Tex Ritter Videos : 1937 Hittin' The Trail (Tex Ritter)

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1937 Hittin' The Trail (Tex Ritter)

This was one of the earlier uses of Robert Tansey's favorite plot (only the 3rd time he had trotted it out of the stable, but he got six more films out of it in later years) in which a group of outlaws (wrongly jailed this time) are let out to join up with the good guys against a worse bunch of outlaws. And, not unusual in the B-western genre, most of the production crew wore several hats; director Robert N. Bradbury and supervisor Lindsley Parsons wrote a song for Tommy Bupp, one of the actually good kid actors of the time who proved real quick-like that singing wasn't his strong suit, while Robert Emmett Tansey worked three jobs under three names... Robert Emmett on story and screenplay, Robert Tansey as the production manager and Al Lane as the assistant director. And, for a change, music director Frank Sanucci actually earned a composers' credit as he did write a song... Cast Tex Ritter ... Tex Randall Jerry Bergh ... Jean Reed Tommy Bupp ... Billy Reed Earl Dwire ... James Clark Charles King ... Henchman Slug 'Snub' Pollard ... Bartender (as Snub Pollard) Ed Cassidy ... Sheriff Grey (as Edward Cassidy) Jack C. Smith ... Dad Reed (as Jack Smith) Archie Ricks ... Tombstone Kid Hank Worden ... Sidekick Hank (as Heber Snow) Ray Whitley ... Guitar Player The Range Ramblers ... Ray Whitley's Band The Phelps Brothers ... Musicians (as The Phelps Bros.) Ken Card ... Banjo Player - Ray Whitley's Range Ramblers The Texas Tornadoes ... 2nd Band Group (as Tex Ritter's Tornadoes ...

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