Smiley Burnette
Birthday: 1911-03-18
Place of Birth: Summum, Illinois, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments, some simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Smiley Burnette, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in...
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Ride, Ranger, Ride
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising....
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Boots and Saddles
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real wester...
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Springtime in the Rockies
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country....
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Red River Valley
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site....
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Billy The Kid Returns
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him...
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The Big Show
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double...
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South of the Border
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution....
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Under Western Stars
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his d...
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The Old Corral
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a sing...
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Oh, Susanna
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry...
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King of the Cowboys
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russel...
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The Kids in the Shoe
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. They won't eat th...
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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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Git Along Little Dogies
When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns...
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Heart of the Rio Grande
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a million...
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Down Mexico Way
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", t...
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Heart of the Golden West
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ...
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to...
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The Old Barn Dance
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which c...
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Call of the Canyon
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast....
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Man from Music Mountain
Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is ...
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Guns and Guitars
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local ...
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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame On...
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Stardust on the Sage
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine....
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The Singing Cowboy
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television....
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Whirlwind
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis...
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Goldtown Ghost Riders
A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy....
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In Old Santa Fe
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the sa...
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Back in the Saddle
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine ...
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Sunset in Wyoming
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won...
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On Top of Old Smoky
Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable mi...
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Larceny on the Air
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent...
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Code of the Prairie
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper m...
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The Singing Vagabond
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie....
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Idaho
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for...
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Call of the Rockies
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before lo...
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Rancho Grande
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure....
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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought fr...
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Public Cowboy No. 1
Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology suc...
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The Border Patrolman
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire hi...
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The Laramie Trail
A cowbody acquires a ranch whose previous owner is believed to be dead....
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Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sh...
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The Sagebrush Troubadour
Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is ...
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A Man Betrayed
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tr...
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Comin' 'Round the Mountain
His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what's at stake is a horse race and a bull fight....
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Melody Trail
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting....
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accompli...
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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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In Old Monterey
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who l...
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero....
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Gold Mine in the Sky
As executor of the owner's will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn...
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Rhythm of the Saddle
Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contr...
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Western Jamboree
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch w...
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Meet the Boy Friend
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actres...
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Raiders of Sunset Pass
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of...
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Silver Spurs
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying...
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling....
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Home in Wyomin'
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Ha...
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Carolina Moon
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a...
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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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Beyond the Last Frontier
Beyond the Last Frontier was the first entry in Republic's "John Paul Revere" western series. Journe...
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Prairie Moon
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a c...
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Mountain Rhythm
Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be p...
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Doughnuts and Society
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-fa...
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The Singing Hill
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land....
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Pride of the Plains
Dan Hurley wants to sell wild horses and is trying to get the Wild Game Laws that protect them chang...
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Firebrands of Arizona
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps...
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival own...
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Pack Train
Gene Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by R...
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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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Mexicali Rose
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage...
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Bells of Capistrano
America's favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo si...
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Home on the Prairie
When shifty cattlemen Belknap (Walter Miller) and H.R. Shelby (Gordon Hart) are caught shipping infe...
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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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Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, o...
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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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Men with Steel Faces
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of...
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Sierra Sue
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he ...
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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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Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroye...
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Blue Montana Skies
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling op...
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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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Harmony Lane
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradati...
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do...
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Under Fiesta Stars
Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employ...
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Gaucho Serenade
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in...
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Bordertown Trail
The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraban...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Heading West
Dakota Indian Agent Steve Reynolds receives a copy of the Bonanza City Nuggett from Jim Mallory and ...
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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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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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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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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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Desert Vigilante
Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement...
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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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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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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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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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Prairie Roundup
In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "...
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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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Snake River Desperadoes
Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow...
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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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Trail of the Rustlers
Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in thi...
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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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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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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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Mystery Mountain
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railro...
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Saginaw Trail
Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory f...
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Hearts in Bondage
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to R...
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Sharad of Atlantis
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Nor...
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Waterfront Lady
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he be...
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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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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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Fort Savage Raiders
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett on...
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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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Lightning Guns
The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is ...
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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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Six-Gun Law
In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns...
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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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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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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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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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Cowboy Serenade
Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the...
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Beneath Western Skies
To combat the lawlessness in her town, school teacher Carrie Stokes writes to her former students in...
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Arizona Bad Man
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a l...
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Winning of the West
A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang....
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The Phantom Empire
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns ...
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Colorado Sunset
When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing ...
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Round-Up Time in Texas
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has a...
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a...
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Gay, Gay Hollywood
The short shows various clips from Hollywood feature films that, like the title of the film, are ful...
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