4510  Trailin’  Fox, 1921. 58 min. D-SC: Lynn Reynolds. With Tom Mix, Eva Novak, Bert Sprotte, James Gordon, Sidney Jordan, Carol Holloway, J. Farrell MacDonald, Duke R. Lee, William De Vaull, Al Fremont, Bert Hadley, Harry Dunkinson, Jay Morley, Cecil Van Auker. A man vows revenge for the murder of his father not knowing the killer is his real parent since he was abducted as an infant. Complicated silent screen adaptation of Max Brand’s novel, remade as A Holy Terror (q.v.).

Trailin’ Double Trouble see Trailing Double Trouble

4511  Trailin’ Trouble  Universal, 1930. 60 min. D: Arthur Rosson. SC: Arthur Rosson and Harold Tarshis. With Hoot Gibson, Margaret Quimby, Pete Morrison, Olive Young, William McCall, Robert Perry, Ben Corbett, Bud Osborne. A ranch worker in love with the boss’ daughter plans to herd horses to market as a rival orders him robbed so he will be discredited in the girl’s eyes. Pleasant Hoot Gibson feature, not too involved but with plenty of fun for his fans.

4512  Trailin’ Trouble  Grand National, 1937. 60 min. D: Arthur Rosson. SC: Philip Graham White. With Ken Maynard, Lona Andre, Roger Williams, Vince Barnett, Grace Woods, Fred Burns, Phil Dunham, Ed Cassidy, Horace B. Carpenter, Marin Sais, Tex Palmer. Due to a case of mistaken identity, a cowboy has to round up an outlaw gang in order to prove his innocence. Well done low budget Ken Maynard affair with a nice balance of comedy.

4513  Trailin’ West  Warner Bros., 1936. 59 min. D: Noel Smith. SC: Anthony Coldeway. With Dick Foran, Paula Stone, Addison Richards, Robert Barrat, Joseph Crehan, Gordon (Bill) Elliott, Fred Lawrence, Eddie Schubert, Henry Otho, Stuart Holmes, Milton Kibbee, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Jim Thorpe, Edwin Stanley, Bud Osborne, Glenn Strange, Gene Alsace, Lee “Lasses” White, Tom Wilson. Sam Rice, Frank Prince, Cliff Saum, Baldy Belomont. During the Civil War a Secret Service agent is assigned to track an outlaw band in the West. Plentiful action highlights this Dick Foran outing with two songs.

4514  Trailing Danger  Monogram, 1947. 58 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Marshall Reed, Peggy Wynne, Bonnie Jean Hartley, Steve Darrell, Eddie Parker, Pat Desmond, Bud Osborne, Ernie Adams, I. Stanford Jolley, Artie Ortego, Cactus Mack, Dee Cooper, Wally West, Ray Jones. An outlaw plans to get revenge on the stage line superintendent who sent him to jail but is opposed by a U.S. marshal. A meager plot hurts this Johnny Mack Brown-Raymond Hatton teaming.

4515  Trailing Double Trouble  Monogram, 1940. 56 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: Oliver Drake. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Lita Conway, Roy Barcroft, Kenne Duncan, Tom London, William Kellogg, Carl Mathews, Forrest Taylor, Nancy Louise King, Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders (Johnny Bond, Dick Reinhart), Texas Rex Felker, Richard Cramer, Frank Ellis. The Range Busters gets involved in trying to find out who killed a rancher and kidnapped his sister. Very good second series entry with plenty of action and humor; also called Trailin’ Double Trouble.

4516  Trailing North  Monogram, 1933. 60 min. D: J.P. McCarthy SC: John Morgan. With Bob Steele, Doris Hill, Arthur Rankin, George Hayes, Dick Dickinson, Fred Burns, Norman Fensler. A criminal on probation is enlisted by the rangers to locate the killer of his lawman mentor and he heads to Canada seeking a woman who holds the clue to the murder. Mediocre Bob Steele feature.

Poster for Trailing North (Monogram, 1933).

4517  Trailing the Killer  B.F. Ziedman, 1932. 64 min. D: Herman C. Raymaker. SC: Jackson Richards. With Francis McDonald, Heinie Conklin, Jose De La Cruz, Pedro Regas, Caesar (dog). A wolf dog is falsely accused of killing its master, the deed actually committed by a mountain lion. Well done action drama, filmed in Canada and made in a semi-documentary style; also titled Call of the Wilderness.

4518  Trailing Trouble  Universal, 1930. 57 min. D-SC: Arthur Rosson. With Hoot Gibson, Margaret Quimby, William McCall, Pete Morrison, Bob Perry, Olive Young, Art Acord, William Dyer. Two cowboys vie for the affections of their ranch boss’s daughter while one of them takes part in a horse theft operation to ruin his rival’s reputation with the girl. Star Hoot Gibson produced this pleasant outing, Art Acord’s only sound film.

4519  Trail’s End  Beaumont, 1933. 57 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Jack Jevne. With Conway Tearle, Claudia Dell, Baby Charlotte Barry, Fred Kohler, Ernest (Ernie) Adams, Pat Harmon, Victor Potel, Gaylord (Steve) Pendleton, Stanley Blystone, Jack Duffy. Framed and sent to prison, a man gets out vowing revenge on his enemies and ends up the sheriff of a community harassed by his old gang. Despite low grade production values, this Conway Tearle vehicle is pretty good.

4520  Trail’s End  Monogram, 1949. 57 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Max Terhune, Kay Morley, Myron Healey, Douglas Evans, Zon Murray, George Chesebro, Keith Richards, William Norton Bailey, Carol Henry, Boyd Stockman, Eddie Majors. After finding gold on a rancher’s land, a crook tries to buy it and when the man refuses to sell he finds himself accused of murder but a lawman believes in his innocence. Mediocre Johnny Mack Brown film; the title is sadly prophetic for the series Western at the time.

4521  Trails of Peril  Big 4, 1930. 55 min. D-SC: Alvin J. Neitz (Alan James). With Wally Wales, Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Perrin, Frank Ellis, Lew Meehan, Joe Rickson, Buck Connors, Bobby Dunn, Pete Morrison, Hank Bell. Mistaken for a outlaw, a cowboy decides to capture the bad man for the reward but the hoodlum gets the same ideal. Bottom of the barrel poverty row feature.

4522  Trails of the Wild  Ambassador, 1935. 61 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Kermit Maynard, Billie Seward, Monte Blue, Fuzzy Knight, Matthew Betz, Theodore Von Eltz, Frank Rice, Robert Frazer, Wheeler Oakman, Roger Williams, Charles Delaney, John Elliott, Dick Curtis, William Desmond, Ted Mapes, Eddie Phillips, Frank McCarroll, Richard Botiller, Ed Cassidy, Herman Hack, Clyde McClary, Artie Ortego. A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is hunting the man who murdered his pal. Surprisingly poor adaptation of James Oliver Curwood’s Caryl of the Mountains, filmed under that title in 1914, starring Tom Santschi and Kathlyn Williams, and again in 1936 (q.v.).

4523  The Train Robbers  Warner Bros., 1973. 92 min. Color. D-SC: Burt Kennedy. With John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Chris(topher) George, Ricardo Montalban, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin. A cowboy and his pals team with a beautiful widow in trying to recover gold stolen from her late husband. Okay feature filmed in Mexico but not one of John Wayne’s best.

4524  Train to Tombstone  Lippert, 1950. 60 min. D-SC: William Berke. With Don Barry, Robert Lowery, Tom Neal, Wally Vernon, Judith Allen, Nan Leslie, Minna Phillips, Barbara Stanley, Claude Stroud, Bill Kennedy, Jack Perrin. Passengers on a Tombstone bound railroad train are robbed by outlaws and then attacked by marauding Indians. Stagecoach-on-a-train provides some excitement despite its low budget.

4525  The Traitor  Puritan, 1936. 58 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Tim McCoy, Frances Grant, Karl Hackett, Dick Curtis, Jack Rockwell, Wally Wales, Pedro Regas, Frank Melton, Richard Botiller, Edmund Cobb, Tina Menard, George Chesebro, Slim Whitaker, Soledad Jiminez, J. Frank Glendon, Frank McCarroll, Wally West, Frank Ellis, Jimmy Aubrey, Oscar Gahan, Julian Rivero, Jack Kirk, Art Dillard, Al Taylor, Ray Henderson, Buck Morgan, Jack King. A Texas Ranger pretends to get thrown out of the service so he can masquerade as an outlaw and join a gang hiding across the border in Mexico. The time honored plot gets pretty thin in this ragged low budget effort.

4526  La Trampa Mortal (The Deadly Trap)  Besne, 1962. 80 min. D: Zacarias Gomez Urquiza. With Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernandez, Rosario Galvez, Emma Roldan, Cuco Sanchez. Fifteen years after a thief murdered his father and stole his ranch, a man returns, dons a mask, and seeks revenge. Another in the long line of masked Mexican heroes, but still a nice offering.

4527  The Tramplers  Embassy, 1966. 90 min. Color. D: Albert Band (Alfredo Antonini) and Mario Sequi. SC: Alfredo Antonini and Ugo Liberatore. With Joseph Cotten, Gordon Scott, James Mitchum, Ilaria Occhini, Franco Nero, Emma Vannoni, Georges Lycan, Mariel Franklin, Aldo Cecconi, Franco Balducci, Claudio Gora, Romano Puppo, Dario Michaelis, Ivan Scratuglia, Carla Calo. Following the Civil War a Confederate veteran comes home to the terrible aftermath of the conflict and finds his stern-willed father wants to keep the crusade alive. One of the better 1960s foreign oaters with a good plot (based on Will Cook’s novel Guns of North Texas), cast and plenty of action; made in Argentina and issued in Italy in 1965 as Gli Uomini dal Passo Pesante (The Man of the Heavy Step).

Top: John Wayne and Ann-Margret in The Train Robbers (Warner Bros., 1973). Bottom: Advertisement for The Tramplers (Embassy, 1966).

Transcontinental Express see Rock Island Trail

4528  The Trap  Paramount, 1959. 84 min. Color. D: Norman Panama. SC: Richard Alan Simmons and Norman Panama. With Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, Carl Benton Reid, Lorne Greene, Peter Baldwin, Chuck Wassil, Richard Shannon, Carl Milletaire, Louis Quinn, Wayne Heffley, James Bell, Karl Lukas, Walter Coy, Roger Creed, John Indrisano, Russell Saunders, Mike Mahoney, Berel Firestone. A mobster and his gang take over a remote Western community as his lawyer must confront the town sheriff and deputy, his estranged father and drunken brother. Dull going in his modern-day Western.

4529  The Trap  Continental, 1968. 106 min. Color. D: Sidney Hayers. SC: David Osborn. With Oliver Reed, Rita Tushingham, Rex Sevenoaks, Barbara Chilcott, Linda Goranson, Blain Fairman, Walter Marsh, Jo Golland. A Canadian trapper reluctantly takes a deaf-mute girl in a wife auction and her loyalty to him eventually saves his life. Well made Canadian drama with fine scenic values in addition to a good plot.

4530  Trap on Cougar Mountain  Sun International, 1972. 94 min. Color. D-SC: Keith Larsen. With Eric Larsen, Keith Larsen, Karen Steele, Alvin Keeswood, Randy Burt, Lawrence J. Rink. A boy is befriended by a cougar and together they struggle to survive in a mountain wilderness. More than adequate family adventure fare; songs by Gene Merlino.

4531  Trapped  Columbia, 1937. 55 min. D: Leon Barsha. SC: John Rathmell. With Charles Starrett, Peggy Stratford, Robert Middlemass, Allan Sears, Ted Oliver, Lew Meehan, Ed Peil, Sr., Jack Rockwell, Ed LeSaint, Francis Sayles, Art Mix, Richard Botiller, Blackjack Ward. When his brother is murdered a cowboy believes a neighboring rancher committed the crime to get his sibling’s land but he cannot prove it because the suspect is a helpless invalid. An intriguing mystery element highlights this well done and entertaining Charles Starrett effort.

4532  Trapped in Tia Juana  Mayfair, 1932. 60 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Bernard McConville, Wallace Fox and Carlos F. Borcosque. With Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Dot Farley, Joseph W. (Joe) Girard, Manuel Paris, Frank Lanning, Henry Roquemore, Arthur Thalasso, Monte Vandergrift, Ed Peil, Sr. After being separated as children, two brothers grow up to become a soldier and a bandit with both falling for the same beautiful woman. Producer Fanchon Royer spared every expense in this threadbare, barely tolerable comedy-drama based on a story by genre favorite Rex Lease.

4533  The Traveling Saleslady  Columbia, 1950. 75 min. D: Charles F. Reisner. SC: Howard Dinsdal. With Joan Davis, Andy Devine, Adele Jergens, Joseph Sawyer, Dean Riesner, John Cason, Chief Thundercloud, Harry Hayden, Charles Halton, Minerva Urecal, Eddy Waller, Teddy Infur, Robert Cherry, William Newell, Harry Woods, Ethan Laidlaw, Harry Tyler, Alan Bridge, Gertrude Charre, Emmett Lynn, Stanley Andrews, George Yowlachie, Bill Wilkerson, Nick Thompson, George McDonald, Fred Aldrich, Louis Mason, Jessie Arnold, Robert Wilke. A woman sets out with her boyfriend to sell her dad’s soap so his business will survive and the two head West where they get involved with crooks and an Indian uprising. Stilted comedy filled with wheezy gags; not even Joan Davis and Andy Devine can do much to save this weak feature.

4534  Treachery Rides the Range  Warner Bros., 1936. 56 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: William Jacobs. With Dick Foran, Paula Stone, Monte Blue, Craig Reynolds, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Henry Otho, Jim Thorpe, Milton Kibbee, Bud Osborne, Monte Montague, Don Barclay, Gene Alsace, Richard Botiller, Iron Eyes Cody, William Desmond, Frank McCarroll, Frank Ellis, Artie Ortego, Nick Copeland, Frank Bruno. Crooks try to defraud Plains Indians who threaten to go on the warpath but a cowboy plans to bring about continued peace. Top notch Dick Foran vehicle with a good balance between action and songs.

4535  Treason  Columbia, 1933. 57 min. D: George B. Seitz. SC: Gordon Battle. With Buck Jones, Shirley Grey, Robert Ellis, Ed LeSaint, Frank Lackteen, Edwin Stanley, Art Mix, Frank Ellis, T.C. Jacks, Charles Brinley, Charles Hill Mailes, Ivar McFadden. In 1870 an Army scout tries to infiltrate a group of Confederate sympathizers led by a woman who wants to get lands unjustly taken from her in Kansas. High grade Buck Jones drama.

4536  The Treasure of Lost Canyon  Universal-International, 1951. 82 min. Color. D: Ted Tetzlaff. SC: Brainerd Duffield and Emerson Crocker. With William Powell, Julia (Julie) Adams, Rosemary De Camp, Henry Hull, Charles Drake, Tommy Ivo, Chubby Johnson, John Doucette, Marvin Press, Frank Wilcox, Griff Barnett, Jack Perrin, Virginia Mullen, Philo McCullough, Paul “Tiny” Newlan, George Taylor, Jimmy Ogg, Ed Hinkle, Hugh Prosser. A boy adopted by a middle-aged couple accidentally finds a hidden cache that nearly brings tragedy to everyone it touches. Fairly good screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Treasure of Franchard with good work by William Powell as Doc, an old prospector.

4537  Treasure of Matecumbe  Buena Vista, 1976. 117 min. Color. D: Vincent McEveety. SC: Don Tait. With Peter Ustinov, Peter Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Vic Morrow, Jane Wyatt, Johnny Duran, Billy “Pop” Attmore, Dub Taylor, Don Knight, Virginia Vincent, Dick Van Patten, Mills Watson, Val De Vargas, Robert Doqui. In the Florida Everglades, two boys, using a treasure map, search for hidden riches with the help of three others while a bad guy is on their trail. Average Walt Disney feature.

4538  The Treasure of Pancho Villa  RKO Radio, 1955. 96 min. Color. D: George Sherman. SC: Niven Busch. With Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia, Fanny Schiller, Tony Carvajal, Pasquel Pena, Carlos Mosquiz. An American mercenary working for Pancho Villa plans the robbery of gold from a government train but the loot is stolen before it reaches the revolutionary. Standard action effort.

The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1966) see  The Vengeance of Pancho Villa

4539  Treasure of Ruby Hills  Allied Artists, 1955. 71 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Tom Hubbard and Fred Eggers. With Zachary Scott, Carole Mathews, Dick Foran, Barton MacLane, Lola Albright, Lee Van Cleef, Raymond Hatton, Gordon Jones, Steve Darrell, Rick Vallin, Charles Frederick, Stanley Andrews, James Alexander, Glenn Strange, John Cason, Carl Mathews, Ray Jones. Crooked cattlemen fight for control of range land with a rancher trying to stop them and their greed. Pretty fair feature with good work by Zachary Scott as the hero.

4540  The Treasure of Silver Lake  Columbia, 1965. 82 min. D: Harald Reinl. SC: Harald G. Petersson. With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Herbert Lom, Gotz George, Karin Dor, Ralf Wolter, Eddi Arent, Marianne Hoppe, Mirko Boman, Jan Sid (Sima Kanicijevic), Jozo Kovacevic, Shobodan Dimitrijevic, Branko Spoljar, Milivoj Stojanovic, Velemir Hill, Ilija Ivezic, Sime Jargarinac, Antun Nails, Vladimir Medar. Frontiersman Old Shatterhand and his Indian blood brother Winnetou try to stop the pillage of Indian lands by crooks looking for secreted treasure. The initial big screen revival of the works of Karl May by producer Horst Wendlant is a beautifully done and enjoyable production released in West Germany in 1962 as Der Schatz im Silbersee (The Treasure of Silver Lake) by Constantin-Filmverleih at 111 minutes and remade as an animated feature in East Germany in 1989 as Die Spur fuhrt zum Silbersee (The Trail Leads to the Silver Sea).

4541  Treasure of Tayopa  Reina Productions, 1974. 85 min. Color. D: Bob Cawley. SC: Robert Mason and Philip Michel. With Gilbert Roland, Rena Winters, Phil Trapani, Bob Corrigan, Frank Hernandez, Andrew Farnsworth, Robert “Spanky” Spangler, Randy Hill, Ken McConnell, Jose Contreras, Sagario Pacheo, Rick Roark. A woman leads an expedition into the Mexican wilderness looking for fabulous treasure but one of the party is a madman set on killing the others. Poor drama that will disappoint Gilbert Roland fans since he appears only at the beginning and end as the film’s host.

4542  The Treasure of the Aztecs  Gloria Film, 1965. 102 min. Color. D: Robert Siodmak. SC: Ladislas Fodor, R.A. Stemmle and Georg Marischka. With Lex Barker, Gerard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Michele Girardon, Ralf Wolter, Alessandra Panaro, Teresa Lorca, Fausto Tozzi, Gustavo Rojo, Hans Nielsen, Kelo Henderson, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Friedrich von Ledebur, Jeff Corey, Antun Nalis, Djordje Nenadovic, Mirko Kujacic, Milivoje Popovic-Mavid, Branimir Tori Jankovic, Rolf Rolphs, Nada Radovic, Petar Buntic, Willy Egger. In 1864 Mexico both the followers of Benito Juarez and Emperor Maxmillian search for lost Aztec treasure in order to use the riches for their causes. Pretty exciting West German film hurt by being cut to 90 minutes and dubbed for U.S. TV. German title: Der Schatz der Aztecan (The Treasure of the Aztecs) and also called Mercenaries of the Rio Grande; followed by Pyramid of the Sun God (q.v.) the same year.

4543  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre  Warner Bros., 1948. 126 min. D-SC: John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, Martin Garralaga, Jack Holt, John Huston, A. Soto Rangel, Manuel Donde, Jose Torvay, Margarito Luna, Jacqueline Dalya, Bobby Blake, Spencer Chan, Julian Rivero, Harry Vejar, Pat Flaherty, Clifton Young, Ralph Dunn, Guillermo Calleo, Roberto Canedo, Ernesto Escoto, Ignacio Villalbajo, Ann Sheridan, David Sharpe. Three men head into the mountains of Mexico looking for gold but one of them is turned into a madman by greed. A bit overlong, but still near-classic screen version of B. Traven’s novel with fine photography (by Ted McCord) and some magnificent character work, specifically Walter Huston’s old prospector, Barton MacLane as the big-mouth McCormick, and Alfonso Bedoya’s maniac, Gold Hat. A must see.

4544  Tres Hombres Malos (Three Bad Men)  Clasa-Mohme, 1949. 91 min. D-SC: Fernando Mendez. With Luis Aguilar, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Raul de Anda, Gloria Alonso, Manuel Noriega, Dagoberto Rodriguez, Enriqueta Lavat, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Gilberto Gonzalez, Jose L. Murillo. Three outlaws kidnap the mayor’s little girl and take her to a mountain cabin but become enthralled with the child and plan to return her despite being hunted by a posse. Well done Mexican Western from producer Raul de Anda.

4545  Trespasses  Shapiro Entertainment, 1987. 100 min. Color. D: Loren Bivens and Adam Roarke. SC: Loren Vivans, Lou Diamond Phillips and Jo Carol Pierce. With Robert Kuhn, Van Brooks, Ben Johnson, Mary Pillot, Adam Roarke, Lou Diamond Phillips, Deborah Neumann, Thom Meyer, Marina Rice, KaRan Reed, George Sledge, Lou Perry, John Henry Faulk. After being brutally raped, a young woman falls for a cattleman and both become the target of revenge by her husband. Only fair modern-day mystery in a Texas town setting.

4546  The Trial of Billy Jack  Warner Bros., 1974. 170 min. Color. D: Frank Laughlin. SC: Frank Christian and Teresa Christian. With Delores Taylor, Tom Laughlin, Victor Izay, Teresa Laughlin, Riley Hill, Sparky Watt, Russell Lane, William Wellman, Jr., Michelle Wilson, Geo Anna Sosa, Lynn Baker, Guy Greymountain, Sacheen Littlefeather, Michael Bolland, Jack Stanley, Sandra Ego, Trinidad Hopkins, Marianne Hill, Jason Clark, Johnny West, Buffalo Horse, Dennis O’Flaherty, Bong Soo Han, Michael J. Sigezone, Kathy Cronkite, Alexandra Nicholson, Rolling Thunder. Released from prison, an Indian rights activist returns to the mountains to search for the meaning of life. Third film in the “Billy Jack” series and a pretentious bore.

4547  Trianganlos Vivor o Muertos  Filmadora Chapultepec, 1974. 84 min. Color. D-SC: Ruben Galindo. With Rodolfo de Anda, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Raquel Olmedo, Roberto Guzman, Marco Antonio Campos, Marcelo Villami, Angelines Fernandez, Federico Falcon, Oscar Sar., Gustavo del Castillo. When an outlaw and a beautiful woman bank robber join forces they are chased by lawmen and bounty hunters. Well done Mexican Western.

4548  Tribute to a Bad Man  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1956. 95 min. Color. D: Robert Wise. SC: Michael Blankfort. With James Cagney, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas, Don Dubbins, Vic Morrow, James Griffith, Onslow Stevens, James Bell, Royal Dano, Jeanette Nolan, Chubby Johnson, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Chong, James McCallion, Tony Hughes, Roy Engel, Bud Osborne, John Halloran, Tom London, Dennis Moore, Buddy Roosevelt. A drifter saves a wealthy horse rancher from bushwhackers and soon learns the man is ruthless regarding his property and his woman, with whom the stranger falls in love. Highly competent Western with a powerful performance by James Cagney as the rancher.

Tricked see Bandits of El Dorado

4549  Trigger Fingers  Victory, 1939. 53 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Basil Dickey. With Tim McCoy, Jill Martin, Joyce Bryant, Ben Corbett, Kenne Duncan, John Elliott, Ralph Peters, Ted Adams, Bud McTaggart, Forrest Taylor, Carleton Young, Carl Mathews, Budd Buster, Wally West, Herman Back, Bob Terry, Chick Hannon, Tex Palmer. A lawman masquerades as a gypsy so he can get the goods on an outlaw band. Slow moving, final low grade entry in the “Lightning Bill Carson” series from producer Sam Katzman.

4550  Trigger Fingers  Monogram, 1946. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: Frank H. Young. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Riley Hill, Ed Cassidy, Ted Adams, Steve Clark, Eddie Parker, Cactus Mack, George Morrell, Pierce Lyden, Ray Jones, Frank McCarroll. A marshal tries to help a hot-head who shoots a crook during a card game and is framed for murder by the dead man’s gang. Average Johnny Mack Brown-Raymond Hatton series entry.

4551  Trigger Jr.  Republic, 1950. 68 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Gerald Geraghty. With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Gordon Jones, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Grant Withers, Peter Miles, George Cleveland, Frank Fenton, I. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Andrews, Jack Ingram, Tom Steele, DaleVan Sickel, The Raymor Lehr Circus. A rodeo show owner finds out a range protection service is really fleecing local ranchers. Good Roy Rogers vehicle.

4552  Trigger Law  Monogram, 1944. 56 min. D: Vernon Keays. SC: Victor Hammond. With Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Beatrice Gray, Ralph Lewis, Ed Cassidy, Jack Ingram, George Eldredge, Pierce Lyden, Lane Chandler, Bud Osborne, George Morrell. Two men search for the killer of the father of one of them, the victim having been the manager of a stagecoach line. Slow moving, low budget post “Trail Blazers” affair.

Trigger Man see Billy the Kid’s Fighting Pals

4553  Trigger Pals  Grand National, 1939. 56 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: George Plympton. With Art Jarrett, Lee Powell, Al St. John, Dorothy Fay, Ted Adams, Nina Guilbert, Ernie Adams, Earl Douglas, Stanley Blystone, Frank LaRue, Ethan Allen, Dirk Thane, Robert Walker, Wally West, Carl Mathews. A cowboy not only finds part of a cattle herd he has been guarding is stolen but that his female boss plans to turn her property into a dude ranch. Passable comedy-music-action vehicle for crooner Art Jarrett.

4554  Trigger Smith  Monogram, 1939. 51 min. D: Alan James. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Jack Randall, Joyce Bryant, Frank Yaconelli, Ed Cassidy, Bobby Clark, Warner Richmond, Dave O’Brien, Forrest Taylor, Earl Douglas, Sherry Tansey, Jim Corey, Reed Howes, Bud Osborne, Dennis Moore, Horace B. Carpenter, Milton Kibbee, Mary Thompson, Frank LaRue, Chick Hannon, Archie Ricks, Denver Dixon. After outlaws murder his brother during a holdup, a cowboy, at the request of his marshal father, sets out to bring them to justice. Average Jack Randall outing.

4555  Trigger Tom  Reliable, 1935. 57 min. D: Henri Samuels (Harry S. Webb). SC: Tom Gibson. With Tom Tyler, Al St. John, Bernadene Hayes, William Gould, Jack Evans, John Elliott, Bud Osborne, Wally Wales, Lloyd Ingraham, Jack Hendricks, Budd Buster, Milburn Morante, Art Dillard, George Morrell, Francis Walker, Barney Beasley, Tex Palmer, Rube Dalroy, George Hazel. A cattle buyer and his pal get mixed up with an outlaw gang when one of the leaders poses as a deputy sheriff. Low grade, somewhat hard to follow Tom Tyler film with the asset of having Al St. John as his sidekick.

4556  Trigger Trail  Universal, 1944. 59 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Ed Ear Repp and Patricia Harper. With Rod Cameron, Fuzzy Knight, Eddie Dew, Vivian Austin, Ray Whitley, Lane Chandler, George Eldredge, Buzzy Henry, Davison Clark, Michael Vallon, Richard Alexander, Jack Rockwell, Budd Buster, Bud Osborne, Ray Jones, Jack Ingram, Artie Ortego, Ray Whitley’s Bar-6 Cowboys. Returning home from law school, a man discovers a crook is trying to steal land from local ranchers before it becomes a legal territory. Well produced, sturdy Rod Cameron series feature.

4557  Trigger Tricks  Universal, 1930. 60 min. D-SC: B. Reeves Eason. With Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Robert Homans, Jack Richardson, Monte Montague, Neal Hart, Walter Perry, Max Asher. Out to avenge the murder of his brother, a cowboy intervenes in a dispute between a cattle rancher and a sheepherder. Lighthearted Hoot Gibson film, topical at the time of its release because of the much publicized Gibson-Sally Eilers romance.

4558  The Trigger Trio  Republic, 1937. 55 min. D: William Witney. SC: Joseph Poland and Oliver Drake. With Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Ralph Byrd, Sandra Corday, Hal Taliaferro, Robert Warwick, Cornelius Keefe, Sammy McKim, Jack Ingram, Willie Fung, Harry Semuels, Henry Hall, Bob Burns, Fred Burns, Jerry Frank, Ted Billings, Buck (dog). A rancher, trying to prevent authorities from finding out his cattle have hoof-and-mouth disease, kills a range inspector. Exciting “Three Mesquiteers” adventure (Ralph Byrd substitutes for injured Robert Livingston) that marked the feature directorial debut of William Witney.

4559  Triggerman  Monogram, 1948. 58 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: Ronald Davidson. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Carroll, Bill Kennedy, Marshall Reed, Forrest Mathews, Bob Woodward, Dee Cooper, Frank Ellis, Herman Hack, George Morrell, Jack Evans, Ray Jones, Foxy Callahan, Carol Henry, Al Haskell, Jack Tornek, Kansas Moehring. A Well Fargo agent goes to work for a woman rancher and deduces a crooked real estate agent is after her land because gold is hidden on it. Better-than-average Johnny Mack Brown-Raymond Hatton feature, due mainly to its interesting script.

4560  Triggerman  Grindstone Entertainment Group, 2009. 97 min. Color. D: Terence Hill and Giulo Base. SC: Jess Hill. With Terence Hill, Paul Sorvino, Ornelia Muti, Micah Alverti, Linus Huffman, Christina July Kim, Darrian Chavez, Fabrizio Bucci, Gianni Biasetti, Christopher Hagen. A gambler gunfighter must stand up to a cheating outlaw in order to win a big poker tournament. Fair Italian TV movie; sequel to Doc West (q.v.).

Trinity see Jesse and Lester

4561  Trinity and Bambino  Central Film, 1995. 90 min. Color. D: E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni). SC: Marco Barboni. With Heath Kizzier, Keith Neubert, Yvonne De Bark, Fanny Cadeo, Ronald Nitschke, Siegfried Rauch, Renato D’Amore, Eduardo MacGregor, Jack Taylor, Riccardo Pizzuti, Blaki, Jorge Oscar Bosso Cuello, Renato Scarpa, Jose Lifante, Ana Coriano Perez, Paco Catala, Tony Lima. The sons of two notorious cowpokes meet in a small town and join forces to clean up its lawless element. Okay attempt to emulate the Spaghetti Western comedies of the two previous decades; made in Italy and released there as Trinita e Bambino...e Adesso Tocca a Noi (Trinity and Bambino...And It is Now Up to Us).

4562  Trinity and Sartana Are Coming  Metheus Film, 1972. 102 min. Color. D: Mario Siciliano. SC: Adriano Bolzoni. With Robert Widmark (Alberto Dell’Acqua), Harry Baird, Beatrice Pellh, Stelio Candelli, Dan May (Dante Maggio), Alan Abbott (Ezio Marano), Lars Bloch, Enzo Andronico, Carla Mancini, Nino Nini, Daniela Giordano, Romano Puppo, Claudio Ruffini, Fortunato Arena, Gilberto Galimberti, Dino Cassio, Franko Ukmar, Pietro Torrisi, Enzo Maggio, Nello Pazzafini, Pietro Torrisi, Ricccardo Paetrazzi, Osiride Pevarello. Two outlaws carry out a series of bank robberies but they can never keep the loot since one of them is always giving it away. The so-called humor misses the mark in this Italian production issued there as Trinita e Sartana: Figli Di... (Trinity and Sartana: Children of...).

Trinity Is Back Again see A Genius, Two Friends and an Idiot

Trinity Is My Name see Trinity Is Still My Name

4563  Trinity Is Still My Name  Avco-Embassy, 1973. 117 min. Color. D-SC: E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni). With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Harry Carey, Jr., Jessica Dublin, Yanti Sommer, Enzo Tarascio, Pupo De Luca. Two bungling outlaw brothers, now on the right side of justice, try to right all the wrongs they can find. Funny follow-up to They Call Me Trinity (q.v.), this Italian feature, made as Continuavano a Chiamarlo Trinita (Continue to Call Me Trinity), offers Harry Carey, Jr., a good role as the father.

Trinity Sees Red see Revenge of Trinity

4564  Triple Justice  RKO Radio, 1940. 66 min. D: David Howard. SC: Morton Grant and Arthur V. Jones. With George O’Brien, Virginia Sale, Peggy Shannon, Harry Woods, Paul Fix, LeRoy Mason, Glenn Strange, Bud McTaggart, Bob McKenzie, Wilfred Lucas, Herman Nolan, John Judd, Lloyd Ingraham, Lew Meehan, Steve Pendleton, Hank Worden, Fern Emmett, George Mendoza, Henry Roquemore, Paul Everton, Walter Patterson, Jean Del Val, Henrique Valdez, Elenda Lindeman, Clothidle Lindeman, Bertha Lindeman. A rancher, on the way to a friend’s wedding, meets a trio of men who robbed the local bank and he is blamed for the crime. George O’Brien’s last series film is a fast paced and exciting one, a fine finale to his “B” Western career.

4565  Triumphs of a Man Called Horse  Jensen Farley Pictures, 1982. 90 min. Color. D: John Hough. SC: Ken Blackwell and Carlos Aured. With Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Vaughn Armstrong, Anne Seymour, Buck Taylor, Simon Andreu, Lautaco Murua, Roger Cudney, Jerry Gatlin, John Chandler, Jacqueline Evans. Following the murder of his white father, a Sioux half-breed tries to protect his people from the gold seekers swarming into their sacred Black Hills. Picturesque but tepid third entry in the trilogy preceded by A Man Called Horse and Return of a Man Called Horse (qq.v.); best thing about it is Rita Coolidge singing the title theme, “He’s Comin’ Back.”

The Trooper see The Fighting Trooper

4566  Trooper Hook  United Artists, 1957. 82 min. D-SC: Charles Marquis Warren. With Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews, John Dehner, Susan Kohner, Royal Dano, Terry Lawrence, Celia Lovsky, Rodolfo Acosta, Stanley Adams, Pat O’Moore, Jeanne Bates, Rush Williams, Dick Shannon, Sheb Wooley, Cyril Delevanti, D.J. Thompson. A trooper falls in love with a woman who has been rescued from the Apaches but is scorned because she bore the tribe’s chief a son. Sturdy drama with Tex Ritter performing the title song.

4567  Troopers Three. Tiffany, 1930. 80 min. D: Norman Taurog. SC: John F. (Jack) Natteford. With Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver, Roscoe Karns, Slim Summerville, Tom London, Joseph Girard, Walter Perry. Three starving ham actors mistakenly join the cavalry and one of them falls in love with his drill sergeant’s daughter and saves the man’s life. Mediocre early talkie set in the West; also available in an excruciating 22 minute silent version.

4568  Trouble at Melody Mesa  Astor, 1949. 64 min. D: W. Merle Connell. SC: Ned Dandy. With Brad King, Carl Shrum, Lorraine (Miller) Michie, I. Stanford Jolley, Walt Shrum, Alta Lee, Jimmie Shrum, Carl Sepulveda, Stacey Alexander, Robert “Pappy” Hoag, Ace Dehne, Shorty (Bob) Woodward, Don Weston, Roy Butler, Sue Gamboa, John Blackburn, Paula Blackburn, Rusty Cline, Lefty Walker, Jack Gress, Frank Bertoldi. After getting jobs on a ranch where the owner mysteriously died, Western band musicians help the local sheriff since they suspect foul play. Cheap musical oater featuring the Shrum family.

4569  Trouble at Midnight  Universal, 1938. 68 min. D: Ford Beebe. SC: Maurice Geraghty and Ford Beebe. With Noah Beery, Jr., Catherine (Kay) Hughes, Larry Blake, Bernadene Hayes, Louis Mason, Earl Dwire, Charles Halton, Frank Melton, George Humbert, Edward Hearn, Harlan Briggs, Henry Hunter, Harry C. Bradley, Virginia Sale, Ernie Adams. A young man tries to combat a gang using modern methods such as freight trucks to rustle cattle from ranches near a remote town. Highly efficient and entertaining “B” effort, the first to initiate the plot so often used in later genre outings.

4570  Trouble Busters  Majestic, 1933. 55 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Oliver Drake. With Jack Hoxie, Lane Chandler, Kay Edwards, Harry Todd, Ben Corbett, William T. Burt, Roger Williams, Charles “Slim” Whitaker, Irving Bacon, Henry Roquemore, Olin Francis, Bob Fleming, Bart Carre, Jack Kirk, Chuck Baldra, Jack Jones, Bob Roper. A cowboy tries to help a woman about to be cheated out of her oil rich land by a crook. Pleasant Jack Hoxie vehicle with enough action and humor to satisfy his fans.

4571  Trouble in High Timber Country  ABC-TV, 1980. 100 min. Color. D: Vincent Sherman. SC: Jeb Rosebrook. With Eddie Albert, Joan Goodfellow, Martin Kove, James Sloyan, Robin Dearden, Belinda J. Montgomery, Kevin Brophy, Steve Doubet, Scott Yeager, James Sikking, Bettye Ackerman, Richard Sanders, Brion James, Jimmy Mair, John Quade, Lyle Cannon, Steve Eastin, Michael J. Fox, Hugh Gillin, John Lupton, Sheldon Biggs, Brian Patrick Clarke, Ian Wolfe, Mel Fletcher. A large corporation will stop at nothing to absorb a family’s lumber and mining business. Fairly good modern-day TV movie.

4572  Trouble in Sundown  RKO Radio, 1939. 60 min. D: David Howard. SC: Oliver Drake, Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With George O’Brien, Rosalind Keith, Ray Whitley, Chill Wills, Ward Bond, Cy Kendall, Howard Hickman, Monte Montague, John Dilson, Otto Yamaoka, Ken Card, Slim Whitaker, Bob Burns, Lafe McKee, Earl Dwire, The Phelps Brothers, Jack Perrin, Murdock MacQuarrie, Lloyd Ingraham, Tom London, Ted Mapes. A cowboy attempts to come to the rescue of his girlfriend’s father, a banker falsely accused of robbing his own establishment and murdering the night watchman. Exceedingly good George O’Brien film with a solid script.

4573  Trouble in Texas  Grand National, 1937. 64 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: Robert Emmett (Tansey). With Tex Ritter, Rita (Hayworth) Cansino, Horace Murphy, Earl Dwire, Yakima Canutt, Charles King, Dick Palmer, Tom Cooper, Hal Price, Fred Parker, Chick Hannon, Oral Zumwalt, Foxy Callahan, Henry Knight, Bob Crosby, Jack Smith, Shorty Miller, Milburn Morante, George Morrell, Jack C. Smith, Glenn Strange, The Texas Tornados. When his brother is murdered, a rodeo performer teams with a female undercover agent to track an outlaw gang working the circuit. Pleasingly action packed, and tuneful, Tex Ritter vehicle.

4574  Trouble on the Trail  Allied Artists, 1954. 54 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: William Raynor. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Robert Livingston, Carole Mathews, Richard Alexander, Sam Flint, William (Merrill) McCormick, Ralph Sanford, Fred Kohler, Jr., Tom Monroe, Larry Hudson, Peter McGabe, Bill Coontz, George Sherwood. Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy, Jingle P. Jones, take on a gigantic blacksmith brutalizing local ranchers in order to get their land and then try to capture a gunman masquerading as a magician. Acceptable big screen feature made up of “Blacksmith Story” and “Medicine Show,” two 1952 segments of “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58).

4575  Truce  Anthem Pictures, 2005. 106 min. Color. D-SC: Matthew Marconi. With Buck Taylor, Samantha Droke, Michaela Lange, George Kennedy, Brad Johnson, Harvey Jordan, Scarlett McAlister, Eileen Indelicato, Tommy Guy, Cliff Chamberlain, Henry Brown, Tony Dodds, Lora Fredericksen, Amy Rolland, Steve J. Warner, Barry Tubb, Robert Koftinow, Christina Canepa. A cattle rancher struggles to keep his land while fulfilling the promise he made to his late daughter to give his teenage granddaughter a stable home. Well done and enjoyable modern-day Western drama.

4576  True Grit  Paramount, 1969. 128 min. Color. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Marguerite Roberts. With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Alfred Ryder, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield, John Doucette, Donald Woods, Edith Atwater, Carlos Rivas, Isabel Boniface, H.W. Gim, John Pickard, Elizabeth Harrower, Ken Renard, Jay Ripley, Kenneth Becker, Myron Healey, Hank Worden, Guy Wilkerson, Boyd “Red” Morgan, Robin Morse. After outlaws murder her father, a teenage girl convinces a one-eyed, hard drinking rogue lawman to help her hunt down the killers. Outstanding genre effort that won John Wayne a much deserved Academy Award as Rooster Cogburn. Followed by Rooster Cogburn (q.v.) and remade in 1978 and 2010 (qq.v).

4577  True Grit  ABC-TV/Paramount, 1978. 100 min. Color. D: Richard T. Heffron. SC: Sandor Stern. With Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether, James Stephens, Jeff Osterhage, Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Ramon Bieri, Jack Fletcher, Parley Baer, Lee DeBroux, Fred Cook, Fredmond Gleeson. A young girl tries to make a drunken lawman tow the straight and narrow while they track down the lawless. Pale TV movie based on Charles Portis’ characters.

4578  True Grit  Paramount, 2010. 100 min. Color. D-SC: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Dakin Matthews, Jarlath Conroy, Paul Rae, Domhnall Gleeson, Elizabeth Marvel, Roy Lee Jones, Ed Corbin, Leon Russom, Bruce Green, Candyce Hinkle, Peter Leung, Don Pirl, Joe Stevens, David Lipman, Jake Walker, Orlando Storm Smart, Ty Mitchell, Nicholas Sadler, Scott Sowers, Jonathan Joss, Maggie A. Goodman, Brandon Sanderson, Ruben Nakai Campana, Brian Brown, Scott Flick, Marcello Murphy, Ted Ferguson, Cody Jones. A teenager enlists the help of a hardened lawman in capturing her father’s killer and they are joined by a Texas Ranger who is also after the fugitive. Well photographed, box office success remake of the 1969 (q.v.) classic.

4579  The True Story of Jesse James  20th Century–Fox, 1957. 92 min. Color. D: Nicholas Ray. SC: Walter Newman. With Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Hale, Alan Baxter, John Carradine, Rachel Stephens, Barney Phillips, Biff Elliot, Frank Overton, Marian Seldes, Barry Atwater, Chubby Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Carl Thayler, John Doucette, Edmund Cobb, Carleton Young, Gene Roth, Ken Clark, Tom Greenway, Robert Adler, Alexander Campbell, J. Frederick Albeck, Clancy Cooper, Sumner Williams, Joe Di Reda, James Stone, Mike Steen, Mark Hickman, Kay E. Kuter, Bing Russell, Ray Bennett, Aaron Saxon, Fay Roope, Michael Ross, Clegg Hoyt, Adam Marshall, Tom Pittman, Jason Johnson, Anthony Ray, Owen McGiveney, Adam Marshall, Sally Corner, Kelly Thordsen, Paul Wexler, Jason Wingreen, Paul Weber, Hy Anzell, Ken Christy, Harry Carter. When the James gang fails in its bank holdup at Northfield, Minnesota, the story of Jesse and Frank is told by those who knew them. Psychological approach to the James brothers works fairly well but one gets tired of all the flashbacks.

The True Story of...the Cowboy see The Cowboy

4580  The Trumpet Blows  Paramount, 1934. 72 min. D: Stephen Roberts. SC: Bartlett Cormack and Wallace Smith. With George Raft, Adolphe Menjou, Frances Drake, Sidney Toler, Edward Ellis, Nydia Westman, Douglas Wood, Lillian Elliott, Katherine DeMille, Francis McDonald, Morgan Wallace, Gertrude Norman, Aleth “Speed” Hansen, Howard Brooks, E. Alyn Warren, Joyce Compton, Charles Stevens, Hooper Atchley, Alan Bridge, Mischa Auer. The younger brother of a Mexican bandit wants to be a bullfighter but he falls for his sibling’s dancer girlfriend. Unbelievably poor melodrama with Adolphe Menjou as a Pancho Villa-type.

4581  The Trusted Outlaw  Republic, 1937. 60 min. D: Robert North Bradbury. SC: George Plympton and Fred Myton. With Bob Steele, Lois January, Joan Barclay, Charles King, Earl Dwire, Richard Cramer, Hal Price, Budd Buster, Frank Ball, Oscar Gahan, George Morrell, Chick Hannon, Sherry Tansey, Clyde McClary, Jack Rockwell, Wally West, Jack C. Smith, Al Taylor, Fred Parker, Ray Henderson. The only surviving member of a family of outlaws tries to stay on the side of the law but crooks are out to make him their patsy. Sturdy Bob Steele action drama.

Trusting Is Good...Shooting Is Better see Dead for a Dollar

4582  The Truth  Wrather Corporation, 1956. 75 min. Color. D: Oscar Rudolph and Earl Bellamy. SC: Wells Root, Thomas Seller, Charles Larson and Robert Leslie Bellem. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Allen Pinson, Wayne Burson, Jim Bannon, Claire Carleton, Slim Pickens, Dennis Moore, Hank Worden, Parley Baer, Victor Sen Yung, Judy Dan, Joseph Vitale, Lee Roberts, John Berardino, Mickey Simpson, Tudor Owen, Florence Lake, Brad Jackson, Ron Hagerthy, Ewing Mitchell, Pat Lawless. The Lone Ranger and Tonto try to help an innocent man, stop an old lady from inciting an Indian massacre and assist a Chinese laundryman fight discrimination in a small town. Well done telefeature culled from “The Lone Ranger” (ABC-TV, 1949–57) episodes “The Banker’s Son,” “The Law and Miss Aggie” and “Letter Bride.”

4583  Tu Vida Contra Mi Vida (My Life Against Your Life)  Producciones Potusi/Peliculas Mexicanas, 1979. 95 min. Color. D: Alfred Martinez. With Juan Gallardo, Rosenda Bernal, Luis de Alba, Pedro Weber, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Mario Cid. A rancher and a gangster vie for the hand of a beautiful woman. Okay modern-day Mexican Western.

4584  Tucson Raiders  Republic, 1944. 55 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Anthony Coldeway. With Wild Bill Elliott, George “Gabby” Hayes, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart, LeRoy Mason, Ruth Lee, Stanley Andrews, John Whitney, Bud Geary, Karl Hackett, Tom Steele, Tom Chatterton, Ed Cassidy, Fred Graham, Frank McCarroll, Marshall Reed, Edward Howard, Charles Sullivan, Bud Wolfe, Tommy Coats; Kenne Duncan, Tom London, Jack Kirk (voices). Two corrupt men, a banker and governor, try to get control of a territory but are thwarted by Red Ryder, Gabby and Little Beaver, but not until after Red is falsely accused of murder. A mediocre plot, but lots of action in this “Red Ryder” adventure, the first in the long running Republic series.

4585  Tulsa  Eagle-Lion/Pathé Industries, 1949. 90 min. D: Stuart Heisler. SC: Frank S. Nugent and Curtis Kenyon. With Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills, Edward (Ed) Begley, Jimmy Conlin, Roland Jack, Harry Shannon, Lola Albright, Lane Chandler, Charles Meredith, Pierre Watkin, Thomas Browne Henry, Billy Wilkerson, Charles D. Brown, John Dehner, Fred Graham, Chief Yowlachie, Chester Conklin, Selmer Jackson, Frank Hagney, William Norton Bailey, Iron Eyes Cody, Tom Dugan, Bill Hickman, Franklyn Farnum, Brick Sullivan, George Magrill, Creighton Hale, Sam Harris, Frank Mills, Cyril Ring, Dick Wessel, George Barrows, Yvonne Doughty, Sayre Dearing, Mike Donovan, James Conaty, Allegra Varron, Charles Sherlock, John Holland, Jack Low, Nolan Leary, Roger Moore, Frank Mills, Kenner G. Kemp, Harold Miller, Carl M. Leviness, George Meader, Wilbur Mack, David McMahon, Renny McEvoy, Bill Hickman. A beautiful woman becomes a wealthy oil wildcatter but her greed for riches almost costs her the man she loves. Entertaining melodrama that moves along at a good clip.

4586  The Tulsa Kid  Republic, 1940. 57 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Oliver Drake and Anthony Coldeway. With Don “Red” Barry, Noah Beery, Luana Walters, David Durand, George Douglas, Ethan Laidlaw, Stanley Blystone, John Elliott, Jack Kirk, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Charles Murphy, Art Dillard, Cactus Mack, Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders (Johnny Bond, Dick Reinhart). A young rancher almost loses his spread in a dispute with a famous gunfighter, who is really his father. Exciting Don Barry film with Noah Beery stealing the show as a likable gunman. Remake of Guns for Hire (q.v.).

4587  Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona  Monogram, 1941. 60 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: Milton Raison. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Sheila Darcy, Marian Kerby, James Craven, Quen Ramsey, John Elliott, Jack Holmes, Steve Clark, Carl Mathews, Tex Palmer, Tex Cooper, Frank Ellis, Frank McCarroll, Chick Hannon, Sam Bernard, Rex Felker, Rudy Sooter, Oscar Gahan, Tom Smith, Lew Meehan, Herman Hack, Denver Dixon, Bud McClure, Jack Evans, The University of Arizona Glee Club. A college student suffers a fall and reverts back to a former time when his ancestor was one of the Range Busters opposed to a crooked politician and his saloon keeper henchman. Fast moving entry in “The Range Busters” series with a good music.

4588  Tumbleweed  Universal-International, 1953. 79 min. Color. D: Nathan Juran. SC: John Meredyth Lucas. With Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, K.T. Stevens, Russell Johnson, Madge Meredith, Roy Roberts, I. Stanford Jolley, Lee Van Cleef, Ralph Moody, Ross Elliott, Lyle Talbot, King Donovan, Harry Harvey, Eugene Iglesias, Phil Chambers, Edmund Cobb, Gregg Barton, Ezelle Pule, Roy Butler, Lee Roberts, Clem Fuller, Jennings Miles, Belle Mitchell, Emile Avery, Jack Tornek, Felipe Turich. When Indians attack a wagon train and massacre its passengers, a guard hides two women, goes to the chief to negotiate peace and is later blamed for the killings. Despite its premise, this is a rather tame Audie Murphy feature.

4589  Tumbleweed Trail  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1942. 57 min. D: Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield). SC: Fred Myton. With Bill “Cowboy Rambler” Boyd, Art Davis, Lee Powell, Marjorie Manners, Jack Rockwell, Charles King, Karl Hackett, George Chesebro, Maxine Leslie, Frank Hagney, Reed Howes, Curley Dresden, George Morrell, Art Dillard, Steve Clark, Dan White, Augie Gomez, Tex Palmer, Bert Dillard, Augie Gomez, Jack Evans, Jack Montgomery. Three Texas lawmen are after the man who murdered their pal and they trace him to a town run by a corrupt peace keeper. Barely passable entry in the “Frontier Marshals” series.

4590  Tumbleweed Trail  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1946. 59 min. D: Robert Emmett Tansey. SC: Frances Kavanaugh. With Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Shirley Patterson, Bob Duncan, Johnny McGovern, Ted Adams, Jack O’Shea, Kermit Maynard, William Fawcett, Carl Mathews, Lee Roberts, Frank Ellis, The Sunshine Boys (Eddie Wallace, J.D. Sumner, M.H. Richman, Freddie Daniel). A singing cowboy comes to the aid of a pretty girl whose ranch is sought by a gang of cattle rustlers. Fair Eddie Dean film, greatly helped by the title tune and lovely Shirley Patterson.

4591  Tumbleweeds  United Artists, 1925. 81 min. D: King Baggott. SC: C. Gardner Sullivan. With William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield, J. Gordon Russell, Richard R. Neill, Jack Murphy, Lillian Leighton, Gertrude Claire, George F. Marion, Captain T.E. Duncan, James Gordon, Fred Gamble, Turner Savage, Monte Collins. A drover meets and falls in love with a woman and they decide to stake a claim in the Oklahoma Territory when it is opened to settlement. One of the truly great silent Westerns, with its well staged land rush sequence. Reissued in 1939 by Astor with music and sound effects along with an eight minute spoken prolog by William S. Hart.

4592  Tumbling Tumbleweeds  Republic, 1935. 54 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Ford Beebe. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lucille Brown, Norma Taylor, George Hayes, Jack Rockwell, George Chesebro, Frankie Marvin, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Edward Hearn, Tom London, Cornelius Keefe, Cliff Lyons, Tracy Layne, Bud McClure, George Morrell, Oscar Gahan, Henry Hall, Bart Carre, Iris Meredith, Horace B. Carpenter, Joe Girard, Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers), Tom Smith. A medicine show entertainer returns home to find out who killed his father after his best friend is accused of the crime. Gene Autry’s first starring feature film is a pleasant, fast paced affair.

Tundra see Arctic Fury

4593  20 Mule Team  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940. 84 min. D: Richard Thorpe. SC: Cyril Hume, Edward E. Paramore and Richard Maibaum. With Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter, Douglas Fowley, Noah Beery, Jr., Berton Churchill, Arthur Hohl, Clem Bevans, Charles Halton, Minor Watson, Oscar O’Shea, Ivan Miller, Lew Kelly, Lloyd Ingraham, Sam Appel, Eddy Waller, John Beck, Katherine Kentworthy, Mitchell Lewis, Hank Bell, Eddie Borden, Jim Mason, Bob Perry, Larry McGrath, Ed Brady, George Guhl, Joseph E. Bernard. In Death Valley a crook tries blackmail a miner into revealing the location of his valuable borax strike and at the same time romances the innocent daughter of a female tavern keeper. Fans of Wallace Beery and Leo Carrillo will enjoy them as borax digging partners.

4594  Twenty Paces to Death  IFISA, 1970. 80 min. Color. D: Ted Mulligan (Manuel Esteba). SC: Ignacio F. Iquino and Giuseppe Rosati. With Dean Reed, Albert Farley (Alberto Farnese), Patty Shepard, Luis Induni, Maria Pia Conte, Mary (Marta) May, Tony Chandler, Cesar Ojinaga, Alejandro Ulloa, Gustavo Re, Marta Flores, Antonio Rojo, Indio Gonzalez, Angel Lombarte, Elena Pironti, Jose Ignacio Abadal, Alberto Severi. Adopted by a rancher, an Indian boy grows up to fall in love with the man’s daughter who is wanted by a politician out to ruin her father. Poorly executed interracial love story and double cross plot, this Italian-Spanish co-production was made as Veinte Pasos para la Muerte (Twenty Paces to Death).

4595  Twice a Judas  Hispamex, 1969. 92 min. Color. D: Nando Cicero. SC: Jaime Jesus Belcazar. With Klaus Kinski, Antonio Sabato, Cristina Galbo, Pepe (Jose) Calvo, Emma Baron, Milo Quesada, Franco Leo, Linda Sini, Narciso Ianez Menta, Franco Beltramme, Damian Rabal, Maite Matalonga, Claudia Rivelli, Carlos Ronda, Gastone Pesucci, Giancarlo Pulone, Gaetano Scala, Jose Palomo, Ettore Bruson, Nino Nini, Antonietta Fiorito, Giuseppe Sciacqua, Sergio De Vcchi, Ettore Broschi, Walter Barnes (voice). Suffering from amnesia, a man opposes a corrupt land baron who forces poor Mexican to work his spread, although the bad guy may be his brother. Hard to follow, slow paced Italian feature filmed as Due Volte Giuda (Two Times Judas) and also titled They Were Called Graveyard.

4596  The Twilight Avengers  P.A.C./Caravel Film, 1970. 89 min. Color. D-SC: Al Albert (Alberto Albertini). With Tony Kendall (Luciano Stella), Peter Thorris, Alberto Dell’Acqua (Robert Widmark), Ida Medda, Albert Farley (Alberto Farnese), Helen Parker, Spartaco Conversi, Attilio Dottesio. A ruthless man takes over a Mexican village with a traveling circus arriving and its members try to get an old soldier and his men to help them free the locals. Mediocre, violent Italian feature issued there as I Vendicatori Dell’Ave Maria (The Avengers of Ave Maria).

4597  Twilight in the Sierras  Republic, 1950. 67 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Nibley. With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Russ Vincent, George Meeker, Fred Kohler, Jr., Edward Keane, House Peters, Jr., Pierce Lyden, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Joe Carro, William Lester, Bob Burns, Robert Wilke. Parole officer Roy Rogers, assigned to a ranch employing prisoners, gets mixed up with crooks making counterfeit money and is falsely accused of murdering one of the gang. Fairly well done Roy Rogers entry, but not too interesting.

4598  Twilight on the Prairie  Universal, 1944. 62 min. D: Jean Yarbrough. SC: Clyde Bruckman. With Johnny Downs, Vivian Austin, Eddie Quillan, Connie Haines, Leon Errol, Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra, Milburn Stone, Jimmie Dodd, Olin Howland, Perc Launders, Dennis Moore, Ralph Peters, Glenn Strange, Al Sloey, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, The Eight Buckaroos. On their way to Hollywood to break into the movies, members of a cowboy band get stranded on a ranch and agree to work there through harvest time. Plenty of songs fill this typically glossy Universal program feature.

4599  Twilight on the Rio Grande  Republic, 1947. 71 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Dorrell McGowan and Stuart McGowan. With Gene Autry, Adele Mara, Sterling Holloway, Bob Steele, George J. Lewis, Charles Evans, Martin Garralaga, Howard Negley, Nacho Galindo, Tex Terry, The Cass County Boys (Jerry Scoggins, Bert Dodson, Fred Martin), Frankie Marvin, Bob Burns, George Magrill, Enrique Acosta, Barry Norton, Gil Perkins, Nina Campana, Kenne Duncan, Tom London, Alberto Morin, Keith Richards, Jack O’Shea, Bud Osborne, Frank McCarroll, Robert Wilke, Alex Montoya, Connie Henard. Gene Autry becomes involved with a gang of jewel thieves and a beautiful knife thrower. Not even a fine cast can save this slow moving Gene Autry vehicle which plays better in its 54 minute truncated TV version.

4600  Twilight on the Trail  Paramount, 1941. 58 min. D: Howard Bretherton. SC: J. Benton Cheney, Ellen Corby and Cecile Kramer. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Wanda McKay, Jack Rockwell, Norman Willis, Robert Kent, Tom London, Robert Kortman, Frank Austin, Clem Fuller, Frank Ellis, Bud Osborne, John Powers, The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Jimmy Wakely, Johnny Bond, Dick Reinhart), Hal Taliaferro, Kermit Maynard, Jim Corey. In order to round up a gang of rustlers, Hopalong Cassidy masquerades as a dandified Englishman. Just an average outing in the long running series, co-written by actress Ellen Corby.

4601  Twinkle in God’s Eye  Republic, 1955. 75 min. D: George Blair. SC: P.J. Wolfson. With Mickey Rooney, Coleen Gray, Hugh O’Brian, Don Barry, Touch (Michael) Connors, Joey Forman, Jil Jarmyn, Kem Dibbs, Tony Garcen, Raymond Hatton, Ruta Lee, Clem Bevans, Tony Garcen, Stanley Andrews, Joseph Crehan, Emmett Lynn, Dick Elliott, Frank Lackteen, Paul McGuire, Harry Harvey, Peter Mamakos, Larry J. Blake, Frank Kreig, Vicki Raaf, Renate Hoy, Shirley Whitney, Dan White, Dick Winslow, Rodd Redwing, Charles Williams, Harry Tyler, James Rawley, Milton Newberger, Sig Frohlich. In a tough Western town, the new parson tries to spread the world of the Lord via humor. A pleasant enough little feature but a bit sad to contemplate considering the cinematic stature of Mickey Rooney, who produced it, just a decade before.

4602  Twisted Rails  Imperial, 1934. 51 min. D: Albert (Al) Herman. SC: L.V. Jefferson. With Jack Donovan, Alice Dahl, Philo McCullough, Donald Keith, Victor Potel, Buddy Shaw, Donald Mack, Henry Roquemore, Pat Harmon, Tom London, Bob McKenzie, Lawrence Underwood, Ada Belle Driver, Bill Patton, Gene “Fatty” Laymon, Elyn Glyn. Following the shooting of an informant, a railroad passenger offers to help a inspector find the killer and his gang who are after a gold shipment. Sparse action adventure made on poverty row.

4603  Twisted Trails  Aywon, 1924. 45 min. D: Tom Mix. SC: Edwin Ray Coffin. With Tom Mix, Bessie Eyton, Eugenie Besserer, Al W. Wilson, Will Machin, Pat Chrisman, Sid Jordan, George Clark, Frank LeRoy, Olcott Byrnes. Two corrupt lawmen try to blame their cattle rustling operation on a ranch foreman in love with a girl wanted by a gambler. There is lots of action but a hard-to-follow plot in this Tom Mix feature made up of his 1916 Selig three reeler of the same title and padded with footage from some of his other short films.

Two Against All see Terrible Sheriff

Two Brothers in Trinity see Jesse and Lester

Two Fisted Agent see Bonanza Town

4604  Two Fisted Justice  Arrow, 1924. 50 min. D: Dick Hatton. SC: Bennett Cohen. With Dick Hatton, Marilyn Mills, Morris Foster, Arthur Morrison, Star (horse). A cowpoke seeking revenge for the murder of his doctor brother ends up falling in love with the killer’s wife. Moribund poverty row silent effort from producer Ben Wilson, directed by star Dick Hatton.

4605  Two-Fisted Justice  Monogram, 1931. D-SC: G.A. Durlam. With Tom Tyler, Barbara Weeks, Bobby Nelson, Yakima Canutt, John Elliott, G.D. Wood (Gordon DeMain), Kit Guard, William Walling, Si Jenks, Pedro Regas, Carl Deloro, Joe Mills, Bob Fleming, Al Haskell, Tom Smith, Jack Low, F.R. Smith. President Lincoln sends a scout to the frontier to protect settlers and he uncovers an outlaw gang. Average Tom Tyler outing.

4606  Two Fisted Justice  Monogram, 1943. 61 min. D: Robert Tansey. SC: William L. Nolte. With John King, David Sharpe, Max Terhune, Gwen Gaze, Joel Davis, John Elliott, Charles King, George Chesebro, Frank Ellis, Cecil Weston, Hal Price, Carl Mathews, Lynton Brent, Kermit Maynard, Richard Cramer, Tex Palmer, John Curtis, Augie Gomez, Denver Dixon, Milburn Morante, Jack Evans, Rose Plummer. The Range Busters arrive in a town to bring an outlaw gang to justice and after a run-in with the leader of the band they are made the community’s lawmen. Only a fair entry in the popular series.

4607  Two Fisted Law  Columbia, 1932. 64 min. D: D. Ross Lederman. SC: Kurt Kempler. With Tim McCoy, Alice Day, Wheeler Oakman, John Wayne, Wallace MacDonald, Tully Marshall, Richard Alexander, Walter Brennan, Merrill McCormick, Bud Osborne, Arthur Thalasso, Jack Hendricks, Hank Bell, Jack Evans, Rube Dalroy. Cheated out of his ranch a man makes a gold strike and returns home to try and save the property of a young woman being threatened by the same crook who stole his spread. Generally good Tim McCoy vehicle, based on a William Colt MacDonald story, with fine photography by Benjamin Kline. John Wayne has a small role as one of McCoy’s loyal ranch hands.

4608  Two-Fisted Rangers  Columbia, 1940. 62 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), Bill Cody, Jr., Hal Taliaferro, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Curtis, Ethan Laidlaw, Bob Woodward, James Craig, Francis Walker. A cowboy plans to bring in the land baron responsible for the murder of his sheriff brother. Pretty good Charles Starrett feature.

4609  Two-Fisted Sheriff  Columbia, 1937. 60 min. D: Leon Barsha. SC: Paul Perez. With Charles Starrett, Barbara Weeks, Bruce Lane, Ed Peil, Sr., Alan Sears, Walter Downing, Ernie Adams, Claire McDowell, Frank Ellis, Robert Walker, George Chesebro, Art Mix, Alan Bridge, Richard Botiller, George Morrell, Merrill McCormick, Edmund Cobb, Tex Cooper, Richard Cramer, Richard Alexander, Maston Williams, Ethan Laidlaw, Steve Clark, Wally West, Fred Burns, Blackie Whiteford, Charles Brinley, Art Dillard, Al Haskell, Ray Jones, Jack Evans, Blackjack Ward, Fred Parker, Hank Bell. A lawman loses his job when his pal is accused of killing his girl’s father and is allowed to escape and he tries to find the real killer and clear his friend. Okay Charles Starrett vehicle enhanced by a superb supporting cast.

4610  Two-Fisted Stranger  Columbia, 1945. 51 min. D: Ray Nazarro. SC: Robert Lee Johnson. With Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Doris Houck, Zeke Clements, Lane Chandler, Ted Mapes, George Chesebro, Jack Rockwell, Herman Hack, I. Stanford Jolley, Edmund Cobb, Davison Clark, Maudie Prickett, Nolan Leary, Frank Ellis, Frank O’Connor, Charles Murray, Jr., Matty Roubert, Herman Hack, Tommy Coats. Outlaws try to force miners off their claims but find opposition from the Durango Kid. Short, but not much of an effort in the popular series. British title: High Stakes.

4611  Two Flags West  20th Century–Fox, 1950. 92 min. D: Robert Wise. SC: Frank S. Nugent and Casey Robinson. With Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde, Dale Robertson, Jay C. Flippen, Noah Beery, Jr., Harry Von Zell, John Sands, Arthur Hunnictt, Jack Lee, Robert Adler, Harry Carter, Ferris Taylor, Sally Corner, Everett Glass, Marjorie Bennett, Lee MacGregor, Roy Gordon, Aurora Castillo, Stanley Andrews, Don Garner. A group of Confederate prisoners agree to fight Indians in the West in order to get out of jail but the commander of the fort they are assigned hates all rebels. Fair drama buoyed by a fine cast.

The Two from Rio Bravo see Bullets Don’t Argue

Two Gangsters in the Wild West see Two Mafiamen in the Far West

4612  Two-Gun Justice  Monogram, 1938. 58 min. D: Alan James. SC: Fred Myton. With Tim McCoy, Betty Compson, Joan Barclay, John Merton, Lane Chandler, Alan Bridge, Tony Paton, Allan Cavan, Harry Strang, Earl Dwire, Enid Parrish, Olin Francis, Curley Dresden, Jack Ingram. A lawman pretends to be a Mexican bandit, “The Vulture,” so he can round up the notorious Kane gang. Cheap, quick on action and shouldered with an obtrusive canned music score, this Tim McCoy series film boasts two leading ladies, silent star Betty Compson and Joan Barclay.

4613  Two Gun Lady  Associated Film Releasing, 1956. 75 min. D: Richard Bartlett. SC: Norman Jolley. With Peggie Castle, William Talman, Marie Windsor, Earle Lyon, Robert Lowery, Joe Besser, Ian MacDonald, Barbara Turner, Norman Jolley, Susan Long, Kit Carson, Arvo Jjala, Karl Hansen, Dave Tomack, Sid Lopez, Gregory Moffet, Ben Cameron, Kermit Maynard, Jack Ingram. A gun toting young woman teams with a lawman to hunt the men who murdered her father. Low budget action feature for fans of Peggie Castle and Marie Windsor.

4614  The Two-Gun Man  Tiffany, 1931. 60 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: John (Jack) Natteford. With Ken Maynard, Lucille Powers, Nita Martin, Charles King, Lafe McKee, Tom London, Murdock MacQuarrie, Walter Perry, Will Stanton, William Jackie, Ethan Allen, Jim Corey, Blackjack Ward, Buck Bucko, Roy Bucko. A cowboy opposes crooked cattlemen who are behind the rustling of area herds. Fast moving Ken Maynard oater.

4615  Two-Gun Man from Harlem  Sack Amusement Enterprises, 1938. 65 min. D: Richard C. Kahn. SC: Fred Myton. With Herbert Jeffrey (Herb Jeffries), Margaret Whitten, Clarence Brooks, Mantan Moreland, Tom Southern, Mae Turner, Spencer Williams, Jr., Jesse Lee Brooks, Stymie Beard, Rose Lee Lincoln, Paul Blackman, Faithful Mary, The Four Tones (Lucius Brooks, Leon Buck, Ira Hardin, Rudolph Hunter), The Four Cats and a Fiddle, John Thomas. After being falsely accused of murder, a cowboy goes to Harlem where he pretends to be a minister turned gangster to expose the real killer. More gangster plotted than Western, this very low budget black cast musical feature was scripted by “B” film veteran Fred Myton; the first of a quartet of features headlining crooner Herb Jeffries, although he was not billed under that name in any of them.

4616  Two Gun Marshal  Allied Artists, 1953. 54 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: William Raynor and Maurice Tombragel. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Raymond Hatton, Carole Mathews, Richard Tyler, Frankie Darro, Danny Mummert, Gregory Marshall, Noralee Norman, Minerva Urecal, Sara Haden, Michael Vallon, Pamela Duncan, Francis McDonald, Ray Hyke, Wes Hudman. Wild Bill Hickok persuades his partner Jingles to masquerade as the wife of a peddler so they can find out who robbed a Wells Fargo stage and the two then go up against a family bent on not letting a son get an education. Acceptable patchwork theatrical feature made up of the “Papa Antonelli” and “The Slocum Family,” two 1951 episodes of “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58).

4617  Two-Gun Sheriff  Republic, 1941. 54 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Doris Schroeder. With Don “Red” Barry, Lynn Merrick, Lupita Tovar, Fred Kohler, Jr., Jay Novello, Marin Sais, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Milton Kibbee, Dirk Thane, Archie Hall, Charles Thomas, Lee Shumway, John Merton, Carleton Young, Slim Whitaker, John James, Stanley Price, Jack O’Shea, Forrest Taylor, Herman Hack, Frank Ellis, Curley Dresden, Buck Moulton, Bud McClure, Tex Parker, Herman Nolan, George Plues, Al Taylor, Pascale Perry, Rose Plummer. An outlaw is drafted by a gang leader to take the place of a sheriff but the two men turn out to be brothers and the fugitive double crosses the bandits. A complicated plot and plenty of action highlight this Don Barry film, with a fine music score by Cy Feuer.

4618  The Two Gun Teacher  Allied Artists, 1954. 54 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: William Raynor. With Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Rand Brooks, Tom Tyler, Murray Alper, Emory Parnell, Anne Carroll, Don C. Harvey, Steve Pendleton, Charles Stevens, Monte Montague, Neyle Morrow, Bob Woodward, Theodora Lynch, Sujata, Rory Mallinson, Peter Votrian, Isa Ashdown, Jim Flowers. A young woman dressed as a man helps save Wild Bill Hickok when he is ambushed by gun runners and Bill and Jingles are assisted by a student as they investigate crooks after an underground spring. Still another okay big screen feature made of two 1952 segments of “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951–58), “Mexican Gun Running Story” and “School Teacher Story.”

4619  Two-Gun Troubador  Spectrum, 1939. 58 min. D: Raymond K. Johnson. SC: Richard L. Bare and Phil Dunham. With Fred Scott, Claire Rochelle, Harry Harvey, John Merton, Buddy Lenhart, Carl Mathews, Buddy Kelly, Harry Harvey, Jr., Gene Howard, Frank Ellis, William Woods, Jack Ingram, Bud Osborne, John Ward, Cactus Mack. Years after his uncle killed his father over property, a man returns to claim his inheritance and in doing so takes on the guise of a masked avenger. Pleasant Fred Scott vehicle with some good tunes.

Two Gunmen see Two Violent Men

4620  Two Guns and a Badge  Allied Artists, 1954. 69 min. D: Lewis D. Collins. SC: Dan Ullman. With Wayne Morris, Beverly Garland, Morris Anrkum, Roy Barcroft, William Phipps, Damian O’Flynn, I. Stanford Jolley, Robert Wilke, Chuck Courtney, Henry Rowland, Lyle Talbot, William Fawcett, Mike Ragan (Holly Bane), Stanley Price, Ted Mapes. An ex-convict is mistaken for a deputy sheriff when he arrives in town and soon finds himself up against a corrupt rancher while falling in love with the man’s daughter. Considered the final “B” series Western, this little film is a fit finale to a grand genre.

4621  Two Guys from Texas   Warner Bros., 1948. 86 min. Color. D: David Butler. SC: I.A.L. Diamond and Allen Boretz. With Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards, Forrest Tucker, Fred Clark, Gerald Mohr, John Alvin, Andrew Tombes, Monte Blue, The Philharmonic Trio, Richard Alexander, Fred Kelsey, Lane Chandler, Brandon Hurst, Jack Mower, Clifton Young, Lily Christine, Philo McCullough, Louis Mason, Fred Santley, Jack Baxley, Peggy Gordon, Charles Marsh, Joy Barlow, Cleatus Caldwell, Eileen Howe, William Steele, Tom Wells, Petra Silva, Mel Blanc (voice). Two vaudeville entertainers find themselves stranded on a Texas ranch where they fight crooks and meet two pretty girls. Okay reworking of The Cowboy from Brooklyn (q.v.).

Two Idiots at Fort Alamo see The Two Sergeants of General Custer

4622  Two in Revolt  RKO Radio, 1936. 65 min. D: Glenn Tryon. SC: Frank Howard Clark, Ferdinand Reyher and Jerry Hutchinson. With John Arledge, Louise Latimer, Moroni Olsen, Emmett Vogan, Harry Jans, Murray Alper, Willie Best, Max Wagner, Ethan Laidlaw, Clem Bevans, Erville Alderson, Billy Bletcher, Horace Murphy, Lightning (dog), Warrior (horse). A horse and a dog team to help a man in his battle with outlaws. Fair juvenile matinee fare centered around horse racing.

4623  Two Mafiamen in the Far West  FIDA/Epoca Film, 1964. Color. D: Giorgio Simonelli. SC: Marcello Ciorciolini and Giorgio Simonelli. With Francho Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Helene Chanel, Fernando Sancho. Aroldo Tieri, Anna Casares, Aldo Giuffre, Adriano Micantoni, Luis Pena, Felix De Fauce, Alfredo Rizzo, Giovanni Vari. Two prisoners escape and travel to a Texas town where an outlaw has murdered his cousins for their ranch with the two convicts dead ringers for the dead men. Not much here for genre fans in this goofy Franco and Ciccio feature made as Due Mafiosi nel Far West (Two Mafiosi in the Far West) and also called Two Gangsters in the Wild West.

4624  Two Mules for Sister Sara  Universal, 1970. 105 min. Color. D: Don Siegel. SC: Albert Maltz. With Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Armando Silvestre, Manolo Fabregas, John Kelly, Enrique Lucero, Jose Chavez, Alberto Morin, David Estuardo, Ada Carrasco, Poncho Cordoba, Pedro Galvan, Jose Angel Espinosa, Aurora Munoz, Xavier Marc, Hortensia Santovena, Rosa Furman, Jose Torvay, Mararito Luna, Javier Masse. A mercenary fighting for the cause of Juarez leads a free-wheeling, anti-rebel nun across the Mexican desert. Uneven but rather fun teaming of Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine, based on a story by Budd Boetticher.

4625  Two R-R-Ringos from Texas  Circus Film/Tono Film, 1967. 94 min. Color. D: Frank Martin (Marino Girolami). SC: Amedeo Sollazzo and Roberto Gianviti. With Franco Franchi, Cicio Ingrassia, Ennio Girolami, Silvio Bagolini, Gloria Paul, Livio Lorenzon, Ignazio Balsamo, Helene Chanel, Gina Mascetti, Enzo Andronico, Rossell Bergamonti, Walter Marchetti, Mirella Pamphili, Lucio Fulci, Osiride Pevarello, Adriano Uriani, Guilielmo Bogliani, Maurizio Merli, Stefano Sibaldi. Led by a talking horse, two lamebrain Civil War soldiers try to get behind enemy lines to find a treasure. Silly Franchi and Ciccio Italian Western “comedy” made as Due RRRingos nel Texas (Two Ringos from Texas).

4626  Two Rode Together  Columbia, 1961. 109 min. Color. D: John Ford. SC: Frank S. Nugent. With James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devine, John McIntire, Paul Birch, Willis Bouchey, Henry Brandon, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, Olive Carey, Chet Douglas, Annelle Hayes, David Kent, Anna Lee, Jeanette Nolan, Edward Brophy, John Qualen, Ford Rainey, Woody Strode, O.Z. Whitehead, Cliff Lyons, Mae Marsh, Frank Baker, Ruth Clifford, Ted Knight, Major Sam Harris, Jack Pennick, Chuck Roberson, Dan Borgaze, Bill Henry, Chuck Hayward, Big John Hamilton, Ted Mapes, Regina Carrol, Ed Sweeney, Robert Kenneally, Eunice Grey. A lawman and a cavalry lieutenant form an uneasy alliance in a mission to negotiate the return of settlers kidnapped by Comanches. Generally good John Ford film highlighted by a number of fine performances, especially Mae Marsh as the captive who explains whey she does not want to go back to her people.

4627  The Two Sergeants of General Custer  FIDA/Balcazar, 1965. 97 min. Color. D-SC: Giorgio Simonelli. With Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Sancho, Margaret Lee, Arolo Tieri, Moira Orfei, Riccardo Garone, Ernesto Calindri. During the Civil War two lunkheaded Union spies attempt to make it behind enemy lines but get involved with a female Confederate agent. Typically inane Italian “comedy” from the team of Franco and Ciccio made as Due Sergenti del General Custer (Two Sergeants of General Custer) and also called Two Idiots of Fort Alamo.

4628  Two Sons of Ringo  Flora Film/Variety Film, 1966. 105 min. Color. D: Giorgio Simonelli. SC: Amedeo Sollazo, Roberto Gianviti, Marcello Ciorciolini and Dino Verde. With Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Gloria Paul, George Hilton, Pedro Sanchez, Mimmo Palmara, Umberto D’Orsi, Orchidea de Santis, Ivano Staccioli Fulvia Franco, Enzo Andronico, Armando Carini, Fortunato Arena, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Guido Lollobrigida (Lee Burton), Nino Terzo, Fulvio Mingnazzi, Calogero Azzaretto, Gilliano Sbarra. Two fake sharpshooters enlist a bounty hunter to help them as they pretend to be the heirs of the late Ringo to inherit a fortune. The laughs are sparse in this Italian spoof headlining Franco and Ciccio; made as I Due Figli di Ringo (The Two Sons of Ringo).

4629  Two Violent Men  P.E.A./Arturo Gonzales, 1965. 94 min. Color. D: Anthony Greepy (Primo Zeglio). SC: Jesus Navarro and Primo Zeglio. With Alan Scott, George (Jorge) Martin, Susy Andersen, Mary Badmayer, Andrew Scott (Andrea Scotti), Pauline Baards, Sylvia Solar, Mike Brendell, Frank Brana, Jose Jaspe, Luis Induni, Aldo Sambrell. A lawman and the friend he is assigned to arrest on a murder charge team to stop the siege of a ranch by outlaws. Better than average Italian oater with a fairly literate script, released there as I Due Violent (Two Violent Men), in Spain as Los Rurales de Texas and in England as Two Gunmen.

4630  Uccisore Nero (Black Killer)  Florida Cinemtaograpfica, 1971. 85 min. Color. D: Lucky Moore (Carlo Croccolo). SC: Charlie Foster (Carlo Croccolo) and Luigi Angelo. With Klaus Kinski, Fred Robsahm, Antonio Cantafora, Marina Mulligan, Paul Craine, Tiziana Dini, Ted Jones, Jerry Ross, Dan May (Dante Maggio), Claudio Trionfi, Robert Danish, Dick Foster (Mimmo Maggio), Carlo Croccolo. A vicious gang of Mexican brothers and a crooked judge rule the town of Tombstone but when a beautiful widow is physically abused by them she teams with a bounty hunter and a lawyer to destroy the bad men. Effective but very violent Spaghetti Western made in Italy.

4631  The Ugly Ones  United Artists, 1968. 96 min. Color. D: Eugenio Martin. SC: Jose G. Maesso and Eugenio Martin. With Richard Wyler, Tomas Milian, Mario Brega, Hugo Blanco, Glenn Foster, Ella Karin, Manolo Zarzo, Lola Gaos, Ricardo Canales, Frank Brana, Luis Barboo. A young woman helps an outlaw escape from a bounty hunter only to learn he has become a killer due to his hard and roving life as a bandit. Very violent Spanish Western, based on the novel Bounty Killer by Marvin H. Albert, issued there in 1966 as El Precio de un Hombre (The Price of a Man); also called Bounty Killer.

4632  El Ultimo Chinaco (The Ultimate Trick)  Clasa-Mohme, 1948. 91 min. D: Raul de Anda. SC: Raul de Anda and Carlos Gaytan. With Luis Aguilar, Katy Jurado, Irma Torres, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Miguel Arenas, Marga Lopez, Arturo Soto Rangel, Victor Parra, Jose Pardave, Lupe Inclan, Luis G. Barrierro. A mysterious figure, who loves a mine owner’s daughter, takes from the rich and gives to the poor but is framed on a murder charge when someone commits a crime dressed like him. Another Mexican masked hero is played by Luis Aguilar in this okay feature from producer-director-writer Raul de Anda.

4633  Ulzana’s Raid  Universal, 1972. 103 min. Color. D: Robert Aldrich. SC: Alan Sharp. With Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez, Lloyd Bochner, Karl Swenson, Douglas Walton, Dran Hamilton, John Pearce, Gladys Holland, Margaret Fairchild, Aimee Eccles, Richard Bull, Otto Reichow, Dean Smith, Larry Randles. Three men, an aging Indian fighter, a young lieutenant and a Native American scout hunt a raiding party that has been terrorizing area citizens. Fair melodrama, well acted but too violent.

4634  Uncle Sam Magoo  U.P.A., 1969. 55 min. Color. D: Abe Levitow. SC: Larry Markes and Sam Rosen. With Jim Backus, Lennie Weinrib, Pattie Gilbert, Bob Holt, Barney Phillips, Dave Shelley, Sid Grossfeld, John Himes, Bill Clayton (voices). Mr. Magoo takes on the guise of Uncle Sam and looks back at the nation’s history, including his being national heroes like Paul Revere and Davy Crockett. Fans of Mr. Magoo will get a kick out of this animated feature.

4635  Unconquered  Paramount, 1947. 146 min. Color. D: Cecil B. DeMille. SC: Charles Bennett, Frederick M. Frank and Jesse Lasky, Jr. With Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Ward Bond, Katherine DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon, C. Aubrey Smith, Victor Varconi, Virginia Grey, Porter Hall, Mike Mazurki, Richard Gaines, Virginia Campbell, Gavin Muir, Alan Napier, Nan Sutherland, Marc Lawrence, Jane Nigh, Robert Warwick, Lloyd Bridges, Oliver Thorndike, Russ Conklin, John Mylong, George Kirby, Leonard Carey, Frank R. Wilcox, Davison Clark, Griff Barnett, Raymond Hatton, Julia Faye, Paul E. Burns, Mary Field, Clarence Muse, Matthew Boulton, Chief Thundercloud, Jack Pennick, Lex Barker, Charles Middleton, Dorothy Adams, Al Ferguson, Ethel Wales, Robert Kortman, Francis McDonald, Claire DuBrey, Christopher Clark, Iron Eyes Cody, Edgar Dearing, Earle Hodgins, Ray Teal, Frank Hagney, Chuck Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Belle Mitchell, Ottola Nesmith, Inez Palange, Bill Murray, Tiny Jones, Noble Johnson, Anna Lehr, Rose Higgins, Gertrude Valerie. In the 1760s a frontier Virginia militiaman opposes a sleazy trader who is selling guns to Chief Pontiac’s followers while they both vie for the same beautiful woman, a bond servant. There is not much in the way of real history here but this Cecil B. DeMille production is colorful and exciting.

4636  Unconquered Bandit  Reliable, 1935. 57 min. D: Harry S. Webb. SC: Rose Gordon and Lou C. Borden. With Tom Tyler, Lillian Gilmore, Charles “Slim” Whitaker, William Gould, John Elliott, Earl Dwire, Joe De La Cruz, George Chesebro, Richard Alexander, Lew Meehan, George Hazel, Wally Wales, Ben Corbett, Colin Chase. When his dad is murdered by a gang secretly led by a policeman, a cowboy plans to use the cop’s pretty niece to get revenge for the crime. Better than average Tom Tyler vehicle for Reliable.

4637  Undead or Alive: A Zombedy  Image Entertainment/Lionsgate, 2007. 92 min. Color. D-SC: Glasgow Phillips. With Chris Kattan, James Denton, Cristin Michele, Navi Rawatt, Chloe Russell, Mia Stallard, Brian Posehn, T. Jay O’Brien, Chris Coppola, Matt Besser, Todd Anderson, Lew Alexander, Christopher Allen Nelson, Ben Zeller, Michelle Greathouse, Gino Corgnale, Patricia Greer, Michael Patrick Metzdorff, Jeffrey Dashnaw, Elizabeth Slagsvol. A soldier fugitive and a jilted cowboy rob a lawman not knowing the area is filled with zombies thanks to a curse put on it by Geronimo. Okay horror Western comedy done direct to video.

4638  The Undefeated  20th Century–Fox, 1969. 118 min. Color. D: Andrew V. McLaglen. SC: James Lee Barrett. With John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Tony Aguilar, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Merlin Olsen, Melissa Newman, Bruce Cabot, Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Edward Faulkner, Harry Carey, Jr., Paul Fix, Royal Dano, Richard Mulligan, Carlos Rivas, John Agar, Guy Raymond, Don Collier, Big John Hamilton, Dub Taylor, Henry Beckman, Victor Junco, Robert Donner, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., James Dobson, Rudy Diaz, Richard Angarola, James McEachin, Gregg Palmer, Juan Garcia, Kiel Martin, Bob Gravage, Chuck Roberson. Veterans of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate, form an uneasy alliance as they head for Mexico to start new lives. Not one of the Duke’s better features but still entertaining with a fine supporting cast, especially Dub Taylor as the cantankerous chuck wagon cook.

4639  Under a Texas Moon  Warner Bros., 1930. 82 min. Color. D: Michael Curtiz. SC: Gordon Rigby. With Frank Fay, Raquel Torres, Myrna Loy, Armida, Noah Beery, George E. Stone, George Cooper, Fred Kohler, Betty Boyd, Charles Sellon, Jack Curtis, Sam Appel, Tully Marshall, Mona Maris, Francisco Maran, Tom Dix, Jerry Barrett, Inez Gomez, Edythe Kramera, Bruce Covington. A dashing Mexican adventurer and his pal romance two pretty women at a ranch where they plan to get the reward for capturing outlaws rustling the owner’s cattle. Creaky and badly dated musical Western, but the title song endures.

4640  Under Arizona Skies  Monogram, 1946. 60 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Reno Blair, Riley Hill, Tristram Coffin, Reed Howes, Ted Adams, Ray Bennett, Frank LaRue, Steve Clark, Jack Rockwell, Bud Geary, Ted Mapes, Dusty Rhodes, Kermit Maynard, Smith Ballew, Leonard St. Leo, Lynton Brent, Ray Jones, The Sons of the Sage. A rancher leading an outlaw gang is out to get a rival’s spread but two cowboys come to the rescue. Pretty fair Johnny Mack Brown–Raymond Hatton vehicle with Smith Ballew along for a couple of tunes.

Under Arrest see Blazing Across the Pecos

4641  Under California Stars  Republic, 1948. 70 min. Color. D: William Witney. SC: Sloan Sibley and Paul Gagelin. With Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Doye O’Dell, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Michael Chapin, Wade Crosby, George Lloyd, House Peters, Jr., Steve Clark, Joseph Carro, Paul Powers, John Wald. Bad guys steal Roy Rogers’ horse Trigger and demand a $100,000 ransom. Colorful Roy Rogers action feature badly cut for TV showings at 54 minutes; the star reprises the Johnny Marvin song “Dust,” which he sang in his first starring film, Under Western Stars (q.v.).

4642  Under Colorado Skies  Republic, 1947. 65 min. Color. D: R.G. Springsteen. SC: Louise Rousseau. With Monte Hale, Adrian Booth, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage, Paul Hurst, William Haade, John Alvin, LeRoy Mason, Edmund Cobb, Tom London, Steve Darrell, Gene Evans, Ted Adams, Steve Raines, Hank Patterson. From the knowledge he received at medical school, a cowboy is able to track down a gang of outlaws. Okay Monte Hale effort.

4643  Under Fiesta Stars  Republic, 1941. 64 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: Karl Brown and Eliot Gibbons. With Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Frank Darien, Joe Straugh, Jr., Pauline Drake, Ivan Miller, Sam Flint, John Merton, Jack Kirk, Curley Dresden, Hal Taliaferro, Frankie Marvin, Pascale Perry, Elias Gamboa, Inez Palange. Gene Autry manages a mine but half-interest is controlled by a woman who wants to sell the property, not knowing she is being bilked by two corrupt lawyers. There is not much of a fiesta in this slow moving Gene Autry vehicle.

4644  Under Mexicali Stars  Republic, 1950. 67 min. D: George Blair. SC: Bob Williams. With Rex Allen, Buddy Ebsen, Dorothy Patrick, Roy Barcroft, Percy Helton, Walter Coy, Steve Darrell, Alberto Morin, Ray Walker, Frank Ferguson, Stanley Andrews, Robert Bice. A Treasury agent, who is also a cowboy, searches for a counterfeit operation and discovers it is using helicopters to smuggle gold. Exciting Rex Allen feature.

4645  Under Montana Skies  Tiffany, 1930. 60 min. D: Richard Thorpe. SC: Bennett Cohen and James A. Aubrey. With Kenneth Harlan, Dorothy Gulliver, Slim Summerville, Nita Martan, Christian J. Frank, Harry Todd, Ethel Wales, Lafe McKee, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, Frank Ellis, Si Jenks, Bob Reeves, Barney Beasley, Tom Bay, George Blues, Hank Bell. A cowboy falls in love with a theatrical troupe actress and helps save her show but a cattle rustler he sent to jail is released and robs the box office. Antiquated early sound Western musical comedy.

4646  Under Nevada Skies  Republic, 1946. 69 min. D: Frank McDonald. SC: PaulGangelin and J. Benton Cheney. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Dale Evans, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Shug Fisher, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Douglass Dumbrille, Tristram Coffin, Leyland Hodgson, Rudolph Anders, LeRoy Mason, George J. Lewis, Steve Darrell, Frank Marlowe, Broderick O’Farrell, George Magrill, Iron Eyes Cody, Eddie Parker. Radio singer Roy Rogers tries to find out who killed his friend, the manager of a nightclub in a Western town. A mystery element and the use of an A-bomb component in the plot greatly helps this fast moving Roy Rogers vehicle, which is somewhat hurt by losing 15 minutes for TV.

4647  Under Strange Flags  Crescent, 1937. 61 min. D: I.V. Willat. SC: Mary Ireland. With Tom Keene, Lana (Luana) Walters, Budd Buster, Maurice Black, Roy D’Arcy, Paul Sutton, Paul Barrett, Donald Reed, Jane Wolfe. Americans mining silver in Mexico find their shipments being hijacked by Pancho Villa and his followers. Fair entry in the Crescent historical series starring Tom Keene.

4648  Under Texas Skies  Syndicate, 1930. 60 min. D: J.P. McGowan. SC: G.A. Durlam. With Bob Custer, Natalie Kingston, Bill Cody, Tom London, Lane Chandler, Bob Roper, William McCall, Ted Adams, Joseph Marba. When a female rancher tries to sell her horses to the government, an agent claims one of her wranglers is working with Mexican revolutionaries. Slow moving Bob Custer affair.

4649  Under Texas Skies  Republic, 1940. 57 min. D: George Sherman. SC: Anthony Coldeway and Betty Burbridge. With Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Lois Ranson, Henry Brandon, Wade Boteler, Rex Lease, Yakima Canutt, Jack Ingram, Earle Hodgins, Walter Tetley, Burr Caruth, Curley Dresden, Jack Kirk, Ted Mapes, Vester Pegg, Forrest Taylor, Bob Burns, Donald Kerr, Fred Burns, Charles King, Frank Ellis, Jim Corey, John Beach, Matty Roubert, Kenneth Terrell, Chuck Baldra, Chick Hannon, Augie Gomez, Herman Nowlin, Franklyn Farnum, Bob Card, Herman Hack, Al Haskell, Pascale Perry, Silver Tip Baker, Lew Morphy. Tucson is accused of murdering Stony’s lawman father and the Three Mesquiteers are estranged until Stony comes to believe in his pal’s innocence. Fast paced series entry that introduced Bob Steele and Rufe Davis in the roles of Tucson and Lullaby.

4650  Under the Pampas Moon  Fox, 1935. 78 min. D: James Tinling. SC: Ernest Pascal and Bradley King. With Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian, J. Carrol Naish, John Miljan, Armida, Ann Codee, Jack LaRue, George Irving, Rita (Hayworth) Cansino, Veloz and Yolanda, Tito Guizar, Chris-Pin Martin, Max Wagner, Philip Cooper, Sam Appel, Arthur Stone, George Lewis, Paul Porcasi, Lona Andre, Martin Garralaga, Tommy Coats, Frank Cordell, Joe Rickson, Catherine Cotter, Charles Stevens, Pedro Regas, Fred Malatesta, Juan Ortiz, Joe Dominguez, Nick Thompson, Manuel Perez, Soledad Jiminez, John Eberts. In Argentina a gaucho’s horse is stolen by crooks who want to enter it in a race in Buenos Aires and the cowboy heads to the big city to get his steed back. Mediocre attempt to transfer Warner Baxter’s characterization of a Cisco Kid-type to the Pampas; Rita Hayworth’s first film.

4651  Under the Tonto Rim  Paramount, 1928. 60 min. D: Herman C. Raymaker. SC: J. Walter Ruben. With Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Alfred Allen, Jack Luden, Harry T. Morey, William Franey, Harry Todd, Bruce Gordon, Jack Byron. A cowboy is blackmailed by a murderer but helped by the miner who loves his sister. Pretty good adaptation of the Zane Grey novel makes this silent film worth a look.

4652  Under the Tonto Rim  Paramount, 1933. 63 min. D: Henry Hathaway. SC: Jack Cunningham and Gerald Geraghty. With Stuart Erwin, Verna Hillie, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fuzzy Knight, John Lodge, George Barbier, Patricia Farley, Edwin J. Brady, Marion Burdell, Allan Garcia. A cowpoke who operates on the slow side ends up capturing a killer and wins the love of his boss’ daughter. First sound version of the Zane Grey work is not quite as good as the silent outing but is still entertaining, especially for Stuart Erwin fans.

4653  Under the Tonto Rim  RKO Radio, 1947. 61 min. D: Lew Landers. SC: Norman Houston. With Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Richard Powers (Tom Keene), Carol Forman, Tony Barrett, Harry Harvey, Jason Robards, Robert Clarke, Jay Norris, Lex Barker, Steve Savage, Bud Osborne. A mysterious outlaw gang is trailed by a cowboy determined to capture them. Although it bears little resemblance to the Zane Grey book, this is a fast paced effort with fine photography by Anent Hunt.

4654  Under Western Skies  Universal, 1945. 57 min. D: Jean Yarbrough. SC: Stanley Roberts and Clyde Bruckman. With Martha O’Driscoll, Noah Beery, Jr., Leo Carrillo, Leon Errol, Irving Bacon, Ian Keith, Jennifer Holt, Edna May Wonacott, Earle Hodgins, Shaw and Lee, Dorothy Granger, Jack Rice, Gladys Blake, George Lloyd, Claire Whitney, Frank Lackteen, Jack Ingram, Patsy O’Bryne, Nan Leslie, Eddy Waller, Perc Launders, Donald Kerr, Donald Jackson, Charles Sherlock. The denizens of a Western town oppose the staging of a traveling show, especially when the leading lady gets involved with the local school teacher and a masked bandit. Entertaining oater musical program feature.

4655  Under Western Stars  Republic, 1938. 65 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Dorrell McGowan, Stuart McGowan and Betty Burbridge. With Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, The Maple City Four, Guy Usher, Earl Dwire, Dick Elliott, Jack Rockwell, Frankie Marvin, Earle Hodgins, Jack Ingram, Kenneth Harlan, Tom Chatterton, Alden Chase, Brandon Beach, Slim Whitaker, Jean Fowler, Jack Kirk, Fred Burns, Tex Cooper, Curley Dresden, Bill Wolfe. A cowboy is drafted into running for Congress when the incumbent proves to be the pawn of a large company overcharging ranchers for water during a drought. Roy Rogers’ first starring feature is a good one and in it he sings “That Pioneer Mother of Mine” and Johnny Marvin’s Academy Award nominated “Dust.”

4656  Undercover Man  Republic, 1936. 56 min. D: Albert Ray. SC: Andrew Bennison. With Johnny Mack Brown, Suzanne Kaaren, Ted Adams, Frank Darien, Lloyd Ingraham, Horace Murphy, Dick Moorehead, Ed Cassidy, Margaret Mann, Frank Ball, George Morrell, Jim Corey, Art Dillard, Ray Henderson. A Wells Fargo agent saves a woman and gold during a holdup and the local bar owner, the leader of an outlaw gang, plots revenge. Johnny Mack Brown’s initial Republic series oater is pleasantly paced.

4657  Undercover Man  United Artists, 1942. 68 min. D: Lesley Selander. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Antonio Moreno, Nora Lane, Chris-Pin Martin, Esther Estrella, John Vosper, Ea Puig, Alan Baldwin, Jack Rockwell, Pierce Lyden, Martin Garralaga, Earle Hodgins, Frank Ellis, Ted Wells, Joe Dominguez, Tony Roux, Cliff Parkinson, Frank Ellis, Ben Corbett, George Sowards, Lem Sowards. Hopalong Cassidy is falsely accused of robbery and sets out to get the real culprits, a gang operating below the Mexican border. The first United Artists “Hoppy” release is a bit on the slow side and plays better in its edited 54 minute TV version.

4658  Undercover Men  British Dominion, 1935. 60 min. D: Sam (Newfield) Neufeld. SC: Murison Dunn. With Charles Starrett, Adrienne Dore, Kenneth (Kenne) Duncan, Wheeler Oakman, Eric Clavering, Phil Brandon, Austin Morin, Grace Webster, Gilmore Young, Elliott Lorraine, Wilbur Freeman, Farnham Barter, Muriel Deane. A Mounted Policeman working undercover pursues of an outlaw in the wilds of Canada. Canadian made feature of interest to Charles Starrett fans since it pre-dates his Columbia years; based on a story by co-star Kenne Duncan.

4659  Undercover Woman  Republic, 1946. 56 min. D: Thomas Carr. SC: Jerry Sackheim and Sherman Lowe. With Stephanie Bachelor, Robert Livingston, Richard Fraser, Betty Blythe, Isabel Withers, Helen Heigh, Edythe Elliott, John Dehner, Elaine Lange, Tom London, Larry J. Blake. When a murder is committed at a Western dude ranch, a female detective and the local sheriff try to solve the crime. Pleasing Republic program feature.

4660  Underground Rustlers  Monogram, 1941. 59 min. D: S. Roy Luby. SC: Bud Tuttle, Elizabeth Beecher and John Vlados. With Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, Gwen Gaze, Robert Blair, Forrest Taylor, Bud Osborne, Steve Clark, Tom London, Carl Mathews, John Elliott, Richard Cramer, Tex Palmer, Ed Peil, Sr., Tex Cooper, Frank McCarroll, Rudy Sooter, Buck Connors, Post Park, Roy Bucko, Milburn Morante, Denver Dixon, George Morrell, Tex Phelps. Three cowboys are assigned to capture a gang of gold smugglers. Fair entry in “The Range Busters” series that belongs to the wonderful Max Terhune who disguises himself as a suspender salesman.

4661  Unexpected Guest  United Artists, 1947. 61 min. D: George Archainbaud. SC: Ande Lamb. With William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Una O’Connor, Pamela Tate, Ian Wolfe, John Parrish, Robert B. Williams, Earle Hodgins, Ned (Nedrick) Young, Joel Friedkin, William Ruhl. Hopalong Cassidy tries to find out who is behind a series of mysterious incidents, including the framing of Lucky on a murder charge, when California inherits a portion of his late cousin’s ranch. Acceptable later edition in the “Hopalong Cassidy” series helped by its mystery plot.

Spanish lobby card for Unexpected Guest (United Artists, 1947); insert picturing Robert B. Williams, Patricia Tate, Una O’Connor and Andy Clyde.

4662  The Unforgiven  United Artists, 1960. 120 min. Color. D: John Huston. SC: Ben Maddow. With Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish, Albert Salmi, Joseph Wiseman, June Walker, Kipp Hamilton, Arnold Merritt, Carlos Rivas, Doug McClure. In a remote area the locals resent an Indian girl who has been raised as white and she is threatened by them when the Kiowa tribe goes on the warpath. Overwrought melodrama that should have been better but any film with Lillian Gish is worth watching.

4663  Unforgiven  Warner Bros., 1992. 131 min. Color. D: Clint Eastwood. SC: David Webb Peoples. With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Thomson, David Mucci, Rob Campbell, Anthony James, Tara Dawn Frederick, Beverley Elliott, Lisa Repo-Martell, Josie Smith, Shane Meier, Aline Levasseur, Cherrilene Cardinal, Robert Koons, Ron White, Mina E. Mina, Henry Kope, Jermey Ratchford, John Pyser-Ferguson, Jefferson Mappin, Walter Marsh, Garner Butler, Larry Reese, Blair Haynes, Frank C. Turner, Sam Karas, Lochlyn Munro, Ben Cardinal, Philip Hayes, Michael Charrois, Bill Davidson, Larry Joshua, George Orrison, Gregory Goossen, Michael Maurer, Paul McLean, James Herman. An aging ex-gunfighter enlists the help of an old friend in joining a young gunman in hunting the cowboy who brutalized a prostitute. Overlong but huge moneymaking Western that reaped a number of awards.

4664  The Unholy Four  B.R.C./Atlas, 1970. 95 min. Color. D: E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni). SC: Franco Rossetti and Mario di Nardo. With Leonard Mann, Woody Strode, Peter Martell, Helmuth Schneider, Lucas Montefiori (George Eastman), Evelyn Stewart (Ida Galli), Alain Naya, Dino Strano, Andrew Ray (Andrea Aureli), Enzo Fiermonte, Romano Puppo, Fortunato Arena, Billa Salvatore, Emilio Messina, Osiride Pevarello, Giusepe Lauricella, Lucio Rosato, Remo Capitani, Remo De Angelis, Roberto Dell’Acqua, Claudio Scharchilli. Three men escape from prison with one of them an amnesiac American gunman hired to kill a man who may be his father. Good Spaghetti Western made in Italy as Ciakmull, L’Uomo della Vendetta (Chuck Moll, the Vendetta Man) and also known as Chuck Moll.

4665  Union Pacific  Paramount, 1939. 133 min. D: Cecil B. DeMille. SC: Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan and Jesse Lasky, Jr. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Robert Barrat, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker, Francis McDonald, Willard Robertson, Harold Goodwin, Evelyn Keyes, Richard Lane, William Haade, Regis Toomey, Lon Chaney, Jr., J.M. Kerrigan, Fuzzy Knight, Harry Woods, Joseph Crehan, Julia Faye, Sheila Darcy, Joseph Sawyer, Stanley Andrews, Earl Askam, John Marston, Byron Foulger, Selmer Jackson, Morgan Wallace, John Merton, Ed Peil, Sr., Russell Hicks, May Beatty, Ernie Adams, William J. Worthington, Guy Usher, James McNamara, Gus Glassmire, Stanley Andrews, Paul Everton, Jack Pennick, John Marston, Iron Eyes Cody, Lew Short, Tom Burke. A troubleshooter for the Union Pacific Railroad romances an engineer’s daughter and tries to combat sabotage to the line in its competition with the Central Pacific for the completion of the first transcontinental tracks. Sprawling, and typically entertaining, Cecil B. DeMille epic.

4666  Unknown Ranger  Aywon, 1920. 45 min. With Rex Ray, Marie Newall, Ben Hall. Texas Rangers are on the trail of a gang smuggling opium across the Mexican border. Fairly interesting silent outing, not only for its plot but because the villain escapes at the end.

4667  Unknown Ranger  Columbia, 1936. 58 min. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Nate Gatzert. With Bob Allen, Martha Tibbetts, Harry Woods, Hal Taliaferro, Buzzy Henry, Edward Hearn, Robert Kortman, Lew Meehan, Bob McKenzie, Art Mix, Oscar Gahan, Rudy Sooter, Robert Hoag, Francis Walker, Ray Henderson, Al Taylor, Buck Moulton, Merrill McCormick, Tex Palmer, Allan Cavan, Cactus Mack, Bud McClure, Bob Card, Henry Hall, Art Dillard, Jack King, Horace B. Carpenter, Eva McKenzie, Bud Jamison, Rube Dalroy. Rustlers plan to use a wild stallion to steal a rancher’s horse herd but a cowhand, actually a ranger, gets wind of the plan. Bob Allen’s first series film is a good one and in it Hal Taliaferro (Wally Wales) sings a novelty tune.

4668  Unknown Valley  Columbia, 1933. 69 min. D-SC: Lambert Hillyer. With Buck Jones, Cecilia Parker, Bert Black, Carlotta Warwick, Arthur Wanzer, Wade Boteler, Frank McGlynn, Charles Thurston, Ward Bond, Gaylord (Steve) Pendleton, Alf James, Frank Ellis. While searching for his father, an ex–Army scout becomes lost in the desert and is rescued by a young woman belonging to a strange religious sect. Out-of-the-ordinary “B” Western that relies far more on its well written script than usual genre action; a very good film.

4669  Unknown Wilderness  American National Enterprises, 1973. 94 min. Color. D: Austin Green. SC: Roger Davis and Austin Green. Two teenage boys learn to survive in the mountain wilderness of Montana and Wyoming as they search for the legendary treasure of Frenchy Latrek. Cheaply made but eye-pleasing docudrama.

4670  The Unsinkable Molly Brown  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1964. 128 Color. D: Charles Walters. SC: Helen Deutsch. With Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Hermoine Baddeley, Martita Hunt, Vassili Lambrinos, Fred Essler, Harvey Lembeck, Kathryn Card, Hayden Rorke, Harry Holcombe, Amy Douglas, George Mitchell, Vaughn Taylor, Anthony Eustrel, Audrey Christie, Lauren Gilbert. In the late 1880s an orphan marries a miner and they strike it rich but are snubbed in Denver but go to Europe where they become the toast of society. Zesty musical with Meredith Willson-Richard Morris’ score.

4671  Untamed  Paramount, 1940. 83 min. Color. D: George Archainbaud. SC: Frederick Hazlett Brennan and Frank Butler. With Ray Milland, Patricia Morison, Akim Tamiroff, William Frawley, Jane Darwell, J.M. Kerrigan, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ester Dale, Eily Malyon, Faye Helm, Clem Bevans, Sybil Harris, Roscoe Ates, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Charles Waldron, Darryl Hickman, Charlene Wyatt, Bahe Denetdell, Donna Jean Lester, Byron Foulger, Helen Brown, Guy Wilkerson, Charles Stevens, Brenda Fowler, Ann Doran, Pauline Haddon, Dorothy Adams, Betsy Ross Clarke. An alcoholic New York City surgeon goes to the north woods to recover and decides to stay after falling in love with his guide’s pretty wife. Well made melodrama enhanced by scenic locales and good use of Technicolor.

4672  Untamed  20th Century–Fox, 1955. 111 min. Color. D: Henry King. SC: Talbot Jennings, Frank Fenton and Michael Blankfort. With Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead, Rita Moreno, Hope Emerson, Brad Dexter, Henry O’Neill, Paul Thompson, Alexander D. Havemann, Louis Mercier, Emmett Smith, Jack Macy, Bobby Diamond, Gary Diamond, Brian Corcoran, Kevin Corcoran, Eleanor Audley, Cecil Weston, Forrest Burns, Leonard Carey. In South Africa a Dutchman saves a wagon train of settlers from a Zulu attack and falls in love with the wife of a man killed in the skirmish. Entertaining melodrama with beautiful South African scenery although the plot tends more toward Susan Hayward’s character than Tyrone Power’s, a man who wants to set up a Dutch state.

4673  The Untamed Breed  Columbia, 1948. 79 min. Color. D: Charles Lamont. SC: Tom Reed. With Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton, George “Gabby” Hayes, Barbara Britton, William Bishop, George E. Stone, Joseph Sawyer, Gordon Jones, James Kirkwood, Harry Tyler, Virginia Brissac, Reed Howes, Russell Simpson, Syd Saylor, Dick Elliott, Frank Hagney, Kernan Cripps, Paul E. Burns, Louis Mason, Symona Boniface, Richard Gordon, Phil Schumacher. Hoping to improve their herds, ranchers along the Pecos River in Texas go along with a cattleman’s plan to purchase a Brahma bull. Passable but standard drama.

4674  Untamed Frontier  Universal-International, 1952. 75 min. Color. D: Hugo Fregonese. SC: Gerald Drayson Adams, John Bagni and Gwen Bagni. With Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Minor Watson, Katherine Emery, Antonio Moreno, Douglas Spencer, John Alexander, Richard Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Robert Anderson, Fess Parker, Edmund Cobb, Jose Torvay, Ray Bennett, Beatrice Gray, Alex Montoya, Forrest Taylor, Clem Fuller, Brick Sullivan, Connie Vera, Bob Burns, Joe Dominguez, Emile Avery, Forrest Burns, John Davidson, Carl Andre, Carlos Albert, Monte Montague, Lalo Rios, Bob Reeves, Mike Lally, Leo J. McMahon, Jennings Miles, David Janssen, Henry A. Escalante, Henry Orozco, Tom Smith, Denver Dixon, Mary Bayless. A wealthy cattle baron uses any means he can to stop settlers from taking free government land which he wants for his herds. Okay drama carried along by good direction and performances.

4675  Untamed Heiress  Republic, 1954. 70 min. D: Charles Lamont. SC: Barry Shipman. With Judy Canova, Donald Barry, Taylor Holmes, George Cleveland, Chick Chandler, Jack Kruschen, Hugh Sanders, Douglas Fowley, William Haade, Ellen Corby, James Flavin, Tweeny Canova, Dick Wessel. A millionaire hires two talent agents to locate a woman who once gave him money and they find out she has died and her daughter is in an orphanage. Typical Judy Canova comedy that will appeal to her fans.

4676  Until They Get Me  Triangle, 1917. 58 min. D: Frank Borgaze. SC: Kenneth B. Clark. With Pauline Starke, Jack Curtis, Joe King, Wilbur Higby, Anna Dodge, Walter Perry. A Mountie arrests a man for murder but he escapes and years later a young woman the policeman sets free from a life of drudgery helps him find the escapee and together they prove his innocence. Competent silent drama without a lot of action.

Up Like a Shot! see Blazing Stewardesses

4677  Up River  Arcade, 1979. 90 min. Color. D: Carl Kitt. SC: Carol Hummel. With Morgan Stevens, Jeff Corey, Dale Wilson, John “Bear” Curtis, David Crowley, Mikal Dughi, Deborah Au Luce, Cindy Jensen, Robert George, Norm Weatherby, Lance Garrett, Ronnie Lester. A homesteader’s wife is raped and murdered by a land baron who also burns his house and the sodbuster plots revenge. Poor, low grade production.

4678  Up the MacGregors!  Columbia, 1968. 98 min. Color. D: Frank Garfield (Franco Giraldi). SC: Fernand Lion (Fernando Di Leo), Vincent Eagle (Enzo Dell’Aquila), Paul Levy (Paolo Levi), Jose Marie Rodriguez and Franco Giraldi. With David Bailey, Agatha Flory, Alberto Dell’Acqua (Robert Widmark), Leo Anchoriz, Roberto Camardiel, Cole Kitosh, Nick Anderson, Paul Carter, Julio Perez Tabernero, Hugo Blanco, Saturnino Cerra, George Rigaud, Roy Bossier, Victor Israel, Ann Casares, Francesco Tensi, Jesus Guzman, King Black, Antonio Vico, Enlena Montoya, Tito Garcia, Anne-Marie Noe, Margaret Horowitz, Margaret Merritt, Kathleen Parker, Anna Maria Mendoza. The seven MacGregor brothers are after an outlaw gang that stole all their families’ possessions. Pleasant sequel to Seven Guns for the MacGregors (q.v.) and, like its predecessor, less violent and more amusing than most of its ilk. Released in Italy in 1966 as Sette Donne per I MacGregor (Seven Women for the MacGregors) by Produzione D.S./Jolly/Talia Film.

4679  Uphill All the Way  New World, 1985. 91 min. Color. D-SC: Frank Q. Dobbs. With Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Burl Ives, Glen Campbell, Trish Van Devere, Richard Paul, Elaine Joyce, Jacque Lynn Colton, Frank Gorshin, Sheb Wooley, Burton Gilliam, Burt Reynolds, Gilard Sartain, Rockne Tarkington, Christopher Weeks, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Burt Reynolds, Danny Kwan, Jim Lau, Jo Perkins, David Logan Rankin, Noah Davison, Blue Deckert, Paul Menzel, Chet Warner, Tommy Collins, Ed Geldart. In 1916 Texas two con men are mistaken for notorious bank robbers and chased across the desert by a posse. Stars Roy Clark and Mel Tillis served as executive producers on this weak Western comedy in which Burt Reynolds appears unbilled as a gambler.

4680  Uranium Boom  Columbia, 1956. 67 min. D: William Castle. SC: George W. Greene. With Dennis Morgan, Patricia Medina, William Talman, Tina Carver, Philip Van Zandt, Bill Henry, Gregg Barton, Mel Curtis, Henry Rowland, S. John Launer, Michael Bryant, Frank Wilcox, Ralph Sanford, Carlyle Mitchell, Nick Tell. A former lumberjack teams with a mining engineer to locate uranium in Colorado only to marry his partner’s ex-fiancee, causing a rift between the two men. Mediocre program feature from producer Sam Katzman.

4681  Utah  Republic, 1945. 78 min. D: John English. SC: Jack Townley. With Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes, Dale Evans, Peggy Stewart, Beverly Lloyd, Grant Withers, Hal Taliaferro, Bob Nolan and The Sons of the Pioneers (Tim Spencer, Ken Carson, Shug Fisher, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr), Jack Rutherford, Emmett Vogan, Ed Cassidy, Vivien Oakland, Jill Browning, Ralph Colby, Forrest Taylor, Horace B. Carpenter. Roy and Gabby try to stop an out of work show girl from selling the ranch she inherited to sheep herders. Fairly entertaining but shackled with a dull finale production number.

4682  Utah Blaine  Columbia, 1957. 75min. D: Fred F. Sears. SC: Robert E. Kent and James B. Gordon. With Rory Calhoun, Susan Cummings, Max Baer, Angela Stevens, Paul Langton, George Keymas, Ray Teal, Gene Roth, Terry Frost, Dennis Moore, Jack Ingram, Steve Darrell, Norman Frederic (Dean Fredericks), Ken Christy. A gunman helps a rancher who is being harassed by marauders out to control the territory. Rory Calhoun fans will go for this better than average Sam Katzman production.

4683  The Utah Kid  Tiffany, 1930. 60 min. D: Richard Thorpe. SC: Frank Howard Clark. With Rex Lease, Dorothy Sebastian, Tom Santschi, Mary Carr, Walter Miller, Lafe McKee, Boris Karloff, Bud Osborne, Art Mix, Wally Wales, Buffalo Bill, Jr., Fred Burns, Bud McClure, Al Taylor, Bob Burns, Chuck Baldra, Bob Card, Blackie Whiteford, Ralph Bucko, Roy Bucko. An outlaw returns to his gang’s hideout to find a cohort trying to take advantage of a pretty school teacher who has wandered into their den and he defends and later marries her, although she is loved by the local sheriff. Rather interesting Rex Lease early talkie; Boris Karloff has a minor role as a gang member.

4684  The Utah Kid  Monogram, 1944. 54 min. D: Vernon Keays. SC: Victor Hammond. With Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Beatrice Gray, Evelyn Eaton, Ralph Lewis, Mauritz Hugo, Jameson Shade, Mike G. Letz, Dan White, Bud Osborne, George Morrell, Al Ferguson, Lew Meehan, Earle Hodgins, Herman Hack, Jack Evans. A U.S. marshal and his new deputy investigate a gang that always wins the events on a rodeo circuit. An abundance of rodeo stock footage does not help this rather rag-tag dual bill effort; a remake of The Man from Utah (q.v.).

4685  Utah Trail  Grand National, 1937. 57 min. D: Albert (Al) Herman. SC: Edmund Kelso. With Tex Ritter, Adele Pearce (Pamela Blake), Dave O’Brien, Horace Murphy, Snub Pollard, Karl Hackett, Charles King, Ed Cassidy, Bud Osborne, Lynton Brent, Rudy Sooter and Tex Ritter’s Tornados, Oscar Gahan, Ray Jones, Denver Dixon, George Morrell, Horace B. Carpenter, Herman Hack, Chick Hannon. An investigator is hired by the railroad to locate a stolen cattle train and find out who is sabotaging the company’s property. Tex Ritter’s final Grand National release is a ragged affair with average tunes. British title: Trail to Utah.

4686  Utah Wagon Train  Republic, 1951. 67 min. D: Philip Ford. SC: John K. Butler. With Rex Allen, Penny Edwards, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft, Sarah Padden, Grant Withers, Arthur Space, Edwin Rand, Robert Karnes, William Holmes, Stanley Andrews, Frank Jenks, Forrest Taylor. A rancher gets himself made trail boss of a modern-day wagon train party searching for the route West used a century before by their ancestors, in order to find out who murdered his uncle, the group’s original guide. Very fine Rex Allen feature with a good plot.

4687  Vacation Days  Monogram, 1947. 68 min. D: Arthur Dreifuss. SC: Hal Collins. With Freddie Stewart, June Preisser, Frankie Darro, Warren Mills, Noel Neill, Milton Kibbee, Belle Mitchell, John Hart, Hugh Prosser, Terry Frost, Edythe Elliott, Claire James, Forrest Taylor, Spade Cooley Band, Jerry Wald and His Orchestra. A group of students, after graduation, go to a Western ranch inherited by their teacher and get involved with an outlaw gang. Average outing in the “Teen Agers” series, also called Freddie Goes West.

The Valdez Horses see Chino

4688  Valdez Is Coming  United Artists, 1971. 90 min. Color. D: Edwin Sherin. SC: Roland Kibbee and David Rayfiel. With Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan, Frank Silvera, Hector Elizondo, Phil Brown, Ralph Brown, Roberta Haynes, Jose Garcia, Michael Hinn, Joaquin Parra, Rudy Ugland, Vic Albert, Allan Russell, Juan Fernandez, Tony Eppers, Nick Cravat, Raul Castro, Jose Morales, Mario Sanz. A gunman forced into a shootout is hunted by a posse and he plans to turn the tables on his trackers. Average drama filmed in Spain, based on Elmore Leonard’s book.

Valentine Lazan, El Ratero de las Pobres see El Ratero de las Pobres

4689  Valerie  United Artists, 1957. 84 min. D: Gerd Oswald. SC: Leonard Heideman and Emmett Murphy. With Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker, John Wengraf, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Robert Adler, Gage Clarke, Jerry Barclay, Tom McKee, Stanley Adams, John Dierkes, Malcolm Atterbury, Darryl Duran, Norman Leavitt, Sydney Smith, Juney Ellis. A man’s wife is wounded and her parents murdered with the trial for the crimes becoming a conflicting affair until the woman agrees to testify. A different kind of oater although it hardly seems worth the effort.

4690  The Valiant Hombre  United Artists, 1948. 61 min. D: Wallace Fox. SC: Adele Buffington. With Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Barbara Billingsley, John Litel, John James, Lee “Lasses” White, Stanley Andrews, Guy Beach, Gene Roth, Terry Frost, Frank Ellis, Ralph Peters, Herman Hack, George DeNormand, Ed Peil, Sr., Hank Bell, Bert Dillard, George Morrell, Rube Dalroy, Daisy (dog). The Cisco Kid and Pancho try to locate a mining engineer who disappeared after making a big strike. Good entry in “The Cisco Kid” series.

El Valle de los Desaparecidos see The Lone Rider (1960)

4691  Valley of Fear  Monogram, 1947. 54 min. D: Lambert Hillyer. SC: J. Benton Cheney. With Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Ed Cassidy, Tristram Coffin, Ted Adams, Steve Darrell, Pierce Lyden, Eddie Parker, Gary Garrett, Cactus Mack, Robert O’Byrne, Ed Peil, Sr., Budd Buster. A cowpoke returns home to find his uncle dead and himself accused of taking money the deceased embezzled. Standard, but entertaining Johnny Mack Brown feature with a good mystery element.

4692  Valley of Fire  Columbia, 1951. 70 min. D: John English. SC: Earle Snell. With Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Russell Hayden, Christine Larsen, Harry Lauter, Terry Frost, Riley Hill, Barbara Stanley, Duke York, Bud Osborne, Teddy Infur, Victor Sen Yung, Gregg Barton, Sandy Sanders, Fred Sherman, James Magill, Frankie Marvin, Pat O’Malley, Wade Crosby, William Fawcett, Syd Saylor, John Miller, Marjorie Liszt. In the town of Quantz Creek in the 1850s sheriff Gene Autry runs off a crooked gambler and his cohorts and the bad man vows revenge by trying to hijack a wagon train bringing brides to the community. Pretty good Gene Autry vehicle in which he sings “On Top of Old Smoky.”

4693  The Valley of Gwangi  Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1969. 95 min. Color. D: James O’Connolly. SC: William E. Bast. With James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Curtis Arden, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo, Dennis Kibane, Marion De Barrros, Jose Burgos. In Mexico a cowboy finds a hidden valley and with his men is able to lasso a huge dinosaur they try to exhibit in a small circus. Basically dull combination of Western and sci-fi genres with fine special effects by Ray Harryhausen; Gwangi is a very likable monster.

4694  Valley of Hate  Russell Productions, 1924. 63 min. D: Russell Allen. SC: George Hively. With Raymond McKee, Helen Ferguson, Earl Metcalfe, Wilfred Lucas, Ralph Yearsley, Helen Lynch, Frank Whitson. After inheriting property in a remote mountain area, a rich man goes there, is mistaken for a revenue agent and falls in love with a young woman, a moonshiner’s ward. The scenery is the best part of this somewhat overwrought melodrama.

4695  Valley of Hunted Men  Republic, 1942. 60 min. D: John English. SC: Albert DeMond and Morton Grant. With Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Anna Marie Stewart, Edward Van Sloan, Roland Varno, Edythe Elliott, Arno Frey, Richard French, Kenne Duncan, Jack Kirk, Budd Buster, Hal Price, Rand Brooks, Billy Benedict, George Neise, Robert Stevenson, Duke Aldon, Charles Flynn, Mickey Rentschler, Hank Worden, Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian, Charles Flynn, Louis Adlon, Arvon Dale, John Frazer, Kermit Maynard, Jack O’Shea, Tex Terry, Bob Card, Charles Graham, Henry Morris, James Mitchell, Rose Plummer. Three cowboys are trailing an escaped Nazi posing as the nephew of a scientist working on a formula for making rubber from culebra plants. Topical outing in “The Three Mesquiteers” series, not very dated and still entertaining.

4696  Valley of Terror  Ambassador, 1937. 59 min. D: Al Herman. SC: Stanley Roberts. With Kermit Maynard, Harley Wood, John Merton, Jack Ingram, Dick Curtis, Roger Williams, Frank McCarroll, Hank Bell, Hal Price, Slim Whitaker, George Morrell, Blackie Whiteford, Herman Hack, Jack Casey, Jack Evans, Tex Cooper, Ray Henderson. A crook is after mineral deposits on a woman’s ranch and he has her boyfriend framed on a rustling charge to get him out of the way. Standard, but action laced, Kermit Maynard vehicle from producer Maurice Conn.

4697  Valley of the Giants  Warner Bros., 1938. 79 min. Color. D: William Keighley. SC: Seton I. Miller and Michael Fessler. With Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Charles Bickford, Jack LaRue, John Litel, Dick Purcell, El Brendel, Russell Simpson, Cy Kendall, Harry Cording, Wade Boteler, Helen McKellar, Addison Richards, Jerry Colonna, Trevor Bardette, Pierre Watkin, Don Barclay, Herbert Rawlinson, Stuart Holmes, Frank Darien, Clem Bevans, George Chandler, Sidney Bracy, Jack Mower, Al Herman, Fred Burton, Cliff Saum, Ben Hendricks, Sonny Bupp, Spencer Charters, Nat Carr, Eddy Chandler, William Pawley, Lee Shumway, Paul Panzer, Henry Otho, Lew Harvey, Bob Perry, Bob Stevenson, Don Turner, Tom Wilson, Sol Gorss. A lumberman, with the help of a saloon girl, fights a rival who wants to take timber and destroy the north woods in the process. Highly entertaining melodrama based on Peter B. Kyne’s novel, first filmed in 1919 by Artcraft-Paramount with Wallace Reid and remade by Warner Bros. in 1927 starring Milton Sills. A fourth version was done as The Big Trees (q.v.).

4698  Valley of the Lawless  Supreme, 1936. 59 min. D-SC: Robert North Bradbury. With Johnny Mack Brown, Joyce Compton, George Hayes, Frank Hagney, Denny Meadows (Dennis Moore), Bobby Nelson, Charles King, Jack Rockwell, Frank Ball, Forrest Taylor, Blackie Whiteford, Horace Murphy, Steve Clark, Ed Cassidy, Bob McKenzie, George Morrell, Jack Kirk, Jack Evans, Milburn Morante, Francis Walker, Fred Parker, Anita Carmago, Clyde McClary, Bud Pope, Buck Morgan, Tex Phelps, Rube Dalroy. To retrieve a gold map for which his grandfather was killed, a cowboy must penetrate an area used as a refuge by outlaws. Fast paced Johnny Mack Brown effort; well written.

4699  Valley of the Redwoods  20th Century–Fox/Associated Producers, 1960. 63 min. D: William Witney. SC: Gene Corman. With John Hudson, Lynn Bernay, Ed Nelson, Michael Forest, Robert Shayne, John Brinkley, Bruno Ve Soto, Hal Torey, Chris Miller. Three people, two men and a woman, carry out a payroll robbery and try to escape through a forest area but their plan is foiled when one of them is injured. Compact and pleasing little action drama.

4700  Valley of the Sun  RKO Radio, 1942. 79 min. D: George Marshall. SC: Horace McCoy. With Lucille Ball, James Craig, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger, Peter Whitney, Billy Gilbert, Tom Tyler, Antonio Moreno, George Cleveland, Hank Bell, Richard Fiske, Don Terry, Chris Willow Bill, Fern Emmett, Al St. John, Harry Lamont, Al Ferguson, Chester Conklin, Ed Brady, Lloyd Ingraham, Frank Coleman, Francis McDonald, Harry Hayden, Bud Osborne, Steve Clemento, Chester Clute, Tom London, George Melford, Carleton Young, Robert Kortman, Stanley Andrews, Lloyd Ingraham, Ethan Laidlaw, John Cason, Pat Moriarty, George Lloyd, Iron Eyes Cody, Jay Silverheels. A government agent pretends to be a renegade scout to get the goods on a crooked Indian agent in the Arizona Territory. The cast is the best thing about this slow moving melodrama; Tom Tyler superbly plays Geronimo.

4701  Valley of Vanishing Men  Columbia, 1942. 15 Chapters. D: Spencer Gordon Bennet. SC: Harry Fraser, George Grey and Lewis Clay. With Bill Elliott, Slim Summerville, Carmen Morales, Kenneth MacDonald, Jack Ingram, George Chesebro, John Shay, Tom London, Arno Frey, Julian Rivero, Roy Barcroft, I. Stanford Jolley, Ted Mapes, Lane Chandler, Ernie Adams, Michael Vallon, Robert Fiske, Davison Clark, Lane Bradford, Chief Thundercloud, Blackie Whiteford, Frank Ellis, Forrest Taylor, Horace B. Carpenter, Kenne Duncan, Karl Hackett, Thornton Edwards, Art Dillard, Tex Palmer, Kit Guard, Iron Eyes Cody, Hank Bell, Sherry Tansey, Roy Bucko, Rose Plummer. A cowboy and his pal search for the man’s missing prospector father and they learn he and others are held as slaves in a mine operated by an outlaw and a renegade European general who plan to overthrow the Juarez government in Mexico. Bill Elliott’s final Columbia assignment is a cheap, dull cliffhanger.

4702  Valley of Vengeance  Producers Releasing Corporation, 1944. 57 min. D: Sam Newfield. SC: Joseph O’Donnell. With Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Evelyn Finley, Glenn Strange, Donald Mayo, Charles King, John Merton, Lynton Brent, Jack Ingram, Bud Osborne, Nora Bush, Steve Clark, David Polonsky, Budd Buster, Ben Corbett, Artie Ortego, John Cason, Tex Cooper, Wally West, George Morrell, Herman Hack, Buck Bucko, Pascale Perry, Morgan Flowers, Ray Henderson, Merrill McCormick, Tom Smith, Hank Bell, Ed Cassidy, Jimmy Aubrey, Jess Cavin, Dan White, Curley Dresden, Carl Mathews. Years after their parents were murdered in a wagon train massacre, Billy Carson and Fuzzy Q. Jones stumble onto the gang responsible for the killings in a small town. Standard “Billy Carson” affair with a strong supporting cast. British title: Vengeance.

4703  Valley of Wanted Men  Conn Pictures, 1935. 63 min. D: Alan James. SC: Barry Barringer and Forrest Barnes. With Frankie Darro, Grant Withers, Drue Layton, (Le)Roy Mason, Paul Fix, Russell Hopton, Walter Miller, Fred “Snowflake” Toones, Alan Bridge, William Gould, Jack Rockwell, Frank Rice, Slim Whitaker. A young man tries to bring peace to his home, a vale populated by outlaws with prices on their heads. Fast paced low budget dual bill feature.

4704  The Vanishing American  Paramount, 1926. 110 min. D: George B. Seitz. SC: Ethel Doherty and Lucien Hubbard. With Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Malcolm MacGregor, Nocki, Shannon Day, Charles Crockett, Bert Woodruff, Bernard Siegel, Guy Oliver, Joe Ryan, Charles Stevens, Bruce Gordon, Richard Howard, John Webb Dillon. After fighting heroically in World War I, an Indian soldier returns home only to find the land barren and his people being cheated by corrupt government bureaucrats. A silent film classic and one of the first dramas to show the harsh treatment of Native Americans.

4705  The Vanishing American  Republic, 1955. 90 min. D: Joseph Kane. SC: Alan LeMay. With Scott Brady, Audrey Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis, John Dierkes, Gloria Castillo, Julian Rivero, Lee Van Cleef, George Keymas, Charles Stevens, Jay Silverheels, James Millican, Glenn Strange, Francis McDonald, Hank Worden, Fred Graham. When crooks attempt to steal land belonging to the Navajo Indians, a brave tries to stop them. Republic’s remake of the silent classic is only average, due mainly to budget restrictions.

4706  The Vanishing Frontier  Paramount, 1932. 65 min. D: Phil Rosen. SC: Stuart Anthony. With Johnny Mack Brown, Evalyn Knapp, ZaSu Pitts, J. Farrell MacDonald, Raymond Hatton, Wallace MacDonald, Ben Alexander, George Irving, Joyzelle Joyner, Deacon McDaniels. In old California an American tries to help officials in stopping military abuse. Johnny Mack Brown followers will go for this action outing, his last pre-series Western.

4707  The Vanishing Land  Gold Key, 1975. 91 min. Color. D: John Elmore. With John Elmore. Photographer/guide John Elmore goes on a journey through Alaska chronicling its wilderness and people. Top flight documentary.

4708  The Vanishing Legion  Mascot, 1931. 12 Chapters. D: B. Reeves Eason. SC: Wyndham Gittens, Ford Beebe and Helmer Bergman. With Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Rex (horse), Frankie Darro, Philo McCullough, William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Edward Hearn, Al Taylor, Lafe McKee, Dick Hatton, Pete Morrison, Dick Dickinson, Robert Kortman, Paul Weigel, Frank Brownlee, Yakima Canutt, Tom Dugan, Robert Walker, Oliver Fuller Golden (Carey), Charles “Rube” Schaeffer, Bill Wolff, Boris Karloff (voice). The mysterious “Voice” and his gang frame a man on a murder charge as they try to take over an oil company. Fun Mascot cliffhanger with a good cast and lots of action; also issued in a feature version. An unseen Boris Karloff is “The Voice.”

4709  The Vanishing Outpost  Western Adventure, 1951. 56 min. D: Ron Ormond. SC: Alexander White. With Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Riley Hill, Archie Twitchell, Lee Morgan, Ted Adams, Bud Osborne, Marshall Reed, Jack Ingram, Tom London, John Cason, Zon Murray, Clarke Stevens, Ray Broome, Cliff Taylor, Sharon Hall, Sue Hussey, Johnny Paul, Bob Duncan, Sandy Sanders, Riley Hill. A Pinkerton agent enlists the assistance of Lash and Fuzzy in stopping a notorious outlaw gang. Rag-tag Lash LaRue vehicle hurt by excessive use of footage from previous series features such as Mark of the Lash, Outlaw Country, Son of a Badman and Son of Billy the Kid (qq.v.).

Vanishing Pioneer see Rocky Mountain Mystery

4710  The Vanishing Prairie  Buena Vista, 1954. 75 min. Color. D: James Algar. SC: James Algar, Winston Hibler and Ted Sears. With Winston Hibler (narrator). Life on the American prairie is presented, focusing on animals such as the buffalo, antelope, big-horn sheep, coyote and the prairie dog. Top notch Walt Disney documentary for the entire family.

4711  The Vanishing Riders  Spectrum, 1935. 58 min. D: Robert Hill. SC: Oliver Drake. With Bill Cody, Ethel Jackson, Bill Cody, Jr., Wally Wales, Budd Buster, Milburn Morante, Donald Reed, Francis Walker, Roger Williams, Bert Young, Buck Morgan, Colin Chase, Oscar Gahan, Bud Pope, Barney Beasley. A cowpoke and his young pal set out to round up a rustling gang harassing area ranchers. Average oater of note only for its teaming of the Bill Cody’s, father and son, who wear skeleton outfits to scare the bad guys.

4712  The Vanishing Westerner  Republic, 1950. 60 min. D: Philip Ford. SC: Bob Williams. With Monte Hale, Aline Towne, Paul Hurst, Roy Barcroft, Arthur Space, Richard Anderson, William Phipps, Don Haggerty, Dick Curtis, Rand Brooks, Edmund Cobb, Harold Goodwin, Bob Reeves, Art Dillard, Bob Burns, Cactus Mack, Dale Van Sickel, Dudley Rose. Two wanted cowpokes are sent by a sheriff to a rancher to get jobs, but the lawman is really a killer who plans to use them as a front for his robbery activities and then have them murdered. A complicated scenario and plenty of action keep this Monte Hale outing moving at a fast clip.

Poster for The Vanishing Westerner (Republic, 1950).

4713  Vanishing Wilderness  Pacific International, 1974. 90 min. Color. D: Arthur R. Dubs and Heinz Seilmann. With Rex Allen (narrator), Arthur R. Dubs, Heinz Seilmann, Fred Truslow. The flora and fauna of North American, from Florida to Alaska, are chronicled in this theatrical documentary. Recommended for fans of this type of fare; Rex Allen sings the title song.

4714  The Vanquished  Paramount, 1953. 84 min. Color. D: Edward Ludwig. SC: Winston Miller, Frank Moss and Lewis R. Foster. With John Payne, Jan Sterling, Coleen Gray, Lyle Bettger, Willard Parker, Roy Gordon, John Dierkes, Charles Evans, Ellen Corby, Ernestine Barrier, Russell Gage, Leslie Kimmell, Voltaire Perkins, Sam Flint, Louis Jean Heydt, Freeman Morse, Richard Shannon, Karen Sharpe, Howard Joslin, Llewellyn Johnson, John Halloran, Harry Cody, William Berry, Major Sam Harris, Jack Hill, Richard Beedle, Richard Bartell, Brad Mora. Following the Civil War an ex–Confederate returns home and works undercover to get the goods on corrupt local officials. Although well produced by the Pine-Thomas unit, this feature has a plot used too often to make it very interesting.

Vendetta see Pancho Villa (1972)

Vendetta de Zorro see The Lone Rider (1960)