Biography: Dick Curtis |
American actor Dick Curtis may have started out as an extra, and it's true that he seldom rose above the ranks of western supporting actors, but he still managed to get himself a full-page photo spread as a "typical" villain in the 1957 coffee table... more
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Cast: George Cleveland
Length: 61min
Blazing Six Shooters is a by-the-numbers Charles Starrett western, with the same sets, supporting actors and plot devices already seen in so many earlier Starretts. The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches....
Cast: Joseph H. Lewis
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
Texas Stagecoach was one of a group of 1940 Charles Starrett westerns directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis. Outside of this, there's very little new herein. Starrett once more plays a frontier do-gooder who champions the cause of heroine Iris...
Length: 55min
Cowboy star Bill Elliot makes his first appearance in his familiar guise of "Wild Bill" in Columbia's Taming of the West. When a gang of cattle rustlers knocks off several sheriffs in quick succession, it's up to Wild Bill to get to the bottom of...
Length: 59min
The only new things in Riders of Black River are the character names; otherwise, it's a by-the-numbers Charles Starrett western, right down to the usual Starrett supporting cast: Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Bob Nolan, Edmund Cobb et. al. Former Texas...
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
In this western, a brave hero stops a range war from erupting between homesteaders who are encroaching upon ranchers' land. Much of the trouble is stirred up by greedy outlaws. The hero brings them all to justice, romances a pretty girl and even has...
Cast: Charles Starrett Kenneth MacDonald
Tags: Western
Length: 57min
Spoilers of the Range looks so much like the Charles Starrett westerns that preceded and followed it that only a close scrutiny would reveal the differences. Hero Jeff Strong (Starrett) comes to the rescue of a group of victimized ranchers. The...
Tags: Western
Length: 56min
Former outlaw Charles Starrett goes straight and becomes a sheriff. In this capacity, he tries to bring his old partners in crime to justice. They don't cotton to this, and thereby hang the conflict. Everything is solved in a climactic fistfight with...
Cast: Dick Curtis
Tags: Western
Length: 58min
No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp Charles Starrett western from the Columbia assembly line. The hero is a fellow named Houston (Starrett), who comes to the rescue when land-grabbing...
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 59min
This Charles Starrett western was directed by Sam Nelson and costarred Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Edward LeSaint, Edmund Cobb, Art Mix, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. Since the same could be said for practically every other Charles Starrett...
Cast: John W. Boyle
Length: 61min
Cattle Raiders is a standard-issue Charles Starrett western, right down to the usual supporting players (Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Edward LeSaint et. al.) Once again, Starrett (this time going by the name of Tom Reynolds) is forced to clear himself...
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