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Adequate western starring blackskin bullwhip wielding Lash La Rue as Cheyenne Davis, a western Robin Hood, and Al St. John as his comic sidekick. "Plot is a variation on the old 'water rights and railroad right-of-way' ingredients. George Chesebro is the heavy who seeks to rook the settlers. But La Rue and St. John hit upon raising some necessary cash for the ranchers by rounding up some six of the outlaws, all of whom have a stiff price on their heads. En route home with the coin, St. John...

"When the Texas Rangers are called in to solve the Indian murder of a trapper, they discover that the true killers are disguised white men looking for some concealed furs." Corel All Movie Guide 2

In Texas Terror, Wayne was the young sheriff who believes that he has killed his best friend by accident during a shootout with a band of bank robbers. Filled with remorse, he surrenders his badge to go and dedicate himself to the solitary life of the prospector. However, he comes across the dead man's sister (Lucille Brown) who has been in a stagecoach hold-up and rounds up the robbers. He then starts to help the girl run her ranch until she learns about his past and it takes Wayne's...

With the last of the set, Paradise Canyon, Wayne was back to undercover work for the Federal government, playing John Wyatt who is assigned to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters working along the Mexican border. Doctor Carter (Earle Hodgins) is a prime suspect, so Wayne joins his traveling medicine show, and, along with developing an interest in Carter's daughter (Marion Burns), shows that Carter has been an innocent tool of the real villains, led by the notorious Curly Joe (Yakima Canutt)....

Crabbe learns that his side kick Al St. John has arranged a mail-order fiance through a matrimonial agency, and that a powerful neighboring rancher is trying to pressure St. John into selling valuable water rights. The villain, licked by the boys, vows to get even, and convinces the sheriff that St. John is a rustler. The villain and the sheriff go after St. John; St. John is framed for the sheriff's murder; the fiance shows up and offers to marry St. John immediately, planning to sell the...

Singing western with Eddie Dean. "Songs are pleasant, shooting ample and riding graphic. Lazy, slow story and corny humor won't hurt much.... Story has Eddie Dean as a U. S. sheriff unmasking a gang of crooks trying to steal gold and precious jewels from a Mexican rancher somewhere north of the border. Lame story, trite dialog don't excite, but accent is rather on romance and music. Dean warbles three cowboy ballads very pleasantly in a light, appealing lyric tenor, assisted by the Sunshine...

Average singing western, starring Eddie Dean. "For this opus Dean is cast as a representative of the U. S. marshal. He hides his identity through most of the footage but flashes the badge of office in time to win the confidence of Phyliss Planchard, who's on the verge of losing her newly-purchased ranch to the scheming Bob Duncan. Dean contribs a standard performance doling out the fisticuffs where necessary. He also warbles several tunes of which the interminable 'When Shorty Plays The...

The [second film in the series] Sagebrush Trail, presents Wayne as the cowboy wrongly imprisoned on a murder charge who escapes from jail and joins up with some desperadoes, hoping to run across the real killer. He befriends a member of the gang, Bob Jones (Lane Chandler), not knowing that Jones is the man he is seeking. Jones, however, suspects him and, being jealous of his interest in a girl (Nancy Shubert), decides to expose Wayne's John Brant to the gang. However, the girl shows him how...

Routine Buster Crabbe western. "Story concerns the travails of a traveling medicine show which is set upon by a group of bad men who learn of the proprietor's possession of a treasure map. Fortunately Buster Crabbe and Al (Fuzzy) St. John hook up with the outfit to ultimately outwit the baddies. Bright spot in the cast is [St. John's] comedies. He brings in some good bits of business to perk up the picture when the routine script bogs the proceedings down too heavily." (Variety, July 24, 1946)

Average singing western starring Eddie Dean. "Yarn is woven around a 'war' between homesteaders and ranchers.... Dean has been assigned by the U. S. Land Office to bring about better relations between the two factions. With the usual intrigue sequences out of the way, the differences of both groups are worked out satisfactorily." (Variety, February 18, 1948)

In West of the Divide Wayne gains the confidence of the villain Gentry (Lloyd Whitlock) by assuming the identity of a wanted outlaw and joining his gang. After saving an elderly ranch owner (Lafe McKee) from the attentions of the badmen, he is able to confront Gentry as the murderer of his father. Repeating his grim memories of that childhood incident, he concludes ominously, '...but I lived, lived to even up the score!' And he does just that in an elaborate indoor fight, himself visibly...