Riders of the Range

Feb 11, 1950

1h 0m

★ 6.0

Ambush in Arizona...with Tim and Chito finding gun trouble and a girl in danger!

Overview

Out-of-work cowboys Kansas Jones and Chito Rafferty are offered jobs at pretty Dusty Willis' ranch after saving her from a beating by saloon owner Clint Burrows. Dusty's good-hearted but weak-willed brother Harry, adding to his $3000 gambling debt to Willis, reluctantly agrees to pay it off by allowing the Ringo Kid, Burrows' vicious hired gun, to rustle cattle from his sister's ranch. Kansas intervenes, deters the rustlers and persuades Harry to confess his involvement to Dusty. Kansas, sent into town by Dusty to pay off Harry's debts, suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law, wrongly accused of murder and must rely on Dusty's belief in his innocence for his salvation.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Riders of the Range Trailers

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Cast

Kansas Jones

Tim Holt

Chito Rafferty

Richard Martin

Priscilla 'Dusty' Willis

Jacqueline White

Clint Burrows

Reed Hadley

Sheriff Cole

Robert Barrat

Harry Willis

Robert Clarke

The Ringo Kid

Tom Tyler

Trump Dixon

William Tannen

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