Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

Apr 1, 1948

4h 30m

★ 0.0

GALLOPING THRILL-HOT ADVENTURE! BLAZING SERIAL GLORY!

Overview

Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Tex Granger

Robert Kellard

Helen Kent

Peggy Stewart

Timmy Perkins

Robert "Buzz" Henry

Blaze Talbot

Smith Ballew

Reno

Jack Ingram

Rance Carson

I. Stanford Jolley

Luke Adams, Carson's Henchman

Terry Frost

Conroy, Carson's Henchman

Jim Diehl

Sandy White

Britt Wood

Morgan, Carson's Henchman

Tiny Brauer

Del Richards (uncredited)

Al Ferguson

Marshal Peterson (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

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