Movies by Lesley Selander
As a director:
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The Great Stagecoach Robbery / Phantom of the Plains (2004)
Cast: Robert Blake, Bill Elliott, Bill Elliott …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
In The Great Stagecoach Robbery, Red Ryder tries to dissuade a wayward young man from following in his outlaw father's footsteps. Then, in Phantom of the Plains, Red steps in to protect…
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Cast: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
This collection of five classic Westerns from the Hopalong Cassidy franchise -- based on the novels by Clarence E. Mulford -- follows one of America's first silver-screen cowboys…
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Cast: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
This collection of five classic Westerns from the Hopalong Cassidy franchise -- based on the novels by Clarence E. Mulford -- follows one of America's first silver-screen cowboys…
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Arizona Bushwackers (1968)
Cast: Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
When Confederate gunslinger Lee Travis (Howard Keel) is offered a pardon for his rebel activities if he joins the Union Army as a peacekeeper out West, he travels to the lawless town of…
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Fort Utah (1967)
Cast: John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
In this by-the-numbers Western, a renegade Army sergeant (Scott Brady) who's flown off the handle puts together a crew of mercenaries who take control of a fort, then take aim at Indian…
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The Texican (1966)
Cast: Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford, Diana Lorys …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Ex-sheriff Jess Carlin (Audie Murphy) has been living in exile in Mexico after being run out of Texas for a crime he didn't commit. But when his newspaperman brother is murdered, Jess…
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Convict Stage (1965)
Cast: Harry Lauter, Don "Red" Barry, Jodi Mitchell …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Ben Lattimore (Harry Lauter) hits the trail on a mission of vengeance against the outlaws who murdered his sister in this 1960s Western. But Lattimore's journey is interrupted by Marshal…
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Fort Courageous (1965)
Cast: Fred Beir, Don "Red" Barry, Hanna Landy …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Sgt. Lucas (Fred Beir) is a former cavalry rider trying to rebuild his reputation after being court-martialed for a crime he didn't commit. He replaces a fallen leader in a new regiment…
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Town Tamer (1965)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Rancher Tom Rosser (Dana Andrews) is despondent when his wife (Coleen Gray) is murdered in a hit that was meant to take him out. Two years later, he returns to the scene hell-bent on bringing…
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Cast: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Douglas Kennedy …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Clayton Moore returns as the masked rider, with Jay Silverheels as his trusty Indian sidekick Tonto, in this second feature-length offspring of the popular TV show "The Lone Ranger." Five…
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Outlaw's Son (1957)
Cast: Dane Clark, Ben Cooper, Lori Nelson …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Twelve years after he abandoned his son, Jeff, outlaw Nate Blaine (Dane Clark) returns to seek a reconciliation, but the boy's aunt, Ruth (Ellen Drew), fears that Jeff will turn to a…
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Quincannon: Frontier Scout (1956)
Cast: Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Frontier scout Linus Quincannon (crooner Tony Martin, in a rare non-musical role) is sent to a remote post to investigate the disappearance of a shipment of rifles that may have fallen into…
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Tall Man Riding (1955)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Returning to his Montana home to seek revenge against Tucker Ordway (Robert Barrat) for humiliating him and thwarting his romance with Ordway's daughter, Corinna (Dorothy Malone), cowboy…
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Desert Sands (1955)
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J. Carrol Naish …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Deep in the Moroccan desert, a hostile Arab tribe overruns a French Foreign Legion outpost. The dastardly Sheik El Zanal (Keith Larsen) hates the Legion more than anything and forces their…
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Flat Top (1952)
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Sterling Hayden stars as Dan Collier, a captain in charge of training pilots on U.S. Navy carriers, in this 1952 thriller that features actual newsreel footage from World War II. The stern…
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Hopalong Cassidy: Vol. 7 (1952)
Cast: William Boyd, Robert Mitchum, Andy Clyde …
Directed by: Lesley Selander, George Archainbaud
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) steps in to save the day as usual in these five frontier flicks. In Texas Masquerade, Hoppy poses as a rancher to help bring down a gang that's…
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Hopalong Cassidy: Vol. 8 (1952)
Cast: William Boyd, Robert Mitchum, Andy Clyde …
Directed by: Lesley Selander, George Archainbaud, Howard Bretherton …
Five fun-filled adventures feature matinee hero Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) helping those in need. In Outlaws of the Desert, Hoppy gets involved in a kidnapping plot in Arabia; Lost…
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Flight to Mars (1951)
Cast: Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
From Oscar-winning producer Walter Mirisch and the golden era of sci-fi cinema comes this adventure tale about a team of explorers who crash-land on the red planet and discover that it's…
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Riders of the Range (1950)
Cast: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jacqueline White …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Cowboys Kansas Jones (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) pull rancher Dusty Willis (Jacqueline White) out of a jam with dirty saloon owner Clint Burrows (Reed Hadley), so she…
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Shotgun / Deputy Marshal / Four Fast Guns (1949)
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo, Jon Hall …
Directed by: William Berke, William J. Hole Jr., Lesley Selander …
Three features from the golden age of the American Western showcase the archetypal strong, stoic men who tamed the frontier against all odds, with just a six-gun and a sense of honor to back…
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Gene Autry Collection: Robin Hood of Texas (1947)
Cast: Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
This 1947 Western has Gene Autry reprising his famous role as a crooning cowboy, accompanied by the Cass County Boys. All of them are mistakenly taken for singing bank robbers, which lands…
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The Red Stallion (1947)
Cast: Robert Paige, Noreen Nash, Ted Donaldson …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Young Joel Curtis (Ted Donaldson) raises orphaned foal Red under the loving eye of his Grandma Aggie (Jane Darwell). But when Aggie is forced to sell her ranch, Joel trains Red to become a…
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Saddle Pals (1947)
Cast: Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, Irving Bacon …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
On a quest to secure cheaper rent for the local ranchers, singing cowboy Gene Autry visits wealthy landowner Waldo Brooks (Sterling Holloway). Eager to take a break from his responsibilities,…
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Out California Way (1946)
Cast: Monte Hale, Lorna Gray, Robert Blake …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
&NFb;&NFb_;Monte Hale (Monte Hale), his sister Gloria (Lorna Gray) and his friend Danny (Robert Blake), along with Monte's horse, Pardner, yearn to break into the Western movie business.…
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The Catman of Paris (1946)
Cast: Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
When author Charles Regnier (Carl Esmond) returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like…
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Panhandle / Operation Haylift / Wildfire (1945)
Cast: Rod Cameron, Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway …
Directed by: Robert Emmett Tansey, William Berke, Lesley Selander …
If it's not the outlaws who are making conditions unbearable, it's the weather in this trio of mid-20th-century Westerns that illustrate the hardships of life on the frontier for…
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The Fatal Witness (1945)
Cast: Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, George Leigh …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
When haughty Lady Ferguson (Barbara Everest) threatens to disown her rapscallion nephew, John Bedford (George Leigh), he concocts a seemingly perfect alibi before murdering her, but Scotland…
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The Vampire's Ghost (1945)
Cast: John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Natives of an African village believe several murders are the work of a vampire -- and, unbeknownst to them, a local bar owner fits the bill. But when the bloodsucker mesmerizes a plantation…
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Vigilantes of Dodge City / Sheriff of Las Vegas (1944)
Cast: Robert Blake, Alice Fleming, Bill Elliott …
Directed by: Wallace Grissell, Lesley Selander
Wild Bill Elliott plays cowboy Red Ryder, and a very young Robert Blake (then billed as Bobby Blake) co-stars as his youthful American Indian pal in these two features from Republic…
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Call of the Rockies (1944)
Cast: Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson, Harry Woods …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Cowboy Sunset Carson (playing a character of the same name) teams up with Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves…
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Sheriff of Sundown (1944)
Cast: Allan Lane, Linda Stirling, Max Terhune …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Like everyone in Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan (Allan Lane) must sell his cattle to corrupt baron Jack Hatfield (Roy Barcroft). When Hatfield shoots Tex's buddy Andy (Jack Kirk), he makes…
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Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde …
Directed by: Lesley Selander, George Archainbaud
Five separate features follow Hopalong Cassidy as he does one good deed after another. In Pirates on Horseback, Hopalong foils the plot of greedy outlaws; Borrowed Trouble finds Hopalong…
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Cast: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby …
Directed by: Lesley Selander, George Archainbaud
This video includes five classic Westerns featuring Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd). In Undercover Man, Hopalong and Gonzales get caught up in a robbery plot; Three Men from Texas finds Hoppy…
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Heritage of the Desert (1939)
Cast: Donald Woods, Robert Barrat, C. Henry Gordon …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
After he's nearly killed in a plot to steal the land he inherited, East Coast transplant John Abbott (Donald Woods) teams up with a band of cowboys led by Andrew Naab (Robert Barrat) to…
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Hopalong Cassidy: Cassidy of Bar 20 / Partners of the Plains (1938)
Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Frank Darien …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
In Cassidy of Bar 20, Hopalong and his sidekick Lucky face trumped-up charges and get assigned to the ranch of chief malefactor Allison to work off the sentence. A hair-raising jailbreak and…
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Hopalong Cassidy: Hopalong Rides Again / Heart of Arizona (1937)
Cast: Gabby Hayes, Nora Lane, Natalie Moorhead …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Hopalong Cassidy blazes through the West once again in this double feature. In Hopalong Rides Again, a crazy professor tries to stop Hoppy from leading 1,000 cattle through dangerous…