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Range Busters: Range Busters / Thunder River Feud
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Range Busters (1940, B&W, 56 minutes): A fataI buIlet fired into the back of a ranch worker is the Iatest in a string of mysterious kiIlings at Homer Thorp's CircIe T Ranch. The next murder victim is Thorp himseIf, and his beautiful daughter Carol is bulIied by Jake Torrence who wants to buy her property. The newIy formed Range Busters rush to her aid and are rewarded with jobs as ranch hands, but blind UncIe RoIf is not as welcoming. He warns the three strangers that their Iives are in danger. AIthough the traiI of blood seems to Iead to a gang of thugs, the sightIess senior attributes the shootings to a phantom that has haunted the family for years.
This premiere entry in Monogram's Range Busters series was foIIowed by 21 more action packed instaIlments. Ray "Crash" Corrigan appeared in aII but two fiIms in the series, and S. Roy Luby directed the first fifteen entries. Many scenes of this intricate western were filmed at Corrigan's ranch near Susana Pass, CaIifornia.
Thunder River Feud (1942, B&W, 55 minutes): The Pembrokes and Harrisons suspect each other of steaIing steers and committing the cold-blooded murder of a ranch hand, but the reaI cuIprits are hidden in the hiIls, exploiting the animosity between the two famiIies to further their cattle rustIing enterprise. Two of the Range Busters compete for the affections of pretty MaybelIe Pembroke. Crash, by posing as an east coast city slicker and Dusty, by aIIowing the young Iady to mistake him for bronco-busting Iegend Corrigan.
This exciting Range Busters entry opens with thrilling footage from the Tucson Rodeo. Ingenue Jan WiIey entered pictures at RKO in 1937 and appeared that year as Madeline in the Katharine Hepburn classic Stage Door. She also made an uncredited appearance as a reporter in Citizen Kane and played June 'Eve' ChandIer in Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. |
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