Blazing Across the Pecos (1948)

In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western series. Once again, Charles Starrett stars as Steve Carson, a lawman who is forced to assume the identity of masked do-gooder Durango. Framed for murder, Carson escapes to locate the real killer. It turns out that he was set up by cattle baron Buck Prescott (Frank Fenton), who eliminates competition by stealing livestock from other ranchers.

The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders that threaten to fuel a range war.

Numa região de fronteira do velho oeste uma verdadeira guerra é travada entre os pioneiros. O rancheiro Sam Lowry (Frank LaRue) é covardemente assassinado pela gangue de Mace Ballard (Kenneth MacDonald) sob a falsa acusação de que estaria traindo os colonos. Depois desse crime brutal surge no horizonte um novo personagem. "Durango Kid", um pistoleiro mascarado que, com ares de Robin Hood, resolve defender todas as pessoas oprimidas da região. Durango é na realidade Bill Lowry (Charles Starrett), um homem íntegro e honesto que deseja ver a justiça novamente imperando naquela terra sem lei.

An outlaw gang is trying to stop the reopening of a mine as they look for the money left there by the famous outlaw Dusty Morton. After a ten year absence, Morton has apparently reappeared and Steve arrives looking for him. He finds his son who also wonders if his father is still alive. With the gang soon after him, the Durango Kid goes into action and Steve tries to learn who the real Dusty Morgan is.

Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the killing of Henley. Not only is he now in trouble as both the Rangers and the Mexican Rurales are after him, but Smiley knows him and may expose his masquerade to the bad guys.

The Durango Kid fights to catch the rustlers who killed an Army officer.

Treasury Department Steve Waring, and also, unknown to others, the Durango Kid, comes to Sunset Pass in search of $1000,000 in gold coins, stolen from the government by the late Forrest Brent. He is aided by Smiley Burnette, the local deputy sheriff. Later, Paula Thorpe, Brent's daughter from his first marriage, arrives with her lawyer sweetheart Frank Raeburn, with intentions of proving her father's estate belongs to her and not to Mrs. Brent, his wife of record when he died. The widow Brent has no intentions of giving up one single cent.

Arriving to become the new Deputy, Steve Gordon takes over as Sheriff instead when he finds the Sheriff has been killed. He doesn't last long and is fired for incompetence. But he realizes Brady is pulling off a swindle. Having found the proper soil, Brady has salted it with cheap diamonds, gotten Smiley to accidently find them, and is now taking money from eager investors and planning to flee with it.

In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town. The trouble begins when a cowboy finds himself convinced by the evil town father that he has killed the sheriff. In exchange for his silence, the official forces the man to become the new sheriff and instructs him to turn a blind eye to the villain's evil doings.

A viúva Mahoney, a melhor cozinheira da cidade e proprietária do hotel, junto com seus filhos de lares, está tentando assumir o controle do suprimento de água da cidade para que ela possa adquirir o rancho do vale a baixo custo.

Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by starting an Indian war. Dressed as Indians they are attacking the soldiers. Steve Holden is the Indian agent sent to prevent a war. After finding proof that white men posing as Indians were responsible, he is able to locate the gang's hideout but quickly becomes a prisoner slated to be killed. - Written by Maurice VanAuken

It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.

Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The Durango Kid, mysterious righter of wrongs. The "wrongs" in this instance include the theft of $20,000 in gold, and the "kidnapping" of a blacksmith's forge! Jim Bannon, who only a few months earlier had played the heroic Red Ryder, provides the villainy in this fast-paced "Durango Kid" entry

Em "Landrush", Steve Harmon chega a Border Plain para inspecionar a terra, conhecida como Spur, que logo será aberta aos colonizadores. A área é um refúgio natural para uma gangue desesperada liderada por Claw Hawkins, já sob suspeita de ter assassinado um piloto da Pony Express. A gangue de Hawkins destrói o escritório do jornal de Jake Parker, mas Hawkins perde uma conta marcada de US $ 100 que ele havia roubado do Expresso. Jake encontra e envia para Steve e Xerife Tim Collins. Sabendo que Hawkins ainda representa um perigo para Jake, Steve muda-se para o Durango Kid e o sequestra, escondendo-o na carpintaria, dirigida por seu amigo Smiley. Lá, Jake foge de panfletos e percebe que o Spur está aberto para assentamento e a terra será adquirida através de um primeiro-lá-lá landrush. A gangue de Hawkins, secretamente liderada pelo fazendeiro Caleb Garvey, tenta contornar o landrush pegando um atalho e iniciando um incêndio de pradaria no caminho dos landrushers.

A masked outlaw steals from bank robbers to help the poor.

Carson e Drake descobrem uma caverna de ouro que pertence aos índios que não sabem disso, então eles tentam fomentar uma guerra que vai acabar com os nativos americanos e reivindicar o metal amarelo.

Charles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a postal inspector who has gone underground to catch the bad guys. His longtime sidekick, Smiley Burnette appears as an itinerant optometrist who is hardly in the plot line of the film. Jock Mahoney plays Jack Mahoney, an eastern educated dude who has come back home. The Durango Kid teaches Jack how to draw and fire a six-gun, and the two ultimately work together to bring the outlaws to justice.

Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the bloodshed,but the Durango Kid along with a couple of precocious youngsters put an end to Blue's terrorism.

Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve Warren (Starrett) is put on trial for the murder of heroine Nora Reed's (Helen Parrish) brother. Steve is innocent, of course, but he doesn't stand a chance against prosecuting attorney Garvey Yager (Lyle Talbot) -- especially since Yager is the real killer.

Durango Kid e seus amigos vão para uma cidade fantasma em busca de um carregamento de ouro perdido roubado por um bandido já preso, que se nega a contar o paredeiro do dinheiro.