In Old Caliente - DVD

John Wayne plays Tom Craig, an ambitious pharmacist who moves into a brawling frontier town in the gold-rush days of California. He soon locks horns with the local crime lord, Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker), who has become wealthy from forced tributes levied on the townspeople. Irate and incensed, Tom trades his pestle for a pistol and leads the settlers in a revolt against the corrupt gunmen and their unfair taxes. The stellar cast includes Binnie Barnes, Helen Parrish, Patsy Kelly and Edgar Kennedy. Directed by William C. McGann (Illegal).

After learning that his father has been shot in a range war between Montana cattlemen and sheepmen, Cavalry Lieutenant Fred Dawson requests a leave-of-absence in the hopes of brokering a truce. With his aide "Doc" Flanders in tow, Fred poses as a medicine-show singer in order to allay the suspicions of both sides. At first he suspects that sheepman Ed Brandt is the instigator of the bloodshed, but Brandt is merely the pawn of a mastermi

The Mexican territory of California struggles under the iron fist of martial law imposed by barbaric General Miguel Torena. After leading an army of thugs and criminals on a bloody rampage through Los Angeles, he is pressing northward to the capital of Monterey. The only hope for the terrified landowners is a growing insurgency led by unlikely hero, Don Michael O'Casey. His traitorous uncle, Don Francisco, plans to gain a governorship b