Charles Starrett – MRQE

The Viking

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Originally called White Thunder, American producer Varick Frissell’s 1931 film was inspired by his love for the Canadian Arctic Circle. Set in a beautifully black-and-white filmed Newfoundland, it is the story of a rivalry between two seal hunters that plays out on the ice floes during a hunt. Unsatisfied with the first cut, Frissell arranged for the crew to accompany an actual Newfoundland seal hunt on The SS Viking, on which an explosion of dynamite (carried regularly at the time on Arctic ships to combat ice jams) killed many members of the crew, including Frissell. The film was renamed in honor of the dead.

Silence

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

Stampede

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.

Desirable

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Fast and Loose

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

The Kid from Broken Gun

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Charles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a postal inspector who has gone underground to catch the bad guys. His longtime sidekick, Smiley Burnette appears as an itinerant optometrist who is hardly in the plot line of the film. Jock Mahoney plays Jack Mahoney, an eastern educated dude who has come back home. The Durango Kid teaches Jack how to draw and fire a six-gun, and the two ultimately work together to bring the outlaws to justice.

Laramie Mountains

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by starting an Indian war. Dressed as Indians they are attacking the soldiers. Steve Holden is the Indian agent sent to prevent a war. After finding proof that white men posing as Indians were responsible, he is able to locate the gang’s hideout but quickly becomes a prisoner slated to be killed. – Written by Maurice VanAuken

Bonanza Town

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman’s boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.

Lightning Guns

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is played by Charles Starrett, who this time around is on the trail of a gang of cold-blooded killers. Rancher Dan Saunders (Edgar Dearing) is held responsible for the killings because of his opposition to a politically expedient dam project. Durango believes that Saunders is innocent, and he intends to prove it.

Streets of Ghost Town

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.