Texas Stagecoach

Charles Starrett's family is in the stagecoach business. So is Iris Meredith's. It's a friendly rivalry, until banker Kenneth MacDonald convinces each to run a new road to a neighboring town, then tells each the other has stolen their idea..... and starts to sabotage both. It's his plan to drive them into bankruptcy and scoop up their assets for himself.

Bob Nolan of the Sons of the Pioneers plays Miss Meredith's brother, and the boys sing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and two or three others. Director Joseph H. Lewis shoots a shot through a wagon wheel at the 24:20 mark, and allows Starrett a clumsy mount near the end -- Columbia may have been better financed than the Poverty Row studios, but they were not in the habit of wasting film or set-ups. A capable cast does its best with a typically poor Fred Myton script, and a pleasant time can be had by fans of B westerns.