4100  Stagecoach  United Artists, 1939. 96 min. D: John Ford. SC: Dudley Nichols. With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, George Bancroft, John Carradine, Donald Meek, Louise Platt, Tim Holt, Berton Churchill, Tom Tyler, Chris-Pin Martin, Francis Ford, Elvira Rios, Yakima Canutt, Chief Big Tree, Harry Tenbrook, Jack Pennick, Paul McVey, Walter McGrail, Brenda Fowler, Florence Lake, Cornelius Keefe, Vester Pegg, Bryant Washburn, Nora Cecil, Bill Cody, Buddy Roosevelt, Chief White Horse, Duke R. Lee, Mary Kathleen Walker, Helen Gibson, Dorothy Appleby, Joe Rickson. An assorted group of passengers on a stagecoach bound for Lordsburg learn they are in the path of Geronimo’s warring apaches. One of the all time great classic Westerns and a must-see for genre followers. The entire cast is superb, especially Andy Devine as the stage driver, John Carradine’s gambler, Louise Platt as the pregnant passenger and Tom Tyler as Luke Plummer. Excellent.

4101  Stagecoach  20th Century–Fox, 1966. 114 min. Color. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: Joseph Landon. With Alex Cord, Ann-Margret, Red Buttons, Michael (Mike) Connors, Bing Crosby, Bob (Robert) Cummings, Van Heflin, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, Brad Weston, Joseph Hoover, Oliver McGowan, David Humphreys Miller, Bruce Mars, Edwin Mills, Hal Lynch, Norman Rockwell, Muriel Davidson, Brett Pearson, John Gabriel. A saloon gal, a gambler, a drunken doctor, a pregnant woman and a wanted outlaw are among the passengers on a stagecoach heading into Indian country. Bland remake of the 1939 (q.v.) feature; its only compensation is fine performances by Van Heflin as the stage driver and Slim Pickens as his shotgun rider.

4102  Stagecoach  CBS-TV, 1986. 104 min. Color. D: Ted Post. SC: James Lee Barrett. With Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Elizabeth Ashley, Mary Crosby, John Schneider, Anthony Franciosa, Anthony Newley, Alex Kubic, June Carter Cash, Merritt Butrick, John Carter Cash, Jessi Colter, David Allan Coe, Lash LaRue, Bob McLean, Anthony Russell, Joe Unger, Kal Roberts, Ed Adams, Michael Hayes, Billy Swan, Sonny Carl Davis, Glen Clark, Tim Gilbert, Dave Adams, Norman Stone, Jack Dunlap, Bob Cota. An assorted group of passengers take a stagecoach to the town of Lordsburg although threatened by Geronimo and his rampaging braves. A bit better than the 1966 (q.v.) version of the Ernest Haycox story, this outing is helped by Gary Graver’s fine photography and Waylon Jennings as gambler Hatfield; Lash LaRue has a nice cameo as an outlaw turncoat.

4103  Stagecoach Buckaroo  Universal, 1942. 58 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Al Martin. With Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O’Day, Anne Nagel, Herbert Rawlinson, Glenn Strange, Ernie Adams, Henry Hall, Lloyd Ingraham, Kermit Maynard, Frank Brownlee, Jack C. Smith, Harry Tenbrook, Frank Ellis, Blackie Whiteford, Hank Bell, Ray Jones, Jim Corey, Bill Nestell, Carl Sepulveda, The Guardsmen. A woman tries to carry on her father’s stagecoach operation after he is killed by outlaws and hires two men to help her. Action laden Johnny Mack Brown affair with the unique plot device of using a bulletproof stagecoach to thwart holdups.

4104  Stagecoach Days  Columbia, 1938. 58 min. D: Joseph Levering. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart, Hal Taliaferro, Harry Woods, Slim Whitaker, Jack Ingram, Lafe McKee, Robert Kortman, Richard Botiller, Blackjack Ward, Tom London, Buzz Barton, Ernie Adams, Herman Hack, Jim Mason, Hal Price, Bob Burns, Oscar Gahan, Chick Hannon, Tex Palmer, Jack C. Smith, George Plues, Tuffy (dog). A cowboy helps a woman and her father acquire a government mail contract for their stage line. Crude, low grade, but passable, Jack Luden vehicle with good work by Hal Taliaferro (Wally Wales) as the father.

4105  Stagecoach Driver  Monogram, 1951. 52 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Jim Bannon, Gloria Winters, Lane Bradford, Marshall Reed, Barbara Allen, Leonard Penn, John Hart, Stanley Price, George DeNormand. A star packer and his pals try to stop the lawlessness caused when the telegraph begins putting the Pony Express and freight lines out of business. Pleasant effort in the Whip Wilson series.

4106  Stagecoach Express  Republic, 1942. 56 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Doris Schroeder. With Don “Red” Barry, Lynn Merrick, Charles King, Al St. John, Robert Kent, Emmett Lynn, Guy Kingsford, Ethan Laidlaw, Eddie Dean, Wheaton Chambers, Eddie Phillips, Mary MacLaren, Frank O’Connor, Freddie Steele, Tommy Coats, Francis Sayles, Bill Nestell, Al Taylor, Marty Faust, Cyclone (horse), Duke (dog). A man and his pal agree to help a young woman by driving her stagecoach which has been attacked by bandits. Okay but slow Don Barry film that includes several well staged riding and chase sequences involving holdups.

4107  Stagecoach Kid  RKO Radio, 1949. 60 min. D: Lew Landers. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jeff Donnell, Joseph Sawyer, Thurston Hall, Carol Hughes, Robert Bray, Robert B. Williams, Kenneth MacDonald, Harry Harvey. Outlaws plan to murder a wealthy man and kidnap his daughter but their plot is foiled by a stage line owner. Another good Tim Holt Western.

4108  Stagecoach Outlaws  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945. 58 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Ed Cassidy, Kermit Maynard, I. Stanford Jolley, Steve Clark, Robert Kortman, Bob (John) Cason, George Chesebro, Hank Bell, Wally West, Victor Cox, Herman Hack, Roy Bucko, Jimmy Aubrey, Frank McCarroll, Tex Cooper, George Morrell, Jack Evans, Rube Dalroy, Rose Plummer. Marshal Billy Carson pretends to be a wanted man to stop a gang from destroying a stage operation. Typically cheap, but fun, “Billy Carson” outing.

4109  Stagecoach to Dancer’s Rock  Universal-International, 1962. 72 min. D: Earl Bellamy. SC: Kenneth Darling. With Warren Stevens, Jody Lawrence, Martin Landau, Judy Dan, Del Moore, Don Wilbanks, Bob Anderson, Rand Brooks, Gene Roth, Charles Tannen, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane), Mauritz Hugo, Tim Bolton. When a stage driver finds one of his passengers has smallpox he leaves all of them stranded in the desert. Nothing special but okay viewing.

4110  Stagecoach to Denver  Republic, 1946. 56 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Earle Snell. With Allan Lane, Bobby Blake, Martha Wentworth, Peggy Stewart, Roy Barcroft, Emmett Lynn, Ted Adams, Edmund Cobb, Tom Chatterton, Bobby Hyatt, George Chesebro, Ed Cassidy, Wheaton Chambers, Forrest Taylor, Britt Wood, Tom London, Stanley Price, Frank O’Connor, Marin Sais, Budd Buster, Lew Morphy, Herman Hack, Chuck Baldra, Chick Hannon, Cactus Mack. Wanting a woman’s property, a supposedly good citizen has her kidnapped and then murders a local official, putting his henchman in his place. Fairly action filled “Red Ryder” adventure.

4111  Stagecoach to Fury  20th Century–Fox, 1956. 76 min. D: William F. Claxton. SC: Eric Norden. With Forrest Tucker, Mari Blanchard, Wallace Ford, Rodolfo Hoyos, Paul Fix, Rico Alaniz, Wright King, Margia Dean, Ian MacDonald, Steven Geray, Ellen Corby, Paul Fierro, Leslie Banning, Rayford Barnes, Robert Karnes, Norman Leavitt, Alex Montoya, William “Bill” Phillips. Passengers aboard a stage are held hostage by Mexican bandits who await the arrival of the next coach in order to steal its gold shipment. Dreary feature with too much talk.

Stagecoach Run see Winds of the Wasteland

4112  Stagecoach War  Paramount, 1940. 63 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Julie Carter, Harvey Stephens, J. Farrell MacDonald, Rad Robinson, Eddy Waller, Frank Lackteen, Jack Rockwell, Eddie Dean, Robert Kortman, The King’s Men (Ken Darby, Bud Linn, Jon Dodson), Rod Cameron, Johnny Luther, Frank Ellis, Merrill McCormick, Hank Bell, Denver Dixon, George Morrell, Victor Cox, Tex Palmer, George Sowards. Hopalong Cassidy and the Bar 20 men find themselves in the middle of a contract war between two stagecoach lines. Good outing, made when the “Hopalong Cassidy” series was near its peak.

4113  The Stalking Moon  National General, 1968. 109 min. Color. D: Robert Mulligan. SC: Wendell Mayes and Alvin Sargent. With Gregory Peck, Eva Maria Saint, Robert Forster, Nolan Clay, Russell Thorson, Frank Silvera, Lonny Chapman, Lou Frizzell, Henry Beckman, Charles Tyner, Richard Bull, Sandy Wyeth, Joaquin Martinez, Boyd “Red” Morgan. An Apache warrior comes in search of the white woman and his son taken from him by a man who has settled with them on his New Mexico ranch. Well produced oater is basically dull due to lack of suspense.

4114  Stallion Canyon  Astor, 1949. 72 min. Color. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Hy Heath. With Ken Curtis, Carolina Cotton, Shug Fisher, Forrest Taylor, Ted Adams, Billy Hammond, Roy Butler. A cowboy tries to help an Indian framed on a murder charge in addition to attempting to win the big purse at an annual race. Low grade program feature.

4115  Stallion Road  Warner Bros., 1947. 97 min. D: James V. Kern. SC: Stephen Longstreet. With Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Patti Brady, Harry Davenport, Angela Greene, Frank Puglia, Ralph Byrd, Lloyd Corrigan, Fernando Alvarado, Matthew Boulton, Mary Gordon, Nina Campana, Dewey Robinson, Paul Panzer, Bobby Valentine, Ralph Littlefield, Tom Wilson, Oscar O’Shea, Leon Lenoir, Monte Blue, Fred Kelsey, Major Sam Harris, Joan Winfield, Danny Dowling, Douglas Kennedy, Creighton Hale, Elaine Lange, Roxanne Stark, Vera Lewis. A veterinarian and his novelist pal both fall in love with a woman who breeds horses but the doctor almost loses her when the herd contracts anthrax. Only fair modern-day melodrama; not even un-credited direction by Raoul Walsh helps.

4116  The Stampede  Victor Kremer Films, 1921. 50 min. D: Francis Ford. SC: Kingsley Benedict and Eugenie Kremer. With Texas Guinan, Francis Ford, Frederick Moore, Jean Carpenter, Vale Rio, Fred Kohler, Cecil McLean, Kingsley Benedict, Snowflake (horse). A woman, in love with a cowboy who does not return her affections, tries to claim a section of government land only to be opposed by crooks who want it for themselves. This action filled silent gives viewers a chance to see famous night club hostess Texas Guinan in one of her several starring Westerns.

4117  Stampede  Columbia, 1936. 58 min. D: Ford Beebe. SC: Robert Watson. With Charles Starrett, Finis Barton, J.P. McGowan, LeStrange Millman, Reginald Hincks, James McGrath, Arthur Kerr, Jack Atkinson, Michael Heppell, Ted Mapes. A rancher wants the spread of a rival and kills a buyer for the man’s cattle but the victim’s brother arrives on the scene looking for the murderer. Mediocre Charles Starrett vehicle, not up to the usual standard of his Columbia series.

4118  Stampede  Allied Artists, 1949. 78 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: John C. Champion and Blake Edwards. With Rod Cameron, Gale Storm, Don Castle, Johnny Mack Brown, Don Curtis, John Eldredge, John Miljan, Jonathan Hale, James Harrison, Ted Elliott, Jack Parker, Chuck Roberson, Tim Ryan, Kenne Duncan, Carol Henry, Adrian Wood, I. Stanford Jolley, Marshall Reed, Philo McCullough, Charles King, Duke York, Wes Christensen, Bud Osborne, Henry Hall, Boyd Stockman. Two feuding cattlemen brothers become involved with settlers who are being cheated out of their water rights. This nicely made compact oater moves along at a fast clip.

4119  Stampede at Bitter Creek  Buena Vista, 1966. 81 min. Color. D: Harry Keller. SC: D.P. Harmon. With Tom Tryon, Stephen McNally, Sidney Blackmer, Bill Williams, John Larch, Harold J. Stone, Norma Moore, Grant Williams, H.M. Wynant, Don Kelly. After marrying the girl he loves, a Texas Ranger finds himself caught between Indians on the warpath and outlaws, ending up a wanted man. Action filled Walt Disney Western first shown on his TV program on March 6, 1959, as “The Man from Bitter Creek” segment of the “Texas John Slaughter” miniseries.

4120  The Stand at Apache River  Universal-International, 1953. 77 min. Color. D: Lee Sholem. SC: Arthur Ross. With Stephen McNally, Julia (Julie) Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Jaclynne Greene, Hugh O’Brian, Russell Johnson, Jack Kelly, Edgar Barrier, Forrest Lewis, Frankie Darro, Henry Wills. Eight people are stranded at a way station with Apaches about to attack. Mediocre feature that may appeal to diehard genre fans.

4121  Stand Up and Fight  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939. 97 min. D: W.S. Van Dyke. SC: James M. Cain, Jane Murtin and Harvey Fergusson. With Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Florence Rice, Helen Broderick, Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Charles Grapewin, John Qualen, Robert Glecker, Clinton Rosemond, Cy Kendall, Paul Everton, Claudia Morgan, Selmer Jackson, Robert Middlemass, Al Ferguson, Frank Jaquet, Theodore Lorch, Claire McDowell, Jonathan Hale, Edward Hearn, Clem Bevans, Syd Saylor, Minor Watson, Frank Darien, Edward Keane, John Dilson, William Tannen, Sam Ash, Hal Price, Forrest Taylor, Ben Welden, Eddy Waller, Victor Potel, Walter Soderling, Mitchell Lewis, Harry Cording, Trevor Bardette, John Ince, Murdock MacQuarrie, Everett Brown, Henry Hastings, Ted Oliver, Sidney D’Albrook, Louise Springer, Jack Grey, Lee Tung Foo, James Kilgannon, George Cooper, George Ovey. A man is hired by a railroad to investigate slave running and he becomes at odds with a stagecoach operator involved in the trade. Slick pre–Civil War drama sure to delight Wallace Beery fans.

4122  Standing Tall  NBC-TV, 1978. 100 min. Color. D: Harvey Hart. SC: Franklin Thompson. With Robert Forster, Will Sampson, L.Q. Jones, Robert Donner, Ron Hayes, Buck Taylor, Linda Evans, Chuck Connors, Faith Quabius, Dani Jannssen, Robert Gentry, Eddie Firestone, David Lewis. During the Depression a half-breed rancher runs into trouble when he refuses to sell his spread to a ruthless cattle baron. Typically mediocre made-for-TV Western.

4123  Star in the Dust  Universal-International, 1956. 80 min. Color. D: Charles Haas. SC: Oscar Brodney. With John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray, Leif Erickson, James Gleason, Randy Stuart, Terry Gilkyson, Paul Fix, Harry Morgan, Stuart Randall, Robert Osterloh, Stanley Andrews, John Day, Stafford Repp, Lewis Martin, Renny McEvoy, Jesse Kirkpatrick, James Parnell, Anthony Jochim, Kenneth MacDonald, George Wallace, Clint Eastwood, Jack Ingram, Kermit Maynard, Chuck Hamilton, Frank Mills. When a gunman kills three farmers, a sheriff plans to hang him for the crimes but the town’s citizens refuse to go along with the execution. Passable Albert Zugsmith production but nothing special.

4124  Star of Texas  Allied Artists, 1953. 68 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Dan Ullman. With Wayne Morris, Paul Fix, Rick Vallin, Robert Bice, Frank Ferguson, Jack Larson, James Flavin, Lyle Talbot, William Fawcett, Mickey Simpson, George Wallace, John Crawford, Stanley Price, Pierce Lyden, Frank Ellis, Jack O’Shea, Ray Jones. An outlaw gang recruits new members from prison and a Texas Ranger pretends to be an escaped convict to track them down. Documentary-like atmosphere makes this Wayne Morris film (the first in his Allied Artists series, the final official “B” Western grouping) good entertainment; remade as Gunfight at Comanche Creek and Last of the Badmen (qq.v.).

4125  The Star Packer  Monogram, 1934. 54 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Ed (Eddie) Parker, George Cleveland, Tom Lingham, Artie Ortego, Davie Aldrich, Tex Palmer, Billy Franey, Glenn Strange, Arthur Millett, Frank Ball. A government agent, helped by his Indian pal, takes the job of sheriff in a town plagued by an outlaw gang led by a mysterious figure called The Shadow. Hidden tunnels, a hooded gang kingpin and lots of action makes this Lone Star production a good one; colorized as The Shadow Gang.

4126  Starbird and Sweet William  Howco International, 1975. 95 min. Color. D: Jack B. Hively. SC: Axel Gruenberg. With Dan Haggerty, Skip Homeier, A. Martinez, Louise Fitch, Skeeter Vaughn, Roger Bear, Ancil Cook. An Indian youth takes an unauthorized solo flight in a plane and ends up crashing it in the wilderness where he has to fight to survive and is befriended by a bear cub and other animals. Pleasant outdoor drama; well directed.

Starblack see Black Star

4127  Stardust on the Sage  Republic, 1942. 65 min. D: William Morgan. SC: Stuart McGowan and Dorrell McGowan. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Edith Fellows, Bill Henry, Louise Currie, George Ernest, Emmett Vogan, Vince Barnett, Betty Farrington, Roy Barcroft, Frankie Marvin, Tom London, Rex Lease, Frank Ellis, Ed Cassidy, Fred Burns, Frank LaRue, Franklyn Farnum, Edmund Cobb, Merrill McCormick, Monte Montague, George DeNormand, George Sherwood, Bill Nestell, Frank O’Connor, Griff Barnett, Lee Shumway. When crooks frame a young man on an embezzlement charge, Gene Autry comes to the rescue. Note even some good songs, including “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” and an excellent supporting cast can overcome the tedium of this Gene Autry effort.

4128  Starlight Over Texas  Monogram, 1938. 56 min. D: Al Herman. SC: John Rathmell. With Tex Ritter, Carmen LaRoux, Snub Pollard, Horace Murphy, Karl Hackett, Charles King, Martin Garralaga, George Chesebro, Carlos Villarias, Ed Cassidy, Sherry Tansey, Bob Terry, Horace B. Carpenter, Dave O’Brien, Denver Dixon, Chick Hannon, Tex Palmer, Rosa Turich, Carmen Alvarez, Jerry Comez, The Northwesterners, Martin Cazares. With outlaws attacking Spanish ranchers, a cowboy and his pal try to bring them to justice. Standard Tex Ritter vehicle hurt by a long mid-way musical segment, although it is well staged, with the star singing the rousing “A Viva Tequila.” British title: Moonlight Over Texas.

4129  Stars in My Crown  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950. 89 min. D: Jacques Tourneur. SC: Margaret Fitts. With Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell, Amanda Blake, Juano Hernandez, Charles Kemper, Connie Gilchrist, Ed Begley, Jack Lambert, Arthur Hunnicutt, James Arness, Snub Pollard, Victor Kilian, Chuck Courtney, Wilson Wood, Ralph Hodges, Polly Bailey, Adeline de Walt Reynolds, Norman Ollestad, Jr., Ben Watson, Jimmy Moss, Jessie Grayson, Philo McCullough, James Pierce, Buddy Roosevelt, Howard Mitchell, Tex Terry, Frank Pharr, Carl Petti, Helen Eby-Rock, Bill Clauson, Rhea Mitchell, Patricia Miller, Al Kundel, Jessie Arnold (voice), Marshall Thompson (narrator). A new minister comes to the pulpit in a rural community and finds he needs a gun to carry out his mission. Homey, episodic film about life in rural nineteenth century America; good viewing.

4130  Stars Over Arizona  Monogram, 1937. 62 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Jack Randall, Kathleen Eliot, Horace Murphy, Warner Richmond, Tom Herbert, Hal Price, Earl Dwire, Glenn Strange, Ernie Adams, Chick Hannon, Jack Rockwell, Forrest Taylor, Bob McKenzie, Sherry Tansey, Tex Palmer. A crooked town boss tries to stop a female rancher from selling her cattle and she is helped by a federal marshal sent to the area to halt lawlessness. Okay Jack Randall vehicle.

4131  Stars Over Texas  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 59 min. D: Robert Emmett Tansey. SC: Frances Kavanaugh. With Eddie Dean, Shirley Patterson, Roscoe Ates, Lee Bennett, Lee Roberts, Kermit Maynard, Jack O’Shea, Hal Smith, Matty Roubert, Carl Mathews, William Fawcett, Frank Ellis, Hal Smith, The Sunshine Boys (Eddie Wallace, J.D. Sumner, M.H. Richman, Freddie Daniel). Outlaws are murdering citizens and rustling cattle with area ranchers hiring a detective to stop them. Plot wise this Eddie Dean film is not much but it does include two of the star’s lovely compositions, the title song and “Sands of the Old Rio Grande,” the latter written with Glenn Strange. A remake of Driftin’ Kid (q.v.).

State Police see Whirlwind Raiders

4132  Station West  RKO Radio, 1948. 92 min. D: Sidney Lanfield. SC: Frank Fenton and Winston Miller. With Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives, Tom Powers, Steve Brodie, Joseph Sawyer, Gordon Oliver, Guinn Williams, Raymond Burr, Regis Toomey, Michael Steele, John Kellogg, Charles Middleton, John Doucette, Suzi Crandall, Robert Gates, Marie Thomas, Lomax Study, Robert Jefferson, Bill Phipps, Stanley Blystone, Monte Montague, Ethan Laidlaw, Joey Ray, Al Hill, Bud Osborne, Jimmy Aubrey, Jack Stoney, Leo McMahon. An Army officer works undercover to find out who is behind a series of hijackings that have led to murder. Fast paced action melodrama. Some prints run 80 minutes and there is also a colorized version.

Dick Powell, Joseph Sawyer and Agnes Moorehead in Station West (RKO Radio, 1948).

4133  Stay Away, Joe  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968. 101 min. Color. D: Peter Tewksbury. SC: Burt Kennedy and Michael A. Hoey. With Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Henry Jones, L.Q. Jones, Quentin Dean, Anne Seymour, Angus Duncan, Douglas Henderson, Michael Lane, Susan Trustman, Warren Vanders, Buck Kartalian, Maurishka, Caitlin Wyles, Marya Christian, Del “Sonny” West, Jennifer Peak, Brett Parker, Michael Keller, Dick Wilson, David Cadiente, Harry Harvey, Joe Esposito, Robert Lieb, The Jordanaires. A half-blood Cree Indian rodeo rider returns to the reservation to help his people with a government rehabilitation program to set them up as cattle ranchers. Pretty poor Elvis Presley film.

4134  Steel Cowboy  NBC-TV/EMI Television, 1978. 100 min. Color. D: Harvey Laidman. SC: Douglas Wheeler and Bill Kerby. With James Brolin, Jennifer Warren, Rip Torn, Melanie Griffith, Julie Cobb, Lou Frizzell, Strother Martin, Albert Popwell, John Dennis Johnston, Bob Schott, Don Calfa, Rudy Diaz, Bob Hoy, Scott Thompson, Larry Spaulding. Despite opposition from his wife, a trucker tries to save his rig by agreeing to haul stolen cattle for a pal. Mediocre TV movie.

4135  Stick to Your Guns  Paramount, 1941. 63 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Jacqueline (Jennifer) Holt, Dick Curtis, Weldon Heyburn, Henry Hall, Joe Whitehead, Bob Card, Jack C. Smith, Herb Holcombe, Tom London, Kermit Maynard, Frank Ellis, Jack Rockwell, The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Jimmy Wakely, Johnny Bond, Dick Reinhart), Ian MacDonald, Charles Middleton, Joe Whitehead, Jack C. Smith, Jack Trent, Homer Holcomb, Tom Ung, Mickey Eissa, Robert Kortman, Frank Mills, Robert Barron, Herman Hack, Charles Murphy, Lew Morphy, Roy Bucko, Silver Tip Baker. When a gang of rustlers proves elusive, Hopalong Cassidy takes on the guise of a wanted man in order to infiltrate them. Rather slow Hoppy series entry with William Boyd also playing gambler Tex Riley, a disguise he used earlier in Bar 20 Rides Again (q.v.).

4136  The Still Trumpet  CBS-TV/20th Century–Fox, 1957. 45 min. With Dale Robertson, Victor Jory, Regis Toomey, Carol Ohmart, Patrick McVey, James Griffith, Douglas Dick, Ed Kemmer, Grandon Rhodes, Dan Riss, Forrest Taylor, Paul McGuire, Tommy Farrell, William Challee, Jim Hayward, Morgan Jones, Jack Tornek, Abel Fernandez, Eddie Little Sky, John Conte (host). Indians threaten the denizens of a remote Western fort with imprisoned Confederate soldiers enlisted to protect them. Okay TV remake of Two Flags West (q.v.), originally telecast as a segment of “The 20th Century–Fox Hour” (CBS-TV, 1955–57) on April 3, 1957.

Sting of the West see Tedeum

Stolen Goods see Blue Steel

4137  Stone Fox  NBC-TV, 1987. 104 min. Color. D: Harvey Hart. SC: Walter Halsey Davis. With Buddy Ebsen, Joey Cramer, Belinda Montgomery, Gordon Tootoosis, Jason Michas, Charles Siegel, Nikky Jensen, Franklin Johnson, J.C. “Jim” Roberts, Joel Dacks, Gordon McIntosh, Larry Musser, Frank C. Turner, Jerry Wasserman, Sherry Wells, Dale Wilson, O.J. (dog). In order to help save his grandfather’s farm, an orphan boy competes in a dog sled race with a previously unbeaten Indian. TV family film is on the pale side.

4138  Stone of Silver Creek  Universal, 1935. 61 min. D: Nick Grinde. SC: Earle Snell. With Buck Jones, Noel Francis, Niles Welch, Murdock MacQuarrie, Marion Shilling, Peggy Campbell, Rodney Hildebrand, Harry Semels, Grady Sutton, Bob McKenzie, Lew Meehan, Frank Rice, Kernan Cripps, Eddie Gribbon, Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Patton, Hank Bell, Charles Brinley. A saloon owner gets religion but finds he is at odds with the town’s preacher over a pretty girl. A different kind of Buck Jones action film with touches of the type of fare William S. Hart did in the silent days, although not so austere.

4139  The Storm  Universal, 1930. 90 min. D: William Wyler. SC: Wells Root and Tom Reed. With Lupe Velez, Paul Cavanagh, William Boyd, Alphonse Ethier, Ernie Adams, Tom London, Nick Thompson, Erin La Bissoniere. Two war buddies fall in love with a girl who they get snowbound with in the wilds of Canada and the men become bitter enemies for her hand in marriage. Standard screen version of the 1919 Landgon McCormick novel with a well staged avalanche sequence; first filmed in 1922 by Universal with Matt Moore, House Peters and Virginia Valli.

4140  Storm Over Wyoming  RKO Radio, 1950. 60 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Noreen Nash, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Betty Underwood, Kenneth MacDonald, Leo McMahon, Bill Kennedy, Holly Bane, Don Haggerty, Richard Kean. A dishonest ovine ranch foreman causes trouble between cattlemen and sheep herders. Despite more than adequate production values, this Tim Holt vehicle is only average.

4141  The Storm Rider  20th Century–Fox, 1957. 70 min. D: Edward Bernds. SC: Edward Bernds and Don Martin. With Scott Brady, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, John Goddard, William Fawcett, Roy Engel, George Keymas, Olin Howlin, Hank Patterson, James Dobson, John Close, Jim Hayward, Rocky Shahan, Frank Richards, Rick Vallin, Lane Chandler, Tom London, I. Stanford Jolley, Britt Wood, John Cason, Bud Osborne, Al Baffert, Ron Foster, Jean Ann Lewis, Wayne Mallory, Cortland Shepard, Rocky Lundy. A big rancher, in order to stop competition, hires a vicious gunman while the Cattle Association sends an agent to help those being attacked. Moody and fairly action filled oater highlighted by Byrdon Baker’s photography; it contains an especially good early sequence of the agent riding into town during a dust storm.

Storm Rider (1972) see The Grand Duel

4142  Stormy  Universal, 1935. 68 min. D: Louis Friedlander (Lew Landers). SC: George Plympton and Ben Grauman Kohn. With Noah Beery, Jr., Jean Rogers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Raymond Hatton, Walter Miller, Fred Kohler, Harry Woods, James P. Burtis, The Arizona Wranglers (Charles Hunter, L.F. Costello, Cal Short, John Jackson, Glenn Strange, Johnny Luther), Bud Osborne, Kenny Cooper, James Phillips, Jack Sanders, Cecil Kellogg, Jack Shannon, Robert E. Homans, Wilfred Lucas, Samuel R. McDaniel, Eddie (Edmund) Cobb, Charles Murphy, James Welch, Shirley Marks, Chester Gan, William Welsh, Jack Leonard, Monte Montague, W.H. Davis, Rex (horse). A young man searches for a beautiful stallion lost during a train wreck and ends up saving a herd of wild horses. Well made and entertaining action drama.

4143  Stormy Trails  Colony/Grand National, 1937. 59 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Phil Dunham. With Rex Bell, Lois Wilde, Bob Hodges, Lane Chandler, Earl Dwire, Lloyd Ingraham, Karl Hackett, Earle Ross, Murdock MacQuarrie, Jimmy Aubrey, Roger Williams, George Morrell. Two brothers own a ranch with a mortgage and bad men are after the land for the gold it contains. Low grade production with a complicated plot and some fast action.

4144  Straight Shooter  Victory, 1939. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Basil Dickey and Joseph O’Donnell. With Tim McCoy, Julie Sheldon, Ben Corbett, Forrest Taylor, Carl Mathews, Ted Adams, Budd Buster, Reed Howes, Wally West, Jack Ingram, Dan White, George Morrell. A lawman pretends to be a rancher trying to buy property where he suspects an outlaw gang has hidden stolen loot. This “Lightning Bill Carson” outing is not one of Tim McCoy’s best, mainly due to budget limitations.

4145  Straight Shooting  Universal/Butterfly, 1917. 53 min. D: Jack (John) Ford. SC: George Hively. With Harry Carey, Molly Malone, Duke R. Lee, Vester Pegg, Hoot Gibson, George Berrell, Ted Brooks, Milt Brown. Cattlemen hire an outlaw to help them in their fight with settlers but he soon changes sides due to the brutality of his employers and the love of a nester girl. John Ford’s first feature film is crude and simplistic by today’s standards but it is still well worth viewing. Reissued in two reels in 1925 and called Straight Shooting. Also known as Joan of Cattle Country.

4146  Straight to Hell  Initial Pictures, 1987. 86 min. Color. D: Alex Cox. SC: Alex Cox and Dick Rude. With Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love, Elvis Costello, Grace Jones, Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Bill Yeager, Sara Sugarman, Jim Jarmusch, Zander Schloss, Juan Torres, The Pogues. Bank robbers bury money they stole in a holdup and end up in a town where they eventually have a showdown with a mysterious stranger. Mixed up take off of Spaghetti Westerns not likely to appeal to genre fans.

4147  Strange Gamble  United Artists, 1948. 61 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: J. Benton Cheney, Bennett Cohen and Ande Lamb. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, Francis McDonald, Paul Fix, William F. Leicester, Joan Barton, James Craven, Joel Friedkin, Herbert Rawlinson, Robert B. Williams, Alberto Morin, Lee Tung Foo, Dewey Robinson, George Sowards. The government hires Hopalong Cassidy and his pals to investigate the appearance of counterfeit money in a border town. Turgid final “Hopalong Cassidy” series entry.

4148  Strange Lady in Town  Warner Bros., 1955. 112 min. Color. D: Mervyn LeRoy. SC: Frank Butler. With Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Joan Camden, Jose Torvay, Adele Jergens, Robert Wilke, Frank De Kova, Russell Johnson, Gregory Walcott, Douglas Kennedy, Ralph Moody, Nick Adams, Jack Williams, The Trianas. A woman doctor arrives in Santa Fe in 1879 to find her brother is an outlaw. Overlong and none-too-successful vehicle for Greer Garson; Frankie Laine sings the title song.

4149  The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie  20th Century–Fox, 1972. 107 min. Color. D: Jack Starrett. SC: Anthony Greville-Bell and John Kohn. With Bonnie Bedelia, Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe. A young Indian girl forces a traveling salesman to keep her company in an isolated New Mexico desert home until they are terrorized by a crazed biker. Offbeat, but unappealing, melodrama.

4150  The Stranger and the Gunfighter  Columbia, 1976. 107 min. Color. D: Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti). SC: Barth Jules Sussman. With Lee Van Cleef, Lo Lieh, Julian Ugarte, Patty Shepard, Karen Yeh, Femi Benussi, Erika Blanc, George Rigaud, Richard Palacios, Goyo (Gregorio) Peralta, Al Tung, Alfred Boreman, Bart Barry, Paul Costello. In order to obtain a fortune once belonging to a Chinese war lord, a gunman joins forces with a kung fu expert as they search for clues tattooed on the backsides of four comely young ladies. Elaborate genre put-on is lots of fun for Spaghetti Western fans. Video title: Blood Money—Stranger and the Gunfighter.

4151  Stranger at My Door  Republic, 1956. 85 min. D: Willian Witney. SC: Barry Shipman. With Macdonald Carey, Patricia Media, Skip Homeier, Stephen Wootton, Louis Jean Heydt, Howard Wright, Slim Pickens, Fred Sherman, Malcolm Atterbury, Virginia Carroll, Helen Wallace, Nancy Howard, Bernadette Withers, Paul E. Burns, Tom Black, Peter Brocco, Penny Carpenter. A minister trying to help an outlaw ends up putting his family in danger. Good, upbeat drama with an especially find performance by Macdonald Carey as the preacher.

4152  The Stranger from Arizona  Columbia, 1938. 60 min. D: Elmer Clifton. SC: Monroe Shaff. With Buck Jones, Dorothy Fay, Hank Mann, Roy Barcroft, Hank Worden, Bob Terry, Horace Murphy, Budd Buster, Dot Farley, Stanley Blystone, Ralph Peters, Horace B. Carpenter, Walter Anthony. A fast talking cowpoke is really a railroad detective looking into a series of robberies and killings. Although well done, this Buck Jones film is not up to his usual standards.

4153  The Stranger from Pecos  Monogram, 1943. 58 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Kirby Grant, Christine McIntyre, Steve Clark, Sam Flint, Roy Barcroft, Robert Frazer, Edmund Cobb, Charles King, Bud Osborne, Artie Ortego, Tom London, Kermit Maynard, Milburn Morante, Lynton Brent, Carol Henry, George Morrell, Frosty Royce, Herman Hack, Chick Hannon, Lew Morphy, Roy Bucko, Ralph Bucko. Helping to investigate a series of robberies, two lawmen discover the local sheriff and banker are the culprits. This second “Nevada Jack McKenzie” outing is action filled.

4154  The Stranger from Ponca City  Columbia, 1947. 56 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Hunter, Paul Campbell, Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys, Harmonica Bill (William Russell), Jim Diehl, Forrest Taylor, Ted Mapes, Jacques O’Mahoney (Jock Mahoney), Tom McDonough, John Carpenter, Charles Hamilton, Ted Wells, Herman Hack, Bud Osborne, Kermit Maynard, Roy Butler. A cowboy arrives in a community torn between peaceful and lawless elements. Fair “Durango Kid” series segment.

4155  Stranger from Santa Fe  Monogram, 1945. 56 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Frank Young. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Beatrice Gray, Lewis Hart, Jack Ingram, Jimmie Martin, Bud Osborne, Tom Quinn, Hal Price, Steve Clark, Jack Rockwell, Eddie Parker, Joann Curtis, John Merton, Dick Dickinson, Ray Elder, Louis Hart, Henry Wills, Horace B. Carpenter. Impersonating a cowpoke, a lawman is forced by an outlaw gang to take part in a stage holdup and is framed for a guard’s murder. A good script enhances this “Nevada Jack McKenzie” film.

4156  The Stranger from Texas  Columbia, 1939. 54 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Paul Franklin. With Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray, Richard Fiske, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Dick Curtis, Edmund Cobb, Alan Bridge, Jack Rockwell, Hal Taliaferro, Art Mix, Ed LeSaint, George Chesebro, Buel Bryant, Frank Ellis, Richard Botiller, Edward Hearn, Ethan Allen. A rancher’s son, a lawman working incognito, tries to find who is behind a series of fence cuttings and cattle rustling with a neighbor blaming his father. Passable remake of an earlier Charles Starrett feature, The Mysterious Avenger (q.v.).

4157  Stranger in Japan  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968. 90 min. Color. D: Vance Lewis (Luigi Vanzi). SC: Tony Anthony, Giancarlo Fernando and Vincenzo Cerami. With Tony Anthony, Lloyd Battista, Kim Omae, Rita Maura, Kanki Ohara, Raf Baldassare, Oshio Nukano, William Conroy. A mysterious gunman travels to Japan in an attempt to obtain a huge gold consignment. Star and co-author Tony Anthony’s third “Stranger” feature, preceded by Stranger in Town and The Stranger Returns (qq.v.), is somewhat confusing after having been edited for 1975 stateside showings, seven years after its European release as Lo Straniero de Silenzio (The Silent Stranger).

4158  Stranger in Town  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968. 86 min. Color. D: Vance Lewis (Luigi Vanzi). SC: Warren Garfield. With Tony Anthony, Frank Wolff, Iolenda Modio, Gia Sandri, Raf Baldassare, Aldo Berti, Antonio Marsina, Enrico Capoleoni, Arturo Corso. A mystical loner is double crossed by a ruthless bandit over a stolen gold shipment and seeks revenge. Empty and violent Italian Western, but one of the few of its ilk that made money in the U.S.; issued in Italy in 1966 by Primex–Italiana as Un Dollaro Tia I Denti (A Dollar Between the Teeth). Followed by The Stranger Returns and Stranger in Japan (q.v.).

4159  A Stranger in Town  National Educational Television, 1969. 90 min. Color. D: Earl J. Miller. SC: Robert Angus. With Lon Chaney, Jimmy Miller, Chuy Sanchez, Lance Roselle, Scott Smith, Anne McAdams, Bob Harris, Bud Breen, Happy Shahan, Sieker Fisher, Anges Vonde, Anna de la Garza, Edmundo Trevino, Jack Carney, Ron Walker, Roy Langston, Buck McCulley, Stan Schooler, Nakai. Two young boys befriend a doctor acquitted in the killing of his wife but believed guilty by the townspeople. Above average TV film produced by Southwest Texas Educational Television Council and filmed at Alamo Village in Brackettville, Texas; also called The Children’s West.

4160  Stranger on Horseback  United Artists, 1955. 66 min. Color. D: Jacques Tourneur. SC: Herb Meadow and Don Martin. With Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, Nancy Gates, John Carradine, Emile Meyer, Robert Cornthwaite, James Bell, Jaclynne Greene. A circuit rider judge goes to a town to restore law and order and arrests the son of a local cattle baron on a murder charge. Entertaining, compact feature with good work by Joel McCrea as the peacemaker.

4161  Stranger on the Run  NBC-TV/Universal, 1967. 97 min. Color. D: Donald Siegel. SC: Dean Riesner. With Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Dan Duryea, Michael Parks, Sal Mineo, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Burns, Tom Reese, Bernie Hamilton, Madlyn Rhue, Zalman King, Walter Burke, Rodolfo Acosta, George Dunn, Pepe Hern. A drifter, taking a message from a prisoner to his sister, is falsely accused of murder and chased into the desert by a sheriff and his posse. Don Siegel followers will like this TV movie but others will find it nothing special.

4162  The Stranger Returns  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968. 90 min. Color. D: Vance Lewis (Luigi Vanzi). SC: Bob Ensescalle, Jr. and Jone Maug. With Tony Anthony, Dan Vadis, Daniele Vargas, Marc Guglielmi, Jill Banner, Ettore Manni, Marina Berti, Ralf Baldassare, Anthony Freeman, Luciano Catenacci. A mysterious stranger finds a murdered postal inspector and impersonates him in order to track an outlaw band who stole a gold plated stagecoach. Star Tony Anthony wrote the story for the violence-for-violence’s sake oater, a sequel to Stranger in Town (q.v.) and followed by Stranger in Japan (q.v .). Issued in Italy by Primex/Juventus/Reverse as Un Uomo, un Cavallo, una Pistola (A Man, a Horse and a Pistol).

4163  The Stranger Wore a Gun  Columbia, 1953. 83 min. Color. D: Andre De Toth. SC: Kenneth Gamet. SC: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Clem Bevans, Roscoe Ates, Ernest Borgnine, Pierre Watkin, Joseph Vitale, Paul Maxey, Frank Scannell, Reed Howes, Edward Earle, Guy Wilkerson, Mary Newton, Franklyn Farnum, Barry Brooks, Tap Canutt, Al Haskell, Frank Hagney, Frank Ellis, Francis McDonald, Al Hill, Terry Frost, Herbert Rawlinson, Britt Wood, James Millican, Jack Woody, Rayford Barnes, Edith Evanson, Guy Teague. After his life is saved by an outlaw, a stage line employee must choose between loyalty to his benefactor and his job when the bandit plans to rob a gold shipment. An interesting script and good production values, plus a fine cast, help this Randolph Scott film add up to good entertainment.

4164  Strangers at Sunrise  Commonwealth United, 1971. 91 min. Color. D: Percival Roberts. SC: Lee Marcus and Percival Roberts. With George Montgomery, Deanna Martin, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Tromp Terreblanche, Beryl Gresak, Simon Sabela, Avron Pearson, Roland Robinson, Helen Braithwaite, Bess Finney. A fugitive American mining engineer in South Africa during the Boer War tries to help a family threatened by three British Army deserters. George Montgomery is quite good in the lead in this well made and enjoyable South African production.

Stranger’s Gold see Have a Good Funeral My Friend

The Stranger’s Gundown see Django the Avenger

4165  The Strawberry Roan  Universal, 1933. 60 min. D: Alan James. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Ken Maynard, Ruth Hall, Harold Goodwin, Frank Yaconelli, Charles King, William Desmond, James Marcus, Jack Rockwell, Robert Walker, Ben Corbett, Art Mix, Bill Patton, Bud McClure. A cowboy defends a beautiful stallion accused of horse rustling, an activity being carried out by a local citizen. This film is said to have been Ken Maynard’s personal favorite and it is easy to understand why as it is full of action, music and good humor.

4166  The Strawberry Roan  Columbia, 1948. 79 min. Color. D: John English. SC: Dwight Cummings and Dorothy Yost. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gloria Henry, Jack Holt, Dick Jones, Rufe Davis, Eddy Waller, John McGuire, Redd Harper, Jack Ingram, Ted Mapes, Eddie Parker, Sam Flint. A horse breaker tries to protect one of his stock from being killed by a ranch owner whose son was injured by the animal. One of Gene Autry’s best Columbia outings.

4167  Streets of Ghost Town  Columbia, 1950. 54 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Mary Ellen Kay, Ozie Waters and His Colorado Rangers, George Chesebro, Stanley Andrews, Frank Fenton, John Cason, Little Brown Jug (Don Kay Reynolds), Jack Ingram, Nolan Leary, Robert Kortman, Emmett Lynn, Doris Houck, Dick Rush, John Tyrrell. Three lawmen come to a deserted community to investigate a series of mysterious happenings caused by a blind outlaw using his young nephew to help him find the stolen loot he once hit there. The mystery element adds some life to this “Durango Kid” effort, but it is a tattered affair, made up of footage from several other series entries, including Gunning for Vengeance and Landrush (qq.v.).

4168  Streets of Laredo  Paramount, 1948. 92 min. Color. D: Leslie Fenton. SC: Charles Stevens and Elizabeth Hill. With William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, William Bendix, Stanley Ridges, Alfonso Bedoya, Ray Teal, Clem Bevans, James Bell, Dick Foote, Joe Dominguez, Grandon Rhodes, Perry Ivins, James Davies, Robert Kortman, Byron Foulger, Wade Crosby, Carl Andre, Hank Worden, Julian Rivero, Alex Montoya, Marguerite Martin, Frank Cordell, Frank Hagney, Pat Lane, Joaquin Elizondo, Mike Lally, William Hamel. Two outlaws join the Texas Rangers after being converted to the side of the law and are forced to hunt down their ex-partner. Mediocre remake of The Texas Rangers (q.v.).

4169  Streets of Laredo  CBS-TV, 1995. 300 min. Color. D: Joseph Sargent. SC: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. With James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty, Randy Quaid, Wes Studi, Charles Martin Smith, George Carlin, Alexis Cruz, Kevin Conway, James Gammon, Tristan Tait, Sonja Braga, Miriam Colon, Anjanette Comer, David S. Cass, Sr., James Victor, Doran Atherton, Rutherford Cravens, Stephen Bridgewater, Emily Courtney, Helen Cates, Wally Welch, Cameron Finley, Christopher Wagner, Weasel Forshaw, Tony Frank, Angelina Calderon Torres, Billy Tolson, Bill Gribble, Joe Stevens, Joanna Sanchez, Roland Rodriguez, Kirk Griffith, Karen Jones, Nik Hagler, William Hardy, Peyton Park, Lidia Porto, Lanell Pena, Jill Parker-Jones, Frederick Lopez, Richard Nace, Renee Olstead, Richard Norsworthy, Frank Q. Dobbs, Bunk Duncan, John L. Martin, Vanessa Martinez. Two retired Texas Rangers are hired to bring in a sadistic teenage killer whose mother was once involved with one of them. Fast moving, well done TV mini-series which Larry McMurtry co-adapted from his novel.

4170  Strictly in the Groove  Universal, 1943. 60 min. D: Vernon Keays. SC: Kenneth Higgins and Warren Wilson. With Richard Davies, Mary Healy, Leon Errol, Franklin Pangborn, Ozzie Nelson, Jimmie Davis, The Dinning Sisters, The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Jimmy Wakely, Johnny Bond, Eddie Snyder), Diamond’s Solid-Aires, Russell Hicks, Martha Tilton, Shemp Howard, Grace MacDonald, Eddie Johnson, Charles Lang, Holmes Herbert, Tim Ryan, Ralph Dunn, Ken Stevens, Lloyd Ingraham, Neeley Edwards, Frances Morris, Drew Demarest, Grace Lenard, Jim Lucas, Joey Ray, Francis Sayles, Jack Gardner. When a man refuses to join his father in the restaurant business and instead forms a band, the old man banishes him to a Western dude ranch. Fair Universal program musical Western, mainly of interest because of its vocalists and songs like “You Are My Sunshine,” “Chisholm Trail,” “Happy Cowboy,” etc.

4171  Strike It Rich  Allied Artists, 1949. 81 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Francis Rosenwald. With Rod Cameron, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Stuart Erwin, Lloyd Corrigan, Ellen Corby, Emory Parnell, Harry Tyler, Virginia Dale, William Haade, Edward Gargan, Robert Dudley. Two Texas drillers make a big strike and then fight the law limiting the amount of oil they can produce. Action filled, well directed comedy drama produced by Jack Wrather.

4172  Strike Me Deadly  Medallion, 1963. 81 min. D: Herbert L. Strock. SC: Steve Ihnat and Ted V. Mikels. With Gary Clarke, Jeannine Riley, Steve Ihnat, Gordon Mauser. A forest ranger and his young bride are stalked by a man who has murdered a hunter, with the three getting caught in an out-of-control fire. Low budget but fast paced drama, produced, co-written and edited by Ted V. Mikels.

4173  Strong Medicine  NBC-TV, 1956. 54 min. D: Walter Grauman. SC: William Mourne. With Patrick O’Neal, Mary Webster, Myron Healey, Joe Maross, John Conte (host). An Easterner has trouble taking possession of a ranch he inherited. Fair telefeature first shown as a segment of “Matinee Theatre” (NBC-TV, 1955–58) on December 28, 1956.

4174  Strongheart  Biograph, 1914. 45 min. D: James Kirkwood. SC: Frank E. Woods. With Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Gertrude Robinson, Tom McEvoy, William J. Butler, W.C. Robinson, Jack Mulhall, James Kirkwood. An Indian brave saves a man’s life and the latter’s sister falls in love with him. Supervised by D.W. Griffith, this silent melodrama is quite entertaining, especially for its stars; adapted from William C. DeMille’s play.

4175  Stronghold  Lippert, 1952. 72 min. D: Steve Sekeley. SC: Wells Root. With Veronica Lake, Zachary Scott, Arturo de Cordova, Rita Lacedo, Alfonso Bedoya, Yadiro Jiminez, Fanny Schiller, Gilberto Gonzales, Carlos Muzquiz. The pretty owner of several Mexican silver properties is kidnapped by a bandit leader and she soon warms to his cause but her dishonest foreman plans to dynamite the mines to insure the rebel’s capture. The trio of stars do a lot to keep this low budget action item moving.

4176  Su Precio...Unos Dolares (His Cost...One Dollar)  Radaent Films, 1970. 85 min. Color. D-SC: Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Dagoberto Rodriguez, Sonia Furio, Jorge Russek, Mario Almada, Rafael Baledon, Juan Gallardo, Jose L. Murillo, Manuel Donde, Mario Cid, Victorio Blanco, Julian Bravo, Hernando Name, Juan Garza. A dance hall girl seduces a banker to get information about a gold shipment and passes it along to her boyfriend and his outlaw gang not knowing the money is protected by Texas Rangers. Action filled Mexican Western.

4177  Sucedio en Jalisco (It Happened in Jalisco)  Radaent Films, 1972. 90 min. Color. D-SC: Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Patricia Aspillaga, Hector Suarez, Alicia Bonet, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Juan Gallardo, Julio Almada, Jorge Lavat, Pancho Cordova, Pascual Garcia Pena, Consuelo Frank, Federico Falcon, Tito Novaro, Jose L. Murillo, Cecilia Leger, Bernardina Green, Luciano Hernandez de la Vega. A doctor returns to his village during the Mexican Revolution and falls in love with a rancher’s beautiful daughter, causing a cowboy to become jealous of him. Well done romantic drama from prolific Mexican filmmaker Raul de Anda.

4178  Sudden Bill Dorn  Universal, 1938. 60 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Frances Guihan. With Buck Jones, Evelyn Brent, Noel Francis, Frank McGlynn, Harold Hodge, Ted Adams, William Lawrence, Lee Phelps, Tom Chatterton, Carlos Valdez, Ezra Pallette, Red Hightower, Charles LeMoyne, Adolph Milar. A cowboy gets on the trail of crooks who arrive in a small town after the discovery of gold. Buck Jones produced his fair action film made at the close of his Universal tenure.

Sudden Death see Fast on the Draw

4179  Sugarfoot  Warner Bros., 1951. 80 min. Color. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Russell Hughes. With Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey, Adele Jergens, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Warwick, Gene Evans, Hugh Sanders, Hope Landin, Hank Worden, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edward Hearn, John Hamilton, Cliff Clark, Kenneth MacDonald, Dan White, Paul Newlan, Philo McCullough, Ben Corbett. A former Confederate officer tries to settle down peacefully as a rancher in Arizona but soon find he is the sworn enemy of a local crook, a one time rival. Fast paced Randolph Scott vehicle. TV title: A Swirl of Glory.

4180  The Sugarland Express  Universal, 1974. 109 min. Color. D: Steven Spielberg. SC: Hal Barwood and Matthew Boulton. With Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott, Harrison Zanuck, Steve Kanaly, Louise Latham, A.L. Camp, Jessie Lee Fuller, Dean Smith, Ted Grossman, Bill Thurman, Kenneth Hudgins, Buster Daniels, Jim Harrell, Frank Steggal, Roger Ernest, Gene Rader, Gordon Hurst, George Hagy, John Hamilton. A police official leads a chase across Texas in 1968 after a fugitive couple who have escaped from prison to locate their small daughter who has been adopted. Overrated thriller, although Ben Johnson is good as the lawman.

4181  Sun Valley Cyclone  Republic, 1946. 56 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Earle Snell. With Wild Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Roy Barcroft, Monte Hale, Kenne Duncan, Eddy Waller, Tom London, Edmund Cobb, Ed Cassidy, George Chesebro, Rex Lease, Hal Price, Jack Kirk, Frank O’Connor, Jack Sparks, Jack Rockwell, Horace B. Carpenter, Bob Burns, Silver Tip Baker, Tommy Coats, Tom Steele, LeRoy Mason (voice). An outlaw gang is stealing horses intended for the Army and Red Ryder tries to stop them. Well written and paced series entry.

4182  Sundance and the Kid  Hisperia/Ultra Film, 1969. 78 min. D: Duccio Tessari. SC: Ennio Flaiano. With Giuliano Gemma, Nino Benvenuti, Sydne Rome, Julia Pena, Antonio Casas, Cris Huerta, George Rigaud, Dan Van Husen, Luis Barboo, Victor Israel, Vicente Roca, Juan Olaquivel, Arthuro Pallandino, Brizio Montinaro. In order to inherit $300,000, two brothers with opposite personalities must live together for six months, but both are soon attracted to the same girl. Fairly amusing Spaghetti Western comedy co-starring two time world’s middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti; released in Italy as Vivi o, Preferibilmente, Morti (Alive or Preferably Dead) and also called Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid. Originally running 103 minutes, it was badly cut for U.S. video release.

Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid see Sundance and the Kid

Sundown Fury see Jesse James Jr.

4183  Sundown in Santa Fe  Republic, 1948. 60 min. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, Jean Dean, Russell Simpson, Minerva Urecal, Rand Brooks, Trevor Bardette, Lane Bradford, Joseph Crehan, Kenne Duncan, Robert Wilke. An Army intelligence agent tries to find out who is the leader of an outlaw band. Fairly interesting “Famous Westerns” outing with a good plot making it above average.

4184  Sundown Jim  20th Century–Fox, 1942. 58 min. D: James Tinling. SC: Robert F. Metzler and William Bruckner. With John Kimbrough, Virginia Gilmore, Arleen Whelan, Moroni Olsen, Paul Hurst, Cliff Edwards, Joseph Sawyer, Don Costello, Tom Fadden, Frank McGrath, LeRoy Mason, James Bush, Lane Chandler, Charles Tannen, Paul Sutton, Eddy Waller, Glenn Strange, Syd Saylor, Frank McCarroll, Kermit Maynard. A new sheriff learns the town’s citizens do not support him when he attempts to bring a land baron to justice after his gang commits murder. There is nothing special about John Kimbrough’s second, and last, Western.

4185  The Sundown Kid  Republic, 1942. 55 min. D: Elmer Clifton. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Don “Red” Barry, Linda Johnson, Ian Keith, Helen MacKellar, Emmett Lynn, Wade Crosby, Robert Kortman, Ted Adams, Kenne Duncan, Bud Geary, Fern Emmett, Kenneth Harlan, Jack Ingram, Jack Rockwell, Joe McGuinn, Cactus Mack. A Pinkerton agent teams with a pretty newspaper reporter to oppose a gang of counterfeiters. Engaging Don Barry series feature.

4186  Sundown on the Prairie  Monogram, 1939. 53 min. D: Al Herman. SC: William Nolte and Edmund Kelso. With Tex Ritter, Dorothy Fay, Horace Murphy, Hank Worden, Charles King, Dave O’Brien, Karl Hackett, Bob Terry, Frank LaRue, Ed Peil, Sr., Bud Osborne. When rustlers run rampant in the area around Santa Fe, two government men are sent to stop them. Fair Tex Ritter action songfest. British title: Prairie Sundown.

4187  The Sundown Rider  Columbia, 1933. 56 min. D-SC: Lambert Hillyer. With Buck Jones, Barbara Weeks, Wheeler Oakman, Pat O’Malley, Niles Welch, Bradley Page, Frank LaRue, Ward Bond, Ed Brady, Harry Todd, George Chesebro, Glenn Strange, Richard Alexander, Jack Kirk, Arthur Wanzer. A cowboy falsely accused of rustling uncovers a plot by crooks to steal a woman’s ranch because it contains oil deposits. Really good Buck Jones feature, well written and helmed by Lambert Hillyer, one of the most underrated of film directors.

4188  Sundown Riders  Film Enterprises, 1948. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Rodney J. Graham. With Russell Wade, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Evelyn Finley, Marshall Reed, Jack Ingram, Steve Clark, Hal Price, Ted Mapes, Bud Osborne, Ted Wells, Henry Wills, Cliff Parkinson, Cactus Mack, Chief Many Treaties. A trio of cowpokes get involved with an outlaw gang and end up nearly being hanged. Okay action feature filmed in 16mm in 1944 for non-theatrical release and issued four years later.

4189  Sundown Saunders  Supreme, 1936. 64 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Bob Steele, Catherine Cotter, Earl Dwire, Milburn Morante, Ed Cassidy, Jack Rockwell, Frank Ball, Hal Price, Charles King, Horace Murphy, Edmund Cobb, Robert McKenzie, Jack Kirk, Herman Hack. After winning a big horse race a cowboy ends up with a ranch but crooks try to cheat him out of it. Action filled Bob Steele vehicle.

4190  Sundown Trail  RKO Pathé, 1931. 55 min. D-SC: Robert Hill. With Tom Keene, Marion Shilling, Nick Stuart, Hooper Atchley, Louise Beavers, Stanley Blystone, William Welsh, Murdock MacQuarrie, Alma Chester, William Gillis, Ben Corbett, Tommy Coats, Slim Whitaker, Jim Corey, Hank Bell, Blackjack Ward, Bill Nestell, Bud McClure, Bob Burns, Buck Moulton, Fred Burns, Bob Card, Ralph bucko, Roy Bucko, Rose Plummer, Tiny Jones. A cowpoke and a crook are at odds over the same pretty girl. Tom Keene’s first series film is a good one.

4191  Sundown Valley  Columbia, 1944. 55 min. D: Benjamin Kline. SC: Luci Ward. With Charles Starrett, Dub Taylor, Jeanne Bates, Jimmy Wakely and His Saddle Pals, Clancy Cooper, Jessie Arnold, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Ingram, Forrest Taylor, Joel Friedkin, Grace Lenard, Eddie Laughton, The Tennessee Ramblers, Ted Mapes, Blackie Whiteford. A war hero wants to close a gambling den in his town because its owners are causing absenteeism at the local gun manufacturing plant. Fairly good Charles Starrett yarn with a different kind of plot, one geared to World War II audiences.

4192  The Sundowners  Warner Bros., 1960. 141 min. Color. D: Fred Zinneman. SC: Isobel Lennart. With Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Chips Rafferty, Michael Anderson, Jr., Lola Brooks, Wylie Watson, John Meillon, Ronald Fraser, Mervyn Johns, Molly Urquhart, Ewen Solon. An Australian sheepherder must choose between his penchant for wanderlust and the love of his wife and son. Excellent on-location filming of John Cleary’s novel with a magnificent performance by Robert Mitchum as the sheep man, Paddy Carmody.

4193  Sunrise Trail  Tiffany, 1931. 65 min. D: J.P. McCarthy. SC: Wellyn Totman. With Bob Steele, Blanche Mehaffey, Jack Clifford, Richard Alexander, Eddie Dunn, Fred Burns, Germaine De Neel, Jimmy Aubrey, Emilio Fernandez, William Gould, Curley Baldwin, Carlton Griffin, Wally West, George Hazel, Jack Richardson, Harry Allen. A cowboy, secretly working for the local sheriff, pretends to be a gunman to expose a rustling gang. Pretty good Bob Steele early talkie.

4194  Sunscorched  Creole/Production Cinema, 1964. 77 min. Color. D: Mark Stevens. SC: Mark Stevens and Irving Dennis. With Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, Mario Adorf, Vivien Dobbs, Albert Bessler, Antonio Iranzo, Frank Oliveras, Oscar Pellicer. Four outlaws terrorize a town where the sheriff, once a member of their gang, is helpless in stopping them. West German made oater, directed and co-written by star Mark Stevens, is a well made action affair, originally called Vergeltung in Catano (Retaliation in Catano).

4195  Sunset  TriStar, 1988. 102 min. Color. D-SC: Blake Edwards. With Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Patricia Hodge, Richard Bradford, M. Emmett Walsh, Joe Dallesandro, Andreas Katsulas, Dann Florek, Bill Marcus, Michael C. Gwynne, Dermot Mulroney, Miranda Garrison, Liz Torres, Castulo Guerra, Dakin Mathews, Vernon Wells, Dennis Rucker, John Dennis Johnston, Kenny Call, Jack Garner, Jerry Tullos, Steem Tanney, Peter Jason, Richard Fancy, Glenn Shadix, Jon Van Ness, Randy Bowers, Maureen Teely, Arnold Johnson, Rod McCary, John Fountain, F. William Parker. While working as an advisor on a movie about his life, famed lawman Wyatt Earp teams with star Tom Mix to investigate a murder. Pleasant, nostalgic Western mystery from Rod Amateau’s story.

4196  Sunset Carson Rides Again  Astor, 1948. 63 min. Color. D: Oliver Drake. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Sunset Carson, Pat Starling, Al Terry, Bob (John) Cason, Dan White, Pat Gleason, Steven Keyes, Ron Ormond, Bob Curtis, Joe Hiser, Forrest Matthews, The Rodeo Revelers. A cowboy’s ranch partner is the secret head of an outlaw gang trying to cheat him out of his spread and the steal money he raised for a new school. Sunset Carson’s first film for Astor is bottom rung, mainly due to a limited budget.

4197  Sunset in El Dorado  Republic, 1945. 65 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: John K. Butler. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Dale Evans, Hardie Albright, Margaret Dumont, Roy Barcroft, Tom London, Hal Price, Robert Wilke, Ed Cassidy, Dorothy Granger, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Ken Carson, Shug Fisher, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Edmund Cobb, Hank Bell, Jack Kirk, Gino Corrado, Frank Ellis, Tex Cooper, Tex Terry, Bud Osborne, Bert Moorhouse, Joe McGuinn, Bob Reeves. The granddaughter of a famous saloon singer dreams of how her ancestor threw over a crooked partner for a cowboy framed for murder. Only fair, with too many musical numbers.

4198  Sunset in the West  Republic, 1950. 67 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Estelita Rodriguez, Gordon Jones, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Will Wright, Pierre Watkin, Charles La Torre, William Tannen, Gaylord (Steve) Pendleton, Paul E. Burns. An outlaw gang is wrecking trains as they smuggle weapons out of the country and Roy Rogers tries to help an elderly sheriff stop them. There is lots of action and good fun in this Roy Rogers songfest.

4199  Sunset in Wyoming  Republic, 1941. 65 min. D: William Morgan. SC: Ivan Goff and Anne Morrison Chapin. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maris Wrixon, George Cleveland, Robert Kent, Sarah Edwards, Monte Blue, Dick Elliott, John Dilson, Stanley Blystone, Earle Hodgins, Eddie Dean, Reed Howes, Fred Burns, Ralph Peters, Syd Saylor, Tex Terry, Lloyd Whitlock, Herman Hack, Bob Woodward. Gene Autry attempts to get a mountain converted into a state park after a lumber company cuts too much timber, causing floods. Good Gene Autry film with nice scenery and photography.

4200  The Sunset Legion  Paramount, 1928. 70 min. D: Lloyd Ingraham and Alfred L. Werker. SC: Frank M. Clifton and Garrett Graham. With Fred Thompson, Edna Murphy, William Courtright, Harry Woods, Slim Whitaker. In order to capture an outlaw gang a Texas Ranger takes on the guise of a masked man as well as a gun peddler. Entertaining Fred Thompson silent opus with his horse Silver King in dual roles!

4201  Sunset of Power  Universal, 1936. 66 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Earle Snell. With Buck Jones, Dorothy Dix, Charles Middleton, Donald Kirke, Charles King, Ben Corbett, William Lawrence, Joe de la Cruz, Nina Campana, Murdock MacQuarrie, Allan Sears, Glenn Strange, Monty Vandergrift, Eumenco Blanco. A ranch foreman tries to find out who is stealing a rancher’s cattle while romancing the granddaughter of his boss, who resents his only grandchild being female. Interesting and well made Buck Jones vehicle.

4202  Sunset on the Desert  Republic, 1942. 63 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Lynne Carver, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Frank M. Thomas, Beryl Wallace, Glenn Strange, Douglas Fowley, Fred Burns, Roy Barcroft, Henry Wills, Forrest Taylor, Bob Woodward, Ed Cassidy, Cactus Mack. When a group of wicked land grabbers try to take over Roy Rogers’ hometown, he sets out to stop them. Average Roy Rogers action musical in which the star has a dual role.

4203  Sunset Pass  Paramount, 1933. 64 min. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Jack Cunningham and Gerald Geraghty. With Randolph Scott, Tom Keene, Kathleen Burke, Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Leila Bennett, Fuzzy Knight, Kent Taylor, George Barbier, Vince Barnett, Patricia Farley, Charles Middleton, Christian J. Frank, Tom London, Frank Beal, Alan Bridge, Robert Kortman, Jim Mason, Nelson McDowell. A government agent, working undercover as a cowpoke, falls in love with a woman whose brother is suspected of being behind a rustling operation. A top flight cast highlights this sound remake of Zane Grey’s novel, first filmed by Paramount in 1929 with Jack Holt and remade (q.v.) by RKO Radio in 1946.

4204  Sunset Pass  RKO Radio, 1946. 59 min. D: William Berke. SC: Norman Houston. With James Warren, Nan Leslie, Jane Greer, Steve Brodie, John Laurenz, Robert Clarke, Harry Woods, Harry Harvey, Slim Balch, Roy Bucko, Steve Stevens, George Plues, Clem Fuller, Artie Ortego, Buck Bucko, Bob Dyer, Slim Hightower, Boyd Stockman, Frank O’Connor, Robert Bray, Florence Pepper, Vonne Lester, Dennis Waters, Marcia Dodd, Dorothy Curtis. Agents for an express company are trying to locate a stolen gold shipment. Fair third screen version of the Zane Grey work.

4205  Sunset Range  First Division, 1935. 59 min. D: Ray McCarey. SC: Paul Schofield. With Hoot Gibson, Mary Doran, James Eagles, Walter McGrail, John Elliott, Ralph Lewis, Eddie Lee, Kitty McHugh, Lee Fong, Martha Sleeper, Fred Gilman, Slim Whitaker, Fred Humes, Horace B. Carpenter, George Sowards, Lem Sowards, Jim Corey, Bill Hickey, Joe Jackson. A man involved with a robbery gang gives his sister title to a ranch and a cowboy hunts the outlaws after the brother is shot trying to protect his sibling. Pleasant film with heavy emphasis on comedy, including a sequence where the female ranch owner tries to dress her ranch hands like Hollywood cowboys.

4206  Sunset Serenade  Republic, 1942. 58 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Earl Fenton. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Joan Woodbury, Helen Parrish, Onslow Stevens, Frank M. Thomas, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Roy Barcroft, Jack Kirk, Dick Wessell, Rex Lease, Jack Ingram, Fred Burns, Budd Buster, Jack Rockwell, Art Mix, Rex Lease, Karl Hackett, Ed Peil, Sr., Steve Clark, Frank Ellis, Curley Dresden, Mary MacLaren, Lynton Brent, Monte Montague, Jack O’Shea, Pascale Perry, Eddie Juarequi, Charles R. Moore. Roy Rogers suspects a housekeeper and her boyfriend are trying to murder a young heir and his pretty guardian. Fair Roy Rogers opus.

4207  The Sunset Trail  Tiffany, 1932. 62 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Ken Maynard, Ruth Hiatt, Frank Rice, Philo McCullough, Buddy Hunter, Richard Alexander, Frank Ellis, Slim Whitaker, Jack Rockwell, Lew Meehan, Bud Osborne, Bud McClure. Two cowboys are in love with the same girl whose ranch is being sought by crooks. Pretty good Ken Maynard action feature.

4208  Sunset Trail  Paramount, 1939. 69min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norman Houston. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Wynters, Jan Clayton, Robert Fiske, Kathryn Sheldon, Maurice Cass, Anthony Nance, Kenneth Harlan, Alphonse Ethier, Glenn Strange, Jack Rockwell, Tom London, Claudia Smith, Jerry Jerome, Al Ferguson, Wen Wright, Frank Ellis, Jim Corey, Fred Burns, Horace B. Carpenter, Charles Murphy, Bob Woodward, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. Hopalong Cassidy poses as a dude to thwart a villain who is trying to steal a guest ranch from a woman and her daughter. Very good Hoppy series entry.

4209  Super Colt 38  Columbia, 1969. 91 min. Color. D: Federico Curiel. SC: Federico Curiel and Armando Le Molle. With Jeffrey Hunter, Rosa Maria Vazquez, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Andres Garcia, Quintin Bulnes, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Chano Urueta, Francisco Reiguera, Carlos Riquelme, Rene Barrera, Pascal Garcia Pena, Jose Eduardo Perez, Victor Alcocer, Raul Perez Prieto. A lawman, who gave up his profession after being forced to kill an outlaw who was a childhood friend, must decide whether to take up his guns again. Competent Mexican Western produced by Luis Enrique Vergara.

4210  Support Your Local Gunfighter  United Artists, 1971. 92 min. Color. D: Burt Kennedy. SC: James Edward Grant. With James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Joan Blondell, Harry Morgan, Marie Windsor, Henry Jones, John Dehner, Chuck Connors, Dub Taylor, Kathleen Freeman, Willis Bouchey, Walter Burke, Gene Evans, Dick Haynes, John (Day) Daheim, Ellen Corby, Ben Cooper, Grady Sutton, Herbert Vigran, Terry Wilson, Jim Nolan, Guy Way. A con man escapes from his planned wedding, is mistaken for a gunman and gets involved with a town whose citizens are divided over rival mine operations. Lukewarm sequel to Support Your Local Sheriff (q.v.); mediocre except for a fine supporting cast.

James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette in Support Your Local Gunfighter (United Artists, 1971).

4211  Support Your Local Sheriff  United Artists, 1969. 93 min. Color. D: Burt Kennedy. SC: William Bowers. With James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Bruce Dern, Henry Jones, Walter Burke, Dick Peabody, Gene Evans, Willis Bouchey, Kathleen Freeman, Gayle Rogers, Dick Haynes, Richard Hoyt, Marilyn Jones, Chubby Johnson. A soldier of fortune is hired to be the sheriff of a small town and oppose a local family charging heavy tolls to use its road because gold has been discovered there. Clever genre comedy that proves amusing. Sequel: Support Your Local Gunfighter (q.v.).

4212  Surrender  Republic, 1951. 90 min. D: Allan Dwan. SC: James Edward Grant and Sloan Nibley. With Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer, Maria Palmer, William Ching, Jane Darwell, Roy Barcroft, Paul Fix, Esther Dale, Edward Norris, Howard Chamberlin, Norman Budd, Nacho Galindo, Jeff York, Mickey Simpson, Kenne Duncan, Dick Elliott, Ralph Dunn, Virginia Farmer, J. Louis Johnson, Glenn Strange, Tex Terry, Elizabeth Dunne, Cecil Elliott, Paul Stander, Wesley Hopper, Fred Hoose, Shelby Bacon, Tina Menard, Charles Morton, Doris Cole, Tony Roux, Petra Silva, Frank Dae, Al Murphy, Al Rhein. Wanted by the law, a woman weds a newspaper man, kills her first husband when he threatens to expose her bigamy and runs off with a gambler with both pursued by a sheriff. Somber, but well made and acted, Republic “A” production.

4213  Susanna Pass  Republic, 1949. 67 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Nibley and John K. Butler. With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Martin Garralaga, Robert Emmett Keane, Lucien Littlefield, Douglas Fowley, David Sharpe, Robert Bice. A game warden tries to stop the destruction of local animal life by crooks out to sabotage a fish hatchery. Entertaining Roy Rogers vehicle.

4214  Susannah of the Mounties  20th Century–Fox, 1939. 78 min. D: William A. Seiter. SC: Fidel LaBarba, Walter Ferris, Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. With Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, J. Farrell MacDonald, Maurice Moscovitch, Martin Good Rider, Moroni Olsen, Victor Jory, Lester Mathews, Leyland Hodgson, Herbert Evans, Jack Luden, Charles Irwin, John Sutton, Chief Big Tree, Larry Dobbs, Harold Goodwin, Chief Thunderbird, Bill Wilkerson, Russ Clark, Herbert Heywood. A little orphan girl is raised by a Mountie at a remote post where she aids in his romance with a pretty girl as well as warning of an Indian attack. This Shirley Temple feature is a pleasant affair that will also appeal to Randolph Scott fans.

Suspected see Texas Dynamo

4215  Sutter’s Gold  Universal, 1936. 94 min. D: James Cruze. SC: Jack Kirkland, Walter Woods and George O’Neil. With Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katherine Alexander, Addison Richards, Montagu Love, John Miljan, Robert Warwick, Harry Carey, Mitchell Lewis, William Janney, Ronald Cosbey, Nan Grey, Joanne Smith, Billy Gilbert, Aura De Silva, Allen Vincent, Harry Cording, Sidney Bracey, Bryant Washburn, Gaston Glass, Frank Reicher, Harry Stubbs, William Gould, George Irving, William Gilbert, William Ruhl, Russell Hopton, John King, George Lloyd, Walter Long, Ed Brady, John Bleifer, Clarence H. Wilson, Russ Powell, Priscilla Lawson, Don Briggs, Oscar Apfel, Albert J. Smith, Neely Edwards, Jose Rubio, Jim Thorpe, Paul Weigel, Pedro Regas. Swiss immigrant Johann August Sutter builds an empire in the West only to have it destroyed when gold is discovered at his California mill in 1849. Gigantic screen effort that was a financial failure in its time but a film that deserves viewing.

4216  Swamp of Lost Monsters  Trans-International, 1965. 80 min. Color. D: Rafael Baledon. SC: Ramon Obon. With Gaston (Santos) Sands, Manola Saavedra, Pedro de Aguillon, Manuel Donde, Sara Cabrera, Salvador Godinez, Lupe Carrilles, Jose Dupeyron, Herman Vera, Gabriel Alvarez, Arturo Corona, Rayo de Plata (horse). In a remote area of Mexico the inhabitants are terrorized by a monster from a deep lake, with a cowboy and is sidekick investigating. Mexican horror Western with cheesy monsters made worse by its dubbing; released in its homeland as El Pantano de las Animas (The Swamp of the Lost Souls) by Alameda Films. TV title: Swamp of the Lost Souls.

Swamp of the Lost Souls see Swamp of Lost Monsters

4217  The Sweet Creek County War  Key International, 1979. 99 min. Color. D-SC: J. Frank James. With Richard Egan, Albert Salmi, Nita Talbot, Slim Pickens, Robert Wilke, Joe Orton, Ray Cardi, Tom Jackman. Two adversaries team to help settlers harassed by outlaws. Well done independent production; Richard Egan’s last film.

4218  Sweet Georgia  Boxoffice International, 1972. 60 min. Color. D-SC: Edward Boles. With Marsha Jordan, Barbara Caron, Gene Drew, Chuck Lawson, Bill King, Jr., Al Wilkins. A sadistic fat drunk tries to strike gold on his ranch while his abused, promiscuous young wife seduces anyone who gets near her. Tawdry, cheap soft core romp.

4219  Swifty  Diversion/Grand National, 1935. 62 min. D: Alan James. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Hoot Gibson, June Gale, George Hayes, Ralph Lewis, Wally Wales, Robert Kortman, William Gould, Lafe McKee, Art Mix, Duke R. Lee, Starlight (horse). A drifter is falsely accused of murdering a rancher and escapes to find the killer. The lack of good production values greatly hinders this otherwise fair Hoot Gibson vehicle.

4220  Swing, Cowboy, Swing  Three Crown, 1946. 60 min. D-SC: Elmer Clifton. With Max Terhune, Cal Shrum and His Rhythm Rangers, Alta Lee, Walt Shrum and His Colorado Hillbillies, I. Stanford Jolley, Frank Ellis, Ed Cassidy, Ted Adams, Tom Hubbard, Shorty Woodward, Don Weston, Ann Roberts, Phil Dunham, Ace Dehne. While appearing in a small town, a musical troupe is the target of a mysterious killer. Fans of old time country music will go for this low budget affair (others beware) that Astor reissued in 1949 as Bad Man from Big Bend.

4221  Swing in the Saddle  Columbia, 1944. 68 min. D: Lew Landers. SC: Elizabeth Beecher, Morton Grant and Radford Ropes. With Jane Frazee, Guinn Williams, Red River Dave, Slim Summerville, Mary Treen, Sally Bliss (Carla Balenda), Carole Mathews, Byron Foulger, The Hoosier Hot Shots (Charles “Gabe” Ward, Ken Trietsch, Paul “Hezzie” Trietsch, Gil Taylor), The (Nat) King Cole Trio, Jimmy Wakely and His Oklahoma Cowboys (Foy Willing, Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith, Art Wenzel, Don Weston, Jack Statham), Cousin Emmy, Emmett Lynn, Virginia Sale, Earle Hodgins. A pretty girl, who comes to a ranch through a misunderstanding, ends up engaged to the foreman and winning a local singing contest. Fun film with far more emphasis on music than action. This is the only feature film starring the sadly neglected singer-songwriter Red River Dave McEnery, who also starred in two 1948 Universal Western featurettes, Echo Ranch and Hidden Valley Days, as well as the short Pretty Women (Sack Amusements, 1949), plus 14 three-minute Western songfests for the Soundies Corporation of America between 1942 and 1946.

4222  Swing the Western Way  Columbia, 1947. 66 min. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Barry Shipman. With Jack Leonard, Mary Dugan, Thurston Hall, Regina Wallace, Jerry Wald and His Orchestra, Johnny Bond, The Hoosier Hot Shots (Charles “Gabe” Ward, Ken Trietsch, Paul “Hezzie” Trietsch, Gil Taylor), The Crew Chiefs, Tristram Coffin, Kenneth MacDonald, Ralph Littlefield, Sam Flint, George Lloyd, Jacques O’Mahoney (Jock Mahoney), Eddie Acuff, Lane Bradford, Ralph Dunn, Gary Gray, Ted Stanhope, Douglas D. Coppin, Lynn Craft, Rube Schaffer, Earl Brown, George Dockstader. The Hoosier Hot Shots get involved with a rodeo star and a windbag who plans to marry a rich spinster so he can buy a ranch the mob wants for a casino site. Convoluted program Western songfest headlining band singer Jack Leonard.

A Swirl of Glory see Sugarfoot

Sword of Zorro see The Three Swords of Zorro

4223  Taggart  Universal, 1964. 85 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Robert Creighton Williams. With Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cardenas, Emile Meyer, Jean Hale, Peter Duryea, David Carradine, Harry Carey, Jr., Bob Steele, Ray Teal, Arthur Space, Sarah Selby, Stuart Randall, Bill Henry, Tom Reese, George Murdock. A man hunting for the outlaws who murdered his folks is tracked through Indian country by gunmen. Well made and entertaining adaptation of the Louis L’Amour novel.

4224  Take a Hard Ride  20th Century–Fox, 1975. 108 min. Color. D: Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Marghertitti). SC: Eric Bercovici and Jerry Ludwig. With Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Catherine Spaak, Dana Andrews, Barry Sullivan, Harry Carey, Jr., Robert Donner, Charles McGregor, Leonard Smith, Ronald Howard, Ricardo Palacios, Robin Levitt, Buddy Joe Hooker, Hal Needham, Paul Costello. After his boss is murdered by outlaws, a black cowboy teams with a gambler and an Indian scout in taking money across the desert to be delivered to its rightful owners in Mexico. Fairly exciting action feature made in the Canary Islands.

4225  Take It Big  Paramount, 1944. 75 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Howard J. Green. With Jack Haley, Harriet Hilliard, Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Lane, Arline Judge, Fritz Feld, Lucille Gleason, Fuzzy Knight, Frank Forest, George Meeker, Nils T. Granlund, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, Ralph Peters, Rochelle and Beebe, Pansy the Horse (Andy Mayo), Montie Montana, Evelyn Finley, Byron Foulger, Johnny Arthur, Billy Nelson, Will Wright, Sam Flint, Edward Keane, Art Mix, Lee Phelps, Eddie Kane, Tom Kennedy, Dewey Robinson, Donald Kerr, George McKay, Bob Burns, Victor Cox, Hal K. Dawson, John Dilson, Margia Dean, Helene Bank, Clancy Cooper, Clyde Dilson. A third rate entertainer inherits a posh dude ranch and ignores the singer who loves him for a gold digger trying to make her boyfriend jealous. So-so contemporary Western musical comedy.

4226  Take Me Back to Oklahoma  Monogram, 1940. 57 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Terry Walker, Arkansas Slim Andrews, Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys (Leon McAuliffe, Johnnie Lee Wills, Wayne Johnson, Son Caz Lansford, Eldon Shamblin), Bob McKenzie, Karl Hackett, Donald Curtis, Gene Alsace, Olin Francis, Carleton Young, George Eldredge, Sherry Tansey, Jack C. Smith, Victor Cox, Bob Card, Chick Hannon, Herman Nowlin, Tex Cooper, Tex Phelps, Rose Plummer. A singing cowboy joins with a hired gunman to double cross a crook after a friend’s stage line. Outside of the Tex Ritter and Bob Wills’ songs there is not much to recommend this pedestrian effort.

4227  Take Me to Town  Universal-International, 1953. 81 min. Color. D: Douglas Sirk. SC: Richard Morris. With Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Philip Reed, Lee Patrick, Lee Aaker, Phyllis Stanley, Harvey Grant, Dusty Henley, Guy Williams, Alice Kelley, Lane Chandler, Larry Gates, Frank Sully, Forrest Lewis, Ann Tyrell, Dorothy Neumann, Robert Anderson. A saloon singer escapes from a lawman and ends up at a logging camp where she is taken in by a lumberjack minister and his three orphan boys. Likable musical comedy vehicle for Ann Sheridan.

4228  Tale of Gold  Wrather Corporation, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy. SC: Jack Natteford, Thomas Seller and Herbert Purdom. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Allen Pinson, Wayne Burson, Harry Lauter, Louise Lewis, Trevor Bardette, Charles Stevens, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane), John Cason, Pat O’Malley, Ralph Sanford, Pierce Lyden, Robert Roark, Bill Ward, Walt LaRue, Jerry Brown, Sandy Sanders, Robert Swan, George Mather, William J. Tanner, Mae Morgan. The Lone Ranger and Tonto try to prevent violence resulting from a horse race wager between the citizens of a small town and a Cheyenne Indian tribe in addition to going after gold thieves and helping a farmer get back his savings. Pleasant telefilm from “The Lone Ranger” (ABC-TV, 1949–57) episodes “Decision for Chris McKeever,” “A Harp for Hannah” and “Quarterhorse War.”

4229  Tales of Adventure  Pathé, 1954. 80 min. D: Herbert Kline. SC: Jerome Gruskin, Nord Riley, Halsted Welles and Richard Wormser. With Lon Chaney, Don De Fore, Rita Moreno, Robert Hutton, Robert Lowery, Coleen Gray, Eve McVeagh, Frank Silvera, Armando Silvestre, Jonathan Hale. Three Jack London stories, including the trial of an evil man in the north woods and the marriage of an Indian maiden, are recounted in this film issued only to television and made up of a trio (“The House of Pride,” “The Marriage of Lit-Lit” and “The Trial”) of 1952 segments from “The Schlitz Playhouse of Stars” (CBS-TV, 1951–55); the episode with Lon Chaney was filmed near Mexico City. Also called Flight from Adventure and Jack London’s Tales of Adventure.

Talion see An Eye for an Eye

4230  The Talisman  Universal Entertainment/Gillman Film Corporation, 1970. 93 min. Color. D-SC: John Carr. With Ned Romero, Linda Hawkins, Richard Thies, Jerald Cormier, Raymond Brown, Raymonda de Anda, Louis Bacigalupi. An Indian warrior and a white woman, the survivors of a wagon train massacre, form an uneasy alliance until three renegade Confederates rape and murder the woman and the brave swears revenge. Violent, and somewhat obscure, oater also called The Savage American. Average.

4231  Tall in the Saddle  RKO Radio, 1944. 87 min. D: Edwin L. Marin. SC: Michael Hogan and Paul Fix. With John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George “Gabby” Hayes, Audrey Long, Elisabeth Risdon, Russell Wade, Don Douglas, Frank Puglia, Emory Parnell, Raymond Hatton, Paul Fix, Harry Woods, Cy Kendall, Bob McKenzie, Wheaton Chambers, Walter Baldwin, Russell Simpson, Frank Orth, Russell Hopton, George Chandler, Eddy Waller, Frank Darien, Clem Bevans, Erville Alderson, William Desmond, Hank Bell, Tom Smith, Victor Cox, Ben Johnson, Denver Dixon. A cowboy is hired work at a ranch where the owner has been shot and a young woman with a guardian aunt inherits the place but is manipulated by a corrupt lawyer Rugged, well done John Wayne adventure with a good blend of action, comedy and mystery.

4232  Tall Man Riding  Warner Bros., 1955. 83 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Joseph Hoffman. With Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, Robert Barrat, Willing Ching, John Baragrey, John Dehner, Paul Richards, Mickey Simpson, Lane Chandler, Joe Bassett, Charles Watts, Russ Conway, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane), Carl Andre, John Logan, Guy (Edward) Hearn, William Fawcett, Nolan Leary, Phil Rich, Eva Novak, Buddy Roosevelt, Jack Henderson, Bob Peeples, Dub Taylor, William Norton Bailey, Bob Stephenson, Roger Creed, Vernon Rich. After fourteen years a man returns home to take revenge on the land baron who stole his land and ruined his intended marriage. Entertaining Randolph Scott feature with a good script.

4233  The Tall Men  20th Century–Fox, 1955. 122 min. Color. D: Raoul Walsh. SC: Sydney Boehm and Frank Nugent. With Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan Garcia, Emile Meyer, Harry Shannon, Steve Darrell, Will Wright, Robert Adler, Russell Simpson, Tom Wilson, Tom Fadden, Tom White, Argentine Brunetti, Doris Kemper, Carl Harbaugh, Post Park, Jack Mather. Following the Civil War two brothers head West, become involved with a dishonest cattleman and rescue a pretty woman from Indians. Rugged, lusty melodrama with the fine teaming of Clark Gable and Jane Russell.

4234  The Tall Stranger  Allied Artists, 1957. 83 min. Color. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Christopher Knopf. With Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell, James Dobson, George Neise, Adam Kennedy, Michael Pate, Leo Gordon, Ray Teal, Robert Foulk, George J. Lewis, Guy Prescott, Mauritz Hugo, William Haade, Pierce Lyden, Tom London. After having his life saved by the passengers of a wagon train, a man agrees to help them settle their land in opposition to crooks. Colorful, if not overly exciting, Joel McCrea film that will please his fans.

4235  The Tall T  Columbia, 1957. 78 min. Color. D: Budd Boetticher. SC: Burt Kennedy. With Randolph Scott, Maureen O’Sullivan, Richard Boone, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier, Henry Silva, John Hubbard, Robert Burton, Robert Anderson, Fred E. Sherman, Chris Olsen. Three outlaws kidnap the daughter of a rich cattleman and hold her hostage at a way station where a rancher tries to help her. Exceedingly fine Randolph Scott outing, well written and taut.

4236  The Tall Texan  Lippert, 1953. 81 min. D: Elmo Williams. SC: Sam Roeca. With Lloyd Bridges, Lee J. Cobb, Marie Windsor, Luther Adler, Syd Saylor, Samuel Herrick, George Steele, Dean Train. A group of wagon passengers, including a lady of easy virtue and a lawman with a prisoner, head into sacred Indian lands in search of gold. Low budget but enjoyable action drama.

Tall Timber see Park Avenue Logger

4237  The Tall Women  Allied Artists, 1967. 95 min. Color. D: Sidney Pink. SC: Mino Rolli. With Anne Baxter, Maria Perschy, Gustavo Rojo, Rossella Como, Adriana Ambesi, Mara Cruz, Christa Linder, Luis Prendes, Maria Mahor, Fernando Hilbeck, John Clarke. Several women who survive an Indian massacre of their wagon train trek across the desert and learn to fight to stay alive. Better-than-average European made Western first issued in 1966 as Donne alla Frontiera (Women at the Frontier) by Danny/L.M./Danubia Film.

4238  The Taming of the West  Columbia, 1939. 55 min. D: Norman Deming. SC: Robert Lee Johnson and Charles Francis Royal. With Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Dick Curtis, James Craig, Stanley Brown, Kenneth MacDonald, Ethan Allen, Victor Wong, Charles King, Lane Chandler, Jack Kirk, George Morrell, Art Mix, Don Beddoe, Richard Fiske, John Tyrrell, Bob Woodward, Hank Bell, Stella Le Saint, Irene Herndon, Francis Walker, Fred Burns, Horace B. Carpenter, Fred Parker, Ray Jones, Al Haskell, Jack Evans. The new sheriff of a lawless town tries to bring peace but is opposed by supposedly honest businessmen who are behind the outlaws terrorizing the area. Bill Elliott fans will enjoy this action filled outing, the first of four “Wild Bill Saunders” adventures.

4239  Tangled Trails  William Steiner, 1921. 56 min. D-SC: Charles Bartlett. With Neal Hart, Violet Palmer, Gladys Hampton, Jean Barry, Jules Cowles, Ed Roseman. A Canadian Mounted Policeman is after a dishonest stock promoter who murdered his partner, and the chase leads to Gotham and back, along with his becoming involved with two sisters. Complicated silent drama produced by star Neal Hart.

4240  Tarantula  Universal-International, 1955. 80 min. D: Jack Arnold. SC: Martin Berkeley. With John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, Ed Rand, Raymond Bailey, Clint Eastwood, Jane Howard, Billy Wayne, Hank Patterson, Dee Carroll, Bert Holland, Steve Darrell, Tom London, Edgar Dearing, James J. Hyland, Stuart Wade, Vernon Rich, Bob Nelson, Eddie Parker, Bing Russell, Ray Quinn, Robert R. Stephenson, Don Dillaway, Bud Wolfe, Jack Stoney, Rusty Wescoatt. In the desert a scientist works on a serum to grow gigantic crops and it causes a tarantula to mutate with the huge creature going on a rampage. Another big bug monster caper in the West, but nicely made and satisfying for sci-fi fans.

4241  Target  RKO Radio, 1952. 60 min. D: Stuart Gilmore. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Linda Douglas, Walter Reed, Harry Harvey, John Hamilton, Lane Bradford, Riley Hill, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane). Two cowboys find themselves opposing a dishonest land agent and his outlaw gang. One of the last in Tim Holt’s RKO series; it is fast on action from beginning to end.

4242  Taste of Death  Esterofilm, 1968. 92 min. Color. D: Sergio Merolle. SC: Biagio Proietti. With Andrea Giordano (Chip Gorman), John Ireland, Raymond Pellegrin, Betsy Bell, Bruno Corazzari, Giovanni Petrucci, Fulvio Pellegrino, Ruggero Chessa, Claudio Scarchilli, Giuseppe Altamurra, Mireille Granelli, Sergio Scarchilli. An ex-lawman teams with a cowboy to combat a marauding outlaw gang, one of them being the young man’s father. Supposed Colorado locales help this standard Spaghetti Western originally called Quanto Costa Morire (Cost of Dying).

4243  Taste of Killing  Altamira Films, 1966. 86 min. Color. D: Tonino Valerii. SC: Victor Auz. With Craig Hill, George Martin, Peter Carter (Piero Lulli), Fernando Sancho, Franco Ressel, George Wang, Diana Martin, Graham Sooty (Franco Pesce), Rada Rassimov, Jose Marco, Lorenzo Robledo, Sancho Garcia, Jose Canalejas, Jose Manuel Martin, Dario De Grassi, Frank Brana, Olga Karlatos. A bounty hunter agrees to a double reward if he can stop a planned stagecoach robbery. Pretty fare Italian-Spanish co-production made as Per il Gusto di Uccidere (For the Taste of Killing).

4244  Taza, Son of Cochise  Universal-International, 1954. 79 min. Color. D: Douglas Sirk. SC: Gerald Drayson Adams. With Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Bart Roberts, Morris Ankrum, Ian MacDonald, Richard Cutting, Joseph Sawyer, Robert Burton, Eugene Iglesias, Lance Fuller, Brad Jackson, James Van Horn, Charles Horvath, Robert Hoy, William Leslie, Dan White, Edna Parrish, Seth Bigman, John Kay Hawks, Barbara Burck, Jeff Chandler. Cochise’s son is made head of the Apaches after his father’s death but finds himself at odds with his brother over how to deal with whites as well as a pretty maiden. Passable program feature with Jeff Chandler briefly reprising his Cochise role from Broken Arrow and The Battle at Apache Pass (qq.v.).

4245  Tearin’ Loose  Artclass, 1925. 49 min. D: Richard Thorpe. SC: Frank L. Inghram. With Wally Wales, Jean Arthur, Charles (Slim) Whitaker, Alfred Hewston, Polly Vann, Harry Belmour, William Ryno, Frank Ellis, Vester Pegg. An imposter tries to take over an old man’s ranch and blames his nephew, the rightful heir, for a series of crimes. Only a 12 minute edited version of this silent Wally Wales vehicle exists.

4246  Tedeum  Film Ventures, 1972. 99 min. Color. D: Enzo G. Castellari. SC: Gianni Simonelli. With Jack Palance, Timothy Brent, Lionel Stander, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Mabel Karin, Eduardo Fajardo, Riccardo Garrone, Miguel Pedregosa, Maria Vico, Rocco Lero, Renzo Palmer, Carlo Ruffini, Angel Alvarez, Franco Borelli, Fidel Gonzales, Ana Suriani, Miguel Pedrosa, Guillermo Mendez, Brunco Boschetti, Karl Braun, Dante Cleri, Ivan Palance. A crook thinks the mine he inherited is worthless and plans to get rid of it but his equally dishonest family finds it is rich in ore and tries to get it away from him. Fairly funny Spaghetti Western spoof also called Father Jackleg and Sting of the West.

4247  Teenage Monster  Howco International, 1957. 73 min. D: James (Jacques) Marquette. SC: Ray Buffum. With Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Castillo, Charles Courtney, Gilbert Perkins, Frank Davis, Stephen Parker, Norman Leavitt, Jim McCullough, Gabye Mooradian, Arthur Berkeley. Near a remote Western town a boy is struck by a crashing meteor and grows up to be a rampaging monster hunted by a posse. Low grade mixture of horror and Western themes; mediocre. TV title: Meteor Monster.

4248  The Telegraph Trail  Warner Bros., 1933. 55 min. D: Tenny Wright. SC: Kurt Kempler. With John Wayne, Marceline Day, Frank McHugh, Otis Harlan, Albert J. Smith, Yakima Canutt, Lafe McKee, Clarence Geldert, Slim Whitaker, Frank Ellis, Jack Kirk, Bud Osborne, Ben Corbett, Al Taylor, Jack Jones, Chuck Baldra, Bob Fleming, Artie Ortego, Chief Big Tree, Bud McClure, Bob Burns. An Army scout organizes the citizens of a town in stringing a telegraph wire after his best friend, in trying to complete the job, is killed by Indians. Patchwork John Wayne film with most of his best action footage culled from the Ken Maynard silent The Red Raiders (q.v.); below average.

4249  Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here  Universal, 1970. 98 min. Color. D-SC: Abraham Polonsky. With Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Charles Aidman, John Vernon, Shelly Novack, Ned Romero, John Day, Lee De Broux, George Tyne, Robert Lipton, Steve Shemayne, Lloyd Gough, John Hudkins, Jerry Velasco, Gary Walberg, Jerome Raphel, Johnny Coons, Stanley Torres, Kenneth Holzman, Joseph Mandel, Spencer Lyons, Everett Creach. In 1909 a Paiute Indian accidentally kills the father of the girl he loves and the two try to elude a posse led by an assistant sheriff. Oater with all kinds of political undertones, but only average.

4250  Ten Days to Tulara  United Artists, 1958. 77 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Lawrence Mascott. With Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Rodolfo Hoyos, Carlos Muzquiz, Tony Caravaijal, Juan Garcia. Police pursue an American pilot and his outlaw friend through the Mexican desert to retrieve the gold the two are carrying. Passable melodrama filmed in Mexico.

4251  $10,000 Blood Money  Golden Era, 1967. 97 min. Color. D: Romolo Guerrieri. SC: Franco Fogagnolo, Ernesto Gastaldi, Luciano Martino and Sauro Scavolin. With Gary Hudson (Gianni Garko), Claudio Camaso, Fernando Sancho, Lorenda Nusciak, Adriana Ambesi, Pinuccio Ardia, Fidel Gonzales, Franco Lantieri. A bounty hunter and a kidnapper are forced into an uneasy alliance with each trying to double cross the other. Very violent Italian “Django” series Western first issued there in 1966 as 10,000 Dollari per un Massacro ($10,000 for a Massacre) and on video as Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre.

Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre see $10,000 Blood Money

4252  Ten Wanted Men  Columbia, 1955. 80 min. Color. D: H. Bruce Humberstone. SC: Kenneth Gamet. With Randolph Scott, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Boone, Alfonso Bedoya, Donna Martell, Skip Homeier, Clem Bevans, Leo Gordon, Minor Watson, Lester Mathews, Tom Powers, Dennis Weaver, Lee Van Cleef, Louis Jean Heydt, Kathleen Crowley, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Denver Pyle, Francis McDonald, Pat Collins, Paul Maxey, Julian Rivero, Edna Holland, Reed Howes, Jack Perrin, Terry Frost, Franklyn Farnum, George Boyce. A crook frames a cattle baron’s nephew on a murder charge because he wants the young man’s girl. Better-than-average, with an impressive cast.

4253  Ten Who Dared  Buena Vista, 1960. 92 min. Color. D: William Beaudine. SC: Lawrence E. Watkin. With Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, R.G. Armstrong, Ben Johnson, L.Q. Jones, Dan Sheridan, David Stollery, Stan Jones, David Frankham, Pat Hogan, Ray Walker, Jack Bighead, Roy Barcroft, Dawn Little Sky. A motley crew of men join Major John Wesley Powell on his expedition exploring the Colorado River in 1869. Surprisingly poor historical film from Walt Disney.

4254  The Tenderfoot  First National, 1932. 70 min. D: Ray Enright. SC: Earl Baldwin, Monty Banks and Arthur Caesar. With Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Lew Cody, Vivien Oakland, Robert Greig, Ralph Ince, Marion Byron, Spencer Charters, Douglas Gerrard, Wilfred Lucas, Nat Pendleton, Richard Cramer, George Chandler, Al Hill, Charles Sullivan, Mae Madison, Dorothy Vernon, Harry Seymour, Herman Bing, John Larkin, Theodore Lorch, Allan Lane, Eddie Kane, George Davis, Joe Barton, Ben Hall, Edith Allen, Jill Dennett, Lee Kohlmar, Gus Leonard, Charlotte Mernam, Zita Moulton, Walter Percival, Bob Perry. A pretty secretary decides to help a cowboy who her boss wants to swindle by having him invest in a Broadway musical. Amusing teaming of Joe E. Brown and Ginger Rogers, based on the play by Richard Carle and George S. Kaufman.

4255  Tenderfoot  Buena Vista, 1966. 80 min. Color. D: Byron Paul. SC: Maurice Tombragel. With Brandon de Wilde, James Whitmore, Richard Long, Donald May, Christopher Dark, Judson Pratt, Carlos Romero, Angela Dorian (Victoria Vetri), Rafael Campos, Harry Harvey, Jr. A young man learns the values of growing up in Arizona in the 1850s. Pretty good family drama originally telecast in three parts on Walt Disney’s ABC-TV program in 1964.

4256  A Tenderfoot Goes West  J.H. Hoffberg, 1936. 65 min. D: Maurice O’Neill. With Jack LaRue, Virginia Carroll, Russell Gleason, Ralph Byrd, Chris-Pin Martin, Si Jenks, John Merton, Joseph Girard, John Ince, Ray Turner, Glenn Strange, Charles Sargent, Oscar Gahan, Merrill McCormick, Bill Patton, Bud Pope, Gertrude Chorre. An outlaw saves an Easterner mistaken for him from a lynch mob. Fair oater comedy from poverty row.

4257  Tennessee Johnson  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942. 100 min. D: William Dieterle. SC: John Balderson and Wells Root. With Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey, J. Edward Bromberg, Grant Withers, Alec Craig, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid, Russell Hicks, Noah Beery, Robert Warwick, Montagu Love, Lloyd Corrigan, William Farnum, Charles Trowbridge, Morris Ankrum, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Worth, Dane Clark, Robert Emmett O’Connor, Lee Phelps, Brandon Hurst, Charles Ray, Harlan Briggs, Hugh Sothern, Frederick Burton, Allen Pomeroy, Duke York, Roy Barcroft, Ed O’Neill, Jack Norton, Russell Simpson, Louise Beavers, James (Jim) Davis, William Roberts, Frank Jaquet, Emmett Vogan, James Kirkwood, Pat O’Malley, Will Wright, William B. Davidson, John Hamilton, Harry Cording, Tom Herbert, Mark Daniels, Harrison Greene, Richard Hall, James Warren, Harry Holman, Alberto Morin, Lloyd Ingraham, Roger Imhof, Patsy Nash, Walter Baldwin, Davison Clark, Herbert Heyes, Frank Hagney, Gibson Gowland, Jeff Corey, Cliff Clark, Frank Austin, Arthur Space, Ray Teal, Ludwig Stossel, Gayne Whitman, Harry Strang, Carl Stockdale, Si Jenks, Al Hill, Henry Roquemore, John Ince, Syd Saylor, Dewey Robinson, Milton Kibbee, Louis Mason, Lee Prather, Bert Roach, Ruth Robinson, Jack Norton, Gladden James, Jack Kenny, Jerry Jerome, Ivan Miller, Ferdinand Munier, Christian J. Frank, Sonny Bupp, Jesse Graves, Frank Dawson, Anna Chandler, Robert Dudley, Paul Everton, Arthur Belasco, Jules Cowles, Albert Godderis, George M. Carleton, Leila McIntyre, Eric Mayne, Bob Stebbins, Jack Zeller, Ernie Alexander, Francis Stevens, Henry Sylvester, Michael Audley. Runaway frontier bond servant Andrew Johnson works his way up the political ladder to eventually become one of the most controversial of U.S. presidents. Excellent biographical film with great work by Van Helfin in the title role, plus an excellent supporting cast, including Morris Anrkum’s memorable cameo as Jefferson Davis.

4258  Tennessee’s Partner  RKO Radio, 1955. 87 min. Color. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Allan Dwan, Milton Krims and D.D. Beauchamp. With John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Ronald Reagan, Coleen Gray, Anthony Caruso, Leo Gordon, Myron Healey, Morris Ankrum, Chubby Johnson, Joe Devlin, John Mansfield, Angie Dickinson. A cowboy saves a crook from being bushwhacked and the two become pals, with the latter after the former’s girl. Mediocre Western that is a bit on the dull side.

4259  Tension at Table Rock  RKO Radio, 1956. 93 min. Color. D: Charles Marquis Warren. SC: Winston Miller. With Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Billy Chapin, Royal Dano, Edward Andrews, John Dehner, DeForrest Kelley, Angie Dickinson, Joe De Santis, Harry Lauter, Tom Steele. After killing his partner in self defense, an outlaw is forced to change his identity. Fair screen adaptation of Frank Gruber’s Bitter Sage.

4260  Tentacles of the North  Rayart, 1926. 50 min. D: Louis Chaudet. SC: Leslie Curtis. With Gaston Glass, Alice Calhoun, Al Ferguson, Albert Roscoe, Joseph Girard, T. Hohai. A man finds a young woman stranded on a ship where the crew has died and the men on his vessel chase them into the Arctic. Acceptable low budget silent adaptation of James Oliver Curwood’s “In the Tentacles of the North.”

4261  Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground  Universal, 1943. 59 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Elizabeth Beecher. With Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, John Elliott, Earle Hodgins, The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Jimmy Wakely, Johnny Bond, Scotty Harrell), Rex Lease, Lane Chandler, Alan Bridge, Dennis Moore, Tom London, Reed Howes, Bud Osborne, Lynton Brent, Hank Worden, George Plues, Ray Jones, George Eldredge. A dishonest saloon keeper tries to tempt workers, who are really prisoners, from their jobs building a bridge for a stagecoach route carrying the mail. Sufficient Universal program Western.

Tepea see Blood and Guns

4262  Tequilla Joe  CR Cine/PEA, 1968. 95 min. Color. D: Vincent Eagle (Enzo Dell’Aquila). SC: Fernando Di Leo and Enzo Dell’Aquila. With Antonio Ghidra, Jean Sobieski, Dick Palmer (Mimmo Palmara), Furio Meniconi, Felicita Fanni, Mimmo Bill, Fidel Gonzales, Claudio Ruffini, Gilberto Galimberti, Frank Fargas, Fortunato Arena, Max Fraser, Luciano Doria, Raoul Amari, Remo Capitani, Ivan G. Scratuglia, Leonora Ruffo, Paolo Figlia. A greenhorn deputy allies himself with an old sheriff in fighting corrupt town bosses. Well made Spaghetti Western, produced in Italy as ...e Venne il Tempo di Uccidere (And Then a Time for Killing).

4263  Terrible Sheriff  J.J. Films S.A., 1962. 80 min. Color. D: Alberto De Martino and Antonio Momplet. SC: Mario Guerra, Ettore Scola, Guilio Scarnicci, Vittorio Vighi, Jose Mallorqui and Ruggero Maccari. With Walter Chiari, Licia Calderon, Maria Silva, Raimondo Vianello, Aroldo Tieri, Antonio Vico, Felix Fernandez, Antonio Molino Rojo, Angela Pia, Jose Villasante, Maruja Tamayo, Xan das Bolas, Emilio Rodriguez, Alfonso Rojas, Fernando Hilbeck. Two cowardly brothers consume drugged chickens and become super fighters, getting appointed dual sheriffs of a town harassed by a masked bandit the siblings know to be dead. Strange Spaghetti Western concoction made as Due Contro Tutti (Two Against All).

4264  Territorial Men  BCI, 1976. 98 min. D: Lawrence Dobkin and William F. Claxton. SC: James Dixon. With Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Groom, Jerry Hardin, Michael St. Clair, Raymond Singer, Robert Donner, Christian Grey, Bert Kramer, Albert Stratton, William Phipps, Mariclare Costello, Louise Latham, Kraig Metzinger, Debbie Lytton, Hallie Morgan. A novice frontier schoolmarm tries to cope with unruly students and local prejudice at the same time falling in love with a recently arrived businessman. Okay telefilm comprised of episodes of “Sara” (CBS-TV, 1976).

4265  The Territory of Others  Gold Key, 1974. 93 min. Color. D: Francois Bel, Jacqueline Lecompte, Michael Fano and Gerard Vienne. Wildlife in the American desert have developed interdependent relationships over thousands of years and among those presented are a jaguar, poisonous lizard and the rattlesnake. Well done French documentary.

4266  Terror at Black Falls  Beckman, 1962. 76 min. D-SC: Richard Sarafian. With House Peters, Jr., Sandra Knight, John Alonzo, Peter Mamakos, Gary Gray, I. Stanford Jolley, Marshall Bradford, Jim Hayward, Maureen Cookson, Randy Clark, Madeleine Holmes, Jim Bysel, Joe Adelman, Armand Alzamora, Mickey Finn, George Cisar, King Moody, Charlotte Johnson, C.B. Lash, William L. (Bill) Erwin, John Quihas. Seeking revenge for the death of his son and the loss of a hand, a madman takes hostages in a remote area before doing battle with the local sheriff. Slow moving and not very interesting poverty row melodrama.

4267  Terror in a Texas Town  United Artists, 1958. 81 min. D: Joseph H. Lewis. SC: Ben L. Perry. With Sterling Hayden, Carol Kelly, Sebastian Cabot, Victor Millan, Eugene Martin, Ned Young, Ann Verela, Sheb Wooley, Fred Kohler, Jr., Steve Mitchell, Tyler McVey, Ted Stanhope, Gil Lamb, Frank Ferguson, Hank Patterson. Returning home to his father’s Texas ranch a man finds the area terrorized by a land baron after rich oil deposits. Standard oater given some atmosphere by Joseph H. Lewis’ direction.

4268  Terror of the Black Mask  Embassy, 1967. 97 min. Color. D: Umberto Lenzi. SC: Gino De Santis, Guido Malatesta and Umberto Lenzi. With Pierre Brice, Helene Chanel, Daniele Vargas, Adolf Bufi Landi, Carlo Latimer, Gisela Arden, Massimo Serato, Nero Bernardi, Romano Ghini, Tulio Alamura, Attilo Torelli, Amedeo Trilli, Salvatore Campochiaro, Guido Celano, Gino Marturano, Eleanora Morana, Giovanni Pazzafini, Gino Soldi. The timid stepson of a 17th century Spanish despot is actually the masked Don Diego, alias Zorro, who attacks his stepfather’s army and weakens his control over the people. Typical dubbed European oater included here because of the Zorro character. Issued in Europe in 1963 by Romana Film L’Invincible Cavaliere Mascherato (The Invincible Masked Cavalier).

4269  Terror of the Plains  Reliable, 1935. 57 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Jayne Regan and Carl Krusada. With Tom Tyler, Roberta Gale, William Gould, Charles (Slim) Whitaker, Ralph Lewis, Fern Emmett, Murdock MacQuarrie, Frank Rice, Robert Walker, Nelson McDowell, Jack Kirk, Budd Buster, Jimmy Aubrey, Herman Hack, Jack Cross. A cowboy and his pal go to a ghost town used as the headquarters of an outlaw gang led by a man who committed a murder for which the cowpoke’s father is blamed. Another tacky entry in Tom Tyler’s Reliable series for producers Bernard B. Ray and Harry S. Webb; the star deserved better.

4270  The Terror of Tiny Town  Columbia, 1938. 62 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray, Little Billy, Bill Platt, John Bambury, Charles Becker, Joseph Herbst, Nita Krebs, George Ministeri, Karl Casitzky, Fern McDill, W.H. O’Docharty, Johnnie Ferr. A bad man pits two families against one another so they will kill each other off and he can get their lands. Outside the novelty of having an all-midget cast, there is not much here for the viewer in this musical opus from producer Jed Buell.

4271  Terror Trail  Universal, 1933. 58 min. D: Armand L. Schaefer. SC: Jack Cunningham. With Tom Mix, Naomi Judge, Arthur Rankin, Raymond Hatton, Francis McDonald, Robert Kortman, John St. Polis, Francis Brownlee, Harry Tenbrook, Lafe McKee, W.J. Holmes, Hank Bell, Leonard Trainer, Jim Corey, Jay Wilsey (Buffalo Bill, Jr.). A cowboy sets out to retrieve his horse that has been stolen by an outlaw gang led by the local sheriff. Entertaining Tom Mix feature but not quite up to some of his other Universal work.

4272  Terror Trail  Columbia, 1946. 56 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Barbara Pepper, Lane Chandler, Zon Murray, Elvin Feld, Ozie Waters and His Colorado Rangers, Tommy Coats, George Chesebro, Robert Barron, Budd Buster, Bill Clark, Ted Mapes, Wesley Tuttle, Jack Evans, Matty Roubert, Billy Dix, Edward Howard, George Morrell. When a dishonest rancher tries to start a range war by secretly placing sheep on cattlemen’s land, the Durango Kid tries to stop the hostilities. Pretty fair series episode with good supporting work by Lane Chandler and Barbara Pepper.

4273  Terrors on Horseback  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 55 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Milton (Milton Raison and George W. Sayre). With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patti McCarthy, I. Stanford Jolley, Henry Hall, Kermit Maynard, Karl Hackett, Marin Sais, Budd Buster, Steve Darrell, Steve Clark, Bud Osborne, Al Ferguson, George Chesebro, Frank Ellis, Jack Kirk, Lane Bradford, George Morrell, Herman Hack, Jack Evans. To avenge the murder of his niece, a cowboy plans to kill off the outlaw gang responsible for her death during a stagecoach robbery. One of the last “Billy Carson” films and one of the best; action filled from start to finish.

4274  The Test  Reliable, 1935. 55 min. D: Bernard B. Ray. SC: L.V. Jefferson. With Rin Tin Tin, Jr., Grant Withers, Grace Ford, Monte Blue, Lafayette (Lafe) McKee, James (Jimmy) Aubrey, Artie Ortego, Dorothy Vernon, Jack Evans, Tom London, George Rosener, Nanette (dog). Two north woods fur trappers vie for the daughter of a trading post owner and one of them has his men steal the other’s valuable furs. Low budget action program feature from producer-director Bernard B. Ray, based on a James Oliver Curwood story; picturesque due to its mostly outdoor setting.

4275  The Test of Donald Norton  Chadwick, 1926. 68 min. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Adele Buffington. With George Walsh, Tyrone Power (Sr.), Eugenia Gilbert, Robert Graves, Evelyn Selbie, Michael D. Moore, Virginia True Boardman, John Francis Dillon, Virginia Marshall, Ed Coxen. In the north country, a half breed young man fights prejudice while struggling to become an accepted fur trader all the while realizing he cannot marry the girl he loves. Good silent drama.

4276  The Testing Block  Paramount-Artcraft, 1920. 60 min. D-SC: Lambert Hillyer. With William S. Hart, Eva Novak, Gordon Russell, Florence Carpenter, Richard Headrick, Ira McFadden. An outlaw gang leader falls in love with a pretty entertainer and after they marry and settle down one of his henchmen arrives planning to steal the wife. Melodramatic and somber, this silent drama was based on star William S. Hart’s original story.

4277  Tex and the Lord of the Deep  Cinecitta/Titanus, 1985. 103 min. D: Duccio Tessari. SC: Duccio Tessari, Gianfranco Clerici, Marcello Coscia and Giorgio Bonelli. With Giulian Gemma, William Berger, Isabella Russivora, Aldo Sambrell, Carlo Mucari, Flavio Bucci, Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Peter Berling. A frontier investigator uncovers a plot by a Yaqui Indian shaman to use a mysterious rock to mummify a rival tribe. The combination of Spaghetti Western and horror does not blend well; released in Italy, where it was made, as Tex il Signore degli Abissi (Tex and the Lord of the Abyss).

4278  Tex Granger  Columbia, 1948. 15 Chapters. D: Derwin Abrahams. SC: Arthur Hoerl, Lewis Clay, Harry Fraser and Royal K. Cole. With Robert (Stevens) Kellard, Peggy Stewart, Buzz Henry, Smith Ballew, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley, Terry Frost, Jim Diehl, Britt Wood, William Fawcett, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Bill Brauer, Stanley Blystone, Al Ferguson, John Hart, Edmund Cobb, Eddie Parker, Duke the Wonder Dog. A cowpoke joins a boy and a young woman in opposing the activities of a crook who has become town sheriff. Standard cliffhanger highlighted by Smith Ballew’s portrayal of Blaze Talbot.

4279  Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts  Grand National, 1937. 66 min. D: Ray Taylor. ED: Edmund Kelso. With Tex Ritter, Marjorie Reynolds, Horace Murphy, Snub Pollard, Tommy Bupp, Charles King, Forrest Taylor, Karl Hackett, Lynton Brent, Philip Ahn, Ed Cassidy, Timmy Davis, Heber Snow (Hank Worden), The Beverly Hill Billies. A mine ore geologist and his two pals are helped by a Boy Scout troop in capturing a gang of train robbers masquerading as gold mine operators. Pretty good Tex Ritter film with lots of action and good music, with the introduction relating the history of the Boy Scouts, to whom the film is dedicated.

4280  Tex Takes a Holiday  First Division, 1932. 60 min. Color. D: Alvin J. Neitz (Alan James). SC: Alan James. With Wallace MacDonald, Virginia Brown Faire, George Chesebro, Ben Corbett, Jack Perrin, James Dillon, Claude Peyton, George Gerwing, Sheldon Lewis, Olin Francis, Steve Clemente, Tom London, Charles Stevens, Mme. DeLatta. A mysterious stranger is blamed for a series of local crimes but uncovers the real culprit. Poor Natural Color mystery Western from producer Robert J. Horner.

4281  The Texan  Paramount, 1930. 79 min. D: John Cromwell. SC: Daniel N. Rubin. With Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James Marcus, Donald Reed, Soledad Jiminez, Veda Buckman, Cesar Vanoni, Edwin J. Brady, Enrique Acosta, Romualdo Tirado, Russ Columbo. The Llano Kid, a wanted outlaw, claims to be the long lost son of an old woman. Gary Cooper early talkie is dated and fairly bland; remade as The Llano Kid (q.v.).

4282  The Texan  Principal Attractions, 1932. 64 min. D: Cliff Smith. With Buffalo Bill, Jr., Lucille Brown, Bobby Nelson, Lafe McKee, Jack Mower, Art Mix, Yakima Canutt, Duke R. Lee, Lew Meehan, Bud Pope, Allen Holbrook, Harry Keaton. A fugitive joins two crooks in cheating citizens out of their money in a fixed horse race but is redeemed by the love of a local girl. Better than might be expected.

Poster for The Texan (Principal Attractions, 1932).

4283  The Texan Meets Calamity Jane  Columbia, 1950. 71 min. Color. D-SC: Ande Lamb. With James Ellison, Evelyn Ankers, Lee “Lasses” White, Jack Ingram, Ruth Whitney, Frank Pharr, Sally Weidman, Rudy de Saxe, Hugh Hooker, Ray Jones, Paul Barney, Ferrell Lester, Ronald Marriott, Bill Orisman, Lou W. Pierce, Elmer Herzberg. A cowpoke helps Calamity Jane as she tries to prove the validity of her ownership of a saloon. Unbelievably poor oater that is neither straight drama nor satire.

4284  The Texans  Paramount, 1938. 90 min. D: James Hogan. SC: Paul Sloane and William Wister Haines. With Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings, Robert Barrat, Harvey Stephens, Francis Ford, Bill Roberts, Clarence Wilson, Raymond Hatton, Jack Moore, Francis McDonald, Alan Ladd, Chris-Pin Martin, Anna Demetrio, Richard Tucker, Edward Gargan, Otis Harlan, Spencer Charters, Archie Twitchell, William Haade, Irving Bacon, Jack Perrin, Richard Denning, Wheeler Oakman, Harry Woods, Esther Howard, Ed LeSaint, John Qualen, Ed Brady, Margaret McWade, Vera Steadman, James Burtis, Lon Poff, Kay Whitehead, Frank Cordell, Slim Hightower, Slim Talbot, Oscar Smith, Everett Brown, James Kelso, Philip Morris, Ralph Remley, Pat West. A cowboy leads a cattle drive, which includes the pretty daughter of the herd’s owner, from Texas to Kansas after the Civil War. Too much stock footage mars this remake of Emerson Hough’s novel North of ’36 which Paramount first filmed in 1924 with Jack Holt under its original title.

4285  Texans Never Cry  Columbia, 1951. 70 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Norman S. Hall. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Mary Castle, Russell Hayden, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Don C. Harvey, Mike Ragan, Roy Gordon, I. Stanford Jolley, Frank Fenton, Sandy Sanders, John McKee, Harry McKim, Minerva Urecal, Duke York. A Texas Ranger is after a gang counterfeiting Mexican lottery tickets. Fair Gene Autry opus with good work by Richard Powers (Tom Keene) as the villain.

4286  Texas  Columbia, 1941. 94 min. D: George Marshall. S: Horace McCoy, Lewis Meltzer and Michael Blankfort. With William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan, Don Beddoe, Andrew Tombes, Addison Richards, Edmund MacDonald, Joseph Crehan, Willard Robertson, Pat Moriarity, Edmund Cobb, Lyle Latell, Raymond Hatton, Ralph Peters, Duke York, James Flavin, Carleton Young, Jack Ingram, Ethan Laidlaw, William Gould, Art Mix, Clem Bevans, George Morrell, Hank Bell, Dan White. After the Civil War, two ex–Confederates head to Texas, one going to work for a woman cattle rancher while the other joins an outlaw gang. Entertaining and action filled oater, originally filmed in Sepia; reworked as South of the Chisholm Trail (q.v.).

4287  Texas Across the River  Universal, 1966. 101 min. Color. D: Michael Gordon. SC: Wells Root, Harold Green and Ben Starr. With Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Joey Bishop, Rosemary Forsyth, Tina (Aumont) Marquand, Peter Graves, Michael Ansara, Andrew Prine, Linden Chiles, Roy Barcroft, Stuart Anderson, George Wallace, Richard Farnsworth, John Harmon. When he is accused of murdering the fiancee of the woman he loves, a Spanish nobleman rides to Texas and falls for an Indian maiden while his ex-love follows him and is attracted to a cattleman. Fairly amusing genre satire.

4288  Texas, Adios  Constantin Film/Jeme Film, 1966. 93 min. Color. D: Ferdinando Baldi. SC: Franco Rossetti and Ferdinando Baldi. With Franco Nero, Cole Kitsch (Alberto Dell’Acqua/Robert Widmark), Elisa Montes, Jose Guardiola, Livio Lorenzon, Hugo Blanco, Luigi Pistilli, Antonella Murgia, Gino Pernice, Ivan Scratuglia, Silvana Bacci, Remo De Angelis, Mario Novelli, Jose Suarez. A lawman and his brother go to Mexico to bring back the land baron who murdered their father years before. Violent but exciting Italian-Spanish Western originally called Texas, Addio (Texas, Goodbye).

4289  Texas Bad Man  Universal, 1932. 60 min. D: Edward Laemmle. SC: Jack Cunningham. With Tom Mix, Lucille Powers, Fred Kohler, Ed LeSaint, Willard Robertson, Richard Alexander, C.E. Anderson, Lynton Brent, Frankly Farnum, Joe Girard, Buck Moulton, James Burtis, Slim Cole, Boothe Howard, Francis Sayles, Theodore Lorch, George Magrill, Bud Osborne, Buck Bucko. A lawman pretends to be dishonest to infiltrate an outlaw gang. Very good Tom Mix feature.

4290  Texas Buddies  World Wide, 1932. 57 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Francis McDonald, Harry Semels, George Hayes, Bill Dyer, Dick Dickinson, Earl Dwire, Si Jenks, Henry Roquemore, Herman Hack, Artie Ortego. In 1919 a man returns home from the war and teams with his late father’s friend to work a mine as they attempt to trap crooks who tried to rob a payroll and murder a pilot. Entertaining, but somewhat rambling Bob Steele film with such disparate plot elements as aviation, a horse race, robbery, murder and a runaway tin lizzie.

4291  Texas Carnival  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951. 77 min. Color. D: Charles Walters. SC: Dorothy Kingsley. With Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Paula Raymond, Keenan Wynn, Tom Tully, Red Norvo Trio, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Glenn Strange, Dick Wessel, Donald MacBride, Marjorie Wood, Hans Conreid, Thurston Hall, Duke Johnson, Wilson Wood, Michael Dugan. The managers of a large Texas resort hotel mistakenly believe a circus bum is a big cattle and oil tycoon. There is not much to recommend this glossy musical comedy outside the presence of Red Skelton.

4292  Texas City  Monogram, 1952. 54 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Joseph Poland. With Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lois Hall, Lorna Thayer, Lane Bradford, Marshall Reed, Terry Frost, Lyle Talbot, Pierce Lyden, John Hart, Lennie Osborne, Stanley Price. An ex–cavalry officer is falsely accused of giving secret information about Army gold shipments to outlaws and a U.S. marshal tries to find the real culprit. Okay Johnny Mack Brown effort from near the end of his long term Monogram series.

4293  Texas Cowboy  Syndicate, 1929. 50 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: Sally Winters. With Bob Steele, Edna Aslin, J.P. McGowan, Grace Stevens, Bud Osborne, Perry Murdock, Alfred Hewston, Merrill McCormick, Cliff Lyons. A young man returns to his California ranch home to find his mother has married a brute who is trying to control her property and cheat him out of his rightful inheritance. Nicely done Bob Steele silent enhanced by pretty Edna Aslin as the neighbor girl who loves the hero.

4294  Texas Cyclone  Columbia, 1932. 57 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: Randall Faye. With Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Wheeler Oakman, John Wayne, Wallace MacDonald, James Farley, Harry Cording, Vernon Dent, Walter Brennan, Mary Gordon, Monte Montague, Glenn Strange, Alfred P. James, Al Haskell, F.R. Smith, Bud Osborne, Bob Reeves, Dick Dickinson, Frank Ellis, Tex Palmer, Herman Hack, Jack Kirk, Bud McClure, Jack Evans, Clyde McClary, Jack Hendricks, Al Taylor, Jack King, Ken Cooper. A cowboy rides into an Arizona town where he is mistaken for another man, almost gets killed and then tries to help a beautiful woman save her ranch from a crooked saloon keeper. Interesting Tim McCoy feature with John Wayne in a supporting role; remade as One Man Justice (q.v.).

Texas Desperadoes see Drift Fence

4295  Texas Detour  Arista Films, 1978. 92 min. Color. D-SC: Hikmet Avedis. With Patrick Wayne, Mitch Vogel, Priscilla Barnes, Cameron Mitchell, Lindsay Bloom, R.G. Armstrong, Anthony James, Michael Mullins, Kate O’Dare, Jeri Blenders, Gary Davis, Alan Sands, Mike Honaker, Blau Gibson, Dee Cooper, Paul Nuckles, Larry Dunn, Denver Mattson, Pam Harvey, George Harvey, Marlene Schmidt. A stuntman in the southwest joins forces with a pretty woman as they are chased by a gang of crooks. Cheaply made action melodrama.

4296  Texas Dynamo  Columbia, 1950. 54 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, John Dehner, Jock (Mahoney) O’Mahoney, Marshall Reed, George Chesebro, Lane Bradford, Slim Duncan, Emil Sitka, Fred F. Sears, Gregg Barton. The Durango Kid takes on the guise of notorious gunman Texas Dynamo as he infiltrates a gang led by a ruthless town boss. Pretty fair series entry with strong work by John Dehner as the villain. British title: Suspected.

4297  Texas Gunfighter  Tiffany, 1932. 63 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Ken Maynard, Sheila Mannors, Harry Woods, Bob Fleming, Jim Mason, Edgar Lewis, Lloyd Ingraham, Jack Rockwell, Frank Ellis, Steve Clark, Blackjack Ward, Bob Burns, Bud McClure. An outlaw gang member tries to go straight and becomes a lawman but his former cohorts want him to rob a safe. Mediocre Ken Maynard vehicle.

Texas Guns see Once Upon a Texas Train

Texas in Flames see She Came to the Valley

4298  Texas Jack  Reliable, 1932. 52 min. D: Bernard B. Ray. SC: Carl Krusada. With Jack Perrin, Jayne Regan, Nelson McDowell, Robert Walker, Lew Meehan, Cope Borden, Blackie Whiteford, Budd Buster, Oscar Gahan, Jim Oates, Steve Clark, Clyde McClary, Jack Evans, Buck Morgan. Using a medicine show as a front, a cowboy searches for the crook who lured his sister south of the border in a shady operation that resulted in her suicide. Low grade Jack Perrin feature; a poor proposition.

Texas Justice see The Lone Rider in Texas Justice

4299  The Texas Kid  Monogram, 1943. 57 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Jess Bowers (Adele Buffington). With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Marshall Reed, Shirley Patterson, Robert Fiske, Edmund Cobb, Stanley Price, Lynton Brent, Bud Osborne, Kermit Maynard, John Judd, Cyril Ring, George J. Lewis, Charles King, Horace B. Carpenter, Fred Hoose, Harry Tenbrook, Joe Phillips. Two lawmen help an ex-outlaw whose old gang is after a gold shipment carried by his stage line. Pretty good “Nevada Jack McKenzie” outing, based on a story by Lynton Brent, who is in the cast. Also known as The Adventures of the Texas Kid.

4300  Texas Lady  RKO Radio, 1955. 86 min. Color. D: Tim Whelan. SC: Horace McCoy. With Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, Gregory Walcott, Walter Sande, James Bell, Horace McMahon, John Litel, Douglas Fowley, Don Haggerty, Celia Lovsky, Alexander Campbell, Kathleen Mulqueen, Robert Lynn, Raymond Greenleaf, Francis McDonald, Buzz Henry, Stuart Randall, Grandon Rhodes, Harry Tyler, Bruce Payne, Paul Wexler, George Brand, Jim Hayward, Jeffrey Sayre, Leroy Johnson. After winning big gambling and paying off her father’s debts, a woman takes over a newspaper and opposes a local crook. Claudette Colbert out West provides some charm in this otherwise mundane drama.

4301  Texas Lawmen  Monogram, 1951. 57 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Joseph Poland. With Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, I. Stanford Jolley, Lee Roberts, Lane Bradford, Marshall Reed, Terry Frost, Lyle Talbot, Pierce Lyden, Stanley Price, John Hart, Roy Butler, Jack Hendricks. A federal marshal enlists the help of a sheriff in rounding up the outlaws who robbed a mine payroll. Stale Johnny Mack Brown-James Ellison teaming; also called Lone Star Lawmen.

Texas Layover see Blazing Stewardesses

Texas Legionnaires see Man from Music Mountain (1943)

4302  Texas Manhunt  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1942. 61 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: William Lively. With Bill “Cowboy Rambler” Boyd, Art Davis, Lee Powell, Julie Duncan, Dennis Moore, Frank Hagney, Karl Hackett, Frank Ellis, Arno Frey, Eddie Phillips, Kenne Duncan, Forrest Taylor, Frank LaRue. When ranchers are sabotaged, federal marshals suspect two cattlemen are enemy agents. The plot of spies on the range adds some life to this “Frontier Marshals” series opener.

4303  The Texas Marshal  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1941. 58 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: William Lively. With Tim McCoy, Art Davis, Kay Leslie, Karl Hackett, Ed Peil, Sr., Charles King, Dave O’Brien, Budd Buster, John Elliott, Frank Ellis, Byron Vance, Wilson Edwards, Kenne Duncan, Horace B. Carpenter, Herman Hack, Carl Mathews, George Morrell, Tex Palmer, Oscar Gahan, Art Dillard, Ray Henderson, Art Davis’ Rhythm Riders. A lawman is called in to investigate terrorism against local ranchers caused by three crooks who use a legitimate business as a front, and his problems are compounded when his singing partner is taken in by the organization. Mediocre PRC oater with too much music and too little action; Tim McCoy’s final solo starring series film.

4304  Texas Masquerade  United Artists, 1944. 59 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: Norman Houston and Jack Lait, Jr. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Mady Correll, Don Costello, Russell Simpson, Nelson Leigh, Francis McDonald, J. Farrell MacDonald, June Pickrell, John Merton, Pierce Lyden, Robert McKenzie, Bill Hunter, Snub Pollard, George Morrell, Keith Richards, Bob Burns, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. Hoppy pretends to be an Eastern dude lawyer to get the goods on a murderous band of outlaws. Novel idea wears thin as the film progresses although this “Hopalong Cassidy” entry does have a different ending with the villain dying in quicksand.