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Riders of the West (1942)

Directed by Howard Bretherton

Overview

Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck’s knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams

Length 58 minutes

Actors

Edward Peil Sr. | Tim McCoy | Dennis Moore | Sarah Padden | Bud Osborne | Jimmy Aubrey | Raymond Hatton | Robert Frazer | Harry Woods | Victor Adamson | Charles King | Kermit Maynard | Lee Phelps | Jack Kirk | Lynton Brent | George Morrell | Walter McGrail | Dick Dickinson | Milburn Morante | Herman Hack | Tom London | Roy Bucko | Buck Jones | Christine McIntyre | Jack Holmes | Silver