Rollin' Home to Texas
NR
1940
63 minutes
Overview
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed and Slim to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, head of an opposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red, a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy, brother of Tex's girl friend Mary, is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.
Top Cast
Tex Ritter
Tex Reed
White Flash
Tex's Horse
Cal Shrum
Cal Shrum
Slim Andrews
Slim Hunkapillar
Virginia Carpenter
Mary Gray
Eddie Dean
Sheriff Eddie Dean
Jack Rutherford
Carter
Minta Durfee
Josie Hunkapillar
Walt Shrum
Henchman Smokey
I. Stanford Jolley
Red
Charles R. Phipps
Uncle Jim
Harry Harvey
Lockwood
Olin Francis
Marshal
Rusty Cline
Rhythm Rangers Bass Player
Gene Haas
Band Member
Tony Fiore
Rhythm Rangers Musician
Jack Williams
Band Member
Robert Hoag
Rhythm Rangers Musician
Hal Blair
Band Member
Gene Alsace
Henchman
James Sheridan
Henchman