Edward Ludwig's Westerns
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- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsBill ElliottJohn CarrollCatherine McLeodA couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJan SterlingColeen GrayAfter the Civil War, unscrupulous and corrupt civilian administrators, backed by the Union Army, run Southern towns like despots, causing public outrage.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneRoyal DanoDan RissVint Bonner reluctantly befriends Wilbur English, a sniveling coward who betrayed his outlaw gang in return for a reward and pardon. Wilbur is fearful of deadly retaliation and looks to Bonner for protection.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsClint WalkerRichard CrennaRegis ToomeyLooking for a job, Cheyenne rides into town and is caught up in a fight and witnesses a bank holdup. Deputized, he catches the robber but is conflicted when the fugitive saves him from a bear trap that almost kills him.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneClaude AkinsPenny EdwardsBonner intercedes in a delicate family situation when a wandering gambler returns to reconcile with the young son he abandoned eight years earlier. The boy believes his daddy is dead, and Bonner believes it's best to keep it that way.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneLloyd CorriganStacy HarrisStopping in the town of Harmony to visit his old friend Doc Cross, Bonner learns that the ruthless Cotten brothers and an infamous gunfighter plan to take control of the town and intimidate anyone planning to vote against them in the coming election. Reluctantly, thanks to the Doc, Bonner is put in the position of acting as Sheriff himself.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJames GleasonDan BlockerOn Christmas Eve Bonner and the Marshal capture "El Bruto," a super-strong but mute giant of a man accused of murder. The three men seek refuge for the night in a Spanish Mission where the resident orphans are reenacting the miracle of Christmas. One orpan in particular, shows "El Bruto" love and kindness, invoking a gentler side of the giant's personality.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneEmile MeyerMartin BraddockA young killer robs the telegraph office and guns down the clerks. Why is Sheriff Lawson reluctant to get up a posse or even to interview the surviving clerk? Vint Bonner comes into town and prods the sheriff into upholding the law.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneMala PowersPeter BreckVint learns that a gambling house worker he knows is the daughter of a Quaker couple who believe she is dead. The girl is in an abusive relationship with the owner of the gambling house, who will not let her leave him.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneLuana PattenSteven TerrellA cocky and cynical young man who just came into town looking for a saloon woman is the main suspect when a robbery takes place, but is released as there are no witnesses to identify him. The teenage daughter of Vint's rancher friend is smitten with the young man, much to her father's chagrin. Vint tries to see if he can change the hotheaded youth or else discourage the girl from him.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneEdgar BuchananDick ElliottOn the very day that Sheriff Jeb Barnes retires after 40 years as sheriff and is awarded a gold star by his citizens, the town bank is robbed. As Bonner goes looking for the robbers, he wonders if it was just a coincidence.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneDaria MasseyJoseph VitaleJust after Vint manages to avert war between the Indians and a white town, a new situation arises: he finds the chief's daughter sleeping in his room, wishing to become his wife. The chief says that according to custom Vint must marry her by the evening or war will be declared on the town again.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneKathleen CrowleyWill WrightBonner is suspicious of the motives of the daughter of a dying old friend when she comes to visit him, especially since she is in the company of a known outlaw. On top of this, after talking to her, the father, who hasn't seen his daughter since she was a child, insists she is not her.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PaynePeggie CastleJohn LarchBonner has been sent to check on conditions in Hornitas, a gold mining camp which supposedly has none of the violence common to such towns. He finds that it is not so different after all, and that the sheriff is crooked and demands protection money from his citizens. Complicating matters, Bonner's only ally in town is a devout pacifist who insists that he check his gun with her and not use it as long as he's in town.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJames BestJean AllisonTo explain to a young boy why he tries not to kill in gunfights, Vint relates to him the story of his grandfather, and how he dealt with a young hoodlum bent on revenge.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJohn DehnerWilliam JoyceBonner rides into Quiet City, a town that was once wild but is now peaceful. The sheriff of more than thirty years, an old friend of Bonner's, feels as if he's no longer needed and misses the wild old days when he had more to do. When the first killing in two years occurs the sheriff brings the killer in, but then imagines a lynch mob forming in the streets though no such mob exists.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJimmy BairdJim ReppertVint brings an orphaned Southern boy to live with his Northern uncle's family. But the boy still has resentments toward the North, and is angry that his uncle fought on a different side from his father, who was killed in the war.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneGloria TalbottGeorge DolenzA band of former Confederates led by Colonel Bromley have taken over a Kansas town. But an idealistic foreign soldier who fought for the Union arrives and is immediately humiliated by Bromley's men, whereupon he challenges Bromley to a duel. Bonner hopes to prevent the duel.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneEduard FranzOlive CareyAn old widow friend of Bonner's hires him to protect an itinerant peddler who has been harassed by thugs working for a rancher, but the man insists on going through the rancher's land alone.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneEllen CorbyCharles LaneEmma Birch has organized the women of the town into a determined suffragette group; the men rebel and attempt to put the women in their place. Bonner becomes the reluctant mediator between the two groups.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneBen JohnsonJeanne BatesVint joins with a sheriff and posse in tracking an escaped killer who is avenging his maiming by shooting his victims repeatedly in the arm and leg before killing them.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJohn LarchMarya StevensVint and a sheriff locate two Mexicans they have been pursuing for horse stealing. One escapes, but Vint is shocked to witness the sheriff shoot down the other one while he has his hands up. Vint decides to continue the pursuit of the other thief, if only to make sure he is brought in alive. When he locates the man, along with his beautiful sister, he learns the sheriff has been lying to him about many things.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsTom NolanSallie BrophyMichael LiptonA notorious outlaws's son enters the spelling bee at Jody's school. All the other children withdraw from the contest, except Jody.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneDan BlockerBek NelsonVint's friend Olaf Burland plans to take his newly earned money back to his farm in native Minnesota, but Vint fears that the gullible Olaf will be easy prey for some who want to separate him from the money and will use any trick to do it. A crooked trail hand and a saloon owner plan to do just that, with the help of a saloon hostess who actually has desires similar to Olaf's.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneDiane BrewsterHarvey StephensA woman is shunned by everyone in her home town, including her own father, because she married a man who later turned outlaw and killed the town's leading citizen. Bonner tries to prevent the shunning from escalating into violence.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneMala PowersLloyd CorriganVint is infuriated when he learns that a young woman has taken his horse Scar for a joyride, but his anger quickly evaporates when he meets the girl, and soon falls in love with her.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneAlan Hale Jr.John LitelVint comes to the town of Bluefield to investigate the death of a friend. He learns that the man was murdered for trying to organize small land owners against the town boss who has been using his gunfighter son to intimidate them into making him a partner in their ranch, them forcing them out or killing them. But getting the town boss convicted will not be so easy.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneOnslow StevensJulie PayneAn old friend of Vint's has been jailed after being caught with a band of rustlers, and is likely to be hanged if he doesn't tell where the other rustlers are. But he is unwilling to because he fears that his compatriots will harm his deaf-mute daughter if they think he's told on them.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneJ. Carrol NaishAlix TaltonA rancher, a former major in the Confederate Army, asks Vint to hire on as a ramrod, to be paired with another ramrod whom Vint dislikes. Vint soon learns that the other ramrod has plans to take the ranch for himself, taking advantage of an embarrassing secret he has learned about the Major.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneWalter CoyRichard H. CuttingVint is deliberately framed for a bank robbery and murder.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneFay SpainReed HadleyVint tries to help an old newspaper editor in his crusade against three corrupt officials---the town's mayor, sheriff, and judge, as well as the gunman they've been using as their enforcer.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsRory CalhounEdward AshleyDenver PyleBill is working with a telegraph company installing lines, but an outlaw gang camped in the area wants to get the crew to leave.
- DirectorSam StrangisStarsJohn PayneEllen CorbyKasey RogersAfter Jenny May McElroy's husband was killed in a gunfight, no one in town would give her a job to support her children, except for the saloon owner, who hired her as a bookkeeper. Because of this some of the "proper" townspeople want to take her children and make them wards of the state. They also want to fire the schoolteacher, the only other person in town who supports Jenny May.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsRory CalhounBarbara StuartReed HadleyLongley has been made a special marshal to the Texas town of Rio Nada. The area has been plagued by Mexican bandits who have used it to cross the border into the United States and raid the countryside. The gang is led by a mysterious leader known only as "El Sombro". When Longley captures an agent for El Sombro, he hopes to use the threat of hanging for the attempted murder of a deputy sheriff to force him to identify the illusive bandit chief. (Note to viewers: Best to first view "The Terrified Town", then "Sixgun Street", then "The Taming Of Rio Nada", as this is the order in which the events are meant to take place even though the episodes originally aired in the reverse order).
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsRory CalhounRod CameronRuta LeeWhen his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring gunslinger, when the sheriff tries to arrest him.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsChuck ConnorsBurgess MeredithCarol OhmartJason arrives in Indian Territory to listen to famous newspaper reporter, Horace Greeley, give a speech. Greeley is famous for his petition that the "red man" should be treated as equal with his white brother. But Jason stops an assassination attempt and soon find himself involved in solving the mystery of who is trying to kill the reporter. Boy, is everyone shocked when they discover just WHO was involved!