FIGHTING THE BATTLE TO ADD A BRIGHT NEW STAR...THE LONE STAR...TO "OLD GLORY"!
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
William Berke
Director

Charles Starrett
Steve Martin

Russell Hayden
'Lucky' Haines

Britt Wood
Britt Haines
Rose Anne Stevens
Mary Ann Baldridge

Norman Willis
Mack Vandall

Davison Clark
Colonel Elihu Baldridge

Edmund Cobb
Henchman Stoner

Budd Buster
Clem Kearney
Joseph Eggenton
Judge Randolph Henderson
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