Hi Y’all! My husband Larry has been going through some boxes that we haven’t looked through since we moved here (Utah) from California — about 14 years ago. He is finding some great stuff! One of the great things he has found is the above photo copy of Mom (Dale Evans), their good …
Mar 14
Grand Canyon Trail STARRING Roy Rogers from 1948
Grand Canyon Trail STARRING Roy Rogers complete western movie from 1948. Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until J. Malcolm Vanderpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy’s partners put $20,000 into the business only to find that the mine is worthless and Vanerpool is bankrupt. Carol comes out to look for silver to …
Mar 13
THE WESTERN FILMS
Howdy! MORE WESTERN FILMS WILL BE HERE VERY SOON! There are already almost 100 western films on the site and many more movies will be on the website very soon. Thanks for stopping by and we hope you will come back often for all the films and the information about the stars and the movies straight …
Mar 13
ROY ROGERS AND CARY GRANT IN PARTNERSHIP???
Actually it was Cary Grant, Dad, Red Skelton and Richard Widmark who were talking about forming a partnership to invest in a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico in the mid-1940s! I don’t remember anything about this (sure wish it had happened as Grant and Widmark were extraordinary businessmen!) but a friend of mine, who is a …
Mar 12
Dad – Richard Dix
Dad Dix is remembered primarily as a Western Movie Star although out of the 100 plus movies, both Silent and Sound, seventeen were Westerns. “American Empire” brought Dad and Preston Foster together in an adventure in Texas, building a cattle empire. The two men were long time friends from their earlier days as Actors doing …
Mar 12
ROY ROGERS COMIC BOOKS
Roy Rogers Comic Books were printed in more than one language. The one on the left is in Spanish and the one on the right is in English. The largest foreign fan club was in London (70,000 plus members) and the second largest was in Brazil. This Spanish language comic has an ad on the …
Mar 12
Arizona Round-Up (1942)
Arizona Round-Up (1942) A rancher who provides horses to the government remount station is being froze out of business by other land owners charging exorbitant prices to the ranchers to get their horses or cattle shipped through the right-of-way which provides the only other route to the station. Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey (as Robert …
Mar 11
Fugitive of the Plains (1943)
Fugitive of the Plains (1943) Billy and Fuzzy find out crimes are being committed in Billy’s name in nearby Red Rock County. They ride to the County in the hopes of clearing his name. Billy then discovers a gang headed by pretty Kate Shelly. The gang knows who he is and let him join but …
Mar 11
ROY ROGERS’ ORIENTAL EYES
When Dad (Roy Rogers) started starring in movies, the studio tried several things to get him to open his eyes wider. You can see in the above photo (just received from my friend, Larry Zwisohn) why the studios thought they needed to do that. Flash cameras just didn’t have a fast enough shutter speed to …
Mar 10
MACKINTOSH & TJ
I sure hope that you are some of the few people who saw what I think was one of Dad’s very best films! It wasn’t out at the movie theaters very long (just a few weeks) as there was a law suit filed. Not about the film itself but between the producers! Dad, of course, …
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