The Thomas E. Kelly Collection
Thunder Calling Out His Name, Owned By Thomas E Kelly. He produced and directed this video and it is sung by Doug Stone.
Western Screenplays by Thomas Kelly
Step into the Old West with stories of outlaws, sheriffs, and untamed lands. Each screenplay captures the grit and spirit of frontier justice.
Hell’s Coming
Genre: Western Drama ~ 1878 – 1880
Screenplay by: Thomas E. Kelly
Producers: Julie Campbell, Jimmy Mathew, Kandy Bagley
Executive Producers: John Taylor, Thomas E. Kelly
Production Company: Snakebite Entertainment Co.
Status: Seeking Financial & Co. Production Co.
Logline:
The Cooper Gang seeks revenge against James Walker for killing Cooper’s two brothers during the war. James Walker is shadowed by a mysterious Dark Rider, who is he and what does he want?
The Beginning
Genre: Western Drama ~ 1843 ~ 1863
Screenplay by: Thomas E. Kelly
Producers: Julie Campbell, Jimmy Mathew, Kandy Bagley
Executive Producers: John Taylor, Thomas E. Kelly
Production Companies: Longhorn Film Productions, Snakebite Entertainment Co.
Status: Seeking Financial & Co. Production Co.
Logline:
James Walker a baby boy, and the lone survivor of a wagon train, his family massacred by the Apache, the Hopi Indians now raise him. They named him Cheveyo meaning spirit warrior. He grew up to become a legend.
Blood River
Genre: Western Drama ~ 1878 – 1880
Screenplay by: Thomas E. Kelly
Producers: Julie Campbell, Jimmy Mathew, Kandy Bagley
Executive Producers: John Taylor, Thomas E. Kelly
Production Company: Snakebite Entertainment Co.
Status: Seeking Financial & Co. Production Co.
Logline:
James leaves his family to pick up a herd of horses that he bought for his Ranch, only to run into Custers last stand and run into Indians for days. Once he gets to Miles Town Montana, to find there are no horses. Then things get worse. He finally gets his horses, but a herd of cattle to boot. He hires a crew of drovers and heads for home to find out that it’s more than he bargained for.
The Fearless Gun
Genre: Western Drama ~ 1843 ~ 1863
Screenplay by: Thomas E. Kelly
Producers: Julie Campbell, Jimmy Mathew, Kandy Bagley
Executive Producers: John Taylor, Thomas E. Kelly
Production Companies: Longhorn Film Productions, Snakebite Entertainment Co.
Status: Seeking Financial & Co. Production Co.
Logline:
He wasn’t like other men, tall shoulder length black hair and the coldest blue eyes you ever saw. He had on a wide brim hat, buckskin shirt and fated blue pants. He has town colt .45’s handles turned out. You could tell at a glance, he is a Renegade. Kind of man you give a wide berth to if you wanted to see the morning sun again. As I recollect never knew where he came from. He just rode into town one day, big as you please. He was leading four horses with bodies draped over the saddles. Stop in front of the Sheriff’s office he did. They say he calls himself Dakota.
Silk and the Gun
Genre: Western Drama ~ 1800s
Screenplay by: Thomas E. Kelly
Producers: Julie Campbell, Jimmy Mathew, Kandy Bagley
Executive Producers: John Taylor, Thomas E. Kelly
Production Company: Snakebite Entertainment Co.
Status: Seeking Financial & Co. Production Co.
Synopsis:
A lone rider rides slowly into Cimarron and slowly glances from side to side. He is leading four horses with bodies tied over the saddles, people watch from windows and doorways. He wasn't like other men, tall broad shoulders, black hair and the coldest blue eyes you ever saw. He has on a wide brim hat, buckskin shirt and faded britches. He wears two colts, the handles have a silver snake with the Initials JW also in silver . You can tell at a glance he is a Renegade. The kind of man you give a wide berth too, that is if you wanted to see morning come again.
Eight ride to hell
By: Thomas E. Kelly
95 - Page Original Screenplay
TIME: 1879
Location: Kansas Territory
Genre: Western Drama
SYNOPSIS
James Walker and his men have just gotten in from Wyoming Territory with the cattle and horses with the last fifty miles to go. He gets home, his wife Mary and daughter are happy to see him. He thinks he will leave for Texas to buy more cattle, but his wife wants him to stay.
Next morning he sends James watches Utah and Jake ride out of the ranch yard towards Tascosa, Texas. Curly Bill walks up to where James is standing and watches too. w
James finds that Utah was murdered and the cattle were taken. They pick up the trail of the killers leading to New Mexico.
Vengeance is mine
WESTERN 1800
VENGEANCE IS MINE SYNOPSIS
The sun is shining off the green grass a lone horsemen sits his horse looking at the lake. The man is 46-YEAR-OLD JOHN MITCHELL married with two children a boy fifteen MAX, and girl fourteen CATHY and his wife MATTE. Owner of the Circle M Ranch.4
John Mitchell watches the ducks fly off the lake and the dear getting their fill of water. He smile to himself as he watches his cattle grazing at the other end of the lake. SUDDENLY There is a sharp crack of a RIFLE, John stiffens in the saddle, when there is another sharp crack and John falls from the horse.
Max rides down the draw towards the lake, when he sees his fathers horse grazing close to the lake. His mind starts racing as he doesn't see his father. As Max draws closer he sees his father lying on the ground. Max races his horse to where his father lay jumping off his mount he runs to his father.
Max see a light on in the house as he rides into the yard. He dismounts tying both horses to the hitching post walking slowly to the door. RAIN is pouring down hard on him and his dead father. Max tells his mother that his father is dead and she falls to the ground crying.
They try and take his father’s land, but Max is ready to stand his ground. If it’s a fight they want, then it’s a fight they’ll get.
Dark Moon Rising
WESTERN-SNAKEBITE ENTERTAINMENT- DARK MOON RISING
-The Rider has on a wide brim hat, buckskin shirt, and faded britches. He wears two colts, the handles have a silver snake with the Initials JW also in silver.
He wasn't like most other men, tall broad shoulders, black hair and the coldest blue eyes hell ever saw. You can tell at a glance he is a Renegade. The kind of man you give a wide berth too, that is if you want to see another sunrise. His name, JAMES WALKER. This is just one of those stories about One Man that stands out among all men, James Walker, a Legend in his own time
End Of the Trail
James falls off his horse. He does not move. The Black Stallion stands near him as if he is protecting him. BUZZARDS fly overhead. James had just killed the man that killed his family. He is headed back to Silver City hoping he can now find peace now that he kept his promise to Mary.
The BLACK stops in front of the Silver City Hotel. James opens his eyes to see Victoria and Ira standing on the hotel steps. Victoria run to him as James falls from his horse to the dusty street. James feels warm and see a brilliant white light that seems to be calling his name. He hears clearly now the Hopi death song being sung and he walks towards the bright light. The light seems to be pulling him closer and closer.
James Walker, leans in the saddle, looking out over the desert with his binoculars, he sees nothing and rides on.
James Walker, rides slowly into TIMBER GAP and slowly glances from side to side. He is leading six horses with bodies tied over the saddles, people watch from windows and doorways.
James Walker enter the Marshal's office, DAKOTA is sitting at his desk. He looks up as the door opens and the James Walker walks in.
Spirit of a bullet
By: Thomas E. Kelly
SPIRIT OF A BULLET
By: Thomas E. Kelly
97 - Page Original Screenplay
TIME: 1878
Location: New Mexico Territory
Genre: Western Drama
LOGLINE: Shane finds himself on the trail of an ex-abolitionist JOHN STINSON. Shane was a small boy when John Stinson rode into his father’s farm and killed his family and friends.
SYNOPSIS:
Shane is on his way to Socorro New Mexico for one reason and that was to kill John Stinson. He has spent the last twenty years looking for this man. In 1857 Abolitionist John Stinson led bold raids on the farmers and businesses that were so alarming to the South that some historians believe it made the Civil War inevitable. John Stinson rode to Shane's father's farm with twenty-five riders. Shane was a boy of thirteen then.
John Stinson and his men rode down on the farm that day. Some of the riders took their reatas and beat his father almost to death. While Shane’s mother stood with her arms around the children he hits her with his quirt knocking her senseless. Two of the young Negro boys stood there watching in horror. One of the Negro boys tries to run and John Stinson shoots him dead. While Shane was watching from thick brush, John Stinson hangs his family and the two Negro boys from a tree.
Shane helps save the people on a Wells Fargo Coach from the Apache Indians on his way to Socorro. Shane makes friends with a gunfighter from the stage whose name is, Trent. It turns out both men are in Socorro to kill someone, and as the two talk Shane finds out that Trent was hired by John Stinson to kill him. Trent asks why John Stinson wants to kill him and Shane tells him that; Twenty-one years ago back in West Virginia, he leads a band of raiders on a farm. He hung a whole family, mother, father, two girls, a boy and two Negro boys for no other reason than the farmer kept Negro’s working for him. John Stinson back then was an abolitionist.
Shane finds out that John Stinson had become a rich rancher, mine owner and had a pretty daughter. Trent and Shane make plans to deceive John Stinson and destroy him. They are going to need help and both of them send wires to some of their friends; Marshal JOSHUA SMITH, Dakota, LOGAN, JOHN HARDIN, and all hell will break loose when they all saddle up.  Â
Spirit Warrior
WESTERN
SNAKEBITE ENTERTAINMENT – SPIRIT WARRIOR -SYNOPSIS
A wagon train left the East for the4 frontier for a better life, but only found hardship. The men on the train are overwhelmed by the Apache’s in a short time. John and Claire Walker are the last to be taken by the Indians. Claire hides little James Walker in a box in back of the wagon seat. An Apache arrow strikes her in the back as she is turning around. John Walker fights bravely; but is overwhelmed by the Apache’s and is killed.
The Hopi Indians watch from a hill above as the Apache’s leave the burning wagons. Chief Nakwaiyamtewa and his braves ride slowly down the hill to the burning wagons. They find a baby James Walker and is taken to be raised by the Hopi Indians. A LEGEND IS BORN.
Shiloh
Snakebite Entertainment – Shiloh -SYNOPSIS
SHILOH
By: Thomas E. Kelly
96 - Page Original Screenplay
TIME: 1862 to 1882
Location: Tennessee to ARIZONA TERRITORY
Genre: Western Drama
LOGLINE:
To be truthful, I don’t even know my real name... I’m just known as Shiloh. What I do know, is that I am good with cards and a gun. Twenty-two men have found that out the hard way.
SYNOPSIS:
Confederate surprise attacks on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates killed and wounded, more men than in all previous American wars combined. As Confederate and Union soldiers walk among the dead looking for survivors, a lone Confederate soldier is found among them with a head wound. When asked his name, he didn’t know, so they named him after this battle- Shiloh.
After the war was over, Shiloh made his way westward; he didn’t remember anything from his past life, not even his God-given name. What he did know is that he was good with cards and a gun and as Shiloh continued west he sells his gun to the highest bidder.
Shiloh is on his way to way to Tucson, Arizona, one of the large ranchers there hired him to track down the men that have been stealing his livestock. On his way to Tucson, Arizona he runs into a band of Apache warriors.  He hides out and waits for the Apache’s to pass him by. He moves on towards Tucson when he sees black smoke off in the distance. As Shiloh rides up he sees an adobe house on fire, there were four bodies lying outside the home. He sees a man lying dead and two older boys and an older woman. He can see the man is dead, he has been scalped, the boys each had an arrow in their back, and the woman lay in a crumpled pile.
Shiloh finds that the woman is still alive, but dying. Her name is, MILLY MCSLACKEY, she tells Shiloh of the Apache attack on her ranch. She tells him that her family tried to hold the Indians off but that there were too many of them. Milly McCluskey made Shiloh promise to bury her husband, and boys and then with her dying breath makes him promise to rescue her two daughters, Rachael eighteen and CYNTHIA fourteen or find them and kill them. To Shiloh a promise given was a debt unpaid, Tucson was just going to have to wait.