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The 24 Western adventure film serial, The Range Busters, star a trio of cowboys setting the west right with their six shooters and cowboy justice.

  • Number of Movies: 24
  • Revenue: -

Featured Cast

  1. Ray Corrigan

    Ray Corrigan

    Crash Corrigan, Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, 'Crash' Corrigan, Marshal 'Crash' Corrigan, Crash Corrigan (as Ray 'Crash' Corrigan), 'Crash' Corrigan (as Ray 'Crash' Corrigan)

  2. John 'Dusty' King

    John 'Dusty' King

    Dusty King, John 'Dusty' King, 'Dusty' King, Dusty King posing as Hank Travers, John King (prologue) & 'Dusty' King (flashback)

  3. Max Terhune

    Max Terhune

    Alibi Terhune, Alibi, 'Alibi' Terhune, Alibi Terhune posing as The Professor (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune), Max 'Alibi' Terhune, 'Alibi' Terhune (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune), Alibi Terhune (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune)

  4. Dennis Moore

    Dennis Moore

    Denny Moore

  5. David Sharpe

    David Sharpe

    Davy Sharpe, David Sharpe

  6. Elmer

    Elmer

    Elmer, Alibi's Dummy, Elmer Sneezeweed, Alibi's Dummy, Elmer Sneezeweed - Alibi's dummy, Elmer Sneezeweed - Alibi's Dummy, Elmer - Alibi's Dummy, Elmer, Alibi's dummy, Elmer

  7. Forrest Taylor

    Forrest Taylor

    Marshal Claiburn, Larry Meadows, Sheriff, Deacon Stewart, aka Black Bart, Jim Bently, Dad Oliver, Mike Rand

  8. Kermit Maynard

    Kermit Maynard

    Marshal Luke Graham, Strike Cardigan, Lead Henchman, Henchman Pete, Ace Alton

  9. Gwen Gaze

    Gwen Gaze

    Irene Bently, Joan Hodgins, Molly Collins, Joan Brown

  10. Julie Duncan

    Julie Duncan

    Helen Weston, Judy Wilson, Ann Savage, Laura Craig

  11. Evelyn Finley

    Evelyn Finley

    Joan Cameron, Mary Rand, Linda Prescott

  12. Luana Walters

    Luana Walters

    Sally Rowell, Carol Thorp

  13. Lita Conway

    Marion Horner, Nancy Henderson

  14. I. Stanford Jolley

    I. Stanford Jolley

    The Mesquite Kid, Jingler

Featured Crew

August 22, 1940

A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.

October 10, 1940

When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after. He must have it to become it's guardian and take control of the Horner ranch. When the henchmen catch up with Alibi, they take the baby cradle not realizing Alibi has substituted his dummy Elmer. Crash having evidence Moreland is the one they want, now has a plan to expose him.

November 25, 1940

The Range Busters head for Pinto Basin where a series of stage robberies have occurred. To try and find the gang's boss, Crash sends out a empty money box. The plan backfires when the boss has the Range Busters identified as the robbers. Thinking it is now safe, the bank sends out a big money shipment. Needing to rob the stage, the boss gets the boys out of jail so they can be blamed. But this is just the chance they need to catch the robbers.

The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.

February 10, 1941

The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon. Harmon and his henchman Bart Gill are in reality wanted-outlaw brothers Jim and Ike Breedon seeking revenge against Jimmy and his school-teaching sister Sally as their father, a circuit judge in Nebraska, had sentenced their brother Bud to be hanged. Harmon involves Jimmy, because of his gambling debts, in a robbery of a rancher known to keep large amounts of money at his ranch. The Range Busters break up the robbery, Bart is killed, as is Rancher Fleming, and Jimmy is wounded but escapes. Harmon, setting a trap for Crash, tricks Sally and Jimmy to his hideout, and Crash follows them.

Rodeo contestants Johnny King and Corrigan meet, their fathers having been members of the Range Busters. When Johnny is knocked unconscious, time reverts to their father's era and the Range Busters are soon involved in the scheme to get Railroad right-of-way across Mother Slocum's ranch. When she is tricked into signing a release, the Range Busters find their job more difficult as the Sheriff is in with the crooks.

June 4, 1941

The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.

July 30, 1941

The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.

August 29, 1941

Someone wants to kill Magpie Harper. Crash and Dusty arrive too late, Magpie Harper is allready dead.

October 9, 1941

Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.

November 21, 1941

Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.

January 9, 1942

Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.

February 27, 1942

In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper editor is trying to get the local marshal replaced, because of his apparent failure to catch the gang, which seems to disappear into thin air after every robbery. The situation escalates when one of the stage drivers is mortally wounded; so the marshal sends for his friends, the Range Busters, to help him catch the criminals. Meanwhile, even the marshal's fiancee, the editor's daughter, turns against him in favor of an aggressive agitator for law and order - who secretly is leading the robber gang.

April 24, 1942

Bolton's men blow up the wagon carrying the mine payroll and Marshal Crash Corrigan is supposedly killed in the explosion. A man finds his badge and gives it to Bolton. Thinking Crash dead, Bolton gives the badge away and it ends up with the Sheriff. Crash is OK and the Range Busters know Bolton is the head of the gang but that he gets his orders from someone else and that is the man they want.

June 12, 1942

The Range Busters are together again to try and stop a swindle.

September 4, 1942

In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard, Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas, a supposed friend of the Willards.

October 16, 1942

As war looms in the Pacific, even cowboys are called on to fight the enemy. Horses are desperately needed by U.S forces stationed in the Philippines, and the Range Busters - Crash Corrigan, Alibi Terhune, and their newest partner, Davy Sharpe - are hired to accompany a herd to the islands. But first they must battle Axis spies right in Texas, as they foil a plot to steal the very horses destined for shipment.

December 4, 1942

In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank Hammond, son of Marshal Jim Hammond, is killed. The Marshal sends for the Range Busters, Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Alibi Terhune, to come and restore order to the town. Ed Cole, head of the local vigilantes, and secretly the head of the outlaws, promptly orders the trio out of town. They visit an old friend, Rancher Mike Rand and his daughter Mary. Mary's brother Jeff has unwittingly become a gang member, and carries out Cole's orders by taking a shot at Davy, but the latter makes him a prisoner during a subsequent fight in the town café. Jeff confesses to Cole's involvement, and the Range Busters, with the help of town banker Harrison, set a trap for Cole and his outlaw vigilantes.

January 8, 1943

Wells Fargo hires three cowboys to clean up a lawless town.

February 19, 1943

Both the Range Buster and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden, Rance has his man imitating ghosts. The gold is in a steel cased organ but a certain combination of organ stops need to be pulled to obtain the gold.

March 26, 1943

When a gang of outlaws led by Faro Wilson starts swiping payrolls and terrorizing the residents of a small Western town, courageous Range Busters Crash, Denny and Alibi gallop onto the scene to set things straight.

June 4, 1943

The Range Busters investigate sabotage at a mining community and uncover a gang of Nazi spies.

August 27, 1943

In this WW II film meant to discourage the purchase of black market beef, the Range Busters are called on to fight cattle rustlers. This time they're up against a gang that strikes fast by hauling the beef away in trucks.

October 29, 1943

Hammond is after the Craig ranch and has framed Charlie Craig for murder. Mother Craig brings in the Range Busters. They capture one of Hammond's men and Alibi plans to trick him into a confession as to who the real murderer is. Meanwhile, Denny has overheard Hammond's plans for his next move and he and Crash set out to round up the gang.

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