Biography: Sam Nelson |
The bulk of Sam Nelson's career was spent at Columbia Pictures as an assistant director. In this capacity, Nelson worked side by side with Frank Capra (Dirigible, 1931), Orson Welles (Lady from Shanghai, 1947), Robert Rossen (the Oscar-winning All the... more
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Cast: Tim Holt
Tags: Western
Length: 56min
A young buckaroo gallops off after the conniving crooks who framed his bank president daddy for embezzlement. Plenty of western action ensues until justice prevails and the ornery varmints are jailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino
Length: 56min
Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his partner Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards of a robbery-murder rap. The actual villains each carry a portion of a Five of Spades, so that...
Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)
Cast: Ray Teal Norman Willis
Length: 59min
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star...
Tags: Western Adventure Action
Length: 58min
An average Columbia B-Western, Prairie Schooners once again features William Elliott as a highly fictitious Wild Bill Hickock. When local farmers are ready to string up nasty banker Dalton Stull (Kenneth Harlan), who had taken advantage of a drought...
Cast: Kenneth MacDonald
Tags: Detective Film Action Mystery Western
Length: 57min
The major difference between Bullets for Rustlers and the previous entries in Charles Starrett's western series is that Lorna Gray, rather than Iris Meredith, plays the heroine. Otherwise, it's the mixture as before, with hero Starrett working side by...
Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)
Cast: Dick Curtis
Length: 58min
The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the title character who discovers that his uncle Mort (Lafe McKee) has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt...
The Stranger from Texas (1940)
Cast: Charles Starrett
Tags: Western
Length: 54min
Charles Starrett plays the title role in Stranger from Texas, but he's no stranger to the cliches inherent in the film's plotline. Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band...
Tags: Western
Length: 57min
One of the more original aspects of the Charles Starrett western Texas Stampede is that perennial Starrett-series villain Dick Curtis isn't in the film. Another is its lack of overt violence; even nominal heavy Wayne Cameron (Fred Kohler Jr.) isn't...
Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939)
Cast: Rochelle Hudson Robert Warwick Don Beddoe Fred Stone
Length: 65min
A rancher and the farmer who fences in precious grasslands battle it out in this drama. The fight begins as the rancher's horses continually breach the farmer's fence and destroy his wheat fields. The irate farmer then begins shooting the rancher's...
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...
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