Rollin' Home to Texas

Rollin' Home to Texas (1940)

Western

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.

Director: Albert Herman
Writer: Robert Emmett Tansey

Casts

	Tex Ritter as Tex Reed
	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
	Walt Shrum as Henchman Smokey
	I. Stanford Jolley as Red
	Charles R. Phipps as Uncle Jim
	Harry Harvey as Lockwood
	Olin Francis as Marshal
	Rusty Cline as Rhythm Rangers Bass Player
	Gene Haas as Band Member
	Tony Fiore as Rhythm Rangers Musician
	Jack Williams as Band Member
	Robert Hoag as Rhythm Rangers Musician
	Hal Blair as Band Member
	Gene Alsace as Henchman
	James Sheridan as Henchman

Crew