ROLLIN' HOME TO TEXAS (1940) Tex Ritter, Cal Shrum & Virginia Carpenter | Drama, Western | B&w

Rollin' Home to Texas is a 1940 American Western film directed by Albert Herman and written by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film stars Tex Ritter, Cal Shrum, Slim Andrews, Virginia Carpenter, Eddie Dean and Jack Rutherford. The film was released on December 30, 1940, by Monogram Pictures.

SYNOPSIS
In this film, the plot follows a familiar pattern from Robert Emmett Tansey's works, where bad characters are used by the good to catch worse ones. The warden of Desert Wells Penitentiary enlists Tex Reed and Slim to investigate a series of bank robberies committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, tied to an opposing political group, orchestrates the escapes and robberies, with Red, a convict, handling the escapes. Tex pursues the next escapee but the gang kills him before Tex can interrogate him. Meanwhile, Jimmy, Mary's brother and Tex's girlfriend, is manipulated by the gang to rob a bank, setting him up to be shot by Carter for a reward. Although Jimmy is wounded, Tex arrests him for protection. To eliminate Tex, the gang sends Red disguised as a guard with a fake message from the warden.

CAST & CREW
Tex Ritter as Tex Reed
Cal Shrum as Cal Shrum
Slim Andrews as Slim Hunkapillar
Virginia Carpenter as Mary Gray
Eddie Dean as Eddie Dean
Jack Rutherford as Carter
Minta Durfee (uncredited)[4]
Walt Shrum as Smokey
I. Stanford Jolley as Red
Charles R. Phipps as Uncle Jim
Harry Harvey Sr. as Lockwood
Olin Francis as Marshal
White Flash as Tex's horse

Director: Albert Herman
Screenplay: Robert Emmett Tansey
Producer: Edward Finney
Cinematography: Marcel Le Picard
Edited by: Fred Bain
Music by: Frank Sanucci
Production Company: Monogram Pictures
Distribution: Monogram Pictures
Release Date: December 30, 1940
Running Time: 63 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English