With James Sheridan, Robert Emmett Tansey (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Law of the 45's (1935)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, ... See full summary »
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Molly O'Day, Al St. John, Ted Adams
Votes: 123
2. Paradise Canyon (1935)
Approved | 52 min | Action, Western
An undercover agent for the government is sent to round up a gang of counterfeiters operating near the Mexican border.
Director: Carl Pierson | Stars: John Wayne, Marion Burns, Reed Howes, Earle Hodgins
Votes: 971
3. The Oregon Trail (1936)
Approved | 59 min | Western
U.S. Army Captain John Delmont takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father. Later he leads a wagon train to California and goes after the bad guys involved in his father's disappearance.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Joseph W. Girard, Yakima Canutt
4. Westward Ho (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Western
As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jim Farley
Votes: 598 | Gross: $0.50M
5. Where Trails Divide (1937)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tom Keene, Warner Richmond, Eleanor Stewart, Lorraine Randall
Votes: 68
6. The Way of the West (1934)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit is Horton and when Horton kills Parker he frames Gordon. His identity revealed, the Sheriff lets Gordon escape to go after the real killer.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Hal Taliaferro, Bobby Nelson, Myrla Bratton, Fred Parker
Votes: 78
7. Hittin' the Trail (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Western
This was one of the earlier uses of Robert Tansey's favorite plot (only the 3rd time he had trotted it out of the stable, but he got six more films out of it in later years) in which a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Earl Dwire, White Flash, Jerry Bergh
Votes: 120
8. Starlight Over Texas (1938)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Carmen Laroux, Rosa Turich, Karl Hackett
Votes: 41
9. The Lawless Nineties (1936)
Approved | 55 min | Western
Federal agent John Tipton heads for Wyoming to supervise the vote on whether to join the Union. One group of locals is using dynamite to terrorize the populace and a local newspaper editor is killed.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 385
10. Where Trails End (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Western
U.S. Marshal Tom Kenyon (Tom Keene), with his sidekick pal Pierre La Faire (Frank Yaconelli) is sent to aid the valley ranchers who are being driven from their homes by a gang of terrorists... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Tom Keene, Frank Yaconelli, Joan Curtis, Don Stewart
Votes: 26
11. Rhythm of the Rio Grande (1940)
Passed | 53 min | Western
Tex Regan (Tex Ritter) arrives at the Crane ranch just as Blackie (Earl Douglas) and Pete (Chick Hannon) are preparing to burn it. He drives them off, but is accused by Ruth Crane (Suzan ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Suzan Dale, Warner Richmond
Votes: 27
12. The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (1937)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be arrested by the Sheriff who thinks he's one of the gang.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Iris Meredith, Horace Murphy
Votes: 169
13. Riding the Sunset Trail (1941)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Jay Lynch, the half-brother of rancher Jim Dawson, schemes with Dawson's crooked lawyer, Jasper Raines, to take over Dawson's ranch. Lynch has his henchmen, "Bronco" West and "Drifter" ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Tom Keene, Betty Miles, Frank Yaconelli, Sugar Dawn
Votes: 49
14. Where the Buffalo Roam (1938)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, John Merton, Dorothy Short, Horace Murphy
Votes: 70
15. Take Me Back to Oklahoma (1940)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Karl Hackett, White Flash, Bob Wills
Votes: 92
16. Idaho Kid (1936)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Rex Bell, Marion Shilling, David Sharpe, Earl Dwire
Votes: 71
17. Alias John Law (1935)
Passed | 59 min | Western
John Clark (Bob Steele) and his deaf pal, Bootch Collum (Buck Connors), are trailed by U. S. Marshal Lamar Bly (Jack Rockwell), who thinks they are part of The Kootney Kid's (Earl Dwire) ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Roberta Gale, Buck Connors, Earl Dwire
Votes: 106
18. Roamin' Wild (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's brother is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his brother's place. Learning that Clark is behind the all the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Tom Tyler, Carol Wyndham, Al Ferguson, George Chesebro
Votes: 70
19. Westbound Stage (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Western
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Tex Ritter, Nelson McDowell, Muriel Evans, Nolan Willis
Votes: 41
20. The Driftin' Kid (1941)
Passed | 57 min | Western
When a herd of wild horses consigned to Mexico is rustled in the USA, the Mexican government sends a special agent to investigate.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Tom Keene, Betty Miles, Frank Yaconelli, Glenn Strange
Votes: 37
21. Headin' for the Rio Grande (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Ike Travis runs a protection racket. When the herd owners refuse his services, his men rustle their cattle. But when Tex Saunders shows up and starts thwarting their attempts, Travis plans to get rid of him.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, White Flash, Eleanor Stewart
Votes: 55
22. Arizona Roundup (1942)
Approved | 56 min | Western
A cowboy and his sidekick are hired by a rancher to deliver wild horses to the government's remount station.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Tom Keene, Frank Yaconelli, Sugar Dawn, Jack Ingram
Votes: 48
23. Man from Texas (1939)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Hall is after Dennison's land. The Marshal sends Tex to help Dennison while Hall hires the Shooting Kid to finish off Dennison. But the Kid has been helped by Tex in the past and changes ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Charles B. Wood, White Flash, Ruth Rogers
Votes: 28
24. Utah Trail (1938)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Horace Murphy, 'Snub' Pollard
Votes: 62
25. Silver Stallion (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western
The Kid and his pals are horse thieves wanted by the law. As he takes a horse from Jan Walton she makes him promise to bring it back. This makes him go straight and when his pals steal ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Finney | Stars: David Sharpe, LeRoy Mason, Chief Thundercloud, Thornton Edwards
Votes: 41
26. Lure of the Wasteland (1939)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Drama, Western
Federal agent Smitty assists Butch Cooper, leader of a gang that robbed a train in which the loot was never recovered, in making an escape and accompanies him to the Utah badlands. Parker, ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Grant Withers, LeRoy Mason, Ruth Findlay, 'Snub' Pollard
Votes: 19
27. Danger Valley (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Western
When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake to file the claim. Dana is in the Recorder's office and overhears. He and his men kill Jake and forge new deeds. Now owning everything Dana ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Jack Randall, Lois Wilde, Hal Price, Charles King
Votes: 53
28. The Pioneers (1941)
Approved | 58 min | Western
A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Karl Hackett, Slim Andrews, Red Foley
Votes: 19
29. The Mexicali Kid (1938)
Approved | 51 min | Drama, Western
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Jack Randall, Rusty the Horse, Wesley Barry, Eleanor Stewart
Votes: 35
30. Courage of the North (1935)
Approved | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Sergeant Bruce Morton, in charge of the Three Rivers Post of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is informed by White Feather, an Indian fur-trapper, that most of the local fur trappers have been systematically robbed.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: John Preston, Dynamite the Horse, Captain King of Dogs, William Desmond
Votes: 30
31. Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step in to help Madge keep the freight line going. When they foil the gang's further attempts, Kalmus gets the Judge to jail the two.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Karl Hackett, White Flash, Louise Stanley
Votes: 179
32. God's Country and the Man (1937)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tom Keene, Betty Compson, Charlotte Henry, Charles King
Votes: 55
33. Western Mail (1942)
Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western
Working undercover, Allen and sidekick Mendoza are out to stop the mail train robberies. Rivers and his gang are the culprits and by joining up with them, they hope to get the evidence they need.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Tom Keene, Frank Yaconelli, LeRoy Mason, Jean Trent
Votes: 93
34. Lone Star Law Men (1941)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Outlaws are running wild in a border town. A marshal is sent in to clean it up.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Tom Keene, Frank Yaconelli, Betty Miles, Sugar Dawn
Votes: 32
35. Timber Terrors (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Drama, Western
Be forewarned that "Captain (King of Dogs) "and "Dynamite (The Wonder Horse) " are billed above all of the cast except John Preston (who?), which means RCMP Sergeant Bruce Morton (John ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: John Preston, Dynamite the Horse, Captain King of Dogs, Myrla Bratton
Votes: 27
36. The Cowboy from Sundown (1940)
Passed | 57 min | Western
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Pauline Haddon, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 50
37. Gunsmoke Trail (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Learning of Walters' inheritance, Larson kills him and assumes his identity. When Larson's men try to kill Walter's niece Lola, Jack Lane breaks it up. This leads to a showdown with Jack ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Jack Randall, Louise Stanley, Al St. John, Henry Roquemore
Votes: 47
38. Rollin' Home to Texas (1940)
Passed | 63 min | Western
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Cal Shrum, Slim Andrews
Votes: 39
39. West of Rainbow's End (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Tim arrives looking for the killer of his friend Lightning Ed. Johnson is behind the murder as he wants to buy the Carter ranch cheap so he can sell it to the railroad at a big profit. When... See full summary »
Director: Alan James | Stars: Tim McCoy, Kathleen Eliot, Walter McGrail, George Cooper
Votes: 32
40. Rainbow Over the Range (1940)
Passed | 60 min | Western
A U.S. marshal is sent to investigate a gang that is stealing horses from the cavalry.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Dorothy Fay, Slim Andrews, Gene Alsace
Votes: 30
41. Riders of the Dawn (1937)
Approved | 55 min | Western
Marshal Preston heads for lawless Green Valley. Danti sends his men to kill him but they get the wrong man. Preston pins his badge on the dead man and tells the killers he is the outlaw ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Jack Randall, Kathryn Keys, Warner Richmond, George Cooper
Votes: 27
42. Stars Over Arizona (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Western
When the Governor gets Dawson to go after Ace Carter and his gang, Dawson gets him to release four prisoners into his custody. Arriving in town, Carter frames Dawson for murder and his ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Jack Randall, Kathleen Eliot, Horace Murphy, Warner Richmond
43. The Lone Rider (1934)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Western
A cowboy takes on a gang of gold mine swindlers.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Hal Taliaferro, Myrla Bratton, Franklyn Farnum, James Sheridan
Votes: 6
44. Pals of the Prairie (1934)
Passed | 28 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Two cowboys get involved with a pretty ranch owner, her crooked fiancé and a robbery.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Jay Wilsey, Victoria Vinton, Charles K. French, Ben Corbett
45. Pinto Rustlers (1936)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Tom Evans is a young cowboy orphaned by a band of rustlers. Seeking revenge, Tom pretends to be a notorious ex-con and manages to worm his way into the gang in order to get the goods on the bunch.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, George Walsh, Al St. John, Marie Burton
Votes: 24
46. Man's Country (1938)
Approved | 53 min | Western
Ranger Jack Haile is called upon to bring in Lex Crane and his men who are supposedly terrorizing the countryside. Helping an injured Madge Carter gets him into Lex's hideaway and he able ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Jack Randall, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Long, Ralph Peters
47. Desert Man (1934)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Western
Undercover government man Wally Bradley (Wally Wales) and his pal Chuck (Jim Sheridan) come to the aid of ranch owner Jean Simmons (Peggy Djarling) when a gang of outlaws try to take over her ranch.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Hal Taliaferro, Silver King the Horse, Peggy Djarling, James Sheridan
48. The Golden Trail (1940)
Approved | 52 min | Western
The dangerous Ceegareet gang has control of Boom Town. No miner with rich diggings is safe from this murderous gang. Tex Roberts (Tex Ritter) and his pal Slim Hunkafeller (Slim Andrews) ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Slim Andrews, Inna Gest
Votes: 12
49. The Galloping Kid (1932)
55 min | Western
A cowboy comes to the aid of a young woman and her brother being terrorized by outlaws who keep raiding their ranch searching for a mysterious map.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Robert Emmett Tansey, Billy O'Brien, Karla Cowan, Fred Parker
50. Arizona Frontier (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Western
Government agent Tex Whitedeer and his sidekick Slim are sent to investigate some supposed Indian raids on the freighting outfit owned by Joe Lane, as well as to pick out the location for ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Slim Andrews, Evelyn Finley
Votes: 13