Film
Headin' for the Rio Grande
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Robert N. Bradbury
- Year
- 1936
Singing cowboy Tex Saunders finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of a lovely lady. As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner for killing bad guy Red Dugan and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo, show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows?
Top cast
Tex Ritter
Tex Saunders
Eleanor Stewart
Laura Hart
Syd Saylor
Chili (Tex's sidekick)
Warner Richmond
Ike Travis
Charles King
Henchman Tick
Earl Dwire
Rand (Travis henchman)
Forrest Taylor
Sheriff Ed Saunders (Tex's brother)
William Desmond
Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Cookie (Hart hand)
Charles K. French
Pop Hart (Laura's father)
Budd Buster
Senator Black - cattleman
Bud Osborne
Cactus (Travis henchman)
Pinky Barnes
Sea-Going Cowboys Band
Al Brinker
Sea-Going Cowboys Band
Johnny Caldwell
Sea-Going Cowboys Band
Ben Field
Sea-Going Cowboys Band
C.P. Fisher
Sea-Going Cowboys Band
Dan Fitzpatrick
Sea-Going Cowboys Band
Directed by
Robert N. Bradbury
Written by
Robert Emmett Tansey, Lindsley Parsons
Produced by
Edward Finney