Bob McElroy

Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.

Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.

Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians. After she short-changes smuggler Stacey, his men attempt to steal the hidden guns, and attack her foreman Nebraska, but he is saved by Jimmy and "Cannonball" on their way to file a homestead claim at Canyon City. Jimmy renews a long acquaintance with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. The sheriff is wounded by half-breed Danny when he finds a rifle hidden in the latter's wagon, but Jimmy captures the outlaw, a go-between for Kate and the Indians.Wounded and in bed, Sheriff Harris ask Jimmy not to tell Jessica that she is only adopted and that Nebraska is really her father, although he believes her to be dead.

La jeune melissa hendrix s'enfuit de l'école pour retourner à son ranch, près de Mésa city. Son tuteur, Bodie Clark, y a de plus en plus de mal à repousser les tentatives de Jim Hudson qui veut racheter le ranch pour s'approprier les droits sur l'eau qui alimentent la vallée. Melissa et Brodie trouvent de l'aide auprès de Johnny Mack, un ami de la famille, mais Hudson parvient à faire inculper Brodie de meurtre.

Deux honnêtes cowboys vagabonds, Jimmy et Lee, sont prit pour des voleurs de bétail et emprisonnés. Reconnaissant leur erreur, les éleveurs les font libérer et les enrôlent pour lutter contre les voleurs.

An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.

Après avoir sauvé son vieil ami Faro Jenkins et le jeune Dave Porter d'une bande de hors-la-loi, le ranger Johnny Hudson comprend que l'attaque fait partie d'un plan pour détruire la compagnie de transports de la soeur de Dave, Peggy. Personne ne se doute encore que le chef des hors-la-loi est le banquier Gordon Gregg qui vise à ruiner les Porter pour s'approprier leur ranch.

Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where he becomes embroiled in a blackmail scheme. The town's banker (Ted Adams), a pillar of respectability, once served a jail term. Outlaw leader Pierce Lyden threatens to reveal Adams' secret if the banker doesn't let him know in advance when the gold shipments are going through. Adams tearfully tells Brown the whole story, whereupon Johnny rides shotgun on the next shipment himself. Back Trail was one of the last films directed by workhorse Christy Cabanne, whose career stretched all the way back to the D.W. Griffith days.

Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop them. When Eddie and the boys catch three of Dawson's men destroying telegraph equipment, the Judge releases them and this leads to the showdown between the two sides.