John Wayne: Classic Collector's Set

These six early John Wayne shorts can be watched either in original black and white or digitally remastered in colour.

In 'Stolen Goods (aka Sagebrush Trail)' (1933), John Brant (Wayne) escapes from his cell and joins a bunch of desperadoes in an attempt to find the true culprit after being wrongly imprisoned on a murder charge.

But a member of the gang is jealous of Wayne's interest in a girl and is suspicious that he might be a traitor.

A shoot-out must take place before the truth is revealed, and Wayne realises that the killer he seeks is closer than he thinks.

In 'Goldstrike River (aka The Lucky Texan)' (1934), Wayne stars as Jerry Mason, a young Texan who becomes partners with an old rancher, Jake Benson (George 'Gabby' Hayes), and they strike it rich with a gold mine.

Their lives become complicated when they attract the attention of the bad guys and a woman (Barbara Sheldon).

In 'An Innocent Man (aka Blue Steel)' (1934), a town is held to ransom by a band of outlaws when gold is discovered.

All looks grim until John Wayne comes on the scene and stands up to them.

In 'Cold Vengeance (aka The Dawn Rider)' (1935), John Mason (Wayne) learns a bitter lesson when he witnesses his father being shot down in an express office hold up.

Determined to bring the desperadoes to justice Wayne hunts them down, but is wounded as he does so.

His reward is to be nursed back to health by the beautiful Alice Gordon (Marion Burns).

In 'Guns Along the Trail (aka Paradise Canyon)' (1935), Wayne stars as an undercover government agent who is assigned to a case to thwart a gang of counterfeiters.

Finally, in 'Stagecoach Run (aka Winds of the Wasteland)' (1936) Wayne plays John Blair, a greenhorn cowboy who along with his partner Larry Adams (Lane Chandler) is swindled into buying a delapidated stagecoach line to the nowhere town of Crescent City.

Their prospects are not as rosy as the unscrupulous seller, 'Honest' Cal Drake (Douglas Cosgrove) would have had them believe: Crescent City is a ghost mining town with only two inhabitants.

However, the partners are offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to increase their business potential: if they can beat their rival stageline in a race to Sacramento, they will secure a $25,000 government mail contract.

But can they prevail against the devious tactics being employed against them by their villainous rivals, and win this all-important race?