Dorrell McGowan (Writer)
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Works
Arkansas Judge
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
Release Date1941-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Singing Guns
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Release Date1950-02-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
Country Fair
Johnny Campbell isa glib campaign manager for gubenatorial candidate Stogie McPhee. Having impulsively promised Johnny that she'll marry him if McPhee wins, heroine Pepper Wilson begins canvassing the voters on behalf of rival candidate Gildersleeve. But the race is won by a dark horse, blacksmith Gunther Potts, who single-handedly cleans out the corrupt element in the local government.
Release Date1941-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Mountain Moonlight
A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.
Release Date1941-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Jeepers Creepers
Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.
Release Date1939-10-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.
Release Date1939-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Valley of the Zombies
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
Release Date1946-05-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count15
Ladies in Distress
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
Release Date1938-06-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Down Mexico Way
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
Release Date1941-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Tuxedo Junction
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
Release Date1941-11-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Hellfire
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Release Date1949-05-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count13
The Littlest Hobo
The Littlest Hobo is a Canadian television series based upon a 1958 American film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first aired from 1963 to 1965 in syndication, spanning six seasons and was revived for a popular second run on CTV from October 11, 1979 to March 7, 1985. It starred an ownerless dog. All three productions revolved around a stray German Shepherd, the titular Hobo, who wanders from town to town, helping people in need. Although the concept was perhaps similar to that of Lassie, the Littlest Hobo's destiny was to befriend those who apparently needed help. Despite the attempts of the many people whom he helped to adopt him, he appeared to prefer to be on his own, and would head off by himself at the end of each episode. Never actually named on-screen, the dog is often referred to by the name Hobo or by the names given by temporary human companions. Hobo's background is also unexplained on-screen. His origins, motivation and ultimate destination are also never explained. Although some characters appeared in more than one episode, the only constant was the Littlest Hobo himself.
Release Date1979-10-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count10
Comin' 'Round the Mountain
His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what's at stake is a horse race and a bull fight.
Release Date1936-04-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Snowfire
A little girl living on an isolated ranch claims to have formed a bond of friendship with a pure white, "wild" stallion. The horse is well known in the area, almost legendary, and supposedly vicious. Is she just making it up, or is she telling the truth? If it's real, isn't it dangerous for her with a "killer" horse? Or is the horse as vicious as he's been portrayed?
Release Date1958-05-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Village Barn Dance
Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
Release Date1940-01-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
A Man Betrayed
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
Release Date1936-12-27
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
My Wife's Relatives
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
Release Date1939-05-20
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Come On, Leathernecks!
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Release Date1938-08-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Mountain Rhythm
The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
Release Date1943-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Under Western Stars
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
Release Date1938-04-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count17
Saddle Pals
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
Release Date1947-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count1
The Littlest Hobo
When a roaming German Shepherd Dog rescues a boy's pet lamb from the slaughterhouse he struggles to reunite them, despite being chased by police and getting little cooperation from the lamb.
Release Date1958-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Shepherd of the Ozarks
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
Release Date1942-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Red River Valley
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
Release Date1936-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
The Old Homestead
In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the mayor, June Weaver, and the police chief, Leon Weaver. To end the crime and preserve her career, June feigns corruption and hires a real gangster to get rid of the local mobs. Unfortunately, a bona fide crooked councilman intervenes and makes real mob connections causing an earnest journalist to launch a front page attack.
Release Date1942-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
The Singing Cowboy
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.
Release Date1936-05-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Barnyard Follies
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
Release Date1940-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
O, My Darling Clementine
"Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington. One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine, and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.
Release Date1943-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Death Valley Days
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
Release Date1952-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
Smashing the Spy Ring
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
Release Date1938-12-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
The Big Bonanza
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
Release Date1944-12-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Down in 'Arkansaw'
A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of the benefits to them of a proposed dam on their river.
Release Date1938-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count1
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Release Date1938-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count7
Ride, Ranger, Ride
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.
Release Date1936-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
San Fernando Valley
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
Release Date1944-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
The Bashful Elephant
A Hungarian orphan girl searches for new parents in Austria. In an Austrian circus, she befriends an elephant and a wolfhound.
Release Date1962-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
In Old Monterey
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
Release Date1939-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
The Inner Circle
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
Release Date1946-08-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
Bill Cracks Down
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Release Date1937-03-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count6
King of the Pecos
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own.
Release Date1936-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count16
The Showdown
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.
Release Date1950-08-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Twilight on the Rio Grande
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
Release Date1947-03-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
Ladies of the Night Club
The wealthy millionaire patron of a nightclub is attracted by the female half of a vaudeville show and showers her with gifts. This upsets her stage partner who hopes to marry her despite his limited wealth.
Release Date1928-05-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
Country radio singers of the '40s appear in this tale about a lothario who poses as a professor to seduce coeds.
Release Date1944-08-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
The Billion Dollar Hobo
Vernon Praiseworthy is a clumsy but lovable dope who stands to inherit his uncle's fortune. The condition is that he travel the rails as a penniless hobo just as his uncle did in the dark days of the depression. That seems simple enough until he gets involved in a dog-napping plot. Written by Jerry Roberts
Release Date1977-11-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count7
Trouble in Sundown
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. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.
Release Date1939-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Don't Fence Me In
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
Release Date1945-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Lady Luck
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
Release Date1936-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
Git Along Little Dogies
When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town.
Release Date1937-03-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
The Big Show
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.
Release Date1936-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Tokyo File 212
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
Release Date1951-01-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Grand Ole Opry
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Release Date1940-06-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Hi, Neighbor
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.
Release Date1942-07-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Friendly Neighbors
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
Release Date1940-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Sea Spoilers
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
Release Date1936-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count4
Hoosier Holiday
During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the service. Determined to join up, they enlist the aid of a pretty young girl whose father is head of the local draft board.
Release Date1943-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Night Train to Memphis
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
Release Date1946-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Guns and Guitars
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
Release Date1936-06-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
In Old Missouri
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
Release Date1940-04-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Stardust on the Sage
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
Release Date1942-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count3
Mr. Too Little
Young girl, Mindy, has a poodle dog "Mr. Too Little" of the title, and is a part of the circus performers. "Mr. Too Big" is a Tiger, trained by Mindy's Mother. The head of the circus is an angry man who has trained dogs and is mad at Mindy as she took "Mr. Too Little" away as a pet when the dog was one of the most intelligent and talented ever. Many Circus acts perform during the movie. The police get involved when first "Mr. Too Little" runs away and then there is an accident and the tiger "Mr. Too Big" escapes from the circus.
Release Date1979-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter