The best Russell Hayden’s western movies

Russell Hayden

Russell Hayden

12/06/1912- 09/06/1981
Today we present the best Russell Hayden’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Russell Hayden’s movies.
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Range War

Range War
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/09/1939
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing its line through their property. Till now they have been able to charge tolls on herds passing through. Hoppy goes undercover to expose them.

The Frontiersmen

The Frontiersmen
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/12/1938
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.

Albuquerque

Albuquerque
6.6/10
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.

Doomed Caravan

Doomed Caravan
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/01/1941
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.

Deputy Marshal

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

Hostile Country

Hostile Country
5.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/03/1950
  • Character: Lucky Hayden
In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war.

Frontier Law

Frontier Law
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/06/1943
  • Character: Jim Warren
A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to restore the reputation of a friend wrongly accused of murder.

Renegade Trail

Renegade Trail
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/07/1939
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."

Wyoming Hurricane

Wyoming Hurricane
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/04/1944
  • Character: Lucky Saunders
Trailing outlaws, Lucky runs into a trap and loses his horse. The outlaws then use his horse to frame him for murder. During his fight with the outlaws he recognized one of them and he now has Cannonball get him out of jail. Then he gets Cannonball to lead the outlaw out of town where he hopes to beat a confession out of him. After clearing himself he plans to go after the boss of the gang.

Hidden Gold

Hidden Gold
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/06/1940
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.

In Old Colorado

In Old Colorado
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.

The Showdown

The Showdown
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/03/1940
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.

Rolling Home

Rolling Home
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/11/1946
  • Character: Rev. David Owens
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.

Pirates on Horseback

Pirates on Horseback
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/05/1941
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.

Wide Open Town

Wide Open Town
6.6/10
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.

Knights of the Range

Knights of the Range
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/02/1940
  • Character: Renn Frayne
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more than he bargained for. Following a terrifying run-in with an outlaw gang, Frayne aligns himself with the heroine Holly Ripple (Jean Parker), whose father's cattle ranch is in danger of falling into the hands of the villains. Victor Jory as Malcolm Lascallie, the wily gambler,

The Light of Western Stars

The Light of Western Stars
5.5/10
A prim Eastern woman heads West and ends up in the arms of a vulgar, alcoholic ranch hand.

'Neath Canadian Skies

'Neath Canadian Skies
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeWestern
  • Release: 15/10/1946
  • Character: Sergeant Tim
Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal.

Border Vigilantes

Border Vigilantes
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/04/1941
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.

Stagecoach War

Stagecoach War
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/07/1940
  • Character: Lucky Jenkins
Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.

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