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Roll Wagons Roll is a 1940 American Western film directed by Albert Herman and starring Tex Ritter, Nelson McDowell and Muriel Evans.

SYNOPSIS
Oregon fur traders are attempting to keep pioneers migrating westward out of the territory by inciting the Indians to attack their wagon trains. The U.S. Army sends Tex Masters (Tex Ritter) to uncover who is supplying the Indians with Army rifles. He and his pal Rawhide (Nelson McDowell), called "Lucky" in the credits and pressbook, join up with the wagon train headed by Benson (Frank LaRue) and his daughter Ruth (Muriel Evans).

When a staged "accident" almost kills Benson, Tex discovers it was the work of Matt Grimes (Tom London), the train scout, but can't prove it. Tex and Grimes have a row when Tex insists that the train take a different route from the one Grimes recommends. Grimes quits the train and sets the Indians on Benson's outfit. Tex saves the train, but Ruth and her father now believe that Tex is in league with the Indians, and they fire him.

In town, Tex and Rawhide see Grimes conferring with Steve Coleman (Reed Howes), a fur trader. That night, Tex sneaks into Coleman's store and finds a huge supply of Army rifles ready to be sent to the Indians. He also hears Coleman telling henchman Slade (Nolan Willis) to wipe out the wagon train. Tex is accidentally locked in the storeroom but gets free and sends Rawhide for the Army. Tex gets to the wagon train just as the attack by the Indians and Coleman's renegades starts. The train is saved, but it appears Tex led them into trouble, and he is dismissed.

Determined to uncover the truth, Tex realizes the guide has a boss behind all the trouble. He and Rawhide set out to find him and bring justice to the Oregon trail.

CAST & CREW
Tex Ritter as Tex Masters
Nelson McDowell as Rawhide
Muriel Evans as Ruth Benson
Nolan Willis as Henchman Slade
Steve Clark as Henchman Trigger
Tom London as Henchman Matt Grimes
Reed Howes as Steve Coleman
Frank Ellis as Doc Williams
Kenne Duncan as Captain Clay
Frank LaRue as Benson
Chick Hannan as Pioneer Rider
Victor Adamson as Wagon Driver
Gene Alsace as Wagon Train Man

Oregon Trail (1940)

Directed by: Albert Herman
Written by: Victor Adamson, Edmond Kelso, Roger Merton
Produced by: Edward Finney
Cinematography: Marcel Le Picard
Edited by: Fred Bain
Music by: Frank Sanucci
Production company: Edward F. Finney Productions
Distributed by: Monogram Pictures
Release date: August 16, 1940
Running time: 56 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English