Texas to Bataan

Texas to Bataan is a 1942 American film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film is the seventeenth in Monogram Pictures' "Range Busters" series, and it stars John "Dusty" King as Dusty, "Davy" Sharpe and Max "Alibi" Terhune, with Marjorie Manners, Steve Clark and Budd Buster.

Texas to Bataan
Directed byRobert Emmett Tansey
Produced byDick Ross (associate producer)
George W. Weeks (producer)
Written byArthur Hoerl
StarringSee below
CinematographyRobert E. Cline
Edited byS. Roy Luby
Release date
16 October 1942
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

This is the first in the series with "Davy" Sharpe taking the place of Ray "Crash" Corrigan as one of the leads.

The film is also known as The Long, Long Trail in the United Kingdom.

Premise

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army buys some horses from the Range Busters' ranch for service in the Philippines. The cowboys tangle with Axis spies in both Texas and in the Philippines.

Cast

Soundtrack
  • John "Dusty" King - "Me and My Pony" (Written by John "Dusty" King)
  • John "Dusty" King - "Goodbye Old Paint" (Traditional)
  • John "Dusty" King - "Home on the Range"

Further reading
  • Fojas, Camilla (2014). Islands of Empire : Pop Culture and U.S. Power. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292756304., esp. pp 25, 33, 35, 46-47.
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See also

The Range Busters series:


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