Law of the Range

Law of the Range is a 1941 American western film directed by Ray Taylor using a screenplay by Sherman L. Lowe which is based on a story by Charles E. Barnes. A Universal production, the film starred Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day and Riley Hill. AllMovie states it is a remake of another Ray Taylor film, the 1935 feature The Ivory-Handled Gun.

Plot
Steve Howard arrives at the Diamond T Ranch during a fight between rival families, the O’Briens and the Howards, the latter being helped by Squint Jamison.

Cast

 * Johnny Mack Brown as Steve Howard
 * Fuzzy Knight as Chap Chaparral
 * Nell O'Day as Mary O'Brien
 * Riley Hill (credited as Roy Harris) as Wolverine Kid
 * Janet Warren (credited as Elaine Morey) as Virginia O'Brien
 * Pat O'Malley as Howard
 * Hal Taliaferro as Tim O'Brien
 * Charles King as Walt
 * Ethan Laidlaw as Hobart
 * Jack Rockwell as Sheriff Henderson
 * Alan Bridge as Squint Jamison
 * Jerome Harte as Kurt
 * Terry Frost as Sam Emery

Production
This black-and-white film is said to consist of 6 reels and the plot ’suggested by a story by Charles E. Barnes.’

Release
The film was released in the United States on July 20, 1941.

Music
The film includes the song ’Pals of the Prairie’ (by Robert Crawford) played by The KCBS-Texas Rangers.