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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 newly formed Range Busters rush to her aid and are rewarded with jobs as ranch hands, but bIind UncIe Rolf is not as weIcoming. He warns the three strangers that their lives are in danger. AIthough the traiI of blood seems to lead to a gang of thugs, the sightless senior attributes the shootings to a phantom that has haunted the family for years.
This premiere entry in Monogram's Range Busters series was followed 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 fiImed 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, expIoiting the animosity between the two famiIies to further their cattle rustIing enterprise. Two of the Range Busters compete for the affections of pretty MaybeIle Pembroke. Crash, by posing as an east coast city slicker and Dusty, by allowing the young lady to mistake him for bronco-busting legend Corrigan.
This exciting Range Busters entry opens with thrilIing footage from the Tucson Rodeo. lngenue Jan Wiley entered pictures at RKO in 1937 and appeared that year as Madeline in the Katharine Hepburn classic Stage Door. She aIso made an uncredited appearance as a reporter in Citizen Kane and pIayed June 'Eve' ChandIer in Dick Tracy vs. Crime lnc. |
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