Arthur Space

A gunfighter's main hope lies in the trust of a beautiful woman who hides him out when he is wrongly suspected of a stagecoach massacre. A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter. —frankfob2@yahoo.com

Sally borrows her friend's cosmetics kit to sell door-to-door but fails miserably. She and her fiancé get caught up in a smuggling scheme, are suspected of murders, and must evade the police while hunting for the real culprits. Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. She and her fiance Humphrey get involved in a smuggling scheme and she becomes the prime suspect in first one and then a second murder. She and Humphrey find themselves dodging the police while trying to catch the real killers. —Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

Striving to be a whiz-bang salesman and screwing up at every turn, Red Skelton turns in a genius comic performance inevitably getting into big trouble, impossible situations and a wild chase involving dastardly crooks. Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect. —Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com> "Red" Jones attempts to prove himself to his sweetheart, Ann Elliott, by becoming a successful Fuller Brush door-to-door salesman. When one of his clients is murdered, "Red" becomes the number-one suspect by the police. He and Ann escape a trap set by the killer and his henchmen, but are still being chased through a war-surplus warehouse. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Roy edits a small town newspaper. A rancher is murdered, and his fortune is inherited by a young boy. Editor Roy, with the assistance (?) of big city reporter Dale, brings the killers to justice. In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Louisiana's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying T ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> Duke (Lanny Rees, "The Life of Riley"), a 12-year-old orphan of unknown parentage and provenance, unexpectedly and inexplicably inherits a 50-million-dollar ranch from his informal guardian who is not related. Roy (Roy Rogers), as editor of the local newspaper and on the basis of a puzzling note from the dead man, takes on the role of investigative reporter and determines to ensure justice is done. Meanwhile, the late ranch-owner's daughter Jan (Carol Hughes), who is left a paltry sum of cash, reflects that if little Duke were out of the way, she would be the only possible remaining heir. Connie (Dale Evans), a singing ace reporter from St. Louis, joins the hunt, but soon there are two reasons for Duke to die. —Badger Wealthy rancher Sam Talbot has died in an accident and his only relative Jan expects to inherit his ranch. Instead it goes to an unrelated 14 year old boy. When an attempt is made on the boy's life, newspaper reporters Roy and Connie investigate. At the scene of the accident they find Talbot's broken watch and later learn that the time on it proves his death was not an accident. —Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel. After being fired from their jobs as clerks in a pet store, Doc and Wishey, a couple of bumpkins, hide in the trunk of a car that they think will take them to New York. Somehow, however, they end up in Texas where they help to facilitate the romance of a popular Latin singer and the owner of a resort hotel while exposing a gang of Fifth Columnists. —duke1029@aol.com