''Border Buckaroos'' is a 1943 American
Western
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film written and directed by
Oliver Drake. The fourth of
Producers Releasing Corporation
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''Texas Rangers''
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, the film was shot at
Corriganville
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Corriganville Movie Ranch was a working film studio and movie ranch for outdoor location shooting, as well as a Western-themed tourist attraction. The ranch, owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan, was located in the foothills ...
movie ranch
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, and released on June 15, 1943.
Premise
A trio of
Texas Rangers impersonate a
gunslinger
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for hire and a co-inheritor of a ranch with the goal to "play both ends against the middle" to solve a murder of a rancher.
Cast
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James Newill as Ranger Jim Steel
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Dave O'Brien as Ranger Dave 'Tex' O'Brien
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Guy Wilkerson
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Biography
Wilkseron was ...
as Ranger Panhandle Perkins
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Christine McIntyre
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as Betty Clark
* Eleanor Counts as Marge Leonard
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Jack Ingram
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as Cole Melford
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Ethan Laidlaw
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Laidlaw was bor ...
as Hank Dugan
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Charles King as Rance Daggett
* Michael Vallon as Lawyer Seth Higgins
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Kenne Duncan
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as Tom Bancroft
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Reed Howes
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as Trigger Farley
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Bud Osborne
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as Stagecoach Driver
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Slim Whitaker
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as Sheriff McAllister
Soundtrack
* ''Stay on the Right Trail''
Written by Dave O'Brien and James Newill
Sung by James Newill
* ''Driftin
Written by Dave O'Brien and James Newill
Sung by James Newill
* ''You're Here To Stay''
Written by Dave O'Brien and James Newill
Sung by James Newill
See also
The Texas Rangers series:
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The Rangers Take Over (1942)
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap (1943)
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West of Texas (1943)
# Border Buckaroos (1943)
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Fighting Valley
''Fighting Valley'' is a 1943 American Western film written and directed by Oliver Drake. The film stars Dave O'Brien, James Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Patti McCarty, John Merton and Robert Bice. The film was released on August 8, 1943, by ...
(1943)
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Trail of Terror
''Trail of Terror'' is a 1943 American Western film written and directed by Oliver Drake. The film stars Dave O'Brien, James Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Patricia Knox, Jack Ingram and I. Stanford Jolley. The film was released on September 7, 19 ...
(1943)
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The Return of the Rangers (1943)
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Boss of Rawhide (1943)
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Outlaw Roundup (1944)
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Guns of the Law (1944)
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The Pinto Bandit (1944)
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Spook Town (1944)
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Brand of the Devil (1944)
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Gunsmoke Mesa (1944)
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Gangsters of the Frontier
''Gangsters of the Frontier'' (also known as ''Raiders of the Frontier'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1944 American Western film written and directed by Elmer Clifton. The film stars Dave O'Brien, Tex Ritter and Guy Wilkerson, with Patti ...
(1944)
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Dead or Alive
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Dead or Alive may also refer to:
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(1944)
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The Whispering Skull (1944)
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Marked for Murder (1945)
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Enemy of the Law (1945)
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Three in the Saddle (1945)
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Frontier Fugitives (1945)
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Flaming Bullets (1945)
References
External links
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1943 films
American black-and-white films
1943 Western (genre) films
Producers Releasing Corporation films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Oliver Drake
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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