''Blazing Across the Pecos'' is a 1948 American

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film directed by

Ray Nazarro Ray Nazarro ''(aka'' "Ray" and "Nat;" ''né'' Raymond Alfred Nazarro; September 25, 1902 – September 8, 1986) was an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. Budd Boetticher called him a "ten-day picture guy."Budd Boe ...

and written by

Norman S. Hall Norman S. Hall (July 21, 189512 December 1964) was an American screenwriter from the 1930s to the 1960s. Hall was born in New Milford, Connecticut and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''Outlaws of Pine Ridge'' (1942) * ...

. The film stars

Charles Starrett Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...

Patricia Barry Patricia Barry (born Patricia Allen White, November 16, 1921 – October 11, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Although Barry has numerous credits performing in stage productions and in films, the majority of her work wa ...

, Paul Campbell, Charles C. Wilson,

Thomas E. Jackson Thomas E. Jackson (July 4, 1886 – September 7, 1967) was an American stage and screen actor. His 67-year career spanned eight decades and two centuries, during which time he appeared in over a dozen Broadway plays, produced two others, acted i ...

, Red Arnall and

Smiley Burnette Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and ...

. The film was released on July 1, 1948, by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

Businessman Ace Brockway and his henchmen are secretly arming hostile Indians with rifles to attack wagon trains. Brockway has such contempt for the law and the people that he employs the

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restaurant owner Smiley Burnette as town marshal and Jim Traynor to run the newspaper, printing only what Brockway tells him to. The Durango Kid becomes Burnette's deputy and brings law and order to the West.

Cast

as Steve Blake aka The Durango Kid *

as Lola Carter * Paul Campbell as Jim Traynor * Charles C. Wilson as Ace Brockway *

as Matt Carter *Red Arnall as Guitar Player *

as Smiley Burnette * Jack Ingram as 'Buckshot' Thomas *

Chief Thundercloud Victor Daniels (April 12, 1899 – December 1, 1955), known professionally as Chief Thundercloud, was an American character actor in Westerns. He is noted for being the first actor to play the role of Tonto, the Lone Ranger's Native-American c ...

as Chief Bear Claw *Pat O'Malley as Mike Doyle * Jock Mahoney as Bill Wheeler *Frank McCarroll as Gunsmoke Ballard * Pierce Lyden as Jason *Paul Conrad as Sleepy Larsen

References

External links

* {{Ray Nazarro 1948 films 1940s English-language films American Western (genre) films 1948 Western (genre) films Columbia Pictures films Films directed by Ray Nazarro American black-and-white films 1940s American films