Merle Travis

Merle Travis took the experiences of his early years growing up in Muhlenberg County, Ky., to the national stage and rode the rising tide of country music’s popularity in the years following World War II. His considerable talents as a singer, songwriter, bandleader, and guitar-picking pioneer still reverberate in the heartbeat of American music today, more than three decades after his passing.

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

A singer determined to make it in country-western music lets nothing stand in his way, including stealing. The girl who loves him and a female preacher try to straighten him out and help him make it legitimately.

Originally a pilot for a series called "Gallaway House" that was never picked up. The patrons of a late-19th Century America theater flock to see the latest production, a Western tale of redemption. Johnny Laredo, a middle-aged gunfighter fleeing his many enemies by traveling at night, stops briefly at the campfire of Tim Dawson's team of cattle drivers for a cup of coffee and a bit of human companionship. Dawson offers Laredo a job, but Laredo is afraid to return to Wyoming where he killed a number of men. Stopping in a small Texas town for supplies before heading across the Mexican border, the gunfighter is forced to fight a inexperienced youngster trying to make a reputation and kills him. Even though he is acquitted, the gunfighter has had enough and returns to Dawson, accepts the job, and hopefully, the opportunity for redemption.

A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.

O filme relata histórias de vidas em um campo do exército americano no Havaí, às vésperas do ataque japonês à Pearl Harbor. Centraliza as ações acompanhando os conflitos de três militares da base. Roteiro baseado num livro de James Jones.

A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier Durango effort, Galloping Thunder (1946), footage that included sidekick Smiley Burnette warbling "Hear the Wind (Singing a Cowboy Song)" accompanied by Merle Travis and his Bronco Busters.

The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

Returning G.I. Curt Norton (Ken Curtis), owner of a radio station, finds his father Amos (Guy Kibbee) has allowed the station to run down and has squandered Curt's money in bad investments in war-surplus material. Eddie Jackson (Robert Kellard), who owns the rival station, is also attracted to Curt's sweetheart Jean White (Joan Barton). When Curt and the Hoosier Hotshots successfully stage an auction to raise money, Eddie hires Mimi Carston (Claudia Drake) to claim that Curt married her in France.

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.

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.

1945 Soundies musical short starring Merle Travis

A musical short.