Federal marshal Nevada Jack Mackenzie (Johnny Mack Brown), working undercover, comes to the aid of the nephew of old friend Sandy Hopkins, who is now retired, when the nephew is cheated of his money and later ambushed after his herd of cattle is rustled. After Sandy is summoned, he arrives in the guise of a …
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The Range Busters come to the aid of a sheriff (Steve Clark) facing a rash of payroll robberies, but matters get really serious when Crash is caught in an explosion set by the gang. A fairly well-crafted script has the obvious leader of the crooks taking orders in turn from an unknown someone else, and …
Read the full post →“<em>Boot Hill Bandits</em> (Monogram, 1942)”
Wandering cowboys Whip (Whip Wilson) and Bob (Tommy Farrell) break up a saloon confrontation and in the aftermath are offered jobs as marshals for the town, which is on the brink of a range war. More is going on than meets the eye, of course, and soon the boys are threatening to disrupt a conspiracy …
Read the full post →“<em>Wyoming Roundup</em> (Monogram, 1952)”
Range Busters Crash and Dusty rush to help out old friend Luke Graham (Kermit Maynard), a newly elected marshal who has been unable to bring local outlaws to justice (their tracks disappear) and who thus is facing increasing pressure from the town’s citizens, led by newspaperman Dick Ross (John Elliott), who begins to push for …
Read the full post →“<em>Rock River Renegades</em> (Monogram, 1942)”
Gold shipments are being hijacked, and it’s up to federal marshals Sandy Jackson (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack Mackenzie (Johnny Mack Brown) to get to the bottom of the crimes. To that end, Sandy comes to town dressed in somber clothing, hoping to be mistaken for an undertaker, though instead everyone leaps to the conclusion …
Read the full post →“<em>Six Gun Gospel</em> (Monogram, 1943)”
Railroad surveyors Whip and Dave (Whip Wilson and Rand Brooks) tangle with a large local landowner and his daughter, who is boss of the local town and will happily take steps, up to and including murder, to keep the railroad away from the captive market. Noel Neill is sympathetic as the younger daughter, who opposes …
Read the full post →“<em>Montana Incident</em> (Monogram, 1952)”
There’s a bit of a different setup for the Range Busters in this outing, their twelfth, with Dusty masquerading as rodeo champion Crash and Crash pretending to be an Eastern dude to woo a rancher’s daughter. Alibi gets some attention, too, as he used to work for the rancher, who is being maneuvered into a …
Read the full post →“<em>Thunder River Feud</em> (Monogram, 1942)”
Tensions run high when a troupe of performers takes a vacation at a Malibu beachfront house, and then a strangler strikes. As a girl who knows Jimmy tries to get his help, Charlie Chan ends up investigating, with the help of both Jimmy and Birmingham Brown, and with the aid of a state policeman (Kirk …
A rodeo rider and his gambler buddy are framed for theft and the murder of a rodeo official. They make their escape and follow the real killers to another town, but what will they do when they both fall for the sister of one of the crooks and then are framed — again! — for …
Read the full post →“<em>The Desert Trail</em> (Monogram, 1935)”
After Johnny Sheffield was dropped from the Tarzan movies, he was signed by Monogram Pictures for a series of films bringing the children’s book character Bomba, the Jungle Boy, to the screen (at the same time, Johnny Weissmuller moved to Columbia to play Jungle Jim). Bomba and the Jungle Girl finds the young jungle dweller …
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