Alibi

Wild West Showdown (1994)

Actors: Bret Culpepper (miscellaneous crew), Bret Culpepper (miscellaneous crew), Alex Cord (actor), Jason Rodriguez (actor), Lisa Guerrero (actress), Nancy Brindley Bhagia (miscellaneous crew), Con Schell (actor), Joe Fowler (actor), Cheryl Lawson (actress), Craig Branham (actor), Juddson Keith Linn (actor), Sandy Berumen (actress), Richard F.W. Davis (composer), Jeff Manzanares (actor), Tremel James (actor),

Genres: Game-Show, Sport,

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Actors: Rance Howard (actor), Strother Martin (actor), Wayne Rogers (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Clifton James (actor), George Kennedy (actor), Paul Newman (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Robert Donner (actor), James Gammon (actor), Joe Don Baker (actor), Chuck Hicks (actor), Dennis Hopper (actor), Anthony Zerbe (actor), Ralph Waite (actor),

Plot: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Keywords: abuse, against-the-odds, against-the-system, aimlessness, alcoholism, anti-conformity, anti-hero, antihero, arrogance, atheist
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." On the chain gang, they'd seen every kind of man...but Luke became a legend. Sometimes, "Nothing" can be a really Cool Hand. No one can eat fifty eggs. The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform. He was a cool customer. . .until the law made it hot for him!

Quotes:

Dragline: He's a natural born world-shaker.

Dragline: He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

Dragline: [watching sexy girl wash a car] My Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes.

Dragline: That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.

Luke: Well that oughta be easy for a genuine son of a bitch.

Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?::Luke: I don't know, Boss.::Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

[Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters]::Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.

Dragline: Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.

Carr: Any man playing grabass or fightin' in the building spends a night in the box.

Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...::Luke: ...the box.::Carr: I hope you ain't going to be a hard case.::Luke: [Smiles, shakes head] .

Range Justice (1949)

Actors: Ronald Davidson (writer), Tristram Coffin (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Elmer (actor), Ray Taylor (director), Al Haskell (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Riley Hill (actor), Fred Kohler Jr. (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Max Terhune (actor), Jack Tornek (actor), Bob Woodward (actor), John C. Fuller (editor),

Plot: Johnny Mack goes to work on "Ma" Curtis' ranch, to the disapproval of his friends, rancher Glenn Hadley and his sister Beth, who are at odds with her. Secretly, Ma's foreman Stoner is plotting with real estate man Ed Dutton to ruin her ranch and acquire it cheaply, with controlling water rights. Johnny stops henchman Dade in an attempt to dynamite the barn and Stoner, supposedly taking him to the sheriff, kills him. Johnny stops Glenn and Beth from tearing down a Curtis fence in order to get their cattle to water, but Glenn refuses to help even after Johnny explains he is helping Ma in order to find out who is behind the attacks on both ranches. Ma pretends to fire Johnny for saving Glenn from an ambush. As the outlaws attempt to rustle Ma's remaining cattle, Johnny, Alibi and Glenn join forces.

Keywords: land-swindle
Genres: Western,

Trails End (1949)

Actors: John C. Fuller (editor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Elmer (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Carol Henry (actor), Lambert Hillyer (director), William Bailey (actor), Zon Murray (actor), Keith Richards (actor), Boyd Stockman (actor), Max Terhune (actor), Barney A. Sarecky (producer), J. Benton Cheney (writer),

Plot: Cowhand Drake discovers gold on the ranch of his boss, Joe Stuart and makes a deal with crooked lawyer Mel Porter to induce Stuart to sell. The latter refuses, and also orders Bill Cameron not to see his daughter Laurie again. Foreman Johnny Mack, after intervening, quits after he sees Stuart hit Laurie while quarreling over her proposed marriage to Cameron. Peddler Alibi Terhune witnesses the killing of Stuart by Clem Kettering, hired by Porter, and is taken prisoner. Cameron is blamed for Stuart's killing, escapes jail, but is persuaded by Johnny to go back and stand trial. Johnny rescues Alibi and the two work together on clearing Cameron's name, and bringing the real culprits to justice.

Genres: Western,
Taglines: Johnny's guns upset a murder frame-up... in the land of the mother-lode!

West of El Dorado (1949)

Actors: Ray Taylor (director), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Elmer (actor), Terry Frost (actor), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Bob McElroy (actor), Milburn Morante (actor), Artie Ortego (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), William Bailey (actor), Marshall Reed (actor), Boyd Stockman (actor), Max Terhune (actor), Bob Woodward (actor),

Plot: Johnny Mack returns to Pony Mesa, where his friend Alibi gives him a letter from Mary, granddaughter of his former boss Brimstone, asking Johnny to forget his quarrel with the old man and return and save the ranch. On the way there, Johnny shoots Steve Dallas after the latter kills the stagecoach driver in a robbery attempt. The outlaw's 13-year-old brother Larry accuses Johnny of killing Steve without reason, not knowing his brother was a wanted outlaw for a bank holdup. Johnny persuades Brimstone to let Larry stay at his ranch. Steve's outlaw partner, Ed Stone and his henchmen, Barstow and Joe, are searching for the missing bank-robbery money. Larry finds it in the lining of a coat belonging to Steve and is on his way to the sheriff when he is intercepted by Stone and his gang.

Genres: Western,

Hidden Danger (1948)

Actors: John C. Fuller (editor), Steve Clark (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Elmer (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Bob Woodward (actor), Barney A. Sarecky (producer), J. Benton Cheney (writer), Ray Taylor (director), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Carol Henry (actor), Milburn Morante (actor),

Plot: Rancher Terry Mason's cattle are scattered by James Carson's henchmen after his refusal to join the latter's crooked Cattlemen's Protective Association. Mason's ranch-hand, Perry, is secretly working for Carson, and he blames the raid on the Russell outfit. Meanwhile, Russell, packing company owner, sends for his ace trouble-shooter, Johnny Mack, to help combat the Carson gang. When Mason accuses Russell Russell of the raid, Johnny, in pretended anger, quits Russell and, with his sidekick, Juniper, works with Mason as an investigator. Carson has his visiting niece, Valerie, befriend Mason in the hopes she will convince Mason to join the association. Johnny saves Mason's foreman, Alibi, when Carson's henchmen, led by BENDA, attempt an ambush. Johnny wounds Trigger, Carson's hired gunman, in a gun duel after killing another outlaw, Loop. Carson forges a letter to make it appear that Russell wants Johnny to wreck the association. The sheriff arrests Johnny and Juniper, but Alibi helps them escape. Meanwhile Velerie overhears her uncle and BENDA plot to ruin Mason's ranch.

Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, ambush, b-movie, b-western, cattle-rancher, cattleman, cattleman-association, deceit, deception
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western,
Taglines: JOHNNY BLASTS PROTECTION RACKETEERS! (original ad - all caps) SIX-GUN SADDLE SPY! (original ad - all caps) Johnny goes underground...to catch a killer! HE'S GUNNING FOR RENEGADE RANGE RATS! (original poster-all caps) SIX-GUN ACTION THAT DRIVES TERROR OUT INTO THE OPEN! (original poster - all caps)

West of Pinto Basin (1940)

Actors: S. Roy Luby (editor), Roy Bucko (actor), Budd Buster (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Phil Dunham (actor), Elmer (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Ray Jones (actor), John 'Dusty' King (actor), Carl Mathews (actor), Bud McClure (actor), Milburn Morante (actor),

Plot: The Range Busters head for Pinto Basin where a series of stage robberies have occurred. To try and find the gang's boss, Crash sends out a empty money box. The plan backfires when the boss has the Range Busters identified as the robbers. Thinking it is now safe, the bank sends out a big money shipment. Needing to rob the stage, the boss gets the boys out of jail so they can be blamed. But this is just the chance they need to catch the robbers.

Keywords: range-busters-series
Genres: Western,
Taglines: The season's sure-fire smash. Three gay adventurers stick their heads in a noose and live to tell the tale!