Lee Shumway – MRQE

Let It Rain

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

Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl’s affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.

Behind the Lines

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

The daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.

Million Dollar Baby

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

A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that’s looking for “a new Shirley Temple”.

Buffalo Bill Rides Again

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

Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was apparently the first entry in a proposed series. Arlen played the title role, here assigned by the army to quell an Indian attack on the powerless settlers. The Indians are accusing Tom Russell (John Dexter) of murdering a member of the tribe, an act, as Buffalo Bill discovers, actually committed by a gang of outlaws hired by investment company owner J.B. Jordon (Frank O’Connor). Buffalo Bill Rides Again was soundly defeated by a low budget and slipshod direction by the veteran Bernard B. Ray. Popular B-Western villain Ted Adams disappeared mysteriously halfway through the film, only to be replaced by Edmund Cobb. Jennifer Holt, the daughter of Arlen contemporary Jack Holt and by far the busiest B-Western heroine of the 1940s, had little to do other than letting herself be kidnapped by evil Gil Patric.

Hollywood Cowboy

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

Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce Butler, he hires on at her ranch and quickly gets caught up in Butler’s conflict with Kramer. When the Butlers refuse to buy his service, he has their cattle stampeded.

Left-Handed Law

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

An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.

Branded a Coward

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

Safely from behind some shrubbery, Johnny Hume, a boy of 6 or 7, witnesses the slaughter of his mother, father and brother by the guns of a gang led by “the Cat”. Twenty years later finds Johnny grown to manhood, an expert bronc rider and target shooter – but paralyzed with fearful memories in an actual gunfight. This is brought home to him when some outlaws stick up the local saloon and Johnny ends up cowering behind the bar.

The Last Trail

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

The robberies on Jasper Carrol’s stages have been so frequent that the stage line plans to hold a stagecoach race with the winner getting the new contract. Tom foils Cal Barker’s attempt to kill him and gets a confession from him that Kurt Morley is behind the robberies. But first Tom must win the race for Carrol although Morley’s stages have him greatly outnumbered.

The Widow from Chicago

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

A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother’s death.

The Santa Fe Trail

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

A sheepman tries to hire Indians as herders. Though the Indians are blamed for farmers’ losses, the hero shows that a white crook is responsible.