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SEE The wild Indian war dance, the great pitched battle of Rangers and Comanches! SEE The roaring revel in the frontier "Pleasure Palace" at Eldorado! SEE the heart-touching scenes of romance and thrilling drama!
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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Aug 9, 2025 · via TMDB
Petty robbers “Jim” (Fred McMurray) and his pal “Wahoo” (Jack Oakie) have quite politely robbed the stage, but are running out of cash so they head into a nearby town where they end up joining the Texas Rangers. Unlikely? Well yes, but in no time they hook up with their pal “Sam” (Lloyd Nolan) and conclude that they can make a fortune by passing on the Rangers’ secrets to him! Their first task doesn’t prove so lucrative though as the pair end up part of a small group taking on a band of marauding Indians who’ve had enough of the reservation. It’s during this assignment that “Jim” begins to see the merits of being a legitimate lawman, especially as his boss’s daughter “Amanda” (Jean Parker) starts to take a bit of a shine to him. Their next job is much closer to home. They must apprehend their friend and see him delivered for what is certainly going to be a trial and the noose. Now the conflicted “Jim” has to decide whether it is his past or his future that matters most. It’s an episodic, but competently delivered western all around this with McMurray providing a characterful performance as the bullets, knives, arrows and (some polystyrene) boulders fly around his ears. He works well with both Oakie and Nolan and the romance is kept on a low simmer so as not to get in the way of the culminating adventure. There’s also an hint of a moral, here, too and augmented by the rousing opening and closing narrative, it leaves us in no doubt about the dangers faced by the pioneers in establishing and maintaining the rule of law once success became something financially tangible to the violent and the venal.
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Fred MacMurray
Jim Hawkins
Jack Oakie
Henry B. 'Wahoo' Jones
Jean Parker
Amanda Bailey
Lloyd Nolan
Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
Edward Ellis
Major Bailey
Benny Bartlett
David
Frank Shannon
Captain Stafford
Frank Cordell
Ranger Ditson
Richard Carle
Casper Johnson
Jed Prouty
District Attorney Dave Twitchell
Fred Kohler
Jess Higgins
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Judge Snow
Rhea Mitchell
Passenger (uncredited)
Joe Rickson
Ranger (uncredited)
Neal Hart
Ranger (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
David's father (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
Sheriff (uncredited)
Charles Middleton
Lawyer (uncredited)
William H. Strauss
Juror (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Henchman (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
Citizen (uncredited)
Gayne Whitman
announcer (uncredited)
Edward Cronjager
Director of Photography
Edith Head
Costume Design
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Stunt Double
King Vidor
Director
King Vidor
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King Vidor
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