Fast Bullets

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The Rangers are after Travis. When Tom catches three of his gang members, he gets Jimmy to go straight and lead him to Travis where he hopes to join the gang. But Tom is in trouble when Pat.... Read allThe Rangers are after Travis. When Tom catches three of his gang members, he gets Jimmy to go straight and lead him to Travis where he hopes to join the gang. But Tom is in trouble when Pat...The Rangers are after Travis. When Tom catches three of his gang members, he gets Jimmy to go straight and lead him to Travis where he hopes to join the gang. But Tom is in trouble when Pat...

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Tom Tyler

Tom Milton

Rex Lease

Jimmy

Margaret Nearing

Joan

Al Bridge

Travis

William Gould

Captain Drummond
(as Bill Gould)

Robert Walker

Frank
(as Bob Walker)

Jimmy Aubrey

Jake
(as James Aubrey)

Slim Whitaker

Pat
(as Charles Whitaker)

Barney Beasley

Barfly
(uncredited)

George Chesebro

Barfly
(uncredited)

Frank Ellis

Henchman
(uncredited)

Jack Evans

Informant
(uncredited)

Herman Hack

Henchman
(uncredited)

Al Haskell

Guitar Player
(uncredited)

Jack Hendricks

Monte
(uncredited)

John Judd

Texas Ranger
(uncredited)

Charles King

Bill
(uncredited)

Nelson McDowell

Bartender
(uncredited)

Director
- Harry S. Webb
Writers
- Jay J. Bryan
- Carl Krusada
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5malcolmgsw

A DAncing Western

Well this had a bit of a novelty.In a bar room scene on comes a pretty blonde and starts an energetic tap routine.I cant ever remember seeing this before.The dancer is Margaret Nearing who according to the biographical information had been dancing in a circus from the age of 4.She seeams to have had a short career in Hollywood mainly in uncredited bits.She got married in 1936 when she seems to have retired from the screen.She is not much when it comes to the acting part having a rather monotonous voice a bit like Minnie Mouse.As for the rest this is all rather standard stuff.Again a Ranger going into a bandits camp helped by a reformed outlaw.I wonder how often this plot was used.The equipment used must have been primitive as in the exterior shots the sound of the camera motor is often audible.No better or worse then Westerns of that era.

4boblipton

Inconsistency

Texas Ranger Tom Tyler and buddy Robert Walker -- no, not that one -- capture three of Al Bridge's gang. Tyler jawbones Rex Lease into turning honest and helping him track down Bridge and get the goods on him, but Lease is shaky in his loyalties.

It's a good story with some nice twists, but the execution is erratic, as the editing and pacing of westerns begins to pick up. Tyler, Lease, Bridge, and Margaret Nearing (as Lease's tap-dancing sister and Tyler's love interest) keep up the pace of their line readings, but everyone else is slow and dull, and editor Fred Bain sometimes gets the idea that you don't have to show people walking up to a door to get them through it. This results in the battle that should be a highlight taking about 45 seconds, although there's a decently done rescue and two musical numbers to fill things out.

10hines-2000

Tyler tries to turn 'the kid' around

After two of his rangers are killed Captain Drummond (William Gould) declares, "I'd give a lot to catch Travis red-handed." Tom Tyler goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of outlaws. He teams up with Rex Lease to fight the munitions smugglers led by Al Bridge. The leading lady in the great saloon dance scene is American circus star Margaret 'Gams' Nearing. The top henchman, Slim Whitaker, one of the most prolific western bad guys does great work in a supporting role.

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Trivia
This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in "Motion Picture Herald" on 4 April 1942. At this time television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-46. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. Its earliest documented post-WWII telecasts took place in Cincinnati, where it was shown in two parts Thursday-Friday 21-22 April 1949 on WKRC (Channel 11), in Atlanta Saturday 28 May 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), in Los Angeles Sunday 12 June 1949 on KTSL (Channel 2), in Philadelphia on Thursday 1 December 1949 on WFIL (Channel 6), and in New York City Tuesday, 27 December 1949 on WPIX (Channel 11).

Quotes
[last lines]
Jimmy: [looking across at Frank polishing his newly issued Deputy badge] Frank's happy with his new badge.
Joan: [holding up left hand, gleefully commenting on the shiny ring on third finger] I'm also really happy with my new badge.