Skip to main content
C
Actor 1900 - 1953

Curley Dresden

Filmography

Every title this person appears in

39 titles
Westward Bound

Westward Bound

Robert Emmett Tansey 1944 54m

Learning that Montana is about to become a state and that property values will rise rapidly, Caldwell is using his outlaw gang to force the ranchers off their land.

Wolves of the Range

Wolves of the Range

Sam Newfield 1943 1h

Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank and Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money.

The Kid Rides Again

The Kid Rides Again

Sam Newfield 1943 55m

In this western, Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.

Riders of the Rio Grande

Riders of the Rio Grande

Howard Bretherton 1943 55m

A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.

Raiders of Red Gap

Raiders of Red Gap

Sam Newfield 1943 57m

One man wants to control all the land in the state to graze all his cattle. His band of outlaws are raiding ranchers and homesteaders, trying to drive them out. Rocky (Bob Livingston) and Fuzzy (Al St. John) are brought in to help stop the raiders and keep the land for the small ranchers and homesteaders.

Law of the Saddle

Law of the Saddle

Melville De Lay 1943 59m

Kinney's racket is to get elected Sheriff, let his outlaw gang clean up, and then move on to another town. The Lone Rider Rocky Cameron is called in and he is able to catch up with Kinney. But Kinney frames Rocky for murder and Rocky finds himself in jail.

Fugitive of the Plains

Fugitive of the Plains

Sam Newfield 1943 56m

Billy joins an outlaw band led by woman to clear his name of their crimes, which are being blamed on him.

Devil Riders

Devil Riders

Sam Newfield 1943 56m

A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.

Death Valley Rangers

Death Valley Rangers

Robert Emmett Tansey 1943 59m

When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in the Trail Blazers (Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele) -- a legendary trio of law enforcers -- to find the gold and figure out who's behind the thefts.

Cattle Stampede

Cattle Stampede

Sam Newfield 1943 57m 7.0

Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are warned in time by Ed Dawson, but Ed is wounded in the getaway. They get a doctor to attend to Ed.

Boss of Rawhide

Boss of Rawhide

Elmer Clifton 1943 58m

In the 8th film of the 22-film series, Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.

Blazing Frontier

Blazing Frontier

Sam Newfield 1943 59m

In the 19th and last of the PRC "Billy the Kid" series (first six with Bob Steele and last 13 with Buster Crabbe), a feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.

The Lone Rider and the Bandit

The Lone Rider and the Bandit

Sam Newfield 1942 54m

Tom disguises himself as a musician to learn who is terrorizing the miners into selling their claims cheaply.

Sheriff of Sage Valley

Sheriff of Sage Valley

Sam Newfield 1942 57m

Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures Billy and changing clothes with him, now plans to run the town as Sheriff.

Billy the Kid Trapped

Billy the Kid Trapped

Sam Newfield 1942 55m

Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.

The Lone Rider in Ghost Town

The Lone Rider in Ghost Town

Sam Newfield 1941 1h 4m

Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. The town is an outlaw gang's hideout, and they scare folks away to protect their mine.

The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury

The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury

Sam Newfield 1941 53m

A cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a local rancher.

The Lone Rider Rides On

The Lone Rider Rides On

Sam Newfield 1941 1h 1m

Tom Cameron is after the man that killed his parents when he was a boy. Obtaining a deed from a family killed just like his, he runs into trouble with Mitchell whose men committed the murder. Accused of the murder by Mitchell, he is quickly tried and convicted and the Judge he recognizes as the man he is looking for.

In Old Colorado

In Old Colorado

Howard Bretherton 1941 1h 6m

Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.

Border Vigilantes

Border Vigilantes

Derwin Abrahams 1941 1h 3m

A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky. and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the town's problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss--and so are the vigilantes.

Billy the Kid's Round-Up

Billy the Kid's Round-Up

Sam Newfield 1941 1h 2m

When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temporary Sheriff. When henchman try to wreck the newpaper they take up the fight. First they get Fuzzy to run for Sheriff. Then Billy gets a confession from Slade as to the Sheriff's killer.

Billy the Kid Wanted

Billy the Kid Wanted

Sam Newfield 1941 1h 1m

Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and his pal Jeff (Dave O'Brien) help their friend Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) escape from jail, and the trio heads for Paradise Valley, where they find the Paradise Land Development Company, ran by Matt Brawley (Glenn Strange) and Jack Saunders (Charles King), is somewhat less than honest in their dealings with the…

Under Texas Skies

Under Texas Skies

George Sherman 1940 57m

The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.

Rocky Mountain Rangers

Rocky Mountain Rangers

George Sherman 1940 58m

Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas.

Melody Ranch

Melody Ranch

Joseph Santley 1940 1h 24m

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Adventures of Red Ryder

Adventures of Red Ryder

John English, William Witney 1940 3h 25m

Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

Wyoming Outlaw

Wyoming Outlaw

George Sherman 1939 56m

Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.

The Night Riders

The Night Riders

George Sherman 1939 56m

Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.

The Adventures of the Masked Phantom

The Adventures of the Masked Phantom

Charles Abbott 1939 1h 7.0

Barton's mine foreman is receiving gold bullion from gangsters in the East, putting it through the mine's smelter, and then shipping it out. When Barton finds out, Murdocks men make him a prisoner.

Only Angels Have Wings

Only Angels Have Wings

Howard Hawks 1939 2h 1m 7.3

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

New Frontier

New Frontier

George Sherman 1939 57m

The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.

In Old Monterey

In Old Monterey

Joseph Kane 1939 1h 12m

The (pre-WWII) Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.

Dick Tracy's G-Men

Dick Tracy's G-Men

John English, William Witney 1939 5h 2m

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.

Daredevils of the Red Circle

Daredevils of the Red Circle

John English, William Witney 1939 3h 31m 8.0

Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.

Six-Shootin' Sheriff

Six-Shootin' Sheriff

Harry L. Fraser 1938 59m

Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law.

Red River Range

Red River Range

George Sherman 1938 56m

The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid.

Call the Mesquiteers

Call the Mesquiteers

John English 1938 53m

The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack their truck for a getaway and the police conclude they are part of the gang, an identification which is just fine with the gang's nameless chief.

The Big Trail

The Big Trail

Raoul Walsh 1930 2h 2m 7.0

Breck leads a wagon train of pioneers through Indian attack, storms, deserts, swollen rivers, down cliffs and so on while looking for the murder of a trapper and falling in love with Ruth.

The Cock-Eyed World

The Cock-Eyed World

Raoul Walsh 1929 1h 58m

Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.

Discussion

Loading the discussion…