Texas to Bataan

Texas to Bataan is a 1942 American Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film is the seventeenth in Monogram Pictures' "Range Busters" series, and it stars John "Dusty" King as Dusty, "Davy" Sharpe and Max "Alibi" Terhune, with Marjorie Manners, Steve Clark and Budd Buster.

Texas to Bataan
Directed by	Robert Emmett Tansey
Written by	Arthur Hoerl
Produced by	Dick Ross (associate producer) George W. Weeks (producer)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Robert E. Cline
Edited by	S. Roy Luby
Music by	Frank Sanucci
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	16 October 1942 (1942-10-16)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

This is the first in the series with "Davy" Sharpe taking the place of Ray "Crash" Corrigan as one of the leads.

The film is also known as The Long, Long Trail in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army buys some horses from the Range Busters' ranch for service in the Philippines. The cowboys tangle with Axis spies in both Texas and in the Philippines.

Cast

• John 'Dusty' King as Dusty King
• David Sharpe as Davy Sharpe
• Max Terhune as Alibi Terhune
• Elmer as Elmer Sneezeweed - Alibi's dummy
• Marjorie Manners as Dallas Conroy
• Steve Clark as Tom Conroy
• Budd Buster as Tad Kelton
• E. Baucin as Cookie (the spy)
• Frank Ellis as Ken Richards (crooked rancher)
• Kenne Duncan as Army Captain Anders
• Guy Kingsford as Miller
• Carl Mathews as Truck henchman
• Tex Palmer as Truck henchman
• Tom Steele as Truck henchman
• Al Ferguson as Cafe henchman

Soundtrack

• John "Dusty" King - "Me and My Pony" (Written by John "Dusty" King)
• John "Dusty" King - "Goodbye Old Paint" (Traditional)
• John "Dusty" King - "Home on the Range"

Further reading

• Fojas, Camilla (2014). Islands of Empire : Pop Culture and U.S. Power. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292756304., esp. pp 25, 33, 35, 46-47.

See also

The Range Busters series:

• The Range Busters (1940)
• Trailing Double Trouble (1940)
• West of Pinto Basin (1940)
• Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941)
• The Kid's Last Ride (1941)
• Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona (1941)
• Wrangler's Roost (1941)
• Fugitive Valley (1941)
• Saddle Mountain Roundup (1941)
• Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941)
• Underground Rustlers (1941)
• Thunder River Feud (1942)
• Rock River Renegades (1942)
• Boot Hill Bandits (1942)
• Texas Trouble Shooters (1942)
• Arizona Stage Coach (1942)
• Texas to Bataan (1942)
• Trail Riders (1942)
• Two Fisted Justice (1943)
• Haunted Ranch (1943)
• Land of Hunted Men (1943)
• Cowboy Commandos (1943)
• Black Market Rustlers (1943)
• Bullets and Saddles (1943)

External links

• Texas to Bataan at IMDb
• Texas to Bataan is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive