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Texas
Rangers on the Silver Screen:
A List of Films
Few
organizations have been featured in more Hollywood movies over
a longer period of time than the Texas Rangers. The "men
in the white hats" first appeared in theaters in 1910. They
continue to do so in the 21st century.
During
70+ of the last 100 years at least one movie was released
featuring an actor as a Texas Ranger.
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TRIVIA
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In 1941, 1943 and 1944, 10 movies each year were released connected
with the Texas Rangers.
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When Texas celebrated its Centennial in 1936, Hollywood responded with
a movie featuring --- the Texas Rangers.
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Several popular Texas Ranger novels (especially Zane Grey novels)
were made into movies over-and-over:
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Zane Grey's Lone Star Ranger was made in 1919 and re-made in
1923, 1930 and 1942.
» Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage premiered in 1918
and was re-made in 1925, 1931, 1941 and 1996.
» Grey's Last of the Duanes premiered in 1919 and was
re-made in 1924, 1930 and 1941.
» Movies with the title of The Fighting Ranger were made
in 1925, 1926, 1934 and 1948.
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Actors who have played Texas Rangers over the last century include
John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Glen Campbell, Tom Mix, Dylan McDermott,
Willie Nelson, Chuck Norris, Gene Autry, the Our Gang kids,
Bill Elliott, George O'Brien, Roy Rogers, Audie Murphy, Nick Nolte,
Tim McCoy, Tommy Lee Jones, Richard Widmark, Sam Jones, William
Holden and many others.
Due
to the deterioration or destruction of pre-1950 films, a complete
list may not be possible, and information on non-US films is scarce.
Detailed information about each film on the list below is available
from the
Internet
Movie Database (click the link). Please e-mail
us if you know of a film we have missed, and we will add it to the
list!
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1911
1912
1914
1916
- The Ranger of Lonesome
- Gulch
- Liberty
1918
- The Ranger
- Heart of the Southwest
1919
- The Lone Star Ranger
- Last of the Duanes
- Rider of the Law, a.k.a. Jim of the Rangers
1920
1921
- The Ranger and the Law
- The Sky Ranger
1922
- The Ranger's Reward
- The Big Ranger
1923
- The Lone Star Ranger
- The Footlight Ranger
- King's Creek Law
1924
- The Whirlwind Ranger
- Last of the Duanes
1925
- The Fighting Ranger
- Ranger of the Big Pines
- Ranger Bill
- Rider of the Painted Horse
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- One Shot Ranger
1926
- Daredevil's Reward
- Ahead of the Law
- The Fighting Ranger
1927
- Outlaws of Red River
- The Rambling Ranger
1928
- The Ranger's Oath
- Law of the Ranger
- The Four-Footed Ranger
- The Phantom Flyer
1929
1930
- Last of the Duanes
- The Lone Star Ranger
1931
- Border Law
- The Cisco Kid
- Lasca of the Rio Grande
- The Texas Ranger
- Riders of the Purple Sage
1932
- Come On, Danger
- Riders of the Desert
- Hello Trouble
- The Texas Bad Man
1933
- King of the Arena
- The Ranger's Code
1934
- The Fighting Ranger
- The Dude Ranger
- Miracle Rider
- Gun Justice
1935
- Cyclone Ranger
- Rough Riding Ranger
1936
- Ride, Ranger, Ride
- The Unknown Ranger
- Drift Fence, a.k.a.
Texas Desperadoes
- Whistling Bullets
- The Kid Ranger
- I'm Much Obliged
- The Texas Rangers
1937
- Law of the Ranger
- Reckless Ranger
- The Gun Ranger
- Rio Grande Ranger
- Galloping Dynamite
- Ranger Courage
- Guns of the Pecos
- The Rangers Step In
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1938
- The Renegade Ranger
- Phantom Ranger
- The Little Ranger
- The Desert Patrol
- The Ranger's Round-Up
- Come On, Rangers!
- Man's Country
- Code of the Rangers
- The Lone Ranger
1939
- Return of the Cisco Kid
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1940
- Buzzy Rides the Range
- The Man from Tumbleweeds
- Northwest Mounted Police
- Two-fisted Rangers
- Rangers of Fortune
- Rocky Mountain Rangers
- Texas Rangers Ride Again
- The Ranger and the Lady
- Three Men from Texas
- Hi Yo Silver
1941
- Dead or Alive
- Desert Bandit
- Dynamite Canyon
- Desert Patrol
- Dynamite Canyon
- Last of the Duanes
- Rawhide Rangers
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- Rollin' Home to Texas
- Riders of the Badlands
1942
- The Lone Star Ranger
- Come On, Danger
- Riders of the Northland
- Bandit Ranger
- Down Texas Way
- Down Rio Grande Way
1943
- Thundering Trails
- West of Texas
- Hail to the Rangers
- Return of the Rangers
- Rangers Take Over
- Beyond the Last Frontier
- Fighting Valley
- Bad Men of Thunder Gap
- Death Valley
- Rangers
- Border Patrol
1944
- Guns of the Law
- Outlaw Roundup
- Trail of Terror
- Along the Navajo Trail
- Whispering Skull
- Spook Town
- Gunsmoke Mesa
- Cyclone Prairie Rangers
- Brand of the Devil
- The Pinto Bandit
1945
- Enemy of the Law
- Frontier Fugitives
- Flaming Bullets
- Three in the Saddle
- Marked for Murder
- The Lone Texas Ranger
1946
1947
- Ridin' Down the Trail
- Red Hot Rangers
1948
- Gallant Legion
- The Rangers Ride
- The Fighting Ranger
1949
- Riders of the Whistling Pines
- Streets of Laredo
- South of Rio
- Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1950
- Guns of Justice
- Law of the Badlands
- Border Rangers
- Prairie Roundup
1951
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
- My Outlaw Brother
- The Texas Rangers:
The Lone Wolf
- Watchdogs of
the Lone Star State
1952
- Night Stage to Galveston
- The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1953
- Winning of the West
- Star of Texas
- On Top of Old Smoky
1955
1956
- The Lone Ranger
- The Searchers
1959
- The Lone Ranger and the
Lost City of Gold
- Frontier Rangers
- The Wonderful Country
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1960
1961
- The Last Rebel
- Return of the Lone Ranger
- The Comancheros
1965
1966
1967
1968
- Three Guns for Texas
- Texas Rangers and Us
1969
- The Great Bank Robbery
- Backtrack
- The Over-the-Hill Gang
- True Grit
- The Over-the-Hill-Gang
Rides Again
1974
- The Sugarland Express
- The Rangers (TV movie)
1976
- The Town that Dreaded Sundown
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
1981
- The Texas Rangers
(TV movie)
- The Legend of
the Lone Ranger
1982
- The Ballad of
Gregorio Cortez
1983
1986
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
- Singapore Sling (R-rated)
- The Aurora Encounter
1987
- Extreme Prejudice
- Phantom Soldiers
1988
- Once Upon a Texas Train
(TV Movie)
1989
- Lonesome Dove
(TV Miniseries)
1990
- A Pair of Aces (TV Movie)
1992
1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger
(TV Movie)
- A Perfect World
- Return to Lonesome Dove (TV miniseries)
- Ranger: Muerte in Texas
1994
- One Riot, One Ranger
- Texas Payback
1995
- Ranger!
- The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie)
- Streets of Laredo (TV Miniseries)
- Texas (TV Miniseries)
1996
- Dead Man's Walk (TV miniseries)
- Riders of the Purple Sage (TV movie)
- From Dusk 'til Dawn
- Last Man Standing
- Lone Star
1998
1999
- From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
2001
2003
2004
2007
- No Country for Old Men
- Comanche Moon
- Grindhouse
- Death Proof
- Planet Terror
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