Smiley Burnette – MRQE

Back in the Saddle

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

Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone’s cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.

Goldtown Ghost Riders

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

A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy.

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.

Oh, Susanna!

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy’s identity.

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.

Trail of the Rustlers

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

Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in this entry in Columbia’s long-running Durango Kid Western series.

Blazing Across the Pecos

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

This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.