The best Spade Cooley’s movies

Spade Cooley

Spade Cooley

17/12/1910- 23/11/1969
Today we present the best Spade Cooley’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 Spade Cooley’s movies.
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Melody Ranch

Melody Ranch
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1940
  • Character: Melody Ranch Band Musician
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again
7.6/10
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne
6.1/10
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

Nevada City

Nevada City
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/06/1941
  • Character: Musician
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.

Romance on the Range

Romance on the Range
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/05/1942
  • Character: Townsman
Romance on the Range is a 1942 American film. Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.

Bad Man of Deadwood

Bad Man of Deadwood
5.7/10
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

Dawn on the Great Divide

Dawn on the Great Divide
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/12/1942
  • Character: Fiddler
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.

The Arizona Kid

The Arizona Kid
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/09/1939
  • Character: Union Soldier
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.

Frontier Pony Express

Frontier Pony Express
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 11/04/1939
  • Character: Charley Weston
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.

Southward Ho

Southward Ho
6.2/10
A singing cowboy (Roy Rogers) and his sidekick (George "Gabby" Hayes) fight post-Civil War plunder in Texas.

Young Bill Hickok

Young Bill Hickok
5.7/10
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.

Lost Canyon

Lost Canyon
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/12/1942
  • Character: Fiddle Player
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.

Sunset on the Desert

Sunset on the Desert
5.9/10
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.

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.

Sheriff of Tombstone

Sheriff of Tombstone
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 07/05/1941
  • Character: Fiddle Player
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.

The Border Legion

The Border Legion
6.1/10
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.

Square Dance Jubilee

Square Dance Jubilee
4.1/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 11/11/1949
  • Character: Spade Cooley
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.

Texas Panhandle

Texas Panhandle
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/12/1945
  • Character: Band Leader Spade
Steve Holden, a secret service agent, is suspended when his boss becomes suspicious of his activities as The Durango Kid. Can Steve prove his innocence?

Rockin' in the Rockies

Rockin' in the Rockies
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 17/04/1945
  • Character: Spade Cooley (as Spade Cooley King of Western Swing)
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.

Man from Cheyenne

Man from Cheyenne
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/01/1942
  • Character: Cowhand
Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.

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