Dorrell McGowan

Dorrell McGowan

Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Director), 40 (Writer)

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    The Big Show
    At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. (imdb)
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    Hellfire
    Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another. (imdb)
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    Comin\
    His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what's at stake is a horse race and a bull fight. (imdb)
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    Don\
    Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge. Songs include the title song by Cole Porter and two famous songs by the Sons of the Pioneers, "The Last Roundup" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." (imdb)
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    Down Mexico Way
    After the bad guys swindle the good folk of Sage City, Gene and Frog chase them to Mexico where they are now trying to rob a rich Mexican ranchero. (imdb)
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    Git Along Little Dogies
    When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railroad to town. (imdb)
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    Guns and Guitars
    After being framed for murdering the sheriff, Gene proves his innocence, then gets elected sheriff to go after the baddie who framed him. (imdb)
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    Jeepers Creepers
    In this drama, a young businessman is forced to dig with a pick for a day after he almost caused a fire. While toiling away, he discovers a major coal vein on the Weaver's land. The greedy fellow then begins to slyly buy up their land. His incautious digging then causes a forest fire. Fortunately the Weaver family is there to help him out. (allrovi.com)
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    Man of the Frontier
    Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site. (imdb)
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    Ride Ranger Ride
    Gene is a Texas Ranger working under cover to protect an Army wagon train full of ammunition and supplies. The Army doesn't believe him at first, until the Commanches arrive. (imdb)
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    Rovin\
    As a congressman, Gene exposes a crooked politician who is delaying passage of a flood control bill. (imdb)
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    Saddle Pals
    Someone is trying to drive wealthy land owner Waldo Brooks into bankruptcy, and Gene is just the guy to expose the badguys. (imdb)
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    San Fernando Valley
    A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it. They will rustle the horses and when the women hands are unable to find them, they will bring them in and get their old jobs back. But the two hands that steal the horses sell them and then claim they were robbed. (imdb)
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    Sea Spoilers
    When Coast Guard Commander arrives at his actress girlfriend's yacht he find the owner killed, contraband seal skins, and no girlfriend. (imdb)
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    The Showdown
    Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has a ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for he and Shadrach. At the saloon-hotel ran by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on a cattle drive by Captain McKellar to Montana is the killer, and he takes the trail-herd boss job to identify the man. (imdb)
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    The Singing Cowboy
    When Gene's boss is murdered, the bosses daughter is seriously injured. To raise money for her operation, Gene and the ranch hands enter the new medium of television as singers. When they do well the bank agrees to lend them the needed money. Martin is after the ranch and he was the murderer. Now he has to make sure the daughter doesn't get the operation so he sends his henchmen out to wreck Gene's equipment. (imdb)
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    The Inner Circle
    A private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true. (imdb)
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    Stardust on the Sage
    The foreman of a mining company is out to steal the mine from its owners, and Gene must stop him. (imdb)
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    Twilight on the Rio Grande
    Gene's friend has been murdered near a Mexican border crossing and it appears to be the work of jewelry smugglers. Gene meets Elena whose father disappeared at the same border crossing. Elena has some jewels and she lets Gene borrow them. He first uses them to find out who the smugglers are and then uses them as bait in an effort to trap them. (imdb)
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    Valley of the Zombies
    A man needs blood to keep himself alive, and kills and embalms his victims. (Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings)
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    Singing Guns
    Rhiannon, an outlaw who regularly robs gold from the stagecoach, shoots the new sheriff and then carries him to the doctor. The doctor cleans up Rhiannon and presents him to the sheriff as the man who saved his life. Rhiannon is deputized by the sheriff, and becomes torn between his new life and the prospect of robbing the next gold shipment. (imdb)
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    Tokyo File 212
    A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities. (imdb)
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    The Big Bonanza
    Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim. (imdb)
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    Down in \
    A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of the benefits to them of a proposed dam on their river. (imdb)
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    Hollywood Stadium Mystery
    A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling. (imdb)
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    Lady Luck
    New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli. (imdb)
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    A Man Betrayed
    A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed. (imdb)
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    Sea Racketeers
    J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
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    Friendly Neighbors
    The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out. (allmovie.com)
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    Missing Evidence
    A Government agent finds romance while investigating a fraudulent sweepstakes racket. (imdb)
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    The Littlest Hobo
    A German Shepherd dog helps a lamb to escape the slaughter house (imdb)
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    Smashing the Spy Ring
    G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders. (BFI)
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    The Bashful Elephant
    Set in a traveling circus in modern (1962) Austria, the story centers around Tristie (Molly Mack), a 12-year-old escapee from behind the Iron Curtain, who is hunted by the law, rescued by a giant border dog and "adopted" by an elephant.
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    Swing Your Partner
    Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese.
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    Sing, Neighbor, Sing
    Country radio singers of the '40s appear in this tale about a lothario who poses as a professor to seduce coeds.
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    O, My Darling Clementine
    "Dapper Dan" Franklin (Frank Albertson)and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire)is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington (Isabel Randolph). One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine (Lorna Gray), and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.
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    The Trespasser
    Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Denny Butler, the feature editor on the same newspaper, set out to track down a gang of literary forgers who are making a fortune off of selling fake first editions.
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    Night Train to Memphis
    On a train heading into the small mountain town of Tranquility, Danny Acuff kisses a beautiful woman before hopping off a still-moving car. At the Tranquility station, the woman, whose name is Constance Stevenson, her father and their lawyer, Wilson, detrain and introduce themselves as the Smiths, claiming that they are in town to fish in the lake. Station master Roy Acuff, who does not see his brother Danny sneak into town, is also enthralled by Constance. Immediately afterward,
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    Trouble in Sundown
    The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.
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    Barnyard Follies
    Pappy, the manager of the Farmdale orphanage, appropriates five thousand dollars of the taxpayers' money to enroll his charges in a 4-H project that could make the orphanage self-sufficient. This infuriates Hiram Crabtree and Sam Spitz, who profit from selling supplies to the orphanage and therefore have no desire to see it become self-sufficient. Consequently, Crabtree and Spitz charge Pappy with misappropriation of funds and demand that he repay the money immediately.
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