''Rollin' Plains'' is a 1938 American
Western
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film directed by
Albert Herman
Albert Herman (1887–1958) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director. Herman was a prolific director, working mainly on low-budget movies for companies such as Producers Releasing Corporation. He is sometimes credited as Al Herman. ...
.
Plot
Texas Rangers Tex, Ananias and Pee Wee put down a
range war
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between sheepmen and cattlemen.
Cast
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Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and ...
as Tex Lawrence
* White Flash as Tex's horse
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Horace Murphy
Horace Murphy (June 3, 1880 – January 20, 1975) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1953.
Early years
Born in Osceola, Arkansas, Murphy was playing cornet by age 11, and six years later led the ...
as Ananias
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"Snub" Pollard as Pee Wee
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Harriet Bennet as Ruth Moody
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Hobart Bosworth
Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth (August 11, 1867 – December 30, 1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer.
Early life
Bosworth was born on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, Ohio. His father was a sea captain in the Civil W ...
as John "Gospel" Moody
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Ed Cassidy
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Biography
Ed Cassidy was born in Harvey, Illinois, a south suburb of Chicago on May 4 ...
as Sheriff Tomlin
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Karl Hackett
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On October 24, 1948, Hackett ...
as Dan Barrow
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Charles King as Trigger Gargan
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Ernie Adams as Cain Moody
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Lynton Brent
Lynton Wright Brent (August 2, 1897 – July 2, 1981) was an American film actor and a writer. He appeared in over 240 films between 1930 and 1950.
Brent is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges shor ...
as Henchman Lope
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Horace B. Carpenter
Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 330 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934. Born in Grand Rapids, ...
as Hank Tomlin
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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as Musicians
Soundtrack
* Tex Ritter with The Beverly Hill Billies – "Me, My Pal and My Pony" (Written by
Frank Harford
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Curr ...
)
* Tex Ritter – "Rollin' Plains" (Written by
Walter G. Samuels,
Leonard Whitcup and
Teddy Powell)
External links
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1938 films
1938 Western (genre) films
1930s action films
1938 adventure films
American Western (genre) films
American action adventure films
American black-and-white films
American mystery films
Films directed by Albert Herman
Films set in Texas
Grand National Films films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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