The Renegade Ranger

directed by David Howard
Category: "Western"
Year of Release:1938
Date Added:06/16/2023
Date Watched:06/16/2023
Description:Land barons are stealing ranches from Spanish land-grant owners in Texas. One of the barons is killed and Judith Alvarez (Rita Hayworth) is blamed. Texas Ranger Jack Steele (George O'Brien) is sent to arrest her. He soon has reason to suspect that the real villain is tax collector Sanderson. Sanderson manages to grab Judith and Jack saves her and becomes part of her band whose only goal is to recover Judith's family's land. The the law must come first. Jack takes Judith to jail and intends to escort her to the capitol to be tried. Sanderson knows that the truth will come out, so he fakes a jail break and takes Judith to kill her. O'Brien, with friend and fellow-ranger Larry (Tim Hold) intervene and arrest Sanderson. Jack and Judith fall for each other.
My Rating:6

Reviews for The Renegade Ranger

Review - Renegade Ranger, The

Pretty typical B-western with a plot that moves along almost too fast to follow and contains more twists that a Twizzler. There are scenes of riders racing their horses through the desert, lots of shooting but very few deaths, and two random songs stuck awkwardly into the middle of the plot. A pre-stardom Rita Hayworth was miscast as the leader of a gang of raiders, but although not as glamorous as she would soon become, she was still Rita Hayworth.
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