Arizona Bound 1941  N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure / Romance
aka: Rough Riders
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dennis Moore, Kathryn Sheldon, Tristram Coffin, Horace Murphy, Slim Whitaker, I. Stanford Jolley, Hal Price, Ben Corbett, Gene Alsace, Budd Buster
In this first of a series of "Rough Riders" films, the Rough Riders–Buck Roberts (Buck Jones), Tim McCall (Tim McCoy), and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton)–are called in to save Ruth Masters' (Luana Walters) stage line when a dastardly gang, led by Steve Taggert (Tristram Coffin), begins robbing the stages and shooting the drivers.
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Arizona Round-Up 1942 N/R
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey
Cast: Tom Keene, Frank Yaconelli, Sugar Dawn, Jack Ingram, Hope Blackwood, Steve Clark, Tom Seidel, Nick Moro, Hal Price, I. Stanford Jolley, Fred Hoose, James Sheridan, Gene Alsace, Horace B. Carpenter, Ed Cassidy
Rancher Mike O'Day (Steve Clark) hires government agent Tom Kenyon (Tom Keene) and his sidekick Pierre La Farge (Frank Yaconelli) to help with the problem of a coalition between railroad owner Ed Spencer (I. Stanford Jolley) and rancher Ted Greenway (Hal Price). They want to charge the neighboring ranchers exorbitant prices to ship their horses and cattle as the means of forcing them out of the cattle business. Kenyon comes up with a plan to stop Spencer and Greenway, but will it work?
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The Pioneers 1941 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Tex Ritter, Slim Andrews, Red Foley, Doye O'Dell, Wanda McKay, Del Lawrence, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Lynton Brent, Gene Alsace, Chief Many Treaties, Charles Soldani, Red Foley's Musicians, Art Dillard, Tex Palmer
Travel guides Tex and his pal Slim Hunkafeller (Tex Ritter and Slim Andrews) save a wagon train of settlers from an Indian attack. The land office owner, J.W. Carson (Karl Hackett), is not pleased because he had encouraged the attack so that he could scare the settlers and take the land for himself. Meanwhile, Tex has fallen in love with settler Suzannah (Wanda McKay) whose father was killed in the raid. A series of misadventures follow, after which Carson is caught, and Suzannah joins Tex on a new wagon train and continues with her plans to settle in the West. Loosely based on James Fenimore Cooper's "The Leatherstocking Tales."
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Ridin' the Cherokee Trail 1941  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Tex Ritter, Slim Andrews, Forrest Taylor, Betty Miles, Fred Burns, Bruce Nolan, Jack Roper, Gene Alsace, Bob Card, James Sheridan, Hal Price, Tennessee Ramblers
Ranger Tex (Tex Ritter), with sidekick Slim (Slim Andrews), takes a vacation in Idaho for a little fishing. But he is soon embroiled in a fight for statehood–and murder. Plenty of songs in this one.
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Take Me Back to Oklahoma 1940 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Tex Ritter, Bob Wills, Slim Andrews, Terry Walker, Robert McKenzie, Karl Hackett, Donald Curtis, Gene Alsace, Olin Francis, Carleton Young, George Eldredge, Johnny Lee Wills
Jane's (Terry Walker) stagecoach line is being sabotaged by Storm (Karl Hackett) in order to get rid of the competition. But here comes Tex and sidekick Slim (Tex Ritter and Slim Andrews) to save the day. Storm sends for outlaw Mule (Olin Francis) to eliminate Tex. Unknown to Storm, Tex and Mule are friends, and they plot to rid the town of Storm. Lots of songs in this film debut of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
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| 1. Arizona Bound (1941)
aka: Rough Riders
2. Arizona Round-Up (1942)
3. The Pioneers (1941)
4. Ridin' the Cherokee Trail (1941)
5. Take Me Back to Oklahoma (1940)
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