Charles Starrett
Birthday: 1903-03-28
Place of Birth: Athol, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid western series. When he retired he held the record for starring in the longest-running string of feature films (131 titles, half of them being "Durango Kid" films, for Columbia Pictures). A graduate of Worcester Academy in 1922, Starrett went on to study at Dartmouth College. While on the Dartmouth football team he was hired to play a football extra in the film The Quarterback (1926). Bitten by the acting bug, Starrett played minor roles in films and leading roles in stage plays. In 1928, he was a member of the Walker Company, a repertory theatre troupe headed by Stuart Walker. He played the romantic lead in Fast and Loose (1930), which also featured Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Frank Morgan. He also starred in the Canadian production The Viking (1931), filmed on location in Newfoundland, which had begun as a Paramount Pictures project. After that he was very active for the next two years but his roles were unremarkable. He was featured in Our Betters (1933), Murder on the Campus (1933). and in his most charming role as a young doctor named Orion in "Along Came Love", with the vivacious co-star Irene Hervey. Offscreen, he helped organize the Screen Actors Guild.
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, be...
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Green Eyes
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However,...
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The Viking
Originally called White Thunder, American producer Varick Frissell's 1931 film was inspired by his l...
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Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e...
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Streets of Ghost Town
The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history....
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The Return of the Durango Kid
A masked outlaw steals from bank robbers to help the poor....
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Undercover Men
For showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is...
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nons...
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The Return of Casey Jones
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is kil...
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Jungle Bride
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she ...
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Murder on the Campus
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the colle...
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Our Betters
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for ...
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What Price Crime
Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercov...
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A Shot in the Dark
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college....
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Make a Million
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to p...
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Gallant Defender
Munro and his gang control the valley and are driving away all nesters. Johnny arrives, and taking a...
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Stampede
A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thoug...
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Along Came Love
The shop girl Emmy Grant meets the handsome doorman John Patrick O'Ryan outside of a theater and she...
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Lady and Gent
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take ove...
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This Man Is Mine
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive...
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features....
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One in a Million
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a r...
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The Silver Streak
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport...
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Mr. Skitch
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and ...
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So Red the Rose
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to re...
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Fast and Loose
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son...
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The Age for Love
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and...
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Stolen Sweets
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-lov...
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Sons of Steel
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curt...
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Challenge of the Range
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Cha...
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One New York Night
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room ...
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Riding West
Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to ...
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Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the ...
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of...
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Overland to Deadwood
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been rob...
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The Hawk of Wild River
Steve Martin is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by ...
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Frontier Outpost
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an ou...
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Frontier Fury
In this western, a decent Indian agent loses his job and his good name after someone steals the gove...
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Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, o...
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Heading West
Dakota Indian Agent Steve Reynolds receives a copy of the Bonanza City Nuggett from Jim Mallory and ...
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Gunning for Vengeance
Steve Landry arrives as the new Marshal of a town that is having trouble with outlaws. When an outla...
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The Rough, Tough West
Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, ...
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Pecos River
Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover......
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Dodge City Trail
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia fo...
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Outlaws of the Prairie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Coll...
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The Man from Sundown
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leade...
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The Mysterious Avenger
Texas Ranger Ranny Maitland's father is feuding with his neighbor Lockhart. Pretending to be on Lock...
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The Old Wyoming Trail
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including ...
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Saddle Leather Law
A posse, hunting the assailant of Denton's Partner, captures Steve Carlisle (Charles Starrett), who ...
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Sundown Valley
In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant....
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Trail to Laredo
Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today's Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical "Durango Kid" We...
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Silence
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beg...
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The Cowboy Star
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowb...
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Thundering Frontier
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thund...
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Texas Stampede
Sheep raisers, resentful of old injuries from the cattlemen, bar the way to water when dry ranges fo...
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West of Abilene
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easter...
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Outpost of the Mounties
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupu...
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Down Rio Grande Way
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-1...
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Bullets for Rustlers
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult t...
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Texas Stagecoach
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the...
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Law of the Northwest
Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns...
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Pardon My Gun
In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through ...
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Prairie Roundup
In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "...
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Rough Ridin' Justice
Steve Holden and his men successfully raid a wagon train. Among the local ranchers who decide to sto...
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Both Barrels Blazing
The outlaw gangs are robbing the railroads and the Rangers cannot follow them when they move to New ...
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Robin Hood of the Range
Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", i...
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West of the Santa Fe
US marshal Lawlor (Starrett) takes on a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Taylor (Dick Curtis). His ...
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West of Sonora
Western star Charles Starrett was amazing; he kept making the same film over and over, but always ma...
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Riders of the Badlands
Officially a Charles Starrett western, Riders of the Badlands divides its running time fairly evenly...
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The Stranger from Texas
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The v...
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Spoilers of the Range
Hero Jeff Strong (Starrett) comes to the rescue of a group of victimized ranchers. The villains are ...
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Smoky Canyon
Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dish...
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Two-Fisted Rangers
Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns ...
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Western Caravans
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range wa...
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Whirlwind Raiders
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Stev...
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Quick on the Trigger
Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins whe...
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Thunder Over the Prairie
An evil land baron uses the local Indians as laborers and then finds legal methods to cheat them of ...
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Prairie Stranger
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. I...
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Riders of the Northland
In this western, three Texas Rangers decide to do their part to save the world and join the Army, bu...
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The Desert Horseman
The Durango Kid sets out to clear his name after being falsely accused of a payroll robbery....
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The Durango Kid
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starr...
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Phantom Valley
The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders ...
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Cowboy Canteen
Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacati...
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The Fighting Frontiersman
Cimarron has found a lost treasure and the outlaw gang knows about it. They have made him a prisoner...
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Two-Fisted Stranger
Arriving to become the new Deputy, Steve Gordon takes over as Sheriff instead when he finds the Sher...
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The Lone Hand Texan
Steve Driscoll arrives to help a friend who is trying to bring in an oil well. He finds that the wel...
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Landrush
The Durango Kid rides again in Columbia's Landrush. As ever, the masked do-gooder, alias Steve Harmo...
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South of the Chisholm Trail
When the ranchers of Bearcat are plagued by rustlers, Big Jim Grady offers to buy their herds from t...
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West of Dodge City
Charles Starrett once again dons the disguise of the "Durango Kid" to restore law and order in this ...
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Law of the Canyon
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (a...
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The Stranger From Ponca City
A saddle-weary Steve Larkin, also the Duranko Kid, rides into Red Mound, a town filled with cattle r...
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Prairie Raiders
Government Agent Steve leases land to Masters so he can bring in horses for the Army. Henley has obt...
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Last Days of Boot Hill
Treasury Department Steve Waring, and also, unknown to others, the Durango Kid, comes to Sunset Pass...
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Riders of the Lone Star
An outlaw gang is trying to stop the reopening of a mine as they look for the money left there by th...
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Buckaroo from Powder River
Steve arrives looking for the person printing counterfeit bonds. He finds his man in Pop Ryland who ...
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North of the Yukon
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed...
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The Medico of Painted Springs
Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier d...
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Desert Vigilante
Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement...
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West of Tombstone
In this western, a community revives the legend of Billy the Kid after robbers attack a stage coach....
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Laramie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meet...
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The Blazing Trail
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended h...
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South of Death Valley
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranch...
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Rio Grande
No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp C...
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Bandits of El Dorado
Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find th...
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Terror Trail
The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) returns to Ret Butte intending to sell his cattle ranch. Saloon o...
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Bonanza Town
Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town ...
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Trail of the Rustlers
Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in thi...
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Blazing the Western Trail
Stage line owner Brent has his men robbing Halliday stages and when his manager Waring learns of it,...
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Lawless Empire
In the lawless town of Dusty Gulch, the Durango Kid comes to the aid of Reverend Harding in his figh...
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Snake River Desperadoes
Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow...
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Texas Panhandle
Steve Holden, a secret service agent, is suspended when his boss becomes suspicious of his activitie...
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Galloping Thunder
The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's ...
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The Kid from Broken Gun
Charles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a posta...
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Roaring Rangers
When Sheriff Jeff Connor of Powder River cannot stop the crime wave, his young son, Larry, writes to...
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Laramie Mountains
Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by s...
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Cyclone Fury
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented ...
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The Fighting Buckaroo
In this western, a lonesome cowpoke trots into a town and helps clear his pardner's name. The troubl...
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Call It Luck
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-g...
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The Royal Family of Broadway
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues a...
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Blazing Six Shooters
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bende...
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Across the Badlands
Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By...
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The Kid from Amarillo
Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incogni...
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Junction City
Durango, aka Steve Rollins rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescu...
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Horsemen of the Sierras
When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin ...
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Six-Gun Law
In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns...
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Outlaws of the Rockies
Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starret...
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Rustlers of the Badlands
The Durango Kid fights to catch the rustlers who killed an Army officer....
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Outcasts of Black Mesa
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprit...
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Texas Dynamo
Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Sta...
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Renegades of the Sage
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be t...
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Fort Savage Raiders
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett on...
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El Dorado Pass
Charles Starrett returns as The Durango Kid in Columbia's El Dorado Pass. It all begins when Durango...
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Frontier Gunlaw
Jim Stewart comes to Mesa City and buys a ranch from publisher Matt Edwards, who is confined to a wh...
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Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Charles Starrett, aka "The Durango Kid", is back in Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. Starrett plays Steve ...
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Lightning Guns
The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is ...
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Cowboy in the Clouds
A rancher who becomes a pilot staunchly defends the newly formed Civil Air Patrol from the cattle ba...
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The Pinto Kid
Pinto Kid was one of Charles Starrett's last "formula" westerns before he permanently assumed the sc...
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Bad Men of the Hills
U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness....
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Outlaws of the Panhandle
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereaf...
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The Royal Mounted Patrol
Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbi...
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Hail to the Rangers
In this western, fake settlers make themselves at home on an ex-ranger's ranch and drive him away. A...
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Lawless Plainsmen
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find th...
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Cyclone Prairie Rangers
It's World War 2 and saboteurs are out to destroy the ranchers food crop. Steve Travis and sidekick ...
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Cowboy from Lonesome River
This western features a singing cowboy, a brave hero, and a bumbling sidekick who band together to d...
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Sagebrush Heroes
This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a rad...
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Sky Bride
Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager,...
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Three on a Honeymoon
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress ...
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Secret Patrol
RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when...
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Damaged Love
Determined to land Jim as her husband, footloose Nita contrives to get herself pregnant by him. This...
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Colorado Trail
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gra...
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Riders of Black River
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territ...
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The Quarterback
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Col...
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Touchdown!
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs....
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Cattle Raiders
Tom Reynolds returns to find he is wanted for murder, his gun having been found at the scene. Tom su...
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The Thundering West
Outlaws Dale and Tucson quit Wolf's gang. Just as the two are about to rob the stage, Wolf and his g...
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Law of the Plains
Rancher William Norton refuses to sell his cattle for half price, so saloon owner and gang leader Ji...
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Trapped
Ted Haley rides to his brother's ranch and finds him dying from a knife wound. The brother names Sol...
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