Come on, Rangers!

Texas has joined the Union and the United States Army, in the former of Cavalry colonel J. Farrell MacDonald comes in to protect the state against Indians. He has the help of his daughter Lynn Roberts and also some soldiers. That being the case, Governor Burr Caruth disbands the Texas Rangers. Rangers Captain Roy Rogers has already met Miss Lynne, so he joins the army. But the army is laden with red tape, so crooked ex-state Senator Purnell Pratt gets the governor to set up a new state police, which Pratt uses as a protection racket. When Rogers' brother is killed in an example rid, Rogers goes AWOL to seek justice.

In my other reviews of Roy Rogers movies, I've commented on the franchise's commitments to tell stories outside the usual B Western parameters, its professional casts, and efficient and interesting direction by Joseph Kane and camerawork, here by Jack Marta. I'd like to say something new and interesting, but I haven't got much. Rogers sings four songs, three of them new and the fourth the old standard "Tenting Tonight On The Old Camp Ground." Miss Roberts is, for some reason, in her phase of being credited as "Mary Hart", and while there's no real comic sidekick, Raymond Hatton as another ex-Ranger who's now a scout for the cavalry has some amusing lines and a twinkle in his eye as he delivers them dead pan. That will have to do.