TEX GRANGER
MIDNIGHT RIDER OF THE PLAINS
15 CHAPTER SERIAL
1948

Tex Granger is a Columbia movie serial featuring the title character as a masked cowboy referred to as The Midnight Rider of the Plains in the serial's subtitle. Tex Granger was played by Robert Kellard. It was based on a character from the comic Calling All Boys while the plot was taken from The Last Frontier (1926), which was itself based on the novel of the same name by Courtney Ryley Cooper.

PLOT:
Tex Granger, on his way to Three Butes, comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach. Tex and young Timmy turn the gold over to the crooked Rance Carson who uses his loan office to carry out crooked land deals. When Blaze shows up in town Carson has him appointed town marshal, intending to use him as his enforcer, but Blaze has higher aspirations, and soon the town is ablaze with gunfire and plots as Blaze, Carson, and Reno and his gang battle each other and the citizens.
Meanwhile, persuaded by Helen Kent, Tex buys the local newspaper, dons a mask and becomes "The Midnight Rider of the Plains" and works against all three gang factions to bring law and order to Three Buttes.

CAST:
Robert Kellard ... Tex Granger, / The Midnight Rider
Peggy Stewart ... Helen Kent
Robert 'Buzz' Henry ... Timmy Perkins
Smith Ballew ... 'Marshal' Blaze Talbot
Jack Ingram ... Reno, Gang Leader
I. Stanford Jolley ... Rance Carson
Terry Frost ... Luke Adams, Carson Henchman
Jim Diehl ... Conroy, Carson Henchman
Britt Wood ... Sandy White
Tiny Brauer ... Morgan, Carson Henchman
Duke ... Duke, the Dog

CHAPTERS:
1. Tex Finds Trouble
2. Rider of Mystery Mesa
3. Dead or Alive
4. Dangerous Trails
5. Renegade Pass
6. A Crooked Deal
7. The Rider Unmasked
8. Mystery of the Silver Ghost
9. The Rider Trapped
10. Midnight Ambush
11. Renegade Roundup
12. Carson's Last Draw
13. Blaze Takes Over
14. Riding Wild
15. The Rider Meets Blaze

RUNNING TIME: 270 MIN