The best Kenne Duncan’s western movies

Kenne Duncan

Kenne Duncan

17/02/1902- 05/02/1972
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Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman
6.8/10
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family, but his troubled past follows him.

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast
6.2/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 28/05/1945
  • Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Dakota

Dakota
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/12/1945
  • Character: Henchman (uncredited)
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
5.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 06/01/1950
  • Character: Sgt. Gordon (as Kenneth Duncan)
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.

Blazing Frontier

Blazing Frontier
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/09/1943
  • Character: Homesteader Clark
A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.

Sun Valley Cyclone

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

Cheyenne Wildcat

Cheyenne Wildcat
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/09/1944
  • Character: Henchman Pete
Bill Elliot is back as Red Ryder in Cheyenne Wildcat. Also back are Ryder's perennial cohorts Little Beaver (Bobby Blake, later Robert Blake of Baretta fame) and the Duchess (Alice Fleming). When not pummeling the bad guys, Ryder is the reluctant apex of a love triangle.

Deputy Marshal

Deputy Marshal
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/10/1949
  • Character: Cal Freeling
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Twilight on the Rio Grande
5.8/10
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.

Mojave Firebrand

Mojave Firebrand
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/03/1944
  • Character: Henchman
In this western, a crusty old sourdough finally finds the silver mine of his dreams only to find his mine threatened by vicious outlaws. Fortunately, a cowboy hero rides up to save him, but not until considerable rootin' tootin' action.

Range Land

Range Land
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 24/12/1949
  • Character: Sheriff Winters
Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.

The Fighting Renegade

The Fighting Renegade
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/08/1939
  • Character: Henchman
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucious Lloyd (Forrest Taylor through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian (Joyce Bryant (I)'), the professor;s niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. THe professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie (Ben Corbett), a Federal Investigtor, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill' Carson (Tim McCoy), a former federal agent who has been missing since Marian's father was slain. The reluctant Magpie believes that his old pal is guilty. Carson sets out to prove otherwise.

Outlaws of Boulder Pass

Outlaws of Boulder Pass
5.6/10
Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Cameron steps in to rob the tollgate keepers and return the money to the ranchers, he gets caught.

Trailing Double Trouble

Trailing Double Trouble
5.5/10
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after. He must have it to become it's guardian and take control of the Horner ranch. When the henchmen catch up with Alibi, they take the baby cradle not realizing Alibi has substituted his dummy Elmer. Crash having evidence Moreland is the one they want, now has a plan to expose him.

Texas to Bataan

Texas to Bataan
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/10/1942
  • Character: Captain Anders (as Kenneth Duncan)
In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram's "Range Buster" series, Texas ranch owner Conroy returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range Busters, Dusty, Davy and Alibi, are selected to take the horses there but, before leaving, they capture three spies who are trying to steal the horses and also learn that the ranch cook, Cookie, is a Japanese spy, but he manages to escape. In the Philippines, they go to a café for dinner and see Cookie and Miller, a German spy. Eavesdropping, they learn that Ken Richards, a neighboring Texas rancher, is the Axis contact back in the states. They capture Cookie and break up the spy ring in the Phillipines, and then return to Texas intent on settling matters with Richards. They do so and are honored by the U.S. Government just as the radio blares forth the December 7, 1941 announcement of the Pearl Harbor bombing. They head for the nearest enlistment station.

Pack Train

Pack Train
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/07/1953
  • Character: Ross McLain
Gene Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by Ross McLain (Kenne Duncan), intend to bushwhack Autry, grab the supplies, and sell them at high prices to a local mining camp.

My Pal Trigger

My Pal Trigger
6.4/10
Gabby doesn´t want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign get shoot accidentally by Skoville but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees an opportunity to clear his name.

Range Justice

Range Justice
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/07/1949
  • Character: Henchman Kirk
Johnny Mack goes to work on "Ma" Curtis' ranch, to the disapproval of his friends, rancher Glenn Hadley and his sister Beth, who are at odds with her. Secretly, Ma's foreman Stoner is plotting with real estate man Ed Dutton to ruin her ranch and acquire it cheaply, with controlling water rights. Johnny stops henchman Dade in an attempt to dynamite the barn and Stoner, supposedly taking him to the sheriff, kills him. Johnny stops Glenn and Beth from tearing down a Curtis fence in order to get their cattle to water, but Glenn refuses to help even after Johnny explains he is helping Ma in order to find out who is behind the attacks on both ranches. Ma pretends to fire Johnny for saving Glenn from an ambush. As the outlaws attempt to rustle Ma's remaining cattle, Johnny, Alibi and Glenn join forces.

Sheriff of Redwood Valley

Sheriff of Redwood Valley
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/03/1946
  • Character: Henchman Jackson
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. The badly-wounded sheriff turns his badge over to Red Ryder. Reno visits his wife, Molly and their ailing son Johnny, and Red, also wounded, is brought there by Little Beaver. There, Red begins to believe Reno's story about being innocent. Written by Les Adams

A Missouri Outlaw

A Missouri Outlaw
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/11/1941
  • Character: Henchman Pete Chandler
Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars. Barry decides to use his bad reputation to his advantage by infiltrating the criminal gang.

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