Tex Granger

Tex Granger

Infobox Film
name = Tex Granger


image_size =
caption =
director = Derwin Abrahams
producer = Sam Katzman
writer = Lewis Clay
Royal K. Cole
Harry L. Fraser
Arthur Hoerl
George H. Plympton
narrator =
starring = Robert Kellard
Peggy Stewart
Robert 'Buzz' Henry
Smith Ballew
Jack Ingram
I. Stanford Jolley
music = Mischa Bakaleinikoff
cinematography = Ira H. Morgan
editing = Earl Turner
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 1 April 1948
runtime = 15 chapters (270 min)
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:141978
imdb_id = 0040867

Tex Granger (1948) is a Columbia movie serial featuring the title character as a masked cowboy referred to as "The Midnight Rider of the Plains" in the serial's subtitle. It was based on a character from the comic Calling All Boys while the plot was taken from "The Last Frontier" (1926), [ [http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:141978~T0 Tex Granger Overview at All Movie Database] , retrieved 27/04/07] which was itself based on the novel of the same name by Courtney Ryley Cooper.

Plot

When "Tex Granger" rides into Three Buttes, "Helen Kent" persuades him to buy the local newspaper. However, loan shark "Rance Carson" appoints the bandit "Blaze Talbot" as town marshal to act as his enforcer and soon the town is in chaos. With fighting between rival gangs, Tex dons a mask to become The Midnight Rider and bring the criminals to justice.

Cast

*Robert Kellard as Tex Granger, new owner of the town newspaper and secretly also The Midnight Rider of the Plains
*Peggy Stewart as Helen Kent
*Robert 'Buzz' Henry as Timmy Perkins, a young boy
*Smith Ballew as Blaze Talbot, bandit appointed as marshal by Carson
*Jack Ingram as Reno, bandit working with Blaze Talbot
*I. Stanford Jolley as Rance Carson, the villainous loan shark
*Terry Frost as Luke Adams, one of Carson's henchmen
*Jim Diehl as Conroy, one of Carson's henchmen
*Britt Wood as Sandy White
*Tiny Brauer as Morgan, one of Carson's henchmen
*Duke, the dog

References

*imdb title|id=0040867|title=Tex Granger

External links

*imdb title|id=0040867|title=Tex Granger
* [http://www.comicvine.com/comic/calling-all-boys/11683/&i=2614&v=g Calling All Boys (by cover image) at Comic Vine] featuring Tex Granger

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title=Columbia Serial
before=Brick Bradford (1947)
years=Tex Granger (1948)
after=Superman (1948)


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