Frontier Fugitives

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Dave O'Brien, Tex Ritter, and Guy Wilkerson in Frontier Fugitives (1945)

Ellen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he is killed, Williams hides a note revealing their location. The Texas Rangers are on the j... Read allEllen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he is killed, Williams hides a note revealing their location. The Texas Rangers are on the job and to get more information, they have Panhandle pose as an Indian chief.Ellen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he is killed, Williams hides a note revealing their location. The Texas Rangers are on the job and to get more information, they have Panhandle pose as an Indian chief.

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5.3/10

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Trivia
Trade reviewed at the Hitching Post theatre in Hollywood on 17 October 1946, 15 months after first release.

Goofs
In discussing the murder of fur trader Williams in the early part of the movie, one of the bad guys refers to him as Higgins.

Quotes
[first lines]
[Dave and Tex ride up to Panhandle who is making smoke signals and chanting incoherently]
Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt: Well, what are you trying to do, Panhandle?
Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins: Don't you get it, Dave?
Texas Ranger Tex Haines: Sorry.
Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins: You understand, don't you, Tex?
Texas Ranger Tex Haines: Sure! You're givin' an imitation of a razorback hog stuck in a barbed-wire fence.
Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins: No, that ain't it at all! We're near Indian country, ain't we? Well, I'm practicin' talkin' Indian, throwin' up smoke signals, practicin' sign language - I'm getting' prepared!
Texas Ranger Tex Haines: Ah, we were only kiddin', Panhandle. Understood every word you said, didn't we, Dave?
Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt: Sure did, and you're dead right - we've got to be prepared. In fact, we'll hold a counsel of war right now.

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Followed by Flaming Bullets (1945)

Soundtracks
Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry
Written by Al Dexter
Sung by Tex Ritter

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The Cast Deserves Better

There's the expected matinée action, mostly hard riding through LA area scrublands, some flying fists not too well staged, and some fast shooting to wind up the storyline. Nothing special here, despite the appealing team of Ritter, O'Brien, and comedy relief Wilkerson. And, oh yes, there're premier bad guys with dueling moustaches, Jolley and Ingram, along with some suspicious tobacco that turns Jolley into a wobbly bobble-head. Seems the baddies are after a hidden cache of valuable furs and a number of shenanigans follow as Rangers O'Brien and Ritter pick up the trail. The comedy relief, however, would never fly today as Wilkerson and Jolley mock it up as clownish moustachioed Indians! Even if nothing more than a programmer, the story's too slack and meandering to be anything more than a time-passer. Ritter's tuneful warbling may actually be the movie's real highlight. All in all, I think the cast deserved better, even from lowly PRC.