The 1937 film "Blazing Sixes", is a Western film about a gang which robs stagecoaches carrying gold coins from the Denver Mint to banks. The gangs operate a smelter which turns the coins into bars. The gang then sells the bars. The title of the film, "Blazing Sixes" refers to the six-shot revolver pistols known as "six-guns." According to a newspaper front page shown in the film the time period is around 1890 and the place is in a fictional Colorado town named Greenville located west of Denver. Two Secret Service agents are sent by Mint officials to investigate and put an end to the gang's activities. Along the way the agents sing a few songs and court two women who have inherited a ranch. A "Prosperity Lucky Ship Good Luck Coin" token is used to portray a gold coin.

The film begins with a prologue:

A stagecoach is held up by bandits.

The robbers take the Denver Mint bags of gold coins to an abandoned Greenville ranch.

The bandits are using a smelter to melt the gold coins into gold bars.

The chief of the bandits is Jim Hess who also runs a saloon in Greenville named the "Queen Saloon." Jim tells another bandit that he is shipping the gold bars "across the border." A newspaper headline highlights the robberies:

The newspaper headline reads:

The chief of the Denver Mint sends two Secret Service agents, Red Barton and Peewee, to the Greenville area to investigate the robberies. Red and Peewee head for Jim Hess's Queen Saloon.

Red Barton joins the crowd in singing.

Red and Peewee join Jim at the bar.

Red throws a "gold coin" onto the table.

The prop coin is a Prosperity Lucky Ship Good Luck Coin.

White metal, 30 mm, 10.38 gm
Obverse:
Woman standing holding cornucopia, rising sun to right
PROSPERITY / 1932 / LUCKY COIN
Reverse:
Sailing ship facing right
LUCKY SHIP / SUCCESS TO YOU

For more about this coin please visit: Prosperity Lucky Ship Good Luck Coin

Hess picks up the coin.

Hess invites Red to his office.

Red explains that a gambler gave him the coin and referred him to Hess. Hess tells Red that he doesn't need new employees and to "keep on moving."

Red and Peewee stay in Greenville however. The picture in the background is a print of the 1884 painting "Custer's Last Fight" by Cassilly Adams. The Anheuser Busch beer company had many copies made for saloons. The bandits stop a stagecoach carrying two women, Barbara and her Aunt Sarah. Red appears wearing a black outfit and a mask, holds the robbers at gunpoint, and takes their guns and the box of gold coins from them. The stagecoach arrives in Greenville with the two women and later Peewee meets them.

The women tell Peewee their story of the robbery. Red visits Jim at his office and meets other gang members.

Red hands back the pistols he took from the bandits and Jim now listens to him.

Jim decides to bring Red in as a partner in the robberies and they head for the ranch.

The two women are the actual owners of the ranch and plan to live there. The gang decides to move their operation and smelter elsewhere.

Red is arrested by the sheriff for the robberies and Peewee breaks him out of jail. Red and Peewee get a group of men and ride to the ranch. At the ranch Jim and his gang encounter the women.

The gang locks the ladies in a closet and then engage in a gunfight with Red's men.

Jim's bandits are killed in the gun fight. Red rescues the two women and Jim is killed in an explosion. The film has a happy ending with Red and Peewee and ladies.

Dick Foran as Red Barton
Glenn Strange as Peewee
John Merton as Jim Hess
Helen Valkis as Barbara Morgan
Mira McKinney as Aunt Sarah
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Director: Noel M. Smith
Writers: John T. Neville, Anthony Coldeway