Oliver Drake was an American screenwriter and director, primarily known for his contributions to the Western genre. Over his career, he wrote and directed numerous low-budget Westerns, including Today I Hang (1942). Drake's work was instrumental in shaping the B-Western film landscape during the 1930s and 1940s.
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01 July 1929
Old timer Hank Robbins and his young pal,"Red" Hepner ride into the town of Cajon, Mexico and find it under a reign of terror imposed by a mysterious outlaw known as El Lobo.
16 February 1946
Jimmy Wakely and his sidekick "Lasses" White run into trouble as they attempt to hire some cattle cars on the Cattleman's Railroad to take their herd to market.
25 September 1942
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season.
01 July 1941
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones.
28 June 1946
All-American singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely went below the border in this musical Western from the assembly line at Monogram, performing such ditties as Adios Mariquita Linda, Rose of the Rancho, the inevitable La Cucaracha, and his own title tune.
11 August 1945
Doris Rogers, half owner of a dude ranch, as Jimmy Wakely, "Lasses" White and Dusty Smith to help run it.
10 February 1929
Red saves his prospector sidekick Hank Robbins from the hangman.
14 September 1949
After claim jumper Sanders kills a miner, he changes clothes with Perry. In pursuit, the Marshal kills Perry claiming he was the murderer.
12 March 1948
A Pony Express rider discovers some mysterious goings-on during the construction of a telegraph line.
20 January 1939
A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town.
27 April 1949
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing.
29 August 1934
Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men.
28 September 1958
A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen.
15 October 1937
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
03 March 1932
A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.
21 April 1928
Duke Carlton, an actor stranded in a small western town, gets a job as a cowboy on Tim O'Brien's ranch as a reward for beating up "Flash" Corbin, a real estate agent who has been trying to swindle the rancher.
06 September 1943
Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach robbers.
01 January 1968
A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.
01 March 1944
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals.
04 September 1942
In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard.
15 January 1950
In one of his last film roles, legendary B-Western cowboy Sunset Carson roots out the varmints responsible for a false smallpox scare.
14 December 1939
A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave.
15 March 1935
A trio of former cattle rustlers try to go straight, but find that they can't shake off their reputations and trouble follows them.
23 December 1928
A boy hero saves a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
01 February 1932
A cowboy on the run from the law gets mixed up with a crooked horse race scheme.
30 May 1936
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis.
15 January 1950
A Hollywood singing-cowboy star with a big heart and an even bigger secret (he uses a double in most scenes because he can't ride, fight or sing) comes to the aid of a rancher about to lose his home on a rodeo bet.
15 May 1955
When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area.
12 August 1938
A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.
06 August 1943
Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail.
17 October 1941
Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.
22 January 1944
U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections.
01 January 1928
A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. Driftin', of course, falls for the lady and is immediately banished from the ranch.
18 March 1929
Silent cowboy western starring Tom Mix, Bernard Bolden, Dorothy Dwan, Barney Furey, Albert J. Smith, and Ernest Wilson.
07 December 1930
El Malo, notorious Mexican bandit, forces the Mayor of Sierra Blanca, Seth Landport, to open the safe and turn over to him 2,000 pesos, which the bandit gives a promissory note for to the Mayor.
29 November 1932
Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lopez's foreman Barnes is one of Daggett's men and he frames Montana for murder.
05 May 1937
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
17 April 1941
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
10 October 1940
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after.
30 July 1941
The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.
16 September 1938
Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit.
05 August 1942
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
15 September 1943
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.
19 December 1948
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure.
03 July 1935
Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram McDuff, a friend of Bill's.
23 March 1939
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination.
14 May 1949
Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor.
10 January 1932
A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.
01 April 1935
Bill saves a sheriff, left to die in the blazing sun by desert bandits.
28 November 1946
Jimmy Wakely wishes to sell to the government a group of wild mustangs which he has captured and trained for rancher Matt Blake.
24 June 1938
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
29 November 1939
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.
17 March 1944
In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante.
25 February 1928
The plucky boy rider Red discovers the dead body of Jim Crawford in the desert. A message scratched on a canteen begs the finder to protect Jim's daughter Ann from the killer, Luke Matthews.
29 August 1941
The Lone Rider Tom assumes a former outlaw's identity (Keno) to learn where the gold from his last big heist is hidden.
04 December 1949
Curly Blake, nephew and heir of wealthy Red Rock rancher Jed Gordon, persuades his uncle not to invest in a crooked land scheme promoted by former judge Harmon Steele and his secretary Lem Martin.
07 April 1941
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed.
28 February 1937
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys.
10 September 1948
Sunset Carson is trying to raise money for a new school and his partner Sam Webster is out to stop him.
