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词条 Tex Granger
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Chapter titles

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}}{{Infobox film
| name = Tex Granger
| image = Poster of the movie Tex Granger, Midnight Rider of the Plains .jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Poster of chapter 10 (Midnight Ambush)
| director = Derwin Abrahams
| producer = Sam Katzman
| writer = Lewis Clay
Royal K. Cole
Harry L. Fraser
Arthur Hoerl
George H. Plympton
| narrator =
| starring = Robert Kellard
Peggy Stewart
Robert 'Buzz' Henry
Smith Ballew
Jack Ingram
I. Stanford Jolley
| music = Mischa Bakaleinikoff
| cinematography = Ira H. Morgan
| editing = Earl Turner
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1948|04|01}}
| runtime = 15 chapters (270 minutes)
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
}}

Tex Granger is a 1948 Columbia movie serial featuring the title character as a masked cowboy referred to as The Midnight Rider of the Plains in the serial's subtitle. It was based on a character from the comic Calling All Boys while the plot was taken from The Last Frontier (1926),[1] which was itself based on the novel of the same name by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Tex Granger was the 36th of the 57 serials released by Columbia.

Plot

When Tex Granger rides into Three Buttes, Helen Kent persuades him to buy the local newspaper office. However, loan shark Rance Carson appoints the bandit Blaze Talbot as town marshal to act as his enforcer and soon the town is in chaos. With fighting between rival gangs, Tex dons a mask to become "The Midnight Rider of the Plains" and bring the criminals to justice.

Cast

  • Robert Kellard as Tex Granger, new owner of the town newspaper and secretly also The Midnight Rider of the Plains
  • Peggy Stewart as Helen Kent
  • Robert 'Buzz' Henry as Timmy Perkins, a young boy
  • Smith Ballew as Blaze Talbot, bandit appointed as marshal by Carson
  • Jack Ingram as Reno, bandit working with Blaze Talbot
  • I. Stanford Jolley as Rance Carson, the villainous loan shark
  • Terry Frost as Luke Adams, one of Carson's henchmen
  • Jim Diehl as Conroy, one of Carson's henchmen
  • Britt Wood as Sandy White
  • Tiny Brauer as Morgan, one of Carson's henchmen
  • Duke, the dog

Chapter titles

  1. Tex Finds Trouble
  2. Rider of Mystery Mesa
  3. Dead or Alive
  4. Dangerous Trails
  5. Renegade Pass
  6. A Crooked Deal
  7. The Rider Unmasked
  8. Mystery of the Silver Ghost
  9. The Rider Trapped
  10. Midnight Ambush
  11. Renegade Roundup
  12. Carson's Last Draw
  13. Blaze Takes Over
  14. Riding Wild
  15. The Rider Meets Blaze
Source:[2]

See also

  • List of film serials
  • List of film serials by studio

References

1. ^Tex Granger Overview at All Movie Database, retrieved 27/04/07
2. ^{{cite book | last = Cline | first = William C. | title = In the Nick of Time | year = 1984 | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc. | isbn = 0-7864-0471-X | pages = 247 | chapter = Filmography }}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0040867|title=Tex Granger}}
  • {{Amg movie|141978|Tex Granger}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155314/http://www.comicvine.com/comic/calling-all-boys/11683/%26i%3D2614%26v%3Dg Calling All Boys (by cover image) at Comic Vine] featuring Tex Granger
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| title=Columbia Serial
| before=Brick Bradford (1947)
| years=Tex Granger (1948)
| after=Superman (1948)}}{{end}}{{Columbia serials}}{{Sam Katzman}}

7 : 1948 films|American films|American black-and-white films|Columbia Pictures film serials|English-language films|Films based on American comics|1940s Western (genre) films

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