South of Death Valley (1949)

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.

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.

Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipments bound for Fort Navajo.

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.

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.

In the lawless town of Dusty Gulch, the Durango Kid comes to the aid of Reverend Harding in his fight against Blaze Howard and his henchman. When Durango foils all bad guy's plans, Blaze's boss Doc Weston realizes Cannonball it tipping off Durango. Weston then lets Cannonball overhear false information that will send Durango into a fatal trap.

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.

Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range war for his own profit. The Durango Kid helps clear Mahoney's name.

Stage line owner Brent has his men robbing Halliday stages and when his manager Waring learns of it, Brent has him killed. Jeff Waring arrives and takes his uncle's job. He soon learns what's happening and the Durango Kid goes into action. This keeps Halliday going and gives them a chance to get the mail contract by winning the stagecoach race.

The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.

The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in to find out who is responsible. Steve poses as a vicious gunslinger named Buck McCloud to work his way into the gang, and then becomes the Durango Kid to disrupt the activities he learns about. Jud Temple is the loyal fiancée of town banker Grat Hanlon who turns out to be the brain-trust behind the gang.

Steve Holden, um agente do serviço secreto, é suspenso quando seu chefe suspeita de suas atividades como o Durango Kid. Steve pode provar sua inocência?

Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.

Steve 'The Durango Kid' Norman é acusado de um crime que não cometeu. Com a ajuda de seu velho amigo Smiley Burnette Steve quebra a cadeia para encontrar os verdadeiros culpados. A sorrateira Ruth Dorn é a principal suspeita de Steve.

Steve Drake / O Durango Kid é comissionado pelo Exército para rastrear um bando de criminosos que escaparam da prisão em Fort Savage. A gangue é liderada pelo ex-capitão do Exército Craydon, que está amargurado ao culpar o Exército pela morte de seu filho. Um jovem tenro pomposo, filho do comandante do forte, coronel Sutter, é encarregado do grupo de perseguidores de bandidos que inclui Steve, seu amigo Smiley e um antigo batedor conhecido como Old Cuss. Sua presunção e desprezo pelos civis quase leva ao desastre.

Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a former Texas Ranger who comes to a wide-open mining town to visit an old friend (Jack -- later Jock -- Mahoney). Alas, said friend has turned bad, and is busy arranging a major land grab when Steve arrives on the scene. With deep regret, our hero dons his Durango disguise to thwart his ex-friend's criminal activities.

Quando o xerife Jeff Connor, de Powder River, não consegue parar a onda de crimes, seu filho, Larry, escreve para o Durango Kid pedindo ajuda. Taggart, o dono do bar, é o chefe secreto dos fora-da-lei, enquanto o irmão de Connor, Bill, está em conluio com ele. Steve Randall, o Durango Kid, e seu amigo, Smiley Butterbean, chegam a tempo de parar um assalto da diligência, e Steve é nomeado vice-xerife. Taggart tem um de seus homens, Slade, posar como o Durango Kid e enquanto ele está falando com as pessoas da cidade, o resto da gangue saqueia a cidade, e isso de alguma forma danifica o Durango Kid aos olhos de Larry e sua irmã Doris. Steve sugere que o xerife Connor visite o governo sobre um projeto ferroviário, e Taggart instrui Slade e o líder da gangue a matar Connor em sua viagem de volta.

The outlaw gangs are robbing the railroads and the Rangers cannot follow them when they move to New Mexico. So Kip decides to take a vacation to New Mexico and, as the Durango Kid, bring Cass and his gang back to justice. But Cass and his gang are killed at the bank in a double cross and Kip must still find the loot. For this, he enlists the help of Tex and Grubstake, although Grubstake does not know it.

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.

am Jason está sendo assediado por uma gangue que está atrás de seus arrendamentos de petróleo secretamente liderados pela atraente viúva Clarabelle Adams, e ele olha para o velho amigo Steve Driscoll e seu alter ego, o Durango Kid.