RIDERS OF THE FRONTIER (1939) Tex Ritter, Jack Rutherford & Jean Joyce | Western, Drama | B&W

Riders of the Frontier, also known as Ridin' the Frontier, is a 1939 American Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett and starring Tex Ritter with his horse "White Flash". It is a remake of the 1936 film The Cattle Thief.

SYNOPSIS
Lawman Tex Lowry pretends to be outlaw Ed Carter to infiltrate the outlaw gang led by Sarah's ranch foreman Bart Lane and his henchmen Buck, Sam, Gus and Boney and to save Sarah's nurse Martha from being taken captive by the gang.

A ranch foreman and his men are guily of cheating their owner out of her cattle money and murdering the Deputies that arrive to investigate. He also has a stooge Doctor keeping her in poor health with medicine. Tex arrives posing as a notorious wanted outlaw and is accepted into the gang. Learning the gang's operation he makes plans with the Marshal to round them up.

CAST & CREW
Tex Ritter as Tex Lowry
with his horse "White Flash"
John Rutherford as Bart Lane
Hal Taliaferro as Buck
Olin Francis as Sam
Nolan Willis as Gus
Roy Barcroft as Ed Carter
Merrill McCormick as Boney
Manten Moreland as Cookie
Edw. Cecil as Doctor
Bruce Mitchell as Marshal
Jean Joyce as Martha
Marin Sais as Sarah
Maxine Leslie as Goldie

Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett
Written by Jesse Duffy and Joseph Levering (story and screenplay by)
Produced by Scott R. Dunlap
Cinematography Marcel A. LePicard, A.S.C.
Edited by Fred Bain
Production company An Edward Finney Production
Distributed by Monogram Pictures Corporation
Release date August 16, 1939
Running time 58 minutes
Country United States
Language English