Colorado Pioneers

An interesting entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder" B-Western series, this film is not about hardy settlers braving the Colorado winters, as the title would suggest. Instead it's a sort of Reform School Western about a couple of wayward Chicago boys (Billy Cummings and Freddie Chapman) taken in by Ryder's indomitable aunt, "The Duchess" (Alice Fleming.) The boys escaped their very own "Fagin," Bull Reagan (Roy Barcroft), and were given a second chance on the lady's Western ranch. Unfortunately, Reagan returns to do a bit of cattle rustling, once again luring the boys into becoming his accomplices.

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  R.G. Springsteen

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  Bill Elliott
  Red Ryder
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  Robert Blake
  Little Beaver
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  Alice Fleming
  Duchess
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  Roy Barcroft
  Bull Reagan
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  Bud Geary
  Bill Slade
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  Billy Cummings
  Joe
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  Freddie Chapman
  Skinny
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  Frank Jaquet
  Dave Wyatt
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  Tom London
  Sand Snipe
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  Monte Hale
  Cowhand That Quits
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  Billie Thomas
  Smokey
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  George Chesebro
  Hank Disher
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  Emmett Vogan
  Judge
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  Tom Chatterton
  Father Marion