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1. Soup to Nuts (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Frances McCoy, George Bickel
Votes: 561
2. The Mad Monster (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange
Votes: 1,943
3. Oklahoma Raiders (1944)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Oklahoma Raiders is yet one more Betty Burbridge re-working of an original Bennett Cohen story ("Come on Danger,1932", "The Renegade Ranger, 1938", "Come On Danger, 1942" and "Alias Billy ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Dennis Moore, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 81
4. Red River Valley (1936)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Boothe Howard
Votes: 252 | Gross: $0.23M
5. Riders of the Northwest Mounted (1943)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Votes: 69
6. Down Laredo Way (1953)
Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western
Rodeo star Rex Allen investigates the death of a colleague and in the process uncovers a ring of diamond smugglers.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Slim Pickens, Dona Drake
Votes: 45
7. Old Oklahoma Plains (1952)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Music, Western
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Slim Pickens, Elaine Edwards
Votes: 46
8. In Old Amarillo (1951)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards
Votes: 91
9. Rainbow Over the Range (1940)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Music, Western
A U.S. marshal is sent to investigate a gang that is stealing horses from the cavalry.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Dorothy Fay, Slim Andrews, Gene Alsace
Votes: 33
10. Romance of the Rio Grande (1940)
Passed | 72 min | Western
When an old rancher's (Cordoba) grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Cesar Romero, Patricia Morison, Lynne Roberts, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 78
11. The Fighting Buckaroo (1943)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Steve and sidekick Arkansas arrive to help out their old friend Dan McBride. Dan's former associate Thatcher is rustling cattle and Dan is accused of tipping them off as to the location of ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Charles Starrett, Kay Harris, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Tubb
Votes: 30
12. Back in the Saddle (1941)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Music, Western
After Gene discovers copper on his ranch, Bennett tries to get control of the fortune by framing him in a jail-break.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Edward Norris
Votes: 198
13. Pecos River (1951)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western
Utilizing his past as a former outlaw and his secret identity as the Durango Kid, postal inspector Steve Baldwin goes undercover to arrest the three highwayman who murdered lovable old driver Old Henry.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Charles Starrett, Jock Mahoney, Anne James, Steve Darrell
Votes: 91
14. Mule Train (1950)
Passed | 69 min | Western
Loosely based on Frankie Laine's popular record with the same title, Gene protects his friend's claim from badguy Sam Brady.
Director: John English | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Sheila Ryan, Robert Livingston
Votes: 126
15. Riding Through Nevada (1942)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Postal inspector Steve Lowrey is riding the stage to Carson City to investigate irregularities in the mail service and devise guidelines for the awarding of new postal contracts to carriers... See full synopsis »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Charles Starrett, Shirley Patterson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jimmie Davis
Votes: 22
16. Last Days of Boot Hill (1947)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western
Outlaw Lucky Thorpe has been caught and hung but his $100,000 stolen from the U. S. Government has not been found. Treasury Agent Steve arrives looking for the money and in flashback tells ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Virginia Hunter, Paul Campbell, Mary Newton
Votes: 39
17. Three Live Ghosts (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An investigator is asking Mrs. Gubbins about a William Foster, who was a friend of her stepson Jimmie; both are listed as killed in action during the Great War. It is Armistice Day, 1918, ... See full summary »
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Richard Arlen, Beryl Mercer, Claud Allister, Charles McNaughton
Votes: 181
18. Little Joe, the Wrangler (1942)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Music, Western
A mining executive is framed for murder and must convince the local sheriff of his innocence before bringing a gang of gold looters to justice.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 68
19. Cowboy Serenade (1942)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene goes after a gambling ring and learns it is headed by McKenzie's father.
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Cecil Cunningham
Votes: 87
20. Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Music, Western
Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tex Ritter, Forrest Taylor, White Flash, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 100
21. Six-Gun Law (1948)
54 min | Western
Decker uses a trick gun loaded with blanks to make Steve Norris think he killed the Sheriff. Then he makes him Sheriff and forces him to take orders. Things look bad for Steve so it's time for the Durango Kid to appear.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Nancy Saunders, Paul Campbell, Hugh Prosser
Votes: 44
22. Home on the Prairie (1939)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Border inspector Gene makes certain no diseased animals make it into the United States.
Director: Jack Townley | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George Cleveland
Votes: 121
23. Pursuit (1935)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Bush, the secretary of the head of a ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Scotty Beckett, Henry Travers
Votes: 176
24. Old Overland Trail (1953)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Indian agent Rex Allen must protect local citizens and a tribe of volatile Native Americans from unscrupulous railroad contractors--including his own brother.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Slim Pickens, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 87
25. Galloping Thunder (1946)
Approved | 54 min | Western
The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in to find out who is responsible. Steve ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Adele Roberts, Merle Travis, The Bronco Busters
Votes: 41
26. Beyond the Pecos (1945)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Oil is discovered on the ranch lands causing the dormant Remington-Randall feud to break out again. Lew Remington returns home to find himself embroiled in the struggle. The Randall faction... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 23
27. Pardon My Gun (1942)
Approved | 56 min | Western
When Hayes' gang kill Jim Carter, Dodie Cameron finds his money and hides it. Failing to find the money and seeing Dodie Cameron nearby, the gang chases her only to be run off by Steve ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Charles Starrett, Alma Carroll, Arthur Hunnicutt, Texas Jim Lewis
Votes: 23
28. Black Hills Express (1943)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Lon Walker is an outlaw with a price on his head, but the manager, Raymond Harper, of the Black Hills Division of Wells Fargo is sure Lon is the only man tough enough to stop the holdups ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Wally Vernon, Ariel Heath, George J. Lewis
Votes: 20
29. Texas Dynamo (1950)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Western
Stanton, backed by the citizen's peace patrol making him the only armed man in town but actually the head of a gang of crooks, has Julia Beck elected mayor as an honest front for his ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, Jock Mahoney
Votes: 21
30. Prairie Roundup (1951)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western
Steve Carson, a former Texas Ranger Captain, shoots a fleeing hold-up bandit and is framed on a murder charge. He escapes with the help of his pal Smiley and they hire out as cowhands on a ... See full summary »
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Charles Starrett, Mary Castle, Frank Fenton, The Sunshine Boys
Votes: 41
31. Colorado Sunset (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Gene and his buddies discover that the ranch they bought is really a dairy farm. And worse, it's subject to intimidation from a protection racket that prevents dairy products from safely reaching the market.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 121
32. Wildfire (1945)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway, John Miljan, Eddie Dean
Votes: 135
33. Border Saddlemates (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
Baxter is transporting counterfeit bills across the border in the bottom of fox cages. When veterinarian Allen places the fox ranch under quarantine tying up the bills, Baxter's plan to get at the money means trouble.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Mary Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens
Votes: 47
34. Home in Wyomin' (1942)
Passed | 67 min | Western
Singing radio cowboy Gene helps out a former employer now in trouble with his failing rodeo.
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Olin Howland
Votes: 104
35. The Vigilantes Ride (1943)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Utilizing a plot that Columbia had used twice before with Buck Jones and again with Charles Starrett, this version shifts the state of the Rangers from Texas to Arizona, where Ranger Rod ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Shirley Patterson, Bob Wills
Votes: 29
36. West of Dodge City (1947)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Henry Hardison covets Jon Avery' Flying A Ranch so he can control River Bend's water supply, but when he refuses to sell, Hardison fakes a stage holdup and kills him. When Avery's children resist too, the Durango Kid comes to their aid.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Nancy Saunders, Mustard, Gravy
Votes: 43
37. The Lone Prairie (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Lucky Dawson and his pal Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Leon McAuliffe, Millard Kelso, Joe Holley, Harley Huggins and Luke Wills) ride into the town of Rimrock, which is under the ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Votes: 34
38. Phantom Stallion (1954)
Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Slim Pickens, Carla Balenda
Votes: 33
39. Thunder in God's Country (1951)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
Hidden Valley has managed to retain its Old Western atmosphere, free of modern-day corruption, until escaped convict Smitty arrives with plans of taking over and opening the town up as a ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Buddy Ebsen, Ian MacDonald
Votes: 27
40. Down Dakota Way (1949)
Not Rated | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
A crooked businessman is trying to sell cattle infected with deadly hoof-and-mouth disease. He has the local veterinarian murdered to cover up his plans.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Pat Brady
Votes: 161
41. Fugitive from Sonora (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Two brothers, separated for many years, meet again. One is now a preacher and the other a notorious killer. At first Keeno refuses to acknowledge Dave as his brother, but when Roberts ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Wally Vernon, Lynn Merrick, Harry Cording
Votes: 16
42. Renegades of the Rio Grande (1945)
Passed | 57 min | Western
A cowboy who was trying to return the loot from a robbery finds hmself suspected of the crime.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 60
43. South of the Chisholm Trail (1947)
Passed | 58 min | Western
When the ranchers of Bearcat are plagued by rustlers, Big Jim Grady offers to buy their herds from them at low-ball prices. Steve Haley suggests to the ranchers that they band together and ... See full summary »
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Charles Starrett, Nancy Saunders, Hank Newman, The Georgia Crackers
Votes: 39
44. Iron Mountain Trail (1953)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Slim Pickens, Grant Withers
Votes: 49
45. Partners of the Sunset (1948)
Approved | 53 min | Western
Middle-aged Bill Thompson (Steve Darrell) returns to his ranch with his much younger bride, Janice (Christine Larson), and her supposed brother Lon (Leonard Penn). When Thompson's son Dan (... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Christine Larson, Steve Darrell
Votes: 36
46. Beneath Western Skies (1944)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Comedy, Music
To combat the lawlessness in her town, school teacher Carrie Stokes writes to her former students in search of a lawman. Johnny Revere arrives and starts to clean up the town. But things go... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Robert Livingston, Smiley Burnette, Effie Laird, Frank Jaquet
Votes: 34
47. The Cheyenne Kid (1933)
Passed | 54 min | Western
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Tom Keene, Mary Mason, Roscoe Ates, Otto Hoffman
Votes: 102
48. Six Gun Man (1946)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Cattle thieves attack every cattle drive that comes near Hagerstown. If they do not sell their cattle for 50 cents on the dollar, they are all stolen. U.S. Marshal Stormy has been sent to ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Bob Steele, Syd Saylor, Jimmie Martin, Jean Carlin
Votes: 20
49. Trail to Vengeance (1945)
Approved | 54 min | Western
A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight, Jane Adams, Tom Fadden
Votes: 18
50. Son of Roaring Dan (1940)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
One of Thorndyke's men has murdered a man and Eris is the only witness. Jim Reardon breaks up Thorndyke's first attempt to kidnap Eris but the second attempt is successful, Jim now not only... See full summary »
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Jean Brooks
Votes: 35