Raiders of Old California - DVD

Treasury Department employee Joseph Rand is kidnapped by outlaws, held hostage and forced to engrave plates that can be used to print counterfeit currency. Using the Mallory Dude Ranch as a front, the gang plans to flood the entire district with phoney money and stops at nothing - including murder - to cover its tracks. The Frontier Marshals (Lee Powell, Bill Boyd, Art Davis) are assigned to apprehend the counterfeiters, with Lee going

A notorious gang of rustlers expands their operation by smuggling stolen jewels across the border. U.S. marshals "Nevada Jack" McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins are sent to investigate, working separately and undercover in their usual fashion. Suspicion falls on Bonita Bayne, the pretty young owner of a trading post that sells newly made pottery in which the gems have been hidden. Johnny Mack Brown's early Monogram Westerns are a continuation

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).