The best Charles Starrett’s movies

Charles Starrett

Charles Starrett

28/03/1903- 22/03/1986
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Charles Starrett’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Charles Starrett.
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The Mask of Fu Manchu

The Mask of Fu Manchu
6.2/10
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

This Man Is Mine

This Man Is Mine
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/04/1934
  • Character: Jud McCrae
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits.

Lady and Gent

Lady and Gent
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/07/1932
  • Character: Ted Streaver
Fresh young boxer Buzz Kinney is just out of college. He's able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran becomes over confident. Later Buzz is a worn out wreck with a broken nose and cauliflower ear.

Smoky Canyon

Smoky Canyon
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/01/1952
  • Character: Steve "The Durango Kid" Brent
Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range war for his own profit. The Durango Kid helps clear Mahoney's name.

Touchdown!

Touchdown!
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/11/1931
  • Character: Paul Gehring
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

Gentlemen Are Born

Gentlemen Are Born
6.3/10
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
5.3/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 31/01/1935
  • Character: Kenneth 'Ken' Harris
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.

Our Betters

Our Betters
6.1/10
Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps are our equals, in morality.

Sky Bride

Sky Bride
6.9/10
  • Release: 19/04/1932
  • Character: Jim Carmichael
Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and hawking rides for the locals. But when Speed's rambunctious flying results in tragedy, he gives up flying in despair and guilt. Alec tracks him down and hopes to get him back on his feet and back in the air.

So Red the Rose

So Red the Rose
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/12/1935
  • Character: George McGehee
SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's darkest days she is sustained by her love for a distant cousin, a Confederate officer, played by Randolph Scott.

Fast and Loose

Fast and Loose
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/11/1930
  • Character: Henry Morgan
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Pecos River

Pecos River
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/12/1951
  • Character: Steve Baldwin / The Durango Kid
Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover...

The Silver Streak

The Silver Streak
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1934
  • Character: Tom Caldwell
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.

Renegades of the Sage

Renegades of the Sage
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/11/1949
  • Character: Steve Duncan / Durango Kid
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller (Trevor Bardette), who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.

Laramie

Laramie
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/05/1949
  • Character: Steve Holden / Durango Kid
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison (Fred Sears) is meeting with Chief Eagle (Shooting Star) and his son Running Wolf (Jay Silverheels) when Chief Eagle is mysteriously shot. Steve Holden (Charles Starrett), an agent for the government peace commission, with the aid of a wandering shoemaker, Smiley (Smiley Burnette), discover the troubles and the Chief's murder have been instigated by Cronin (Bob Wilke), the regimental scout, for personal gain for he and his gang of outlaws.

Quick on the Trigger

Quick on the Trigger
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/12/1948
  • Character: Sheriff Steve Warren / Durango Kid
Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve Warren (Starrett) is put on trial for the murder of heroine Nora Reed's (Helen Parrish) brother. Steve is innocent, of course, but he doesn't stand a chance against prosecuting attorney Garvey Yager (Lyle Talbot) -- especially since Yager is the real killer.

Law of the Canyon

Law of the Canyon
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/04/1947
  • Character: Steve Langtry / The Durango Kid
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.

The Hawk of Wild River

The Hawk of Wild River
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/02/1952
  • Character: Steve Martin / The Durango Kid
Steve Martin (Charles Starrett)is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by The Hawk (Clayton Moore) and his outlaw gang. The Hawk attempts to murder Sheriff Jack Mahoney (Jock Mahoney) and is captured and jailed. Steve helps the Hawk break jail and thus makes contact with the bandit gang. He sends a bungling photographer, Smiley Burnette (Smiley Burnette), to warn the sheriff that the gang plan to rob the express office.

The Blazing Trail

The Blazing Trail
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/06/1949
  • Character: Steve Allen / The Durango Kid
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk of the property to Kirk, the gambling son of Mike. This upsets Sam, the hard working son, but not gambler Full House who always beats Kirk at cards. But even the Sheriff is suspicious of the will, but he needs proof and the Durango Kid will find the proof.

Whirlwind Raiders

Whirlwind Raiders
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/05/1948
  • Character: Steve Lanning / The Durango Kid
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.

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