Rio Grande Patrol (1950) User Reviews

Keeping Tommy Guns From the Mexicans

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 31 October 2006]

Tim Holt and Richard Martin are border patrol officers and they're working together with Rick Vallin of the Rurales to stop a load of machine guns from getting over the border.

Smuggler Douglas Fowley has found a real great smuggling scheme, the machine guns are in the costumes of a traveling troupe of showgirls. Now you know that Richard Martin is going to be loving working on this case. And one of the girls has her eye on him as well.

Tim is all business as usual and of course the two of them get the job done in the tradition of B westerns.

Not a bad entry for Tim, one of his better ones for RKO.

yer typical western

[ksf-2 · 7/10 · 3 October 2019]

Tim Holt and Richard Martin are border guards, Jones and Rafferty, trying to figure out how the guns are getting smuggled in. Jane Nigh is Sherry, star of the show at the saloon. Besides being a real decorated war hero, Holt had been making westerns for fifteen years already by now. His usual sidekick Rafferty is along for comedy, and always seems to be flirting with the women. Some really big plot holes in here. If you can overlook the medical field errors, just go along for the ride. It's your basic good guys chasing the bad guys story. and to be fair, for the first time ever, some of these guys ran out of bullets! no magic guns in this one. From RKO. Great locations, including Ray Corrigan's ranch, Corriganville, which is now a great Los Angeles Park. check it out! and Antelope Valley , Lancaster.. .which has both Joshua Trees and the darker poppies in the spring! Directed by Les Selander, king of the westerns. its a typical western. kill some time.

Rio Grande Patrol

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 14 March 2024]

Saloon keeper Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevino, suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.

RIO GRANDE PATROL is another enjoyable Western starring Tim Holt and Richard Martin whose chemistry and interplay always make the films fun. Maybe a little less exciting than the others in the series, it's nevertheless a pleasant time pass with some good action sequence to enliven things. There's plenty of pretty gals in here, and of course Chito goes ga-ga over them.

TIM & CHITO ARE BORDER RANGERS

[TEXICAN-2 · 9/10 · 31 October 1999]

Tim Holt did a number of well mounted, B-Westerns for RKO. I enjoyed all of them, even though like the Republic westerns, they developed one or two different formulas which was used for each movie.

Here Tim (Kansas) and Richard Martin (Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamonte Rafferty, I think I spelled all that right) are U.S. Border Patrol Rangers. They are joined by Mexican Ranger Rick Vallin to try to catch gun runners. The system used by the bad guys is inventive, and there are the usual fights and chases to keep the action lively.

This was really just standard, but good, Saturday Afternoon fare, more for kids than adults (or the kid at heart like me).

The acting, script, and direction were always good in this series, and the plots were simple but entertaining. I think the best of his movies was Brothers In The Saddle (1949).