Picture Tells Saga of First U.S.A. Police
KING VIDOR GIVES EPIC OF “THE TEXAS RANGERS” (State: Screening Soon). America’s first semi-military organisation of state officers, tfio Texas Rangers, is made the theme of a sweeping panoramic film history of the early Lone star State in King Vidor’s powerful epic, “The Texas Rangers.” Tho picture, made in the colourful waste regions of Now Mexico and Texas by a production company which spent nearly three months on location, features Fred Mac Murray and the wisecracking Jack Oakie iu leading roles, as one-time “bad men” who sign up for duty with tho Rangers. The adventurous life of the fearless men who undertook to clean up Texas as Rangers is depicted through the exploits of Mac Murray and Oakie. Dramatic Indian battles, lights of tho Rangers with rustlers, and the colour-1 ful career of Sam McGee, early desperado, are worked into a story centering about the two, Lloyd Nolan, and Jean Parker. Bennie Bartlett and Edward Ellis have important supporting roles.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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167Picture Tells Saga of First U.S.A. Police Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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