Tex Granger

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Tex Granger
Poster of the movie Tex Granger, Midnight Rider of the Plains .jpg
Poster of chapter 10 (Midnight Ambush)
Directed byDerwin Abrahams
Screenplay byArthur Hoerl
Lewis Clay
Harry L. Fraser
(as Harry Fraser)
Royal K. Cole
Story byGeorge H. Plympton
Produced bySam Katzman
StarringRobert Kellard
Peggy Stewart
Robert 'Buzz' Henry
Smith Ballew
CinematographyIra H. Morgan
Edited byEarl Turner
Production
company
Sam Katzman Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 1, 1948 (1948-04-01)
Running time
270 minutes
(15 episodes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Tex Granger is a 1948 American Western film serial featuring the title character as a masked cowboy referred to as The Midnight Rider of the Plains in the serial's subtitle. It was based on a character from the comic Calling All Boys while the plot was taken from The Last Frontier (1926),[1] which was itself based on the novel of the same name by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Tex Granger was the 36th of the 57 serials released by Columbia.

Plot[]

When Tex Granger rides into Three Buttes, Helen Kent persuades him to buy the local newspaper office. However, loan shark Rance Carson appoints the bandit Blaze Talbot as town marshal to act as his enforcer and soon the town is in chaos. With fighting between rival gangs, Tex dons a mask to become "The Midnight Rider of the Plains" and bring the criminals to justice.

Cast[]

  • Robert Kellard as Tex Granger, The Night Rider
  • Peggy Stewart as Helen Kent
  • Robert 'Buzz' Henry as Timmy Perkins (as Buzz Henry)
  • Smith Ballew as Marshal Blaze
  • Jack Ingram as Reno, Gang Leader
  • I. Stanford Jolley as Rance Carson
  • Terry Frost as Luke Adams, Carson Henchman [Chs.1-6]
  • Jim Diehl as Conroy, Carson Henchmen
  • Britt Wood as Sandy White
  • Tiny Brauer as Morgan Carson Henchmen (as Bill Brauer)
  • Duke as Duke, the Dog (as Duke the Wonder Dog)

Chapter titles[]

  1. Tex Finds Trouble
  2. Rider of Mystery Mesa
  3. Dead or Alive
  4. Dangerous Trails
  5. Renegade Pass
  6. A Crooked Deal
  7. The Rider Unmasked
  8. Mystery of the Silver Ghost
  9. The Rider Trapped
  10. Midnight Ambush
  11. Renegade Roundup
  12. Carson's Last Draw
  13. Blaze Takes Over
  14. Riding Wild
  15. The Rider Meets Blaze

Source:[2]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Tex Granger Overview at All Movie Database, retrieved 27/04/07
  2. ^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 247. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links[]

Preceded by
Brick Bradford (1947)
 Columbia Serial
Tex Granger (1948) 		Succeeded by
Superman (1948)
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