Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.

Director:

James P. Hogan (as James Hogan)

Writers:

William R. Lipman, Horace McCoy

Stars:

Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ellen Drew	...	Ellen 'Slats' Dangerfield
John Howard	...	Jim Kingston - aka Pecos Kid
Akim Tamiroff	...	Mio Pio
May Robson	...	Cecilia Dangerfield
Broderick Crawford	...	Mace Townsley
Charley Grapewin	...	Ranger Ben Caldwalder
John Miljan	...	Carter Dangerfield
William Duncan	...	Captain Inglis
Anthony Quinn	...	Joe Yuma
Harvey Stephens	...	Ranger Blair
Eva Puig	...	Maria
Harold Goodwin	...	Ranger Comstock
Edward Pawley	...	Palo Pete
Eddie Foy Jr.	...	Mandolin
Joseph Crehan	...	Johnson

Storyline

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.

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Plot Keywords:

undercover | contemporary western | 1930s | texas ranger | cattle rustling | 

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Taglines:

RIDE, RANGERS, RIDE! (original print media ad - all caps)

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 December 1940 (USA)

Also Known As:

Texas!

Filming Locations:

Mesa, Arizona, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

68 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented telecast took place in Milwaukee Wednesday 7 October 1959 on WITI (Channel 6). It was released on DVD 12 March 2013 as part of Universal's Classic Westerns Collection, and since that time, it's also enjoyed occasional cable TV airings on the Western Channel.

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Connections

Follows The Texas Rangers (1936)

User Reviews

A Little Gem

Paramount has produced a neat little gem of a "B" western, worth seeing if only for a truly impressive cast, including two Oscar winners (Broderick Crawford and Anthony Quinn) and two other Oscar nominees (May Robson and Akim Tamiroff). Add in a virtual who's who of character actors including three walk-of-fame stars (Ellen Drew, John Howard and Monte Blue), Charley Grapewin (The Wizard of Oz), and Eddie Foy, Jr. (Yankee Doodle Dandy) among others, and you have lots to watch for in a relatively short picture.

Filmed on location in Arizona and set in the contemporary (for 1940) West, the usual elements of a cowboy adventure all appear: cattle rustlers and their ruthless leader, the beautiful rancher's daughter, the dominating landowner (this time, a formidable May Robson), an undercover lawman, the dishonest townsman, and a climactic shootout. And the hero gets the girl, naturally. An unusual ranch house/castle/fortress originally built to withstand Indian attack has an old dark house feel. The only real wrinkle is seeing the Texas Rangers in a modern office building, using motor vehicles (sometimes) and communicating by radio.

Well worth spending just over an hour for an afternoon's entertainment.