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Set in 1967 tn Venice. Calif., the lilm follows the waif of the title as she drifis from bad to ,orse.

Two variations may be noted by Western students in 'The Caravan Trail'... First, the singing hero, Eddie Dean, is billed as one who refuses to pack a gun because he once killed a man and it hurt his feelings. This is embarrassing because he is made Town Marshal by the villains when the old Marshal gets shot in the back. He gets around it by being handy with his dukes, and by boldly inaugurating a new custom in the cactus belt. He swears in three bandit gunmen who happen to be old friends of...

A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the unfortunate man is forced by his evil employer to create an army of the creatures in order to conquer the world.

The characters keep intersecting, separating and recombining until the inevitable, of course, occurs. The denouement is downbeat - this is, after all, Jim Thompson's terrain - but the assurance and integrity of the filmmaking are uplifting."

For its purpose, 'Pioneer Justice' serves well. It's a fast-moving, action-crammed film which, though lacking in finesse, will keep the kiddies on the edge of their seats. Scripting, thesping and production are strictly coin-savin' standard but there's no stinting on the gunfighting, hoof-beating or knuckle-scraping. Yarn revolves around efforts of 'Lash' La Rue and his crusty sidekick, Al St. John, to track down the leader of a group of varmints trying to drive the law-abiding ranchers out of...

Musical hillbilly opus starring John Carradine, Martha O'Driscoll, and Eddie Dean is "out of the rut of the motheaten oatrunner formula and in the groove with an upbeat musical score, a zany laugh-getting script and a good cast... one of PRC's [Producers Releasing Corp.] best offerings to date. It's a hillbilly mule opera with a tongue-in-cheek treatment... A total of eight numbers, all highly listenable and several of sock quality.... Cast is topped by John Carradine who's taken off the leash...

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...