Pony Express Days (1940)
Género : Western
Tiempo de ejecución : 20M
Director : B. Reeves Eason
Escritor : Charles L. Tedford
Sinopsis
In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
A los 12 años Bill Cody, más tarde conocido como Buffalo Bill, es jinete de "poney express" transportando el correo a través de las zonas salvajes de Estados Unidos. Ya de mayor se convierte en guía de caravanas. Cuando conduce una de ellas conoce a Luisa, sobrina de un sacerdote que trata de evangelizar a las tribus salvajes acompañado de un indio convertido. Es una época peligrosa ya que, ante el avance del hombre blanco, las tribus sioux están comprando armas a traficantes sin escrúpulos.. (FILMAFFINITY)
A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang.
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.
Nuestro protagonista comete una infracción al alcance de muy pocos, viendo sus intenciones por conseguir dinero rápido y un buen caballo, toma el camino fácil y roba un legendario caballo a un indio con muy malas pulgas. Decide huir a toda mecha sin que nadie consiga seguirle la pista. El indio ,emprende un viaje en el que no parará hasta que consiga lo que le fue robado.
Ex-Pony Express rider Autry ties to protect his US mail franchise as the Pony Express gives way to stage coach mail and the telegraph. Gene's last film appearance as a singing cowboy.
En un viejo parque helado y solitario, dos sombras se encuentran: la de Dios y la de un Mensajero. Este le entrega al vagabundo una maleta repleta de dinero. En un lago cercano, la joven Joana está a punto de ahogarse; Joao le salva la vida y la conduce, desvanecida, a un convento de monjas. Después vuelve al parque a recuperar la maleta y su precioso contenido: por suerte, nadie ha tocado nada
A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities' attention from their own activities.
Marshal "Rocky" Lane comes to the aid of Sheriff Bill Walters who is having a hard time trying to save the local farmers and ranchers from raids and hijackings.
A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly with her, promising all kinds of wealth for her favors. The caravan encounters a group of Jdean refugees fleeing from King Herod's orders to kill all male children. They are on their way to Egypt with a male child with them. The Merchant begins to ponder the reward that would be paid by the King and orders The Woman to seduce a Roman guard to enable the messenger to get away. When the King's soldiers show up, Verrus refuses to surrender the refugees. Then the sand hits the fan.
Donaldson intenta perturbar la paz existente entre blancos y siux, vendiendo armas a los indios. Bufalo Bill es enviado a frenar el comercio de armas y así evitar una guerra con los indios. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un desertor del ejército se encuentra con una caravana que necesita protección frente a los indios. Decide entonces hacerse pasar por un oficial muerto y lleva a los viajeros hasta su destino. Entonces se presenta a las autoridades. (FILMAFFINITY)
Reconstrucción de la última rebelión indígena de los Mocovíes en San Javier, al norte de la provincia de Santa Fe, en 1904. Película muda.
Petr is a courier, a messenger as a matter of fact. He is one of those young men who believe that on their bikes they have become part and parcel of the atmosphere of modern cities. He is a non-conformist who refuses to settle into today‘s deformed society, he abhors its indolence, consumerism and lies, as well as its pseudo-truths, pseudo-feelings, pseudo-loves and pseudo-values. Petr’s untrammelled personality keeps causing more and more serious problems. And Petr is also one of those who will never admit to themselves that they might be at the end of their tether.
Javier Navarro, un falangista, recibe la orden de infiltrarse en el Madrid republicano para entregar un mensaje a un miembro de la Quinta Columna.
One of the passengers on a train to Tombstone decides to rob it of the $250,000 it is carrying.
Búfalo Bill y su ayudante Cactus corren en ayuda de una caravana de pioneras que están siendo hostigadas por los indios y descubren que las mujeres son soldados del ejército que intentan descubrir a unos indios que no cumplen las condiciones de un tratado de paz. Sin embargo aún hay más sorpresas pues, tras el disfraz de guerreros sioux, se ocultan los secuaces de Blake, un hombre sin escrúpulos que desea romper el acuerdo para poder apoderarse de los yacimientos de oro descubiertos en la tierra del jefe Nube Blanca. Búfalo Bill intentará resolver el entuerto.
The Confederate Army wants to get an important message through to General Lee, but all the carrier pigeons have been shot down. Tweety steps in.
Columbia Pictures elevated a run-of-the-mill B-western supporting player, Marshall Reed, to the title role in this equally run-of-the-mill western serial released in 15 chapters. Like most serials in the '50s, Riding with Buffalo Bill consisted of quite a bit of budget-stretching stock footage telling a highly fictionalized account of Buffalo Bill Cody aiding a group of ranchers in their defeat of a local crime lord. The serial's assistant director, Leonard Katzman, later produced the long-running television series Gunsmoke and Dallas.