Rollin' Home to Texas
movie

Singin' Tex puts the trigger finger on crooked range politicians!
Released December 30, 1940
Genres:
Overview
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.
Cast
Tex Ritter
as
Tex Reed
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White Flash
as
Tex's Horse
Cal Shrum
as
Cal Shrum
Slim Andrews
as
Slim Hunkapillar
Virginia Carpenter
as
Mary Gray
Eddie Dean
as
Sheriff Eddie Dean
Jack Rutherford
as
Carter
Minta Durfee
as
Josie Hunkapillar
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Walt Shrum
as
Henchman Smokey
I. Stanford Jolley
as
Red
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Charles R. Phipps
as
Uncle Jim
Harry Harvey
as
Lockwood