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serials when i was younger and it was hard not to notice that the cream of the crop all bore his name as director along with his frequent co director john english witney made one memorable republic serial after another like drums of fu manchu 1940 adventures of captain marvel 1941 jungle girl 1941 spy smasher 1942 the crimson ghost 1946 and others too numerous to list here in the postwar era the market for serials started to dry up and witney turned to making westerns for republic pictures including many with roy rogers tarantino loves what witney did with rogers s films during this period after their first few movies together tarantino said witney had gotten roy out of his fringe and sparkle attire and was dressing him in normal attire blue jeans and stuff they stopped being these crazy musicals he turned them into rough tough violent adventures tarantino is absolutely right witney was an old hand at directing knock down drag out fistfights in serials and he brought this experience to his features with roy rogers the best fight i ve seen in a roy rogers film that witney directed is probably the one in bells of san angelo 1947 but all of their collaborations had plenty of action and the golden stallion is no exception what i found most impressive about the golden stallion were not any of the fight scenes but rather the scenes of trigger galloping at the head of a herd of wild horses these sequence appear to have been filmed from a jeep and they re full of speed and drama so is the golden stallion as tarantino claims the best film that witney and rogers made together that s hard for me to say because their films were of such a consistent level of quality for better and for worse like all of their other films the golden stallion had a low budget a tight shooting schedule and hokey humor but it has a better than average plot about a gang smuggling uncut diamonds over the border hidden in horseshoes nailed to the hooves of wild horses a great scene where roy has to make an enormous sacrifice to save trigger s life and some really beautiful filmmaking if you like b westerns especially if you like b westerns with singing cowboys you really can t go wrong with any of the roy rogers films that witney directed but if you re unsure about b westerns and you want to see just one check out the golden stallion just make sure you watch the full version which is 67 minutes long there s a truncated version that s less than an hour long currently on youtube but the full color version is available to stream if you re an amazon prime member leave a comment posted in 1949 november 1949 and tagged dale evans estelita rodriguez pat brady quentin tarantino republic pictures roy rogers trigger westerns william witney bookmark the permalink under california stars april 30 1948 posted on august 19 2012 by adam lounsbery under california stars is one of those trigger in peril pictures in which roy rogers s faithful palomino trigger the smartest horse in movies faces terrible danger and only his best friend roy rogers can make things right with plenty of help from trigger himself of course another trigger in peril film the golden stallion was the subject of a ny times piece in which quentin tarantino waxed rhapsodic about the film s director it s a great article and you can read it by clicking on this sentence like most roy rogers movies made in the post war 40s under california stars was directed by william witney a veteran b movie director born in 1915 who had nearly 40 westerns and serials under his belt by 1948 witney was a brilliant director of action he was reportedly inspired by watching busby berkeley direct big musical numbers in which different takes were designed to be cut together for a coherent whole before witney s innovative work on action serials most directors would just train the camera on the stuntmen and let them do their thing but witney took a more active role arranging action set pieces that incorporated elegant camera movements and effective cutting between actors and their stuntmen doubles the serials he directed for republic pictures were done on a tight budget and an even tighter timeline so witney often directed the action segments while his frequent collaborator john english handled the dialogue scenes witney and english directed adventures of captain marvel 1941 which i consider the greatest serial ever made witney s film work is a far cry from today s hyperactive chopped to hell action movies but in many ways he is the father of the modern action movie under california stars isn t wall to wall action but the fight scenes are well done and like most witney joints it s a classic example of good b filmmaking like most roy rogers movies from the 40s under california stars blurs the line between roy s on screen persona and his real life he plays a character named roy rogers who when the film begins is being told by his director roy you can be mighty proud of your ten years in pictures roy s first starring role was in the film under western stars which was released on april 20 1938 the action quickly shifts from hollywood to the double r ranch where trigger and roy are met by foreman cookie bullfincher andy devine as well as bob nolan and the sons of the pioneers who sing a hymn to roy s good natured greatness roy is also presented with a 10 year anniversary cake and does a radio broadcast from the double r in which he sings dust one of the songs that made him famous but not everyone is thrilled to pieces about roy rogers and his marvelous horse lige mcfarland wade crosby and his henchman ed house peters jr resent the handsome do gooder and hatch a scheme to kidnap trigger and ransom him for 100 000 or else under california stars is a brisk well made saturday matinee western with good songs and hard hitting action the whole film is currently uploaded to youtube and you can watch it by clicking on the link below it s also currently available to download from archive org leave a comment posted in 1948 april 1948 and tagged andy devine bob nolan jane frazee musicals paul gangelin republic pictures roy rogers sloan nibley the sons of the pioneers trigger westerns william witney bookmark the permalink bells of san angelo april 15 1947 posted on may 9 2011 by adam lounsbery bells of san angelo 1947 directed by william witney republic pictures bells of san angelo was roy rogers s second western filmed in trucolor a two color film process the first was apache rose released earlier in 1947 it was also the fifth film he made with director william witney who i ve been a big fan of since high school witney directed my favorite republic serials often with john english such as adventures of captain marvel 1941 jungle girl 1941 and spy smasher 1942 witney had a sure hand with pulpy material and never made a picture that was less than entertaining the stunt work in his films was always a high point his action scenes especially the fights were incredibly well staged and still hold up pretty well there are currently a few ways to see bells of san angelo online it s available on youtube at internet archive and on netflix instant watch the version on netflix is the version that was edited for tv it s in black and white not color and shaves more than 20 minutes off the running time among the scenes that are lost is a really good fistfight between roy and one of the bad guys so if you want to see this movie i recommend downloading the version from internet archive or watching it on youtube you can click the links above to go directly to this movie in bells of san angelo roy plays as usual a character named roy rogers in this one roy is a border investigator there are nefarious goings on down at the old monarch mines which are run by a man named rex gridley john mcguire a handsome dark haired gentleman with a pet bird named cinderella in the first of many exciting action scenes gridley s right hand man ulrich david sharpe shoots a man fleeing by stagecoach then plants some silver ore in his pocket ulrich s official story is that he was shooting down a thief but roy smells something rotten roy s comical sidekick in bells of san angelo is a big fat guy named cookie bullfincher andy devine who s san angelo s mayor sheriff and official dog catcher but the soft hearted cookie is really more of a dog keeper cookie may have a passel of titles but roy is the real authority and his reach extends down into mexico when roy learns that western pulp writer lee madison is coming to town and will be observing him work he exclaims i don t mind chasin thieves and murderers but this is too much madison is the author of numerous western potboilers including one called murder on the border and roy thinks madison will just twist reality to suit the tastes of a bloodthirsty readership it should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone when it s revealed that madison is actually a woman or that she will hide her identity from roy as long as she can creating all manner of humorous misunderstandings madison is played by dale evans roy s real life wife and they re really cute together they always seem to be having fun in their scenes which softens things when he s being a chauvinist and threatening to spank her or calling her the nosiest girl i ve ever met director witney is more concerned with packing the film full of entertainment than with narrative coherence but who cares there are songs aplenty subplots galore and lots of action some of it pretty rough for a saturday matinée picture aimed at kids bells of san angelo was filmed in valley of fire state park in nevada and the scenery is spectacular of course it looks nothing like san angelo texas which by the way is in the heart of texas not anywhere near the mexican border but whatever if you like roy rogers dale evans and trigger you ll love this movie 1 comment posted in 1947 april 1947 and tagged andy devine bells of san angelo bob nolan charles maxwell charles sullivan dale evans dale van sickel david sharpe eddie acuff edward j white ernest gold fred snowflake toones fritz leiber hank patterson jack a marta john mcguire joseph dubin karl farr keefe brasselle ken carson lester orlebeck olaf hytten pat brady paul gangelin ray turner republic pictures rex rossi roy rogers sloan nibley the sons of the pioneers tim spencer trigger westerns william witney bookmark the permalink out california way dec 5 1946 posted on december 27 2010 by adam lounsbery in the grand tradition of singing cowboys monte hale plays a character in out california way named monte hale out california way is filmed in trucolor a two color film process owned by republic pictures and throws hale into a metafictional world that pulls back the curtain and allows boys and girls at the saturday matinée to see what might be going on behind the scenes at republic with all of their favorite cowboy stars hale doesn t sit quite as tall in the saddle as republic s big boys gene autry and roy rogers but he s self effacing and charming enough to be believable when he says he s just a plain cowboy trying to break in to the movies he s assisted by little danny mccoy bobby blake famous for playing little beaver in the red ryder series who s trying to get his horse pardner into the movies opposing them is the prima donna rod mason john dehner who s a big radio star as the robin hood of the range and has a career in pictures too little danny mccoy is president of the rod mason fan club but that changes pretty fast after he actually meets the guy not only is mason temperamental and nasty to his co stars but he hates children and animals after threatening to whip pardner if danny doesn t get him off the set it s clear that danny has room in his heart for another cowboy actor for that matter so does his young pretty mother gloria played by lorna gray who s just 16 years older than blake hale s an expert horse trainer and together he and pardner form a great team originally cast as stunt actors on one of rod mason s pictures they do such a good job that every rewrite comes back with a bigger role for hale and a smaller part for mason mason and his sidekick stunt rider ace hanlon fred graham are typical black hats so they stop at nothing to foil hale and pardner s success while performing a stunt ace throws short fuse dynamite at hale that doesn t kill him but totally blows pardner s nerves hale takes time off to retrain pardner and help him over his trauma but mason and ace immediately undo his hard work by sneaking into the corral at night and freaking out pardner all over again by repeatedly firing a revolver near his head on his journey from plain cowboy to movie star hale is joined by special guest stars allan lane don red barry dale evans roy rogers and horse trigger all members of republic pictures stable of western stars and all playing themselves in the sequence in which hale gives gloria a tour of the studios roy and dale perform a nice rendition of ridin down the sunset trail for them not bad for a first date john dehner who would later be a recurring actor on gunsmoke both the radio and tv versions was a fine actor and makes for a great villain in this picture while out california way isn t substantively different from any of the hundreds of other oaters put out by republic pictures it was fun to see a slightly different plot than the dependable old evil land baron makes a grab for smaller ranchers land 1 comment posted in 1946 december 1946 and tagged adrian booth allan lane barry shipman betty burbridge bobby blake bud thackery charles craft dale evans don red barry don barry donald barry edward keane foy willing fred graham jimmy starr john dehner lesley selander lorna gray louis gray monte hale musicals nathan scott nolan leary out california way republic pictures robert blake roy rogers st luke s episcopal church choristers the riders of the purple sage tom london trigger westerns bookmark the permalink don t fence me in oct 20 1945 posted on november 23 2009 by adam lounsbery don t fence me in is a particularly good roy rogers picture directed by john english who with william witney directed some of the best republic serials of the late 30s and early 40s it s a well paced exciting and thoroughly enjoyable b western the film opens with a western montage accompanied by the cole porter song from which the film gets its title after the credits roll we re treated to a cheap looking boot hill set with a matte painting background that looks as if it s about two feet away a narrator tells us that once upon a time as a matter of fact nearly forty years ago there was a notorious western outlaw named wildcat kelly he didn t want to be fenced in either but they stuffed him into a pine box and buried him six feet under the sod on boot hill a masked man rises from behind kelly s tombstone carrying a gun and a wells fargo case the narrator sounding surprised says wait a minute that looks like wildcat kelly it is wildcat kelly there s something 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