Reviewer:
Poohbah70
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December 1, 2019
Subject:
Tex Ritter All Over Again
Some of these westerns got turned out with a cookie cutter - this is one of them. Upstanding saloon owner and horse trader Earl Dwire is as crooked as they come. He cheated Archie Ricks (Tombstone Kid) and now he's busy trying to cheat Jack C. Smith (Dad Reed) out of his horses and his property and winds up cheating Tex and Smith and having Smith jailed. And, he almost gets Tex jailed, twice. Tex, meanwhile, has fallen in love with Jerry Bergh (Jean Reed) and he is now really interested in clearing up all the problems. Bergh, no great actress, was in two westerns, and IMDb has no more info about her - not even birth date or place. Typically, in a Tex Ritter movie, there are too many forgettable songs sung by Ritter in his nasal baritone - whether shaving, sitting in a cell, riding the range, riding off the the girl - he's got a song. There are a few okay tunes played and sung by Ray Whitely's Range Ramblers and the Phelps Bros. And, even little Tommy Bupp offers up a song. There are just too many songs. Otherwise, there is some action - fist fights, quick draws, riding - as per usual. Not really bad, not really good.