Soundtrack: R. Dale Butts

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by R. Dale Butts. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Too Late for Tears

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Lizabeth Scott · Don DeFore · Dan Duryea · Arthur Kennedy

Plot One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it...

6.9

274 votes

6.9

274 votes

City That Never Sleeps

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Gig Young · Mala Powers · William Talman · Edward Arnold

Plot Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

The Road to Denver

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast John Payne · Mona Freeman · Lee J. Cobb · Ray Middleton

Plot The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his...

5.3

58 votes

5.3

58 votes

Hell's Half Acre

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Wendell Corey · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester · Marie Windsor

Plot A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

The Outcast

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast John Derek · Joan Evans · Jim Davis · Catherine McLeod

Plot Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.

5.2

64 votes

5.2

64 votes

Bells of Coronado

1950 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Roy Rogers · Dale Evans · Pat Brady · Grant Withers

Plot Mine owner George Perez, transporting a load of uranium, is ambushed and left for dead after a fall over a cliff. Badly hurt, he makes his way to town doctor...

5.1

27 votes

5.1

27 votes

Santa Fe Passage

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast John Payne · Faith Domergue · Rod Cameron · Slim Pickens

Plot Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank, whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and...

5.1

75 votes

5.1

75 votes

The Shanghai Story

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ruth Roman · Edmond O'Brien · Richard Jaeckel · Barry Kelley

Plot Too many years in the Orient have made a bitter man of Dr. Dan Maynard (Edmond O'Brien), an American surgeon, and too little emotional stability has tarnished the Tangier-born Rita...

5.0

43 votes

5.0

43 votes

Down Dakota Way

1949 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · Dale Evans · Pat Brady

Plot Rancher H. T. McKenzie is informed by veterinarian George Fredericks that his cattle are carriers of the hoof-and-mouth disease and must be destroyed. McKenzie hires Steve Paxton to kill the...

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North of the Great Divide

1950 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · Penny Edwards · Gordon Jones

Plot The annual return of the salmon each year gives the Indians of the Northwest enough food to last until the next year. This way of live is threatened by Banning...

Not rated

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Accused of Murder

1956 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast David Brian · Vera Ralston · Sidney Blackmer · Virginia Grey

Plot When gangland lawyer Frank Hobart is murdered there are two suspects, Ilona Vanve , beautiful nightclub singer, and a hood named Stan , who has been hired by underworld boss...

Not rated

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Lost Planet Airmen

1951 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Brannon

Cast Tristram Coffin · Mae Clarke · Don Haggerty · House Peters Jr.

Plot Young member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy saboteur known only as "Dr. Vulcan".

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San Antone

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Rod Cameron · Arleen Whelan · Forrest Tucker · Katy Jurado

Plot After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico--now occupied by the French, who are battling Mexican revolutionaries led by Benito Juarez--in...

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Headline Hunters

1955 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Rod Cameron · Julie Bishop · Ben Cooper · Raymond Greenleaf

Plot City Editor Ned Powers assigns student reporter David Flynn to veteran newsman Hugh Woodruff, primarily to get on Woodruff's nerves. David has long admired Woodruff, but is saddened to see...

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Stranger at My Door

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Macdonald Carey · Patricia Medina · Skip Homeier · Stephen Wootton

Plot Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby...

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I Cover the Underworld

1955 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Sean McClory · Joanne Jordan · Ray Middleton · Jaclynne Greene

Plot John O'Hara, a divinity priest student endeavors to help the police, rolling up a gang of criminals. John poses as his twin brother Gunner O'Hara a gangster, who is in...

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The Last Bandit

1949 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Bill Elliott · Lorna Gray · Forrest Tucker · Andy Devine

Plot About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by...

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Not rated

Heldorado

1946 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Dale Evans

Plot Heldorado is an annual parade celebrating Las Vegas as a frontier town. Roy is captain of the guards at Boulder Dam. He helps celebrate the town's anniversary while capturing racketeers...

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The Yellow Rose of Texas

1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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Terror at Midnight

1956 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon

Cast Scott Brady · Joan Vohs · Frank Faylen · John Dehner

Plot Neal Rickards (Scott Brady), a young police detective is investigating a big interstate hot-car racket. His fiancée, Susan Lang (Joan Vohs) becomes a victim of circumstances involving the owner, who...

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Not rated