The Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection - King of the Cowboys

Saddle up for this action-packed assortment of shoot-?em-ups and songs of the sagebrush starring Roy Rogers ? the King of the Cowboys!! Here are 25 full-length western features` on 5 DVDs! Catch Roy and the whole gang ? George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Smiley Burnette, and Trigger ("The Smartest Horse in the Movies"). Along the way, such favorites as John Carradine, Gale Storm, and Clayton Moore make appearances. Some titles appear on DVD for the first time! Disc One *WALL STREET COWBOY (1939) ? Roy ventures to New York to try and raise money for the mortgage on his ranch ? which happens to be sitting on top of a large deposit of a rare and valuable mineral! Gabby Hayes and Raymond Hatton (San Quentin) co-star and future star George Montgomery (Roxie Hart) is a cowhand. THE ARIZONA KID (1939) ? During the Civil War, Roy and Gabby become Confederate scouts to try and get rid of a vicious outlaw gang. Dorothy Sebastian ? former wife of William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd ? plays the girlfriend of the outlaws? leader (songwriter Stuart Hamblen). DAYS OF JESSE JAMES (1939) ? Roy goes undercover as a member of the James gang in order to get to the bottom of a series of bank robberies. Don "Red" Barry (The Purple Heart) plays Jesse James, while Glenn Strange (House of Frankenstein) is Cole Younger. THE RANGER AND THE LADY (1940) ? While Sam Houston (Davison Clark of Reap the Wild Wind) is in Washington, trying to get Texas admitted to the Union, Texas Ranger Roy must deal with Houston?s scheming assistant (Henry Brandon from March of the Wooden Soldiers), who is unfairly taxing Texans. WEST OF THE BADLANDS (1940) ? In an unintentional foreshadowing of The Fugitive, Roy plays a young doctor on the run from the law, falsely accused of a horrible crime. Popular character actor Joe Sawyer (The Roaring Twenties) is the ruthless leader of an outlaw gang. Disc Two YOUNG BILL HICKOK (1940) ? Roy in the title role as the legendary lawman, entrusted with guarding a shipment of gold. Along the way, he gets mixed up with Calamity Jane (Sally Payne, who played Belle Starr opposite Roy the following year in Robin Hood of the Pecos). YOUNG BUFFALO BILL (1940) ? Once again, Roy plays a real-life (though highly fictionalized) western legend. Here, he and Gabby fight off a band of Indians while trying to straighten out a Spanish land grant in New Mexico. Pauline Moo