke (Carl) Matthews, Horace Murphy, Karl Hackett, Herman Hack, Ed Brady, Hank Worden, Jimmie Widener. A crook kills a rancher for his land and gold mine while a trio of cowboys arrive looking for a mysterious figure called “The Phantom,” who hides out on the spread. The first in “The Range Busters” series provides fast action and mystery.

3259  Range Defenders  Republic, 1937. 56 min. D: Mack V. Wright. SC: Joseph Poland. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Eleanor Stewart, Harry Woods, Yakima Canutt, Earle Hodgins, Thomas Carr, John Merton, Harrison Greene, Horace B. Carpenter, Frank Ellis, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Jack O’Shea, Ernie Adams, Jack Rockwell, Merrill McCormick, Curley Dresden, Jack Kirk, George Morrell, Donald Kirke, Milburn Morante, Al Taylor, Hank Bell, Lafe McKee, Lew Meehan, Charles Brinley, Jack Lowe. Crooks cause a feud between cattle ranchers and sheep men as three cowpoke pals try to calm the situation. Action packed and entertaining “Three Mesquiteers” outing, well directed by Mack V. Wright.

3260  Range Feud  Columbia, 1931. 64 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: George Plympton. With Buck Jones, Susan Fleming, John Wayne, Ed Le Saint, William Walling, Wallace MacDonald, Harry Woods, Frank Austin, Glenn Strange, Lew Meehan, Jim Corey, Frank Ellis, Bob Reeves, Merrill McCormick, Archie Ricks, Hank Bell, Blackjack Ward, Rube Dalroy, William McCall, Al Taylor, Bob Burns, Jack Curtis, Jack Low. The town’s new sheriff arrests his foster brother who is accused of killing his girl’s rancher father. Nicely done Buck Jones vehicle with John Wayne as the accused.

3261  Range Justice  Monogram, 1949. 57 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Ronald Davidson. With Johnny Mack Brown, Max Terhune, Sarah Padden, Felice Ingersoll, Riley Hill, Tristram Coffin, Fred Kohler, Jr., Eddie Parker, Kenne Duncan, Bill Hale, Myron Healey, Bill Potter, Bob Woodward, Carl Mathews. A ranch foreman joins an outlaw gang to get the goods on the hoodlums rustling his female boss’ cattle. Fair Johnny Mack Brown entry from the latter days of his long running Monogram series.

3262  Range Land  Monogram, 1949. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Adele Buffington. With Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Reed Howes, Kenne Duncan, Kermit Maynard, Stanley Blystone, Steve Clark, Leonard Penn, John Cason, Carol Henry, Carl Mathews, Dee Cooper. A cowboy tries to stop an outlaw gang from stealing a vast amount of range land. Below average Whip Wilson oater; remake of Gun Packer (q.v.).

3263  Range Law  Tiffany, 1931. 60 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Earle Snell. With Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Lafe McKee, Frank Mayo, William Duncan, Charles King, Jack Rockwell, Tom London, Blackjack Ward, Aileen Manning, Robert Dudley, Bob Burns, Bud McClure, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. A cowboy is falsely put in jail for a crime he did not commit but his friends arrange his rescue so he can roundup the real culprits. Fairly action filled Ken Maynard early talkie with Lafe McKee in a comedy role for a change.

3264  Range Law  Monogram, 1944. 57 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Frank H. Young. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Ellen Hall, Sarah Padden, Lloyd Ingraham, Marshall Reed, Steve Clark, Jack Ingram, Hugh Prosser, Stanley Price, Art Fowler, Hal Price, Ben Corbett, Bud Osborne, Tex Palmer, George Morrell, Lynton Brent, Forrest Taylor, Horace B. Carpenter, Kansas Moehring, Milburn Morante, Foxy Callahan, Denver Dixon, Chick Hannon, Artie Ortego. Two marshals come to the aid of a woman whose friend has been falsely accused of cattle rustling. Average “Nevada Jack McKenzie” series effort.

3265  Range Renegades  Monogram, 1948. 54 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Ronald Davidson and William Lively. With Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Jennifer Holt, Dennis Moore, Riley Hill, John James, Frank LaRue, Steve Clark, Milburn Morante, Bob Woodward, Carl Mathews, Roy Garrett. A marshal is on the trail of an outlaw gang led by a woman. Typically low grade Jimmy Wakely singing oater.

3266  Range Riders  Superior, 1934. 46 min. D: Victor Adamson (Denver Dixon). SC: L.V. Jefferson. With Buddy Roosevelt, Barbara Starr, Lew Meehan, William (Merrill) McCormick, Horace B. Carpenter, Herman Hack, Clyde McClary, Fred Parker, Lionel Belmore, Allen Holbrook, Steve Clemente, Bob McKenzie, Ed Gyton, Sam Pierce, Denver Dixon. An agricultural college student returns home to thwart the machinations of bully Buck Crawford and his outlaw gang. About as low grade as a Western can go, with rag tag production values.

3267  Range War  Paramount, 1939. 65 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Sam Robins. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Willard Robertson, Matt Moore, Pedro de Cordoba, Betty Moran, Britt Wood, Kenneth Harlan, Eddie Dean, Earle Hodgins, Glenn Strange, Jason Robards, Stanley Price, George Chesebro, Raphael (Ray) Bennett, Don Latorre, Wen Wright, Rad Robinson, Tom Smith, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Pascale Perry. To help a young woman stop the destruction of a railroad, Hopalong Cassidy takes money from a stagecoach so outlaws will not steal it, gets arrested and joins the gang to bring them to justice. Scenic locations and good photography highlight this “Hopalong Cassidy” feature.

3268  Range Warfare  Willis Kent, 1935. 55 min. D: S. Roy Lucy. SC: E.B. Mann. With Reb Russell, Lucille Lund, Wally Wales, Lafe McKee, Roger Williams, Slim Whitaker, Ed Boland, Richard Botiller, Chief Black Hawk, Ed Porter, Gene Alsace, Bart Carre, George Morrell, Jack Kirk, Artie Ortego, Chuck Baldra, Bud Pope, Jack Hendricks, Clyde McClary, Jack King, Jack Jones. A cowboy is after an outlaw gang wanted for cattle theft and murder. Pretty fair Reb Russell film that will please his fans; reissued as Vengeance.

Rangeland Empire see West of the Brazos

3269  The Ranger and the Lady  Republic, 1940. 59 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Stuart Anthony and Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Jacqueline Wells (Julie Bishop), Harry Woods, Henry Brandon, LeRoy Mason, Tom London, Noble Johnson, Si Jenks, Ted Mapes, Yakima Canutt, Herman Hack, Art Dillard, Lloyd Ingraham, Henry Wills, Davison Clark, Fred Burns, Al Taylor, Bud McClure, Bill Nestell, Victor Cox. In Texas ranger Roy Rogers fights outlaws trying to hijack settler’s wagons so they can take over the country, until General Sam Houston comes to the rescue. Lots of action, a good plot and pleasant songs in this Roy Rogers vehicle.

3270  Ranger Courage  Columbia, 1937. 59 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Bob Allen, Martha Tibbetts, Walter Miller, Buzzy Henry, Bud Osborne, Robert Kortman, Harry Strang, William Gould, Horace Murphy, Franklyn Farnum, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Gene Alsace, George Morrell, Oscar Gahan, Rudy Sooter, Lloyd Perryman, Robert Hoag, Cactus Mack, J.W. Cody, Lafe McKee, Buck Moulton, Bob Reeves, Frank Ball, Nate Gatzert, Jack King, Horace B. Carpenter, Bob Burns, Jack Evans, Silver Tip Baker, Jack Tornek, Tex Palmer, Al Taylor, George Hazel, Jim Corey, Eva McKenzie. After helping wagon train passengers attacked by outlaws disguised as Indians, a ranger sets out to round up the gang. Mediocre entry in Bob Allen’s brief Columbia series.

3271  Ranger of Cherokee Strip  Republic, 1949. 60 min. D: Philip Ford. SC: Bob Williams. With Monte Hale, Alice (Alix) Talton, Paul Hurst, Roy Barcroft, Douglas Kennedy, George Meeker, Frank Fenton, Monte Blue, Lane Bradford, Arthur Walsh, George Chesebro, Herman Hack, Tom Steele, Tommy Coats. In the Cherokee Indian Nation in the 1890s, a ranger tries to stop trouble caused by a renegade blamed for the death of his chief, the culprits being cattlemen who want to lease the tribe’s land. Average program Western with Douglas Kennedy more colorful than hero Monte Hale.

3272  Ranger of the Law  American, 1935. 50 min. D: R.J. Renroh (Robert J. Horner). SC: Royal Hampton. With Buffalo Bill, Jr., Jeanne (Genee) Boutell, George Chesebro, Jack Long, Boris Bullock, Ben Corbett, Frank Clark, Duke R. Lee, Lake Reynolds, Herman Hack, Tex Palmer, Oscar Gahan, Al Haskell, Clyde McClary. A rodeo rider opposes a crook out to steal a ranch from a pretty girl. Very cheaply made with lots of stock rodeo footage and a poor soundtrack with muffled dialogue. Also called Whirlwind Rider.

3273  The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky  ABC-TV, 1995. 94 min. Color. D: John Kent Harrison. SC: Robert Wayne. With Sam Elliott, Jerry O’Connell, Ricky Jay, Molly Parker, Don S. Davis, Robert Wisden, Michael Tayles, Tom Butler, Jay Brazeau, Callum Keith Rennie, Alan C. Peterson, Campbell Lane, Frank Cassini. A legendary forest ranger serves as a mentor to a teenager in 1919 Montana. Pretty fair TV movie called A Hole in the Sky on video.

3274  The Rangers  NBC-TV/Universal, 1974. 74 min. Color. D: Christian Nyby II. SC: Robert A. Cinader, Michael Donavan and Preston Wood. With James G. Richardson, Colby Chester, Jim B. Smith, Laraine Stephens, Laurence Delaney, Michael Conrad, Roger Bowen, Carl Roger Breedlove, David Birkoff. U.S. Forest Service park rangers work to preserve the environment and wildlife as well as rescue those in danger. Passable telefilm that evolved into the brief “Sierra” (NBC-TV, 1974) series.

3275  The Ranger’s Code  Monogram, 1933. 60 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Harry O. (Fraser) Jones. With Bob Steele, Doris Hill, George Hayes, George Nash, Frank Ball, Ed Brady, Hal Price, Ernie Adams, Dick Dickinson, Tex Phelps, Joe Dominguez. A lawman learns his girl’s brother is hooked up with an outlaw gang. So-so Bob Steele vehicle.

Rangers Go West see Three Men from Texas

3276  Rangers of Fortune  Paramount, 1940. 80 min. D: Sam Wood. SC: Frank Butler. With Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison, Joseph Schildkraut, Dick Foran, Betty Brewer, Arthur Allen, Bernard Nedell, Brandon Tynan, Minor Watson, Rosa Turich, Frank Puglia, Frank Milan, Matt McHugh, Erville Alderson, Fern Emmett, Joseph Eggenton, Ed Le Saint, Rod Cameron, Fred Malatesta, Harry Fleischmann, Martin Garralaga, Paul “Tiny” Newlan, Charles Middleton, Richard Alexander, Charles Irwin, Frank Hagney, Dewey Robinson, Jack Robinson. Three desperadoes on the run from the law arrive in a town where they befriend a newspaper editor and a small girl and help get rid of area outlaws. Breezy action film with the three leads making a good team.

3277  The Rangers Ride  Monogram, 1948. 56 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Basil Dickey. With Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Virginia Belmont, Riley Hill, Marshall Reed, Steve Clark, Pierce Lyden, Milburn Morante, Jim Diehl, Cactus Mack, Carol Henry, Bud Osborne, Bob Woodward, Boyd Stockman. When a former Texas Ranger is accused of murder a friend comes to his defense. There is not much to brag about in this musical oater.

3278  The Ranger’s Round-Up  Spectrum, 1938. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton. With Fred Scott, Al St. John, Christine McIntyre, Earle Hodgins, Steve Ryan, Karl Hackett, Robert Owen, Syd Chatan, Carl Mathews, Richard Cramer, Jimmy Aubrey, Lew Porter, Cactus Mack, Steve Clark, Chick Hannon, Milburn Morante, Oscar Gahan, Sherry Tansey, Olin Francis, Tex Palmer. An undercover agent joins a medicine show that outlaws have been using as a front for their illegal activities, a fact not known by its proprietor. Pretty fair Fred Scott vehicle; this one includes the classic song “The Terror of Termite Valley.”

3279  The Rangers Step In  Columbia, 1937. 58 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Bob Allen, Eleanor Stewart, Hal Taliaferro, John Merton, Jack Ingram, Jack Rockwell, Jay Wilsey (Buffalo Bill, Jr.), Lafe McKee, Robert Kortman, Harry Harvey, Joseph Girard, Herman Hack, Harry Tenbrook, Richard Cramer, Arthur Millett, Lew Meehan, Ray Jones, Jack King, George Plues, Francis Walker, Eddie Jarequi, Billy Townsend, Tex Palmer, Artie Ortego, Bert Dillard, Eva McKenzie, Jack Evans, Art Dillard, Ray Henderson, Al Taylor. A sheriff calls in a Texas Ranger to investigate trouble caused by a crook reviving a feud between two families so he can obtain a ranch. Bob Allen’s final series film is a pleasant affair.