Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.
Rita Hayworth
- Carmen Serano
- (as Rita Cansino)
Jack C. Smith
- Bix
- (as Jack Smith)
Tex Cooper
- Rodeo Announcer
- (as Tom Cooper)
The Texas Tornadoes
- Musicians
- (as Tex Ritter's Tornadoes)
Victor Adamson
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Silver Tip Baker
- Silver - Stage Driver
- (uncredited)
Bob Crosby
- Rodeo Performer
- (uncredited)
Chick Hannan
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
Harry Knight
- Rodeo Performer
- (uncredited)
Harley Luse
- Accordion Player
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Robert Emmett Tansey
- Lindsley Parsons(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFrom "Weekly Variety" magazine: "Perhaps the best looker of any of the girls working in hoss pics to date is Grand National's latest recruit, Rita Cansino [Rita Hayworth]. She was on the Fox lot for a while, and classes up the company she's on here."
- Quotes
[two government agents attempt to arrest the murderous Wells]
Charlie Wells: What's the idea? You star packers ain't got nothing on me.
Federal officer: Besides murder, there's a couple of guns on you, Wells.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sprockets: Sound in the Sagebrush (1991)
Featured review
Tex vs. the terrible trio
If you like your villains straightforward and straight-faced, then this is a fun little B western. Tex Ritter is given the unenviable task of taking on the baddie trio of Earl Dwire, Yakima Canutt and Charles King. (If you're familiar with these fellows, you will have no trouble guessing who is the brains of the gang and who is simply brawn.)
Luckily, Tex's character is not named "Tex Masters" for nothing. Besides competing for rodeo prizes and singing a handful of catchy tunes, he suspects that the crooks in town are indeed the villains who killed his brother years ago, and are thus the gang he has been seeking all this time on the rodeo circuit. He also annoys Yakima to the point of uttering a classic threat: "All right, you guitar-playin' songbird, if you got anything to say, say it fast!"
Rita Cansino (Hayworth) is fine as an undercover government agent also after the same gang. And Horace Murphy is mildly amusing as Lucky, Tex's sidekick. I am not familiar with his work, but if IMDb's filmography is to be believed, he was busy in 1937--this was one of over 30 movies he appeared in that year!
Luckily, Tex's character is not named "Tex Masters" for nothing. Besides competing for rodeo prizes and singing a handful of catchy tunes, he suspects that the crooks in town are indeed the villains who killed his brother years ago, and are thus the gang he has been seeking all this time on the rodeo circuit. He also annoys Yakima to the point of uttering a classic threat: "All right, you guitar-playin' songbird, if you got anything to say, say it fast!"
Rita Cansino (Hayworth) is fine as an undercover government agent also after the same gang. And Horace Murphy is mildly amusing as Lucky, Tex's sidekick. I am not familiar with his work, but if IMDb's filmography is to be believed, he was busy in 1937--this was one of over 30 movies he appeared in that year!
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- csteidler
- May 22, 2011
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Carmen in Texas
- Filming locations
- Monogram Ranch - 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California, USA(town and open range sequences)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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