Week Forty-Two
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| "Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts" 1937 |
MOVIE NAME: TEX RIDES WITH THE BOY SCOUTS
STUDIO: BOOTS AND SADDLES PICTURES
PRODUCER: EDWARD L. ALPERSON
DIRECTOR: RAY TAYLOR
DATE: 1937
TYPE: WESTERN, with Songs
SONGS:"Girl of the Prairie," "Headin' For My Texas Home," "Bad Brahma Bull"
CAST:
TEX RITTER and his horse WHITE FLASH as Tex Lansing, MARJORIE REYNOLDS as Norma Willis, HORACE MURPHY as Stubby, SNUB POLLARD as Pee Wee , TOMMY BUPP as Buzzy Willis, CHARLES KING as Stark, FORREST TAYLOR as Dorman, KARL HACKETT as Kemp, LYNTON BRENT as Pete , PHILLIP AHN as Sing Fung , EDWARD CASSIDY as Sheriff, TIM DAVIS as Tommy Kent , THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES, MEMBERS OF TROOP 13, L.A. DIST. BOY SCOUTS
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY: In a small town in the west, robbers ambush a train and steal a one-million-dollar gold shipment. Soon G-man Tex Lansing and his friends Stubby and Pee Wee, ride through town, happen across the Black Hawk Mining and Development Company and are shot off the property, unaware that the train robbers, Stark and Dorman, are hiding there. Tex, Stubby and Pee Wee then come across a boy scout camp near the site of the robbery, and meet scouts Buzzy Willis and Tommy Kent. In town Stubby delivers a shirt to a Chinese laundry that is run by Sing Fung, who is being paid to exchange the stolen gold for cash. When Stark comes in to exchange a gold nugget, Stubby sees him and becomes suspicious. Tex meets a young woman named Norma, who works as Dorman's secretary in the Black Hawk office, and introduces himself as a geologist. When Tex visits the Black Hawk base, one of the robbers accosts him, and he is forced to knock him out before escaping on his horse. A gunfight and chase ensue, but Tex eludes the thieves. Later Buzzy introduces Tex to his sister, who turns out to be Norma, and asks her to the barn dance. Tex then writes to inspector F.B. Covin of the Treasury Department at the U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado, telling him that he has made contact with a leading member of the gang. Then, while Stubby buys a small gold nugget from Sing Fung, Dorman and his men pick a fight with Tex and he nearly loses the letter. Later, during the dance, Dorman goes to the Post Office and intercepts the letter. Buzzy then overhears Dorman and his men scheme to leave town immediately to get the gold over the border. Stark, meanwhile, plans to double-cross Dorman and leave town with the gold. When the men hear Buzzy spying on them, they shoot him in the arm. Norma has left the dance to visit Dorman, however, and finds Buzzy, who mentions the gold to her before passing out. Dorman returns to the mine, as Stark and his accomplice, Kemp, are moving the gold, and disarms them and ties them up. Meanwhile, the Boy Scouts go to the mine. As Stark and Kent free themselves from the ropes, the Boy Scouts send warnings with sky rockets, then tie up the robbers. Buzzy revives and Tommy tells Tex that Dorman is escaping on a mule-train. After Tex gathers a posse, Dorman's men are forced to abandon the gold to escape. Following a chase and a gunfight, the men surrender, and Tex goes after Dorman alone and arrests him. Buzzy, slowly recovering from his wound, is a hero.
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