Rollin' Home to Texas
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.
Release Date
December 30, 1940Runtime
63 minRating
NRGenres
WesternDirected by
Albert HermanScreenplay by
Robert Emmett TanseyLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Tex Ritter
Tex ReedWhite Flash
Tex's HorseCal Shrum
Cal ShrumSlim Andrews
Slim HunkapillarVirginia Carpenter
Mary GrayEddie Dean
Sheriff Eddie DeanJack Rutherford
CarterMinta Durfee
Josie HunkapillarI. Stanford Jolley
RedHarry Harvey
LockwoodOlin Francis
MarshalGene Alsace
HenchmanJames Sheridan
HenchmanImages
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