Lyle Bettger
16 titles
Filmography
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Destry
(1954)A small town sheriff in desperate need of help calls in the son of a legendary shoot-em-up lawman. But young mild-mannered Tom Destry doesn't carry a gun - how is he going to restore order?

Drums Across the River
(1954)Driven to desperation by hard times, Frank Walker and a party of miners dig for gold in Ute Indian country despite a peace treaty that forbids trespassing on their land. Joining the group is Gary Brannon, whose mother was killed by the tribe. The miners' actions soon incur the wrath of the Ute and Gary finds himself caught in a deadly situation that threatens to erupt into a bloody race war.

Carnival Story
(1954)In search of a better life, a German woman joins an American carnival passing through Munich and becomes torn between two very different suitors.
The Court of Last Resort
The Court of Last Resort was founded by Erle Stanley Gardner in the 1950s. The team sought to reveal whether someone already found guilty might really be innocent. The show dramatized the original crime then followed the investigation. Actual cases were used.

Impasse
(1969)When Pat Morrison (Burt Reynolds) learns of a cache of gold hidden in the Philippines during World War II, he recruits the team of veterans who buried the treasure to lead him to the site. But the team members may have plans of their own.

Union Station
(1950)A detective arrests two hoods on a train and learns their boss has abducted the daughter of his employer.

Dear Brat
(1951)A teen's crusade to reform criminals takes on new meaning when she hires a gardener her father sentenced to prison.

No Man of Her Own
(1950)A pregnant wanderer is involved in a train crash and assumes a dead girl's identity. When she is blackmailed by a man who discovers her true identity, she decides to kill him. Based on a novel by William Irish.
Return of the Gunfighter
(1967)Robert Taylor serves justice with a gun in this action-packed Western about an aging gunslinger who tracks down the men who killed an old friend.

Johnny Reno
(1966)Johnny Reno is a US Marshall who is bushwhacked by outlaws on his way to Stone Junction, Kansas. Joe Connors and his brother Ab mistakenly believe the lawman is after them and fire on Reno, and Reno captures Joe after Ab is killed in the gun battle. The two face an angry mob in a town where local Sheriff Hodges is in cahoots with the corrupt Mayor Jess Yates.

Denver and Rio Grande
(1952)The film is a dramatization of the building of the Denver and Rio Grande railway, which was chartered in 1870.

Guns of the Timberland
(1960)Jim Hadley has a government grant to cut timber near the high-country town of Deep Well, and that’s what he and his callous lumbermen insist they'll do.

Hurricane Smith
(1952)A trio of pirates find themselves beached on a deserted island. When a ship of slave traders arrives in search of natives to capture and sell, the stranded pirates steal the vessel and set sail for Australia. Once down under, the thieves hatch a plot to recover a hoard of buried treasure and are hired as crew for a scientific expedition. However, it turns out that the scientists are really after the loot as well.

The Fastest Guitar Alive
(1967)Roy Orbison essays his lone feature-film role as Johnny, a Confederate spy who becomes entangled in a plot to steal Union gold at the close of the war.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
(1957)The friendship between deadly gunfighter Doc Holliday and respected lawman Marshal Wyatt Earp forms the basis of this western saga. It builds up to the showdown at Tombstone, when the Holliday-Earp partnership destroyed the hated Clanton Gang.

The Sea Chase
(1955)Adventure, drama and romance of an outlaw ship and the people aboard her. Based on Andrew Geer's novel.