George Chandler

Amateur sleuth Lamont Cranston solves a series of mysterious killings which are linked together by a valuable jade statuette of Kwan Lin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

Gunslinger Mike Ryan (Joel McCrea) is intent on bringing the dangerous outlaw Velvet Clark (Mark Stevens) to justice. However, Ryan is at a disadvantage, since he doesn't know what the masked robber looks like. Ryan begins to work with the area sheriff and falls for the lawman's pretty daughter, Molly Jones (Joan Weldon). With Clark hiding in plain sight as a piano player, the criminal manages to evade Ryan for a while, but eventually the two adversaries come face-to-face.

Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best barroom brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest.

As in the Zane Grey novel, a cowboy tries to solve his friend’s murder by a mysterious assailant, who might be in league with the crooked sheriff.