The best Kay Hughes’s action movies

Kay Hughes

Kay Hughes

16/01/1914- 04/04/1998
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kay Hughes’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 Kay Hughes.
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Radio Patrol

Radio Patrol
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/10/1937
  • Character: Molly Selkirk
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

The Big Show

The Big Show
5.7/10
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.

Ride, Ranger, Ride

Ride, Ranger, Ride
4.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 30/11/1936
  • Character: Dixie Summerall
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy
6.6/10
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Robin Hood of El Dorado
5.9/10
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.

The Vigilantes Are Coming

The Vigilantes Are Coming
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 21/08/1936
  • Character: Doris Colton
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.

The Three Mesquiteers

The Three Mesquiteers
6.4/10
When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

Trouble at Midnight

Trouble at Midnight
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 16/10/1937
  • Character: Catherine Benson (as Catherine Hughes)
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.

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