Rangers of Fortune (1940)

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Two cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss.

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  • Betty Brewer, Albert Dekker, Fred MacMurray, Patricia Morison, and Gilbert Roland in Rangers of Fortune (1940)
  • Betty Brewer, Albert Dekker, Fred MacMurray, and Gilbert Roland in Rangers of Fortune (1940)
  • Albert Dekker, Fred MacMurray, Gilbert Roland, and Joseph Schildkraut in Rangers of Fortune (1940)
  • Fred MacMurray, Patricia Morison, and Gilbert Roland in Rangers of Fortune (1940)
  • Albert Dekker, Fred MacMurray, and Gilbert Roland in Rangers of Fortune (1940)

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11 August 2004 | Mozjoukine
Agreeable minor western with classy personnel.
At the end of the long run as an MGM contract director, Sam Wood with GOODBYE MR. CHIPS and NIGHT AT THE OPERA on his C.V., found himself doing a B western. That must have been a shock but he had a first rate cast, Dietrich's musician and Ernst Lubitsch's camera man along, so he got stuck into what proved to be an entertaining minor production moved away from the expected cowboy action - note the shift from dramatic to comedy at the end of the big shoot out.

Drifters McMurray, Dekker (doing dumb comic) and Roland battle villain Schildkraut, with Patricia Morrison for female interest. We could have done without the moppet but the mounting is expert and the cast comfortably superior to their material.

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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. It's initial television broadcasts took place in Los Angeles Wednesday 7 January 1959 on KNXT (Channel 2), followed by Chicago Thursday 8 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2); in Omaha it first aired 14 April 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), in Asheville 19 April 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), in Seattle 26 August 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7), in St. Louis 16 September 1959 on KMOX (Channel 4), in Milwaukee 1 October 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), in Toledo 4 November 1959 on WTOL (Channel 11), in Cleveland 4 November 1959 on WJW (Channel 8), in Pittsburgh 8 December 1959 on KDKA (Channel 2), and in Cincinnati 23 September 1960 on WKRC (Channel 12).

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Genres

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Western

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Release Date:

27 September 1940

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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