"A thrilling drama of the Northwest photographed in gorgeous color."
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
Bob Steele
RCMP Matt O'Brien
Joan Woodbury
Katherine Owens
John Litel
Sergeant Means
Raymond Hatton
Morgan
Madge Bellamy
Mrs. Yeager
George Meeker
Whitey Yeager
Charles Middleton
Pierre
Poodles Hanneford
Poddles Hannedor
Gracie Hanneford
Jill Hanneford
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
They say that every Mountie gets his man, well this one does that without ever parting with his hat. It stays firmly attached to his head regardless of the fisticuffs he is regularly embroiled in. Things are about to change for "Matt" (Bob Steele) as he is detailed to escort the fussy and rather abrupt "Katherine" (Joan Woodbury) - whose automobile he has just fixed - up country and also to investigate some issues with the water supply. He is pretty certain that it's an illicit mine that's causing the creek to dry up, and that there is probably some dodgy smuggling going on across the border in these United States, but inexplicably his boss "Mears" (John Litel) wants him to leave well alone. Determined to get to the bottom of things, he goes a bit rogue - or as rogue as a man in a bright red tunic can go - and get to the bottom of things. To further complicate matters, his rather irritating charge has her handbag stolen by a rider and when she alerts him to the fact that it has a mere $20,000 in it - well, the plot really starts to thicken and become distinctly perilous for the pair. This wouldn't have been a bad little adventure feature were it not for the shocking production. It's cue and cut style of editing makes the continuity flow like lumpy gravy and there is way too much dialogue cluttering up what might have been a fun, if entirely predictable, dynamic between Steele and Woodbury coupled with a little added peril thanks to George Meeker's "Whitey". Steele could never be accused of entering into the spirit of things half-heartedly, and here gives this all he's got - especially as spends much of this film at the gallop and there is some lovely scenery from where they can do their detective work. This is perfectly watchable, wartime, drive-in fayre - but you'll never remember it.
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.