Across The Rio Grande( 1949)

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SINGIN' JIMMY SENDS AN INNOCENT MAN TO JAIL...then has to blast him out to stop a 'necktie party'!

Overview

Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor. Steve is investigating his father's sudden death after charges of theft from the Sloan/Carson mine. Sloan is killed after Wakely learns that ore is being smuggled across the Mexican border into the mine, and then sold at the higher U.S. prices

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Jimmy Wakely
Jimmy Wakely
Dub Taylor
Cannonball Taylor
Reno Browne
Sally Blaine
Riley Hill
Steven Blaine
Dennis Moore
Carson
Kenne Duncan
Joe Bardet
Ted Adams
Tom Sloan
Myron Healey
Stage Robber
Bud Osborne
Stage Driver
Polly Bergen
Polly Burgin
Bob Curtis
Henchman Gill
Carol Henry
Henchman Lewis

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Thu Feb 09 2017

Steve Blaine Charged With The Murder Of Tom Sloan! Across the Rio Grande is directed by Oliver Drake and written by Ronald Davidson. It stars Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Reno Browne, Riley Hill and Dennis Moore. Music is by Edward Kay and cinematography by Harry Neumann. Running at just under an hour, Across the Rio Grande is pretty much a quintessential "B" Western for the decade it was made. It crams as much as it can into the story and has no ideas above its station. Plot finds amiable Jimmy Wakely and his amusing side-kick Cannonball Taylor in amongst silver smugglers, murder, kidnappin...