Texas Buddies
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Suitable for Children

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Tiffany, Trem Carr

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Texas Buddies

Texas Buddies (1932)

Genres - Western, Romance, Action, Adventure, War  |   Sub-Genres - Traditional Western  |   Release Date - Oct 18, 1932 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 57 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Review by Hans J. Wollstein

Writer/director Robert North Bradbury usually came up with something a bit different and he doesn't disappoint in Texas Buddies, in which his real-life son, Bob Steele, and aviator Slade Hurlbert chase bandits from an airplane rather than on horseback. Next to motion pictures, barnstorming air shows were the most popular form of entertainment during the early years of the Great Depression and Hollywood naturally reflected that fact. Steele wasn't the only cowboy to take to the air (Hoot Gibson had pioneered the hybrid genre in the 1920s) but his breezy manner and Papa Bradbury's flair for fast-paced excitement placed him squarely ahead of the competition. Texas Buddies was the last of five Westerns to team Steele with blond Nancy Drexel, an ingénue dating back to the silent era where she had acted under the name Dorothy Kitchen.