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- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsJohn CarrollMarie McDonaldEstelita Rodriguez7 tunes enliven a contrived plot: While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsStanley ClementsPeggy StewartFrankie DarroAt the turn of the twentieth century, horse-trainer Frankie Longworth loses the last of his money when his friend Knuckles is defeated in a boxing match held in a racetrack stable. Secretly watching is a young boy named Stevie, who befriends the men when they discover his hiding place. To Frankie's surprise, Stevie turns out to be the son of his former sweetheart Christine. Though sorry to learn that Christine is married, Frankie, who has raced a little and aspires to do more, admits his admiration for her husband, the successful jockey, Steve Loomis. As Christine and Frankie are becoming reacquainted, Christine's father, Walter Shannon, shows up. Although Shannon had contrived to separate them years ago and orders Frankie to stay away from his happily-wedded daughter, the affable Steve is unthreatened by Frankie's presence. After Frankie assists in the birthing of Steve's foal, which they name Pride of Maryland, and saves the life of the mare, he arranges with his backer, Col. Harding, to hire Frankie as a horse trainer. Steve is also interested in Frankie's idea of a new "crouch" riding style that would increase the horse's speed by cutting down wind resistance and taking the stress off the horse's spine. Against the wishes of his family and the colonel, Steve tries the technique, but because of a previous knee injury, falls from the horse and is killed. When hiring a jockey for the next race, the colonel passes Frankie by, because he has little actual racing experience. However, just before starting time, the new jockey is discovered missing, having been tied up by Knuckles, without Frankie's knowledge. Knuckles convinces the colonel to give Frankie the opportunity to race, but the colonel, still unwilling to experiment, orders Frankie to ride in the traditional style. During the race, Frankie disobeys and switches to his crouch style, and the horse speeds up and wins. Frankie and Knuckle's rejoicing is short-lived, for when the missing jockey turns up and exposes Knuckes, Frankie is fired. Almost immediately Frankie is approached by Sir Thomas Asbury, who is impressed with Frankie's ideas and would like to develop the new riding style in the United States before taking him to race in England. Winning races for Sir Thomas, Frankie becomes well-known in racing circles and would be wealthy, but he is sending his money to Shannon to help raise and train Pride of Maryland. When Shannon writes him for more money, Frankie tries to raise it by betting on himself, which is against the rules of the racing association. Frankie wins the race, but to avoid paying him, the bookmaker reports him, and Frankie is barred from further racing. Knuckles and Frankie pawn everything of value they own to return to the U.S., where they find Christine's family evicted by the colonel for nonpayment of rent and fees. Secretly, Frankie negotiates with the colonel to let Christine's family stay in exchange for his services as a horse trainer. The colonel, who regrets firing Frankie, agrees on one added condition: that if his license to race should be reinstated, he would ride the colonel's colors. Frankie agrees and the training begins, and soon, encouraged by Stevie, Frankie and Christine are discussing marriage. As a surprise to Frankie, Christine convinces the racing association to reinstate Frankie so that he can ride Pride of Maryland in its first race and win back the family's fortune. Frankie, however, turns down the opportunity in order to honor his contract with the colonel, who will not release him from the agreement. Presuming that Frankie will make more money riding for the colonel, Christine is angry that he has rejected her offer, until Shannon, who understands the professional dilemma Frankie faces, finally explains to her how the jockey has been supporting them for several years. To make the best of the situation, Shannon shrewdly bets on Frankie's horse instead of his own. Before the race, the colonel, who fears Frankie might try to throw the race, gently threatens a second, permanent disbarment from the association, if Frankie loses. Despite conflicting emotions, Frankie uses his crouch style and wins the race. The colonel proudly has his photograph taken in front of the winning horse, and Frankie and Christine kiss and make up.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsVera RalstonJohn CarrollWilliam ChingAfter serving a prison sentence in 1850, a New Orleans woman becomes a rich gambler, opens a casino on the Barbary Coast, gets romantically involved with Nevada mine owners and watches over the interests of her little sister.
- DirectorFred C. BrannonStarsAllan LaneBlack JackWalter BaldwinMarshal "Rocky" Lane (Allan Lane) comes to the aid of Sheriff Bill Walters (Ross Ford) who is having a hard time trying to save the local farmers and ranchers from raids and hi-jackings. With Banker Johnson (Hal Price) about to foreclose on all their ranches and farms, the sheriff arranges for them to get a $40,000 advance on their next grain shipment so that they can pay off their notes at the bank. But the town's supposedly honest and harmless harness maker, John Blake (Steve Darrell), who is the brains behind the gang, has the messenger, Jim Carter (Russ Whiteman killed and the money stolen.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsRoy RogersTriggerPenny EdwardsThis is an odd one for Roy. There are foreign spies, desert sites for rocket-launching and artificial satellites. The climax is a one-on-one fight on top of an oil derrick.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsPenny EdwardsJames MillicanJohn GallaudetAfter newlywed Claudia Rankin's husband is murdered, she sets out to avenge his killing by posing as a criminal and successfully infiltrating the gang of car thieves responsible for his death. However, this puts her own life in peril.
- DirectorFred C. BrannonStarsAllan LaneBlack JackChubby JohnsonState Ranger Rocky Lane becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a gang of horse rustlers and a young rancher who is blamed falsely for a killing. Lane helps uncover the real killers and unmasks the ringleader of the rustlers.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsRex AllenBuddy EbsenMary Ellen KayBlind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tell anyone. His seeing eye dog, Duke, brings Rex Allen and Gabriel Horne to Pete's lifeless body. They set out to find the killer and run into trouble near Silver City, Arizona, when they rescue Katie McIntosh from a gang that is chasing her buckboard. She asks Rex and Gabriel to stay and help her on her ranch. Following an attempt to drive off her cattle, Rex finds a clue to the strange secret behind Pete's murder - a tiny brass fitting which Rex discovers is part of a Navy diver's equipment. Tying this up with stories he has heard about "the ghost in armor" who rises from the lake on Katie's ranch at night, Rex comes to the conclusion that the lost lode is under the lake. Pete, who had been a Navy diver in the war, had recognized the sound of a pump as the crooks, led by Monk Monroe, dived to search for the mine entrance.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRod CameronLorna GrayForrest TuckerA cavalry unit defends settlers against rampaging Sioux Indians.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsEstelita RodriguezWarren DouglasMimi AgugliaEstelita is an entertainer in a Cuban cigar-factory and gets into trouble for mimicking her employer, but is fawned over after she inherits $20,000,000. On her way to Los Angelese to collect her inheritance, she decides to make herself unattractive to discourage suitors who want only her money. Tommy Pomeroy, son of the manager of her inherited oil company, proves to want only her (not knowing she is the heiress), and ignoring her other identity as an old, ugly hag. Posing as two different women gets her into all manner of complications, so she has to dispose of the old-woman's character. She is kidnapped by gangster, but Tommy rescues and wins her.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsRichard DenningAudrey LongJohn EldredgeWhen a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsRoy RogersTriggerPenny EdwardsRoy Rogers, a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker where young first-offenders can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. Andrew Willard, through whose range a new highway is being built, is being secretly robbed of his pure-bred cattle by his crooked foreman Devery who has marketed the cattle and replaced them with scrub stock.He then has the herd stampeded into a landslide set off by dynamite by Roy's young crew to make them appear responsible for the loss of the "valuable" cattle. Roy takes the blame and is ordered off of the property by Willard, over the protests of his niece June. Then Devery has two of his men, whom he has planted on the guest ranch ran by Splinters McGonigle, steal a diamond brooch belonging to Mrs. Edsel and the blame is placed on one of the work camp boys, Jim Corley. Roy has his work cut out for him to clear the boys of the pending charges, especially after Devery has Warden Parker killed and Roy's crew is also blamed for that.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsRex AllenMary Ellen KayBuddy EbsenHidden 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 gambling resort. Fronting for him is hotel owner Carson Masterson who is running for mayor against incumbent Larkin. Smitty is counting on Masterson winning the election and getting rid of Marshal Tim Gallery and his deputy, Happy Hooper. Newspaper editor Bill Stafford confronts Smitty about his past and the convict beats him to death. Masterson uses the killing as a campaign issue, and blasts away at Larkin's inability to catch the killer, while the crooks are also able to frame Happy as a tool of the gambling interests. Western artist Rex Allen, a WW II Air Force buddy of Tim and Happy arrives on an assignment from a national magazine and becomes involved in the troubles facing his pals and the Mayor.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRobert StackJoy PageGilbert RolandHoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsMichael ChapinEilene JanssenJames BellAt the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws. The gang is led by Sam's foreman, Jim Tulane, who because of unsettled conditions throughout the state, has been able to use the ranch as a base for his outlaw empire. The ranch comprises an entire county and Sam had given Tuland power-of-attorney to divide it up among the people who had come to settle there. Since the efforts of Sam's father, Sheriff Tom White, to maintain law-and-order have been unsuccessful, Sam orders a wagon-trail load of guns and ammunition to be delivered to the ranch with the intentions of arming the settlers and defeating Tuland. Before the war, Sam had also discovered on the ranch rich deposits of valuable bauxite.Tulanes knows nothing of the existence of the ore but he becomes suspicious and takes Sam prisoner in an attempt to make him talk. The sheriff, and Sam;s son, Red, and a writer named Ted Gately go to his rescue. Others engaged in helping Sam are Betty Dawson and her kid-sister Judy.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsRoy RogersTriggerEstelita RodriguezA 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 to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsAllan LaneBlack JackChubby JohnsonRocky, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even the outlaws who rob the stage, Rocky goes undercover as an outlaw. He goes to Cedarville after robbing the stage, with the help of the driver, and tries to find the big boss. What he does find is that the big boss has a permanent retirement plan as a payoff for the goods.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsPenny EdwardsGrant WithersNorman BuddAfter finding a lost key for a cashier's office in a large department store, a small-time criminal recruits four hoodlums to aid him in robbing the store's cash vault.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsBrian DonlevyForrest TuckerElla RainesStory of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsWarren DouglasLois HallJune VincentAn Eastern potentate, the Rajah of Bandor (Charles Lung), and his American bride (Sue Casey), are robbed of a fortune in jewels on the Riviera, by a quartet of thieves led by Otto Von Herzen (Stephen Bekassy). The gang flees to Hong Kong, followed by Charles Reeves (Robin Hughes), British insurance investigator, and his sister, Susan ('Lois Hall' )qv)). Bill Whitfield (Warren Douglas), a none-too-bright American entrepreneur, gets involved with Stella Strutzenbacher (June Vincent), a flashy and stylish member of Herr Von Herzen's gang. The gang, already riddled with dissension, are easy pickings for Whitfield, Charles and Susan to capture and recover the Rajah's jewels.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsMichael ChapinEilene JanssenJames BellThe Dakota Kid (Danny Morton as Dann Morton) is a young outlaw who joins a gang headed by Ace Crandall (Robert Shayne). Crandall's aim is to unseat Sheriff Tom White (James Bell) and then use his power to enrich himself at the community's expense. Dakota impersonates a long-lost nephew of the sheriff, and is made a marshal. Through his association with the sheriff's grandson, Red White (Michael Chapin) and his friend Judy (Eilene Janssen), plus falling in love with Mary Lewis (Margaret Field), the Kid gradually reforms.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsRex AllenKokoMary Ellen KayLacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
- DirectorFred C. BrannonStarsTristram CoffinMae ClarkeDon HaggertyYoung member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy saboteur known only as "Dr. Vulcan".
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsAllan LaneBlack JackChubby JohnsonOutlaws took $30,000 from the Adams Bank, but one of them double crossed everyone and hid the money in old Fort Dodge, Nevada. As old Fort Dodge is out of his jurisdiction, Rocky takes a vacation there and finds that everything is owned by old Skeeter, who knows nothing about the hidden money. But the Pike gang is also in town looking for the money and Rocky wants the money and the head bandit. When settlers come to town, he devises a plan to catch all the bad ones and get the money back for the Adams Bank.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsEstelita RodriguezBill WilliamsHugh HerbertAmbassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a $5 million loan for his hard-pressed country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter Estelita upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers--and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. The Washinton-resident spies of Lower Salamia's insurrectionist faction gleefully cable their leader that the loan attempt has failed, y Viva la Revolucion. Estelita, in her role as an amateur international financier, discovers that Fillmore is a great believer in astrology and, disguised as a gypsy fortuneteller, she dupes him into believing that the stars are propitious for his making the loan, but Mrs. Fillmore's wild jealousy when she discovers her woo-woo husband alone with the attractive young gypsy, causes Estelita to depart sans anti-revolution money. DeMarco tries to send his daughter back to Lower Salamia, but she takes off for Reno to see Tex Thompson, a handsome young Nevada cattleman she met and fell in love with in a Washington nightclub. The efforts of her chaperon, timid Aunt Maria, to restrain her are unsuccessful. To keep her father from discovering her whereabouts, Estelita signs the hotel register in Reno as Mrs. Filbert Fillmore. A local reporter, sensing a big-money divorce in the making, files a story which leads Filbert to believe that his wife has left him, and he flies to Reno...with Mrs. Fillmore close on his heels. But the Reno-resident Lower Salamia insurrection-spies have plans to kidnap Mrs. Fillmore.