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William Nuelsen Witney (15 May 1915 – 17 March 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.
He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley.[1] Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982.
Quentin Tarantino singles out Witney as one of his favorite directors, particularly for The Golden Stallion (1949), a Roy Rogers vehicle.[2] Witney also directed Master of the World (1961) starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson.
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01 January 1966
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
25 February 1939
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out.
05 June 1937
American federal agent Clark Stuart is on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor.
03 December 1938
An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.
01 February 1959
Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.
08 January 1950
An insurance investigator must track down thieves before they take off in a plane with stolen uranium ore.
15 September 1955
A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.
29 April 1949
The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake.
21 June 1941
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith.
10 June 1939
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters.
05 December 1951
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific.
20 November 1937
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden.
15 May 1951
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap.
15 November 1949
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mare.
01 July 1933
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West.
15 October 1947
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
01 May 1967
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment s
28 May 1958
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West.
01 July 1961
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers.
24 August 1956
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
24 April 1958
Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim.
01 December 1940
A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana.
25 July 1952
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers.
02 February 1951
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.
15 July 1947
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch.
17 July 1964
Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities.
01 October 1992
Thys Ockersen enjoyed in his childhood in the Fifties with his friends the Roy Rogers pictures in the local cinema.
26 March 1961
A judge in a murder trial, believing the defendant is innocent, sets out to find the real killer.
27 November 1943
Feature version of the 1940 Republic serial, about Fu Manchu's attempt to conquer Asia.
15 December 1950
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one.
18 October 1946
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.
17 October 1942
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
08 February 1952
The Hurley's own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Forester and substitute their brother Dusty in his place.
15 June 1962
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down.
15 March 1991
A history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with stars, director, stuntman, etc.
14 January 1948
Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots.
13 February 1938
In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator.
20 February 1937
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring.
15 December 1946
Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker who originated the idea (at least, in this film).
26 October 1946
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.
15 November 1950
An Indian agent comes to the rescue when a local tribe's fishing rights are threatened by a greedy cannery owner.
15 August 1954
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah.
01 March 1952
A greedy rancher is charging excessive prices for access to the area's only water supply, extorting the smaller ranchers in the area.
28 March 1941
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened.
20 May 1950
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song.
01 May 1961
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
11 December 1960
When a man mysteriously vanishes on his ship in the Caribbean, his two brothers journey there to investigate his disappearance.
15 November 1951
US Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over from Mexico.
30 January 1982
A malevolent land mogul has threatened an honest group of Texas homesteaders, and when the innocent suffer justice must be served in director William Witney's action-packed, post-Civil War western.
29 December 1948
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico.
12 May 1955
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.
15 April 1947
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine.
15 March 1940
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world.
16 December 1939
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor.
12 September 1946
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen.
18 September 1953
Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado.
04 April 1942
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
27 June 1942
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets.
19 October 1952
Rex, Slim and the boys are fired by a wealthy rancher but decide to help him out when his daughter intends on marrying a shifty, gold-digging actor.
28 June 1940
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
