Biography: Roy Barcroft |

The son of an itinerant sharecropper, Roy Barcroft harbored dreams of becoming an army officer, and to that end lied about his age to enter the service during World War I. Discouraged from pursuing a military career by his wartime experiences,... more
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Cast: Dan Duryea Audie Murphy Roy Barcroft Bud Westmore   
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western 
Length: 80min
A sometimes astonishingly grim western, Six Black Horses ostensibly stars Audie Murphy, but is effortlessly stolen by Frank Jesse (Dan Duryea). Wrongly accused of horse theft, Ben Lane (Murphy) is rescued by ruthless but sentimental gunslinger Jesse....

Tags: Melodrama Drama Crime 
Length: 72min
In this crime drama, several people gather at an inn adjacent to a prison where a man is scheduled to be executed at midnight. Just as the clock is about to strike twelve, a man comes in and confesses the crime. He is arrested. The rest of the guests,...

Tags: Drama 
Length: 84min
The oft-filmed Gene Stratton Porter novel Freckles was given its last screen treatment to date by 20th Century-Fox in 1960. Filmed on location in Northern California, the story concerns the title character, a self-effacing young man, played by Martin...

Cast: Clayton Moore Marjorie Lord Dona Drake   
Tags: Western Action Musical Western 
Length: 54min
Singing cowboy Rex Allen joins the circus in Down Laredo Way. It all begins when Allen and his sidekick Slim Pickens come to the aid of little Taffy (Judy Nugent), whose acrobat father is killed in an accident. Or was it an accident? After all, the...

Cast: Lewis D. Collins   
Tags: Western 
Length: 69min
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business...

Cast: Phyllis Coates   
Tags: Western Traditional Western 
Length: 54min
Allan "Rocky" Lane's Republic western series was rapidly drawing to a close when Marshall of Cedar Rock was released in early 1953. Lane plays a U.S. marshal who seems to be derelict in his duty when he allows convicted outlaw Bill Anderson (Bill...

Cast: Slim Pickens Leonard Nimoy   
Tags: Western Action Musical Western 
Length: 60min
"Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen heads the cast of Republic's Old Overland Trail. Rex plays an operative for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, assigned to pacify a disgruntled Apache tribe. Villain John Anchor (Roy Barcroft), a railroad contractor, has been...

Tags: Western 
Length: 54min
In this Republic western, Allan "Rocky" Lane plays a Texas Ranger endeavoring to bring progress to the prairies. A natural gas system is slated to be installed in the Lone Star State. Local ranchers oppose this, believing it will have injurious effect...

Cast: Allan Lane Harry Keller   
Length: 53min
Allan "Rocky" Lane and his trusty stallion Black Jack star in Republic's Black Hills Ambush. Lane plays a U.S. marshal who answers a call for help from his old pal Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller). It seems that someone is staging ruinous raids on Nugget's...

Cast: Rex Allen William Witney Jeanne Cooper   
Tags: Western 
Length: 54min
Shadows of Tombstone is a fair-to-middling Rex Allen western. This time out, Rex and his sidekick Slim (Slim Pickens) try to prove that sheriff Webb (Emory Parnell) is a crook. Webb is in league with shady saloon-owner Mike (Roy Barcroft) and renegade...












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