Movies by Fred F. Sears
![The Blazing Trail](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iXByHaJ3yYEdUeHaPEeufUzUnK5.jpg)
The Blazing Trail
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk of the property to Kirk, the gambling son of Mike. This upsets Sam, the hard working son, but not gambler Full House who always beats Kirk at cards. But even the Sheriff is suspicious of the will, but he needs proof and the Durango Kid will find the proof.
![Bandits of El Dorado](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iNNCqwP1Rt4JgooAnUUXTshtuUc.jpg)
Bandits of El Dorado
Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the killing of Henley. Not only is he now in trouble as both the Rangers and the Mexican Rurales are after him, but Smiley knows him and may expose his masquerade to the bad guys.
![Cyclone Fury](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oiZeYviq14eHyOB8OMNtxGJbZ11.jpg)
Cyclone Fury
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier Durango effort, Galloping Thunder (1946), footage that included sidekick Smiley Burnette warbling "Hear the Wind (Singing a Cowboy Song)" accompanied by Merle Travis and his Bronco Busters.
![Whirlwind Raiders](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rpff7qtuRMJi6eptIXQ5tenAaxX.jpg)
Whirlwind Raiders
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
![The Rough, Tough West](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aGUXZchmncAYLlAmzfBuUCG5FWk.jpg)
The Rough, Tough West
Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a former Texas Ranger who comes to a wide-open mining town to visit an old friend (Jack -- later Jock -- Mahoney). Alas, said friend has turned bad, and is busy arranging a major land grab when Steve arrives on the scene. With deep regret, our hero dons his Durango disguise to thwart his ex-friend's criminal activities.
![Smoky Mountain Melody](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rFfSAm799MS6XiB0HAsJJgasXHm.jpg)
Smoky Mountain Melody
Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody. Not much happens plotwise: Acuff, playing "himself," is a tenderfoot who somehow manages to come out on top when he heads westward. The villains (who aren't all that villainous) try to promote a phony stock deal, but Roy and his pals foils their plans. The comedy honors go to Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as a blowhard sheriff. Smoky Mountain Melody was scripted by Barry Shipman, the son of pioneering female filmmaker Nell Sh...
![Home in San Antone](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eZv9zlNsWuZJdEcnXwuaypHHijP.jpg)
Home in San Antone
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
![Bonanza Town](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/l4yz4UyyCsNjo8jvMN0rubfQRix.jpg)
Bonanza Town
Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman's boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.
![South of Death Valley](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fnfB0PEAnnw9JUnHbEIz6FjSsXq.jpg)
South of Death Valley
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water poisoned killing cattle. When Ashton's men find Steve's hat, they kill Tom Tavish and frame Steve for the murder. Escaping jail the Durango Kid goes into action.
![Frontier Outpost](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2fnAOra1HVxgAwPfqflHF6iy63r.jpg)
Frontier Outpost
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipments bound for Fort Navajo.
![Singin' Spurs](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vKmrnaWggGc92PYnaSSg6ZfdttM.jpg)
Singin' Spurs
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
![Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6k19wsEI5YXub52g70yM65v0ll1.jpg)
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
A federal agent joins forces with a British lawman to foil a spy ring.
![Laramie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8iYTdmhVNMudRPg32VmpNY4Lciz.jpg)
Laramie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf when Chief Eagle is mysteriously shot. Steve Holden, an agent for the government peace commission, with the aid of a wandering shoemaker, Smiley, discover the troubles and the Chief's murder have been instigated by Cronin, the regimental scout, for personal gain for he and his gang of outlaws.
![Laramie Mountains](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/dfhXCMhBwAttH3kNucJMdLWPje1.jpg)
Laramie Mountains
Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by starting an Indian war. Dressed as Indians they are attacking the soldiers. Steve Holden is the Indian agent sent to prevent a war. After finding proof that white men posing as Indians were responsible, he is able to locate the gang's hideout but quickly becomes a prisoner slated to be killed. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
![Renegades of the Sage](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pmwsjK1P5XYIaPAEvYjVgJDiB5D.jpg)
Renegades of the Sage
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.
![Fort Savage Raiders](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6ITqXcChlZoQoamIzvnCJMzY9V3.jpg)
Fort Savage Raiders
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named Steve (this time his last name is Drake) and as masked avenger Durango. The heavy of the piece is escaped military prisoner Craydon (John Dehner) who, with several other fugitives from justice, forms an army of terrorists.
![The Kid from Amarillo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4krtGJQoWF7hVIYrh0EWLLQvR9x.jpg)
The Kid from Amarillo
Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader of the gang in his den.