Carleton Young

Gun Code (1940)

Cast: Tim McCoy   

Tags: B-Western Western Adventure Action 

Length: 52min

Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield. This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide...

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Honor of the West (1939)

Cast: Marge Champion Jack Kirk George Waggner   

Tags: Western Crime Action Musical Western 

Length: 60min

In terms of action, Honor of the West ranks among the best of the Bob Baker westerns. In terms of its script, alas, it must rank as one of the worst. Screenwriter Joseph West (a pseudonym for director George Waggner) seems to have taken a perverse...

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Billy the Kid in Texas (1940)

Cast: Sam Newfield Al St. John Bob Steele   

Tags: Action Adventure Western 

Length: 52min

The second entry PRC's "Billy the Kid" series was 1940's Billy the Kid in Texas. The titular Kid is played by Bob Steele, who this time out becomes sheriff of a Texas town (despite the price on his own head). In this capacity, he is forced to do...

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Port of Hate (1939)

Cast: Monte Blue   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 57min

Metropolitan Pictures' Port of Hate was directed by one of the studio's two chief executives, Harry S. Webb (the other, Albert Ray, was presumably busy on the company's Bob Steele western series). The story takes place on a faraway island (probably...

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Cowboy from Sundown (1940)

Cast: Tex Ritter Roscoe Ates   

Tags: Musical Western Western 

Length: 57min

Hoof and mouth disease reared its ugly head in this unusual Tex Ritter singing Western from Monogram. Ritter played Tex Rocketts, the sheriff of Sundown who is forced to quarantine the valley's cattle to prevent the spread of the disease. The...

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Trigger Fingers (1939)

Tags: Western 

Length: 55min

Tim McCoy is back as hard-ridin' Lighting Bill Carson in Victory Pictures' Trigger Fingers. When rustlers invade a peaceful frontier community, troubleshooter Carson is summoned to throw the rascals out. Once more indulging his penchant for disguise,...

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Zorro's Fighting Legion [Serial] (1939)

Cast: Reed Hadley   

Tags: Swashbuckler Adventure 

Length: min

In 1824, Benito Juarez (Carlton Young), the president of the new Mexican Republic, worries that vitally important gold shipments from the San Mendolito Mines shall never reach Mexico City. The president's understandable fears are quelled, however, by...

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Smoky Trails (1939)

Cast: Murdock MacQuarrie   

Tags: Western 

Length: 57min

In all aspects a mediocre B-Western, Smoky Trails once again trotted out the old story of a young man pretending to join a gang of outlaws in order to find the villain that killed his father. Bob Steele had played the role many times before but...

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