Riders of the West (1942)

Riders of the West

1942

Western

Synopsis

Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams

Credits

Director

Howard Bretherton

Cast

Buck Jones as Marshal Buck Roberts

Charles King as Henchman Hogan

Christine McIntyre as Hope Turner

Dennis Moore as Steve Holt

Harry Woods as Duke Mason

Milburn Morante as Joe, the Storekeeper (as Milt Morante)

Raymond Hatton as Marshal Sandy Hopkins

Sarah Padden as Ma Turner