Rollin' Home to Texas

Rollin' Home to Texas

Singin' Tex puts the trigger finger on crooked range politicians!

NR 1940 · 63 min · ★ 9.0 · Western

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.

Directed by Albert Herman · Written by Robert Emmett Tansey

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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

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