⁣Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
the best John Wayne film made after "Stage Coach" during the early to mid-1940's. Republic was loaning him out to Paramount, MGM and RKO Radio and others during this time and prior to this had put him in some pretty lame productions. This film however is a horse of a diferent color. This is a broad comedy-western with no holds barred and not without some satirical touches of the Oil Rush Days as well. Wayne is light and fun and even sings. The entire cast is a perfect blend top to bottom. "Gabby" Hayes, re-united with Wayne from the Monogram days is in top form. Dale Evans gets special mention for her saucy, unexpected, turn. Everybody on the payroll at Republic and then some at the time is in the picture, and not necessarily cast to type. This was a major hit at the time and one of Wayne's best periods. Academy Award-nominated for Best Score and Best Sound. This film has been around the block a few times, but if you haven't seen it, it's a must-see. Highly recommended. Enjoy

⁣Rod Drew (John Wayne) has been sent to find a missing miner (Noah Beery Sr) and his daughter (Verna Hillie).
He is joined by old friend Wabi (Noah Beery Jr.) whom he has to rescue from card cheats that framed him for murder.
Later they find a skeleton and a map to a mine.

⁣Written by pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Studios Western may have been the forerunner of McDonald's later so popular The Three Mesqueteers. John Wayne, whose character is named, appropriately, Duke, and Wallace MacDonald (no relation to William Colt) play McCoy's loyal ranch hands, and although they remain in the background for part of the action, the germ of the triad hero is there.
Tim McCoy plays a rancher losing his property to a crooked money-lender turned cattle rustler (Wheeler Oakman). The villain is in league with a sheriff's deputy (Walter Brennan) and together they rob the Wells Fargo. There is a final shootout and the dying deputy confesses to both the Wells Fargo heist and to the fact that Tim's ranch was illegally obtained.
John Wayne, who didn't get along with Tim McCoy and had several rows with studio czar Harry Cohn, swore that he would never again work for Columbia, a promise he kept.

⁣New Point VS Bosun Bay 31th Sunday 2025

⁣NW Point VS ⁣Bosun Bay Sunday 31th 2025

⁣Spencer Tracy heads a hilariously zany cast that stars Hollywood's greatest comedians (Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas and Jonathan Winters) and features cameo appearances by every joker and jester in the business from Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis to The Three Stooges. Nominated for 6 Oscars, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is "an explosive motion picture experience" (Variety)! On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plans and their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the loot and the most side-splitting laughfest in history.

⁣This is the 4th in the western series from Lone Star/Paul Malvern Productions, and directed by westerns veteran Robert N. Bradbury (father of westerns star Bob Steele) starring John Wayne and George "Gabby" Hayes. The plot in this film as in others in this series is a bit more complicated than the usual B western plot. Here Wayne and Hayes hook up after many years, start a blacksmith shop and then strike gold. Now the crooked assay office - real estate office owner Lloyd Whitlock (Harris) and his assistant Yakima Canutt (Cole) want Hayes ranch and the gold. But they'll have to get rid of Wayne and Hayes to accomplish this. Then it turns out that Earl Dwire's (Sherriff Miller) son is a thief and murderer and Wayne gets blamed for these crimes. Exonerated, he is later blamed for Hayes's death. What a life. In between all this, Hayes' lovely granddaughter Barbara Sheldon, with a little girl's voice, shows up and becomes Wayne's love interest. IMDB says Sheldon appeared in 4 films between 1933-34. For action, there is a lot of riding back and forth, a few fistfights, and a gunfight or two. Plot devices used in other movies in this series: jumping into the river to escape; riding (as if snowboarding) down a wet sluice to head off a bad guy; Wayne trying to jump from horse to horse to knock down a bad guy, missing and rolling down a hill; getting a serious kiss at the end. New devices here include chase by car, escape by RR motorized car; using a disguise o fool the bad guys; having a photograph taken at the end. And, a couple of little plot twists.

⁣NW Point VS WB Central Sunday 17th 2025

⁣An episode of "The Lone Ranger" from 1949. Not the first, but one of the earliest US network shows produced on film. Originally aired 6 October 1949 (note: this is a syndication print).

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⁣Bosun Bay VS Birch Tree Hill Sunday 17th 2025

⁣WB Central VS MT Pleasant Sunday 14th 2025