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- DirectorGeorge Nicholls Jr.StarsRichard DixGail PatrickJoan FontaineThe story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsTom ConwayCarole GallagherBarbara HaleDetective Falcon and the police travel west to a ranch in Texas to try and solve the mystery of the murder by venom from a rattlesnake, in a New York City nightclub, of a Rich cattle baron.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeBert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in the Old West, trying to set up their dental practice in a deserted town whose inhabitants have been targeted by bad guys and marauding Indians.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterWalter LangStarsShirley TempleRandolph ScottMargaret LockwoodSusannah is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from the stake only by Susannah's intervention with the Indian chief.
- DirectorFord BeebeClifford SmithStarsJohnny Mack BrownGeorge ShelleyLynn GilbertKentucky Wade and his pals keep busy fighting their way across the plains and mountains to battle an Indian tribe led by Red Hatchet. They also contend with false reports of a strike, which starts a gold rush and hot hair-trigger action.
- DirectorBuck JonesStarsBuck JonesPhillip TrentEdward KeaneBuck heads Captain Murphy's band of scouts. They are after Morgan and his gang who are killing and burning out the ranchers. The Captain's son arrives to join the scouts and it's not long before Buck realizes he is a coward. But just as Buck persuades him to return east, the Captain sends them on a mission to wipe out Morgan and his men.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsRex LeaseLona AndreWilliam FarnumWhen some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade starts killing the survivors of the attack but fails to get the arrow. One of the men he kills is John Cardigan and Kit Cardigan, a Scout for Custer, now starts looking for the killer of his father.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsRochelle HudsonPaul KellyRobert KentA Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperPaulette GoddardHoward Da SilvaIntrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsBob SteeleSyd SaylorEd CassidyThe adopted son of an Indian agent investigates the murder of his adoptive father.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsTim McCoyJoyce BryantBen CorbettA government agent falsely accused of murdering a professor takes the identity of "The Puma", a Mexican vigilante leader, to hide his real identity and find the actual killers.
- DirectorLynn ShoresStarsTom KeeneJoan BarclayJames BushIt's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate sword at the scene.
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsCharles StarrettRussell HaydenLuana WaltersWhen Steve and Lucky bring a herd to market, Lucky gets into trouble and hides on an outgoing wagon train. Steve finds him and is about to bring him back when they are attacked and the leader killed. Steve takes over as the new leader but the wagon train is quickly in trouble when Indians attack.
- DirectorRobert Emmett TanseyStarsEddie DeanEmmett LynnJoan BartonWhen a local Indian tribe is accused of breaking a peace treaty, Indian Agent Eddie Dean gets to the bottom of things.
- DirectorTim WhelanStarsRandolph ScottAnn RichardsGeorge 'Gabby' HayesSheriff Mark Rowley and his brother John find themselves in an annexed area of Indian Territory which is home to notorious outlaws like Jesse James and Sam Bass.
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsAnn SavageAlan CurtisEdward BrophyAnn Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsPaul MuniGene TierneyLaird CregarHighly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsDorothy LamourRobert PrestonLynne OvermanHaving been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper Joe, a former bookie who has traded chasing dark horses for the pursuit of black pearls, meets Johnny Potter, a former Navy man who has lived in a drunken stupor since being kicked out of the service. The skipper tries to convince Johnny to sign on as his navigator, but Johnny refuses to return to the sea. However, after a bar room brawl with the savage Kehi, Johnny is knocked unconscious and is shanghaied by Skipper aboard his rusty old submarine. The men are chased from the harbor by Kehi, who is furious because Mekaike, one of the skipper's men, has stolen his black pearl earrings. After running out of oil because Mekaike has forgotten to refuel the tank, they reach the island inhabited by Dea, where Johnny collapses on the beach in a drunken stupor. The skipper leaves his friend on the beach, where Dea and Koko find him and take him to their tree house to recover. When the skipper returns to the beach, he thinks that Johnny has been washed out to sea. As the skipper and his men build a boat to leave the island, Dea begs Johnny to stay, but fearing that he is doomed to die an early death from alcohol, he refuses. Finding his way back to the beach, Johnny arrives just as Mekaike leads a mutiny against the skipper. After tying Johnny and the skipper to a tree, the men steal the submarine, only to drown when they dive with the hatch open. Stranded, Johnny and the skipper continue building their boat until Kehi tracks them down and sets fire to the island. As the flames consume the foliage, a typhoon roars in from the sea and floods the island, leaving a lifeboat behind in its wake. Dea, Johnny, the skipper and Koko then board the little craft and sail off to civilization.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsJames NewillPolly Ann YoungDave O'BrienTwo Mounties find the body of a man who has just been murdered. They follow the trail to a cabin, where they are attacked by the murderer's gang.
- DirectorGlenn TryonStarsHarry CareyTim HoltEvelyn BrentNotoriuos liar Bill Barker, having been banished westward by the law, talks the townspeople of Martinez into making him Mayor and Judge. Here he must deal with the outlaw the Tonto Kid and the troublesome McQuinn Brothers, and also look after his daughter Nita Mosby--who thinks that her father is dead.
- DirectorSam NelsonMack V. WrightStarsBill ElliottMonte BlueCarole WayneA short plot summary finds Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott), the U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, opposing the Phantom Raiders, a gang of renegades raiding the cattle drives over the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene. Hickok organizes the boys of the town into the "Flaming Arrows" to assist him. Finally, in the 15th chapter, "Trail's End", Hickok, the "Flaming Arrows" and army scout Kit Lawson (Kermit Maynard) combine to put an end to the Phantom Raiders.
- DirectorMack V. WrightStarsRobert LivingstonRay CorriganMax TerhuneA supernatural western! The Three Mesquiteers accompany an archeological expedition to a lost Indian city of gold called Lukachuke.
- DirectorWells RootStarsRobert LivingstonHeather AngelSig RumanThe Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsGene AutrySmiley BurnetteKay HughesGene Autry enters the Cavalry, where he attracts the Colonel's daughter. When a jealous Lieutenant conspires to send Gene into an ambush, Gene loses a man and his group is ousted from the army.
- DirectorCarl PiersonStarsGene AutryAnn RutherfordSmiley BurnetteTex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsIrene DunnePatric KnowlesRalph BellamyA psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsRita HayworthVictor MatureJohn SuttonAt the end of the 19th century, the young Indiana boy Paul Dresser left his hometown for a long adventure that would eventually place him at the pinnacle of American music as a songwriter.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsJoe E. BrownAdele MaraVictor JoryWellington Holmes, a timid and very shy horticulturist, heads for Big Bluff. When the stagecoach is held up by Buckskin Bill and his men, he coincidentally knocks out three of them earning himself the unwanted job, as Marshal of Big Bluff. After escaping Big Bluff, disguised as a woman, the stagecoach is again held up by Buckskin and he, Elena Montoya and her father are made prisoners. He escapes again and when Buckskin arrives in town he again coincidentally overpowers the criminals. Having been previously masked, Buckskin now claims to be Buckskin's enemy and the residents of Big Bluff believe him. They release him and offer him the reward for leading Wellington to Buckskin's hideout. So Wellington and Elena with the ransom money for her father, but no posse, head out to bring in Buckskin. The law is kept and all of the criminals are successfully captured, brought to the county's prison and are put behind bars.
- DirectorEdward FinneyStarsDavid SharpeLeRoy MasonChief ThundercloudThe Kid and his pals are horse thieves wanted by the law. As he takes a horse from Jan Walton she makes him promise to bring it back. This makes him go straight and when his pals steal Jan's horses he returns them. But Benson, the leader of the horse thieves, along with his gang is after them too and the Kid is greatly outnumbered.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsWilliam BoydRussell HaydenAndy ClydeHoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by the swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsAllan LaneKay AldridgeEddie Acuff
- DirectorAlan JamesStarsKen MaynardHoot GibsonJack La RueUS government agents Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson, aka "The Trail Blazers", make a deal with captured outlaw Duke Dillon to catch crooked Indian agent John Hampton, who has been using his authority to steal from the local tribe. Dillon double-crosses the inept and lethargic heroes, making it difficult for them to carry out their mission.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn WayneSusan HaywardDennis O'KeefeDuring WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
- DirectorRobert Emmett TanseyStarsHoot GibsonBob SteeleChief ThundercloudThe Trail Blazers go to the aid of ranchers who are being oppressed by a town boss and his henchmen.
- DirectorLew LandersB. Reeves EasonStarsMark RobertsAdele JergensRobert B. WilliamsBuck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation to prospect for gold and end up killing Aranho, the Navajos chief. Black Arrow, presumed Aranho's son, refuses to kill the Indian agent, Tom Whitney, in revenge, as demanded by Navajo law. Then, he is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides to join forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and the agent to go in search of the men who killed the chief.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGeorge RaftJoan BennettVivian BlaineThe owner of a San Francisco saloon yearns to rank among the upper crust of Nob Hill. When he begins romancing a wealthy socialite it looks like he may have his entry into high society. The pretty star of his saloon's show, however, wants to make sure he stays on the Barbary Coast.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetFred C. BrannonStarsRobert KentPeggy StewartLeRoy MasonA reservation's new doctor masquerades as the legendary Indian god, "the Phantom Rider", to catch gang looting the reservation, unaware the leader is a phony Indian Agent.
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsCharles StarrettPatricia BarryPaul CampbellThe Durango Kid and Marshal Smiley Burnette complicate a corrupt mayor and his henchman's efforts to take over a town.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsJoan DavisAndy DevineAdele JergensIn this Western comedy, the King Soap Company is doing poorly, and the banker says that to receive a bank loan, they must have orders, so daughter Mabel heads west as a traveling saleswoman. Just before a saloon gunfight, the loser secretly slips Mabel a paper that contains evidence that will hang three rustlers. The rustlers think she has it and are now out to get her.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsDick PowellEvelyn KeyesJ.M. KerriganWhile visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O'Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. They fall in love, marry, and go north to Mike's new posting. Together, they face and deal with many hardships, including crude living conditions, illness, and personal tragedy. Can their love survive?
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorHenry FondaCharles BickfordCharming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the canal for a banal one on a farm...
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsRex BellRuth MixBuzz BartonA convicted murderer and a safe cracker pull off a daring train escape while handcuffed together. They later show up at a ranch where they help a young woman being swindled by a large cattle company.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsRex BellRuth MixBuzz BartonDriving off an Indian attack, the soldiers capture one of the Indian rifles only to learn that it came from their own warehouse. With Lieutenant Bentley and Sergeant Luke having the only keys to the guns, Bentley finds himself under suspicion and starts to investigate.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsHarry CareyGertrude MessingerEdward NorrisThe son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret head. Sheriff Hartley suspects him, but has been unable to gather the needed evidence. Collins instructs his gang, including young Hartley, to hold up the stagecoach on its return trip from Missionary Flats and take the cargo of gold dust it is carrying. Sheriff Hartley is notified of the planned holdup by one of his deputies who has been spying on Collins, and organizes a posse. A deputy-sheriff is killed in the ensuing gunfight between the lawmen and the outlaws, but Deputy Joe Larkin, pursues and captures Clay Hartley Jr. The latter is quickly tried and convicted of the killing of the deputy, and sentenced to be hung. Sheriff Hartley has only a few hours to prove his son was not the killer. He enlists the aid of Collins' step-daughter, Joan, who is in love with Hartley's son.
- DirectorGeorge S. KaufmanStarsWilliam PowellElla RainesPeter Lind HayesA bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.