The Pioneers

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Tex Ritter's thirty-second music Western for producer Edward F. Finney -- the last twenty released by Monogram -- The Pioneers was also Ritter's perhaps most unusual. "Suggested" by James Fenimore Cooper's 1853 The Leatherstocking Tales, the Western featured both Ritter and sidekick Slim Andrews wearing buckskin jackets, the latter even completing his ensemble with a homey coonskin cap. Ritter and Andrews played trail guides saving a wagon train from an Indian attack, much to the dismay of land owner J.W. Carson ...
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Tex Ritter's thirty-second music Western for producer Edward F. Finney -- the last twenty released by Monogram -- The Pioneers was also Ritter's perhaps most unusual. "Suggested" by James Fenimore Cooper's 1853 The Leatherstocking Tales, the Western featured both Ritter and sidekick Slim Andrews wearing buckskin jackets, the latter even completing his ensemble with a homey coonskin cap. Ritter and Andrews played trail guides saving a wagon train from an Indian attack, much to the dismay of land owner J.W. Carson Karl Hackett. Carson, along with henchmen Wilson George Chesebro and Jingo Lynton Brent, had orchestrated the raid in the first place in an attempt to scare settlers away from a valuable parcel of land. Tex, meanwhile, is falsely accused of murdering one of the settler's, Ames Del Lawrence, whose daughter, Suzannah Wanda McKay, Carson has been courting. Ritter narrowly escapes a lynching party to hook up with his pal Red Foley. Together with Slim and Doye O'Dell of radio fame, they manage to save Suzannah from a fate worse and death and the settlers in general from Carson's evil machinations. Making their screen debuts, country and western performers Red Foley and Doye O'Dell "played" themselves, a rather odd choice for what was ostensibly a Fenimore Cooper adaptation. Ritter, who had just married his former co-star Dorothy Fay, left Finney in favor of a more steady paycheck from Columbia Pictures. The Pioneers, alas, was the former radio performer's final solo starring vehicle.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 7/28/2009
  • UPC: 089218586490
  • Original Release: 1941

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  • Source: Alpha Video
  • Presentation: B&W
  • Time: 57:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Tex Ritter Tex
Arkansas "Slim" Andrews Slim
Red Foley Red
Doye O'Dell Doye
Wanda McKay Suzanna
George Cheseboro Wilson
Post Park Benton
Karl Hackett Carson
Lynton Brent Jingo
Gene Alsace Sheriff
Art Dillard
Chick Hannon Pete
White Flash the Horse
Jack C. Smith Judge
Chief Many Treaties Warcloud
Technical Credits
Albert Herman Director
Charles Anderson Screenwriter
Fred Bain Editor
Edward F. Finney Producer
Marcel Le Picard Cinematographer
Frank Sanucci Score Composer
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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- The Pioneers
2. Chapter 1 [8:45]
3. Chapter 2 [9:28]
4. Chapter 3 [9:30]
5. Chapter 4 [9:29]
6. Chapter 5 [9:29]
7. Chapter 6 [9:17]
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Disc #1 -- The Pioneers
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