John 'Dusty' King

John 'Dusty' King

Born: July 11, 1909
Died: November 11, 1987
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Movies for John 'Dusty' King...

Squadron of Doom
Title: Squadron of Doom
Character: Ace Drummond
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
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Renegade Girl
Title: Renegade Girl
Character: Corporal Brown
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.
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Haunted Ranch
Title: Haunted Ranch
Character: Dusty King posing as Hank Travers
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Both the Range Buster and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden, Rance has his man imitating ghosts. The gold is in a steel cased organ but a certain combination of organ stops need to be pulled to obtain the gold.
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: 'Dusty' King
Released: January 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Wells Fargo hires three cowboys to clean up a lawless town.
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Trail Riders
Title: Trail Riders
Character: Dusty King
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank Hammond, son of Marshal Jim Hammond, is killed. The Marshal sends for the Range Busters, Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Alibi Terhune, to come and restore order to the town. Ed Cole, head of the local vigilantes, and secretly the head of the outlaws, promptly orders the trio out of town. They visit an old friend, Rancher Mike Rand and his daughter Mary. Mary's brother Jeff has unwittingly become a gang member, and carries out Cole's orders by taking a shot at Davy, but the latter makes him a prisoner during a subsequent fight in the town café. Jeff confesses to Cole's involvement, and the Range Busters, with the help of town banker Harrison, set a trap for Cole and his outlaw vigilantes.
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Texas to Bataan
Title: Texas to Bataan
Character: Dusty King
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
As war looms in the Pacific, even cowboys are called on to fight the enemy. Horses are desperately needed by U.S forces stationed in the Philippines, and the Range Busters - Crash Corrigan, Alibi Terhune, and their newest partner, Davy Sharpe - are hired to accompany a herd to the islands. But first they must battle Axis spies right in Texas, as they foil a plot to steal the very horses destined for shipment.
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Arizona Stage Coach
Title: Arizona Stage Coach
Character: Dusty King
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard, Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas, a supposed friend of the Willards.
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Texas Trouble Shooters
Title: Texas Trouble Shooters
Character: Dusty King
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Range Busters are together again to try and stop a swindle.
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Boot Hill Bandits
Title: Boot Hill Bandits
Character: 'Dusty' King
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bolton's men blow up the wagon carrying the mine payroll and Marshal Crash Corrigan is supposedly killed in the explosion. A man finds his badge and gives it to Bolton. Thinking Crash dead, Bolton gives the badge away and it ends up with the Sheriff. Crash is OK and the Range Busters know Bolton is the head of the gang but that he gets his orders from someone else and that is the man they want.
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Rock River Renegades
Title: Rock River Renegades
Character: Dusty King
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper editor is trying to get the local marshal replaced, because of his apparent failure to catch the gang, which seems to disappear into thin air after every robbery. The situation escalates when one of the stage drivers is mortally wounded; so the marshal sends for his friends, the Range Busters, to help him catch the criminals. Meanwhile, even the marshal's fiancee, the editor's daughter, turns against him in favor of an aggressive agitator for law and order - who secretly is leading the robber gang.
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Law of the Jungle
Title: Law of the Jungle
Character: Larry Mason
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent's activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives
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Thunder River Feud
Title: Thunder River Feud
Character: Dusty King
Released: January 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.
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Underground Rustlers
Title: Underground Rustlers
Character: Dusty King
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.
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Tonto Basin Outlaws
Title: Tonto Basin Outlaws
Character: 'Dusty' King
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
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Saddle Mountain Roundup
Title: Saddle Mountain Roundup
Character: Dusty King
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Someone wants to kill Magpie Harper. Crash and Dusty arrive too late, Magpie Harper is allready dead.
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Fugitive Valley
Title: Fugitive Valley
Character: Dusty King
Released: July 30, 1941
Type: Movie
The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.
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Wrangler's Roost
Title: Wrangler's Roost
Character: Dusty King
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.
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Tumbledown Ranch In Arizona
Title: Tumbledown Ranch In Arizona
Character: John King (prologue) & 'Dusty' King (flashback)
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo contestants Johnny King and Corrigan meet, their fathers having been members of the Range Busters. When Johnny is knocked unconscious, time reverts to their father's era and the Range Busters are soon involved in the scheme to get Railroad right-of-way across Mother Slocum's ranch. When she is tricked into signing a release, the Range Busters find their job more difficult as the Sheriff is in with the crooks.
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The Kid's Last Ride
Title: The Kid's Last Ride
Character: Dusty King
Released: February 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon. Harmon and his henchman Bart Gill are in reality wanted-outlaw brothers Jim and Ike Breedon seeking revenge against Jimmy and his school-teaching sister Sally as their father, a circuit judge in Nebraska, had sentenced their brother Bud to be hanged. Harmon involves Jimmy, because of his gambling debts, in a robbery of a rancher known to keep large amounts of money at his ranch. The Range Busters break up the robbery, Bart is killed, as is Rancher Fleming, and Jimmy is wounded but escapes. Harmon, setting a trap for Crash, tricks Sally and Jimmy to his hideout, and Crash follows them.
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The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Title: The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Character: Dusty King
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.
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West of Pinto Basin
Title: West of Pinto Basin
Character: Dusty King
Released: November 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The Range Busters head for Pinto Basin where a series of stage robberies have occurred. To try and find the gang's boss, Crash sends out a empty money box. The plan backfires when the boss has the Range Busters identified as the robbers. Thinking it is now safe, the bank sends out a big money shipment. Needing to rob the stage, the boss gets the boys out of jail so they can be blamed. But this is just the chance they need to catch the robbers.
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Trailing Double Trouble
Title: Trailing Double Trouble
Character: John 'Dusty' King
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after. He must have it to become it's guardian and take control of the Horner ranch. When the henchmen catch up with Alibi, they take the baby cradle not realizing Alibi has substituted his dummy Elmer. Crash having evidence Moreland is the one they want, now has a plan to expose him.
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The Range Busters
Title: The Range Busters
Character: 'Dusty' King
Released: August 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.
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Blame It on Love
Title: Blame It on Love
Character: Jeff Wadsworth
Released: June 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Larry Cameron
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Midnight Limited
Title: Midnight Limited
Character: Val Lennon
Released: March 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
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The Gentleman from Arizona
Title: The Gentleman from Arizona
Character: Pokey Sanders (as John King)
Released: December 25, 1939
Type: Movie
The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man loses every penny he has, wandering cowboy Pokey (King) comes to the rescue by grooming a wild stallion for a successful racetrack career. Everything comes to a head during the climactic Big Race, with the expected (but still satisyfing) results. Ruth Reece and Joan Barclay share the leading-lady responsibilities, while the villainy is in the capable hands of Monogram's ace utility actor Craig Reynolds.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Howard Stevens
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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The Hardys Ride High
Title: The Hardys Ride High
Character: Phil Westcott
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
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Inside Story
Title: Inside Story
Character: Paul Randall
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Aramis
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Title: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Character: Randolph
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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Sharpshooters
Title: Sharpshooters
Character: Prince Alexis (as John King)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
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Breaking the Ice
Title: Breaking the Ice
Character: Henry Johnson
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Sgt. Dan Prescott
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Title: The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Character: Dr. Phillip Saunders
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
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Merry Go Round of 1938
Title: Merry Go Round of 1938
Character: Tony Townsend (as John King)
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Ernst
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Bill Evans
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Ace Drummond
Title: Ace Drummond
Character: Ace Drummond
Released: October 18, 1936
Type: Movie
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Ralph (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: Johnny Allen
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Alvarado Jr.
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Singing Sailor
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Bruce Browning (as John King)
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Reporter
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Stolen Harmony
Title: Stolen Harmony
Character: Fagin in Skit (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.