The best Fred F. Sears’s movies

Fred F. Sears

Fred F. Sears

07/07/1913- 30/11/1957
We present our ranking of the best Fred F. Sears’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Fred F. Sears.
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Adventures in Silverado

Adventures in Silverado
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/03/1948
  • Character: Hatfield (as Fred Sears)
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.

Convicted

Convicted
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/08/1950
  • Character: Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Home in San Antone

Home in San Antone
4.8/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 14/04/1949
  • Character: Rado Announcer Breezy (as Fred Sears)
Posing as unemployed musicians,Roy Acuff (Roy Acuff) and his Smoky Mountain Boys (The Smoky Mountain Boys), are being helped by Ted Gibson (Bill Edwards), owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke (Lloyd Corrigan)out of trouble, supports his Ma (Dorothy Vaughan), and Grandpa ('George Cleveland'). He wants to marry Jean Wallace (Lyn Thomas) , and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.

The Werewolf

The Werewolf
5.9/10
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.

My True Story

My True Story
6.4/10
Ann Martin (Helen Walker) is serving time as a jewel thief. She is paroled and determined to stay clean. She quickly finds out that she was paroled by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job. It is dangerous for her to say yes or no.

Renegades of the Sage

Renegades of the Sage
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/11/1949
  • Character: Lt. Jones (as Fred Sears)
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: Colonel Ron Dennison (as Fred Sears)
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.

Law of the Canyon

Law of the Canyon
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/04/1947
  • Character: Dr. Middleton (uncredited)
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.

Slightly French

Slightly French
6.3/10
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

The Blazing Trail

The Blazing Trail
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/06/1949
  • Character: Luke Masters (as Fred Sears)
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.

Johnny Allegro

Johnny Allegro
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 26/05/1949
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.

Blondie in the Dough

Blondie in the Dough
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/10/1947
  • Character: Quinn (as Fred Sears)
Blondie #21: Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series based on the popular comic strip. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.

Whirlwind Raiders

Whirlwind Raiders
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/05/1948
  • Character: Tracy Beaumont
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.

Cyclone Fury

Cyclone Fury
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/08/1951
  • Character: Captain Barham
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier Durango effort, Galloping Thunder (1946), footage that included sidekick Smiley Burnette warbling "Hear the Wind (Singing a Cowboy Song)" accompanied by Merle Travis and his Bronco Busters.

Blondie's Holiday

Blondie's Holiday
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/04/1947
  • Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.

The Kid from Amarillo

The Kid from Amarillo
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/10/1951
  • Character: Jonathan Cole
Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader of the gang in his den.

South of Death Valley

South of Death Valley
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/08/1949
  • Character: Sam Ashton (as Fred Sears)
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.

Texas Dynamo

Texas Dynamo
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1950
  • Character: Hawkins (as Fred Sears)
Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego" Steve Drake, but also takes on a third identity, that of a hired gun in the employ of the film's bad guys. As one critic noted, this may be the only western in which the hero is obliged to chase himself. Jock O'Mahoney -- later known as Jock Mahoney -- plays a secondary role, and also doubles for Starrett during the riskier stunt sequences.

Frontier Outpost

Frontier Outpost
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/12/1950
  • Character: Major Copeland
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipments bound for Fort Navajo.

Fort Savage Raiders

Fort Savage Raiders
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/03/1951
  • Character: Col. Sutter (as Fred Sears)
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named Steve (this time his last name is Drake) and as masked avenger Durango. The heavy of the piece is escaped military prisoner Craydon (John Dehner) who, with several other fugitives from justice, forms an army of terrorists.

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