Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Born: March 18, 1911
Died: February 16, 1967
in Summum, Illinois, USA
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Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments, some simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.

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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Title: Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
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Title: Western von gestern
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Title: Green Acres
Character: Charley Pratt
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Charley Pratt
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Saginaw Trail
Title: Saginaw Trail
Character: Smiley
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
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Pack Train
Title: Pack Train
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: July 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Gene Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by Ross McLain, intend to bushwhack Autry, grab the supplies, and sell them at high prices to a local mining camp.
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Goldtown Ghost Riders
Title: Goldtown Ghost Riders
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy.
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On Top of Old Smoky
Title: On Top of Old Smoky
Character: Smiley
Released: March 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable minerals. Autry and the Cass County Boys, mistaken for Texas Rangers, help out.
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Winning of the West
Title: Winning of the West
Character: Smiley
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang.
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The Kid from Broken Gun
Title: The Kid from Broken Gun
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: August 19, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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Junction City
Title: Junction City
Character: Smiley
Released: July 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Durango, aka Steve Rollins rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescue of pretty Kathleen Case, who is being victimized by greedy relatives.
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The Rough, Tough West
Title: The Rough, Tough West
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: June 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a former Texas Ranger who comes to a wide-open mining town to visit an old friend (Jack -- later Jock -- Mahoney). Alas, said friend has turned bad, and is busy arranging a major land grab when Steve arrives on the scene. With deep regret, our hero dons his Durango disguise to thwart his ex-friend's criminal activities.
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Laramie Mountains
Title: Laramie Mountains
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: April 19, 1952
Type: Movie
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
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The Hawk of Wild River
Title: The Hawk of Wild River
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: February 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Steve Martin is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by The Hawk and his outlaw gang. The Hawk attempts to murder Sheriff Jack Mahoney and is captured and jailed. Steve helps the Hawk break jail and thus makes contact with the bandit gang. He sends a bungling photographer, Smiley Burnette, to warn the sheriff that the gang plan to rob the express office.
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Smoky Canyon
Title: Smoky Canyon
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: January 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range war for his own profit. The Durango Kid helps clear Mahoney's name.
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Pecos River
Title: Pecos River
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: December 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover...
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The Kid from Amarillo
Title: The Kid from Amarillo
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: October 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader of the gang in his den.
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Cyclone Fury
Title: Cyclone Fury
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: August 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier Durango effort, Galloping Thunder (1946), footage that included sidekick Smiley Burnette warbling "Hear the Wind (Singing a Cowboy Song)" accompanied by Merle Travis and his Bronco Busters.
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Bonanza Town
Title: Bonanza Town
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Snake River Desperadoes
Title: Snake River Desperadoes
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the bloodshed,but the Durango Kid along with a couple of precocious youngsters put an end to Blue's terrorism.
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Whirlwind
Title: Whirlwind
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: April 16, 1951
Type: Movie
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis) estate from fraud.
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Fort Savage Raiders
Title: Fort Savage Raiders
Character: Smiley
Released: March 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named Steve (this time his last name is Drake) and as masked avenger Durango. The heavy of the piece is escaped military prisoner Craydon (John Dehner) who, with several other fugitives from justice, forms an army of terrorists.
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Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Title: Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: February 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The Durango Kid, mysterious righter of wrongs. The "wrongs" in this instance include the theft of $20,000 in gold, and the "kidnapping" of a blacksmith's forge! Jim Bannon, who only a few months earlier had played the heroic Red Ryder, provides the villainy in this fast-paced "Durango Kid" entry
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Prairie Roundup
Title: Prairie Roundup
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: January 15, 1951
Type: Movie
In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western series. Once again, Charles Starrett stars as Steve Carson, a lawman who is forced to assume the identity of masked do-gooder Durango. Framed for murder, Carson escapes to locate the real killer. It turns out that he was set up by cattle baron Buck Prescott (Frank Fenton), who eliminates competition by stealing livestock from other ranchers.
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Frontier Outpost
Title: Frontier Outpost
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: December 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipments bound for Fort Navajo.
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Lightning Guns
Title: Lightning Guns
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Title: Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Character: Smiley
Released: September 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett, aka "The Durango Kid", is back in Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. Starrett plays Steve Blake, a novice Indian agent, sent out to investigate a series of mysterious murders.
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Across the Badlands
Title: Across the Badlands
Character: Smiley
Released: September 14, 1950
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.
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Title: Dick Tracy
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: TV
Dick Tracy is an American TV series based on the detective comic strip Dick Tracy. The show aired on ABC from September 11, 1950 to April 7, 1951.
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Streets of Ghost Town
Title: Streets of Ghost Town
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.
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Texas Dynamo
Title: Texas Dynamo
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego" Steve Drake, but also takes on a third identity, that of a hired gun in the employ of the film's bad guys. As one critic noted, this may be the only western in which the hero is obliged to chase himself. Jock O'Mahoney -- later known as Jock Mahoney -- plays a secondary role, and also doubles for Starrett during the riskier stunt sequences.
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Outcasts of Black Mesa
Title: Outcasts of Black Mesa
Character: Smiley
Released: April 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid disguise, whereupon stunt-double Jock Mahoney swings into action. Outcasts of Black Mesa is distinguished by the presence of a relative newcomer to the film game, leading lady Martha Hyer.
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Trail of the Rustlers
Title: Trail of the Rustlers
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Renegades of the Sage
Title: Renegades of the Sage
Character: Smiley
Released: November 24, 1949
Type: Movie
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.
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Horsemen of the Sierras
Title: Horsemen of the Sierras
Character: Sheriff Smiley Burnette
Released: November 22, 1949
Type: Movie
When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. US Marshall Steve Saunders comes to the boy's rescue.
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Bandits of El Dorado
Title: Bandits of El Dorado
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: October 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the killing of Henley. Not only is he now in trouble as both the Rangers and the Mexican Rurales are after him, but Smiley knows him and may expose his masquerade to the bad guys.
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South of Death Valley
Title: South of Death Valley
Character: Self
Released: August 8, 1949
Type: Movie
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water poisoned killing cattle. When Ashton's men find Steve's hat, they kill Tom Tavish and frame Steve for the murder. Escaping jail the Durango Kid goes into action.
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The Blazing Trail
Title: The Blazing Trail
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: June 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk of the property to Kirk, the gambling son of Mike. This upsets Sam, the hard working son, but not gambler Full House who always beats Kirk at cards. But even the Sheriff is suspicious of the will, but he needs proof and the Durango Kid will find the proof.
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Laramie
Title: Laramie
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf when Chief Eagle is mysteriously shot. Steve Holden, an agent for the government peace commission, with the aid of a wandering shoemaker, Smiley, discover the troubles and the Chief's murder have been instigated by Cronin, the regimental scout, for personal gain for he and his gang of outlaws.
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Desert Vigilante
Title: Desert Vigilante
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the rustlers who are now going to have the Durango Kid to contend with.
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Challenge of the Range
Title: Challenge of the Range
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.
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Quick on the Trigger
Title: Quick on the Trigger
Character: Smiley
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve Warren (Starrett) is put on trial for the murder of heroine Nora Reed's (Helen Parrish) brother. Steve is innocent, of course, but he doesn't stand a chance against prosecuting attorney Garvey Yager (Lyle Talbot) -- especially since Yager is the real killer.
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El Dorado Pass
Title: El Dorado Pass
Character: Smiley
Released: October 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett returns as The Durango Kid in Columbia's El Dorado Pass. It all begins when Durango, in his everyday guise of Steve Clanton, is falsely accused of robbing a stagecoach. The genuine criminal is not only a thief but a coin collector, searching for a valuable specimen by staging holdups.
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Trail to Laredo
Title: Trail to Laredo
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: August 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today's Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical "Durango Kid" Western featured the Cass County Boys performing "Go West Young Lady" by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, in addition to series regular Smiley Burnette singing his own "It's My Turn" and "The Yodeler. This time, the Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) is chasing down a gang of outlaws shipping stolen gold in crates marked "ring bolts," ably assisted by Smiley, a treasury agent working undercover as a house painter. Virginia Maxey supplies female interest and little Tommy Ivo, in one of his six appearances in the Durango Kid series, also gets in the way of the action.
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Blazing Across the Pecos
Title: Blazing Across the Pecos
Character: Marshal Smiley Burnette
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.
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Whirlwind Raiders
Title: Whirlwind Raiders
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
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West of Sonora
Title: West of Sonora
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Western star Charles Starrett was amazing; he kept making the same film over and over, but always made it seem as if it was for the first time. In West of Sonora, Starrett once again plays a frontier good-guy named Steve (Steve Rollins, to be exact), who, when the need arises, disguises himself as The Durango Kid, masked righter of wrongs. This time, Steve/Durango champions the cause of 10-year-old Penelope Clinton (Anita Castle), who has spent her short life as the focus of a feud between her grandfathers, suspected outlaw Black Murphy (Steve Darrell) and Sheriff Jack Clinton (George Cheseboro).
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Phantom Valley
Title: Phantom Valley
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: February 19, 1948
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders that threaten to fuel a range war.
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Six-Gun Law
Title: Six-Gun Law
Character: Smiley
Released: January 9, 1948
Type: Movie
In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town. The trouble begins when a cowboy finds himself convinced by the evil town father that he has killed the sheriff. In exchange for his silence, the official forces the man to become the new sheriff and instructs him to turn a blind eye to the villain's evil doings.
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Last Days of Boot Hill
Title: Last Days of Boot Hill
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: November 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Treasury Department Steve Waring, and also, unknown to others, the Durango Kid, comes to Sunset Pass in search of $1000,000 in gold coins, stolen from the government by the late Forrest Brent. He is aided by Smiley Burnette, the local deputy sheriff. Later, Paula Thorpe, Brent's daughter from his first marriage, arrives with her lawyer sweetheart Frank Raeburn, with intentions of proving her father's estate belongs to her and not to Mrs. Brent, his wife of record when he died. The widow Brent has no intentions of giving up one single cent.
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Buckaroo from Powder River
Title: Buckaroo from Powder River
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: October 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Steve arrives looking for the person printing counterfeit bonds. He finds his man in Pop Ryland who has two sons and a stepson. The stepson doesn't want to be an outlaw like the other sons and helps Steve out by posing as the Durango Kid when needed and then leading him to the evidence he is looking for.
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Riders of the Lone Star
Title: Riders of the Lone Star
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: August 14, 1947
Type: Movie
An outlaw gang is trying to stop the reopening of a mine as they look for the money left there by the famous outlaw Dusty Morton. After a ten year absence, Morton has apparently reappeared and Steve arrives looking for him. He finds his son who also wonders if his father is still alive. With the gang soon after him, the Durango Kid goes into action and Steve tries to learn who the real Dusty Morgan is.
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The Stranger From Ponca City
Title: The Stranger From Ponca City
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: July 3, 1947
Type: Movie
A saddle-weary Steve Larkin, also the Duranko Kid, rides into Red Mound, a town filled with cattle rustlers. Cafe owner Smiley, befriends Steve and fills him in on the activities. Steve angers the rustler's leader, Flip Dugan when he purchases the old Atkins ranch which is supposedly haunted. Flip and his henchmen try to prevent the recording of the deed, but the Durango Kid and Deputy Marshal Tug Carter win the gun battle.
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Prairie Raiders
Title: Prairie Raiders
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: May 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Government Agent Steve leases land to Masters so he can bring in horses for the Army. Henley has obtained a forged lease for the same land and Steve is unable to prove it's a fake. While Steve checks with Washington, Henley plans to roundup and ship the horses. Masters also intends to roundup the horses and he has the Durango Kid on his side in the battle with Henley.
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Law of the Canyon
Title: Law of the Canyon
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.
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West of Dodge City
Title: West of Dodge City
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: March 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett once again dons the disguise of the "Durango Kid" to restore law and order in this entry in Columbia's Western series. This time, the Kid, aka Steve Ramsey, witnesses a stage robbery, during which local rancher John Avery is brutally murdered.
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The Lone Hand Texan
Title: The Lone Hand Texan
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: March 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Steve Driscoll arrives to help a friend who is trying to bring in an oil well. He finds that the well has been blown up and the workers have quit. He gets the workers back on the job and orders a new drill bit . When the drill bit is stolen he organizes the townspeople to invest in the well. But when the money is collected, a fake Durango Kid shows up to take it and flee
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South of the Chisholm Trail
Title: South of the Chisholm Trail
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
When the ranchers of Bearcat are plagued by rustlers, Big Jim Grady offers to buy their herds from them at low-ball prices. Steve Haley suggests to the ranchers that they band together and drive their herds to Abilene, Kansas and get full price. Steve's friend Smiley "joins" the rustlers to learn who their leader is. Grady henchman Doc Walker asks Steve to help break up the cattle drive, and he agrees in order to keep tabs on the rustlers. The gang makes several attempts to take the trail herd but Steve, in his guise as the Durango Kid, intervenes and saves the cattle.
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The Fighting Frontiersman
Title: The Fighting Frontiersman
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: December 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Cimarron has found a lost treasure and the outlaw gang knows about it. They have made him a prisoner and are trying to get the location from him. However, he has sent for his friend Steve Reynolds and the Durango Kid will soon be on the job.
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Terror Trail
Title: Terror Trail
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: November 21, 1946
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) returns to Ret Butte intending to sell his cattle ranch. Saloon owner, Duke Catlett (Lane Chandler) is the secret owner of a sheep flock which graze on the cattle lands--leaving them useless for cattle. A range war looms between the cattlemen and sheepherders.
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Landrush
Title: Landrush
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid rides again in Columbia's Landrush. As ever, the masked do-gooder, alias Steve Harmon, is played by Charles Starrett. Bringing up the rear in every sense of the word is Harmon's comical sidekick Smiley Burnette. In this outing, Harmon dons his Durango garb to rescue a group of homesteaders from scurrilous villains. Musical relief is provided by Ozie Waters and his Colorado Rangers.
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Heading West
Title: Heading West
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: August 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Dakota Indian Agent Steve Reynolds receives a copy of the Bonanza City Nuggett from Jim Mallory and reads a story blaming the Durango Kid for recent gold mine raids.
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The Desert Horseman
Title: The Desert Horseman
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: July 10, 1946
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid sets out to clear his name after being falsely accused of a payroll robbery.
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Two-Fisted Stranger
Title: Two-Fisted Stranger
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: May 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving to become the new Deputy, Steve Gordon takes over as Sheriff instead when he finds the Sheriff has been killed. He doesn't last long and is fired for incompetence. But he realizes Brady is pulling off a swindle. Having found the proper soil, Brady has salted it with cheap diamonds, gotten Smiley to accidently find them, and is now taking money from eager investors and planning to flee with it.
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Galloping Thunder
Title: Galloping Thunder
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: April 24, 1946
Type: Movie
The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in to find out who is responsible. Steve poses as a vicious gunslinger named Buck McCloud to work his way into the gang, and then becomes the Durango Kid to disrupt the activities he learns about. Jud Temple is the loyal fiancée of town banker Grat Hanlon who turns out to be the brain-trust behind the gang.
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Gunning for Vengeance
Title: Gunning for Vengeance
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: March 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Steve Landry arrives as the new Marshal of a town that is having trouble with outlaws. When an outlaw escapes over the State line out of his jurisdiction, the Durango Kid brings him in. The Durango Kid then continues to break up the outlaw raids. But Belle, the saloon owner who is in cahoots with the outlaws, notices the the boot prints of the Durango Kid match those of the new Marshal and a trap is sent to get Durango.
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Roaring Rangers
Title: Roaring Rangers
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: February 14, 1946
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Jeff Connor of Powder River cannot stop the crime wave, his young son, Larry, writes to the Durango Kid for aid. Taggart, the saloon owner, is the secret head of the outlaws, while Connor's brother Bill is in cahoots with him. Steve Randall, the Durango Kid, and his pal, Smiley Butterbean, arrive in time to stop a stagecoach holdup, and Steve is made a deputy sheriff. Taggart has one of his men, Slade, pose as the Durango Kid and while he is speaking to the townspeople, the rest of the outlaw gang pillages the town, and this somewhat damages the Durango Kid in the eyes of Larry and his sister Doris. Steve suggests that Sheriff Connor visit the government about a railroad project, and Taggart instructs Slade and the gang leader to kill Connor on his trip back.
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Firebrands of Arizona
Title: Firebrands of Arizona
Character: Frog / Beefsteak Discoe
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps them get away.
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Code of the Prairie
Title: Code of the Prairie
Character: Frog
Released: October 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper man arrives to town to civilize it. He brings along Frog, a photographer and Sunset Carson as muscle. The seedy element in the territory doesn't want law and order and they plot against them and try to stop Sunset Carson being sheriff.
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Bordertown Trail
Title: Bordertown Trail
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: August 11, 1944
Type: Movie
The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraband across the border. Sunset and Frog are Border Patrolmen and have an agent that tips them off by carrier pigeon. The Army arrives and the commander is Sunset's brother. When the agent is found out and murdered, his fake replacement then leads the soldiers astray.
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Call of the Rockies
Title: Call of the Rockies
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
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The Laramie Trail
Title: The Laramie Trail
Character: Frog
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
A cowbody acquires a ranch whose previous owner is believed to be dead.
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Beneath Western Skies
Title: Beneath Western Skies
Character: Sheriff Frog Millhouse
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
To combat the lawlessness in her town, school teacher Carrie Stokes writes to her former students in search of a lawman. Johnny Revere arrives and starts to clean up the town. But things go bad when he is hit on the head and loses his memory.
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Pride of the Plains
Title: Pride of the Plains
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: January 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Dan Hurley wants to sell wild horses and is trying to get the Wild Game Laws that protect them changed. To get his petition signed, his henchman paints his trained horse to look like the wild horse leader and has it kill a man. Johnny Revere finds traces of paint on a horse and tries to arrest Hurley and his men. But he is captured by the gang and is now slated to be the next victim of the trained horse.
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Raiders of Sunset Pass
Title: Raiders of Sunset Pass
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Dad Mathews, a rancher with a huge government contract order for beef, has trouble with the cattle rustlers, led by Henry Judson and Lefty Lewis, who are taking advantage of the situation to steal his herds. John Paul Revere, Special State Investigator, arrives, and upon meeting Mathews' daughter, Betty, gets the idea of recruiting the hard-riding daughters of the district into the WAPS, an organization which will be to the cattle country what the WACS and WAVES are to the Army and Navy. He trains them in military procedure and provides them with radio sending-and-receiving sets. Johnny's sidekick, Frog Millhouse, finds himself the possessor of a "walkie-talkie" which he considers just a "doo-dad" at first, but which is instrumental in the end, in helping Johnny and the WAPS trap the gang of rustlers in their hideout.
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Beyond the Last Frontier
Title: Beyond the Last Frontier
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: August 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Beyond the Last Frontier was the first entry in Republic's "John Paul Revere" western series. Journeyman actor Eddie Dew stars as Revere, a Texas Ranger who goes undercover to smash an outlaw gang. Meanwhile, the villains install an informer amongst the Rangers, meaning that Revere will have to take care of this guy before he can complete his assignment. While Eddie Dew was OK in the lead, his thunder was stolen by the young actor cast as "Trigger Dolan"-future superstar Robert Mitchum. The plot was a bit too complicated for a film of this nature, thus future John Paul Revere installments were a bit easier to follow.
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Frog
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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Bells of Capistrano
Title: Bells of Capistrano
Character: Frog
Released: September 15, 1942
Type: Movie
America's favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies, both angling to ride the talented crooner to riches. Featuring several memorable musical performances from Autry, including renditions of "Forgive Me" and "In Old Capistrano," this rousing Western co-stars Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey and Lucien Littlefield.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Stardust on the Sage
Title: Stardust on the Sage
Character: Frog
Released: May 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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Home in Wyomin'
Title: Home in Wyomin'
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
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Heart of the Rio Grande
Title: Heart of the Rio Grande
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Cowboy Serenade
Title: Cowboy Serenade
Character: Frog
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up losing the cattle in a crooked poker game, however, and Gene and his sidekick Frog set out to find the cheating gamblers. It soon becomes clear that the leader of the gamblers is none other than Asa Lock, the dastardly father of Gene's romantic interest Stephanie.
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Sierra Sue
Title: Sierra Sue
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: November 12, 1941
Type: Movie
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until the Larabee ranch is reached. When Larrabee refuses to allow the equipment on his land, Gene has it sprayed by airplane. Cattle must stay off recently sprayed land and when a Larrabee man shoots down the plane, the crash sends the cattle stampeding toward the newly sprayed land.
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Down Mexico Way
Title: Down Mexico Way
Character: Frog
Released: October 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
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Under Fiesta Stars
Title: Under Fiesta Stars
Character: Frog
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros. Unfortunately, the other half goes to Easterner Barbara Erwin (Carol Hughes), who is only interested in monetary remuneration. To convince Gene to buy her share, Barbara enters into an unholy alliance with unscrupulous attorneys Arnold (Ivan Miller) and Fry (Sam Flint), who, without their client's consent, hire a gang of thugs headed by Tommick (John Merton). When a ranchero (Elias Gamboa) is mortally wounded in the ensuing gun battle, Barbara sees the error of her way and switches sides.
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Sunset in Wyoming
Title: Sunset in Wyoming
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.
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The Singing Hill
Title: The Singing Hill
Character: Frog
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.
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Back in the Saddle
Title: Back in the Saddle
Character: Frog Milhouse
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
Title: Ridin' on a Rainbow
Character: Frog
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Title: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
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Carolina Moon
Title: Carolina Moon
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: July 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
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Gaucho Serenade
Title: Gaucho Serenade
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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Men with Steel Faces
Title: Men with Steel Faces
Character: Oscar (archive footage)
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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Rancho Grande
Title: Rancho Grande
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
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South of the Border
Title: South of the Border
Character: Frog
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Title: Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: November 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.
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In Old Monterey
Title: In Old Monterey
Character: Frog
Released: August 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
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Colorado Sunset
Title: Colorado Sunset
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: July 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Frog Milhouse
Released: June 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Character: Voice of Felix the Dummy
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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Blue Montana Skies
Title: Blue Montana Skies
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: March 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
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Home on the Prairie
Title: Home on the Prairie
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When shifty cattlemen Belknap (Walter Miller) and H.R. Shelby (Gordon Hart) are caught shipping infected animals to Mexico, they frame inspector Gene Autry. Now Autry and his sidekick, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), must catch the bad guys in the act and set things straight. June Storey co-stars as rancher Martha Wheeler. Autry sings "I'm Gonna Round Up My Blues," "Moonlight on the Ranch House" and "Big Bull Frog."
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Western Jamboree
Title: Western Jamboree
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
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Rhythm of the Saddle
Title: Rhythm of the Saddle
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: November 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.
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Prairie Moon
Title: Prairie Moon
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
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Billy The Kid Returns
Title: Billy The Kid Returns
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: August 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salting the mine with gold. But when a new vein is really discovered Gene has to stop the sales but is trapped in the mine by Scanlon's men.
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Gold Mine in the Sky
Title: Gold Mine in the Sky
Character: Frog
Released: July 4, 1938
Type: Movie
As executor of the owner's will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn't marry without his approval.
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Under Western Stars
Title: Under Western Stars
Character: Frog
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Title: Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Character: Smiley Burnette
Released: February 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
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The Old Barn Dance
Title: The Old Barn Dance
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: January 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Title: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Character: Frog - Accordian Player
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
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Boots and Saddles
Title: Boots and Saddles
Character: Frog
Released: October 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
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Meet the Boy Friend
Title: Meet the Boy Friend
Character: Band Leader
Released: July 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Title: Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Character: Colonel Millhouse
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
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Public Cowboy No. 1
Title: Public Cowboy No. 1
Character: Helen Morgan
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology such as, airplanes, radios and refrigerated trucks to steal the cows, butcher them in the field and ship them out before getting caught. This causes the town to bring in a modern NYC detective to catch the crooks, but will Autry and Frog be permanently out of a job?
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Title: Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Character: Frog Milhouse
Released: May 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
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Git Along Little Dogies
Title: Git Along Little Dogies
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town.
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Round-Up Time in Texas
Title: Round-Up Time in Texas
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys.
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Dick Tracy
Title: Dick Tracy
Character: Mike McGurk
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
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Larceny on the Air
Title: Larceny on the Air
Character: Jimmy
Released: January 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Hillbilly
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
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The Old Corral
Title: The Old Corral
Character: Deputy Frog
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.
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Ride, Ranger, Ride
Title: Ride, Ranger, Ride
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: November 30, 1936
Type: Movie
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Frog
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.
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Oh, Susanna
Title: Oh, Susanna
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: August 19, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Guns and Guitars
Title: Guns and Guitars
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: June 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
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The Border Patrolman
Title: The Border Patrolman
Character: Chuck Owens
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
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Sharad of Atlantis
Title: Sharad of Atlantis
Character: Briny Deep
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. Norton's rocket submarine searching the sea and little Billy Norton, the professor's son stows away, of course. When they find Atlantis they are caught in a war between peaceful Atlanteans, note their white capes, and war-monging Atlanteans, note their black capes. After many harrowing moments for Crash, Diana, Prof. Norton and Billy, they barely get away with their lives when they escape a tower of Atlantis raised to the surface for the sole purpose of dominating or destroying the Earth (Which one depends on the compliance of the upper world dwellers.)
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Hearts in Bondage
Title: Hearts in Bondage
Character: Rammer
Released: May 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.
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The Singing Cowboy
Title: The Singing Cowboy
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.
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Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Title: Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Character: Frog
Released: April 13, 1936
Type: Movie
His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what's at stake is a horse race and a bull fight.
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Doughnuts and Society
Title: Doughnuts and Society
Character: Mover #2
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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The Singing Vagabond
Title: The Singing Vagabond
Character: Frog
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
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The Sagebrush Troubadour
Title: The Sagebrush Troubadour
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is looking for Martin's old horse that can lead them to it. When under-cover Texas Ranger Autry arrives to investigate, he is accused of the murder and finds the Sheriff after him.
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Harmony Lane
Title: Harmony Lane
Character: Singer (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1935
Type: Movie
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Melody Trail
Title: Melody Trail
Character: Frog Millhouse
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Musician
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Title: Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Character: Smiley
Released: September 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.
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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Title: The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Character: Jensen
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.
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The Kids in the Shoe
Title: The Kids in the Shoe
Character: Singing little boy
Released: May 19, 1935
Type: Movie
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. They won't eat their porridge, won't brush their teeth or comb their hair. As soon as their mother's in bed, they launch a wild party, playing musical instruments and doing a swinging rendition of Smiley Burnette's classic "Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Round Here." They then have a massive pillow fight until the old woman wakes up.
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The Phantom Empire
Title: The Phantom Empire
Character: Oscar (as Lester 'Smiley' Burnett)
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
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Arizona Bad Man
Title: Arizona Bad Man
Character: Credits Singer
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
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Mystery Mountain
Title: Mystery Mountain
Character: Lake Teamster (ch's 6-7) (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
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In Old Santa Fe
Title: In Old Santa Fe
Character: Accordionist-Singer (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.