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Writer 1886 - 1965

Earle Snell

Santa Ana, California, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

36 titles
South of Death Valley

South of Death Valley

Ray Nazarro 1949 54m

When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water poisoned killing cattle. When Ashton's men find Steve's hat, they kill Tom Tavish and frame Steve for the murder. Escaping jail the Durango Kid goes into action.

Renegades of the Sage

Renegades of the Sage

Ray Nazarro 1949 56m

The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.

Desert Vigilante

Desert Vigilante

Fred F. Sears 1949 56m

Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the rustlers who are now going to have the Durango Kid to contend with.

El Dorado Pass

El Dorado Pass

Ray Nazarro 1948 55m

Charles Starrett returns as The Durango Kid in Columbia's El Dorado Pass. It all begins when Durango, in his everyday guise of Steve Clanton, is falsely accused of robbing a stagecoach. The genuine criminal is not only a thief but a coin collector, searching for a valuable specimen by staging holdups.

Vigilantes of Boomtown

Vigilantes of Boomtown

R.G. Springsteen 1947 56m

The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U.S.

Rustlers of Devil's Canyon

Rustlers of Devil's Canyon

R.G. Springsteen 1947 58m

Red Ryder returns to Sioux City, Wyoming, at the close of the Spanish-American War, settling down at the ranch of his aunt, The Duchess, with his pals Little Beaver and "Blizzard". But Red soon discovers that the country is over-run by rustlers.

Oregon Trail Scouts

Oregon Trail Scouts

R.G. Springsteen 1947 58m

Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on the land of Chief Running Fox.

Marshal of Cripple Creek

Marshal of Cripple Creek

R.G. Springsteen 1947 58m

Tom Lambert arrives and Long John Case gets him into trouble. To protect his wife and son he refuses to talk and is sent to prison. Long John then gets Lambert's son into his outlaw gang but Lambert is told the boy's problems are caused by Red Ryder. So Lambert breaks prison planning to kill Red. [Written by Maurice Van Auken]

Homesteaders of Paradise Valley

Homesteaders of Paradise Valley

R.G. Springsteen 1947 59m

Red Ryder convinces homesteaders to settle in Paradise Valley. Business men in nearby Central City want control of the valley and water supply and propose to build a dam for half interest in the land. They use Red to generate interest in the dam but when the dam is completed, they rig the stockholder's meeting so Central City will get the water.

Sun Valley Cyclone

Sun Valley Cyclone

R.G. Springsteen 1946 56m

In this western, Red Ryder rounds up a gang of horse thieves who have been stealing cavalry horses.

Stagecoach to Denver

Stagecoach to Denver

R.G. Springsteen 1946 54m

Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the survey hoax, Lambert has his stooge Sheriff put Red in jail.

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

R.G. Springsteen 1946 54m

Redwood Valley residents raise $50,000 for blasting a mountain tunnel to bring a new railroad there. Town leader Bidwell engineers a plot to steal the money and to blame it on the Reno Kid (Bob Steele) who has recently broken out of prison in order to clear himself of false charges that sent him there and caused him to lose his ranch.

Santa Fe Uprising

Santa Fe Uprising

R.G. Springsteen 1946 56m

The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from reaching her destination, but the attack is thwarted by Red.

Conquest of Cheyenne

Conquest of Cheyenne

R.G. Springsteen 1946 56m

Red Ryder and his comical sidekick take on a new batch of bad-guys in this western, the 16th in the Red Ryder series. This time the heroic duo try to save a female rancher from a greedy financier who wants her land so he can exploit the enormous oil fields lying under it.

Wagon Wheels Westward

Wagon Wheels Westward

R.G. Springsteen 1945 56m

In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an outlaw's hideout.

Phantom of the Plains

Phantom of the Plains

Lesley Selander 1945 56m

Red Ryder tries to warn a duchess that her newfound beau has a history of murdering his wives.

Come Out Fighting

Come Out Fighting

William Beaudine 1945 1h 2m

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.

Colorado Pioneers

Colorado Pioneers

R.G. Springsteen 1945 57m

In Chicago, Red catches the crook Bull and his two young accomplices. Hoping to reform the boys, he brings them back to the ranch. But upon returning he finds that part of the ranch has been burned and all the hands are quitting.

Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs

William Beaudine 1944 1h 2m

Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate.

Thunder River Feud

Thunder River Feud

S. Roy Luby 1942 58m

Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash.

Rock River Renegades

Rock River Renegades

S. Roy Luby 1942 56m

In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper editor is trying to get the local marshal replaced, because of his apparent failure to catch the gang, which seems to disappear into thin air after every robbery.

Wrangler's Roost

Wrangler's Roost

S. Roy Luby 1941 57m

The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.

Trail of the Silver Spurs

Trail of the Silver Spurs

S. Roy Luby 1941 57m

The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.

Tonto Basin Outlaws

Tonto Basin Outlaws

S. Roy Luby 1941 1h

Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply.

The Kid's Last Ride

The Kid's Last Ride

S. Roy Luby 1941 55m

The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon.

Saddle Mountain Roundup

Saddle Mountain Roundup

S. Roy Luby 1941 59m

Someone wants to kill Magpie Harper. Crash and Dusty arrive too late, Magpie Harper is allready dead.

Gauchos of El Dorado

Gauchos of El Dorado

Lester Orlebeck 1941 56m

It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.

West of Pinto Basin

West of Pinto Basin

S. Roy Luby 1940 1h

The Range Busters head for Pinto Basin where a series of stage robberies have occurred. To try and find the gang's boss, Crash sends out a empty money box. The plan backfires when the boss has the Range Busters identified as the robbers. Thinking it is now safe, the bank sends out a big money shipment.

The Trail Blazers

The Trail Blazers

George Sherman 1940 58m

The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.

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.

Oklahoma Renegades

Oklahoma Renegades

Nate Watt 1940 57m

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close of the Spanish-American War, and are concerned that some of their wounded buddies have no prospects for a satisfactory future.

Covered Wagon Days

Covered Wagon Days

George Sherman 1940 56m

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are attempting to apprehend smugglers who are buying cheap silver in Mexico and smuggling it into the States, where they can take advantage of a silver stabilizing measure and sell it at a high price.

Days of Jesse James

Days of Jesse James

Joseph Kane 1939 1h 3m 6.0

Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.

Western Gold

Western Gold

Howard Bretherton 1937 57m

President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers.

Fargo Express

Fargo Express

Alan James 1933 1h 1m 9.0

When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.

Tombstone Canyon

Tombstone Canyon

Alan James 1932 1h 2m

A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis).

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