Wild Horse Range

Jack Wallace and his Mexican pal Manny run a horse trading business, but they are constantly being undercut by their rival Arnold, who Jack suspects is selling stolen horses. The pair discover that the stolen horses are from Arrowhead Ranch, which is owned by kindly old Harriet Morgan and her pretty young niece Ann. Jack learns that the missing mares are blamed on the appearance of a mysterious white stallion, who lures the horses away from Arrowhead. Tailing the stallion, Jack and Manny come upon Arnold's secret hideout, and with the stallion's help free the captured horses and tie up the thieves for the police, leaving Jack to settle down with Ann on Arrowhead Ranch.

If that plot sounds familiar, it's because Wild Horse Range is practically a remake of Wild Horse Canyon, another Jack Randall western that Monogram Pictures had released only 18 months earlier! This was almost certainly a cost-cutting measure for budget-conscious Monogram, who didn't want the outtakes from Wild Horse Canyon to go to waste (presumably, they figured the kids sitting through the Saturday western matinees wouldn't notice.) Born Addison Randall, Jack Randall began his career as a singing cowboy on the vaudeville stage. Monogram Pictures signed him in 1937, where he made a series of programmers that lasted until 1940. Though eclipsed in popularity by his brother, Bob Livingston, Jack was recognizable to children everywhere for his trademark triggerless twin .45s that could only be fired by fanning the hammer. Later, an attempt to rebrand himself with the new name "Allen Byron" would fail miserably in the early 1940s. Sadly, Jack died after suffering a fatal fall from a horse during the filming of the Universal serial The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945).