The best Ed Cassidy’s western movies

Ed Cassidy

Ed Cassidy

21/03/1893- 19/01/1968
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Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Homesteaders of Paradise Valley

Homesteaders of Paradise Valley
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1947
  • Character: Sheriff of Center City
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.

Desperadoes' Outpost

Desperadoes' Outpost
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/10/1952
  • Character: Deputy Marshal (as Edward Cassidy)
Nugget Clark has been having his stagecoaches wrecked and Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to investigate. The foreman of a nearby mine is stealing part of the mecury output and selling it in Mexico. Nugget's house has a direct pipeline from the mine and they are trying to drive him into bankruptcy to obtain his ranch. Rocky is quickly aware that the Foremen is behind Nugget's holdups but they are also onto Rocky when he accidently drops his badge during a fight.

Winds of the Wasteland

Winds of the Wasteland
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/07/1936
  • Character: Mr. Dodge
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.

Stagecoach Outlaws

Stagecoach Outlaws
6.4/10
Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already broken out and they return with Fuzzy instead. Realizing they think he's Brawley, Fuzzy plays the part. He and Bill plan to round up the gang but Fuzzy is in trouble when the real Brawley shows up to expose the hoax.

Roughshod

Roughshod
6.6/10
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him behind bars. Clay and Steve unexpectedly cross paths with a group of dance hall girls -- including Mary, Marcia and Helen -- whose stagecoach has broken down, and help them get to the nearest ranch, where Lednov unfortunately catches up to Clay.

Sun Valley Cyclone

Sun Valley Cyclone
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/05/1946
  • Character: Colonel Roosevelt (as Edward Cassidy)
In this western, Red Ryder rounds up a gang of horse thieves who have been stealing cavalry horses.

Roarin' Guns

Roarin' Guns
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/01/1936
  • Character: Sheriff
An average low-budget Western from short-lived Puritan Pictures, Roarin' Guns starred Tim McCoy as Tim Corwin, an agent for the Cattlemen's Association assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton (Wheeler Oakman).

Navajo Kid

Navajo Kid
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/11/1945
  • Character: Roy Landon
The Navajo Kid goes in search of the villains who murdered his foster-father and stole both ring and watch. The trail leads straight to Canyon City, Texas, and smooth cardsharp Honest John Grogan, who is in possession of both the stolen items. But Grogan has an ironclad alibi for the time of the murder, an alibi confirmed by none other than Sheriff Roy Landon.

Stagecoach to Denver

Stagecoach to Denver
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/12/1946
  • Character: Land Commissioner Felton (as Edward Cassidy)
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.

Colorado

Colorado
5.9/10
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.

Boss of Rawhide

Boss of Rawhide
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/11/1943
  • Character: Henry Colby
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.

Rollin' Plains

Rollin' Plains
4.6/10
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.

Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade
6.3/10
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Flaming Frontiers

Flaming Frontiers
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 05/07/1938
  • Character: Joe - Henchman
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams up with Ace Daggett who plans to doublecross him and get the gold for himself. They frame Tom for murder and then try to get him to sign over his claim. The famous scout Tex Houston is on hand, escaping the attempts on his life, saving Mary from various perils, and trying to bring in the real killer and clear Tom.

Winners of the West

Winners of the West
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 02/07/1940
  • Character: Marshal Bowers
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.

Borderland

Borderland
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/02/1937
  • Character: Henchman
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Ridin' Down the Canyon
6.5/10
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.

Boothill Brigade

Boothill Brigade
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 02/08/1937
  • Character: John Porter
Rancher Reynolds has fired his men and hired killers and is now using a crooked land deal to put the other ranchers off their land. Calico finds the reason why when he runs into his old nemesis Porter.

Man from Music Mountain

Man from Music Mountain
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicWestern
  • Release: 15/08/1938
  • Character: William Brady (as Edward Cassidy)
Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salting the mine with gold. But when a new vein is really discovered Gene has to stop the sales but is trapped in the mine by Scanlon's men.

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