3280  The Rangers Take Over  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1942. 62 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Dave O’Brien, Jim Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Iris Meredith, Forrest Taylor, I. Stanford Jolley, Charles King, Carl Mathews, Harry Harvey, Lynton Brent, Bud Osborne, Cal Shrum and The Rhythm Rangers (Rusty Cline, Don Weston, Art Wenzell), Slim Whitaker, Hank Bell, Jess Cavin, Rube Dalroy, Art Dillard, George Morrell, Jack Tornek. Following his discharge from the Texas Rangers, a man joins an outlaw gang working as an informant. The first entry in “The Texas Rangers” series is a mediocre affair, a portent of things to come.

3281  Rangle River  J.H. Hoffberg, 1936. 75 min. D: Clarence Badger. SC: Charles Chauvel and Elsa Chauvel. With Victor Jory, Margaret Dare, Robert Coote, George Bryant, Rita Paucefort, Leo Crackwell, Cecil Perry, Georgia Sterling, Stewart McColl, Phil Smith. Crooks try to put a rancher out of business by cheating him of his water rights. Interesting Australian production based on Zane Grey’s novel; TV title: Men with Whips.

3282  Ransom for Alice  NBC-TV/Universal, 1977. 78 min. Color. D: David Lowell Rich. SC: Jim Byrnes. With Yvette Mimieux, Gil Gerard, Charles Napier, Gene Barry, John Dennan, Lauire Prange, Barnard Hughes, Robert Logan, Harris Yulin, Marc Vahanian, Mills Watson, Gavin MacLeod, Anthony James. In 1890s Seattle a deputy marshal and his pretty partner try to find a young girl caught in a white slavery ring. Average TV movie with a good cast.

3283  The Rare Breed  Universal, 1966. 97 min. Color. D: Andrew V. McLaglen. SC: Ric Hardman. With James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr., Perry Lopez, Larry Domasin, Alan Caillou, Bob Gravage, Wayne Van Horn, Leroy Johnson, John Harris, Ted Mapes, Larry Blake, Charles Lampkin, Tex Armstrong. A woman cattle breeder and her daughter bring a prize bull to the U.S. to start a new line but she becomes involved with an ex-rancher and his pal. Well made production that is on the dull side.

3284  El Ratero de las Pobres (The Pickpocket of the Poor)  Conacite Dios, 1982. 103 min. Color. D: Francisco Guerrero. SC: Jorge Patino and Alfredo Gurrola. With Hector Suarez, Bruno Rey, Dacia Gonzalez, Blanca Guerra, Carlos Cardan, Teresa Alvarez, Sergio Calderon, Susana Cabrera, Armando Soto La Marina, Marcela Rubiales, Arsenio Campos, Jorge Fegan, Alfred Espinoza, Arlette Pacheco, Jorge Reynoso, Jorge Patino. A handsome outlaw with an eye for the women, and three cohorts, loot a village and give some of the money to the poor but spend most of it gambling. Fair Mexican Western comedy originally titled Valentine Lazana, el Ratero de las Pobres (Valentine Lazana, the Pickpocket of the Poor).

3285  Raton Pass  Warner Bros., 1951. 84 min. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Tom Blackburn and James Webb. With Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran, Dorothy Hart, Scott Forbes, Basil Ruysdael, Louis Jean Heydt, Roland Winters, James Burke, Elvira Curci, Carlos Conde, John Crawford, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. A married couple are at odds over their cattle empire and when the wife gets the upper hand her husband organizes area homesteaders against her. More than passable melodrama with good work by its leads.

3286  The Rattler Kid  Copercines/Nike Cinematografica, 1967. 83 min. Color. D: Leon Klimovsky. SC: Odoardo Fiory and Luigi Mondello. With Richard Wyler, Brad Harris, William Spolt (Guglielmo Spoletini), Jesus Puente, Femi Benussi, Aurora de Alba, Simon Arriaga, Luis Barboo, Luis Induni, Miguel Del Castillo, Frank Brana, Conny Caracciolo, Jose Maria Caffarel, Lucio De Santis, Rafael Albaicin, Santiago Rivero. After being framed for an Army money robbery and murder, a sergeant escapes and becomes a gunman to find the men who betrayed him. Passable Spaghetti Western called Un Hombre Vino a Matar in Spain and L’Uomo Ventuo per Uccidere in Italy.

3287  Raw Edge  Universal-International, 1956. 76 min. Color. D: John Sherwood. SC: Harry Essex and Robert Hill. With Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday, Rex Reason, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Herbert Rudley, Robert Wilke, John Gilmore, Gregg Barton, Ed Furey, Francis McDonald, Julia Montoya, Paul Fierro, William Schallert, Richard James, Robert Hoy. A beautiful woman, taken by the first man who claims her in Oregon in the 1840s, finds herself attracted to a another out to kill her husband in revenge for his brother’s murder. Complicated Albert Zugsmith production saved by good photography and fetching Yvonne De Carlo.

3288  Raw Timber  Crescent, 1937. 63 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Bennett Cohen and John T. Neville. With Tom Keene, Peggy Keys, Budd Buster, Robert Fiske, Lee Phelps, John Rutherford, Rafael (Ray) Bennett, Slim Whitaker, Bart Carre, Dorothy Vernon, Fred Parker. When a timber baron murders a ranger who found out he was destroying the forest for his own gain another lawman shows up to investigate. Pretty fair entry in Tom Keene’s historical series for producer E.B. Derr with nice locales and good photography by Arthur Martinelli.

3289  Rawhide  Principal/20th Century–Fox, 1938. 60 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Dan Jarrett and Jack Natteford. With Smith Ballew, Lou Gehrig, Evelyn Knapp, Carl Stockdale, Cy Kendall, Slim Whitaker, Arthur Loft, Si Jenks, Lafe McKee, Lee Shumway, Dick Curtis, Tom Forman, Cliff Parkinson, Harry Tenbrook, Ed Cassidy, Ray Whitley, Carleton Young, Ed Peil, Sr., Bill Patton, Fred Burns, George Plues, Donald Kirke, Merrill McCormick, George Morrell, Al Haskell, Ray Henderson, Charles Brinley, Charles Murphy, Sid Kibrick. Baseball star Lou Gehrig finds crooks are trying to steal his sister’s ranch so he teams with her lawyer to stop them. Interesting curio with Lou Gehrig’s sturdy performance somewhat overshadowing star Smith Ballew.

3290  Rawhide  20th Century–Fox, 1951. 86 min. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Dudley Nichols. With Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Jeff Corey, James Millican, Louis Jean Heydt, William Haade, Milton Corey, Sr., Kenneth Tobey, Dan White, Max Terhune, Robert Adler, Judy Ann Dunn, Vincent Neptune, Walter Sande, Si Jenks, Dick Curtis, Edith Evanson. Outlaws hole up at a lonely way station, kill the owner and hold his assistant and a woman with a small child hostage. Well modulated and entertaining Western with fine work by Hugh Marlowe as the gang leader. Alternate TV title: Desperate Siege.

3291  Rawhide Rangers  Universal, 1941. 56 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O’Day, Kathryn Adams, Roy Harris, Harry Cording, Alan Bridge, Frank Shannon, Ed Cassidy, Robert Kortman, Chester Gan, James Farley, Jack Rockwell, Frank Ellis, Fred Burns, Tex Palmer, Tex Terry, The Pickard Family, The Texas Rangers. After the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger supposedly resigns and becomes an outlaw so he can infiltrate the gang responsible for the killing. Standard, but slick, Johnny Mack Brown vehicle.

3292  Rawhide Romance  Superior, 1934. 47 min. D: Denver Dixon (Victor Adamson). SC: L.V. Jefferson. With Buffalo Bill, Jr., Si Jenks, Lafe McKee, Boris Bullock, Genee Boutell, Jack Evans, Marin Sais, Clyde McClary, Ken Brocker, Bart (Carre) Carey, Herman Hack, Hamilton Steele, Denver Dixon. A cowboy gets involved with a pretty girl and her parents at a rustic guest ranch plagued by a robbery gang. A bit better than the usual Victor Adamson production, highlighted by Brydon Baker’s photography; Buffalo Bill, Jr., briefly sings “I’ve Got No Use for the Women.”

3293  The Rawhide Terror  Security, 1934. 52 min. D: Jack Nelson and Bruce Mitchell. SC: Jack Nelson. With Art Mix, William Desmond, Edmund Cobb, William Barrymore (Boris Bullock), Frances Morris, Bill Patton, Tommy Bupp, Herman Hack, George Holt, George Gyton, Ed Carey, Ernest Scott, Fred Parker, Clyde McClary, Joe Weaver, Denver Dixon. A lawman is on the trail of a sadistic, demented outlaw who is really his orphaned brother. This Victor Adamson (Denver Dixon) production has to be seen to be believed; it is a shoddy vintage horror Western and a treat for grade-Z movie followers. Their fans will appreciate seeing three genre greats, Art Mix, William Desmond and Edmund Cobb, in the starring roles, and Boris Bullock’s madman predates the 1970s superhuman horror film fiends.

3294  The Rawhide Trail  Allied Artists, 1958. 67 min. D: Robert Gordon. SC: Alexander Wells. With Rex Reason, Nancy Gates, Richard Erdman, Rusty Lane, Frank Chase, Ann Doran, Robert Knapp, Richard Warren, Al Wyatt, John Dierkes, Sam Buffington, Jana Davi, William Murphy, Richard Greary, Chet Sampson. Two men falsely accused of leading settlers into an Indian ambush try to prove their innocence as they await hanging and the tribe attacks the fort where they are imprisoned. Low budget affair that is nothing to shout about; title song sung by the Guardsmen.

3295  The Rawhide Years  Universal-International, 1956. 85 min. Color. D: Rudolph Mate. SC: Earl Fenton, Robert Presnell, Jr. and D.D. Beauchamp. With Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy, William Demarest, William Gargan, Peter Van Eyck, Minor Watson, Donald Randolph, Chubby Johnson, James Anderson, Robert Wilke, Trevor Bardette, Robert Foulk, Leigh Snowden, Don Beddoe, Malcolm Atterbury, Charles Evans, I. Stanford Jolley, Rex Lease, Chuck Roberson, Marlene Felton, Clarence Lung, Lane Bradford. A reformed gambler in the 1870s is falsely accused of a riverboat murder. More than passable melodrama.

R.C.M.P. and the Treasure of Genghis Khan see Dangers of the Canadian Mounted

3296  The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Saw a Fat Outlaw in the Old West Is as Follows:  NBC-TV/Universal, 1967. 49 min. Color. D: Hal Kantor. With Don Knotts, Arthur Godfrey, Percy Helton, Mary-Robin Redd, Jack Lambert, Herbert (Herb) Edelman, Bob Hope (host). The bumbling Curly Kid finds he cannot get himself arrested or even break the law despite a desire to be the most famous outlaw in the West. Fair comedy Western originally telecast on “Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre” (NBC-TV, 1963–67).

3297  A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die!  K-Tel, 1974. 92 min. Color. D-SC: Tonino Valerii. With James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, Georges Geret, Robert Burton, Jose Suarez, Ralph Goodwin, Paco Sanz, Joseph Mitchell. During the Civil War a Union officer and seven prisoners try to capture a fort held by Confederates. Violent European co-production that must depend on the name value of its stars rather than any innate quality; released in Europe in 1972. TV title: Massacre at Fort Holman.

3298  Rebel City  Allied Artists, 1953. 60 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Sid Theil. With Bill Elliott, Marjorie Lord, Robert Kent, Ray Walker, I. Stanford Jolley, Keith Richards, Henry Rowland, Denver Pyle, John Crawford, Otto Waldis, Stanley Price, Michael Vallon, Pierce Lyden, Gregg Barton. Arriving in a Kansas Town intent on finding his father’s killer, a man uncovers a Copperhead conspiracy to aid the Confederacy. Compact and entertaining Bill Elliott outing.

3299  Rebel in Town  United Artists, 1956. 78 min. Color. D: Alfred Werker. SC: Danny Arnold. With John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper, John Smith, James Griffith, Mary Adams, Bobby Clark, Mimi Gibson, Ben Johnson, Joel Ashley, Jack Perrin, Kermit Maynard, Sterling Franck. Returning home from the Civil War with his father and brothers, an ex-soldier accidentally kills a small boy but ends up having his life saved by the victim’s father. A different kind of plot for this type of fare; above average.

3300  Rebellion  Crescent, 1936. 62 min. D: Lynn Shores. SC: John T. Neville. With Tom Keene, Rita (Hayworth) Cansino, Duncan Renaldo, William Royle, Gino Corrado, Roger Gray, Bob McKenzie, Allen Cavan, Jack Ingram, Lita Cortez, Theodore Lorch, M.W. (Merrill) McCormick, George Regas, Allen Greer, Al Haskell, Ralph Bucko. President Zachary Taylor sends an Army officer to California after its acquisition from Mexico to stop lawlessness against Spanish landowners. Pretty fair entry in the historical film series Tom Keened made for producer E.B. Derr; reissued in 1946 as Frisco Lady.

3301  Rebels on the Loose  Fenix Film, 1966. 92 min. Color. D: Bruno Corbucci. SC: Vittorio Vighi, Ugo Guerra, Scarnicci and Tarabusi. With Raimondo Vianello, Lando Buzzanca, Maria Martinez, Monica Randall, Gino Buzzanca, Alfonso Rojos, Emilio Rodrigues, Giovanni Lenzi, Miguel De Castillo, Santiago Rivero, Mario Castellani, Mario De Simone, Antonio Albaisin. Eight years after the Civil War ends two Southern soldiers at an isolated fort still think the conflict is going on and they meet two lawless women who urge them to continue their sabotage activities. Limp Spaghetti Western takeoff released in Italy as Ringo e Gringo Contro Tutti (Ringo and Gringo Against All).

3302  The Reckless Buckaroo  Spectrum, 1937. 57 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Zarah Tazil. With Bill Cody, Bill Cody, Jr., Betty Mack, Buzz Barton, Roger Williams, Ed Cassidy, Lew Meehan, Milburn Morante, Budd Buster, Francis Walker, Allen Greer, Jack Nelson. A prospector is enlisted by a wounded lawman to bring in smugglers who are really being led by his deputy. Passable teaming of Bill Cody and his son for producer Ray Kirkwood. Also called Reckless Buckaroos.

Reckless Buckaroos see The Reckless Buckaroo

3303  Reckless Ranger  Columbia, 1937. 56 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Bob Allen, Louise Small, Jack Perrin, Mary MacLaren, Harry Woods, Buddy Cox, Jack Rockwell, Slim Whitaker, Roger Williams, Lane Chandler, Dirk Thane, Bud Osborne, Jim Corey, Tom London, Hal Price, Al Taylor, Tex Cooper, Bob McKenzie, Frank Ball, George Plues, Lafe McKee, Tex Palmer, Chick Hannon, Oscar Gahan, Rudy Sooter, Lloyd Perryman, Jack Tornek, Arthur Millett, Tommy Coats, Bud Pope, Archie Ricks, Jack King, Jack Evans, Eva McKenzie, Buck Morgan, Victor Cox. A ranger investigates his brother’s killing that was carried out by a gang under the control of a crook who wants to run off all sheep men so he can use government grazing lands for his cattle. Fast moving Bob Allen affair, although Jack Perrin just about steals the show as the secondary hero.

3304  Reckoning  Lincoln Media Group, 2002. 110 min. Color. D-SC: Jason Rodriguez. With Jason Rodriguez, Stacy Cunningham, Cheryl Lawson, Alan Waserman, Kim Jackson, Kent Smith, Craig Davis, Ritchie Copenhaver, Shiu Tong Lee, Mark Rodriguez, John Lamble, Ramon Becerra, Cosmo Segurson. A cowboy joins forces with a hooker to find his sister who has been forced into prostitution by a gunman. Slow moving adventure yarn.

3305  The Red Badge of Courage  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951. 69 min. D-SC: John Huston. With Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano, John Dierkes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Andy Devine, Robert Easton Burke, Smith Ballew, Glenn Strange, Dan White, Frank McGraw, Tim Durant, Emmett Lynn, I. Stanford Jolley, William Phillips, House Peters, Jr., Frank Sully, George Offerman, Jr., Joe Marston, Robert Nichols, Lou Nova, Fred Kohler, Jr., Dick Curtis, Guy Wilkerson, Buddy Roosevelt, Jim Hayward, Gloria Eaton, Robert Cherry, Whit Bissell, William Phipps, Ed Hinton, Lynn Farr. During the Civil War a raw recruit panics during his first battlefield encounter but later garners the courage to fight and become a hero. John Huston’s truncated version of the Stephen Crane novel is fairly interesting, especially for showing the effects of battle on individuals; look for Andy Devine’s dynamic cameo as the optimistic soldier.

3306  The Red Badge of Courage  NBC-TV/20th Century–Fox, 1974. 78 min. Color. D: Lee Phillips SC: John Gay. With Richard Thomas, Michael Brandon, Wendell Burton, Charles Aidman, Warren Berlinger, Lee DeBroux, Francesca Jarvis, George Sawaya, Hank Hendrick, John Cox, Tiny Wells, Norman Stone, Jack DeLeon (narrator). A frightened Union soldier learns the meaning of bravery after running from the enemy during his first battle. Okay TV adaptation of Stephen Crane’s book.

3307  Red Blood  Anchor, 1926. 50 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Al Hoxie, Nayone Warfield, Lew Meehan, Eddie Barry, J.P. McGowan, Frances Kellogg, Walter Patterson, Lem Sowards. A cowboy, who is always in trouble, loves the boss’ daughter who is also sought by a crooked gambler blackmailing her brother. Although it contains lots of fights, this Al Hoxie silent horse opera is pretty dull going.

3308  Red Blood of Courage  Ambassador, 1935. 55 min. D: Jack (John) English. SC: Barry Barringer. With Kermit Maynard, Ann Sheridan, Reginald Barlow, Charles King, Ben Hendricks, Jr., George Regas, Nat Carr, Milburn Morante, Art Dillard, Carl Mathews. A Mountie uncovers a plot with crooks kidnapping a man for his land while one of them impersonates him to fool his visiting niece. Entertaining Kermit Maynard north woods drama; first filmed by Selig in 1915 with Thomas Santschi, Bessie Eyton and Lafe McKee, from James Oliver Curwood’s scenario.

3309  Red Blood, Yellow Gold  Hispamex, 1967. 89 min. Color. D: Nando Cicero. SC: Jaime Jesus Balcazar, Jose Antonio de la Loma, Enzo Dell’Aquilla and Roberto Gianviti. With George Hilton, Edd Byrnes, George Martin, Milo Quesada, Monica Randall, Gerard Herter, Jose Badalo, Gisella Monaldi. A former priest, a bandit and an Mexican outlaw team to oppose marauders, Union and Rebel soldiers, a woman who says they murdered her folks and Confederate deserters. Above average Italian-Spanish co-production filmed as Professionisti per un Massacro (Professionals for a Massacre).

3310  Red Canyon  Universal-International, 1949. 82 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: Maurice Geraghty. With Ann Blyth, Howard, Duff, George Brent, Edgar Buchanan, John McIntire, Chill Wills, Jane Darwell, Lloyd Bridges, James Seay, Edmund MacDonald, David Clarke, Denver Pyle, Hank Patterson, Ray Bennett, Hank Worden, Sonny Chorre, Edmund Cobb, Willard W. Willingham, John Carpenter. Wanting to enter a horse in a race, a girl and an ex-outlaw try to tame a wild stallion called Black Velvet. Fair adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel Wildfire.

3311  Red Canyon  Fireside Releasing, 2008. 92 min. Color. D: Giovanni Rodriguez. SC: Laura Pratt and Giovanni Rodriguez. With Charistine Lakin, Tim Draxl, Katie Maguire, Norman Reedus, Justin Hartley, Noah Fleiss, Ankur Bhatt, Richard T. Pratt, Andy Mackenzie, Walter Rodriguez. Two siblings, along with three friends, return to a Western town where they survived a brutal attack and learn a terrible truth. Better than average modern-day horror Western.

3312  Red Desert  Lippert, 1949. 60 min. D: Ford Beebe. SC: Daniel B. Ullman and Ron Ormond. With Don Barry, Tom Neal, Jack Holt, Margia Dean, Byron Foulger, Joseph Crehan, John Cason, Tom London, Holly Bane, Hank Bell, George Slocum, Reed Hadley (narrator). Two gambling house operators use their business as a front for the sale of stolen government money and President Grant assigns the Pecos Kid to uncover the culprits. Action laden, well acted Don Barry vehicle; ten times better than the 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni Italian film with the same title.

Tom Neal, Hank Bell, Byron Foulger and Don Barry in Red Desert (Lippert, 1949).

3313  Red Earth, White Earth  CBS-TV, 1989. 96 min. Color. D: David Greene. SC: Michael De Guzman. With Timothy Daly, Genevieve Bujold, Ralph Waite, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Merasty, Alberto Watson, Danette Mackay, Joseph Cazalet, Norris Domingue, Patricia Ann Eshibok, Ian Finley, Dean Hagopian, Francois Klanfer, Ron Lea, Jordan Marchand, Walter Massey, Ritchie Nadeau, Michael Sandy, Philip Spensley, Harry Standjofski, Doreen Stevens, Vlasi Vrana, Billy Two Rivers. A man returns home to find his family in disorder because their homestead is being claimed by an Indian tribe. Not particularly ingratiating modern-day TV movie.

3314  Red Fork Range  Big 4, 1931. 60 min. D-SC: Alvin J. Neitz (Alan James). With Wally Wales, Ruth Mix, Al Ferguson, Cliff Lyons, Bud Osborne, Lafe McKee, Fred Gilman, Jim Corey, George Gerwing. Will Armstrong, Chief Big Tree, Slim Whitaker, Herman Hack, Bob Burns, Tex Phelps, Charles Le Moyne, Barney Beasley, Ralph Bucko, Starlight (horse). A cowboy tries to win a stagecoach race but gets opposition from an outlaw gang. Bottom rung, torpid Wally Wales outing.

3315  The Red Fury  Dayton Films, 1984. 105 min. Color. D: Lyman Dayton. SC: Joe Elliott. With Alan Hale, Katherine Cannon, Diane McBain, Cindy Roberts, Juan Gonzales, Jason Wingreen, Calvin Barlett, Paul Stahell, Mary Ethel Gregory, Addie Marsden, Al Hanson, Ronald Hatch. A young Indian boy sacrifices his beloved horse to bring tolerance to a Western town. Nicely done family film.

3316  Red Garters  Paramount, 1954. 91 min. Color. D: George Marshall. SC: Michael Fessier. With Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Pat Crowley, Gene Barry, Buddy Ebsen, Cass Daley, Reginald Owen, Frank Faylen, Joanne Gilbert, Richard Hale, Herbert N. Golden, Anthony Earl Numkena, Ethan Laidlaw, Sylvia Lewis, Maxine Gates, Rand Harper, Elizabeth Slifer, Marla English, Walter Tetley (voice). A man rides into a small town looking for his brother’s killer only to find the citizens celebrating the event. Strange conglomerate of music and drama; definitely a curio.

3317  Red Headed Stranger  Alive Films, 1986. 105 min. D-SC: Bill Wittliff. With Willie Nelson, Morgan Fairchild, R.G. Armstrong, Royal Dano, Katharine Ross, Sonny Carl Davis, Ted J. Crum, Marinell Madden, Bryan Fowler, Paul English, Bee Spears, Dennis Hill, Mark Jenkins, Berkley Garrett, Elberta Hunter, Mark Voges, John Dodson, John Browning, Julius Tennon, Joanne Russell, Bob Boothe, Bill Richardson, Robert Kuhn, Ralph Ware, Joe K. Longley, Steve Uzzell, Jubal Clark, James Wong, Martha Fowler, Keith Larsen, Army McMichael, Allison Wittliff, Ada Harden. A Montana parson finds out his bride is two timing him and he becomes attracted to another woman while taking up arms against a gang of ruffians. Lethargic screen version of Willie Nelson’s 1975 Columbia Records album.

3318  Red Mountain  Paramount, 1951. 84 min. Color. D: William Dieterle. SC: John Meredyth Lucas, George F. Slavin and George W. George. With Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Jeff Corey, James Bell, Bert Freed, Walter Sande, Neville Brand, Carleton Young, Whit Bissell, Jay Silverheels, Francis McDonald, Iron Eyes Cody, Dan White, Ralph Moody, Crane Whitley, Herbert Belles. Quantrill and his followers, pretending to fight for the Confederacy, go on looting and murder raids in Kansas and Missouri during the Civil war. Action filled account of the notorious marauder, well played by John Ireland.

3319  The Red Pony  Republic, 1949. 89 min. Color. D: Lewis Milestone. SC: John Steinbeck. With Robert Mitchum, Myrna Loy, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Peter Miles, Margaret Hamilton, Patty King, Jackie Jackson, Beau Bridges, Don Kay Reynolds, Wee Willie Davis, Tommy Sheridan, George Tyne, Nino Tempo, Poodles Hanneford, Grace Hanneford, Eddie Borden, Max Wagner, Alvin Hammer, Dolores Castle, William Quinan. A young boy longs for his own pony and after his stern father gets him one he neglects it and the animal wanders away and dies. John Steinbeck adapted his uneven version of his novella, although the film makes for pleasant entertainment.

3320  The Red Pony  NBC-TV/Universal, 1973. 100 min. Color. D: Robert Totten. SC: Robert Totten and Ron Bishop. With Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson, Jack Elam, Richard Jaeckel, Clint Howard, Julian Rivero, Roy Jenson, Woodrow Chambliss, Warren Douglas, Yvonne Wood, Victor Sun Yung, Lieux Dressler, Link Wyler, Rance Howard, Sally Carter-Ihnat, Heather Totten, Kurt Sled. A young boys feels more kinship with his pony than with his hard to understand father. Well made TV version of the John Steinbeck work, although the character of Billy Buck (played by Robert Mitchum in the 1949 screen version [q.v.]) is deleted.

3321  The Red Raiders  First National, 1927. 63 min. D: Albert Rogell. SC: Marion Jackson. With Ken Maynard, Ann Drew, J.P. McGowan, Paul Hurst, Harry Shutan, Ben Corbett, Chief Yowlachie, Tom Bay, Lafe McKee, Hal Salter. An Army lieutenant is assigned to a fort in Sioux Territory and there he manages to subdue a wild horse, fall in love with a beautiful girl and thwart the war intentions of an Indian chief who does not want his people on a reservation. One of Ken Maynard’s very best films in which he does impressive stunt work; highly entertaining.

3322  The Red Rider  Universal, 1934. 15 Chapters. D: Louis Friedlander (Lew Landers). SC: George Plympton, Vin Moore, Ella O’Neill and George Morgan. With Buck Jones, Marion Shilling, Grant Withers, Walter Miller, J.P. McGowan, Richard Cramer, Margaret La Marr, Charles K. French, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, Mert Lavarre (John Merton), Frank Rice, Jim Thorpe, Monte Montague, Denny Meadows (Dennis Moore), Jim Corey, Bud Osborne, Al Ferguson, Artie Ortego, Tom Ricketts, J. Frank Glendon, King Baggott, Charles Brinley, Bill Steele, Fred Burns, Hank Bell, Chester Gan, Jim Tony, Art Mix, Jack Rockwell, Jack O’Shea, Frank Ellis, Ben Hendricks, Harry Royer, Charles McMurphy, Frank Hagney, Jack Shannon, Chet Ryan, Cliff Lyons, Tom Steele, Eddie Woehler, Jr, Rose Plummer. A sheriff loses his job because he refuses to believe his pal committed a murder and while investigating the case along the Mexican border he comes across clues to support this opinion. Top notch Buck Jones cliffhanger.

3323  Red River  United Artists, 1948. 125 min. D: Howard Hawks. SC: Borden Chase and Charles Schnee. With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Noah Beery, Jr., Harry Carey, Harry Carey, Jr., Chief Yowlachie, Mickey Kuhn, Paul Fix, Hank Worden, Ivan Parry, Hal Taliaferro, Paul Fierro, Ray Hyke, Glenn Strange, Tom Tyler, Lane Chandler, Dan White, Lee Phelps, George Lloyd, John Merton, Pierce Lyden, Shelley Winters, Davison Clark, William Self, Harry Cording, Jack Montgomery, Chief Sky Eagle, Richard Farnsworth. A cattle baron leads a rough drive forming the Chisholm Trail but along the way his methods are questioned by his foster son who takes command away from him. Classic Western, one of the very best.

3324  Red River  CBS-TV, 1988. 96 min. Color. D: Richard Michaels. SC: Richard Fielder. With James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Gregory Harrison, Ray Walston, Stan Shaw, Laura Johnson, Zachary Ansley, Ty Hardin, Robert Horton, John Lupton, Guy Madison, L.Q. Jones, Burton Gilliam, Jerry Potter, Johnmark Bradley, Donnie Jeffcoast, James Oscar Lee, Bud Stout, Travis Swords, Bob Terhune, Temple Williams. Tension brews between an cattleman and his young protégé during a long, trouble filled trail drive. Pale TV remake of the 1948 classic (q.v.) although James Arness is good in the John Wayne role.

3325  Red River Range  Republic, 1938. 56 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Stanley Roberts, Betty Burbridge and Luci Ward. With John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Polly Moran, Lorna Gray (Adrian Booth), Kirby Grant, Sammy McKim, William Royle, Perry Ivins, Stanley Blystone, Lenore Bushman, Burr Caruth, Roger Williams, Earl Askam, Olin Francis, Ed Cassidy, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Bob McKenzie, Theodore Lorch, Al Taylor, Curley Dresden, John Beach, Joe Whitehead, Jack Montgomery, Chuck Baldra. Rustlers use a dude ranch as their base for cattle thefts via trucks and three cowboys are called in to solve the mystery with one of them pretending to be an outlaw to get in with the gang. Fast moving, slick “Three Mesquiteers” series addition.

3326  Red River Renegades  Republic, 1946. 55 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Tom London, Bruce Langley, Kenne Duncan, LeRoy Mason, Ted Adams, Edmund Cobb, Stanley Price, Fred Graham, Jack Rockwell, Tex Terry. Two postal inspectors investigate a rash of stagecoach robberies and disappearances, with one of them being murdered. Typically action filled Sunset Carson affair with speed making up for lack of finesse.

3327  Red River Robin Hood  RKO Radio, 1943. 57 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Barbara Moffett, Eddie Dew, Otto Hoffman, Russell Wade, Tom London, Earle Hodgins, Bud McTaggart, Reed Howes, Kenne Duncan, David Sharpe, Bob McKenzie, Jack Rockwell, Jack Montgomery. A masked figure called “Mr. Justice” fights for the rights of ranchers being bilked in taxes by crooks with a fake land grant claim. Satisfying Tim Holt vehicle.

3328  Red River Shore  Republic, 1953. 54 min. D: Harry Keller. SC: Arthur Orloff and Gerald Geraghty. With Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Lyn Thomas, Bill Phipps, Douglas Fowley, Trevor Bardette, William Haade, Emmett Vogan, John Cason, Rayford Barnes, Jack Perrin. Forced to kill a crooked businessman in a gunfight, a marshal vows to keep the man’s guilt a secret but trouble soon develops between him and the dead man’s son over a bogus oil drilling operation. A complicated plot keeps this Rex Allen outing moving along despite dropping production values.

3329  Red River Valley  Republic, 1936. 56 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Boothe Howard, George Chesebro, Charles King, Frankie Marvin, Lloyd Ingraham, Hank Bell, Earl Dwire, Jack Kenney, Sam Flint, Eugene Jackson, Edward Hearn, Frank LaRue, Ken Cooper, C.E. “Cap” Anderson, George Morrell. A singing cowpoke tries to find out who has been dynamiting ditches, the action endangering a big irrigation project. Colorful, fast moving Gene Autry musical opus; alternate title: Man of the Frontier.

3330  Red River Valley  Republic, 1941. 62 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Malcolm Stuart Boylan. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Sally Payne, Gale Storm, Hal Taliaferro, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Trevor Bardette, Robert Homans, Lynton Brent, Ed Peil, Sr., Dick Wessel, Jack Rockwell, Ted Mapes, Jack Kirk, Bob Burns, Chuck Baldra, Hank Bell. Racketeers attempt to obtain water rights and cattle in an area where a dam is being built. Fair Roy Rogers feature.

3331  Red Rock Outlaw  Friedgen, 1950. 56 min. D-SC: Elmer (Clifton) Pond. With Bob Gilbert, Lee “Lasses” White, Ione Nixon, Forrest Matthews, Virginia Jackson, Wanda Cantlon, Billy Dix, Reno Browne, Tennessee Jim, Joyce Gardner, Pinky Patek, Ewing “Lucky” Brown, Eddie Majors, Billy McCoy, Clint Johnson, Johnny Bias. A murderous outlaw tries to kill his honest rancher twin brother and take his place. Rock bottom.

3332  The Red Rope  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: George Plympton. With Bob Steele, Lois January, Horace Murphy, Charles King, Bobby Nelson, Ed Cassidy, Lew Meehan, Frank Ball, Karl Hackett, Jack Rockwell, Forrest Taylor, Lionel Belmore, Richard Cramer, Horace B. Carpenter, Willie Fung, Wally West, Oscar Gahan, Tex Palmer, Emma Tansey, Sherry Tansey, Ray Henderson, Fred Parker. A cowboy helps a young couple who want to marry but whose plans are altered by a man who holds the mortgage on the girl’s father’s ranch and wants her for himself. Well written Bob Steele vehicle.

3333  Red Skies of Montana  20th Century–Fox, 1952. 96 min. Color. D: Joseph M. Newman. SC: Harry Kleiner. With Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, James Griffith, Joseph Sawyer, Gregory Walcott, Richard Crenna, Bob Nichols, Ralph Reed, Walter Murphy, Robert Adler, Charles (Bronson) Buchinsky, Mike Mahoney, Larry Dobkin, John Close, Grady Galloway, Henry Kulky, Harry Carter, Charles Tannen, Ron Hargrave, Robert Osterloh, Ted Ryan, John Kennedy, Parley Baer, Barbara Woodell, Ray Hyke, Wilson Hood, Ann Morrison. A firefighter for the U.S. Forestry Service plans revenge on a superior who he feels caused his father’s death during a mission. A dull plot hampers some well staged fire sequences in this action melodrama, also called Smoke Jumpers.

3334  The Red Stallion  Eagle-Lion, 1947. 82 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Robert E. Kent and Crane Wilbur. With Robert Paige, Noreen Nash, Ted Donaldson, Jane Darwell, Ray Collins, Guy Kibbee, Willie Best, Robert Bice, Pierre Watkin, Bill Carledge, Emmett Vogan, Big Red (horse), Daisy (dog). When his grandmother is about to lose her ranch, a young boy desperately tries to use his beloved horse to make the money to save it. Well made and entertaining family fare.

3335  Red Stallion in the Rockies  Eagle-Lion, 1949. 85 min. Color. D: Ralph Murphy. SC: Francis Rosenwald. With Arthur Franz, Jean Heather, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis, Ray Collins, Leatrice Joy, James Kirkwood, Ray Bennett, Guy Wilkerson, John Doucette, Howard Negley, Lyle Latell, Joseph J. Greene, Gustino Loyal, Dynamite (horse). Two circus performers go to work on a ranch and one of them falls in love with the owner’s niece. Good drama enhanced by Jim Davis’ performance as the rancher’s grasping son and the presence of silent screen star Leatrice Joy.

3336  Red Sun  National General, 1972. 112 min. Color. D: Terence Young. SC: Laird Koenig, Denne Bart Petitclerc, William Roberts and Lawrence Roman. With Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, Capucine, Satoshi Nakamoura, Bart Barry, Lee Burton, Anthony Dawson, Hiroshi Tanaka, John Hamilton, George W. Lycan, Jose Nieto, Julia Pena, Monica Randall, Luc Merenda, John Vermont. A Japanese Sumurai travels to the U.S. and eventually joins forces with an outlaw in retrieving a valuable sword stolen by outlaws. The teaming of Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune adds zest to this picture that was issued in Europe in 1971 as Soleil Rouge (Red Sun) by Corona Films/Oceania Films/Balcazar Films.

3337  Red Sundown  Universal-International, 1956. 81 min. Color. D: Jack Arnold. SC: Martin Berkeley. With Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton, James Millican, Lita Baron, Grant Williams, Trevor Bardette, David Kasday, Leo Gordon, Steve Darrell, Stevie Wootton, John Carpenter, Henry Wills, Alex Sharp, Lee Van Cleef. An ex-gunman becomes a deputy sheriff in a frontier town and opposes a land baron and his hired killer. There is nothing exceptional in this Albert Zugsmith production.

3338  The Red Tomahawk  Paramount, 1967. 82 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Steve Fisher. With Howard Keel, Joan Caulfield, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady, Wendell Corey, Richard Arlen, Tom Drake, Ben Cooper, Tracy Olsen, Donald Barry, Reg Parton, Roy Jenson, Dan White, Henry Wills, Gerald Jann, Sol Gorss, Sailor Vincent, Kenner G. Kemp, Joe Ploski. Following the Little Big Horn massacre, an Army captain tries to warn the citizens of Deadwood of a possible Indian attack and he uncovers four Gatling guns to hold off the marauders. The veteran cast tries hard but is stymied by an indifferent script and laggard production values.

The Red, White and Black see Soul Soldier

3339  The Redhead and the Cowboy  Paramount, 1951. 82 min. D: Leslie Fenton. SC: Jonathan Latimer and Liam O’Brien. With Glenn Ford, Rhonda Fleming, Edmond O’Brien, Alan Reed, Morris Ankrum, Edith Evanson, Perry Ivins, Janine Perreau, Douglas Spencer, Ray Teal, Ralph Byrd, King Donovan, Jim Bannon, Tom Moore, Robert Kortman, Jeff York, Paul Lees, Don Dunning, Lester Dorr, Len Hendry, Rodd Redwing, Richard Karlan, Rory Mallinson, Henry Wills, Eric Alden, Iron Eyes Cody, Gertrude Astor, Lupe Gonzalez, Charles Quirk. A woman becomes a courier for the Confederacy in its waning days and is pursued by a cowboy, who needs her testimony to clear him of a murder charge, and a Union spy. Pretty fair screen entertainment.

3340  The Redhead from Wyoming  Universal-International, 1953. 80 min. Color. D: Lee Sholem. SC: Polly James and Herb Meadow. With Maureen O’Hara, Alex Nicol, Robert Strauss, Jeanne Cooper, William Bishop, Alexander Scourby, Jack Kelly, Palmer Lee (Gregg Palmer), Claudette Thornton, Ray Bennett, Joe Bailey, Rush Williams, Dennis Weaver, Stacy Harris, Larry Hudson, Jack Perrin, Edmund Cobb, Buddy Roosevelt, Syd Saylor, Philo McCullough, Harold Goodwin, Henry Wills, Boyd Morgan, David Sharpe, George Taylor, Bob Merrick, Jack Hyde. An attractive woman operates a front shielding cattle rustlers but finds herself falling in love with the lawman after an outlaw she is protecting. Okay action feature with Maureen O’Hara doing a good job in the title role.

3341  The Redmen and the Renegades  International Television Corporation, 1964. 89 min. D: Sam Newfield. With John Hart, Lon Chaney, George Barnes, John Vernon, Brian Smyth. Ethan Allen is accused of treason and Hawkeye and Chingachgook try to prove his innocence. Average television feature made up of three episodes of “Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans” (Syndicated, 1956).

3342  Redwood Forest Trail  Republic, 1950. 68 min. D: Philip Ford. SC: Bradford Ropes. With Rex Allen, Jeff Donnell, Jane Darwell, Marten Lamont, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Pierre Watkin, Jimmy Ogg, Dick Jones, John Cason, Jack Larson, Robert Burns, Joseph Granby. When boys staying at a ranch for the rehabilitation of delinquents are accused of being involved in a murder a cowboy tries to prove their innocence. Pretty good Rex Allen vehicle.

The Refugee see Three Faces West

3343  El Regreso del Monstruo (The Return of the Monster). Filmadora Mexicana, 1958. 63 min. D: Joselito Rodriguez. SC: Luis Manrique, Antonio Oreland and Fernando Oses. With Luis Aguilar, Pascual Garcia Pena, Teresa Velazquez, Jaime Fernandez, Yolanda del Valle, Arturo Martinez, Fanny Shiller, Roger Lopez, Sergio Murrietta. A masked avenger, the Scarlet Fox, and his pal battle a mad doctor planning to mate a young woman with a resurrected monster. Chilling Mexican horror Western released on video as Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster.

3344  Relentless  Columbia, 1948. 93 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: Winston Miller. With Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman, Willard Parker, Akim Tamiroff, Barton MacLane, Mike Mazurki, Robert Barrat, Clem Bevans, Frank Fenton, Hank Patterson, Paul E. Burns, Emmett Lynn, Will Wright, Earle Hodgins, John Cason, John Carpenter, Joseph Crehan, Harry Tyler, William Desmond, Ethan Laidlaw, Bob Reeves, Olin Howlin, Nacho Galindo, Byron Foulger, Wade Crosby, Victor Potel, Ernie Adams, Robert Barron, Roy Brent, Victor Cox. Framed for murder he did not commit and chased by a posse, a cowboy gets help from a young woman. Well done pursuit melodrama.

3345  Relentless  CBS-TV, 1977. 74 min. Color. D: Lee H. Katzin. SC: Sam Rolfe. With Will Sampson, Monte Markham, John Hillerman, Marianna Hill, Larry Wilcox, Antony Ponzini, John Lawlor, Ted Markland, David Pendleton, Ron Foster, Don Starr, Danny Zapien, Mel Todd, Dick Armstrong, Teddy (dog). An Arizona state policeman tracks a gang of robbers who have pulled a heist, murdered his uncle and taken a woman hostage into the mountains. Action filled and well produced telefeature.

Antony Ponzini and John Hillerman in Relentless (CBS-TV, 1979).

3346  The Relentless Four  Astor, 1965. 90 min. Color. D: Primo Zeglio. SC: Sebares De Caso and Primo Zeglio. With Adam West, Robert Hundar (Claudio Undari), Pauline Bards (Paola Barbara), Red Ross, Roberto Camardiel, Ralph Baldwyn (Raf Baldassare), Cris Huerta, John Bartha, Robert Johnson, Jr., Dina Loy, Luis Induni, Jose Jaspe, Francisco Sanz. A quartet of bandits, secretly supported by a corrupt deputy sheriff, commit a series of lawless acts and place the blame on a lawman. Better than average Spaghetti Western with star Adam West for domestic appeal. Released in Italy by P.E.A./Astorfilms as I Quattro Inesorabili (The Inexorable Four).

Remember Me see Horsemen of the Sierras

Remember the Alamo see Heroes of the Alamo

3347  Remolino (Whirlpool)  Cinematograpfica Intercontinental, 1961. 90 min. D: Gilbert Garzcon. SC: Raul de Anda. With Luis Aguilar, Maria Duval, Miguel Arenas, Agustin de Anda, Sonia Furio, Armando Arriola, Dolores Finoco, Jose Elias Moreno. A ranch owner, his son and one of their cowboys become jealous of each other over the affections of a newly arrived young woman. Entertaining Mexican Western drama.

3348  The Renegade  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1943. 58 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Milton (George W. Sayre and Milton Raison). With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Lois Ranson, Karl Hackett, Ray Bennett, Frank Hagney, Jack Rockwell, Tom London, George Chesebro, Jimmy Aubrey, Dan White, Carl Sepulveda, Wally West, Jack Montgomery, Milburn Morante, Art Dillard, Silver Harr, Jack Evans, Jack Tornek. Billy the Kid and his sidekick Fuzzy Jones are on the trail of a notorious lawbreaker. Standard “Billy the Kid” series fare; reissued by Eagle-Lion in 1947 in a 38 minute re-edited version called Code of the Plains.

3349  Renegade  Cinecitta/Paloma Films, 1987. 90 min. Color. D: E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni). SC: Mark (Marco) Barboni. With Terence Hill, Robert Vaughn, Ross Hill, Norman Bowler, Donald Hodson, Beatrice Palmer, Lisa Ann Rubin, Luisa Maneri, Valeria Sabel, Cole S. McKay, Curt Bortel, Joe Krieg, Jannel Robinson, Matthew Uriarte, Royce Clark, Cyrus Elias, Moe Mosley, Sandy Gibbons, Gigi Bonos, Carolyn Jacobs, Ron Nix. A defrauding drifter makes a deal with a convict to become the guardian of the man’s teenage punk son. Fun modern-day Western action comedy with star Terence Hill co-writing the story on which it is based; also titled They Call Me Renegade.

3350  Renegade  Columbia Tri Star, 2004. 124 min. Color. D: Jan Kounen. SC: Cassidy Pope. With Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison, Ernest Borgnine, Diimon Hounsou, Hugh O’Connor, Geoffrey Lewis, Nicole Hiltz, Kateri Walker, Vahina Giocante, Kestenbetsa, Tcheky Karyo, Eddie Izzard, Colm Meaney, Dominique Bettenfeld, Antonio Monroy, William Lightning, Jan Kounen, Francois Levantal, Joel Gonzales, Panshin Biri, Juan Manual Bernal, Francois Bercovici, Richard Jones, Val Avery, Pascal Demolon, Leticia Gutierrez, Tetsu Nagata, Cyril Dupuy, Paul Rodden, Javier Clave, Jose Gomez Parcero, Karl H. Braun. After being saved by a Chiricahua Apache family, a man changes his ways and becomes a peace officer who tries to protect the tribe when gold is found on their land. Hard to follow French production filmed in Mexico.

3351  Renegade Girl  Screen Guild, 1948. 65 min. D: William Berke. SC: Edwin K. Westrate. With Alan Curtis, Ann Savage, Jack Holt, Edward Brophy, Russell Wade, Ray Corrigan, John King, Chief Thundercloud, Edmund Cobb, Claudia Drake, Dick Curtis, Nick Thompson, James Martin, Harry Cording, Ernie Adams, Forrest Taylor, Kermit Maynard. During the Civil War the woman leader of a band of raiders is stalked by a special Union investigator. Fair action program feature with a supporting cast of ex-genre stars.

Renegade Gun see Shoot the Living...Pray for the Dead

3352  Renegade Gunfighter  Tirso/Petruka Film, 1966. 76 min. Color. D: Silvio Amadio. SC: Silvio Amadio, Tito Carpi and Luciano Gregoretti. With Zachary Hatcher, Dick Palmer (Mimmo Palmara), Pier Angeli (Annamaria Pierangeli), Ruben Rojo, Mirko Ellis, Manuel Gil, Jose Calvo, Bruno Scipioni. A peace lover becomes a vengeful killer after his parents are murdered by two evil land grabbing brothers. Typically violent, mediocre dubbed oater from Italy initially called Per Mille Dollari al Giorno (For One Thousand Dollars Per Day).

3353  Renegade Ranger  RKO Radio, 1939. 60 min. D: David Howard. SC: Oliver Drake. With George O’Brien, Rita Hayworth, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, William Royle, Neal Hart, Monte Montague, Robert Kortman, Charles Stevens, Jim Mason, Tom London, Guy Usher, Lucio Villegas, Cecilia Callejo, The Phelps Brothers, Hank Bell, Al Haskell, Pete Morrison, Frank Ellis, Carl Mathews, Victor Cox, Jack O’Shea, Ray Jones, Buck Bucko. A Texas Ranger, sent to capture a female bandit leader, ends up saving her life and discovers she and other ranchers have been forced into crime by a crooked tax collector. Good production values and an entertaining story make this George O’Brien vehicle worth viewing, with lovely Rita Hayworth co-starring as the bandit queen. A remake of Come On, Danger (1932) [q.v.] it was done a third time under that title in 1942 (q.v.) with Tim Holt and Ray Whitley again in the cast, this time Holt having the lead role.

3354  The Renegade Trail  Paramount, 1939. 61 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: John Rathmell and Harrison Jacobs. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Wynters, Russell Hopton, Sonny Bupp, Jack Rockwell, Roy Barcroft, John Merton, Robert Kortman, Eddie Dean, The King’s Men (Ken Darby, Rad Robinson, Bud Linn, Jon Dodson), John Wallace, Leo J. McMahon, Blackjack Ward, Cliff Lyons. The Bar 20 trio come to the aid of a woman and her son whose cattle are the target of an outlaw gang that includes her ex-convict husband, who the boy thinks died a good man. A bit slower than the average “Hopalong Cassidy” outing and somewhat less scenic but still pretty good with a pleasant musical interlude by The King’s Men.

3355  Renegades  Columbia, 1946. 88 min. Color. D: George Marshall. SC: Melvin Levy and Francis Edwards Faragoh. With Evelyn Keyes, Willard Parker, Larry Parks, Edgar Buchanan, Forrest Tucker, Jim Bannon, Ludwig Donath, Willard Robertson, Paul E. Burns, Frank Sully, Eddy Waller, Virginia Brissac, Francis Ford, Vernon Dent, Addison Richards, Syd Saylor, John Hamilton, William Haade, Eileen Janssen, Hermine Sterler. The youngest son of a family of outlaws tries to lead a peaceful life but finds his clan’s reputation too great to conquer. Okay oater, well acted by a good cast.

3356  Renegades of Sonora  Republic, 1948. 60 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: M. Coates Webster. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, William Henry, Douglas Fowley, Roy Barcroft, George J. Lewis, Frank Fenton, Mauritz Hugo, Marshall Reed, Holly Bane, Dale Van Sickel, Art Dillard, House Peters, Jr. On his way to Wyoming to buy a ranch, a cowboy stops in a frontier town and crooks frame him for murder. Nothing special here but still entertaining.

3357  Renegades of the Rio Grande  Universal, 1945. 56 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Ande Lamb. With Rod Cameron, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Eddie Dew, Ray Whitley and His Bar-6 Cowboys, Glenn Strange, Ethan Laidlaw, Edmund Cobb, Richard Alexander, John James, Richard Botiller, Iris Clive, Larry McGrath, Roy Butler, Jack Casey, Virgil Drake, Hal Hart. A ranger is assigned to stop an outlaw gang rustling cattle along the Mexican border. Solid Rod Cameron vehicle, showing why he went on to bigger things.

3358  Renegades of the Sage  Columbia, 1949. 56 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Earle Snell. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Leslie Banning, Trevor Bardette, Douglas Fowley, Jock (Mahoney) O’Mahoney, Fred F. Sears, George Chesebro, Jerry Hunter, Frank McCarroll, Selmer Jackson. A Secret Service agent is after a gang destroying territorial telegraph lines. Tepid entry in the “Durango Kid” series. British title: The Fort.

3359  Renegades of the West  RKO Radio, 1932. 55 min. D: Casey Robinson. SC: Albert LeVine. With Tom Keene, Betty Furness, Rosco(e) Ates, Rockcliffe Fellows, Jim Mason, Jack Pennick, Max Wagner, Joseph Girard, Billy Franey, Roland Southern, Jules Cowles, Frank O’Connor, Josefina Ramos, Chuck Baldra, Tex Palmer, Mike Morita, Fred Parker. When cattle rustlers murder his rancher father a cowboy plans to get even with them. Well directed Tom Keene vehicle; above average.

3360  El Renegado Blanco (The White Renegade). Alameda Filma, 1960. 90 min. D: Fernando Mendez. SC: Alfredo Salazar. With Mauricio Garces, Abel Salazar, Rafael Baledon, Martha Roth, Luis Aragon, Renee Dumas, Begona Palacios, Carlos Nieto, Guillermo Rivas, Eduardo Arcaraz, David Reynoso, Virma Gonzalez, Angel D’Stefani, Jose Dupeyron, Tito Novaro, Salvador Terroba, Antonio Badu, Fernando Galiana. Three brothers think Sitting Bull and his braves are behind a raid really the work of an outlaw called The White Renegade. Well done Mexican oater.

3361  Renfrew of the Royal Mounted  Grand National, 1937. 57 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Charles Logue. With James Newill, Carol Hughes, William Royle, Herbert Corthell, Kenneth Harlan, Dickie Jones, Chief Thundercloud, William Austin, Donald Reed, Bob Terry, William Gould, David Barclay (Dave O’Brien), Dwight Frye, Forrest Taylor, Earl Douglas, Marin Sais, Arthur Millett, Otto Hoffman, Buck Morrison, Lighting (dog). A Mounted Policeman is assigned to look into the smuggling of bogus currency across the U.S.-Canadian border and learns a former counterfeiter, who has gone straight, is being held prisoner and forced to engrave plates. Good opener for the popular “Renfrew of the Royal Mounted” series, a pleasing film highlighted by excellent baritone James Newill in the title role

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Fighting Mad see Fighting Mad

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Murder on the Yukon see Murder on the Yukon

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Yukon Flight see Yukon Flight

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted on the Great White Trail see On the Great White Trail

Renfrew on the Great White Trail see On the Great White Trail

3362  Reno  RKO Radio, 1939. 73 min. D: John Farrow. SC: John Twist. With Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Anita Louise, Paul Cavanagh, Laura Hope Crews, Louis Jean Heydt, Hobart Cavanaugh, Charles Halton, Astrid Allwyn, Joyce Compton, Frank Faylen, William Haade, Anthony Averill, Carole Landis, Billie Seward, Max Wagner, Steve Pendleton, John Dilson, Paul E. Burns, Lloyd Ingraham, Bob McKenzie, Hank Worden, Larry Steers, George Watts, Blackie Whiteford, Fern Emmett, Wedgwood Newell, Selmer Jackson, Jim Farley, Donald Kerr, Bob Perry. A smart lawyer turns Reno, Nevada, from a rough mining town into the country’s divorce capital but lives to regret it. Entertaining medium budget feature.

3363  Reprisal!  Columbia, 1956. 74 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: David P. Harmon, Raphael Hayes and David Dortort. With Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant, Michael Pate, Edward Platt, Otto Mulett, Wayne Mallory, Robert Burton, Ralph Moody, Frank De Kova, Paul McGuire, Don Rhodes, Philip Breedlove, Malcolm Atterbury, Eve McVeagh, Addison Richards, Jack Lomas, John Zaremba, Kermit Maynard, Eddie Parker. Falsely accused of murdering a cattle baron, a half-breed is saved from a lynch mob by the two women who love him. Compact action film provides good viewing.

Guy Madison in Reprisal! (Columbia, 1956).

3364  Requiem for a Bounty Killer  Cineproduzionne Daunia/Universalia Vision, 1972. 84 min. Color. D: Mark Welles (Angelo Pannaccio). SC: Craig Marina and Angelo Pannaccio. With Ray O’Conner (Remo Capitani), Michael Forest, Michele Branca, Lawrence Bien, Thomas Rudy, Steven Tedd, Anna Bacchi, Giovanni Petti, Italo Guitto, Iro Fantini, Benito Pacifici, Ivi D’Annunzio, Alceste Bogart, Chet Davis (Michelle Borelli), Antonio Molino Rojo, Susanna Levi, Luciano Conti. After his family is brutalized and murdered by outlaws, a rancher teams with a mysterious gunman to track them down. Above average, but violent, Italian production issued there as Requiem per un Bounty Hunter (Requiem for a Bounty Hunter); some sources claim Mark Welles is actor-director Mel Welles.

3365  Requiem for a Gunfighter  Embassy, 1965. 91 min. Color. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: R. Alexander (Ruth Gordon). With Rod Cameron, Stephen McNally, Mike Mazurki, Tim McCoy, Olive Sturgess, Bob Steele, Johnny Mack Brown, Lane Chandler, Raymond Hatton, Dick Jones, Rand Brooks, Dale Van Sickel, Frank Lackteen, Zon Murray, Edmund Cobb, Richard Alexander, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Fred Carson, Chet Douglas, Chris Hughes. When a judge is murdered to prevent a trial, a gunman mistaken for him makes plans to see that justice is carried out. A cast of genre veterans add zest to this pleasant Alex Gordon production.

3366  Requiescant (Let Them Rest)  Accord-Film/CPF/Iris-Film, 1967. 110 min. Color. D: Carlo Lizzani. SC: Franco Bucceri, Adriano Bolzoni, Armando Crispino and Lucio Battistrada. With Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Barbara Frey, Rosanna Krisman, Mirella Maravidi, Franco Citti, Luis Baratto, Nino Davoli, Nino Musco, Charles Palmset (Carlo Palmucci), Anne Carter, Lorenza Guerrieri, Victor Duse, Dean Light (Feruccio Viotti), Massimo Sarchielli, Pier Annibale Danovi, Ivan Scratuglia, Renato Terra, Aldo Marianecci, Peter Jacob, Sparataco Conversi, Henry Danby (Hermann Nehlsen), Fulvio Mingozzi, Max Guthner. After being raised by Quakers, a Mexican vows revenge against the aristocrat who stole his land as well as those responsible for turning his benefactor’s daughter into a prostitute. Bizarre, sadistic Italian-West German co-production, also called Kill and Pray and Let Them Rest. Some prints run 92 minutes.

3367  The Restless Breed  20th Century–Fox, 1957. 81 min. Color. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Steve Fisher. With Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jim Davis, Jay C. Flippen, Leo Gordon, Rhys Williams, Myron Healey, Scott Marlowe, Eddy Waller, Harry V. Cheshire, Gerald Milton, Dennis King, Jr., James Flavin, Billy Miller, Evelyn Rudie, Clegg Hoyt, Joe Devlin, Fred Graham, Tom Steele. Following the killing of his Secret Service agent father, a man sets out for revenge. Average melodrama, well made but nothing exciting.

3368  Retribution Road  Grindstone Entertainment Group, 2007. 75 min. Color. D-SC: Chuck Walker. With Michael Gregory, John Castellanos, Leslie Easterbrook, Burton Gilliam, Peter Sherayko, Corbin Timbrook, Hallie Pierce, Alan Arnold, Al Hayter, Molly Elswick, Terry Mann, Eduardo Enriquez, Jr., Mark Enriquez, Carlos Rodriguez, Tony Rowe, John Rouse, Heidi Smith, Duke Meek, Jimmy Phillis, Doc Sheedy, Wilton Stewart, Yankie Grant, James B. Lewis, Toledo Boulware Hues, Leeza Zimmerman. In South Texas a sheriff waits to confront the family of a notorious outlaw he has locked in jail. Texas filmed, low budget High Noon (q.v.) clone makes for pretty fair viewing; also called Blue Eyes.

3369  The Return of a Man Called Horse  United Artists, 1976. 129 min. Color. D: Irvin Kerschner. SC: Jack DeWitt. With Richard Harris, Ana DeSade, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, Bill Lucking, Jorge Luke, Claudio Brook, Enrique Lucerno, Jorge Russek, Pedro Damien. A title Englishman, who became a Sioux after many trials, returns to the tribe to help them in their struggle against whites. A bit long but still a good sequel to A Man Called Horse (q.v.), followed by the vapid Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (q.v.).

3370  Return of Daniel Boone  Columbia, 1941. 56 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Paul Franklin and Joseph Hoffman. With Bill Elliott, Dub Taylor, Betty Miles, Ray Bennett, Walter Soderling, Carl Stockdale, Bud Osborne, Francis Walker, Lee Powell, Tom Carter, Edmund Cobb, Roy Butler, Art Miles, Edwin Bryant, Steve Clark, Murdock MacQuarrie, Hank Bell, Rodik Twins. Daniel Boone’s grandson goes to work as a tax collector but soon deduces his boss is a crook cheating settlers of their properties. Okay Bill Elliott vehicle.

3371  The Return of Desperado  NBC-TV, 1988. 96 min. Color. D: E.W. Swackhamer. SC: John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne and Charles Grant Craig. With Alex McArthur, Robert Foxworth, Billy Dee Williams, Marcy Walker, Vanessa Bell, Charles Boswell, Hal Havins, J. Jay Saunders, Victor Jove, John Barks, Vivian Bonnell, Gregg Brinkley, Rahda Delamarter, Rusty Dillen, Jerry Gardner, Darlah Rusch Gathings, Sam Gauny, Dan Kamin, Shelby Livingston, Ivy Price, Adam Taylor, Tommy Townsend, Marvin Walters. When black homesteaders are threatened by a corrupt rancher an outlaw joins forces with a woman reporter to help them. Mundane TV Western feature.

3372  Return of Django  Denwer Films, 1967. 95 min. Color. D: Osvaldo Civirani. SC: Tito Carpi, Alessandro Ferrau and Osvaldo Civirani. With Guy Madison, Gabriele Tinti, Ingrid Schoeller, Daniele Vargas, Pedro Sanchez, Andrew Scott (Andrea Scotti), Bob Messenger (Roberto Messina), Christl Penz, Ivan Scratt, Luis Chavarro, Franco Gula, Luciano Rossi, Piero Morgia, Giorgio Dionisio, Renato Mambor, John Bartha, Bob Johnson, Giuseppe Castellano, The Wilder Brothers. Years after his mother and father are slaughtered by outlaws, a man teams with an evangelist, a former gunslinger, to take revenge on the town boss behind the killings. Pretty fair Italian oater also called Django Strikes Back, Son of Django and Vengeance Is a Colt 45.

3373  The Return of Draw Egan  Triangle, 1916. 55 min. D: William S. Hart. SC: C. Gardner Sullivan. With William S. Hart, Louise Glaum, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim, J.P. Lockney. A bad man becomes the reform sheriff of a frontier town and brings about law and order only to be blackmailed by his old gang. Very entertaining William S. Hart silent effort often reworked plot wise in the sound era; it benefits from the presence of beautiful Margery Wilson.

3374  The Return of Frank James  20th Century–Fox, 1940. 92 min. Color. D: Fritz Lang. SC: Sam Hellman. With Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, J. Edward Bromberg, Donald Meek, John Carradine, Eddie Collins, George Barbier, Ernest Whitman, Charles Tannen, Lloyd Corrigan, Russell Hicks, Victor Kilian, Edward McWade, George Chandler, Irving Bacon, Frank Shannon, Barbara Pepper, Louis Mason, Matthew “Stymie” Beard, William Pawley, Frank Sully, Davison Clark, Nelson McDowell, Lee Phelps, Lillian Yarbo, Adrian Morris, Lester Dorr, Milton Kibbee, Frank Melton, Almeda Fowler, Lew Meehan, Bob McKenzie, Budd Fine, Kernan Cripps, Russ Powell, Dale Van Sickel, James C. Morton, Sherry Hall, Edmund Elton, Hattie Noel, Tex Phelps, Kermit Maynard, A.S. Byron, Bob Battier. When a judge sets Bob Ford free on the charge of murdering Jesse James, the victim’s brother Frank vows revenge. Not much history but lots of entertainment in this follow-up to Jesse James (q.v.), which contains footage of Tyrone Power from it; John Carradine makes the film as the cowardly villain Bob Ford.

3375  The Return of Grey Wolf  Ambassador, 1925. 60 min. D: Jacques Rollens. SC: Jay Arr. With Leader (dog), James Pierce, Helen Lynch, Walter Shumway, Edward (Ed) Coxen, Harry Belmore, Whitehorse. A dog helps a man and woman fight crooks in the Canadian Rockies. The scenery is the best part of this silent effort, although Jim Pierce fans will enjoy seeing him in a starring role.

3376  The Return of Jack Slade  Allied Artists, 1955. 79 min. D: Harold Schuster. SC: Warren Douglas. With John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Neville Brand, Casey Adams (Max Showalter), Jon Shepodd, Howard Petrie, John Dennis, Angie Dickinson, Donna Drew, Mike Ross, Alan Wells, Raymond Bailey, Lyla Graham. The son of the notorious Jack Slade becomes a lawman to redeem the family name and plans to capture a gang of outlaws. Fair low budget affair with good work by John Ericson as Slade’s son.

3377  The Return of Jesse James  Lippert, 1950. 77 min. D: Arthur Hilton. SC: Carl K. Hittleman. With John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull, Reed Hadley, Hugh O’Brian, Carleton Young, Barbara Woodell, Margia Dean, Sid Melton, Victor Kilian, Byron Foulger, Sam Flint, Robin York, Paul Maxey, I. Stanford Jolley, Earle Hodgins, Hank Patterson. A Jesse James look-a-like takes on the guise of the dead outlaw and helps a gang rob banks but is overcome by his own greed and the ambition of the saloon singer he loves. An odd kind of oater, more psychological than action filled, but pretty fair anyway.

3378  The Return of Josey Wales  Magnum Entertainment, 1986. 90 min. Color. D: Michael Parks. SC: Forrest Carter. With Michael Parks, Rafael Campos, Charlie McCoy, Suzie Humphreys, Bob Magruder, Paco Vela, Everett Sifuentes, John Galt, Joe Kurtzo, Benita Faulkner, Charles Escamilla, Arturo R. Tamez, Manuel Valdes, Paul Flores, Mary Ellen Averett, Ron Bledsoe, Mike Bledsoe, Doug Bledsoe, Happy Shahan, Larry Melton, John Burkhead, Buddy Harper, Russ Taylor, Donny Fountain, Ron Taylor. An outlaw heads to Mexico to get a friend out of jail and also rescues an Indian woman and two other prisoners but they are pursued by a corrupt police chief. Puny follow-up to The Outlaw Josey Wales (q.v.), directed by star Michael Parks and adapted by Forrest Carter from his novel Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales.

3379  The Return of Rin Tin Tin  Eagle-Lion, 1947. 68 min. Color. D: Max Nosseck. SC: Jack DeWitt. With Rin Tin Tin III, Donald Woods, Bobby Blake, Claudia Drake, Gaylord (Steve) Pendleton, Earle Hodgins. A priest brings a boy from Europe to his Western mission hoping to restore his faith and the little fellow becomes attached to a dog whose return is demanded by its master. Pleasant family fare made by Producers Releasing Corporation.   

3380  The Return of Ringo  Rizzoli Film, 1965. 104 min. Color. D: Duccio Tessari. SC: Duccio Tessari and Fernando Di Leo. With Montgomery Wood (Giuliano Gemma), Fernando Sancho, Hally Hammond, George Martin, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas, Pajarito, Jose Manuel Martin. Returning home from the Civil War, a Northern army captain takes revenge on the Mexican who took his family hostage and stole his land. Very violent sequel to A Pistol for Ringo (q.v.); issued in Europe as Il Ritorno di Ringo (The Return of Ringo) and on video as Ballad of Death Valley, running 91 minutes.

3381  Return of Sabata  United Artists, 1972. 106 min. Color. D: Frank Kramer (Gianfranco Parolini). SC: Renato Izzo and Gianfranco Parolini. With Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schone, Annabella Incontrera, Gianni Rizzo, Giampiero Albertini, Jacqueline Alexandre, Pedro Sanchez, Mario Brega, Nick Jordan, Gunther Stoll, Vasili Karis. An ex–Confederate major, now a sharpshooter with a circus, arrives in a town to get even with those who bilked him out of money and settles the score by exposing a corrupt banker. Lee Van Cleef’s fans will like this okay follow-up to Sabata (q.v.).

Charles Starrett and Raider in The Return of the Durango Kid (Columbia, 1945).

3382  Return of Shanghai Joe  Divina-Film, 1975. Min. Color. D: Bitto Albertini. SC: Bitto Albertini and Carlo Alberto Alfieri. With Klaus Kinski, Cheen Lie, Tommy Polgar, Karin Field, Fausto Ulisse, Primiano Muratori, Paul Sholer, Fortunato Arena, Claudio Giorgi, Tom Felleghy, Attilio Dottesio, Claudio Ruffini, Roberto Dell’Acqua, Luigi Ruso, Dante Cleri. A crook teams with a kung fu artist to oppose a dishonest politician in a frontier community. Toned down Spaghetti Western, a pale follow-up to Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (q.v.).

3383  Return of the Bad Men  RKO Radio, 1948. 90 min. D: Ray Enright. SC: Charles O’Neal, Jack Natteford and Luci Ward. With Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George “Gabby” Hayes, Jacqueline White, Steve Brodie, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Robert Armstrong, Robert Bray, Lex Barker, Walter Reed, Michael Harvey, Dean White, Tom Tyler, Lew Harvey, Gary Gray, Walter Baldwin, Minna Gombell, Warren Jackson, Robert Clarke, Jason Robards, Harry Shannon, Charles McAvoy, Larry McGrath, Billy Vincent, Ernie Adams, Sam Flint, Lane Chandler, Earle Hodgins, Charles Stevens, Kenneth MacDonald, John Hamilton, Frank O’Connor, Cy King, Dan Foster, Ida Moore. In the 1880s an Oklahoma town marshal falls in love with a female desperado as he fights outlaws like Billy the Kid, the Dalton and Younger brothers, the Sundance Kid and Wild Bill Doolin. Nicely produced “A” feature; quasi-sequel to Badman’s Territory (q.v.) and followed by Best of the Bad Men (q.v.).

3384  Return of the Cisco Kid  20th Century–Fox, 1939. 70 min. D: Herbert I. Leeds. SC: Milton Sperling. With Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond, C. Henry Gordon, Robert Barrat, Chris-Pin Martin, Adrian Morris, Soledad Jiminez, Harry Strang, Arthur Aylesworth, Paul E. Burns, Victor Kilian, Eddy Waller, Ruth Gillette, Ward Bond, Gino Corrado, Ralph Dunn, Herbert Heywood, Ethan Laidlaw, Charles Tannen, Lee Shumway. The Cisco Kid and two pals help a man and his daughter who are about to cheated out of their newly purchased ranch by a dishonest lawman. Warner Baxter’s third and final feature film portrayal of the Cisco Kid is an enjoyable affair.

3385  The Return of the Durango Kid  Columbia, 1945. 58 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Jean Stevens, John Calvert, Betty Roadman, Britt Wood, The Jesters, Hal Price, Richard Botiller, Ray Bennett, Elmo Lincoln, Paul (Conrad) Zaremba, Steve Clark, Carl Sepulveda, Ted Mapes, Herman Hack, James T. “Bud” Nelson, Dan White, Francis Walker, Tex Palmer, William Desmond, Carl Mathews, Wally West, Lew Morphy, Jack Evans, Philip Kieffer, Robert Walker. A passenger on a stagecoach robbed by outlaws takes on the guise of a masked avenger and steals the money back from the bad men. Mediocre production that launched Charles Starrett as “The Durango Kid” in a popular series of more than three score features; despite its title it is not a sequel to The Durango Kid (q.v.).

3386  Return of the Frontiersman  Warner Bros., 1950. 74 min. Color. D: Richard L. Bare. SC: Edna Anhalt. With Gordon MacRae, Julie London, Rory Calhoun, Jack Holt, Fred Clark, Edwin Rand, Raymond Bond, Matt McHugh, Britt Wood, Richard Egan, John Doucette, Guy Wilkerson, Dan White, Steve Pendleton, Jack Mower, Harlan Briggs, Tex Cooper, Doris Kemper, Bobby Henshaw, Ruth Warren, William Sundholm. A sheriff is forced to jail his son when he is falsely accused of murder, but the offspring escapes, aided by the real killer. Okay production with fine work by Jack Holt as the lawman.

3387  Return of the Gunfighter  ABC-TV/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967. 98 min. Color. D: James Neilson. SC: Robert Buckner. With Robert Taylor, Chad Everett, Ana Martin, Lyle Bettger, Mort Mills, John Davis Chandler, Michael Pate, Barry Atwater, John Crawford, Willis Bouchey, Rodolfo Hoyos, Read Morgan, Henry Wills, Robert Shelton. When a young Mexican woman’s parents are murdered for their land she enlists the help of an aging gunman and a wounded cowboy to get revenge. One of the first, and best, movies made for network television; Robert Taylor is outstanding as the gunslinger. Alternate title: As I Rode to Laredo.

Robert Taylor in The Return of the Gunfighter (ABC-TV/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967).

3388  Return of the Lash  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1947. 53 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Mary Maynard, Brad Slaven, George Chesebro, Lane Bradford, Bud Osborne, George DeNormand, Lee Morgan, Carl Mathews, Slim Whitaker, Kermit Maynard, Frank Ellis, Bob Woodward, Budd Buster, Tex Palmer, Roy Butler. Two marshals arrive in a town to stop a range war caused by a crook after the land because a railroad is coming through. Mediocre “Cheyenne Davis” entry, but not as dull as some in the series.

Return of the Mohicans see The Last of the Mohicans (1932)

3389  Return of the Outlaws  Grindstone Entertainment Group, 2009. 96 min. Color. D-SC: Chuck Walker. With Lorenzo Lamas, John Castellanos, J. Eddie Peck, Michael Gregory, Corbin Timbrook, Samantha Lockwood, Kim Waltrip, Molly Elswick, Peter Sherayko, Eduardo Enriquez, Jr., Shane Ryan Savage, “Cowboy” Bill Sallas, Yankie Grant, Leslie Harlton, Cliff Miller, Al Hayter, Terry Mann. After nearly being hanged, a violent outlaw forms a gang, including a saloon girl, to stage a robbery but is opposed by a lawman. Violent oater filmed in Texas and also called Mexican Gold.

3390  The Return of the Rangers  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1943. 61 min. D-SC: Elmer Clifton. With Dave O’Brien, Jim Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Nell O’Day, Glenn Strange, Emmett Lynn, Robert Barron, Henry Hall, Harry Harvey, I. Stanford Jolley, Richard Alexander, Charles King, Art Fowler, Wally West, Hank Bell, Tex Cooper, Curley Dresden, Herman Hack, Horace B. Carpenter, Rose Plummer, Art Wenzel. In order to capture a rustling gang, three lawmen arrive in town incognito with one pretending to be a criminal and another the judge planning to try his case. A good script puts some life in this “Texas Rangers” series outing.

3391  Return of the Seven  United Artists, 1966. 96 min. Color. D: Burt Kennedy. SC: Larry Cohen. With Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Warren Oates, Julian Mateos, Jordan Christopher, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Emilio Fernandez, Elisa Montes, Virgilio Texiera, Rudy (Rodolfo) Acosta, Francisco Anton. When outlaws kidnap a former gang member, the man’s wife asks two of his former comrades to help him and they enlist four other men to assisr them. Adequate sequel to The Magnificent Seven (q.v.).

3392  Return of the Texan  20th Century–Fox, 1952. 87 min. D: Delmer Daves. SC: Dudley Nichols. With Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Richard Boone, Tom Tully, Robert Horton, Helen Westcott, Lonnie Thomas, Robert Adler, Kathryn Sheldon, Dennis Ross, Willis Bouchey, Jim Hayward, Brad Morrow, Linda Green, Aileen Carlyle, Sherman Sanders. A widower returns to his family home hoping to resume ranching but finds he is opposed by local crooks. Fair oater for Dale Robertson fans.

3393  The Return of Wild Bill  Columbia, 1940. 59 min. D: Joseph H. Lewis. SC: Robert Lee Johnson and Fred Myton. With Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Luana Walters, George Lloyd, Ed LeSaint, Frank LaRue, Francis Walker, Chuck Morrison, Buel Bryant, William Kellogg, John Merton, Jack Rockwell, Jim Corey, John Ince, Donald Haines, Bill Nestell, Tex Cooper. Going home, a cowboy finds his father has been murdered by two outlaw brothers harassing local ranchers and he vows revenge. Sturdy “Wild Bill Saunders” affair, the fourth and last in the series.

3394  The Return of Wildfire  Screen Guild, 1948. 83 min. Color. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Betty Burbridge and Carl K. Hittleman. With Richard Arlen, Patricia Morison, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, James Millican, Stanley Andrews, Edmund Cobb, Chris-Pin Martin, Holly Bane, Highland Dale (horse). A drifter gets a job at a ranch trying to capture a wild stallion but becomes involved with a gambler and falls for one of the owner’s daughters. Well done low budget effort with plenty of excitement and a nice performance by Richard Arlen as the cowboy; Patricia Morison sings “Just an Old Sombrero.”

3395  Return to Lonesome Dove  CBS-TV, 1993. 322 min. Color. D: Mike Robe. SC: John Wilder. SC: Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, Rick Schroder, Louis Gossett, Jr., William L. Petersen, Oliver Reed, Dennis Haysbert, Reese Witherspoon, Tim Scott, Chris Cooper, CCH Pounder, Nia Peeples, Barry Tubb, William Sanderson, David Carpenter, Leon Singer, Jack Caffrey, Reginald T. Dorsey, John Quade, Chet Carlin, Dylan Baker, Jamar Curtis, John Speredakos, Jessica Drake, Adrian Sparks, Colin Fox, Richard Slaughter, Douglas Sebern, Peter Gerety, Eddie Gomez, Sofia Gomez, Nick Searcy, Siobodan Guerra, Veronica Lauren, Bendigo Quade, Stephen C. Prince, Jane Lind, Anner Marble, Stephen C. Prince, R.J. Preston, Steven Mayville, Gina Minervini, Thomas J. Perlman, Bill Neff, Maria Owens, Kip Niven, Molly Orr, Jeff O’Haco, Douglas Roberts. A tough former Texas Ranger drives a mustang herd north before meeting a former love and an illegitimate son. Well made but conventional follow-up to Lonesome Dove (q.v.).

3396  Return to Snowy River  Hoyle Entertainment, 1988. 105 min. Color. D: Geoff Burrows. SC: Geoff Burrows and John Dixon. With Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Byran Marshall, Rhys McConnochie, Mark Hembrow, Peter Cummins, Cornelia Francis, Tony Barry. After becoming engaged to the daughter of a wealthy enemy, an Australian cowboy must prove he is worthy of her love. Slim sequel to The Man from Snowy River (q.v.), enhanced by scenic locales. Also called Return to Snowy River Part II:  The Legend Continues.

Return to Snowy River Part II: The Legend Continues see Return to Snowy River

3397  Return to Warbow  Columbia, 1958. 67 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Les Savage, Jr. With Phil(ip) Carey, Catherine McLeod, Andrew Duggan, William Leslie, Robert Wilke, James Griffith, Jay Silverheels, Chris Olsen, Francis De Sales, Harry Lauter, Paul Picerni, Joe Forte. Three outlaws return to the spot where they buried stolen loot only to learn the brother of one of them has taken the money. Fair low budget oater from producer Wallace MacDonald, with Les Savage, Jr., adapting his novel to the screen.

3398  The Returning  Willow Films, 1983. 80 min. Color. D: Joel Bender. SC: Patrick Nash. With Gabriel Walsh, Susan Strasberg, Brian Foleman, Victor Arnold, Ruth Warrick, H.E.D. Redford, Mostea Oshley, Rick Barker. While on a trip to the Mojave Desert, a Utah family acquires a rock with strange powers controlled by the spirits of dead Indian warriors. Fair combination of modern-day Western and horror genres; on the cerebral side.

Revenge in El Paso see Ace High

Revenge of a Gunfighter see The Mercenary

3399  Revenge of the Virgins  RVA, 1959. 53 min. D: Peter Perry, Jr. SC: Pete La Roche. With Charles Veltman, Jodean Russo, Stan Pritchard, Hank Delgado, Lou Massad, Jewell Morgan, Ralph Cookson, Betty Shay, Del Monroe, Jan Lee, Hugo Stanger, Nona Carver, Joanne Bowers, Ramona Rogers, Pat O’Connell, Kenne Duncan (narrator). A man, his wife, an old prospector and two gunmen search for gold in a mountain area where a treasure is guarded by topless Indian maidens. Bottom of the barrel sexploitation feature.

Revenge of the Wild Bunch see 40 Graves for 40 Guns

3400  Revenge of Trinity  Excisa S.A./Suevia Films, 1970. 105 min. Color. D: Mario Camus. SC: Manuel Marinero, Miguel Rubio, Jose Vincent Puente, Mario Camus, Mario Cecchi Gori, Alberto Silvestri and Franco Verucci. With Terence Hill, Maria Grazia Buccella, Fernando Rey, Mario Pardo, Carlo Alberto Contina, Maximo Valverde, Angel Lombarte, William Layton, Jose Manuel Martin, Manuel de Blas, Manuel Alexandre, Carlo Otero, Andres Resino, Fernando Sanchez Polack. A morose, self centered gunman takes up the cause of peons badly exploited by a cruel land baron. Moody, atmospheric Spanish-Italian co-production, cut for U.S. release to 93 minutes; filmed as La Collera del Vento (The Anger of the Wind) and also called Trinity Sees Red and The Wind’s Fierce.

3401  The Revenge Rider  Columbia, 1935. 60 min. D: David Selman. SC: Ford Beebe. With Tim McCoy, Robert Allen, Billie Seward, Edward Earle, Frank Sheridan, Jack Clifford, Jack Mower, George Pierce, Allan Sears, Harry Semels, Joseph (Sawyer) Sauers, Lafe McKee, Tom London, Charles King, Ed Peil, Sr., Stanley Blystone, Edward Hearn, Steve Clark, Bob Reeves, Bud McClure, Jack Evans. Returning home, a man finds his sheriff brother has been murdered and the culprits appear to belong to the local cattleman’s association. Good Tim McCoy vehicle with a dandy finale having the star piece clues together à la Charlie Chan, plus a corker of a shootout; remade as Riders of Black River (q.v.).

3402  The Revengers  National General, 1971. 107 min. Color. D: Daniel Mann. SC: Wendell Mayes. With William Holden, Susan Hayward, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin, Rene Koldehoff, Jorge Luke, Jorge Martinez De Hoyos, Arthur Hunnicutt, Warren Vanders, Larry Pennell, John Kelly, Scott Holden, James Daughton, Lorraine Chanel, Paul Prieto. Following the massacre of his wife and children by renegade whites and Indians, a rancher sets out for revenge. Pretty fair action feature unjustly overlooked when first released.

3403  Reverend Colt  R.M. Films, 1971. 90 min. Color. D: Leon Klimovsky. SC: Tito Carpi and Manuel Martinez Remis. With Guy Madison, Richard Harrison, Thomas Moore, Maria Martin, German Cobos, Pedro Sanchez, Perla Cristina, Alfonso Rojas, Marta Moterei, Steven Tedd, Vidal Molina, Cris Huerta. A minister, an ex–bounty hunter, comes to a frontier town to build a church but is blamed when outlaws rob the bank and he has to clear his name by tracking down the desperadoes. Guy Madison is good in the title role of this better than average Italian oater issued there as Reverendo Colt (Reverend Colt).

3404  Revolt at Fort Laramie  United Artists, 1957. 72 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Robert C. Dennis. With John Dehner, Frances Helm, Gregg Palmer, Don Gordon, Robert Keys, William Phillips, Robert Knapp, Cain Mason, Eddie Little, Dean Stanton, Bill Barker, Kenne Duncan, Clay Randolph. When the Civil War begins, Southern soldiers are at remote fort want to join the Confederacy despite the threat of an Indian attack. An interesting story and good direction highlight this program oater.

3405  Revolt in Canada  Embassy, 1964. 107 min. Color. D-SC: Armando De Osssorio. With George Martin, Pamela Tudor, Luis Marin, Diana Lorys, Raf Baldassare, Mirko Ellis, Franco Fantasia, Santiago Rivero, Francisco Nieto, Giovanni Petti. In frontier Canada a trapper protected by the British commits a series of crimes and places the blame on rebels. Typical European made dubbed frontier action drama made as Canada Salvaje (Savage Canada) and Rebeldes en Canada (Rebellion in Canada).

3406  The Reward  20th Century–Fox, 1965. 92 min. Color. D: Serge Bourguignon. SC: Serge Bourguignon and Oscar Millard. With Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Gilbert Roland, Nino Castelnuovo, Emilio Fernandez, Henry Silva, Rodolfo Acosta, Julian Rivero, Rafael Lopez. Bounty hunters capture a wanted criminal but during a trek through the desert they have a falling out over the division of the reward money. Fairly interesting drama enhanced by a good cast.

The Reward’s Yours, The Man’s Mine see El Puro

Rex, King of the Wild Horses (1924) see King of the Wild Horses (1924)

Rex, King of the Wild Horses (1933) see King of the Wild Horses (1933)

3407  Rhythm of the Rio Grande  Monogram, 1940. 53 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Suzan Dale, Warner Richmond, Martin Garralaga, Arkansas Slim Andrews, Frank Mitchell, Tristram Coffin, Earl Douglas, Forrest Taylor, Mike Rodriguez, Glenn Strange, James McNally, Juan Duval, Chick Hannon, Sherry Tansey. A cowboy teams with a Mexican outlaw to prove that a respected rancher is behind the lawlessness in the territory. Okay Tex Ritter musical that includes the song “Mexicali Moon.” British title: Lonesome Trail to the Rio Grande.

3408  Rhythm of the Saddle  Republic, 1938. 58 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Paul Franklin. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Peggy Moran, Pert Kelton, LeRoy Mason, Arthur Loft, Ethan Laidlaw, Walter De Palma, Archie Hall, Eddie Hart, Eddie Acuff, Douglas Wright, Kelsey Sheldon, Lola Monte, Alan Gregg, Rudy Sooter, William Norton Bailey, Tom London, Roger Williams, Curley Dresden, Jim Mason, Jack Kirk, Emmett Vogan, Frankie Marvin, Karl Hackett, Horace B. Carpenter. A dishonest nightclub owner bribes the chairman of the annual rodeo into helping him get the next year’s contract and he fixes a halter rope that causes an injury to a rider with Gene Autry investigating. A strong plot greatly helps this Autry vehicle.

3409  Rhythm on the Range  Paramount, 1936. 87 min. D: Norman Taurog. SC: John C. Moffitt, Sidney Salkow, Walter De Leon and Francis Martin. With Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Bob “Bazooka” Burns, Martha Raye, Samuel S. Hinds, Warren Hymer, Lucille Webster Gleason, George E. Stone, James Burke, Martha Sleeper, Clem Bevans, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Len Slye [Roy Rogers], Tim Spencer, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Leonid Kinsky, Charles Williams, Beau Baldwin, Emmett Vogan, Billy Bletcher, Eddy Waller, Bud Flanagan (Dennis O’Keefe), Duke York, James Blaine, Herbert Ashley, James “Slim” Thompson, Robert E. Homans, Jim Toney, Ed LeSaint, Sam McDaniel, Syd Saylor, Oscar Smith, Charles Arnt, Harry C. Bradley, Otto Yamaoka, Bob McKenzie, Irving Bacon, Heinie Conklin, Frank Dawson. The owners of a dude ranch in California, on their way West with a prize bull they have won, meet an heiress on the run from her fiancee and they ask her to join them. Very pleasant musical comedy, remade as Pardners (q.v.) with Norman Taurog again directing.

3410  Rhythm Round-up  Columbia, 1945. 66 min. D: Vernon Keays. SC: Charles Marion. With Ken Curtis, Cheryl Walker, Guinn Williams, Raymond Hatton, The Hoosier Hot Shots (Charles “Gabe” Ward, Paul “Hezzy” Trietsch, Ken Trietsch, Gil Taylor), The Pied Pipers, Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, Victor Potel, Arthur Loft, Walter Baldwin, Vera Lewis, Eddie Bruce, Marilyn Johnson. When they are unable to secure a radio contract, the Hoosier Hot Shots get title to an Arizona hotel but there are rumors that it is haunted. Fast paced musical Western program feature.   

Riata see The Deadly Trackers

3411  Ricochet Romance  Universal-International, 1954. 80 min. D: Charles Lamont. SC: Kay Lenard. With Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Rudy Vallee, Benay Venuta, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Alfonso Bedoya, Marjorie Bennett, Judith (Rachel) Ames, Darryl Hickman, Lee Aaker, Irene Ryan, Philip Tonge, Phillip Chambers, Charles Watts, Ruth Hampton, Claire Du Brey, Madge Blake, Hal Smith, Jack Daley, Pitt Herbert, Fred Graham, Arthur Lovejoy, Yvonne Peattie, The Guadalajara Trio. Hired as a cook at a dude ranch, a woman soon involves herself in everyone’s business. Attempt to team Marjorie Main and Chill Wills is a bit forced but Main’s fans will like it and Rudy Vallee is great, as usual, portraying a stuffed-shirt guest.

3412  Riddle Gawne  Paramount-Artcraft, 1918. 48 min. D: William S. Hart. SC: Charles Alden Seltzer. With William S. Hart, Katherine MacDonald, Lon Chaney, Gertrude Short, Gretchen Lederer, E.B. Tilton, Milton Ross, George Field, Leon Kent. Seeking revenge on the outlaw who killed his brother and took his wife, a man rescues a woman from gang members and they fall in love. Two reels remain of this classic teaming of William S. Hart and Lon Chaney, who plays the villain.

3413  Riddle Ranch  Beaumont, 1935. 63 min. D: Charles Hutchison. SC: E.J. Thompson. With Black King (horse), David Worth, June Marlowe, Baby Charlene Barry, Julian Rivero, Richard Cramer, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Budd Buster, Art Felix, Henry Sylvester, Ray Gallagher, Ace Cain, Sue Milford, Larry Francis, May Brinker. The owner of a beautiful stallion is framed for murder by a Mexican outlaw posing as a horse buyer wanting the animal for himself. Bottom rung production.

3414  Ride a Crooked Mile  Paramount, 1938. 78 min. D: Alfred E. Green. SC: Ferdinand Reyher and John C. Moffitt. With Akim Tamiroff, Frances Farmer, Leif Erickson, Lynne Overman, John Miljan, J.M. Kerrigan, Vladimir Sokoloff, Genia Nikolaieva, Wade Crosby, Robert Glecker, Nestor Paiva, Archie Twitchell, Steve Pendleton, Fred Kohler, Jr., Eva Novak, Ethel Clayton, John Bleifer, James Flavin, Joseph Crehan, William Newell, Dewey Robinson, Barry Macollum, Leonid Snegoff, Alex Woloshin, Eddie Acuff, Ernie Adams, Robert Homans, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Charles Anthony Hughes, Sam Ash, T.C. Jack, Harry Fleischmann, Eddie Borden, Hal Craig, George Magrill, Lee Shumway, Michael Mark, Ralph Sanford, Dick Rush, Gloria Williams. A Russian Cossack flees his homeland and becomes a cattle rustler in the West until he discovers he has a grown son jailed for the same crime. The three stars do their best but get bogged down by the script.

3415  Ride a Crooked Trail  Universal-International, 1958. 87 min. Color. D: Jesse Hibbs. SC: Borden Chase. With Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore, Eddie Little, Mary Field, Leo Gordon, Mort Mills, Frank Chase, Bill Walker, Ned Weaver, Richard Cutting, Morgan Woodward, Rayford Barnes, Henry Wills, Eddie Parker. An outlaw takes on the identity of a dead peace officer in order to pull off a bank robbery. Fairly good Audie Murphy vehicle.

3416  Ride a Northbound Horse  Buena Vista, 1969. 79 min. Color. D: Robert Totten. SC: Herman Groves. With Michael Shea, Carroll O’Connor, Ben Johnson, Andy Devine, Edith Atwater, Jack Elam, Harry Carey, Jr., Dub Taylor. A young man wins and loses a horse in the Old West and sets out to regain the steed. Minor, but entertaining, version of Richard Wormser’s novel, originally shown as a two part episode of NBC-TV’s “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.”

3417  Ride a Violent Mile  20th Century–Fox, 1957. 79 min. D-SC: Charles Marquis Warren. With John Agar, Penny Edwards, John Pickard, Richard Shannon, Charles Gray, Bing Russell, Helen Wallace, Richard Gilden, Sheb Wooley, Patrick O’Moore, Rush Williams, Roberto Contreras, Eva Novak, Mary Townsend, Rocky Shahan. During the Civil War a cowboy and a beautiful woman become involved in an attempt to break the Union blockade of Confederate seaports. Fair action drama.

3418  Ride a Wild Pony  Buena Vista, 1976. 91 min. Color. D: Don Chaffey. SC: Rosemary Anne Sisson. With Michael Craig, Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith, John Meillon, Jr., Graham Rouse, Alfred Bell, Roy Haddrick, Peter Gywnne, Melissa Jaffer, Loraine Bayly, Kate Clarkson. In Australia the poor son of homesteaders battles a rich polio-crippled girl for the possession of a beautiful Welsh pony. Delightful Walt Disney family feature filmed in Australia.

3419  Ride a Wild Stud  Vega International, 1969. 76 min. Color. D: Revilo Ekard (Oliver Drake). SC: William Edwards and Rachel Edwards. With Hale Williams, Josie Kirk, Frenchy Le Boyd, Cliff Alexander, William Fosterwick, C.C. Chase, Barbara Parks, Bill Ferrill, Burke Reynolds, Helga Honshue, Richard Smedley, Bill Johnson, Chuck Alford, Tex Gates, S.T. Alexander, Sr., Bob Goldfarb. Qunatrill and his men raid towns and force beautiful women to serve as prostitutes while a lawman, incognito as an outlaw, tries to bring down the gang. Ridiculous soft core Western helmed by genre veteran Oliver Drake under a pseudonym and made as Quantrill’s Raiders; released on video as A Wild Ride.

3420  Ride and Kill  P.E.A./Fenix Film, 1964. 94 min. Color. D: J.L. Boraw (Jose Luis Borau). SC: Jose Mallorqui (Mario Caiano). With Alex Nicol, Robert Hundar (Claudio Undari), Margaret Grayson, Lawrence Palmer, Pauline Baards, John MacDouglas (Giuseppe Addobbati), Anthony Gradwell (Antonio Gradoli), Luis Induni, Antonio Casas, Jorge Ringaud (George Rigaud), Natalia Silva. When outlaws take over an Arizona town and murder the sheriff, a drunk puts down the bottle and takes up a badge to defend the woman he loves. Fair Italian-Spanish co-production made as Cavalco e Uccidi (Ride and Kill); it contains a fine music score by Riz Ortolani.

3421  The Ride Back  United Artists, 1957. 79 min. D: Allen H. Miner. SC: Anthony Ellis. With Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, George Trevino, Victor Millan, Ellen Hope Monroe, Joe Dominguez, Louis Towers. A lawman and his prisoner travel through hostile Indian country and learn they need each other to survive. William Conrad produced this interesting low budget suspense Western; worth viewing.

3422  Ride Beyond Vengeance  Columbia, 1966. 100 min. Color. D: Bernard McEveety. SC: Andrew J. Fenady. With Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell, Gloria Grahame, Gary Merrill, Bill Bixby, Claude Akins, Paul Fix, Marissa Mathes, Harry Harvey, Sr., William Bryant, Jamie Farr, Larrie Domasin, William Catching, James MacArthur, Ruth Warrick, Parley Baer, Frank Gorshin, Robert Q. Lewis, Chuck Hamilton, Bill Coontz, Arthur O’Connell (narrator). After being separated from his wife for eleven years, a buffalo hunter returns home only to be attacked and branded with her then rejecting him, so he plans revenge on his assailants. Fair action film with a good cast.

3423  Ride Clear of Diablo  Universal-International, 1953. 80 min. Color. D: Jesse Hibbs. SC: George Zuckerman. With Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Susan Cabot, Abbe Lane, Russell Johnson, Paul Birch, William Pullen, Jack Elam, Lane Bradford, Mike Ragan, Denver Pyle, James Griffith, Ray Bennett, Hank Patterson, Carol Henry. To avenge the murders of his father and brother, a man becomes a deputy to a sheriff in cahoots with the killers. Better than average Audie Murphy film, mainly thanks to Dan Duryea’s villainy.

3424  Ride ’Em Cowboy  Universal, 1936. 59 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Frances Guihan. With Buck Jones, Luana Walters, George Cooper, William Lawrence, J.P. McGowan, Joseph Girard, Donald Kirke, Charles Le Moyne, Edmund Cobb, Lester Dorr, William Lawrence, Bob McKenzie, Ed Peil, Sr., Dick Rush, Burr Caruth, Fay McKenzie, Hal Price, George Plues, Blackjack Ward, Clyde McClary, Edward Hearn, Eva McKenzie, Bud McClure, Hank Bell, Billy Franey, Al Taylor, Francis Walker, George Sowards, Bud Pope . A happy-go-lucky cowboy becomes a race driver to help a pal and also save a woman from being forced to marry a rich man to save her father’s ranch. Buck Jones wrote the original story and produced this outing which shows his penchant for comedy and auto racing but it is somewhat disappointing. TV title: Cowboy Roundup.

3425  Ride ’Em Cowboy  Universal, 1942. 82 min. D: Arthur Lubin. SC: True Boardman and John Grant. With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Johnny Mack Brown, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Samuel S. Hinds, Richard Lane, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles Lane, Ella Fitzgerald, Judd McMichael, Ted McMichael, Joe McMichael, Mary Lou Cook, Jody Gilbert, Morris Ankrum, Russell Hicks, Wade Boteler, James Flavin, Boyd Davis, Eddie Dunn, Isabel Randolph, Tom Hanlon, James Seay, Harold Daniels, Ralph Peters, Linda Brent, Lee Sunrise, Chief Yowlachie, Harry Monty, Sherman E. Sanders, Carmelo Cansino, Iron Eyes Cody, Katherine Marlowe, James Flavin, Harry Cording. Two hot dog vendors head West to a dude ranch and get involved in the romance between a pseudo-cowboy and the rodeo rider daughter of the owner. Good Abbott and Costello comedy with Dick Foran singing “I’ll Remember April.”

3426  Ride ’Em Cowgirl  Grand National, 1939. 52 min. D: Samuel Diege. SC: Arthur Hoerl. With Dorothy Page, Milton Frome, Vince Barnett, Warner Richmond, Lynn Mayberry, Joe Girard, Frank Ellis, Merrill McCormick, Fred Berhle, Harrington Reynolds, Pat Henning, Fred Cordova, Lester Dorr, Stanley Price, Lloyd Ingraham, Eddie Gordon. A cowgirl is blamed for having contraband silver but escapes from jail to prove a smuggler has framed her father to acquire his ranch as a front for his operations. Okay entry in Dorothy Page’s brief starring series.

3427  Ride Him Cowboy  Warner Bros., 1932. 55 min. D: Fred Allen. SC: Scott Mason. With John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Henry B. Walthall, Harry Gribbon, Otis Harlan, Frank Hagney, Charles Sellon, Lafe McKee, Frank Fanning, Ben Corbett, Glenn Strange, Fred Burns, Bob Burns, Bud McClure, Jack Kirk, Slim Whitaker, Bud Osborne, Edmund Cobb, Wally Wales, Murdock MacQuarrie, Hal Price, Blackjack Ward, Jim Corey, Chuck Baldra, Rose Plummer, Ada Belle Driver, Helen Dickson, Tiny Jones, William Gillis, F.R. Smith, Edward Burns. A cowboy, after saving a horse from being shot, sets out to capture a notorious bandit leader known as “The Hawk,” but ends up accused of being the outlaw. John Wayne’s first starring “B” series Western is a good one that moves along at a steady clip; a remake of The Unknown Cavalier (First National, 1926) starring Ken Maynard, who can be seen in stock footage with his horse Tarzan. Frank Hagney is especially good as the villain. British title: The Hawk.

3428  Ride in the Whirlwind  Jack H. Harris Enterprises, 1971. 83 min. Color. D: Monte Hellman. SC: Jack Nicholson. With Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton, Rupert Crosse, Katherine Squire, George Mitchell. A trio of cowpokes are mistaken for outlaws by a posse after they meet the real bad guys on their way home from a long trail drive. Gritty feature originally made in 1966 and issued to television before the advent of Jack Nicholson’s popularity brought it to theatres.

3429  Ride, Kelly, Ride  20th Century–Fox, 1941. 59 min. D: Norman Foster. SC: William Counselman, Jr. and Irving Cummings, Jr. With Eugene Pallette, Marvin Stephens, Rita Quigley, Mary Healy, Richard Lane, Charles D. Brown, Chick Chandler, Dorothy Peterson, Lee Murray, Frankie Burke, Cy Kendall, Hamilton MacFadden, Walter O’Donnell, Ernie Adams. With the help of a young girl, a cowboy is taught to become a top jockey. Action filled program feature.

3430  Ride Lonesome  Columbia, 1959. 73 min. Color. D: Budd Boetticher. SC: Burt Kennedy. With Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best, Lee Van Cleef, James Coburn, Dyke Johnson, Boyd Stockman, Roy Jenson, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Bonnie Dubbins. A lawman taking a prisoner across the desert enlists the aid of two bounty hunters for a share of the reward since they all are being hunted by the felon’s brother and his gang. Taut Randolph Scott film; well written, produced and directed.

3431  Ride on Vaquero  20th Century–Fox, 1941. 64 min. D: Herbert I. Leeds. SC: Samuel G. Engel. With Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, Lynne Roberts, Chris-Pin Martin, Robert Lowery, William Demarest, Ben Carter, Robert Shaw, Edwin Maxwell, Paul Sutton, Don Costello, Arthur Hohl, Irving Bacon, Joan Woodbury, Paul Harvey, Dick Rich, Hector V. Sarno, Frank Orth, Paco Moreno, Joe Whitehead, Paul Kruger, Alec Craig, Victor Potel, Max Wagner, Edgar Edwards, James Flavin, Eva Puig, Philip Van Zandt. After his lady love turns the Cisco Kid and his pal Gordito into the law for a reward the duo is offered a chance to find kidnappers who may have killed a family friend and taken his son. Cesar Romero’s final “Cisco Kid” adventure is only average.

3432  Ride Out for Revenge  United Artists, 1957. 79 min. D-SC: Norman Retchin. With Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Vincent Edwards, Joanne Gilbert, Richard Shannon, Cyril Delevanti, John Merrick. A sheriff tries to help Indians being forced off their lands by a corrupt Army officer who has discovered gold there. Run-of-the mill oater for Rory Calhoun fans.

3433  Ride, Ranger, Ride  Republic, 1936. 56 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Monte Blue, Max Terhune, George J. Lewis, Robert Homans, Chief Thundercloud, The Tennessee Ramblers, Frankie Marvin, Iron Eyes Cody, Bud Pope, Nelson McDowell, Robert Thomas. Former Texas Rangers become scouts for the cavalry and attempt to stop a half-breed’s attempts to start an Indian uprising. Lots of action, music and comedy highlight this pretty good Gene Autry vehicle.

3434  Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride  Republic, 1940. 65 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Winston Miller. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Warren Hull, Mary Lee, Si Jenks, Forbes Murray, Joe Frisco, Joe McGuinn, Isabel Randolph, Herbert Clifton, Mildred Shay, Cindy Walker, Jack Kirk, The Pacemakers, Bob Burns, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Chuck Morrison, Frank O’Connor, Curley Dresden, Frankie Marvin, Cactus Mack. When Gene Autry becomes the owner of a packing company the boyfriend of a rival tries to merge the two businesses and dissolve Gene’s operations. Musical Western does not have enough action to sustain its storyline.

3435  Ride the High Country  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962. 94 min. Color. D: Sam Peckinpah. SC: N.B. Stone, Jr. With Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ronald Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong, John Anderson, L.Q. Jones, Warren Oates, James Drury, John Davis Chandler, Jenie Jackson, Byron Foulger, Carmen Phillips. Two aging former lawmen are hired to protect a gold shipment and are joined by a young hellion and a girl trying to escape her new husband and his lustful brothers. This teaming of genre stars Randolph Scott (his final film) and Joel McCrea is a near-classic Western; very, very good and a must see.

3436  Ride the Man Down  Republic, 1953. 90 min. Color. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Mary McCall, Jr. With Rod Cameron, Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton, Chill Wills, J. Carrol Naish, Jim Davis, Taylor Holmes, James Bell, Paul Fix, Roy Barcroft, Douglas Kennedy, Chris-Pin Martin, Jack LaRue, Al Caudebec, Claire Carleton, Roydon Clark. When a rich rancher dies a feud develops between his daughter and land grabbers while the foreman tries to protect the property. Fine production and cast makes this “A” feature a good one to watch.

3437  Ride the Wind  NBC-TV, 1966. 120 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Paul Schneider. With Lorne Greene, Rod Cameron, Victor Jory, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, DeForrest Kelley, Ray Teal, Victor Sen Yung, Wolfe Brazell, Stewart Moss, Warren Vanders, Bill Edwards, Ben Wright, Richard Hale, Clay Tanner, Jack Bighead, James Novak, Tom Lowell, Robert Brubaker, Bill Clark, Roger Etienne, Tom Lutz, Bob La Wandt, Gilbert Green, Raymond Guth, Peter Ritter, Whitey Hughes, James Noah, David Pritchard, S. Newton Anderson. A rancher tries to help a man set up the Pony Express despite opposition, including Indian attacks, on the final leg of the route. Well made and entertaining TV feature made up of a two part episode of “Bonanza” (NBC-TV, 1959–73); issued theatrically in Europe.

3438  Ride to Glory  NBC-TV/Columbia, 1965. 90 min. Color. D: Allen Riesner. SC: John Wilder, Jerry Ziegman and Larry Cohen. With Chuck Connors, Robert Lansing, David Brian, Kathie Browne, Noah Berry, Jr., H.M. Wynant, Michael Pate, Lee Van Cleef, William Bryant, John Pickard, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Tarto, Jacquelyn Hyde, Garry New, John Howard, James Hurst. A former Army officer, falsely accused of cowardice, tries to prove his innocence as well as prevent an Indian uprising. Sturdy TV film from three episodes of “Branded” (NBC-TV, 1965–66) and released abroad to theatres under its original title, Call to Glory.

3439  Ride to Hangman’s Tree  Universal, 1967. 90 min. Color. D: Alf Rafkin. SC: Luci Ward, Jack Natteford and William Bowers. With Jack Lord, James Farentino, Don Galloway, Melodie Johnson, Richard Anderson, Robert Yuro, Ed Peck, Paul Reed, Richard Cutting, Bing Russell, Virginia Capers, Robert Sorrells, Robert Cornthwaite. A notorious road agent terrorizes citizens after escaping from a lynch mob. Vapid remake of Black Bart (q.v.).

3440  Ride, Vaquero!  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953. 90 min. Color. D: John Farrow. SC: Frank Fenton. With Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Anthony Quinn, Kurt Kasznar, Ted De Corsia, Charlita, Jack Elam, Frank McGrath, Joe Dominguez, Walter Baldwin, Charles Stevens, Rex Lease, Tom Greenway. A couple try to settle a ranch but are opposed by half-brothers, who both fall in love with the wife. A good cast does its best but this oater is still nothing to brag about.

3441  Rider from Tucson  RKO Radio, 1950. 60 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Elaine Riley, Douglas Fowley, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Shayne, William Phipps, Harry Tyler, Marshall Reed, Stuart Randall, Dorothy Vaughn. In order to obtain a valuable gold claim, crooks turn to murder and kidnapping but are opposed by a cowpoke. Average Tim Holt vehicle.

3442  The Rider of Death Valley  Universal, 1932. 78 min. D: Albert Rogell. SC: Jack Cunningham. With Tom Mix, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Forrest Stanley, Willard Robertson, Edith Fellows, Mae Busch, Max Asher, Pete Morrison, Edmund Cobb, Otis Harlan, Francis Ford, Richard Cramer, Bob McKenzie, Lloyd Whitlock, Iron Eyes Cody. A man is murdered for his desert gold claim and a rancher friend tries to protect the victim’s small daughter’s interest in the mine and bring the killers to justice. One of Tom Mix’s best sound features, this “A” outing is highly entertaining and contains beautiful Death Valley photography by Daniel Clark; well worth seeing. TV title: Riders of the Desert.

3443  Rider of the Law  Supreme, 1935. 56 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Jack Natteford. With Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, Si Jenks, Earl Dwire, Forrest Taylor, Lloyd Ingraham, John Elliott, Sherry Tansey, Tex Palmer, Chuck Baldra, Steve Clark, Bud Osborne, Art Dillard, Jack Kirk, Ray Henderson. Posing as a dude, a government agent attempts to round up an outlaw gang. Typically entertaining Bob Steele entry for producer A.W. Hackel.

3444  Rider of the Plains  Syndicate, 1931. 57 min. D: J.P. McCarthy. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Tom Tyler, Andy Shuford, Lillian Bond, Alan Bridge, Gordon DeMain, Jack Perrin, Orbie (Slim) Whitaker, Ted Adams, Fern Emmett, Frank Lanning, William Bertram, George Offerman, Jr., Nina Campana, Artie Ortego, Jim Corey, Bob Woodward, Jess Cavin, Eddie Fetherston. An outlaw befriends a young boy and is reformed by him and a pretty girl. Slow paced Tom Tyler feature; not much.

Rider of the Plains (1941) see The Lone Rider Rides On

3445  Rider on a Dead Horse  Allied Artists, 1962. 67 min. D: Herbert L. Strock. SC: Stephen Longstreet. With John Vivyan, Lisa Lu, Bruce Gordon, Kevin Hagen, Charles Lampkin. After three miners divide their diggings, one is murdered and the culprit tries to blame the third man but he finds out that love is more important than riches. Tacky, talky feature.

Riders for Justice see Westward Ho (1942)

3446  Riders from Nowhere  Monogram, 1940. 47 min. D: Raymond K. Johnson. SC: Carl Krusada. With Jack Randall, Margaret Roach, Charles King, Ernie Adams, Tom London, Nelson McDowell, George Chesebro, Ted Adams, Dorothy Adams, Carl Mathews, Jack Evans, Herman Hack, Archie Ricks, Ray Henderson, Kit Guard, Jimmy Aubrey, Tex Palmer, Denver Dixon, Clyde McClary, Rube Dalroy. A stranger tries to learn who murdered a lawman and robbed a gold shipment. Average Jack Randall affair.

3447  Riders in the Sky  Columbia, 1949. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gloria Henry, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Livingston, Steve Darrell, Alan Hale, Jr., Tom London, Hank Patterson, Ben Welden, Kenne Duncan, Dennis Moore, Joe Forte, Frank Jaquet, Roy Gordon, Boyd Stockman, Pat O’Malley, John Parrish, Kermit Maynard, Bud Osborne, Lynton Brent, Isabel Withers, Sandy Sanders, Denver Dixon, Robert Walker, Loie Bridge, Vernon Johns, Stan Jones, Cactus Mack, Tom Smith, Herman Hack, Lee Phelps, Jack Evans. A rancher is framed on false charges by a gambler and Gene Autry plans to clear him and bring the crook to justice. Fine Gene Autry feature with good use of songs, including the title tune made famous by Vaughn Monroe.

3448  Riders of Black Mountain  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1940. 59 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Tim McCoy, Pauline Haddon, Rex Lease, Ed Peil, Sr., Frank LaRue, Ralph Peters, Ted Adams, Julian Rivero, Jack Rutherford, George Chesebro, Dirk Thane, Carl Mathews, Alden Chase, Steve Clark, Lane Bradford, Herman Hack, Pascale Perry, Al Haskell, Tex Palmer, Ray Henderson, Augie Gomez. A banker, involved in an insurance fraud, is behind a series of stagecoach robberies and his gang is pursued by a federal marshal disguised as a gambler. Okay Tim McCoy PRC outing; also called Black Mountain Stage.

3449  Riders of Black River  Columbia, 1939. 59 min. D: Norman Deming. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Dick Curtis, Edmund Cobb, Stanley Brown, Francis De Sayles, Forrest Taylor, George Chesebro, Olin Francis, Lew Meehan, Maston Williams, Carl Sepulveda. A former Texas Ranger returns home with plans to marry a girl, not knowing her brother is involved with an outlaw gang rustling cattle. Competent remake of The Revenge Rider (q.v.).

3450  Riders of Death Valley  Universal, 1941. 15 Chapters. D: Ray Taylor and Ford Beebe. SC: Sherman Lowe, Basil Dickey, George Plympton and Jack Connell. With Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford, Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Guinn Williams, Jeanne Kelly (Jean Brooks), Monte Blue, James Blaine, Glenn Strange, Roy Barcroft, Ethan Laidlaw, Richard Alexander, Jack Rockwell, Frank Austin, Charles Thomas, William Hall, James Guilfoyle, Ernie Adams, Edmund Cobb, William Pagan, Jack Clifford, Richard Travis, Ivar McFadden, Jack Perrin, Slim Whitaker, Bud Osborne, Frank Brownlee, Art Miles, Ed Payson, James Farley, Ted Adams, Dick Rush, Gil Perkins, Duke York, Jerome Harte, Ruth Rickaby, Don Rowan, Alonzo Price, Ken Nolan, Jay Michael. A vigilante group helps miners fighting a protection racket and end up opposing a notorious outlaw after all the gold mines in the district. A top notch cast is the chief asset of this otherwise mediocre serial.

Richard Alexander and Lon Chaney in Riders of Death Valley (Universal, 1941).

3451  Riders of Destiny  Monogram, 1933. 55 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, George Hayes, Forrest Taylor, Al St. John, Heinie Conklin, Earl Dwire, Yakima Canutt, Lafe McKee, Addie Foster, Fern Emmett, Hal Price, Si Jenks, Horace B. Carpenter, Tex Palmer, Silver Tip Baker, William Dyer, Bert Lindley, Herman Nowlin. Posing as a notorious bandit, a government agent tries to get the goods on a businessman robbing settlers of their land by denying them water rights. The only “Singin’ Sandy” film, this initial entry in John Wayne’s Monogram-Lone Star series for producer Paul Malvern in a good one, when the star is not singing, dubbed or not.

3452  Riders of Pasco Basin  Universal, 1940. 56 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Ford Beebe. With Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Frances Robinson, Lafe McKee, Arthur Loft, Frank LaRue, James Guifoyle, Chuck Morrison, Ed Cassidy, Robert Winkler, William Gould, Ted Adams, Kermit Maynard, David Sharpe, Rudy Sooter’s Californians, George Chesebro, Ed Peil, Sr., Hank Bell, Gordon Hart, Slim Whitaker, Lynton Brent, Frank Ellis, Jim Corey, Hank Worden, Bob Burns, Al Taylor, Blackie Whiteford. A rodeo rider returns home to find promoters of an irrigation project trying to force themselves on the area and he leads vigilantes in stopping them. Well done Johnny Mack Brown feature.

3453  Riders of the Badlands  Columbia, 1941. 57 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Cliff Edwards, Ilene Brewer, Kay Hughes, Roy Barcroft, Rick Anderson, Edith Leach, Ethan Laidlaw, Harry Cording, Hal Price, Ted Mapes, George J. Lewis, John Cason, Edmund Cobb, Francis Walker. A ranger and his dentist pal try to bring in an outlaw and his gang but the lawman is a look-a-like for the crook and ends up being arrested by another ranger whose wife was murdered by the bandit. The plot may be complicated but this Charles Starrett-Russell Hayden opus is action filled from start to finish.

3454  Riders of the Black Hills  Republic, 1938. 55 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Burbridge and Bernard McConville. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Ann Evers, Roscoe Ates, Maude Eburne, Frank Melton, Johnny Lang Fitzgerald, Jack Ingram, John P. Wade, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Edward Earle, Monte Montague, Ben Hall, Frank O’Connor, Tom London, Bud Osborne, Milburn Morante, Jack O’Shea, Art Dillard, John Merton, Slim Whitaker, Dick Elliott, Gloria Rich, Lester Sharpe, Jette White, George Magrill, David Sharpe. When a young woman’s valuable race horse is stolen, three cowboys help her find it and capture the thieves. High grade entry in the popular “Three Mesquiteers” series.

3455  Riders of the Cactus  Big 4, 1931. 60 min. D-SC: David Kirkland. With Wally Wales, Buzz Barton, Lorraine La Val, Fred Church, Ed Cartwright, Don Wilson, Joe Lawliss, Tete Brady, Etta Delmar, Gus Anderson, Sam J. Garrett. A cowboy is on the trail of an outlaw gang stalking a man trying to find buried treasure. Tattered poverty row Wally Wales vehicle.

3456  Riders of the Dawn  Monogram, 1937. 53 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Jack Randall, Peggy Keys, Warner Richmond, James Sheridan (Sherry Tansey), George Cooper, Earl Dwire, Lloyd Ingraham, Ed Brady, Tim Davis, Yakima Canutt, Frank Hagney, Tex Cooper, Oscar Gahan, Forrest Taylor, Chick Hannon, Ella McKenzie, Ed Coxen, Jim Corey, Augie Gomez. Two lawmen are assigned to clean up a lawless town plagued by an outlaw gang led by the notorious gunman Danti. Jack Randall’s first series film is a good one, greatly helped by Warner Richmond’s usual excellence as the villain.

3457  Riders of the Dawn  Monogram, 1945. 58 min. D: Oliver Drake. SC: Louise Rousseau. With Jimmy Wakely, Lee “Lasses” White, John James, Phyllis Adair, Sarah Padden, Horace Murphy, Richard Alexander, Jack Baxley, Bob Shelton, Wesley Tuttle and His All Stars, Arthur “Fiddlin’” Smith, Bill Hammond, Dad Pickard, Eddie Majors, Brooke Temple. Three medicine show entertainers find a young couple murdered and rescue their baby, the culprit being a doctor after the victim’s oil rich property. The plot is okay but overall this is just another dull Jimmy Wakely outing except for the many song interludes; a reworking of Gunman from Bodie (q.v.).

3458  Riders of the Deadline  United Artists, 1943. 70 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Bennett Cohen. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Richard Crane, Frances Woodward, William Harrigan, Tony (Anthony) Warde, Robert Mitchum, Jim Bannon, Hugh Prosser, Herbert Rawlinson, Montie Montana, Jack Rockwell, Earle Hodgins, Bill Beckford, Pierce Lyden, Herman Hack, Art Felix, Robert Walker, Cliff Parkinson, Roy Bucko. Gun runners murder a Texas Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy, disguised as an outlaw, tries to find them. Average outing in the long running series; remake of Desert Bandit (q.v.).

3459  Riders of the Desert  World Wide, 1932. 57 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, George Hayes, Al St. John, Horace B. Carpenter, Louise Carter, Earl Dwire, Joe Dominguez, Greg Whitespear, John Elliott. An Arizona ranger is on the trail of an outlaw gang terrorizing the vicinity. Fine Bob Steele affair with plenty of action for his fans.

Riders of the Desert (1932) see The Rider of Death Valley

3460  Riders of the Dusk  Monogram, 1949. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Tristram Coffin, Marshall Reed, Myron Healey, John Merton, Holly Bane, Lee Roberts, Dee Cooper, Thornton Edwards, Ray Jones, John Cason. A deputy marshal rides to a town to help the sheriff capture a mysterious cattle rustler but along the way he is mistaken for the bad man. Pretty fair Whip Wilson vehicle.

3461  Riders of the Frontier  Monogram, 1939. 58 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Jesse Duffy and Joseph Lovering. With Tex Ritter, Jean Joyce, Hal Taliaferro, Jack Rutherford, Mantan Moreland, Marin Sais, Olin Francis, Nolan Willis, Roy Barcroft, Merrill McCormick, Edward Cecil, Bruce Mitchell, Maxine Leslie, Charles King, Forrest Taylor, Nelson McDowell. Outlaws hold a woman prisoner at her ranch as a lawman pretends to be a wanted criminal to gain access to the place and save her. One of the better Tex Ritter Monogram efforts and it includes the traditional folk song “Boll Weevil,” a tune closely associated with the star. British title: Ridin’ the Frontier.

3462  Riders of the Golden Gulch  West Coast, 1932. 52 min. D: Clifford Smith. SC: Robert J. Horner. With Buffalo Bill, Jr., Mary Dunn, Yakima Canutt, Edmund Cobb, Pete Morrison, Jack Harvey. A cowboy gets involved in a plot to rob his girl’s father. Just about as bad as they get, another dud from producer Robert J. Horner based on a story by Yakima Canutt.

3463  Riders of the Law  Sunset, 1922. 55 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Jack Hoxie, Marin Sais, Pat Harmon, Tom Lingham, Jack Pierce, Frank Jonasson, Sonny Hicks. A government ranger, working undercover, saves the life of a sheriff who has been wounded by a gang of liquor smugglers. Fast moving Jack Hoxie silent feature.

3464  Riders of the Lone Star  Columbia, 1947. 55 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Hunter, Steve Darrell, Curly Williams and His Georgia Peach Pickers, Edmund Cobb, Mark Dennis, Lane Bradford, Ted Mapes, George Chesebro, Peter Perkins, Eddie Parker, Bud Osborne, Nolan Leary. Two Texas Rangers are after a notorious bad man who has returned to an area he once terrorized in order to stop the re-opening of a mine. Pretty good “Durango Kid” adventure.

3465  Riders of the North  Syndicate, 1931. 59 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Bob Custer, Blanche Mehaffey, Al Ferguson, Frank Rice, Eddie Dunn, George Regas, Buddy Shaw, William Walling, George Hackathorne, Horace B. Carpenter, Blackie Whiteford, Tom Smith, Carl de Loro. A Canadian Mounted Policeman is on the trail of an outlaw gang in the north woods. Shoddy Bob Custer vehicle with the star his usual stoical self.

3466  Riders of the Northland  Columbia, 1942. 58 min. D: William Berke. SC: Paul Franklin. With Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Cliff Edwards, Shirley Patterson, Lloyd Bridges, Bobby Larson, Kenneth MacDonald, Paul Sutton, Robert O. Davis, Joe McGuinn, Francis Walker, George Piltz, Blackjack Ward, Dick Jensen. A trio of Texas Rangers are sent to Alaska to investigate enemy activities and find a group of saboteurs trying to construct a runway for Axis planes. Sturdy Charles Starrett-Russell Hayden vehicle.

3467  Riders of the Northwest Mounted  Columbia, 1943. 57 min. D: William Berke. SC: Fred Myton. With Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Adele Mara, Dick Curtis, Richard Bailey, Jack Ingram, Wen Wright, Vernon Steele. A Mounted Policeman is assigned to stop fur thieves working in the Red River district, the gang being led by a corrupt and vicious trading post operator. Probably the best of Russell Hayden’s Columbia series with nice photography by Benjamin Kline, pretty Adele Mara as the leading lady and the grand nastiness from Dick Curtis as the villain.

3468  Riders of the Pony Express  Screencraft, 1949. 61 min. D-SC: Michael Salle. With Ken Curtis, Shug Fisher, Cathy Douglas, Billy Benedict, Billy Hammond, Eddie McLean, Truman Van Dyke, John Dehner, Lou Marcelle, Rodd Redwing. On the run from the law, a rancher takes a new name and becomes a Pony Express rider not knowing the district supervisor is a half-breed trying to sabotage the operation. Low budget oater with songs.

3469  Riders of the Purple Sage  Fox, 1925. 56 min. D: Lynn Reynolds. SC: Edfrid Bingham. With Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Arthur Morrison, Seesel Ann Johnson, Warner Oland, Fred Kohler, Wilfred Lucas, Charles Newton, Joe Rickson, Mabel Ballin, Charles Le Moyne, Harold Goodwin, Marion Nixon, Dawn O’Day (Anne Shirley). After a dishonest lawyer kidnaps his sister and niece a Texas Ranger sets out to find them. Great photography (by Dan Clark) and a fine story make this Tom Mix silent feature a good viewing bet. Followed by The Rainbow Trail (1925) [q.v.], this Zane Grey work was first filmed in 1918 by Fox with William Farnum.

3470  Riders of the Purple Sage  Fox, 1931. 58 min. D: Hamilton MacFadden. SC: John F. Goodrich, Philip Klein and Barry Connors. With George O’Brien, Marguerite Churchill, Noah Beery, Yvonne Pelletier, James Todd, Stanley Fields, Lester Dorr, Frank McGlynn, Jr., Shirley Nails. A cowboy becomes an outcast for killing the man who kidnapped his sister and her daughter but he later saves a young woman and her ranch from outlaws. Fox’s third screen version of the Zane Grey novel is a good one, again followed by its sequel The Rainbow Trail (1932) [q.v.].

3471  Riders of the Purple Sage  20th Century–Fox, 1941. 56 min. D: James Tinling. SC: William Buckner and Robert Metzler. With George Montgomery, Mary Howard, Robert Barrat, Lynne Roberts, Kane Richmond, Patsy Peterson, Richard Lane, Oscar O’Shea, James Gillette, Frank McGrath, Leroy Mason, George Cleveland, Francis Ford, Ethan Laidlaw, Frank McCarroll. A cowboy helps a pretty rancher fight a gang of vicious vigilantes. The fourth screen adaptation of Zane Grey’s book and it makes for fine entertainment.

3472  Riders of the Range  Truart, 1923. 50 min. D-SC: Otis B. Thayer. With Edmund Cobb, Clare Hatton, Frank Gallagher, Roy Langdon, Harry Ascher, E. Glendower, B. Bonaventure, Levi Simpson, Dolly Dale, Helen M. Hayes, Mae Dean, Ann Drew. The president of the cattlemen’s association believes sheep men are behind a series of rustlings but he changes his mind after falling in love with daughter of a sheepherder. Okay silent action film that lets us see the great Edmund Cobb in a starring role.

3473  Riders of the Range  RKO Radio, 1950. 60 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jacqueline White, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat, Tom Tyler, Robert Clarke, William Tannen, Holly Bane. Two cowpokes help a young woman whose cattle are stolen by a crook blackmailing her brother. Nice Tim Holt outing with a fine supporting cast.

3474  Riders of the Rio Grande  Syndicate, 1929. 55 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: Sally Winters. With Bob Custer, Edna Aslin, Horace B. Carpenter, Kip Cooper, Bob Erickson, Martin Cichy, Merrill McCormick. A cowboy tries to help a woman and an engraver who have been kidnapped by the Quantrill gang. Slow moving Bob Custer silent also issued with a music score.

3475  Riders of the Rio Grande  Republic, 1943. 55 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Albert DeMond. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Lorraine Miller, Edward Van Sloan, Rick Vallin, Harry Worth, Roy Barcroft, Charles King, Jack Ingram, John James, Jack O’Shea, Henry Hall, Bud Osborne, Yakima Canutt, Chester Conklin, Curley Dresden, Budd Buster, Robert Kortman, Charles Sullivan. Outlaws threaten a town and its leading citizens as a trio of cowboy peacemakers come to the rescue. Final entry in the popular and long running “The Three Mesquiteers” series; nothing exception but it is entertaining.

3476  Riders of the Rockies  Grand National, 1937. 59 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Louise Stanley, Horace Murphy, Snub Pollard, Heber Snow (Hank Worden), Charles King, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Martin Garralaga, Jack Rockwell, Paul Lopez, Tex Palmer, Clyde McClary, The Texas Tornados. Two Texas Rangers are falsely accused of a crime and a fellow officer resigns his commission and tries to prove their innocence. Average Tex Ritter film with a quartet of songs, including the title tune, “Home on the Range” and “Song of the Open Range.”

3477  Riders of the Sage  Metropolitan, 1939. 55 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Carl Krusada. With Bob Steele, Claire Rochelle, Ralph Hoopes, James Whitehead, Earl Douglas, Ted Adams, Dave O’Brien, Frank LaRue, Bruce Dane, Jerry Sheldon, Reed Howes, Bud Osborne, Gordon Roberts (Carleton Young). A cowboy stops two outlaws from killing a man and finds himself in the middle of a sheep men versus cattle ranchers feud. Pretty tattered Bob Steele vehicle.

3478  Riders of the Santa Fe  Universal, 1944. 60 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Ande Lamb. With Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Lane Chandler, Earle Hodgins, Ray Whitley, The Bar-6 Cowboys (Aleth Hansen, Ezra Paulette, Charley Quirt), Richard Alexander, Budd Buster, Ida Moore, Jack Hendricks, Scotty Harrell, George Douglas, Henry Wills, Ethan Laidlaw, Curley Dresden, Roy Bucko, George Sowards, Jack Tornek, George Plues, Ray Jones, George Hazel, Bob Burns, Ralph Bucko. A new sheriff tries to prove a town boss killed the previous mayor and changed survey maps in order to control the area water supply. Sturdy Rod Cameron series entry.

3479  Riders of the Timberline  Paramount, 1941. 59 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Victor Jory, Eleanor Stewart, J. Farrell MacDonald, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edward Keane, Hal Taliaferro, Tom Tyler, Mickey Elissa, Hank Bell, The Guardsmen Quartet, Frank Miller, Herman Hack, Tex Phelps, Tex Cooper. The Bar 20 trio help the owner of a logging operation when a crook plans to blow up a dam to ruin the man’s business. A fast moving story, nice north woods locations and photography (by Russell Harlan), plus an exciting finale, highlight this “Hopalong Cassidy” feature.

3480  Riders of the West  Monogram, 1942. 58 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Dennis Moore, Harry Woods, Sarah Padden, Walter McGrail, Robert Frazer, Bud Osborne, Charles King, Lee Phelps, Kermit Maynard, Milburn Morante, Ed Peil, Sr., Lynton Brent, George Morrell, Tom London, J. Merrill Holmes, Lee Phelps, Herman Hack, Jack Kirk, Jimmy Aubrey, Denver Dixon, Roy Bucko. As a trio of crooks try to steal a woman’s ranch, three lawmen help her with one of them infiltrating the gang. Pleasant “Rough Riders” series entry.

3481  Riders of the Whistling Pines  Columbia, 1949. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Jack Townley. With Gene Autry, Patricia (Barry) White, Jimmy Lloyd, Douglass Dumbrille, Damian O’Flynn, Clayton Moore, Harry V. Cheshire, Leon Weaver, Loie Bridge, The Cass County Boys (Jerry Scoggins, Fred S. Martin, Bert Dodson), Roy Gordon, Jason Robards, Britt Wood, Len Torrey, The Pinafores, Lane Chandler, Lynn Farr, Al Thompson, Emmett Vogan, Virginia Carroll, Nolan Leary, Steve Benton. A man mistakenly thinks he accidentally killed a forest ranger when the official was really murdered because he discovered a moth infestation that would have profited two crooked businessmen. Colorful and entertaining Gene Autry opus.

3482  The Riders of the Whistling Skull  Republic, 1937. 56 min. D: Mack V. Wright. SC: Oliver Drake and John Rathmell. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Mary Russell, Fern Emmett, Roger Williams, C. Montague Shaw, Yakima Canutt, John Ward, George Godfrey, Frank Ellis, Earle Ross, Chief Thundercloud, John Van Pelt, Ed Peil, Sr., Jack Kirk, Iron Eyes Cody, Tom Steele, Wally West, Tracy Layne, Ken Cooper. An archeologist searching for a lost Indian city is missing and three cowboys join an expedition, led by his daughter, trying to find him. One of the most satisfying entries in “The Three Mesquiteers” series and based on the novel by William Colt MacDonald; reworked as a Charlie Chan feature, The Feathered Serpent. (q.v.).

Riders of Vengeance see The Raiders (1952)

3483  Ridin’ Down the Canyon  Republic, 1942. 56 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Albert DeMond and Robert Williams. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Lloyd Perryman), Buzzy Henry, Linda Hayes, Addison Richards, Lorna Gray (Adrian Booth), Olin Howlin, James Seay, Hal Taliaferro, Forrest Taylor, Roy Barcroft, Art Mix, Tom London, Jack Kirk, Ed Cassidy, Art Dillard, Tommy Coats, Major Sam Harris. A young boy enlists the help of Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers in rounding up a gang of horse rustlers interfering with the war effort. Seven songs and Buzzy Henry’s riding add zest to this compact Roy Rogers film set in the contemporary West.

3484  Ridin’ Down the Trail  Monogram, 1947. 53 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Beverly Jons, Douglas Fowley, John James, Doug Aylesworth, Charles King, Matthew (Brad) Slaven, Kermit Maynard, Harry Carr, Milburn Morante, Ted French, Post Park, Dick Reinhart, Don Weston. Arriving at a ranch, members of a medicine show find the inhabitants murdered and end up being blamed for the crime. One of the better Jimmy Wakely features.