Down Texas Way

Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton saddle up for yet another adventure in Monogram's Rough Rider series in Down Texas Way. The guys are getting together for Hatton's birthday, but no mention of how old he is. But Hatton's screen credits go back to the earliest days of motion pictures.

The plot is more like one in one of those Ruritanian costume dramas. Hatton's friend Jack Daley who owns most of the town that Hatton lives in is shot down like a dirty dog. He was expecting his long estranged wife to visit. But chief villain Harry Woods has a plan to send a ringer in posing as the late man's widow and inherit all. Worse than that Lois Austin the ringer is going to pretend to be the mother of Daley's son, Dave O'Brien. Boy that's the lowest kind of cur going in any western I've watched.

This one kind of creaks. Only when Austin and Hatton are on the scene does Down Texas Way have any real life. For completists only.