TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Roy Rogers.
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Birthdate: November 5, 1911
Death date: July 6, 1998
Roy Rogers
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
1.7734
18
1940s
2.0441
69
1950s
0.9381
16
1960s
No Reviews
0
1970s
No Reviews
1
1980s
No Reviews
0
1990s
No Reviews
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
1.6850
1.6850
Roy Rogers Movie Rankings
1
2.9953Segments: "Once Upon a Wintertime," two lovers recued from an icy river by friendly animals; "Bumble Boogie," bee beset by musical instruments and symbols come to life; "Johnny Appleseed," story of the legendary pioneer tree-planter; "Trees," mood piece ...more about Melody Time
DVD from $10.98
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2
2.7031After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. ...more about Billy the Kid Returns
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3
2.5844Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers tell the story of Pecos Bill, an infant who fell out of a covered wagon and was discovered and raised by a family of wolves. ...more about Pecos Bill
- Not Available on DVD
4
2.2145
Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. ...more about Dark Command
DVD from $6.55
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5
1.8584
Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. ...more about My Pal Trigger
DVD from $1.99
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6
1.7953
In this sequel to "The Paleface", Bob Hope and Jane Russell return as the lead characters. Hope plays Junior Potter, who returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. ...more about Son of Paleface
DVD from $4.67
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7
1.7625
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge. ...more about Don't Fence Me In
DVD from $6.39
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8
1.5981
The Vegas own an oil rich ranch and Calhoun is after the mineral rights. He gets Carlos Vega to run huge gambling debts. When Carlos' sister who is half owner arrives, Calhoun tries to have her killed. ...more about Apache Rose
- Not Available on DVD
9
1.5068
Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. ...more about Yellow Rose of Texas
DVD from $5.16
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10
1.4780
Near the border, outlaws are hijacking trains and using them to transport large quantities of rifles. Roy gets involved when the train that was to pick up his cattle fails to stop. Helping out the Sheriff, Roy brings in a suspect. ...more about Sunset in the West
- Not Available on DVD
11
1.0031
Roy is an insurance investigator looking into the theft of uranium ore. He must prevent the thieves from taking off in a plane with the stolen ore. ...more about Bells of Coronado
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12
0.2283
Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers), a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker (George Hayes) who ...more about Heldorado
DVD from $8.15
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14
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location. ...more about Along the Navajo Trail
DVD from $7.21
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15
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy. ...more about Arizona Kid
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17
Roy and Gabby have to establish fair business practices in the town of Deadwood, currently dominated by entrepreneurs who scare off potential competitors. ...more about Bad Man of Deadwood
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18
Dale Evans inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner (Grant Withers) is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. ...more about Bells of Rosarita
DVD from $8.15
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19
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. ...more about Bells of San Angelo
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20
An Eastern doctor is on the run from authorities in New York. Out west he comes to the aid of friends besieged by an outlaw gang known as the border legion. In the end, he is cleared of any wrong-doing back east. ...more about Border Legion
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21
Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers, and not playing "himself" but playing a character named Roy Rogers), posing as The Carson City Kid, is seeking vengeance on Morgan Reynolds, the man who killed his brother. ...more about Carson City Kid
DVD from $6.63
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22
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. ...more about Colorado
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23
Disbanded Texas Rangers are gathered together to help the U.S. Cavalry put an end to marauding outlaws. ...more about Come On
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24
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. ...more about Cowboy and the Senorita
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25
Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang. ...more about Days of Jesse James
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26
Rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft) is informed by veterinarian George Fredericks (Emmett Vogan) that his cattle are carriers of the hoof-and-mouth disease and must be destroyed. ...more about Down Dakota Way
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27
A ranch owner (Francis Ford) turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer (Nana Bryant) covets the ranch and works in cahoots with Ford's long-lost nephew and a pack of killer dogs to get it. ...more about Eyes of Texas
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28
Willis Newcomb (Robert Strange) and Bart Carroll (Roy Barcroft) head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. ...more about Far Frontier
- Not Available on DVD
29
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. ...more about Frontier Pony Express
- Not Available on DVD
30
Crooks try to take over an airport by sabotaging the planes. Sheriff Roy catches them. ...more about Gay Ranchero
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31
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mare. One of the smugglers is killed when the mare runs off. The sheriff blames Trigger for the death. ...more about Golden Stallion
- Not Available on DVD
32
Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's partners put $20,000 into the business only to find that the mine is worthless and Vanerpool is bankrupt. ...more about Grand Canyon Trail
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33
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract. ...more about Hands Across the Border
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34
The history of Variety Clubs International, showing its inception in Pittsburgh and the charitable work of many of the ...more about Heart of Show Business
- Not Available on DVD
35
Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers), Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), Gabby Whittaker (George Hayes) and the Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Pat Brady, Hugh Farr and Karl Farr) undertake to protect the ranchers of Cherokee City from unjust charges ...more about Heart of the Golden West
- Not Available on DVD
36
Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers), a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker (William Gould) where young first-offenders can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. ...more about Heart of the Rockies
DVD from $4.00
(6 sellers)
38
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner( making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. ...more about Home in Oklahoma
- Not Available on DVD
39
Ex-outlaw Grey is now a respected judge out to close down Belle's saloon. Duke and Spike, who knew Grey when he was a criminal, arrive and team up with Belle. When Belle's threat to reveal Grey's past fails, Duke and Spike hold up the bank and frame Grey. ...more about Idaho
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40
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. ...more about In Old Amarillo
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41
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight. ...more about In Old Caliente
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42
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is. ...more about In Old Cheyenne
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44
When Jesses learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. ...more about Jesse James at Bay
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45
The Governor sends Roy to help bring in a gang of saboteurs. Roy joins a traveling show and soon learns the saboteurs communicate during Maurice's mind reading act that uses a hidden receiver. But Maurice is on to Roy. ...more about King of the Cowboys
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46
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. ...more about Lights of Old Santa Fe
DVD from $5.16
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48
Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang. ...more about Man from Cheyenne
- Not Available on DVD
49
Roy spends most of this movie resucing Dale from terrible fates. The film includes a reenactment of land rush opening the Oklahoma Territory. ...more about Man from Oklahoma
- Not Available on DVD
52
The conflict between a railroader and a stageline owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys. ...more about Nevada City
- Not Available on DVD
53
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. ...more about Night Time in Nevada
- Not Available on DVD
54
The annual return of the salmon each year gives the Indians of the Northwest enough food to last until the next year. This way of live is threatened by Banning who puts in a cannery on the river to harvest the fish for sale. ...more about North of the Great Divide
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55
Sally Dawson gets Gene to sign a contract to sing on her struggling radio station. Gene is selling horses and unknown to him the sponsor of his program is the tractor company he is competing against. ...more about Old Barn Dance
- Not Available on DVD
56
Wertheimer (Eddie Kane), a New York radio talent scout, shows up at Uncle Jed's barn dance having received numerous letters from Nancy Shackelford (Mary Carlisle), the adopted daughter of Uncle Jed Shackelford (Willard Roberston), telling him about the ...more about Old Homestead
- Not Available on DVD
57
With a $10,000 note Roy co-signed for the Pioneers due, Roy plans to get the money from the reward for the capture of the Gypsy. After he captures him he lets him go realizing he is innocent and it's not long before the real outlaws show their hand. ...more about On the Old Spanish Trail
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58
An interesting oddity in Republic's B-western series but certainly not the first or only time the studio used a movie set as the backdrop of a plot line. ...more about Out California Way
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59
Cattle smugglers are working along the U.S. border with Mexico. Hoof-and-mouth disease is discovered among the stolen cattle. Roy becomes involved when a fellow border patrolman is murdered by the rustlers. ...more about Pals of the Golden West
- Not Available on DVD
60
The second in RKO's "Picture People" series deals with Hollywood stars and their sports activities and opens with a sequence involving Gale Patrick and her baseball team warming up in Hollywood Park. ...more about Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports
- Not Available on DVD
61
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to sabatoge Roy's entry. They fail, or course. ...more about Rainbow Over Texas
- Not Available on DVD
62
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. ...more about Ranger and the Lady
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63
Ranchers, with the help of Roy, raise money to build a reservoir but lose it to a gambler through a crooked stock deal. ...more about Red River Valley
- Not Available on DVD
64
Those who might write about this film without seeing it might also question why the government needed horses during WW II (if that is all they knew about it from a short synopsis read somewhere), but viewing it one can learn that Jim Fellows (Forrest ...more about Ridin' Down the Canyon
- Not Available on DVD
65
In Texas after the Civil War, Ballard has declared martial law intending to drive the ranchers out of the county. When Col. Davis ousts Ballard and Roy is elected Sheriff, his man Stacy kills Davis. ...more about Robin Hood of the Pecos
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67
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. ...more about Roll on Texas Moon
DVD from $5.16
(7 sellers)
68
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends. To complicate matters, the ranch owner, unknown to Roy, arrives with her girlfriend posing as a member of the lonely hearts club. ...more about Romance on the Range
- Not Available on DVD
69
When Roy, Rusty, and Tommy join the Border Patrol, Tommy gets killed in a saloon fight by Arizona Jack. Suspended from duty, Roy and Rusty cross the border looking for the killer. ...more about Rough Riders' Round-up
DVD from $6.47
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70
Thys Ockersen enjoyed in his childhood in the fifties with his friends the Roy Rogers pictures in the local cinema. Many years later he starts his search for the old singing cowboy and his wife Dale Evans. ...more about Roy Rogers
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(8 sellers)
71
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. ...more about Saga of Death Valley
- Not Available on DVD
72
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it. ...more about San Fernando Valley
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75
Ralph Staub spends his time in this edition of Screen Snapshots dropping in on various Hollywood people and their children, including Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, George Montgomery and Dinah Shore, and Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell. ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Small Fry
- Not Available on DVD
76
William Lundigan is Ralph Staub's guest in this Screen Snapshots and the two of them visit Hollywood's "Pirate's Den," where they encounter several stars, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers and others, having fun in a relaxed mood. ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man
- Not Available on DVD
78
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. ...more about Sheriff of Tombstone
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79
The one time partnership between two men has turned into a full fledged range war. Roy is the son of one of the former partners, the heroine is daughter to the other. The film featured and debuted the then popular radio duo Lulubelle and Scotty. ...more about Shine On
- Not Available on DVD
80
Roy's boss has inherited a very large ranch but the will keeps him from selling it although his widow could. Lucky Miller is out to get control of the ranch so he has a girl come west to marry him. ...more about Silver Spurs
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81
Gabby's ranch for wayward boys is in financial trouble. One of his boys, Chip is hiding stolen money sent by his father the outlaw leader King Blaine. ...more about Song of Arizona
- Not Available on DVD
82
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. ...more about Song of Nevada
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83
Now poor, Sam Bennett was a rodeo star in his younger days. When Roy learns Sam told his daughter he owned a ranch and she is arriving for a visit, Roy has him pose as the owner of his ranch. ...more about Song of Texas
- Not Available on DVD
84
Night raiders are burning down the ranchers' barns and poisoning their cattle. Sheriff Gabby, unable to cope, goes east to get help from Roy, descendent of two famous sheriffs. Roy is a young entomologist who would rather study bugs than strap on guns. ...more about Sons of the Pioneers
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85
Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers), owner of a transportation service for moving race horses from track to track, prepares to take a number of thoroughbreds to the Pan American fair races at Monterey. ...more about South of Caliente
- Not Available on DVD
86
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. ...more about South of Santa Fe
DVD from $13.99
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87
In post Civil War Texas a former Union officer is the government's chief law enforcement official and tax collector. Roy discovers that the man is also the head of an outlaw gang. ...more about Southward Ho
- Not Available on DVD
88
This is an odd one for Roy. There are foreign spies, desert sites for rocket-launching and artificial satellites. The climax is a one-on-one fight on top of an oil derrick. ...more about Spoilers of the Plains
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89
A gang, headed by evil Stephanie Bachelor, is slaughtering game out of season. Roy finds the freezer where the meat is kept, but baddie Roy Barcroft finds him there. A famous fight takes place in the freezer. Roy, of course, wins it. ...more about Springtime in the Sierras
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91
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. ...more about Sunset in El Dorado
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92
Roy is mistaken for a bad guy expected by the local outlaw gang. He goes undercover to pin the goods on the bad guys. Just as he is about to do so, the real bad guy shows up. ...more about Sunset on the Desert
- Not Available on DVD
93
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. ...more about Sunset Serenade
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94
The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake. Roy is a game warden investigating the dynamiting. ...more about Susanna Pass
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95
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commericial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course. ...more about Trail of Robin Hood
- Not Available on DVD
96
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. ...more about Trigger
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97
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song. ...more about Twilight in the Sierras
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98
Roy has just finished his latest film and leaves for his ranch where he will be broadcasting a show celebrating his tenth year in movies. When Roy and Trigger arrive at his ranch he finds Cookie has hired his relatives. ...more about Under California Stars
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99
Rodeo star Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers), returning with his horse "Trigger" to his home town, finds old Tom Craig (Leyland Hodgson) murdered and offers his aid to "acting sheriff" Gabby Whittaker (George Hayes). ...more about Under Nevada Skies
- Not Available on DVD
100
In his starring debut Roy gets elected to congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. ...more about Under Western Stars
- Not Available on DVD
101
When ranch foreman Roy learns the new ranch owner Dorothy Bryant and her friends are arriving, he directs them to Gabby's rundown ranch. He figures they will be discouraged and return East. ...more about Utah
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102
Molybdenum is a hard, gray metallic element used to toughen alloy steels and soften tungsten alloy. It is also used in fertilizers, dyes and enamels. ...more about Wall Street Cowboy
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