''Under Texas Skies'' is a 1930 American

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film directed by

J.P. McGowan John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ...

Cast

Bob Custer Bob Custer (born Raymond Anthony Glenn, October 18, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was an American film actor who appeared in over 50 films, mostly Westerns, between 1924 and 1937, including ''The Fighting Hombre'', '' Arizona Days'', '' The La ...

as Bob Bainbridge - Posing as Rankin *

Natalie Kingston Natalie Kingston (born Natalia Ringstrom; May 19, 1905 – February 2, 1991) was an American actress. Background Kingston was born as Natalia Ringstrom in Vallejo, California, and raised in San Francisco. She was of Spanish, Hungarian, an ...

as Joan Prescott *

Bill Cody William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, Bison hunting, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa, Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but ...

as Army Captain Jack Hartford *

Tom London Tom London (born Leonard T. Clapman; August 24, 1889 – December 5, 1963) was an American actor who played frequently in B-Westerns. According to ''The Guinness Book of Movie Records'', London is credited with appearing in the most films in ...

as The Boss / Captain Hartford *

Lane Chandler Lane Chandler (born Robert Clinton Oakes, June 4, 1899 – September 14, 1972) was an American actor specializing mainly in Western (genre), Westerns. Biography Early life Chandler was raised on a ranch near Culbertson, Montana, the so ...

as "Singer" Martin (Secret Service agent) *

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as Dummy (the mute brute) * William McCall as Deputy Marshal Walsh *

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as Sheriff H. Moody

Plot

Joan Prescott has a contract to sell her horses to Captain Hartford for the U.S. Army. The man she knows as Hartford is actually an impostor who has arranged for the horses to be stolen, with the theft blamed on Tom Rankin. Rankin eventually recovers the horses and reveals that he is the real Hartford.

Production

In addition to McGowan as director, W. Ray Johnson was the producer. Arthur A. Brooks was the editor, Otto Himm was the cinematographer, and G. A. Durlam was the screenwriter.

References

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* * 1930 films 1930 Western (genre) films 1930s English-language films American black-and-white films Films directed by J. P. McGowan American Western (genre) films 1930s American films {{1930s-Western-film-stub