Movies by Ray Taylor
As a director:
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The Hawk of Powder River (1948)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Steve Clark, Roscoe Ates …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
A newspaper editor pays with his life when he wages a campaign against the crimes of an outlaw gang led by the ruthless Hawk. Sent to investigate, Deputy U.S. Marshal Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean)…
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The Tioga Kid (1948)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Jennifer Holt, Roscoe Ates …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
When his twin brother, Clip (Eddie Dean, in a dual role) -- aka "the Tioga Kid" -- falls in with a band of outlaw horse rustlers, it's up to Texas Ranger Eddie Dean and his sidekick,…
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Black Hills (1948)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Shirley Patterson …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
When ruthless saloon owner Dan Kirby (Terry Frost) kills a rancher over a secret vein of gold ore on his farm, crooning cowboy Eddie Dean must foil the villain's plans to run the dead…
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Check Your Guns (1948)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Nancy Gates …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean puts his wits -- and his pipes -- to the test in this 1940s Western that finds him laying down the law in the small town of Red Gap when its longtime sheriff (Ed…
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Tornado Range (1948)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Jennifer Holt …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
As homesteaders start encroaching onto ranchers' grazing land, an inevitable range war breaks out, and U.S. Land Office troubleshooter Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) is dispatched to end the…
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The Westward Trail (1948)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Phyllis Planchard …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Siblings Ann (Phyllis Planchard) and Tom Howard (Steve Drake) move to Prairieville, where Ann has just purchased a ranch. When Ann is attacked by gunmen and a speculator named Larson (Bob…
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Law of the Lash (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Lee Roberts, Mary Scott …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
With their inimitable sense of justice, Cheyenne Davis ("Lash" La Rue) and his sidekick, Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John), end up as peacekeepers when all they want to do is prospect for gold.…
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Stage to Mesa City (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Eddie Dean …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
When a financially troubled stagecoach owner turns up dead just before winning a lucrative government contract, the man's children turn to U.S. Marshal Cheyenne Davis (Lash La Rue) and…
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Border Feud (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Ian Keith, Al St. John …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
In this 1940s B Western, Marshal Cheyenne Davis (Lash La Rue) goes undercover to help his friend Sheriff Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) root out the instigator of a family feud between the…
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Cheyenne Takes Over (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Nancy Gates …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Whip-smart cowboy Lash La Rue reunites with sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) and reprises his role as U.S. Marshal Cheyenne Davis in this classic Western that finds the pair tracking…
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The Fighting Vigilantes (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Jennifer Holt …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Old West trading post owner Price Taylor (George Chesebro) finds his business plagued by highwaymen who seize his shipments. When lawman Cheyenne Davis (Lash La Rue) and his partner, Fuzzy Q.…
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Pioneer Justice (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Jennifer Holt …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Grade-B Western fixture Lash La Rue stars in this low-budget oater as Marshal Cheyenne, who along with trusty sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John) conducts his own investigation when the…
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Range Beyond the Blue (1947)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Helen Mowery …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
The thieves have done it again: They tried to rob Margie Rodgers's (Helen Mowery) stagecoach laden with a valuable shipment. But they're foiled when brave Eddie Dean and sidekick…
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Return of the Lash (1947)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, George Chesebro …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
To save several ranchers' homes, the Cheyenne Kid (Lash La Rue) captures members of outlaw Jim Kirby's (George Chesebro) dangerous gang, but en route to pay off the ranchers'…
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Shadow Valley (1947)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Jennifer Holt …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
With backup from his hapless sidekick (Roscoe Ates), country crooner Eddie Dean attempts to solve a murder and prevent a pretty lady (Jennifer Holt) from losing her land in this musical…
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West to Glory (1947)
Cast: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Dolores Castle …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Wealthy Don Lopez (Harry J. Vejar) enjoys showing off his valuable diamond necklace, which a gang of criminals plans to steal. Assigned to protect Lopez, Eddie (Eddie Dean) and Soapy (Roscoe…
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Ghost Town Renegades (1946)
Cast: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Jennifer Holt …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
In this classic Western, Marshal "Cheyenne" Davis (Lash La Rue) and his sidekick, Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John), try to crack the case of some mysterious happenings in an old abandoned mining…
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The Lone Star Trail / The Crooked Trail (1943)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Johnny Mack Brown stars in these back-to-back features centering on the exploits of outlaws in the Wild West. In The Lone Star Trail, rancher Blaze Barker gets released from prison and is…
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Cheyenne Roundup (1943)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
When dastardly ringleader Gils dies in a shootout, his identical twin, Buck (Johnny Mack Brown), secretly assumes his identity and works with Sheriff Steve (Tex Ritter) to break up his band…
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The Lone Star Trail (1943)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Former college football star Johnny Mack Brown stars in this classic black-and-white Western as a wronged man who leaves prison with revenge on his mind. But to get back at the men who framed…
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Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)
Cast: Billy Halop, Gene Reynolds, Lionel Atwill …
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
The notorious Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys star in this 1940s-era serial as a group of delinquent airplane mechanics turned fighter pilots who band together to defeat a team of…
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Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
In this old-timey, music-filled Western, itinerant cowpoke Steve Hardin repays a beautiful woman who saved his life, by working for her father's stagecoach business and concocting a wily…
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Sky Raiders Serial (1941)
Cast: Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Robert Armstrong …
Directed by: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
A retired World War I fighter pilot builds a model of a new aircraft that can be used with great success by the Allied forces in World War II -- and could possibly change the face of the war.…
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Riders of Death Valley: Chapters 1-15 (1941)
Cast: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones …
Directed by: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
In this 1940s serial, Jim Benton (Dick Foran) and the Riders of Death Valley are in charge of keeping the town of Panamint safe from shady businessman Joseph Kirby and his crooked friends.…
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
After learning that his younger brother was murdered by Red Clinton (Harry Cording) and his band of claim-jumping cronies (Jack Rockwell and Ernie Adams), a distraught Joe Henderson (Johnny…
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Flash Gordon: The Peril from Planet Mongo (1940)
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton …
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
In this rousing full-length feature culled from the classic serial, Flash Gordon ("Buster" Crabbe) finds himself torn between his love for beautiful Dale Arden (Carol Hughes) and saving the…
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Flash Gordon: The Purple Death from Outer Space (1940)
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton …
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) springs into action to uncover the source of a mysterious and deadly plague that's leaving purple spots on the foreheads of its victims in this…
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Winners of the West: Chapters 1-13 (1940)
Cast: Dick Foran, Trevor Bardette, James Craig …
Directed by: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Responsible for the safe construction of the Hartford Transcontinental Railroad, cowboy Jeff Ramsay (Dick Foran) frequently clashes with the notorious King Carter (Harry Woods), a crooked…
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Rawhide (1938)
Cast: Smith Ballew, Lou Gehrig, Al Hill …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
The legendary Lou Gehrig stars as himself in this 1938 Western. Retiring from baseball, Gehrig retreats to his sister Peggy's (Evalyn Knapp) farm. But when a corrupt ranchers'…
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Flaming Frontiers (1938)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, John Archer …
Directed by: Alan James, Ray Taylor
Based on Peter B. Kyne's pulp novel &NFi;The Tie That Binds&NFi_;, this 15-chapter serial boasts a familiar Old West plot, tracking heroic Indian scout Tex Houston (Johnny Mack Brown) on…
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The Painted Stallion (1937)
Cast: Ray Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, LeRoy Mason …
Directed by: William Witney, Alan James, Ray Taylor …
Ray Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, Yakima Canutt and Duncan Renaldo star in this 12-episode series that brings to life the adventures of three quintessential heroes of the Wild West: Jim Bowie, Davy…
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The Mystery of the Hooded Horseman (1937)
Cast: Forrest Taylor, Tex Ritter, Iris Meredith …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
As he lay dying from wounds inflicted by a gang of hooded villains, mine owner Tom Wilson gets the attention of Tex Martin (Tex Ritter) and his sidekick, Stubby (Horace Murphy). Wilson asks…
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Dick Tracy (1937)
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Smiley Burnette
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Alan James
A mystery-adventure based on Chester Gould's popular comic strip detective Dick Tracy. In this 15-chapter serial, Tracy's brother is kidnapped by the spider gang and brainwashed…
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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936)
Cast: Mala, Mamo Clark, Herbert Rawlinson …
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright
Follow the riveting adventures of government agent Mala as he investigates a disastrous dirigible crash in the Pacific. Shady spies, a live volcano, less-than-friendly natives, an evil priest…
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The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
Cast: Robert Livingston, Kay Hughes, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams …
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright
After his father and brother are murdered by a power-mad general, a mysterious masked rider known as "The Eagle" (Robert Livingston) rides a treacherous trail seeking vengeance. Set in early…
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The Three Mesquiteers / Trigger Trio (1936)
Cast: Ray Corrigan, Robert Livingston, Syd Saylor …
Directed by: Ray Taylor, William Witney
The Three Mesquiteers kicks off the film series of the same name when our cowboy heroes (here, Syd Saylor, Robert Livingston and Ray Corrigan) help World War I vets homestead in New Mexico.…
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The Return of Chandu (1934)
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba, Clara Kimball Young …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Bela Lugosi plays Frank Chandler, a mysterious man who moonlights as the mystic Chandu, in this 1934 film that's part of a series showcasing the supernatural powers of the good-hearted…
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Chandu on the Magic Island (1934)
Cast: Maria Alba, Clara Kimball Young, Bela Lugosi …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
This classic fantasy adventure stars Bela Lugosi as Chandu, an American with magical powers who has sworn to protect Egyptian Princess Nadji (Maria Alba) from the Ubasti cult, whose members…
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Perils of Pauline (1934)
Cast: Evalyn Knapp, John Davidson, Frank Lackteen …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
Evalyn Knapp stars as the titular Pauline Hargrave in this 12-episode adventure serial. Attempting to prevent the formula for a lethal gas from falling into the wrong hands, Pauline and her…
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Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)
Cast: Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, William Desmond …
Directed by: Ray Taylor
In this 1930s Western serial, Buffalo Bill Cody (Tom Tyler) and the U.S. Cavalry battle ruthless gambler Jim Rodney (Francis Ford) and his gang when Rodney terrorizes a small town in order to…