Rita Hayworth once said of her westerns "those are the days I'd rather forget. I hate horses"!!! But as Margarita Cansino she was probably eager to take whatever role she was offered. "Trouble in Texas" was a Tex Ritter special which meant that there was always time for a song and as the setting was a rodeo, plenty of stock footage to pad out the movie. Hayworth had a more rounded role in this one and she even had a Latin dance. Critics noticed her and Variety noted "she was the best looker of any of the girls working in hoss pictures to date".
Beautiful Carmen is a federal agent who goes undercover as an entertainer on the rodeo circuit in an effort to expose a group of racketeer promoters. It doesn't take long for Tex Ritter to start his "rhythm roundup" with "Down the Colorado Trail". He is Tex Masters, a cowboy who follows the rodeos around hoping to find the gang that killed his brother. They are all part of the same outfit - if any rider looks as though he is going to win the money, he then becomes the victim of a nasty "accident". Just before Tex arrives at Middleton he foils a hold up that the robbers claim is staged but the grudge is carried into town and the Sheriff is so pleased with the way Tex handles the hooligans that he offers him a job to keep an eye on the rodeo proceedings. Tex even finds time to sing "The Rodeo Song".
Of course Tex wins all the prizes so the villains attempt to sabotage his big ride with the old "poisonous needle in the rope" trick - the same way his brother died, but he finds out just in time. Fortunately there is just as much action as songs with a climax involving a runaway waggon loaded with dynamite.
When "Trouble in Texas" was released in England in 1943 it was advertised as "Lovely and Devastating Rita Hayworth and Tex Ritter in a musical western"!!!
Beautiful Carmen is a federal agent who goes undercover as an entertainer on the rodeo circuit in an effort to expose a group of racketeer promoters. It doesn't take long for Tex Ritter to start his "rhythm roundup" with "Down the Colorado Trail". He is Tex Masters, a cowboy who follows the rodeos around hoping to find the gang that killed his brother. They are all part of the same outfit - if any rider looks as though he is going to win the money, he then becomes the victim of a nasty "accident". Just before Tex arrives at Middleton he foils a hold up that the robbers claim is staged but the grudge is carried into town and the Sheriff is so pleased with the way Tex handles the hooligans that he offers him a job to keep an eye on the rodeo proceedings. Tex even finds time to sing "The Rodeo Song".
Of course Tex wins all the prizes so the villains attempt to sabotage his big ride with the old "poisonous needle in the rope" trick - the same way his brother died, but he finds out just in time. Fortunately there is just as much action as songs with a climax involving a runaway waggon loaded with dynamite.
When "Trouble in Texas" was released in England in 1943 it was advertised as "Lovely and Devastating Rita Hayworth and Tex Ritter in a musical western"!!!