Archive for March 22, 2007

Movie Title: Range Renegades (1948)

Movie Plot Summary: After Marshal Jordan (Frank LaRue) is honored by Jimmy (Jimmy Wakely), Cannonball (Dub Taylor as Cannonball Taylor) and others for his forty years as a law officer, the Sawyer mine is blown up by Belle’s foreman, Kern (John James), following Sawyer’s refusal to sell out. Dan Jordan (Riley Hill), the Marshal’s son, interested in Belle (Jennifer Holt), secretly the head of the outlaws, is lured by her from scouting the road on which his father guards a ore shipment. Jimmy and Cannonball drive off the outlaws, headed by Kern and Burton (Dennis Moore), but the Marshal is fatally wounded. The town council appoints Jimmy the new Marshal, which disappoints Dan, but Belle persuades him to become Jimmy’s deputy, in order to get information from him about ore and payroll shipments. Dan quits as deputy and fights Jimmy when the latter suspects Belle of involvement in the robberies.

Movie Title: Legend of the Werewolf (1975)

Movie Plot Summary: A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral wolf boy, who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.

Movie Title: Deadly Game, The (1941)

Movie Plot Summary: A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington’s deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on…as the FBI hunts the nation’s invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn—provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.