Cal Shrum

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Le directeur de la Wells Pénitencier Désert demande à Tex Reed et à Slim Hunkcapilar d'enquêter sur une série de vols à main armée perpétrés par des bagnards évadés. Tex et Slim découvrent que Lockwood, le chef d'un parti politique hostile au gouvernement, est derrière les vols et les évasions.

Le docteur Steve Monroe arrive à Rock city et apprend que son ami Roy Mandan a été ruiné par une tempête de sable et est obligé de travailler pour un promoteur douteux, Ace Hartley, sur un projet de barrage. Lors d'une violente tempête, une inondation détruit l'ouvrage et met en relief la qualité médiocre des matériaux employés. Pour se disculper, Hartley fait tomber la responsabilité sur Roy et celui-ci est emprisonné.

Jimmy's father, a rancher, died in suspicious circumstances. To make things worse, Jimmy's disreputable uncle has a plot to take over the ranch. Jimmy turns to his friend Brad, the Marshal, for help.

Les rangers du Texas Tex Wyatt et Jim Steele se rendent incognito à Thunder Gap pour enquêter sur le détournement de convois d'approvisionnement destinés aux mineurs. Ils se font passer pour une troupe de médecins ambulants qui est secrétement dirigée par le ranger Panhandle Perkins...

An obscure entry in the musical Western cycle, Swing, Cowboy, Swing was produced by and starred country & western bandleader Cal Shrum. Shrum and his band, the Rhythm Rangers, are warned away from playing a theater in Big Bend by Cal's brother, Walt Shrum and his Colorado Hillbillies. Ignoring the warning, the Rhythm Rangers arrive at the theater only to be shot at by a masked stranger. With the help of stranded vaudeville performer Max "Alibi" Terhune and his dummy Elmer, Cal manages to catch the mystery shooter who turns out to be Frank Lawson (Frank Ellis). The film apparently did not generate enough interest for a series, but was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1949 under the title Bad Man From Big Bend.

Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.