"Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940) ~ Drew/Howard/Tamiroff/Crawford/Quinn ~ James P. Hogan (Director) (1995)"
Paramount Pictures presents "TEXAS RANGERS RIDE AGAIN" (1940) ~ (68 min/B&W) -- Starring: Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford, May Robson & Anthony Quinn
Directed by James P. Hogan
Old Mrs. Dangerfield (May Robson) is experiencing a rash of cattle rustling at her White Sage ranch and, fed up with her no-good grandson Carter's handling of the emergency, she contacts an old beau, Ranger Captain Ben Cadwallader of the Texas Rangers. Cadwallader assigns young Ranger Jim Kingston (John Howard) to infiltrate the gang. Kingston masquerades as The Pecos Kid on the lam. Filmed on location at Mesa, Arizona.
Although not a direct sequel, this well-apportioned B-Western from Paramount was produced to capitalize on the popularity of the studio's The Texas Rangers (1936). Unlike the earlier film, this one is set in the (then) modern times of the late 1930s - so we get cars and planes here and the Rangers often drive into the wild with their...
HAS ABOVE NORMAL PRODUCTION VALUES FOR A "B" WESTERN.
To its credit, Paramount Pictures has rarely stinted on funding for its lower tier films as evidenced with this work that is meant to profit from the popularity of the 1936 MacMurray/Oakie picture TEXAS RANGERS, of which this is not a sequel. Far from having a conventional Western setting, the plot here is contemporaneous with the time of the film's release, with cattle rustlers employing motor vehicles and wireless communication, as do the Rangers who also trailer their mounts to their patrol sectors. By utilizing some of its better contract players as well as a raft of supporting actors whose home studio is Paramount, a product is developed that is fairly well balanced between the common cinematic classifications of romance, comedy and adventure. As Ellen Dangerfield (Ellen Drew) arrives at the enormous White Sage Ranch in Texas after being ten years away on the east coast, her grandmother's spread is being rustled of thousands of cattle, causing the elderly lady (May Robson) to...
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