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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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A couple <strong>of</strong> B-grade Durango Kid Westerns,<br />

Chapter 25 -- Radio Days and Saturday Matinees<br />

Bandits <strong>of</strong> El Dorado (1949), being a<br />

quintessential Boy's Club movie, needed only a<br />

male cast. In hunting the villains, our hero Chuck<br />

Starrett poses as one himself, shooting the<br />

forewarned Texas Ranger captain with blank<br />

cartridges. Now a "wanted killer," Chuck gains<br />

entrance to the hideout <strong>of</strong> the bad guys through a<br />

trap door into an underground river.<br />

"Come and Get Your Dinner" is performed by<br />

Smiley Burnette with Mustard & Gravy<br />

DRAFT 1122//66//22001122<br />

Chapter 11 <strong>of</strong> the Columbia film serial The<br />

Desert Hawk (1944), "The <strong>Underground</strong> River"<br />

in which "flashing cutlasses doom the enemies<br />

<strong>of</strong> the hawk!"<br />

Trail <strong>of</strong> the Rustlers (1950), a Durango Kid<br />

saga starring Steve Armitage, is also about<br />

bad guys (the Mahoney gang, in this case)<br />

conniving to deprive a community (residents<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Rio Perdido (Lost River) Valley) <strong>of</strong> its<br />

"underground river."<br />

Smiley Burnette sings "Shoot Me Dead for<br />

That One" with Eddy Centro and the<br />

Roundup Boys.<br />

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