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Classic Adventure

Remember those moments where the main character finds himself in a difficult or precarious dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation, those thrill-a-minute extravaganzas, those rip-roaring spectacles, swashbuckling and derring-do action, cliff-hanger endings .... that was what Saturday Matinees were made of. Below is a compilation of the 'essence' of this wonderful genre. See also 'Cliff-Hanger Serials'

The Last Round-up (1947)

6.3/10
Director: John English
Starring: Gene Autry

Gene responds to cattle rustling by stringing barbed wire all around his range. In order to end the cattle rustling, Gene Autry becomes one of the... Read more

Twilight On The Rio Grande (1947)

6.4/10
Director: Frank McDonald
Starring: Gene Autry

In yet another version of probably Republic's most-used single plot---the basis for "The Leathernecks Have Landed"-"Rough Riders Round-Up", "Guns in t... Read more

Sioux City Sue (1946)

6.4/10
Director: Frank McDonald
Starring: Gene Autry

Utilizing a script from 1939's "She Married a Cop" with a 1946 Hit Parade song for the title, Gene Autry's screen return following his WW II Army Air... Read more

Bells of Rosarita (1945)

6.7/10
Director: Frank McDonald
Starring: Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, George Gabby Hayes, Bob Nolan, Trigger The Horse

Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at t... Read more

Captain Kidd (1945)

6.4/10
Director: Rowland V Lee
Starring: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, John Carradine, Barbara Britton

Charles Laughton stars as the cruel, ruthless pirate, Captain Kidd. Despite his reputation, King William III enlists Kidd and his men to safeguard pas... Read more

Billy the Kid - Frontier Outlaws (1944)

Director: Sam Newfield
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Fuzzy St John

The first entry in the "Billy the Kid" film series, this classic western features the Wild West legend taking a stand against a group of outlaws tryin... Read more

Gorilla ( aka Nabonga ) (1944)

6.7/10
Director: Sam Newfield
Starring: Julie London, Larry 'Buster' Crabbe

In this campy jungle adventure, a gorilla named Nabonga warms up to a teenage girl whose plane, which was also carrying a bundle of embezzled cash, cr... Read more

Son of Fury (1942)

7.1/10
Director: John Cromwell
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, T...

An exciting swashbuckler set in the early 19th century and starring Tyrone Power as the illegitimate son of a British nobleman who is forced into serv... Read more

Stardust On The Sage (1942)

6.5/10
Director: William Morgan
Starring: Gene Autry

The foreman of a mining company is out to steal the mine from its owners, and Gene must stop him. Read more

Heart Of The Rio Grande (1942)

6.2/10
Director: William Morgan
Starring: Gene Autry

As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman... Read more