4305  Texas Panhandle  Columbia, 1945. 58 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Nanette Parks, Carolina Cotton, The Spade Cooley Band, Forrest Taylor, Edward Howard, Ted Mapes, George Chesebro, Jody Gilbert, William Gould, Jack Kirk, Budd Buster, Tex Palmer, Hugh Hooker, Tex Williams, Robert Walker, Ray Jones. An ex–Secret Service agent joins a wagon train to investigate a robbery, using his guise as the Durango Kid to round up the outlaws. Okay entry in the long running series.

4306  Texas Pioneers  Monogram, 1932. 58 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Wellyn Totman and Harry Fraser. With Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Sheila Mannors, Harry Allen, LeRoy Mason, Frank Lackteen, John Elliott, Ann Ross, Hank Bell, Iron Eyes Cody, Chief Standing Bear. When an outlaw gang attacks a remote frontier post, a scout tries to defend it. Just passable Bill Cody vehicle.

4307  The Texas Rambler  Spectrum, 1935. 59 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Oliver Drake. With Bill Cody, Catherine Cotter, Earle Hodgins, Stuart James, Mildred Rogers, Budd Buster, Ace Cain, Roger Williams, Buck Morgan, Colin Chase, Allen Greer, Bud Pope. A mysterious figure enlists the aid of a cowboy called “The Rambler” to help a young woman who crooks want to kidnap for her inheritance, one-half interest in a ranch. Better than average Bill Cody film due to Bob Hill’s direction, Oliver Drake’s script and Earle Hodgins’ villainy.

4308  The Texas Ranger  Columbia 1931. 60 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: Forrest Sheldon. With Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty, Harry Woods, Ed Brady, Nelson McDowell, Billy Bletcher, Harry Todd, Budd D. Fine, Ed Peil, Sr., Blackie Whiteford, Lew Meehan, Bert Woodruff, Edward Hearn, Dorothy Vernon, Lafe McKee, Ben Corbett, Bud Osborne, Fred Burns, Jim Corey, Blackjack Ward. A ranger tries to stop a feud between two families in Texas cattle country, the trouble being caused by a crook and his gang. Exciting and fast moving Buck Jones early talkie.

4309  The Texas Rangers  Paramount, 1936. 98 min. D: King Vidor. SC: Louis Stevens. With Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan, Edward Ellis, Bennie Bartlett, Frank Shannon, Frank Cordell, Richard Carle, Jed Prouty, Fred Kohler, George Hayes, Elena Martinez, Kathryn Bates, Rhea Mitchell, Charles Middleton, Stanley Andrews, Irving Bacon, Del Henderson, Hank Bell, Neal Hart, Jack Montgomery, Howard Joslin, Joe Dominguez, Joseph Rickman, Frank Ellis, Bill Gillis, Cecil Kellogg, Lloyd A. Saunders, Homer Farra, Ray Burgess, Gayne Whitman, Bobby Caldwell. Two outlaws reform and join the Texas Rangers, eventually taking part in a manhunt for their ex-partner. Sturdy saga, remade as Streets of Lardeo (q.v.).

4310  The Texas Rangers  Columbia, 1951. 74 min. D: Phil Karlson. SC: Richard Schayer. With George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome Courtland, Noah Beery, Jr., John Litel, William Bishop, Douglas Kennedy, John Dehner, Ian MacDonald, John Doucette, Jock (Mahoney) O’Mahoney, Joseph Fallon, Myron Healey, Julian Rivero, Trevor Bardette, Stanley Andrews, Edward Earle, Jim Bannon, Kenne Duncan, George Chesebro, Dick Curtis, William Haade, John Cason. Two former outlaws join the Texas Rangers in an attempt to bring in a notorious gang. Dull George Montgomery film.

4311  Texas Rangers  Miramax, 2001. 92 min. Color. D: Steve Miner. SC: Scott Busby and Martin Copeland. With James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, Usher Raymond, Ashton Kutcher, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Skerritt, Randy Travis, Leonor Varela, Brian Martel, Alfred Molina, Billy Morton, Kate Newby, Gordon Michaels, Joe Renteria, Robert Patrick, Joe Spano, Jordan Brower, Maro Leonardi, William Prael, Vincent Spano, Jon Abrahams, Oded Fehr, Derek S. Flores, Breon Gorman, Eric Johnson, Jesse G. Thompson, Jim Shield, David Millbern, Matt Keeslar, Steve Bridgewater, James Coburn (narrator). During the Civil War a group of Texas Rangers try to maintain the peace in the face of not only civil conflict but marauding Indians, Mexicans and outlaws. Historically inaccurate but pleasant viewing.

4312  The Texas Rangers Ride Again  Paramount, 1940. 68 min. D: James Hogan. SC: William Lipman and Horace McCoy. With John Howard, Ellen Drew, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford, May Robson, Charles Grapewin, John Miljan, Anthony Quinn, Tom Tyler, Donald Curtis, Eddie Acuff, Ruth Rogers, Robert Ryan, Eva Puig, Monte Blue, James Pierce, William Duncan, Harvey Stephens, Harold Goodwin, Edward Pawley, Eddie Foy, Jr., Joseph Crehan, Stanley Price, Charles Lane, Jack Perrin, Gordon Jones, John Miller, Henry Roquemore, Franklin Parker, Chuck Hamilton, Paul Kruger. Members of the Texas Rangers pretend to be rustlers so they can infiltrate an outlaw gang. Slick “B” production enhanced by a fine cast; a sequel to The Texas Rangers (1936) [q.v.].

4313  Texas Renegades  Producers Distributing Corporation, 1940. 56 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Harry Harvey, Kenne Duncan, Lee Prather, Earl Dunn, Hal Price, Joe McGuinn, Ray Bennett, Bud McClure, Buel Bryant, Arnold Clark. Posing as an outlaw, a lawman attempts to clean up a wild western community. Tim McCoy’s initial film for producer Sigmund Neufeld at PDC (soon to become Producers Releasing Corporation) is pretty good.

Texas Road Agent see Road Agent

Texas Sandman see Arkansas Swing

4314  Texas Stagecoach  Columbia, 1940. 59 min. D: Joseph H. Lewis. SC: Fred Myton. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Dick Curtis, Kenneth MacDonald, George Chesebro, Don Beddoe, Ed LeSaint, Harry Cording, George Morrell, Francis Walker, Blackie Whiteford, Carl Stockdale, Eddie Laughton, Lillian Lawrence, Fred Burns, George Becinita. A crooked banker promotes trouble between two rival stage lines in hopes of taking over both operations. Fairly good Charles Starrett feature.

4315  Texas Stampede  Columbia, 1939. 57 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Charles Francis Royal. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Fred Kohler, Jr., Edmund Cobb, Lee Prather, Ray Bennett, Edward Hearn, Ernie Adams, Ed Coxen, Blackjack Ward, Hank Bell, Blackie Whiteford, Charles Brinley, Horace B. Carpenter, Richard Botiller, Fred Parker. A lawman attempts to keep the peace between cattle ranchers and sheep men when the latter shut off water during a drought. Nicely done remake of The Dawn Trail (q.v.).

4316  The Texas Streak  Universal, 1926. 52 min. D-SC: Lynn Reynolds. With Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey, Slim Summerville, Alan Roscoe, James Marcus, Jack Curtis, Les Bates, Jack Murphy, William H. Turner. A broke movie cowboy extra gets a job as a surveyor’s guard for a power and water company and uncovers a plot by a crook to turn ranchers against his employer as he romances a cattleman’s pretty daughter. Breezy, fun Hoot Gibson silent feature.

4317  Texas Terror  Monogram, 1935. 58 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With John Wayne, Lucille Brown, LeRoy Mason, Fern Emmett, John Ince, George Hayes, Henry Roquemore, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Bert Dillard, Jack Duffy, Lloyd Ingraham, Bobby Nelson, Yakima Canutt, Bert O’Hara, Julia Griffith, Bud Pope, Artie Ortego, Frank Ball, Herman Hack, Tex Palmer, Jack Kenny, Tex Phelps, Tom Lingham, George Ovey, Jack Jones. Falsely believing he killed his best pal, a lawman resigns his job and becomes a prospector but after he saves the dead man’s sister in a stage holdup attempt he begins to realize the truth. Average John Wayne-Lone Star feature, but entertaining none-the-less. Remade as Guilty Trails (q.v.).

4318  Texas Terrors  Republic, 1940. 57 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Doris Schroeder and Anthony Coldeway. With Don “Red” Barry, Julie Duncan, Al St. John, Arthur Loft, Ann Pennington, Eddy Waller, William Ruhl, Sammy McKim, Reed Howes, Robert Fiske, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Hal Taliaferro, Edmund Cobb, Al Haskell, Jack Kirk, Ruth Robinson, Blackjack Ward, Curley Dresden, Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders (Johnny Bond, Dick Reinhart). A western lawyer is on the trail of the outlaws who murdered his folks. Another fast paced and well made Don Barry film; the plot is nothing new but the star and director keep it moving. Look for one-time Broadway and early talkies star Ann Pennington in a brief production number.

4319  Texas to Bataan  Monogram, 1942. 58 min. D: Robert (Emmett) Tansey. SC: Arthur Hoerl. With John King, David Sharpe, Max Terhune, Marjorie Manners, Budd Buster, Escolastico Baucin, Kenne Duncan, Frank Ellis, Carl Mathews, Guy Kingsford, Steve Clark, Al Ferguson, Tom Steele, Tex Palmer. Assigned to take a shipment of horses to the Philippine Islands for the Army, the Range Busters find they are opposed by enemy agents. Fans of the series will enjoy the patriotic romp; also called The Long, Long Trail.

4320  The Texas Tornado  Film Bookings Offices (FBO), 1928. 55 min. D: Frank Howard Clark. SC: Frank Howard Clark and Randolph Bartlett. With Tom Tyler, Frankie Darro, Nora Lane, Jack Anthony, Frank Whitson, Bob Burns, Bob Reeves, Beans (dog). A villainous rancher tries to get an oil lease by stopping his neighbors from renewing it but is thwarted by a mysterious stranger, the uncle of an orphan boy who is abducted by the crook. One of the few surviving (at 40 minutes) Tom Tyler-Frankie Darro series films from FBO moves at a fast clip and is filled with lots of action.

4321  Texas Tornado  Willis Kent, 1932. 55 min. D-SC: Oliver Drake. With Lane Chandler, Doris Hill, Buddy Roosevelt, Yakima Canutt, Robert Hale, Ben Corbett, Edward Hearn, Bart Carre, Mike Brand, Fred Burns, J. Frank Glendon, Wes Warner, Slim Whitaker, Pat Herly. A Texas Ranger gets involved with gangsters who have kidnapped a young woman and killed her father. Okay poverty row outing in Lane Chandler’s series for producer Willis Kent.

4322  Texas Trail  Paramount, 1937. 59 min. D: David Selman. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Judith Allen, Billy King, Alexander Cross, Karl Hackett, Robert Kortman, Jack Rockwell, John Beach, Ray Bennett, Phil McCullough, Earle Hodgins, Ben Corbett, John Judd, Clyde Kinney, Leo McMahon, John Powers, Cliff Parkinson. A fort commander asks Hopalong Cassidy to round up 500 horses for government use in the Spanish-American War while an outlaw leader and his gang plan to rustle the herd. Compact and entertaining series entry.

Texas Trouble see Billy the Kid’s Range War

4323  Texas Trouble Shooters  Monogram, 1942. 55 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: Arthur Hoerl. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Julie Duncan, Roy Harris (Riley Hill), Eddie Phillips, Frank Ellis, Ted Mapes, Kermit Maynard, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Steve Clark, Jack Holmes, Glenn Strange, Richard Cramer, Carl Mathews. Three cowboys try to help a man who has been attacked while trying to claim a ranch he inherited. Action filled “Range Busters” entry, including such song favorites as “Deep in the Heat of Texas” and “Light of the Western Skies.”

4324  Texas Wildcats  Victory, 1939. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton. With Tim McCoy, Joan Barclay, Forrest Taylor, Ted Adams, Dave O’Brien, Frank Ellis, Carl Mathews, Bob Terry, Slim Whitaker, Reed Howes, George Morrell, Avando Reynaldo, Wally West, Frank Wayne, Sherry Tansey, Herman Hack, Milburn Morante, Clyde McClary, Denver Dixon. Taking the guise of the mysterious Phantom, a lawman seeks to trap the man who murdered his pal and he also helps siblings whose mortgage is held by a crook. Tim McCoy fans should enjoy this “Lighting Bill Carson” episode although it is slight on production values.

4325  The Texican  Columbia, 1966. 90 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: John C. Champion. With Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford, Diana Lorys, Luz Marauez, Antonio Casas, Antonio Molino Rojo, Aldo Sambrell, Victor Israel, Antonio Peral, Jorge (George) Rigaud, Martha May, Juan Carlos Torres, Gerald Tichy, Luis Induni, Helga Genth. A cowboy seeks revenge against the ruthless town boss who falsely accused him of murder. Director Lesley Selander’s mediocre remake his earlier success Panhandle (q.v.), filmed in Spain.

4326  That Girl Montana  Pathé, 1921. 67 min. D: Robert Thornby. SC: George H. Plympton. With Blanche Sweet, Mahlon Hamilton, Frank Lanning, Ed Peil, Sr., Charles Edler, Claire Du Brey, Kate Price, Jack Roseleigh. A young woman, raised as a tomboy, is romanced by a married prospector and denounced by a mine owner who later makes her his partner when he finds out she is his long lost daughter. Complicated silent dramatization of Marah Ellis Ryan’s novel.

4327  That Texas Jamboree  Columbia, 1946. 67 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Ken Curtis, Jeff Donnell, Andy Clyde, Guinn Williams, Robert (Kellard) Stevens, The Dinning Sisters (Lou, Jean and Ginger Dinning), Andy Parker and The Plainsmen, Carolina Cotton, The Hoosier Hot Shots (Charles “Gabe” Ward, Paul “Hezzie” Trietsch, Ken Trietsch, Gil Taylor), Curt Barrett and The Trailsmen, Deuce Spriggins and His Orchestra, George Chesebro, Kenneth MacDonald, Claire Carleton, Vernon Dent, Forrest Taylor, Frank Ellis, Dick Elliott, Nolan Leary, John Ince, Frank O’Connor, Hank Bell, Ray Jones, Paul Birch. The daughter of a medicine show operator renews her romance with a town sheriff out to stop gamblers in his Western town. Not much plot but a dozen songs and some noted country-western stars make this a pleasant offering.

4328  Their Only Chance  Ellman Film Enterprises, 1975. 84 min. Color. D-SC: J. David Siddon. With Jock Mahoney, Steve Hoddy, Chris Jeffers, Mildred Watt, Ross Goddard, Jack Goddard, Greg Ruppel, Ron Lowe, Ken Ebert, Jim Swaggerty. A man braves the harsh wilderness to free a trio of wild animals. Pleasant low budget outdoor drama from producer-director-writer J. David Siddon.

4329  Them!  Warner Bros., 1954. 93 min. D: Gordon Douglas. SC: Ted Sherdeman. With James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Onslow Stevens, Chris Drake, Sean McClory, Sandy Descher, Mary Alan Hokanson, Frederick J. Foote, Olin Howlin, Scott Correll, Richard Bellis, Joel Smith, John Close, William Schallert, Cliff Ferre, Matthew McCue, Marshall Bradford, Joe Forte, Ann Doran, Willis Bouchey, John Maxwell, Leonard Nimoy, Fess Parker, Dick Wessel, Dub Taylor, Russell Gage, Robert Burger, Harry Tyler, Harry Wilson, Eddie Dew, Dorothy Green, Dean Cromer, Lawrence Dobkin, James Cardwell, Booth Colman, Walter Coy, Victor Sutherland, Jack Perrin, Royden Clark, Hubert Kerns. Due to atomic testing, ants become huge giants terrorizing the Arizona desert. One of the all-time best science fiction films, in a Western setting.

4330  There Was a Crooked Man  Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1970. 126 min. Color. D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. SC: David Newman and Robert Benton. With Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph, Arthur O’Connell, Martin Gabel, Michael Blodgett, Claude McNeil, Alan Hale, Victor French, Lee Grant, C.K. Yank, Barbara Hensley, Bert Freed, Barbara Rhodes, J. Edward McKinley, Gene Evans, Jeanne Cooper, Byron Foulger, Guy Wilkerson, James Seay, Boyd “Red” Morgan. A lawman becomes the warden of an Arizona territorial prison and matches wits with an inmate who has hidden away $500,000 from a robbery. Sturdy comedy-drama with a twist ending.

4331  There Will Be Blood  Paramount Vantage, 2007. 158 min. Color. D-SC: Paul Thomas Anderson. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin J. O’Connor, Dillon Freasier, Kellie Hill, Robert Arber, David Williams, Barry Del Sherman, Paul F. Tompkins, Randal Carver, Coco Leigh, Sydney McCallister, David Willis, James Downey, Dan Swallow, Hope Elizabeth Reeves, Irene G. Hunter, David Warshofsky, Tom Doyle, Collon Woodward, John Burton, John Chitwood, Hans Howes, Robert Barge, the Rev. Bob Bock, Colleen Fox, Irene G. Hunter, Beau Smith. In the early 1900s a ruthless Western oil tycoon pretends to be a family man so he can fool others as he claws his way to the top. Lengthy, well etched character study based on Upton Sinlair’s novel Oil.

4332  There’s a Noose Waiting for You  Doria Film/Balcazar, 1972. 89 min. Color. D: George Martin (Alfonso Balcazar). SC: S. Giovanni (Giovanni Simonelli). With George Martin, Marina Malfatti, Klaus Kinski, Daniel Martin, Augusto Pesarini, Francisco Jose Huetos, Billy (Susanna Atkinson), Willi Columbini, Luis Ponciado, Indio Gonzales, Manuel Muniz, Manuel Sas, Ricardo Moyan, Manuel Bronchud, Gustavo Re, Adolfo Alises, Miguel Muniesa, Vittorio Fanfoni, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Luis Induni, Mara Krupp. After serving a prison sentence for shooting his brother’s killer, a man returns home vowing to give up his guns but is soon beset by land grabbers and a bounty hunter. Average sequel to Clint the Stranger (q.v)., an Italian-Spanish co-production originally called Il Ritorno di Clint il Solitario (The Return of Clint the Stranger).

4333  These Thousand Hills  20th Century–Fox, 1959. 96 min. Color. D: Richard Fleischer. SC: Alfred Hayes. With Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker, Harold J. Stone, Royal Dano, Jean Willes, Douglas Fowley, Fuzzy Knight, Robert Adler, Barbara Morrison, Ned Weaver, Steve Darrell, Tom Greenway, Ben Wright, Jess Kirkpatrick, John Epper, Fred Graham, Nelson Leigh, Ken Renard, Frank Lavier, Cap Somers. An ambitious rancher deserts the girl he loves to marry a banker’s daughter but eventually learns the meaning of loyalty and responsibility. Well written, directed and acted drama.

They Call Him Cemetery see A Bullet for a Stranger

They Call Me Hallelujah see Deep End

They Call Me Renegade see Renegade (1987)

4334  They Call Me Trinity  Avco-Embassy, 1971. 117 min. D-SC: E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni). With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger, Steffan Zacharias, Dan Sturkie, Gisela Hahn, Elena Pedemonte, Ezio Marano, Luciano Rossi, Michelle Spaeara, Remo Capitani, Michele Cimarosa. Two bungling brothers agree to protect a Mormon town against a band of marauding bandits. Funny take-off of Spaghetti Westerns, first released in Italy as Lo Chiamavano Trinita (They Called Him Trinity) followed by Trinity Is Still My Name (q.v.).

4335  They Came to Cordura  Columbia, 1959. 123 min. Color. D: Robert Rossen. SC: Ivan Moffat and Robert Rossen. With Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte, Tab Hunter, Michael Callan, Dick York, Robert Keith, Carlos Romero, Jim Bannon, Edward Platt, Maurice Jara, Sam Buffington, Arthur Hanson. During the conflict with Pancho Villa, a demoted Army officer is assigned to find recipients for the Congressional Medal of Honor and during a trek across the Mexican desert his party is accompanied by a woman accused of giving aid to the rebels. Overlong and complicated, this unsatisfying film was Gary Cooper’s final Western.

4336  They Died with Their Boots On  Warner Bros., 1941. 140 min. D: Raoul Walsh. SC: Wally Kline and Aeneas MacKenzie. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, Sydney Greenstreet, Stanley Ridges, John Litel, Walter Hampden, Regis Toomey, Hattie McDaniel, G.P. Huntley, Jr., Frank Wilcox, Joseph Sawyer, Minor Watson, Gig Young, John Ridgely, Joseph Crehan, Aileen Pringle, Anna Q. Nilsson, Harry Lewis, Tod Andrews, William Hopper, Selmer Jackson, Patrick McVey, Renie Riano, Minerva Urecal, Virginia Sale, Vera Lewis, Frank Orth, Hobart Bosworth, Irving Bacon, Roy Barcroft, Lane Chandler, Ed Keane, Francis Ford, Frank Ferguson, Herbert Heywood, Walter Brooke, Sam McDaniel, Addison Richards, Eddie Parker, George Reed, William Forrest, James Seay, George Eldredge, John Hamilton, Edna Holland, Spencer Charters, Ray Teal, Harry Strang, Max Hoffman, Jr., Dick Wessel, Weldon Heyburn, Frank Mayo, Irving Bacon, Steve Darrell, Russell Hicks, Ian MacDonald, Jack Mower, Hugh Sothern, Arthur Loft, G. Pat Collins, Virginia Brissac, Walter Baldwin, Fred Kelsey, Wade Crosby, Joe Devlin, Joseph King, Matty Faust, Paul Kruger, Victor Zimmerman, Dick French, Garland Smith, Bob Perry, Sol Gorss, Alberta Gary, Annabelle Jones, Carl Harbaugh. The story of George Armstrong Custer, from his graduation from West Point, through the Civil War and his final stand at the Little Big Horn River. Overlong and historically inaccurate, but still fun.

4337  They Ran for Their Lives  Columbia/Masterpiece, 1969. 92 min. Color. D: John Payne (and uncredited Oliver Drake). SC: Monroe Mowsley. With John Payne, Luana Patten, Scott Brady, John Carradine, Jim Davis, Anthony Eisley, Darwin Lamb, Boyd Stockman, Bill Koontz, Bravo (dog). A man camping with his dog assists a young woman being tracked by three crooks after important papers she is carrying. A good cast helps cover the production deficiencies in this little seen feature made near Las Vegas in 1967.

4338  They Rode West  Columbia, 1954. 84 min. Color. D: Phil Karlson. SC: DeVallon Scott and Frank Nugent. With Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Phil(ip) Carey, Onslow Stevens, Peggy Converse, Roy Roberts, Jack Kelly, Stuart Randall, Eugene Iglesias, Frank De Kova, Ralph Dumke, James Best, George Keymas, Maurice Jara, John War Eagle. An Army camp commander and his post doctor are at odds when the physician wants to treat a local Indian tribe during a malaria outbreak. Petty fair action melodrama.

They Were Called Graveyard see Twice a Judas

4339  Thirteen Fighting Men  20th Century–Fox, 1960. 71 min. D: Harry Gerstad. SC: Robert Hammer and Jack Thomas. With Guy Williams, Carole Mathews, Brad Dexter, Robert Dix, Richard Garland, Rayford Barnes, John Erwin, Richard Crane, Rex Holman, Bob Palmer, Mauritz Hugo, Dick Monohan, Ted Knight, Fred Kohler, Jr., I. Stanford Jolley, Walter Reed, John Merrick, Brad Harris. Near the end of the Civil War, a Union patrol tries to prevent Confederates from taking a fortune in gold they are transporting. Standard action feature with a good supporting cast.

4340  30 Winchesters for El Diablo  Foreign Studios, 1965. 91 min. Color. D: Frank G. Carrol (Gianfranco Baldanello). SC: Al Bradly (Alfonso Brescia). With Carl Mohner, Topsy Collins (Alessandra Panaro), John Heston (Ivano Staccioli), Anthony Garof (Antonio Garisa), Jose Torres, Mila Stanic, Gay Gallwey (Renato Chiantoni), William Spoletin (Guglielmo Spoletini), William Burke (Attilio Dottesio), Max Darnell (Mario Dardanelli), Jean Mean (Dante Maggio). The mysterious El Diablo heads a cattle rustling gang that operates around Canyon City and a federal agent is sent to stop him. Average Italian produced oater made there as Trenta Winchester per El Diablo (Thirty Winchesters for El Diablo) and also called Gold Train.

4341  This Is My Alaska  Alaskan Adventure, 1969. 120 min. Color. D-SC: Leroy Shebal. With Leroy Shebal, Vivian Shebal, Gary Okahal. Leory Shebal photographed and narrates this sportsman’s guide to Alaska, including exploration by bush plane, wolf hunting, snowmobile racing and Eskimos after polar bear. For fans of this type of fare.

4342  This Man Can’t Die  Fine Products, 1970. 90 min. Color. D: Gianfranco Baldanello. SC: Luigi Emmanuele and Gino Mangini. With Guy Madison, Peter Martell, Rik Battaglia, Lucienne Birdou, Steve Merrick, Rosalba Neri, Robert Widmark (Alberto Dell’Acqua), John Bartha. Working for the government, two adventurers pose as outlaws to infiltrate a gang of gun runners. Pretty good Spaghetti Western that should please Guy Madison fans; made in Italy as I Lunghi Giorni dell’Odio (The Long Days of Hate).

4343  This Rugged Land  Columbia, 1965. 72 min. D: Arthur Hiller. SC: Frank S. Nugent. With Richard Egan, Charles Bronson, Terry Moore, Ryan O’Neal, Anne Seymour, Denver Pyle, Oliver McGowan, Vic Perrin, Paul Tripp. A New Mexico ranch hand is accused of the murder of a co-worker’s daughter. Shown in Europe in 1965 as a feature film, this was the debut episode of “Empire” (NBC-TV, 1962–63); issued on video as Mean Justice.

4344  This Savage Land. Universal, 1969. 98 min. Color. D: Vincent McEveety. SC: Richard Fiedler. With Barry Sullivan, George C. Scott, Kathryn Hays, Brenda Scott, Andrew Prine, Kelly Corcoran, Katherine Squire, Glenn Corbett, Charles Seel, John Drew Barrymore, Roy Roberts, Rex Holman. A widower moves his family West from Ohio to a frontier town where they are terrorized by vigilantes. Strong melodrama, issued theatrically, although it was first a two part episode of “The Road West” (NBC-TV, 1966–67), telecast September 12 and 19, 1966. Also called The Savage Land.

4345  This Was the West That Was  NBC-TV/Universal, 1974. 74 min. Color. D: Fiedler Cook. SC: Sam H. Rolfe. With Ben Murphy, Kim Darby, Matt Clark, Jane Alexander, Anthony Franciosa, Stuart Margolin, Stefan Gierasch, Bill McKinney, M.L. LeGaut, Roger Robinson, Luke Askew, Woodrow Parfrey, Milton Selzer, Bruce Glover, Wayne Sutherlin, Ronnie Clair Edwards, Dimitra Arliss, Roger Davis (narrator). Gunmen are out to get even with Wild Bill Hickok, who must also contend with a romantic Calamity Jane. There is not much to recommend the satire of Western legends.

4346  Thomasine and Bushrod  Columbia, 1974. 95 min. Color. D: Gordon Parks, Jr. SC: Max Julien and Harvey Bernard With Max Julien, Vonetta McGee, George Murdock, Glynn Turman, Juanita Moore, Joel Fluellen, Jackson D. Kane, Ben Zeller, Jason Bernard, Bud Conlan, Kip Allen, Herb Robins, Harry Luck, Jason Bernard. In 1911 Texas a black man and woman form a Robin Hood-type robbery team and are hunted by the law. Passable exploitation drama.

4347  Thorobred  Clark-Cornelius Corporation, 1922. 50 min. D-SC: George Halligan. With Helen Gibson, Bob Burns, Otto Nelson, Jack Ganzhorn. A woman takes over her father’s duties as sheriff and tracks an outlaw, eventually using the guise of a saloon girl to catch him. This silent Helen Gibson vehicle is lots of fun.

4348  Those Dirty Dogs  Cinema Financial of America, 1974. 89 min. Color. D: Giuseppe Rosati. SC: Carl (Carlos) Veo, Giuseppe Rosati and Henry Lovett (Enrique Llovet). With Stephen Boyd, Johnny (Gianni) Garko, Helga Line, Simon Andreu, Howard Ross, Harry Baird, Teresa Gimpera, Alfredo Mayo, Mirella Dogan, Enzo Fiermann, Gabriella Giorgelli, Andrea Scotti (Andrew Scott), Daniele Vargas, Lee Burton (Guido Lollobrigida), Furio Meniconi. Three officers, whose convoy has been mostly wiped out by Mexican bandits, try to exchange the kidnapped daughter of a fort doctor for the gang’s leader, who they have captured. Well made but very brutal Italian-Spanish co-production, issued in Spain by Plata Films/San Bernardo/Horse Films as Los Cuatro de Fort Apache (The Four of Fort Apache) and in Italy as Campa Carogna...La Taglia Cresce; also called Charge!

4349  Those Redheads from Seattle  Paramount, 1953. 90 min. Color. D: Lewis R. Foster. SC: Lewis R. Foster, Geoffrey Homes and George Worthing Yates. With Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer, Jean Parker, Cynthia Bell, Kay Bell, Bill Pullen, John Kellogg, Frank Wilcox, Roscoe Ates, Michael Ross, Walter Reed, Ed Rand. A woman and her four lovely daughters head to Alaska during the Gold Rush to join her new husband, a newspaper editor, and find he has been murdered. Originally issued in 3-D, this light affair is fairly enjoyable and provides a chance to see two of the all-time top recording artists, Guy Mitchell and cute Teresa Brewer, who is quite good as the youngest sister.

4350  Thousand Pieces of Gold  Greycat Films, 1991. 105 min. Color. D: Nancy Kelly. SC: Anne Makepeace. With Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Michael Paul Chan, Dennis Dun, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Will Oldham, David Hayward, Beth Broderick, Kim Chan, Chris Evans, Weili Fan, Evan C. Kim, Freda Foh Shen, John M. Hosking, Mary Vatvy, Alvert J. Kalanick, Mary Lee, Jianli Zhang, Ron Dorn, George Kee Cheung, James Lortz, Saachiko, Brien D. Sankey. A Chinese girl comes to an Idaho mining community where a saloon keeper tries to sell her as a prostitute but she finds love with a cowboy. Fair program Western based on Ruthanne Lum McCunn’s book.

4351  Three Amigos  Orion, 1986. 105 min. Color. D: John Landis. SC: Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman. With Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Patrice Martinez, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, Joe Mantegna, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Jorge Cervera, Kai Wulff, Abel Franco, Fred Asparagus, Philip Gordon, Michael Wren, Gene Hartline, William Kaplan, Sophia Lamour, Santos Morales, Tino Insana, Craig Berenson, Josh Gallegos, Norbert Weisser, Brian Thompson, Hector Elias, Hector Morales, Betty Carvalho, Brinke Stevens, Randy Newman (voice). Going to Mexico to make personal appearances, three faded cowboy silent film heroes find they are expected to live up to their screen images by ridding a Mexican village of bandits. Somewhat amusing takeoff on the Western genre.

4352  Three Bad Men  Fox, 1926. 87 min. D: John Ford. SC: John Stone. With George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Tom Santschi, Frank Campeau, George Harris, Jay Hunt, Priscilla Bonner, Otis Harlan, Walter Perry, Grace Gordon, Alec B. Francis, George Irving, Phyllis Haver, Vester Pegg. During the 1876 Dakota land rush a former West Point cadet joins a family planning to settle there and helps them oppose outlaws and a crooked sheriff. Very good John Ford silent effort with just the right mixture of action, romance and sentiment.

4353  Three Bad Men  Iron Horse Entertainment, 2005. 118 min. Color. D-SC: Jeff Hathcock. With George Kennedy, Peter Brown, Mike Moroff, Chris Gann, John Dixon, Don Mack, David Orton, June Wilkinson, Megan McNally, Curtis Pierson, Tim Cable, Jerry Banks, Spero Stamboulis, Craig Kolkebeck, Troy Hardin, Tyrone Loukas, Wendy Miklovic, Jon K. Farless, Ben Drury, Monica Zamora. As they flee after a bank heist, three robbers agree to a dying man’s request to save his wife who has been kidnapped by an outlaw gang. Overlong, less than mediocre oater.

4354  Three Bullets for a Long Gun  Avco-Embassy, 1973. 89 min. Color. D-SC: Peter Henkel. With Beau Brummell, Keith Van Der Wat, Patrick Mynhardt, Tullio Moneta, Don McCorkindale, Gaby Getz, Jose De Sousa. Two men, a gunman and a Mexican bandit, join forces to find a hidden Confederate treasure only to become enemies during the quest. Okay action Western, a South African-West German co-production, filmed in Africa as Friss den Staub von Meinen Stiefeln in 1970.

4355  Three Bullets for Ringo  Profilm, 1966. 100 min. Color. D: Emimmo Salvi. SC: Ambrogio Molteni and Emimmo Salvi. With Gordon Mitchell, Mickey Hargitay, Milla Sannoner, John Heston (Ivano Staccioli), Mike Moore (Amedeo Trilli), Spean Convery (Sparataco Conversi), Dante Maggio, Margherita Horowitz, Isarco Ravaioli, Nino Fuscagni, Bruno Arie, Willy Miniver. After losing his sight, a gunman plots to get revenge for the murder of his mother and save his wife and son who have been kidnapped by a land grabber and his gang. Average Italian oater originally called Tre Colpi de Winchester per Ringo (Three Shots of a Winchester for Ringo) and titled Three Graves for a Winchester in the U.S.

4356  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada  Sony Pictures Classics, 2005. 121 min. Color. D: Tommy Lee Jones. SC: Guillermo Arriaga. With Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo, Levon Helm, Mel Rodriguez, Cecilia Suarez, Ignacio Guadalupe, Vanessa Bauche, Irineo Alvarez, Guillermo Arriaga, Josh Berry, Rodger Boyce, Edwin “Bubba” Broussard, Rene Campero, Ariel Castro, Sonny Carl Davis, Jesse De Luna, Richard Dillard, Guillermo von Son, Sean Hennigan, Richard Jones, Barry Tubb, Adrian Navarette, Angelina Torres, Terry Parks, Gustavo Sanchez Parra, Brent Smiga, Charles Sanders. After a friend has been buried twice, a ranch foreman tries to keep a promise he made to the deceased by forcing a lawman to dig up the body a third time and take it by mule into Mexico for final interment. Disoriented modern Western, not for all tastes.

4357  Three Desperate Men  Lippert, 1951. 71 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Orville Hampton. With Preston Foster, Jim Davis, Virginia Grey, Monte Blue, Ross Latimer, Sid Melton, Rory Mallinson, John Brown, Margaret Seddon, House Peters, Jr., Joel Newfield, Lee Bennett, Steve Belmont, Carol Henry, Kermit Maynard, Bert Dillard, Milton Kibbee, William Norton Bailey, Gene Randall, William Haade, Denver Dixon. Three brothers who were once on the side of the law are forced to become criminals with prices on their heads. Pretty fair action drama with an especially good performance by Monte Blue as the lawman forced to hunt down his pals.

4358  Three Faces West  Republic, 1940. 83 min. D: Bernard Vorhaus. SC: F. Hugh Herbert, Joseph Moncure March and Samuel Ornitz. With John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters, Roland Varno, Trevor Bardette, Helen MacKellar, Sonny Bupp, Wade Boteler, Russell Simpson, Charles Waldron, Wendell Niles, Dewey Robinson, Francis Ford, Manuel Paris, Wolfgang Zilzer, Frederick Vogeding, Frank Brownlee, Byron Foulger, Si Jenks, Stuart Holmes, Mary Field, Jack Montgomery, Bob Burns, Arthur Millett, Douglas Evans, Jim Corey, Horace B. Carpenter, Victor Potel, Bill Nestell, John Sheehan, Hank Patterson, Ted Stanhope, Bill Wolfe. A Viennese refugee doctor and his daughter arrive in a North Dakota town and eventually help a farmer in moving the community to Oregon after drought ruins their crops. Underrated John Wayne feature provides good entertainment; originally called The Refugee.

4359  Three Godfathers  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1936. 82 min. D: Richard Boleslawski. SC: Edward E. Paramore and Manuel Self. With Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Tree, Robert Livingston, Joseph Marievsky, Jean Kirchner, Sidney Toler, Roger Imhoff, Willard Robertson, John Sheehan, Victor Potel, Harvey Clark, Helen Brown, Virginia Brissac. Escaping into the desert after robbing a frontier town bank of its Christmas savings, three outlaws find a dying woman and her baby and after their horses drink poisoned water they attempt to return the infant to civilization. Well done, glossy version of the Peter B. Kyne story that was first filmed in 1908 as Broncho Billy and the Baby starring G.M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson. In 1916 Universal made a six reel version of The Three Godfathers starring Harry Carey, with Hart (Jack) Hoxie in a supporting role; Edward J. LeSaint, later a character actor in Westerns, directed. The first sound version was Hell’s Heroes (q.v.). TV title: Miracle in the Sand.

4360  3 Godfathers  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1948. 108 min. Color. D: John Ford. SC: Laurence Stallings and Frank S. Nugent. With John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey, Jr., Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, Mae Marsh, Charles Halton, Dorothy Ford, Ben Johnson, Michael Dugan, Don Summers, Fred Libby, Hank Worden, Jack Pennick, Francis Ford. After robbing a small town bank, three outlaws flee into the desert where they find a woman and her newborn infant and agree to her dying wish that they take it to safety. Filmed in Monument Valley and dedicated to the memory of Harry Carey, this John Ford classic is one very fine Western.

John Wayne and Pedro Armendariz in 3 Godfathers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1948).

Three Graves for a Winchester see Three Bullets for Ringo

4361  Three Guns for Texas  Universal, 1968. 99 min. Color. D: David Lowell Rich, Paul Stanley and Earl Bellamy. SC: John D.F. Black. With Neville Brand, Peter Brown, William Smith, Martin Milner, Philip Carey, Albert Salmi, Cliff Osmond, Michael Conrad, Shelley Morrison, John Abbott, Richard Devon, Ralph Manza, Dub Taylor, Roy Barcroft, Chuck Courtney, John Mitchum, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane), X Brands, Bill Walker, John Cliff, Sam Edwards, Richard Collier, Russ McCubbin, William Vaughan, Marianne Gordon. Texas Rangers are on the trail of an outlaw gang led by an Indian woman with one of the lawmen becoming under the romantic spell of a pretty tribal maiden. Passable theatrical dual bill item sewn together from three episodes of “Laredo” (NBC-TV, 1965–67).

4362  Three Hours to Kill  Columbia, 1954. 77 min. Color. D: Alfred Werker. SC: Richard Alan Simmons, Roy Huggins and Maxwell Shane. With Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott, Richard Coogan, Laurence Hugo, James Westerfield, Richard Webb, Carolyn Jones, Charlotte Fletcher, Whit Bissell, Felipe Turich, Arthur Fox, Francis McDonald, Frank Hagney, Syd Saylor, Paul E. Burns. Years after he is falsely accused of killing his fiancee’s brother, a man returns home to prove his innocence. Taut melodrama that is well acted, especially by Dana Andrews as the protagonist trying to find a murderer.

4363  Three in the Saddle  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1945. 61 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Tex Ritter, Dave O’Brien, Guy Wilkerson, Lorraine Miller, Charles King, Edward Howard, Ed Cassidy, Bud Osborne, Frank Ellis, Bob Duncan, Art Fowler, Jimmy Aubrey, Herman Hack, Ray Henderson, Jack Tornek, Post Park. A trio of lawmen attempt to help a young woman whose ranch is being sought by a land grabber. Ragged “Texas Rangers” series entry with Tex Ritter singing a couple of fair tunes.

4364  Three Men from Texas  Paramount, 1940. 73 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Norton S. Parker. With William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Morris Ankrum, Morgan Wallace, Thornton Edwards, Esther Estrella, Davison Clark, Dick Curtis, Glenn Strange, Bob Burns, Jim Corey, George Morrell, Frank McCarroll, George Lollier, Nely Marx (Neyle Morrow), Wen Wright, Carlos De Valdez, Lucio Villegas, Roy Butler, Frank Ellis, Cliff Markson, Michael Vallon, Charles Murphy, John “Skins” Miller, Tex Phelps, Chuck Morrison, Milburn Morante, Herman Hack, Bill Nestell, Jack King, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko, Fred Burns. Hopalong Cassidy attempts to reform petty crook California Carlson and with Lucky Jenkins they travel to a town where a criminal is trying to steal land from its owners. A good story and an exciting climax makes this a top notch entry in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series, although it is more brutal than most Hoppy features. Well worth watching, this one introduced Andy Clyde as California Carlson. British title: Rangers Go West.

4365  The Three Mesquiteers  Republic, 1936. 61 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Jack Natteford. With Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Syd Saylor, Kay Hughes, J.P. McGowan, Frank Yaconelli, Alan Bridge, Stanley Blystone, John Merton, Gene Marvey, Milburn Stone, Duke York, Allen Connor, Nena Quartero, George Plues, Wally West, Tracy Layne, Ray Henderson, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko, Oscar Gahan, Cactus Mack, Rudy Sooter, John Ince, Jack Evans, Rose Plummer. Three cowboy pals find themselves in the middle of a feud between rival cattlemen. Fast paced initial entry in the popular and long running “The Three Mesquiteers” series, based on the works of William Colt MacDonald.

4366  Three Musketeers of the West  Star Films S.A., 1973. 87 min. Color. D: Bruno Corbucci. SC: Tito Carpi, Bruno Corbucci, Leonardo Martin and Peter Berling. With George Eastman (Luigi Montefiori), Timothy Brent (Giancarlo Prete), Eduardo Fajardo, Karin Schubert, Chris Huerta, Leo Anchoriz, Carlo Rustichelli, Pietro Tordi, Chen Lee, Peter Berling, Osiride Pevarello, Max Turilli, Vittorio Congia, Eleanora Giorgi. A trio of Texas Rangers and a hillbilly agree to escort a female doctor, who is really a spy, into hostile Mexican territory. Fair Spaghetti Western, an Italian-Spanish-West German co-production made as Tutti per Uno, Botte per Tutti (All for One, Cash for All).

4367  Three on the Trail  Paramount, 1936. 67 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Doris Schroeder and Vernon Smith. With William Boyd, James Ellison, Onslow Stevens, George Hayes, Muriel Evans, Claude King, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Young, Ernie Adams, Ted Adams, Lew Meehan, John St. Polis, Al Hill, Jack Rutherford, Lita Cortez, Artie Ortego, Franklyn Farnum, Joe Rickson, Hank Bell, Jack Montgomery. The Bar 20 trio oppose a ruthless saloon owner who is in cahoots with the local sheriff in cattle rustling and stage holdups. Sturdy “Hopalong Cassidy” feature.

4368  The Three Outlaws  Associated Film Releasing, 1956. 75 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Orville Hampton. With Neville Brand, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, Jeanne Carmen, Jose Gonzales Gonzales, Rodolfo Hoyos, Robert Tafur, Bill Henry, Harry Lauter, Jonathan Hale, Lillian Molieri, Robert Christopher, Vincent Padula, Henry Escalante. A federal lawman is after Butch Cassidy and his gang, who have gone to Mexico pretending to be honest citizens. Pretty dreary.

Three Rogues see Not Exactly Gentlemen

4369  The Three Swords of Zorro  Hispamer/Roder/Cepicsa Italia Films, 1963. 89 min. Color. D: Richard (Ricardo) Blasco. SC: Jacques Dumas, Mario Amendola, Luis Lucas Ojeda, Daniel Ribera, Ricardo Blasco and Jose Gallardo. With Guy Stockwell, Gloria Milland, Mikaela Wood, Antonio Prieto, John MacDouglas (Giuseppe Addobbati), Franco Fantasia, Rafael Vaquero, Felix Fernandez, Robert Dean, Antonio Gradoli. In 1830s Spanish California, Zorro’s son and daughter help him in fighting a corrupt governor. Action filled Italian-Spanish co-production released in Spain as Las Tres Espadas del Zorro (The Three Swords of Zorro) and in Italy as Le Tre Spade di Zorro (The Three Swords of Zorro); U.S. title: Sword of Zorro.

4370  3:10 to Yuma  Columbia, 1957. 92 min. D: Delmer Daves. SC: Halstead Welles. With Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Emhardt, Sheridan Comerate, George Mitchell, Robert Ellenstein, Ford Rainey, Barry Curtis, Jerry Hartleben. When a peaceable cowboy witnesses a holdup he tries to keep the gang leader prisoner until a train arrives with a lawman who will take him to trial. Sturdy action film that is good entertainment; Frankie Laine sings the haunting title song.

4371  3:10 to Yuma  Lionsgate, 2007. 122 min. Color. D: James Mangold. SC: Halstead Welles, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. With Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Tudyk, Luce Rains, Gretchen Mol, Lennie Loftin, Rio Alexander, Johnny Whitworth, Shawn D. Howell, Pat Ricotti, Ramon Frank, Deryle Lujan, James Augure, Brian Duffy, Jason Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Chris Browning, Chad Brummett, Forrest Frye, Luke Wilson, Ben Petry, Arron Shiver, Sean Hennigan, Girard Swan, Christopher Berry, David Oliver, Jason Henning, Trevor Coppola, Brent Lambert, Brian T. Short, James Blackburn, Billy Lockwood, Hugh Elliot, Darren Gibson. An outlaw and a rancher match wits on the way to catch the train that is to take the bad man to trial. Acceptable remake of the 1957 film (q.v.); a big moneymaker.

4372  Three Texas Steers  Republic, 1939. 57 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts. With John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis, Ralph Graves, Roscoe Ates, Collette Lyons, Billy Curtis, Ted Adams, Stanley Blystone, David Sharpe, Ethan Laidlaw, Lew Kelly, Dave Willock, John Merton, Ted Mapes, Jack Kirk, Bob Burns, John Beach, Naba the Gorilla (Ray Corrigan). Crooks sabotage a woman’s circus to force her to sell a ranch so they can use it to build a dam to control the local water supply. Fair entry in “The Three Mesquiteers” series, but not one of the best. Ray Corrigan played both Tucson Smith and Willie the Gorilla, the latter in his Naba costume. British title: Danger Rides the Range.

4373  Three Violent People  Paramount, 1957. 100 min. Color. D: Rudolph Mate. SC: James Edward Grant. With Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Forrest Tucker, Bruce Bennett, Tom Tryon, Elaine Stritch, Barton MacLane, Peter Hansen, John Harmon, Ross Bagdasarian, Bobby (Robert) Blake, Raymond Greenleaf, Don Devlin, Roy Engel, Argentina Brunetti, Leo Castillo. In Texas during Reconstruction an ex–Confederate and his brother oppose carpetbaggers while facing a romantic triangle involving one of their wives. Okay action melodrama.

4374  Three Warriors  United Artists/Fantasy Films, 1978. 100 min. Color. D: Keith Merrill. SC: Sy Gomberg. With Randy Quaid, Byron Patt, Charlie White Eagle, Lois Red Elk, McKee Redwing. A 14-year-old Indian boy leaves his mother and two sisters to learn the ways of his people and meets a rawboned Indian agent recruit trying to adapt to his new job. Overlong but fairly pleasing drama.

4375  Three Word Brand  Paramount-Artcraft, 1921. 70 min. D-SC: Lambert Hillyer. With William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Gordon Russell, S.J. Bingham, George C. Pearce, Colette Forbes, Ivor McFadden, Herschel Mayall, Leo Willis, Bill Patton. After their father is killed fighting Indians two brothers grow up as strangers, one being the governor of the state where the other, a rancher, opposes a dishonest water rights bill. Well produced William S. Hart silent entertainment with the star performing three roles, that of the two grown siblings and their father.

4376  Three Young Texans  20th Century–Fox, 1954. 76 min. Color. D: Henry Levin. SC: Gerald Drayson Adams. With Mitzi Gaynor, Jeffrey Hunter, Keefe Brasselle, Harvey Stephens, Dan Riss, Michael Ansara, Aaron Spelling, Morris Ankrum, Frank Wilcox, Helen Wallace, John Harmon, Alex Montoya, Vivian Marshall. When outlaws try to force his father to take part in a robbery a young man commits the crime himself but cannot return the money because his friend hides it. Average oater with nothing special to offer.

4377  The Thrill Hunter  Columbia, 1933. 58 min. D: George B. Seitz. SC: Harry O. Hoyt. With Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Ed LeSaint, Eddie Kane, Alice Dahl, Arthur Rankin, Frank LaRue, Robert Ellis, Harry Semels, Al Smith, John Ince, Alf James, Harry Todd, Willie Fung, Jim Corey, Frank Ellis, Art Mix, Glenn Strange, Buddy Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Hank Bell, Joe Ryan, Billy Sullivan, Charles Brinley. A long-winded cowboy gets to star in a movie and ends up capturing the remaining members of a notorious outlaw gang. Speedy adventure that pokes fun at Westerns.

4378  Throw a Saddle on a Star  Columbia, 1946. 60 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Ken Curtis, Jeff Donnell, Adele Roberts, Guinn Williams, Andy Clyde, Frank Sully, The Dinning Sisters (Ginger, Jean and Lou Dinning), Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage (Darol Rice, Al Sloey, George Bamby), The Hoosier Hotshots (Charles “Gabe” Ward, Ken Trietsch, Paul “Hezzie” Trietsch, Gil Taylor), Maxine Doyle, Robert (Scott) Kellard, Emmett Lynn, Ed Peil, Sr., George Morrell, Roy Butler, Eddie Bruce, Rube Dalroy, Billy Gray, Ace Williams, Earl Duane, Jack Parker, Larry Prescott, Buck Shaw, Danny Weir. A ranch owner tries to get his rodeo rider son to reconcile with his girlfriend, fearing the breakup will make the young man lose in the championship competition thus causing the father to lose his ranch which he bet on his boy to win. Another Columbia Pictures’ western music fest under the guise of being an oater.

4379  The Throwback  Universal, 1935. 61 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Frances Guihan. With Buck Jones, Muriel Evans, George Hayes, Eddie Phillips, Paul Fix, Frank LaRue, Earl Pinegree, Robert Walker, Charles K. French, Bryant Washburn, Lafe McKee, Allan Ramsey, Margaret Davis, Bobby Nelson, Mickey Martin. Fifteen years after his father was falsely accused of thievery, a man returns home to find himself framed on the same charge. Buck Jones fans will go for this well scripted action melodrama.

4380  Thunder at the Border  Columbia, 1967. 98 min. Color. D: Alfred Vohrer. SC: David De Reszke, C.B. Taylor and Harald G. Petersson. With Rod Cameron, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Harald Leipnitz, Todd Armstrong, Viktor de Kowa, Nadia Gray, Rik Battaglia, Jorg Marquardt, Vladimir Medar, Miha Baloh, Aleksandar Gavric, Emil Kutijaro, Illja Ivezic, Dusan Antonijevic, Walter Wilz, Milan Bosiljcic, Aleksanadar Stojkovic, Marija Cronbori, Tana Mascarelli, Aleksandar Belaric, Adela Podjed, Boris Dvornik, Dado Habazin, Nikola Gec, Emil Mikuljan, Stejepan Spoljaric, Ivo Kristof, Vladimir Simac, Franc Ursic, Jovan Yukovic, Zvonko Dobrin, Sime Jagarinac. Frontiersman Old Firehand and his blood brother, Apache chief Winnetou, help the settlers of a remote village besieged by a gang of cutthroats. Nifty, fierce West German production with a fine performance by Rod Cameron as Old Firehand. Issued in Europe in 1966 by Rialto/Jadran-Film as Winnetou und Sein Freund Old Firehand (Winnetou and His Friend Old Firehand).

Thunder Cloud see Colt .45

4381  Thunder in God’s Country  Republic, 1951. 67 min. D: George Blair. SC: Arthur Orloff. With Rex Allen, Buddy Ebsen, Mary Ellen Kay, Ian MacDonald, Paul Harvey, Harry Lauter, John Doucette, Harry V. Cheshire, John Ridgely, Frank Ferguson, Wilson Wood. An escaped convict arrives in a small town and begins taking advantage of the citizens until he is opposed by a cowboy and his pal. Rex Allen fans will go for this one, with a good plot and lots of action.

4382  Thunder in the Desert  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton. With Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Don Barclay, Ed Brady, Charles King, Horace Murphy, Steve Clark, Lew Meehan, Ernie Adams, Richard Cramer, Budd Buster, Sherry Tansey. Pals Bob and Rusty join an outlaw gang while searching for the man who killed Bob’s uncle, the rightful owner of a ranch the crooks want. Bob Steele is great in this otherwise fair Western with some well done comedy that even has villain Charles King as an early romantic interest for the leading lady! “Thunder” in the title refers to dynamite used to blow up waterholes.

4383  Thunder in the Pines  Screen Guild, 1948. 62 min. D: Robert (Gordon) Edwards. SC: Maurice Tombragel. With George Reeves, Ralph Byrd, Denise Darcel, Greg McClure, Michael Whalen, Marion Martin, Lyle Talbot, Vince Barnett, Roscoe Ates, Tom Kennedy, Millicent Patrick, Frank Hagney, Jack Tornek, Joey Ray, Arno Tanney. Two rival lumberjacks put their hostilities aside when outsiders endanger their interests. Okay north woods action feature with a chance to see Denise Darcel early in her career.

4384  Thunder in the Sun  Paramount, 1959. 82 min. Color. D-SC: Russell Rouse. With Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Blanche Yurka, Carl Esmond, Fortunio Bonanova, Felix Locher, Bertrand Castelli, Albert Carrier, Michele Marty, Alberto Villa, Veda Ann Borg. In 1850 a wagon train of French Basques heads to California to plant vineyards and along the way a pretty woman is romanced by two men, including the wagon master. The plot is not much but the overall feature is colorful and entertaining.

4385  Thunder Mountain  Fox, 1932. 68 min. D: David Howard. SC: Dan Jarrett and Don Swift. With George O’Brien, Barbara Fritchie, Frances Grant, Morgan Wallace, George Hayes, Ed Le Saint, Dean Benton, William Norton Bailey, Carl Stockdale, Lloyd Ingraham, Lafe McKee, Neal Hart, Hal Price, Clyde McClary, Harry Tenbrook, Harry Baven, Hank Bell, Arthur Thalasso, Sid Jordan, Denver Dixon. In the north country, a prospector is cheated out of his portion of a mining claim and plans to right the wrong. Okay George O’Brien vehicle that tends to drag a bit. TV title: Roaring Mountain.

4386  Thunder Mountain  RKO Radio, 1947. 60 min. D: Lew Landers. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Martha Hyer, Richard Martin, Steve Brodie, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Virginia Owen, Harry Woods, Jason Robards, Robert Clarke, Harry Harvey, Allen Lee, Dick Elliott, Jim Corey, Dick Foote, Cactus Mack, Jack Tornek, Tom Smith, Bob Reeves, Denver Dixon. Returning home from college a man finds himself in the middle of a feud instigated by a dishonest saloon owner and his cohort, the sheriff. Supposed based on the Zane Grey novel, this film has little to do with that source but is still a rip-roaring good time.

Thunder Mountain (1964) see The Shepherd of the Hills (1964)

4387  A Thunder of Drums  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1961. 97 min. Color. D: Joseph M. Newman. SC: James Warner Bellah. With Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O’Connell, Charles Bronson, Richard Chamberlain, Duane Eddy, James Douglas, Tammy Marihugh, Carole Wells, Slim Pickens, Clem Harvey, Casey Tibbs, Irene Tedrow, Marjorie Bennett, J. Edward McKinley. A young lieutenant is assigned to a remote cavalry post where he has troubles with a tough captain. Fans of the leads will enjoy this feature although it is only average.

4388  Thunder Over Arizona  Republic, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Sloan Nibley. With Skip Homeier, Kristine Miller, George Macready, Wallace Ford, Jack Elam, Gregory Walcott, Nacho Galindo, George Keymas, John Doucette, John Compton, Bob Swain, Julian Rivero, Francis McDonald, Fred Graham. When a rich silver strike is discovered a dishonest politician tries to get control of the mine. Well made and entertaining.

4389  Thunder Over Texas  Beacon, 1934. 61 min. D: John Warner (Edgar G. Ulmer). SC: Eddie Granemann. With Guinn Williams, Marion Shilling, Helen Wescott, Richard Botiller, Philo McCullough, Ben Corbett, Bob McKenzie, Victor Potel, Jack Kirk, Hank Bell, Tiny Skelton, Claude Peyton, Eva McKenzie, Lionel Backus, Rose Plummer, Al Haskell, George Morrell, Bob Card, Silver Tip Baker, Jack Jones. A little girl, whose father is murdered over valuable railroad rights-of-way maps, is kidnapped by outlaws but she is rescued by a cowboy. Okay, but nothing exceptional in this Guinn “Big Boy” Williams series vehicle directed by Edgar G. Ulmer using a pseudonym with the original story by his wife Sherle Castle.

4390  Thunder Over the Plains  Warner Bros., 1953. 82 min. Color. D: Andre De Toth. SC: Russell Hughes. With Randolph Scott, Phyllis Kirk, Lex Barker, Henry Hull, Elisha Cook, Jr., Charles McGraw, Hugh Sanders, James Brown, Lane Chandler, Fess Parker, Richard Benjamin, Trevor Bardette, Earle Hodgins, Jack Woody, John Cason, Monte Montague, Carl Andre, Charles Horvath, John McKee, Gail Robinson, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Gayle Kellogg. In post–Civil War Texas an Army officer is assigned to bring in a bandit terrorizing carpetbaggers although the soldier sympathizes with him. Pretty good Randolph Scott action feature.

4391  Thunder Over the Prairie  Columbia, 1941. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Betty Burbridge. With Charles Starrett, Eileen O’Hearn, Cliff Edwards, Cal Shrum and His Rhythm Rangers, Stanley Brown, Danny Mummert, David Sharpe, Joe McGuinn, Donald Curtis, Ted Adams, Jack Rockwell, Steve Clark, Murdock MacQuarrie, Eddie Laughton, John Tyrrell, Francis Sayles, Budd Buster, Horace B. Carpenter, Denver Dixon. A frontier doctor tries to help an Indian medical student falsely accused of murder and dynamiting a dam. Nicely done entry in the all-too-brief “Dr. Monroe” series starring Charles Starrett.

4392  Thunder Pass  Lippert, 1954. 80 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Tom Hubbard and Fred Eggers. With Dane Clark, Dorothy Patrick, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr, John Carradine, Mary Ellen Kay, Raymond Hatton, Monte Blue, Rick Vallin, Nestor Paiva, Charles Fredericks, Tom Hubbard. A cavalry captain has two days to lead settlers out of Indian territory but his convoy is surrounded by tribesmen supported by a gun runner. Standard oater sporting a fine cast.

4393  Thunder River Feud  Monogram, 1942. 58 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: John Vlahos and Earle Snell. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Jan Wiley, Jack Holmes, Rick Anderson, Carleton Young, George Chesebro, Carl Mathews, Budd Buster, Ted Mapes, Steve Clark, Richard Cramer, Rudy Sooter, Hal Price, Jimmy Aubrey, Tex Palmer. Three cowpokes follow a pretty girl to her Wyoming ranch where they get mixed up in a feud instigated by a crook and his pals. Fans of “The Range Busters” may like this one but otherwise it is on the poor side, both in plot and execution.

4394  Thunder Town  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 57 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: James Oliver. With Bob Steele, Ellen Hall, Syd Saylor, Bud Geary, Charles King, Edward Howard, Steve Clark, Bud Osborne, Jimmy Aubrey, Pascale Perry, Don Weston and His Band. Released from prison after serving time when framed for a crime, a man returns home to save the woman he loves from one of the men responsible for sending him behind bars. While nothing to brag about, this Bob Steele vehicle (from his final starring series) should please his legion of fans; remake of Lawless Valley (q.v.).

4395  Thunder Trail  Paramount, 1937. 58 min. D: Charles Barton. SC: Robert Yost and Stuart Anthony. With Gilbert Roland, Charles Bickford, Marsha Hunt, J. Carrol Naish, James Craig, Monte Blue, William Duncan, Billy Lee, Gene Reynolds, Reginald Barlow, Lucien Littlefield, Lee Shumway, Vester Pegg, Ed Coxen, Frank Cordell, Tommy Coats, Jack Daley, Mary Foy, Carol Holloway, Bob Clark, Slim Hightower, Ed Warren, Danny Morgan, Ray Hanford, Gertrude Simpson. Two brothers are separated by outlaws and fifteen years later one of them rides the desperado trail until he learns who was really behind the event. Outstanding “B” adaptation of Zane Grey’s Arizona Ames; action packed and very entertaining.

4396  Thunderbolt  Regal, 1935. 55 min. D: Stuart Paton. SC: Jack Jevne. With Kane Richmond, Lobo the Marvel Dog, Fay McKenzie, Bobby Nelson, Hank Bell, Frank Hagney, Barney Furey, Lafe McKee, Frank Ellis, George Morrell, Wally West, Jack Kirk, Blackie Whiteford, Bob Burns. A boy and his dog attempt to stop a murderous outlaw gang whose leader is trying to force a pretty girl to marry him after a prospector is falsely arrested for his crimes. Unbelievably bad independent effort from producer Sherman S. Krellberg.

4397  Thunderbolt’s Tracks  Rayart, 1927. 55 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Jack Perrin, Pauline Curley, Jack Henderson, Billy Lamar, Harry Tenbrook, Ethan Laidlaw, Ruth Royce. Two Marines find the family of a dead friend in Mexico and while there they are duped into buying a worthless ranch. Standard independent silent oater.

Thundergap Outlaws see Bad Men of Thunder Gap

4398  Thunderhead, Son of Flicka  20th Century–Fox, 1945. 78 min. Color. D: Louis King. SC: Dwight Cummings and Dorothy Yost. With Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, Roddy McDowall, James Bell, Diana Hale, Carleton Young, Ralph Sanford, Robert Filmer, Alan Bridge. A young boy trains a colt, wanting to make his show horse a champion. Colorful sequel to My Friend Flicka (q.v.).

4399  Thunderhoof  Columbia, 1948. 77 min. D: Phil Karlson. SC: Hal Smith. With Preston Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop. Three people, two men and a woman, trek into Mexico in search of a wild stallion. Compact cast and good scenic values make this pretty fair entertainment.

4400  Thundering Caravans  Republic, 1952. 54 min. D: Harry Keller. SC: M. Coates Webster. With Allan “Rocky” Lane, Eddy Waller, Mona Knox, Roy Barcroft, Isabel Randolph, Richard Crane, Bill Henry, Edward Clark, Pierre Watkin, Stanley Andrews, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Marshall Reed, Tex Terry, Art Dillard, Dale Van Sickel. When valuable ore shipments are hijacked a U.S. marshal is called in to investigate. Action laden entry in Allan “Rocky” Lane’s “Famous Westerns” series.

4401  Thundering Frontier  Columbia, 1940. 57 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: Paul Franklin. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Raphael (Ray) Bennett, Alex Callam, Carl Stockdale, Fred Burns, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), John Tyrrell, Francis Walker, John Dilson, George Chesebro, Eddie Laughton, Blackie Whiteford. Two brothers have a falling out after their rancher father dies with one of them wanting to help a man and his daughter build a telegraph line while the other is in cahoots with a saloon owner out to stop them. Vapid Charles Starrett outing.

4402  Thundering Gun Slingers  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 61 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Fred Myton. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Charles King, Jack Ingram, Kermit Maynard, Budd Buster, Hank Bell, Cactus Mack, Ray Henderson, Augie Gomez, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Roy Bucko. Billy Carson’s uncle is murdered and he and his pal Fuzzy try to find the killer but when a suspect is also bumped off Billy gets the blame. Average entry in the popular, but shoddy, PRC series.

4403  The Thundering Herd  Paramount, 1933. 62 min. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Jack Cunningham and Mary Flannery. With Randolph Scott, Judith Allen, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Noah Beery, Raymond Hatton, Blanche Frederici, Harry Carey, Monte Blue, Barton MacLane, Alan Bridge, Dick Rush, Frank Rice, Buck Connors, Charles McMurphy. A buffalo hunter joins a wagon train heading West and tries to help them when attacked by Indians who have been incited to war by the needless slaughter of bison. Program feature remake of the 1925 film starring Jack Holt and Lois Wilson, this version is hurt by too much footage from the original. Noah Berry, repeating his role from the 1925 feature, is great as the lecherous villain Randall Jett and he is equaled by Blanche Frederici as his vengeful wife. Reissued as Buffalo Stampede.

4404  Thundering Hoofs  Film Booking Offices (FBO), 1924. 47 min. D: Al (Albert S.) Rogell. SC: Marion Jackson. With Fred Thompson, Ann May, Charles Mailes, Fred Huntely, Charles De Revenna, Carrie Clark Ward, William Lowery, Willie Fung, Silver King (horse). A rancher’s son wins a prize horse from a man who mistreats him and then thwarts the villain’s plans to steal money from a Spanish land baron. Good photography, lots of action and nice comedy relief highlight his silent Fred Thompson feature in which his horse, Silver King, plays a big part in the story. A very good film.

4405  Thundering Hoofs  RKO Radio, 1942. 61 min D: Lesley Selander. SC: Paul Franklin. With Tim Holt, Luana Walters, Lee “Lasses” White, Fred Scott, Archie Twitchell, Gordon De Main, Charles Phipps, Monte Montague, Joe Bernard, Frank Fanning, Frank Ellis, Robert Kortman, Lloyd Ingraham, Spade Cooley. A man would rather be a rancher than run his father stage line but he comes to the aid of a rival operator when the family business is threatened by outlaws. Average Tim Holt series entry.

4406  Thundering Thompson  Anchor, 1929. 46 min. D: Benjamin (Ben) Franklin Wilson. SC: Robert Dillon. With Cheyenne Bill, Neva Gerber, Al Ferguson, Cliff Lyons, Ed La Niece, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Silver Tip Baker, Chuck Baldra, Bud Pope, Jack Jones. A deputy sheriff turns on his cattleman boss when he falls for the daughter of a sheepherder he is hired to evict from his ranch. Fast paced silent effort from producer Morris R. Schlank starring long forgotten Cheyenne Bill (Harry William McKechrie).

4407  Thundering Through  Artclass, 1925. 50 min. D: Fred Bain. SC: Barr Cross. With Buddy Roosevelt, Jean Arthur, Charles Colby, Lew Meehan, Frederick Lee, L.J. O’Connor, Lawrence Underwood. After falling in love with the daughter of a neighbor, a rancher tries to foil the machinations of a banker and his outlaw cohorts trying to get their spreads for a railroad right-of-way. This silent poverty row affair is available only in a 13-minute version called Riding Rivals.

4408  Thundering Trails  Western Adventure, 1951. 55 min. D: Ron Ormond. SC: Alexander White. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Sally Anglim, Archie Twitchell, Ray Bennett, Reed Howes, Bud Osborne, George Chesebro, I. Stanford Jolley, John Cason, Lee Roberts, Clarke Stevens, Jimmie Martin, Mary Lou Webb, Sue Hussey, Ray Broome, Cliff Taylor. Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are assigned to protect the new territorial governor whose life is threatened by an outlaw gang. Tacky production with long, boring sequences of little action; lots of footage from previous Lash LaRue Screen Guild efforts.

4409  Thundering Trails  Republic, 1943. 56 min. D: John English. SC: Norman S. Hall and Robert Yost. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Nell O’Day, Vince Barnett, Karl Hackett, Sam Flint, Charles F. Miller, John James, Forrest Taylor, Ed Cassidy, Forbes Murray, Reed Howes, Bud Geary, Budd Buster, Lane Bradford, Cactus Mack, Eddie Parker, Art Mix, Al Taylor, Jack O’Shea, John Carpenter, George DeNormand, Tex Cooper. The Three Mesquiteers assist a Texas Ranger whose brother is hooked up with a bunch of outlaws. There is lots of action is this fast paced entry from the near the end of the long running series.

4410  The Thundering West  Columbia, 1939. 58 min. D: Sam Nelson. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, The Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Hal Taliaferro, Dick Curtis, Hank Bell, Art Mix, Ed LeSaint, Robert Fiske, Edmund Cobb, Slim Whitaker, Blackie Whiteford, Steve Clark, Fred Burns, Ed Peil, Sr., Art Dillard. A reformed outlaw becomes the sheriff of a community but is soon blackmailed by his former gang. Pretty fair third version of two previous Buck Jones features, The Lone Rider (1930) and The Man Trailer (qq.v.).

4411  A Ticket to Tomahawk  20th Century–Fox, 1950. 90 min. Color. D: Richard Sale. SC: Mary Loos and Richard Sale. With Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Charles Kemper, Connie Gilchrist, Arthur Hunnicutt, Will Wright, Chief Yowlachie, Victor Sen Yung, Mauritz Hugo, Raymond Greenleaf, Harry Carter, Harry Seymour, Robert Adler, Chief Thundercloud, Marion Marshall, Joyce McKenzie, Marilyn Monroe, John Merton, Jack Elam, Olin Howlin, John War Eagle, Lee MacGregor. Upon his arrival in a Western town, a drummer gets caught up in the middle of a fight for a railroad franchise. Zesty musical comedy.

4412  Tickle Me  Allied Artists, 1965. 90 min. Color. D: Norman Taurog. SC: Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds. With Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders, Connie Gilchrist, Edward Faulkner, Bill Williams, Louis Elias, John Dennis, Laurie Benton, Linda Rogers, Ann Morrell, Lilya Chauvin, Jean Ingram, Francine York, Eve Bruce, Jackie Russell, Angela Greene, Peggy Ward, Dorian Brown, Inez Pedroza, Grady Sutton, Dorothy Conrad, Barbara Werle, Allison Hayes. A rodeo stars seeks refuge as a wrangler at a dude ranch for women. The songs are okay but the plot is not much in this Elvis Presley vehicle.

4413  Tide of Empire  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1929. 73 min. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Waldemar Young and Joe Farnham. With Renee Adoree, George Duryea (Tom Keene/Richard Powers), Fred Kohler, George Fawcett, William Collier, Jr., James Bradbury, Jr., Harry Gribbon, Paul Hurst, Buster Keaton, Gino Corrado, Eric Mayne. During the California Gold Rush a cowboy wins a ranch in a horse race and then gives it to the former owner’s daughter, with whom he has fallen in love. Not uninteresting silent feature with sound effects; Fred Kohler is quite good as the villain. Some footage was shot with Joan Crawford in the lead before she was replaced by Renee Adoree.

4414  Tierra Baja (Low Land)  Laguna Films, 1951. 90 min. D: Miguel Zacarias. With Pedro Armendariz, Zully Moreno, Luis Aldas, Barbara Gil, Gustavo Reviere, Angel Infante, Julio Villareal, Luis Mossot, Queta Lavat, Kika Meyer, Chel Lopez. A wealthy mill owner and his fiancee cheat a poor shepherd out of his property by having the peon marry the beautiful woman. Torrid Mexican Western melodrama.

4415  Tierre de Violencia (Land of Violence)  Radaent Films, 1966. 87 min. D: Raul de Anda, Jr. SC: Raul de Anda. With Rodolfo de Anda, Lorena Velaquez, David Reynoso, Sonia Furo, Manuel Donde, Quintin Bulnes, Victor Alcocer, Jose Luis Caro, Cecilia Leger, Tito Novaro, Rogelio Guerra, Guillermo Orea, Agustin Isunza. The coming of a railroad spurs local businessmen to hire gunslingers to sabotage the operation but the bad men take over the area. Fast paced Mexican Western, produced and written by Raul de Anda, directed by his son, Raul de Anda, Jr., and starring another son, Rodolfo de Anda.

4416  Tierra Sangrienta (Bloody Land)  Peliculas Internacionales, S.A., 1965. 92 min. Color. D: Rafael Portillo. SC: Fernando Oses. With Armando Silvestre, Jaime Fernandez, Anthony Caruso, Laura Leon, Elizabeth Dupeyron, Angel Aragon, Arturo Salvador, Jose Luis Llamas, Ricardo Gomez, Lorenzo de Monteclaro, Antono de Hud, Valentine Leyva. Two brothers vow revenge against the cruel outlaw band that murdered their younger sister. Violent south of the border oater.

4417  A Tiger Walks  Buena Vista, 1964 91 min. Color. D: Norman Tokar. SC: Lowell S. Hawley. With Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu, Kevin Corcoran, Peter Brown, Edward Andrews, Una Merkel, Arthur Hunnicutt, Connie Gilchrist, Theodore Marcuse, Merry Anders, Frank McHugh, Doodles Weaver, Frank Aletter, Jack Albertson, Donald May, Robert Shayne, Hal (Harold) Peary, Ivor Francis, Michael Fox, Richard O’Brien. A tiger escapes from a circus truck and panics a small town where the sheriff’s daughter tries to save the animal. Often overlooked, but well done, Disney feature.

4418  El Tigre Enmascarado (The Masked Tiger)  Clasa-Mohme, 1951. 90 min. D: Zacarias Gomez Urquizo. With Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Aurora Segura, Francisco Avitia, Emma Roldan, Pascual Garcia Pena, Carlos Valdez, Robert G. Rivera, Jose L. Murillo, Agustin Fernandez. Following the murder of his priest brother, a singer gives up his studies in Mexico City and returns home, becoming a masked avenger out to find the killer. Luis Aguilar as another Mexican masked hero highlights this fair comedy-drama-musical feature.

4419  Timber  Universal, 1942. 60 min. D: Christy Cabanne. SC: Griffin Jay. With Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Dan Dailey, Jr., Marjorie Lord, Edmund MacDonald, Wade Boteler, Nestor Paiva, Paul E. Burns, James Seay, Jean Phillips, William Hall, Walter Sande, Guy Usher, Lloyd Ingraham, Murdock MacQuarrie, Ernie Adams, Anthony Warde, Ethan Laidlaw, Eddie Dew, Stanley Blystone, Mickey Simpson, Frank McCarroll, Frank Hagney, Bob Reeves, Jack C. Smith, James Westerfield, Eddie Parker. When sabotage takes place at a lumber camp two FBI agents are called into the case. Standard, but well made, Universal program feature.

4420  Timber Country Trouble  Allied Artists, 1955. 54 min. D: Wesley Barry. SC: William Raynor and Sam Roeca. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Edmund Cobb, Harry Lauter, Kenne Duncan, Buddy Roosevelt, Bruce Edwards, John Merton, Frances Charles, Michael Vallon, George Barrows, Fred Krone, Henry Blair. Two U.S. marshals look into claims a wild stallion is behind crimes caused by rustlers and they pretend to be timber tramps to investigate lumber camp thefts. More than passable theatrical paste-up composed of the “Lumber Camp Story” and “Rustling Stallion” episodes of “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58).

4421  Timber Fury  Eagle-Lion, 1950. 63 min. D: Bernard B. Ray. SC: Michael Hanson. With David Bruce, Laura Lee, Nichle Di Bruno, Sam Flint, George Slocum, Lee Phelps, Gilbert Gryl, Paul Hoffman, Spencer Chan. In the north woods, a young girl and her father fight crooks trying to steal their valuable timber. Fair low budget affair.

4422  Timber Queen  Paramount, 1944. 66 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Maxwell Shane and Edward T. Lowe. With Richard Arlen, Mary Beth Hughes, June Havoc, Sheldon Leonard, George E. Stone, Dick Purcell, Tony Hughes, Edmund McDonald, Horace McMahon, William Haade, Clancy Cooper, Dewey Robinson, Jimmy Ames, George Chandler. When thieves threaten to steal the timberland of his dead buddy’s widow, an ex-pilot tries to help her save the business. Rowdy action drama from the Pine-Thomas unit.

4423  Timber Stampede  RKO Radio, 1939. 59 min. D: David Howard. SC: Morton Grant. With George O’Brien, Marjorie Reynolds, Chill Wills, Morgan Wallace, Guy Usher, Earl Dwire, Frank Hagney, Monte Montague, Robert Fiske, Bob Burns, Tom London, Billy Benedict, Bud Osborne, Robert Kortman, Ben Corbett, Cactus Mack, Hank Worden, Elmo Lincoln, Frank O’Connor, Sid Jordan, Herman Nolan. A cattleman opposes the plans of a lumber baron and a railroad magnate to build a line through his spread. Okay George O’Brien film but not as good as some of his other efforts.

4424  Timber Terrors  Stage and Screen, 1935. 50 min. D-SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With John Preston, Marla Bratton, William Desmond, James Sheridan (Sherry Tansey), Tiny Skelton, Fred Parker, Tom London, Clyde McClary, Harry Beery, Tex Jones, Captain, King of the Dogs, Dynamite the Wonder Horse. Following the brutal murder of his partner, a Canadian Mounted Policeman tries to bring in the killers. Bottom rung “Morton of the Mounted” drama with fine camerawork by Brydon Baker.

4425  The Timber Trail  Republic, 1948. 67 min. Color. D: Philip Ford. SC: Bob Williams. With Monte Hale, Lynne Roberts, James Burke, Roy Barcroft, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Francis Ford, Robert Emmett Keane, Steve Darrell, Fred Graham, Wade Crosby, Eddie Acuff. A Mountie helps a pretty girl whose property is sought by a power mad gunslinger. Colorful Monte Hale vehicle.

4426  Timber Tramps  Howco International, 1975. 90 min. Color. D: Tay Garnett. SC: Chuck Keen. With Claude Akins, Joseph Cotten, Patricia Medina, Cesar Romero, Tab Hunter, Leon Ames, Eve Brent, Rosie (Roosevelt) Grier, Bob (Robert) Easton, Stash Clemmens, Hal Baylor, Shug Fisher. Timber men fight the elements and crooks in the Alaskan wilderness to complete a lumber contract. Colorful action feature filmed on location in 1972 by Alaska Pictures.

4427  Timber War  Ambassador, 1935. 58 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Kermit Maynard, Lucille Lund, Lawrence Grant, Robert Warwick, Lloyd Ingraham, Wheeler Oakman, Roger Williams, George Morrell, James Pierce, Patricia Royale, Horace Murphy, Sydney Jarvis, Horace B. Carpenter, Ed Cassidy, Ted Mapes, Tex Phelps, Fred Parker. At a remote lumber camp a logger tries to help a young woman whose sawmill is the object of saboteurs. Weak effort in Kermit Maynard’s James Oliver Curwood story series for producer Maurice Conn.

4428  Timberjack  Republic, 1955. 94 min. Color. D: Joe (Joseph) Kane. SC: Allen Rivkin. With Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael, Chill Wills, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie, Ian MacDonald, Wally Cassell, Elisha Cook, Jr., Karl “Killer” Davis, Tex Terry, George Marshall, Chuck Roberson, Ric Roman, John Dierkes, Emil Sitka, Boyd “Red” Morgan, John Halloran, Frank Jaquet, Richard Alexander, Joe Evans, William Fawcett, Max Wagner, Paul Savage, Frank Hagney, Margaret Cahill, Esther Ying Lee. A ruthless land baron tries to cheat a man out of the timberland he inherited but the victim’s cause is helped by a saloon singer. Fair Republic “A” effort, but not up to the studio’s usual standards.   

4429  A Time for Dying  Corinth Films, 1982. 73 min. Color. D-SC: Budd Boetticher. With Richard Lapp, Anne Randall, Bob Random, Victor Jory, Audie Murphy, Beatrice Kay, Ron Masak, Bert Mustin, Peter Brocco, Walter Reed, Louis Ojena, Jorge Rada, Walt LaRue, Charles Wagenheim, Ira Augustan, Terry M. Murphy, Skip Murphy, Randy Shields, Bob Herron, William Bassett, Casey Tibbs, Willard Willingham, J.N. Roberts. A man trained by his father to be a fast gun travels though the West, saving a young woman from a prostitution ring only to be forced to marry her by Judge Roy Bean. Filmed in 1969 and produced by Audie Murphy (who does an excellent cameo as Jesse James), this obscure oater got some release in 1982 and is interesting viewing for Budd Boetticher followers; Victory Jory is enjoyably hammy as Bean.

4430  A Time for Every Season  Gold Key, 1972. 95 min. Color. A man and a young boy become the first to explore the awesome Alaskan Tundra, marveling at its dangers and beauty. Picturesque documentary.

4431  A Time for Killing  Columbia, 1967. 88 min. Color. D: Phil Karlson. SC: Halsted Welles. With Glenn Ford, Inger Stevens, George Hamilton, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Petersen, Timothy Carey, Richard X. Slattery, Harrison J. Ford, Kay E. Kuter, Dick Miller, Emile Meyer, Marshal Reed, Max Baer (Jr.), Todd Armstrong (Harry) Dean Stanton, Charlie Briggs, James Davidson. Near the end of the Civil War several Confederate prisoners escape from their Union captors and take the captain’s fiancee as a hostage. Average action feature also called The Long Ride Home.

4432  A Time to Revenge  Ardustry Home Entertainment, 1997. 96 min. Color. D: John Harwood. SC: John Harwood and Dale Gibson. With Ken Olandt, Julie Michaels, Paul Gleason, Leslie Ryan, William O’Leary, Dewey Weber, Mike Moroff, Larry Mahan, Heather Burton, Dale Gibson, Robert Phillips, Christopher Michael, Mark Nearing, Taylor Kowalski. When his father is murdered, a rancher goes after the gang who killed him. Average modern-day revenge Western; scenes with Elizabeth Berkley were deleted before its release.

A Time to Run see The Female Bunch

4433  Timerider  Manson International, 1983. 93 min. Color. D: William Dear. William Dear and Michael Nesbitt. With Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, L.Q. Jones, Ed Lauter, Tracey Walker, Bruce Gordon, Richard Masur, Chris Mulkey. While competing in a cross country bike contest, a rider gets caught in a time transference experiment and is sent back to the West of the 1870s where he encounters outlaws. Fairly interesting combination of the sci-fi and Western genres, but it should have been better.

4434  Timestalkers  Fries Entertainment, 1987. 104 min. Color. D: Michael Schutz. SC: Brian Clemens. With William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Klaus Kinski, Forrest Tucker, John Ratzenberger, John Considine, Gail Youngs, James Avery, Patrick Baldauff, Buck Taylor, Ritch Brinkley, Burke Dennis, Joshua Devane, J. Michael Flynn, A.J. Freeman, Terry Funk, Tommy Lamey, Deborah Levin, Danny Pintauro, Begona Plaza, Tim Russ, Michael Strasser, John Wesley, Tracy Walter. A woman from the future joins a scientist, whose wife and son have been killed in a car accident, in tracking down an evil gunman who travels back and forth in time from the Old West. Involved, but not overly interesting, TV sci-fi effort.

4435  The Tin Star  Paramount, 1957. 93 min. D: Anthony Mann. SC: Dudley Nichols. With Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michael Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire, Mary Webster, Peter Baldwin, Richard Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, James Bell, Howard Petrie, Russell Simpson, Hal K. Dawson, Jack Kenney, Mickey Finn, Frank Cady, Frank Kensaton, Frank Cordell, Frank McGrath, Tim Sullivan, Allan Gettel. A bounty hunter arrives in town with a dead outlaw and finds the inexperienced sheriff unable to cope with an gang terrorizing the community. Solid, entertaining melodrama.

4436  Tin Star Void  Double Helix Films, 1988. 92 min. Color. D: Tom (Garrett) Gniazdowski. SC: John McLaughlin. With Daniel Chapman, Ruth Collins, Loren Blackwell, John Pierce, Karen Rizzo, Phillip Nutman, Frank Stewart, Tom Gniazdowski, Guy Perrotta, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Sherman Backus, Brian Edwards, Debi Thiebeault, John Geisler, Susan Griffiths, Tim Metzger, Michael D. Lang, Fern Feller, Will Dejesus, Carl Barratte, Stuart Chapin. In the Old West of the future, a cowboy hunts for the gang that killed his sheriff brother. Only for fans of bizarre Westerns.

4437  The Tioga Kid  Eagle-Lion, 1948. 54 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: Ed Earl Repp. With Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Jennifer Holt, Andy Parker and The Plainsmen, Dennis Moore, Lee Bennett, Terry Frost, William Fawcett, Eddie Parker, Bob Woodward, Tex Palmer, Lee Roberts, Carl Mathews, Ray Henderson, Ray Jones. A Texas Ranger pretends to be a notorious outlaw as he tries to horn in on a gang’s operations to bring them to justice. Surprisingly good Eddie Dean film refashioned from Driftin’ River (q.v.).

4438  A Tiro Limpio (Fire at Will)  Filmadora Independiente, 1958. 73 min. D: Rene Cardona, Sr. SC: Jesus Cardenas. With Rene Cardona, Jr., Sofia Alvarez, Lorena Velazquez, Rodolfo Landa, Juan Manuel Guerrero, Yolanda del Valle, Guillermo Orea, Jorge Alzaga, Victor Velazquez, Ada Carrasco, Armando Gutierrez, Rafael Estrada, Dacia Gonzalez, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Rene Cardona, Wally Barron, David Reynoso, Emilio Garibay, Savador Lozano. Trying to collect a debt for a client, a lawyer learns an old enemy may have killed his father. Standard follow-up to El Puma and La Ley del Mas Rapido (qq.v.), containing much footage from both features.

4439  The Titled Tenderfoot  Allied Artists, 1955. 52 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Bill Raynor and Maurice Tombragel. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Jeanne Cagney, Clayton Moore, Marshall Reed, I. Stanford Jolley, David Cavendish, Hal Gerard, James Bell, Dick Elliott, Jack Reynolds, Gerald O. Smith, Parke MacGregor, Russ Whiteman, Guy Teague. Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles oppose a gang of fur thieves in the north woods and assist a diplomat who brags about his Asian acquired fighting skills. Adequate program feature made up of two 1952 episodes (“A Joke on Sir Anthony” and “Trapper Story”) of the popular “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58) series.

4440  To Find a Rainbow  American National Enterprises/Gold Key, 1972. 90 min. Color. D-SC: The Staff of American National Enterprises. With Lawrence Dobkin (narrator), Jerry, Lucille, Jeff and Jenny Romney, Jerry, Angela, Donna, David and Danny Pimm. Two Utah families explore the Teton Mountains of Wyoming and Bryce Canyon, the stomping grounds of Butch Cassidy and his gang. Pleasant enough family oriented documentary with nice footage of Zion National Park.

4441  To Hell You Preach  Modern Art Productions, 1972. 76 min. Color. D: Richard Robinson. SC: David Allen Russell (Hagen Smith). With Hagen Smith, Michael Christian, Tim Scott, Kitty Vallacher, Richard Hurst, Orville Sherman, Ellen Brown, Ivy Jones, Rance Howard, Emile Meyer, Hank Worden, Tom Monroe, Howard Wright, James Bacon. A gunman escapes from a posse and pretends to be a preacher and after a town accepts him he steals the church’s money. Tawdry production, shown in England as Vengeance of a Gunfighter, later re-edited with new footage and released as The Legend of Frank Woods (q.v.).

To Kill a Jackal see Shoot the Living...Pray for the Dead

4442  To the Last Man  Paramount, 1933. 70 min. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Jack Cunningham. With Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Noah Beery, Jack LaRue, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight, Barton MacLane, Gail Patrick, Muriel Kirkland, James Eagles, Eugenie Besserer, Harlan Knight, Shirley Temple, John Carradine, Delmar Watson, Egon Brecher, Jim Mason, Russ Powell, Erville Alderson, James Burke, Ethan Laidlaw, Harry Cording, Maston Williams, Dick Rush, Blackjack Ward, Tom Bay, Rosita Butler, Jay Wright, William Gillis, Cullen Johnson. Two families carry out a long standing feud from Kentucky to Nevada. Excellently told, well made drama based on Zane Grey’s novel. Among the highlights are Esther Ralston’s raw sex appeal and the murder of a family member played by Buster Crabbe; recommended. Reissued as Law of Vengeance.

4443  Toby McTeague  International Spectrafilm, 1986. 96 min. Color. D: Jean-Claude Lord. SC: Jeff Maguire and Diordie Millecevic. With Yannick Bisson, Winston Rekert, Andrew Bednarski, Stephanie Morgenstern, Timothy Webster, Lilian Clune, Evan Adams, George Clutesi, Hamish McEwan, Tom Rack, Anthony Levinson, Mark Kulik, Joanne Vannicola, Doug Price, Ian Finlay. A Canadian boy who raises and trains sled dogs becomes alienated from his father, runs away from home and is counseled by a mystical old Indian who was once his dad’s spiritual advisor. Mediocre Canadian family feature.

4444  Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!  Cinerama, 1971. 95 min. Color. D: Tonino Cervi. SC: Dario Argento and Tonino Cervi. With Montgomery Ford (Brett Halsey), Bud Spencer, Tatsuya Nakadai, William Berger, Wayde Preston, Jeff Cameron (Geoffredo Scarciofolo), Stanley Gordon. After outlaws murder his wife and frame a farmer, sending him to prison, the man gets out and hires mercenaries to join him in revenge. Another in the long line of brutal Westerns from Italy released there as Oggi a Me...Domani a Te (Today It’s Me...Tomorrow It’s You), highlighted by a fine script.

4445  Toklat  Sun International, 1971. 100 min. Color. D: Robert W. Davidson. SC: Hugh Hogle and Bette Bennett Penney. With Leon Ames, Dick Robinson, Bette Bennett Penney (narrator). A sheepherder, who has watched a bear grow from a cub, must hunt the animal when he thinks it is responsible for his brother’s death. Typical family oriented outdoor adventure of the 1970s, shy on plot but heavy on beautiful scenery.

4446  Told in the Hills  Paramount-Artcraft, 1919. 60 min. D: George Melford. SC: Will M. Ritchey. With Robert Warwick, Ann Little, Tom Forman, Wanda Hawley, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue, Margaret Loomis, Eileen Percy, Hart (Jack) Hoxie, Jack Herbert, Guy Oliver, Joe Kentuck, James Whitebird, Peo-Peo-at-likt, John Moses. Leaving behind the woman he married to give her child his name, although it belongs to his brother, a man becomes a guide and prospector in Montana and falls in love with a settler’s daughter. Interesting silent version of Mariah Ellis Ryan’s novel, filmed on location in Idaho.

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4447  The Toll Gate  Paramount-Artcraft, 1920. 55 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Lambert Hillyer and William S. Hart. With William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Jack Richardson, Joseph Singleton, Richard Headrick. Finding out one of his men betrayed him for a reward, a gang leader traces him to a frontier town, burns the man’s cantina and is chased by both his adversary and the law but is saved by a woman whose small child he rescued. William S. Hart wrote the story on which this somber, but entertaining, silent feature is based.

4448  Toll of the Desert  Commodore, 1935. 55 min. D: Lester Williams (William Berke). SC: Miller Easton. With Fred Kohler, Jr., Betty Mack, Roger Williams, Tom London, George Chesebro, Earl Dwire, Ted Adams, Ed Cassidy, Billy Stevens, John Elliott, Steve Clark, Ace Cain, Blackie Whiteford, Iron Eyes Cody, Herman Hack, Budd Buster. A novice lawman is forced to hunt an outlaw whose personal code he has always admired, unaware the man is his father. Dandy little production, a gem from poverty row; highly recommended.

4449  Tom Horn  Warner Bros., 1980. 97 min. Color. D: William Wiard. SC: Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake. With Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Peter Canon, Elisha Cook, Roy Jenson, James Kline, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Northrup, Steve Oliver. Now a drifter, the scout who captured Geronimo is hired by ranchers to stop cattle rustlers and ends up being framed on a murder charge. Slow moving biopic, not as good as the TV movie Mr. Horn (q.v.).

4450  Tomahawk  Universal-International, 1951. 82 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: Silvia Richards and Maurice Geraghty. With Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Preston Foster, Jack Oakie, Alex Nicol, Tom Tully, Ann Doran, Rock Hudson, Susan Cabot, Arthur Space, Stuart Randall, John Peters, Russell Conway, Ray Montgomery, David Sharpe, David H. Miller, John War Eagle, Regis Toomey, Sheila Darcy, Chief American Horse, Chief Bad Bear, Harry Townes, Floyd Sparks, David Miller, Harry Peterson. Scout Jim Bridger tries to avoid violence when the government fails to heed his warnings about letting settlers into Sioux Indian territory. Weak plot detracts from the cast and fine use of color in this “A” drama. British title: Battle of Powder River.

4451  Tomahawk Trail  United Artists, 1957. 60 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: David Chandler. With Chuck Connors, John Smith, Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell, George N. Neise, Robert Knapp, Eddie Little Sky, Frederick Ford, (Harry) Dean Stanton, Boyd “Red” Morgan. Due to the arrogance and incompetence of their new West Point commander, an Army troop is left stranded in the desert after their horses, ammunition and supply wagons are stolen by Indians. Standard, talky dual bill feature also called Mark of the Apache.

Tomb for the Sheriff see Lone and Angry Man

4452  Tomboy and the Champ  Universal-International, 1962. 77 min. Color. D: Francis D. Lyon. SC: Virginia M. Cooke. With Candy Moore, Ben Johnson, Christine Smith, Jess Kirkpatrick, Jesse White, Casey Tibbs, Jerry Naill. A young girl raises a calf until it is grown and wins first prize at a cattle show before realizing her pet will be killed. Standard program film for the family trade.

4453  Tombstone  Cinergi/Hollywood Pictures, 1993. 134 min. Color. D: George P. Cosmatos. SC: Kevin Jarre. With Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley, Jon Tenney, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Dana Delany, Paula Malcomson, Lisa Collins, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Joanna Pacula, Michael Rooker, Harry Carey, Jr., Billy Bob Thornton, Tomas Arana, Pat Brady, Paul Ben-Victor, John Philbin, Robert Burke, Billy Zane, John Corbett, Bo Greigh, Forrie J. Smith, Peter Sherayko, Buck Taylor, Terry O’Quinn, Charles Schneider, Gary Clarke, Billy Joe Patton, Frank Stallone, Bobby Joe McFadden, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Michael N. Garcia, Grant Wheeler, Jim Dunham, Stephen Foster, Grant James, Don Collier, Cecil Hoffmann, Charlie Ward, Clark Ray, Chris Mitchum, Sandy Gibbons, Evan Osborne, Shana McCabe, Jerry Whittington, Jim Flowers, Frank P. Costanza, Michelle Beauchamp, Robert Mitchum (narrator). Returning to Tombstone, famed lawman Wyatt Earp teams with his brother Virgil and Doc Holliday for a showdown with the Clanton bunch. Sumptuous rehash of the OK Corral shootout that made a lot of money but is hard to follow.

4454  Tombstone Canyon  World Wide, 1932. 62 min. D: Alan James. SC: Claude Rister and Earle Snell. With Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Brownlee, Bob Burns, George Gerwing, Lafe McKee, Jack Clifford, Ed Peil, Sr., George Chesebro, Jack Kirk, Merrill McCormick, Bud McClure. Looking into the secrecy behind his parentage, a cowboy arrives in an area terrorized by a mysterious hooded phantom. Action filled Ken Maynard feature benefiting from the use of the mystery-horror angle in its interesting plot.

4455  Tombstone Terror  Supreme, 1935. 55 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Bob Steele, Kay McCoy, John Elliott, George Hayes, Earl Dwire, Hortense Petro, Ann Howard, Frank McCarroll, Artie Ortego, George Morrell, Herman Hack, Nancy DeShon, Tex Phelps, Ray Henderson. A cowpoke is mistaken for an outlaw and tries to prove his rightful identity. Average Bob Steele outing for producer A.W. Hackel, which means lots of action and good entertainment for his fans.

4456  Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die  Paramount, 1942. 80 min. D: William McGann. SC: Albert Shelby Le Vino and Edward E. Paramore. With Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Frances Gifford, Don Castle, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Rex Bell, Harvey Stephens, Clem Bevans, Charles Halton, Beryl Wallace, Chris-Pin Martin, Jack Rockwell, Charles Stevens, Hal Taliaferro, Wallis Clark, Paul Sutton, Dick Curtis, Charles Middleton, Donald Curtis, James Farrera. When a gunfight accidentally results in the killing of a child, Wyatt Earp agrees to become the sheriff of Tombstone and clean up the town. Another re-telling of the Earp saga, no more historically accurate than the others but still worth watching.

4457  Tonka  Buena Vista, 1958. 97 min. Color. D: Lewis R. Foster. SC: Lewis R. Foster and Lillie Hayward. With Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Jerome Courtland, Rafael Campos, H.M. Wynant, Joy Page, Britt Lomond, Herbert Rudley, Sydney Smith, John War Eagle, Gregg Martell, Slim Pickens, Robert “Buzz” Henry. A young Indian brave captures and tames a wild horse but the animal is claimed by his cruel cousin and sold to the cavalry. Fair Disney film that evolves into a tepid retelling of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. TV title: A Horse Called Comanche.

4458  Tonto Basin Outlaws  Monogram, 1941. 60 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: John Vlahos. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Tristram Coffin, Jan Wiley, Ted Mapes, Rex Lease, Reed Howes, Art Fowler, Carl Mathews, Budd Buster, Ed Peil, Sr., Frank Ellis, Tex Palmer, Jim Corey, Art Dillard, Bud McClure, Bert Dillard, Hank Bell, Rube Dalroy, George Morrell, Jack Evans, Jack Tornek, Chick Hannon, Denver Dixon, Foxy Callahan. During the Spanish-American War, the Range Busters are assigned to find rustlers in Montana stealing cattle contracted to feed government troops. Standard entry in the popular series.

4459  The Tonto Kid  Resolute, 1934. 61 min. D: Harry Fraser. SC: Harry C. (Fraser) Crist. With Rex Bell, Ruth Mix, Buzz Barton, Theodore Lorch, Joseph Girard, Barbara Roberts, Jack Rockwell, Murdock MacQuarrie, Bert Lindsley, Jane Keckley, Stella Adams, Bud Pope. Wanting a man’s ranch, a crooked lawyer has him shot and places the blame on a cowboy while hiring a circus performer to pose as the dying man’s missing daughter. Poor first effort in the quartet of films headlining Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton from producer Arthur T. Mannon.

4460  Too Much Beef  First Division/Grand National, 1936. 66 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Rock Hawkey (Robert Hill). With Rex Bell, Connie Bergen, Forrest Taylor, Lloyd Ingraham, Jimmy Aubrey, Jack Cowell, Peggy O’Connell, Horace Murphy, George Ball, Fred Burns, Steve Clark, Jack Kirk, Denny Meadows (Dennis Moore), Frank Ellis. Crooks are after a rancher’s spread because it is in the path of a railroad and a cowboy helps him save it. Rex Bell’s fans should like this okay outing he did for producers Max and Arthur Alexander.

4461  Top Gun  United Artists, 1955. 73 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Richard Shayer and Steve Fisher. With Sterling Hayden, William Bishop, Karin Booth, James Millican, Regis Toomey, Hugh Sanders, John Dehner, Rod Taylor, Denver Pyle, William Phillips, Richard Reeves, John Cason, Tom London, Frank O’Connor, George Eldredge, William Tannen, Florence Auer, Carl Mathews, Herman Hack, Ray Jones, Wheaton Chambers, Jack Kenny, Suzanne Ridgeway. After a man is cleared of a murder charge he becomes the town’s sheriff but the job brings about a change in his character. More than passable melodrama.

4462  Topeka  Allied Artists, 1953. 60 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Milton Raison. With Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates, Rick Vallin, Fuzzy Knight, John James, Denver Pyle, Dick Crockett, Harry Lauter, Dale Van Sickel, Ted Mapes, Henry Rowland, Edward Clark, I. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Price, Michael Vallon. When an outlaw becomes the star packer of a lawless town his former gang members help him restore peace. Well done little action film with a strong script and performances.

4463  Topeka Terror  Republic, 1945. 55 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Patricia Harper and Norman S. Hall. With Allan Lane, Linda Stirling, Twinkle Watts, Roy Barcroft, Earle Hodgins, Bud Geary, Frank Jaquet, Jack Kirk, Tom London, Eva Novak, Hank Bell, Robert Wilke, Monte Hale, Jess Cavin, Fred Graham, Jack O’Shea, Horace B. Carpenter, Herman Hack, Bill Wolfe, Tom Smith, Herman Nolan. On the trail of outlaws, a special investigator pretends to be a vagabond cowboy to conceal his identity. Typically fine action filled Allan Lane series entry.

4464  The Torch  Eagle-Lion, 1950. 90 min. D: Emilio Fernandez. SC: Ingio de Martino Noriega and Emilio Fernandez. With Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendariz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed, Julio Villareal, Carlos Muzquiz, Margarito Luna, Jose Torvay, Pascual Garcia Pena, Antonia Daneem, Jorge Trevino, Rosaura Revueltas, Eduardo Arozamena, Guillermo Calles. A Mexican village is captured by a rebel leader and his army with the man falling in love with a nobleman’s pretty daughter. Fairly interesting remake of director Emilio Fernandez’s 1946 Mexican feature Enamorada (In Love).

4465  A Tornado in the Saddle  Columbia, 1942. 59 min. D: William Berke. SC: Charles Francis Royal. With Russell Hayden, Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, Dub Taylor, Alma Carroll, Tristram Coffin, Don Curtis, Jack Baxley, Tex Cooper, John Merton, Ted Mapes, Blackie Whiteford, Art Mix, Carl Sepulveda, Jack Kirk, Jack Evans, George Morrell. A new lawman is at odds with a crooked saloon keeper who tries to steal a gold claim. Threadbare oater with it only asset being Bob Wills and his gang performing “Dusty Skies.”

4466  Tornado Range  Eagle-Lion, 1948. 56 min. D: Ray Taylor. SC: William Lively. With Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Jennifer Holt, Andy Parker and The Plainsmen, George Chesebro, Brad Slavin, Marshall Reed, Terry Frost, Lane Bradford, Russell Arms, Steve Clark, Hank Bell, Jack Hendricks, Ray Jones. The U.S. Land Office assigns an agent to stop warfare between ranches and homesteaders. Minor league Eddie Dean musical.

4467  Tough Assignment  Lippert, 1949. 66 min. D: William Beaudine. SC: Carl K. Hittleman. With Don Barry, Marjorie Steele, Steve Brodie, Marc Lawrence, Sid Melton, Ben Welden, Iris Adrian, Michael Whalen, Fred Kohler, Jr., Dewey Robinson, J. Farrell MacDonald, John Cason, Frank Richards, Stanley Andrews, Leander de Cordova, Stanley Price, Gayle Kellogg, Hugh Simpson. An outlaw gang forces meat suppliers to buy an inferior product and a newspaper reporter and his bride go after them. Fairly efficient “B” drama with good direction; produced by Don Barry’s company.

4468  The Tougher They Come  Columbia, 1950. 69 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: George Bricker. With Wayne Morris, Preston Foster, Kay Buckley, William Bishop, Frank McHugh, Joseph Crehan, Mary Castle, Frank O’Connor, Al Thompson, Alan Bridge. Attempts by a lumberjack to work a track of forest land he has inherited are foiled by a gang of timber thieves. Standard north woods program feature from producer Wallace MacDonald.

4469  Toughest Gun in Tombstone  United Artists, 1958. 72 min. D: Earl Bellamy. SC: Orville Hampton. With George Montgomery, Beverly Tyler, Jim Davis, Don Beddoe, Scott Morrow, Harry Lauter, Charles Wagenheim, Jack Kenney, John Merrick, Al Wyatt, Lane Bradford, Gregg Barton, Tex Terry, Hank Worden, Rodolfo Hoyos, Alex Montoya, Rico Alaniz, Jack Carr, William Forrest, Harry Strang, Mary Newton, Joey Ray, Gerald Milton. A Texas Ranger pretends to be an outlaw so he can formulate a plan to capture the Johnny Ringo gang. Plot possibilities are not carried out well in this mediocre outing.

4470  Toughest Man in Arizona  Republic, 1952. 90 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: John K. Butler. With Vaughn Monroe, Joan Leslie, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory, Jean Parker, Henry (Harry) Morgan, Ian MacDonald, Diana Christian, Lee MacGregor, Bobby Hyatt, Charlita, Nadine Ashdown, Francis Ford, Paul Hurst, John Doucette, Edmund Cobb, Rex Lease, Sheb Wooley, Cliff Clark, Carleton Young, James Burke, Tom Fadden, George Plues, Paul E. Burns, Andy Brennan. A widower sheriff on the trail of a notorious outlaw falls in love with a beautiful woman. Vaughn Monroe’s second “A” film for Republic is a pleasant affair.

A Town Called Bastard see A Town Called Hell

4471  A Town Called Hell  Scotia International, 1971. 95 min. Color. D: Robert Parrish. SC: Richard Aubrey. With Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas, Martin Landau, Fernando Rey, Michael Craig, Al Lettieri, Dudley Sutton, Aldo Sambrell, Charley Bravo, Cris Huerta. A Mexican village ruled by a cruel bandit is the scene of a manhunt for a revolutionary leader as well as the killer of a woman’s husband. Exceedingly violent Spanish-made horse opera without much appeal to genre fans. Original title: A Town Called Bastard.

4472  Town Tamer  Paramount, 1965. 89 min. Color. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Frank Gruber. With Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Lon Chaney, Bruce Cabot, Lyle Bettger, Richard Arlen, Barton MacLane, Richard Jaeckel, Philip Carey, Sonny Tufts, Coleen Gray, Jeanne Cagney, Roger Torrey, Don Barry, Robert Ivers, James Brown, Richard Webb, Bob Steele, DeForrest Kelley, Dale Van Sickel, Dinny Powell, Frank Gruber. After a gunslinger murders his wife, a lawman travels from town to town bringing peace and searching for the killer, who he finds as the marshal of a small community. A top notch cast of veteran players highlight this screen version of Frank Gruber’s novel.

4473  Track of the Cat  Warner Bros., 1954. 102 min. Color. D: William A. Wellman. SC: A.I. Bezzerides. With Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter, Beulah Bondi, Philip Tonge, William Hopper, Carl (“Alfalfa”) Switzer. A mountain family, torn by bitter personal conflicts, is harassed by a cougar and the two sons attempt to kill the animal. Strangely compelling psychological melodrama.

4474  Track of the Moon Beast  Derio, 1977. 90 min. Color. D: Dick Ashe. SC: William Finger and Charles Sinclair. With Chase Cordell, Donna Leigh Drake, Gregorio Sala, Patrick Wright, Francine Kessler, Timothy Wayne Brown, Crawford MacCallum, Jeanne Swain, Alan Swain, Fred McCaffrey, Tim Butler, Gary Kanin, Frank Larrabee, Joe Blasco. A mineralogist turns into a giant lizard after being hit by particles of a meteor. Low budget, but effective, thriller filmed in the southwest.

4475  Tracked  Film Booking Offices (FBO), 1928. 50 min. D: Jerome Storm. SC: Frank Howard Clark, John Stuart Twist and Helen Gregg. With Ranger (dog), Caryl Lincoln, Sam Nelson, Al (Albert J.) Smith, Jack Henderson, Art Robbins, Clark Comstock. When his dog is falsely accused of killing sheep, a man hides him in a cave and later the two save a woman from a runaway rig. Ranger the dog, a rival to Rin Tin Tin, is the highlight of this better than average silent canine epic.

4476  Tracked by the Police  Warner Bros., 1927. 60 min. D: Ray Enright. SC: John Grey. With Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards, Virginia Brown Faire, Tom Santschi, David Morris, Theodore Lorch, Ben Walker, Wilfred North, Nanette (dog). An escaped police dog helps the foreman of an Arizona irrigation project being sabotaged by a rival camp. Very good, action filled Rin Tin Tin vehicle.

4477  The Tracker  Home Box Office (HBO), 1988. 98 min. Color. D: John Guillermin. SC: Kevin Jarre. With Kris Kristofferson, Scott Wilson, Mark Moses, David Huddleston, John Quade, Don Swayze, Geoffrey Blake, Leon Rippy, Ernie Lively, Karen Kopins, Celia Xavier, Jeff Weston, Jennifer Snyder, Brynn Thayer, Jose Rey Toledo, Kip Allen, John Barks, Michael D. Blum, Forrest Broadley, Jake Dengel, Brook Gamble, Jerry Gardner, Lois Geary, Neil Summers, Stephen Parks, Ron Kathman, Phil Mead, Adan Sanchez. A retired tracker and his son are hired to bring in a vicious outlaw, the head of a marauding gang. Fine TV movie filmed in Utah.

4478  Trackers  Wrather Corporation, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy and Oscar Rudolph. SC: Robert E. Schaefer, Eric Friewald, Charles Larsay and Melvin Levy. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Mary Ellen Kay, Harry Lauter, Mike Ragan, Charles Stevens, Allen Pinson, Wayne Burson, Terry Frost, Bill Henry, Frank Hagney, Tyler McDuff, Francis McDonald, John Pickard, Robert Burton, Gregg Barton, Molly Wrather, Don Turner, Steve E. Raines, Charles Aldridge, Tom Brocon, Ben Wilder, Edmond Hashim, Robert Swan. The Lone Ranger and Tonto stop a lynch mob, get on the trail of renegade Confederates charged with murder and try to find out who is behind the mysterious goings-on in a ghostly canyon. Fans of “The Lone Ranger” (ABC-TV, 1949–57) will like this telefilm made up of three episodes of the series: “Ghost Canyon,” “The Trouble at Tylerville” and “Twisted Track.”

4479  The Trackers  ABC-TV, 1971. 73 min. Color. D: Earl Bellamy. SC: Gerald Gaiser. With Sammy Davis, Jr., Ernest Borgnine, Julie Adams, Jim Davis, Connie Kreski, Arthur Hunnicutt, Caleb Brooks, Norman Alden, Leo Gordon, Ross Elliott, David Reynard. A rancher teams with a black tracker to find out who murdered his son and kidnapped his daughter. Ordinary TV movie.

4480  Tracy Rides  Reliable, 1935. 59 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Rose Gordon and Betty Burbridge. With Tom Tyler, Virginia Brown Faire, Edmund Cobb, Charles K. French, Carol Shandrew, Lafe McKee, Jimmy Aubrey, Art Dillard, Jack Evans, Richard Botiller, Harry S. Webb, Robert Walker, Frank Ellis, Chuck Baldra, Rube Dalroy, S.S. Simon. A lawman gets caught in the middle of a feud between cattlemen and sheep raisers and when one of the latter is shot he is forced to arrest his girl’s rancher father. Poor Tom Tyler vehicle benefiting from the presence of the lovely and talented Virginia Brown Faire.

4481  Tracy the Outlaw  New-Cal Film Corporation, 1928. 60 min. D: Otis B. Thayer. SC: Merritt Crawford. With Jack Hoey, Rose Chadwick, Jane LaRue, Howard Chandler. After branded an outlaw, Harry Tracy attempts to find security but is always hounded by peace officers. Whitewashed silent biopic of the notorious bandit who once rode with the Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch.

4482  The Trail Beyond  Monogram, 1934. 55 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Lindsley Parsons. With John Wayne, Verna Hillie, Noah Berry, Noah Beery, Jr., Iris Lancaster, Robert Frazer, Earl Dwire, Eddie Parker, James Marcus, Reed Howes, Artie Ortego, Tex Palmer. A man saves his buddy from cardsharps and uncovers a map to a hidden gold mine but they are pursued by crooks also after its location. Perhaps the best of Paul Malvern’s Lone Star productions, this adaptation of James Oliver Curwood’s The Wolf Hunters is very entertaining and sports beautiful photography by Archie Stout. First filmed by Ben Wilson Productions for Rayart in 1926 with Robert McKim and Virginia Brown Faire as The Wolf Hunters and that title was used for a third version (q.v.) in 1949.

4483  The Trail Blazers  Republic, 1940. 58 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Barry Shipman. With Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Pauline Moore, Rex Lease, Weldon Heyburn, Carroll Nye, Tom Chatterton, Si Jenks, Mary Field, John Merton, Bob Blair, Pascale Perry, Harry Strang, Barry Hays, Forrest Taylor, Harrison Greene, Horace B. Carpenter, Brandon Beach, Jack Kirk, Bud Osborne, Post Park, Cactus Mack, Herman Hack, Merrill McCormick, Ray Teal, Bill Nestell, Tom Smith, Matty Roubert, Al Taylor, Curley Dresden, Chuck Baldra, Roy Bucko. The Three Mesquiteers attempt to stop an outlaw gang trying to sabotage the stringing of a telegraph line. Typically swift segment in the popular series.

4484  The Trail Drive  Universal, 1933. 65 min. D: Alan James. SC: Nate Gatzert and Alan James. With Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, William Gould, Lafe McKee, Robert Kortman, Alan Bridge, Frank Rice, Fern Emmett, Jack Rockwell, Slim Whitaker, Frank Ellis, Hank Bell, Wally Wales, Ben Corbett, Cliff Lyons. The foreman of a large ranch agrees to lead a cattle drive with the combined herds of all the local ranchers but after it is underway he discovers his boss is a crook out to cheat his neighbors. A good story and typically Ken Maynard high standards for action makes this top notch feature a must for his fans.

4485  Trail Dust  Paramount, 1936. 77 min. D: Nate Watt. SC: Al Martin. With William Boyd, James Ellison, George Hayes, Gwynne Shipman, Stephen Morris (Morris Ankrum), Britt Wood, Dick Dickinson, Earl Askam, Alan Bridge, John Beach, Ted Adams, Al St. John, Harold Daniels, Kenneth Harlan, John Elliott, George Chesebro, Robert Drew, Tom Halligan, Dan Wolheim, Emmett Daly, Leo McMahon. During a cattle drive the Bar 20 boys find themselves up against an outlaw gang planning to steal their herd by dynamiting a pass. A bit overlong (it was cut by 23 minutes for TV), but still satisfying “Hopalong Cassidy” feature.

4486  Trail Guide  RKO Radio, 1952. 60 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: William Lively. With Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Linda Douglas, Frank Wilcox, Robert Sherwood, John Pickard, Kenneth MacDonald, Tom London, John Merton, Hank Bell. A scout leading a wagon train learns crooks are planning to steal land intended for the homesteaders. Average Tim Holt vehicle from near the end of his RKO tenure.

4487  Trail of Kit Carson  Republic, 1945. 56 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: Albert DeMond and Jack Natteford. With Allan Lane, Helen Talbot, Twinkle Watts, Roy Barcroft, Tom London, Kenne Duncan, Jack Kirk, Bud Geary, Tom Dugan, George Chesebro, Robert Wilke, Herman Hack, John Carpenter, Henry Wills, Tom Steele. Although the death of his partner appears to be an accident, Kit Carson tries to find the truth. Fair Allan Lane film, the final entry in his “Action Westerns” series.

4488  Trail of Robin Hood  Republic, 1950. 67 min. D: William Witney. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Jack Holt, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Rex Allen, George Chesebro, Ray Corrigan, Monte Hale, William Farnum, Allan “Rocky” Lane, Tom Keene, Kermit Maynard, Tom Tyler, Emory Parnell, Clifton Young, James Magrill, Carol Nugent, Ed Cassidy, Lane Bradford, Stanley Blystone, Kenneth Terrell. When thieves make trouble for a once famous Western film star, now a Christmas tree rancher, Roy Rogers and other screen cowboys come to his rescue. Sturdy outing with pleasant nostalgia value.

Poster for Trail of Robin Hood (Republic, 1950).

4489  Trail of Terror  Supreme, 1935. 59 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Bob Steele, Beth Marion, Forrest Taylor, Charles King, Lloyd Ingraham, Charles K. French, Richard Cramer, Budd Buster, Ed Cassidy, Bob McKenzie, Herman Hack, Wally West, Clyde McClary. Trying to get evidence to convict an outlaw gang, a federal man pretends to be an escaped convict. Entertaining Bob Steele adventure.

4490  Trail of Terror  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1943. 64 min. D-SC: Oliver Drake. With Dave O’Brien, Jim Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Patricia Knox, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley, Budd Buster, Kenne Duncan, Frank Ellis, Robert Hill, Dan White, Jimmy Aubrey, Tom London, Slim Whitaker, Wally West, Artie Ortego, Rose Plummer, Tom Smith. After his twin brother is killed helping robbers hold up a stage, a lawman takes his place to capture the gang. Low grade entry in “The Texas Rangers” series.

4491  Trail of the Arrow  Monogram, 1952. 54 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Maurice Tombragel. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Francis Ford, Terry Frost, Rory Mallinson, Wendy Waldron, Jack Reynolds, Steve Pendleton, Neyle Morrow, Rodd Redwing, Tito Renaldo, Dick Rich, David Sharpe, Tom Steele, Ferris Taylor, Anthony Sydes. Two U.S. marshals try to help Indians by clearing a tribe of rustling cattle and proving that two men were murdered by arrows fired by whites. Satisfactory theatrical feature composed of the 1951 “Indian Bureau Story” and “Indian Pony Express” episodes of “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58).

4492  Trail of the Axe  American, 1922. 54 min. D: Ernest C. Warde. SC: Ridgwell Cullun. With Dustin Farnum, Natalie Kingston, George Fisher, Joseph J. Dowling. A lumber mill operator is at odds with his alcoholic brother over the woman they both love and to get revenge when he loses her the sibling tries to get workers to set fire to the business. Intense silent melodrama mainly of interest to Dustin Farnum fans.

4493  Trail of the Hawk  Continental Pictures, 1935. 55 min. D: Edward Dmytryk. SC: Griffin Jay. With Yancey (Bruce) Lane, Betty Jordan, Dickie Jones, Lafe McKee, Henry Hall, Rollo Dix, Don Orlando, Marty Joyce, Edward Foster, Budd Buster, George Morrell, Barney Beasley, Ed Carey, Zandra (dog). A cowpoke seeks the identity of his real father and gets on a job on a ranch plagued by a cattle rustler known as “The Hawk.” Edward Dmytryk made his directorial debut with this tacky low budget affair, also called The Hawk; reissued in 1937 by Jay Dee Jay Productions. In 1949 it was re-edited with new footage featuring Ramblin’ Tommy Scott and his group, including Frankie Scott, Sandra Scott, Eddy Williams and Gaines Blevins, and re-released by Tommy Scott Productions. Allegedly based on James Oliver Curwood’s story “The Coyote.”

4494  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine  Paramount, 1936. 99 min. Color. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Harvey Thew and Horace McCoy. With Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, Robert Barratt, George “Spanky” McFarland, Fuzzy Knight, Otto Fries, Samuel S. Hinds, Alan Baxter, Margaret Armstrong, Ricca Allen, Fern Emmett, Richard Carle, Henry (Brandon) Kleinbach, Philip Barker, Robert Kortman, Charlotte Wynters, Frank Rice, Frank McGlynn, Sr., James Burke, Clara Blandick, Irving Bacon, George Ernest, Charles Middleton, Russ Powell, Ed LeSaint, Lowell Drew, Hilda Vaughn, Norman Willis, Lee Phelps, John Larkin, Betty Farrington, Powell Clayton, Jack Curtis, Hank Bell, John Beck, Fred Burns, Jim Welch, Bud Geary, Bill McCormick, Jim Corey, Martin Beaumon, Tuffy (dog). The Falin’s and the Tolliver’s carry on a generations old blood feud in the mountains before a railroad surveyor and his crew arrive and he falls in love with a local girl who has been promised to her cousin. Delightful drama in beautiful Technicolor highlighted by top notch performances, especially Fred Stone and Beulah Bondi, plus Fuzzy Knight’s renditions of “When It’s Twilight on the Trail” and “A Melody from the Sky.” Based on John Fox, Jr.’s 1908 novel, this was the fourth screen version of the story, the first being released in 1914 by Broadway Picture Producing Company starring Dixie Compton, Richard Allen and Frank L. Dear, who also directed. Two years later Cecil B. DeMille helmed a second outing for Famous Players-Lasky headlining Charlotte Walker, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts and Earle Fox, and in 1923 Paramount filmed it again starring Mary Miles Minter (her final film role), Antonio Moreno and Ernest Torrence, directed by Charles Maigne.

4495  Trail of the Mounties  Screen Guild, 1947. 45 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Elizabeth (Betty) Burbridge. With Russell Hayden, Jennifer Holt, Emmett Lynn, Harry Cording, Terry Frost, Zon Murray, Frank Lackteen, Britt Wood, Charles Bedell, Pedro Regas, Felice Richmond, Jack Tornek, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Tom Smith. Sent to a remote village to capture a comrade’s killer, a Canadian Mounted Policeman finds the man he seeks is his twin brother, the leader of a gang of fur thieves. Russell Hayden is good in dual roles; this featurette is cheaply made but enjoyable.

Trail of the Royal Mounted see The Mystery Trooper

4496  Trail of the Rustlers  Columbia, 1950. 55 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Victor Arthur. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Eddie Cletro and His Roundup Boys, Tommy Ivo, Myron Healey, Don C. Harvey, Mira McKinney, Chuck Roberson, Gene Roth, Blackie Whiteford, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Herman Hack, Post Park. A woman and her two sons find a valley’s secret water source and plot to run off other ranchers to get their spreads but end up being opposed by the Durango Kid. Fair series outing; Jock Mahoney does not appear (outside of stunt work) but the name of the villainous clan is Mahoney.

4497  Trail of the Silver Spurs  Monogram, 1941. 58 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: Elmer Clifton. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Dorothy Short, I. Stanford Jolley, George Chesebro, Milburn Morante, Eddie Dean, Kermit Maynard, Frank Ellis, Carl Mathews, Steve Clark, Chuck Baldra. The government sends three cowboys after a gold thief and they wind up in a deserted town where a man and his daughter are being harassed by a mysterious figure using “ghost writing.” Nice addition to “The Range Busters” series, enhanced by its mystery motif.

4498  Trail of the Vigilantes  Universal, 1940. 75 min. D: Allan Dwan. SC: Harold Shumate. With Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford, Peggy Moran, Andy Devine, Mischa Auer, Porter Hall, Samuel S. Hinds, Charles Trowbridge, Paul Fix, Harry Cording, Max Wagner, Edmund MacDonald, Joe King, Frank Brownlee, Edmund Cobb, Ray Teal, Bob McKenzie, Duke York, Ralph Dunn, Earle Hodgins, Kermit Maynard, Lloyd Ingraham, Ted Adams, George Chandler, Heinie Conklin, Lew Kelly, Victor Potel, Hank Bell, George MacQuarrie, Jim Farley, Fred Walburn. An Eastern lawman is assigned to go West and bring in an outlaw gang. Pleasant blend of humor and action.

4499  Trail of the Wild  American National Enterprises, 1974. 94 min. Color. With Gordon Eastman. An outdoorsman leads an expedition to the northern reaches of Canada to study the lives of the Eskimos. Well made documentary.

4500  Trail of the Yukon  Monogram, 1949. 67 min. D: William X. Crowely (William Beaudine). SC: Oliver Drake. With Kirby Grant, Suzanne Dalbert, Bill Edwards, Iris Adrian, Dan Seymour, William Forrest, Anthony Warde, Maynard Holmes, Peter Mamakos, Jay Silverheels, Guy Beach, Stanley Andrews, Dick Elliott, Bill Kennedy, Alan Bridge, Harrison Hearne, Burt Wendland, Wally Walker, Roy Bucko, Chinook (dog). A gang of bank robbers are tracked into the Canadian wilderness by a Royal Mounted Policeman and his dog. Kirby Grant’s initial Monogram series outing is overlong and lumbering; adapted from James Oliver Curwood’s novel The Gold Hunters.

4501  Trail of Vengeance  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton and Fred Myton. With Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Warner Richmond, Earle Hodgins, Richard Cramer, Dick Curtis, Karl Hackett, Frank LaRue, Horace Murphy, Steve Clark, Budd Buster, Jack Kirk, Tex Palmer, Jim Corey, Herman Hack, Merrill McCormick, Horace B. Carpenter, Wally West, Clyde McClary, Ray Henderson. Dude Ramsey becomes involved in a range war and also finds he is the heir to a mine, his brother having been murdered by an outlaw gang leader. Well made action drama with Warner Richmond a most effective villain.

4502  Trail Riders  Monogram, 1942. 55 min. D: Robert Tansey. SC: Frances Kavanaugh. With John King, David Sharpe, Max Terhune, Evelyn Finley, Forrest Taylor, Lynton Brent, Charles King, Kermit Maynard, John Curtis, Steve Clark, Kenne Duncan, Frank LaRue, Bud Osborne, Tex Palmer, Richard Cramer, Frank Ellis, Augie Gomez. After his sheriff son is killed trying to stop a bank robbery, a marshal sends for the Range Busters to help him round up the gang. Only average entry in the popular series.

4503  Trail Street  RKO Radio, 1947. 84 min. D: Ray Enright. SC: Norman Houston and Gene Lewis. With Randolph Scott, Anne Jeffreys, Robert Ryan, George “Gabby” Hayes, Madge Meredith, Steve Brodie, Billy House, Virginia Sale, Harry Woods, Phil Warren, Harry Harvey, Jason Robards, Elena Warren, Betty Hill, Larry McGrath, Warren Jackson, Billy Vincent, Glen McCarthy, Ernie Adams, Kit Guard, Al Murphy, Lew Harvey, Roy Butler, Frank Austin, Carl Webster, Jessie Arnold, Si Jenks, Donald Kerr, Stanley Andrews, Sarah Padden, Frank McGlynn, Jr. Sam Lufkin. Marshal Bat Masterson teams with a land agent to battle cattle rustlers plaguing a Kansas town. Pretty good action melodrama.

4504  Trail to Gunsight  Universal, 1944. 58 min. D: Vernon Keays. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Maris Wrixon, Lyle Talbot, Ray Whitley and His Bar-6 Cowboys, Buzzy Henry, Marie Austin, Sarah Padden, Glenn Strange, Ray Bennett, Charles Morton, Forrest Taylor, Terry Frost, Jack Clifford, Henry Wills. When outlaws murder a boy’s father a lawman takes him home only to find the gang raiding the family ranch. Passable Eddie Dew vehicle with the slick Universal look; at its best when Ray Whitley sings “Old Nevada Trail.”

4505  The Trail to Hope Rose  The Hallmark Channel, 2004. 88 min. Color. D: David S. Cass, Sr. SC: Kevin Cutts. With Lou Diamond Phillips, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Majors, Richard Tyson, Marina Black, Warren Stevens, Jonathan Murphy, David Shackelford, Casey Sander, Paul Hewitt, Buck Taylor, Tracey Walter, Spencer Redford, Tom Everett, Jenny Sullivan, Marty Papazian, Dennis Fitzgerald, Sara De Berry, Jacleen Haber, Dave McQuade, John Dybdahi, Julie Mikhaele Clark, Tom Mesmer, Betsy McIntyre, Osa Danam, Brian Brow. A half-breed ex-convict, now a miner, saves a woman beaten by her husband and then helps an old rancher fight for his spread against his mine owner boss. Acceptable TV Western.

4506  Trail to Laredo  Columbia, 1948. 54 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Barry Shipman. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jim Bannon, Virginia Maxey, Tommy Ivo, Hugh Prosser, The Cass County Boys (Jerry Scoggins, Bert Dodson, Fred Martin), George Chesebro, John Merton, Bob Cason, Robert Wilke, Ted Mapes, Ethan Laidlaw, Mira McKinney, Bob Reeves. Forced to become a fugitive by his crooked partner who is in cahoots with a saloon owner smuggling gold, a stage line operator is helped by the Durango Kid. Action filled series episode.

4507  Trail to Mexico  Monogram, 1946. 57 min. D-SC: Oliver Drake. With Jimmy Wakely, Lee “Lasses” White, Dolores Castelli, Julian Rivero, Dora Del Rio, Terry Frost, Forrest Matthews, Brad Slaven, Alex Montoya, Jonathan McCall, Juan Duval, Arthur Smith, The Saddle Pals, The Guadalajara Trio, Jack Rivers, Jesse Ashlock. A crooning investigator goes south of the border to find out who is behind a series of mining outfit robberies. The music is good but the plot is only fair in this average Jimmy Wakely opus.

4508  Trail to San Antone  Republic, 1947. 67 min. D: John English. SC: Luci Ward and Jack Natteford. With Gene Autry, Peggy Stewart, Sterling Holloway, William Henry, The Cass County Boys (Jerry Scoggins, Bert Dodson, Fred Martin), Tristram Coffin, John Duncan, Dorothy Vaughn, Edward Keane, Ralph Peters, Frankie Marvin, Cacuts Mack. A horse trainer tries to help an injured jockey while he also fights a wild stallion out to steal his horse herd. Routine Gene Autry vehicle.

4509  Trail to Vengeance  Universal, 1945. 54 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Bob Williams. With Kirby Grant, Poni (Jane) Adams, Fuzzy Knight, Tom Fadden, John Kelly, Frank Jaquet, Stanley Andrews, Walter Baldwin, Roy Brent, Pierce Lyden, Dan White, Beatrice Gray, William Sundholm, Corey Loftin. While investigating his brother’s murder, a cowboy learns a dishonest banker is about to foreclose the mortgage on his property. Standard Kirby Grant Universal series film.