Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

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Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

"GALLOPING THRILL-HOT ADVENTURE! BLAZING SERIAL GLORY!"

1948

4h 30m

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Western

Overview

Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno

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27 members

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Robert Kellard

Tex Granger

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Peggy Stewart

Helen Kent

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Robert "Buzz" Henry

Timmy Perkins

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Smith Ballew

Blaze Talbot

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Jack Ingram

Reno

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I. Stanford Jolley

Rance Carson

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Terry Frost

Luke Adams, Carson's Henchman

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Jim Diehl

Conroy, Carson's Henchman

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Britt Wood

Sandy White

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Tiny Brauer

Morgan, Carson's Henchman

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Al Ferguson

Del Richards (uncredited)

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Stanley Blystone

Marshal Peterson (uncredited)

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William Fawcett

Express Agent Lowery (uncredited)

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Slim Whitaker

Joe Hall (uncredited)

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Al Wyatt Sr.

Matt Stark (uncredited)

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Hank Bell

Flapjack (uncredited)

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Ralph Moody

Wilkins (uncredited)

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Eddie Parker

Driska (uncredited)

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Frank Ellis

Crane (uncredited)

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Edmund Cobb

Eddie (uncredited)

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Art Felix

Talbot Henchman (uncredited)

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George DeNormand

Stage Guard (uncredited)

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Forrest Taylor

Rancher (uncredited)

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Wally West

Rancher (uncredited)

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Chick Hannan

Barfly (uncredited)

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Troy Melton

Barfly (uncredited)

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Knox Manning

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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