The Texas Rangers (1936)

Directed by

King Vidor

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Texas Rangers who are down on their luck are assigned to track down an old friend who has become an outlaw. They must decide between duty and loyalty.

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What happens

The Texas Rangers is a 1936 American Western film directed by King Vidor and starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie. The picture was nominated for Best Sound Recording (Franklin Hansen) at the 9th Academy Awards. The film was inspired by incidents from Walter Prescott Webb's 1935 history book The Texas Rangers, A Century of Frontier Defense but filmed in New Mexico. The film involves two out-of-luck Texas Rangers who must arrest an old friend turned outlaw. The supporting cast features Lloyd Nolan, Edward Ellis, Jean Parker, and George "Gabby" Hayes. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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