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90% Critic Match
Rollin' Home to Texas
“Singin' Tex puts the trigger finger on crooked range politicians!”
9.0 / 10• 1940• 1h 3m•NR• English
Western
Storyline
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 & Crew
Tex Ritter
Tex Reed
LeadWF
White Flash
Tex's Horse
Cal Shrum
Cal Shrum
Slim Andrews
Slim Hunkapillar
Virginia Carpenter
Mary Gray
Eddie Dean
Sheriff Eddie Dean
Jack Rutherford
Carter
Minta Durfee
Josie Hunkapillar
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Albert Herman's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Rollin' Home to Texas is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
