Down Rio Grande Way (1942)

Down Rio Grande Way

1942

Western

Synopsis

Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.

Credits

Director

William Berke

Cast

Britt Wood as Britt Haines

Budd Buster as Clem Kearney

Charles Starrett as Steve Martin

Davison Clark as Colonel Elihu Baldridge

Edmund Cobb as Henchman Stoner

Joseph Eggenton as Judge Randolph Henderson

Norman Willis as Mack Vandall

Paul Newlan as Sam Houston