Rio Grande Patrol
Brief Synopsis
A cowboy signs on to stop gunrunners from crossing the Mexican border.
Cast & Crew
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Lesley Selander
Director
Tim Holt
Kansas
Jane Nigh
Sherry Bliss
Douglas Fowley
Bragg Orcutt
Cleo Moore
Peppie
Rick Vallin
Captain Trevino
Film Details
Genre
Western
Release Date
Oct
1950
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
Film Length
5,386ft
Synopsis
After he inadvertently allows two gold-rich American crooks to cross the Mexican border into Arizona, border patrolman Chito Rafferty is informed by his partner Kansas that they are both to report to a Captain Trevino in Laredo. There Kansas and Chito happily reunite with their old friend Trevino, who has been sent by the Mexican government to investigate a possible smuggling operation. From Trevino, Chito and Kansas learn that one of the men whom Chito stopped earlier is notorious smuggler Bragg Orcutt. Orcutt, meanwhile, meets with Laredo's crooked saloon owner, Fowler, who offers to sell Orcutt a shipment of machine guns, which he is smuggling in the luggage of some chorus girls he is bringing in from the East. Although Fowler at first demands $5,000 apiece for the newly invented firearms, he lowers his price after he is questioned by Trevino. Trevino has been alerted to Fowler's suspicious behavior by saloon singer Sherry Bliss, who is engaged to the captain. The next day, the train bringing the chorus girls pulls into town, and Trevino, Kansas and Chito are there to meet it. Before the lawmen can inspect the women's luggage, however, Orcutt shoots Trevino and tricks Kansas and Chito into pursuing him, while Fowler unloads the machine guns and hides them in the saloon. Later, when Chito and Kansas try to search the saloon, Fowler demands to see a search warrant and turns them away. Fowler then rides to Orcutt's hideout and tells him that he cannot make delivery on the guns until Chito and Kansas have been killed. For a price, Orcutt's sharpshooting henchman Chet Yance offers to murder Chito and Kansas that night while they are watching Sherry's new saloon act. Just as Yance is about to shoot Chito, however, Sherry spots his gun and warns the patrolman. During the ensuing gunfight, Yance manages to escape and races back to Orcutt's hideout. The next morning, Fowler informs Sherry and the chorus girls that they are moving the show to Monterey, Mexico. Before leaving Laredo, Sherry says goodbye to the recuperating Trevino and tells Chito and Kansas that Fowler may be hiding the guns in their luggage wagons. Determined to find the contraband, Kansas accompanies Fowler's wagon to the border, but is captured by Orcutt and Yance and taken to their hideout. Kansas' horse Lightning escapes, however, and eventually leads Chito and Trevino to the hideout. While Trevino tries to keep an agitated Lightning quiet, Chito sneaks up to the hideout and takes Yance by surprise. Yance gets away, but Chito and Kansas are able to return to Laredo in time to stop the wagons carrying the guns and apprehend Orcutt and his men. Later, Trevino and Sherry marry, and confirmed bachelor Chito is scared out of town by Peppie, a marriage-hungry chorus girl.
Director
Lesley Selander
Director
Cast
Tim Holt
Kansas
Jane Nigh
Sherry Bliss
Douglas Fowley
Bragg Orcutt
Cleo Moore
Peppie
Rick Vallin
Captain Trevino
John Holland
Fowler
Tom Tyler
Chet Yance
Larry Johns
Dr. Reynolds
Harry Harvey
Stationmaster
Richard Martin
Chito Rafferty
Crew
C. Bakaleinikoff
Music Director
Irving Berns
Makeup
John Cass
Sound
Walter Costello
Special Effects
Leo Crabtree
Gaffer
Albert S. D'agostino
Art Director
Richard Du Valle
Camera Operator
Stephen Foster
Composer
Feild Gray
Art Director
Norman Houston
Writer
J. Roy Hunt
Director of Photography
George Jessel
Composer
James Kirley
Grip
Annabelle Levy
Hairstylist
Desmond Marquette
Film Editor
Jack Mills
Set Decoration
Ben Oakland
Composer
John E. Pommer
Assistant Director
Clem Portman
Sound
Paul Sawtell
Music
Herman Schlom
Producer
Ollie Sigurdson
Stills
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration
Jerry Wright
Script Supervisor
Film Details
Genre
Western
Release Date
Oct
1950
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distribution Company
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
Film Length
5,386ft
Articles
Rio Grande Patrol
A cowboy signs on to stop gunrunners from crossing the Mexican border.
Rio Grande Patrol
A cowboy signs on to stop gunrunners from crossing the Mexican border.
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According to Hollywood Reporter, exteriors for the film were shot in Little Rock, in California's Mojave Desert. Modern sources add Forrest Burns to the cast.
