Helloturia
I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
mraculeated
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Richard Chatten
SPOILER WARNING: No such scene as described in the title appears in this movie (probably just as well considering the speculation it might have prompted!); which sums up the casual attitude the whole film takes to sustaining a plausible narrative. A fresh-faced young Tex Ritter improbably claims to be a geologist while going undercover to track down dapper gang boss Forrest Stanley, who shocks even his henchman when he shoots a boy scout in the back, but otherwise does a pretty sloppy job as an arch-villain. Tex likewise carelessly drops a vital letter in the street enabling Stanley to pick it up and examine it.Considering the zero budget this film must have had, it doesn't stint on frequent elegant optical wipes of the sort that I wish modern filmmakers would rediscover.
chholleyman
I loved it. Not as much as some other Tex Ritter movies, but because it had Tex Ritter in it with his singing, I loved it. (I do wish we had some of those times back, such as wanting to emulate the good character of the scouts again. Couldn't hurt society.) I miss those character building movies, when good was good and evil was definitely evil. The singing was better in some of the other Ritter movies, but his singing here was better than most other actors and singers in western movies. So I guess it boils down to this rule of thumb, if Ritter is in a movie and he is singing in that movie, you sure can't go wrong by watching it! I agree that his sidekicks were not up to par either.
FightingWesterner
A fairly silly plot has Tex Ritter joining forces with a troop of apparently unchaperoned Boy Scouts who are looking for a dangerous gang of train robbers, something that I don't think would ever happen in real life!Not really one of his best adventures, Tex Rides With The Boy Scouts is pretty inoffensive (unless you're Chinese) and mildly interesting, as long as you don't think about it too much.There just wasn't enough action or memorable songs (with the exception of Tex's rendition of The Girl I Left Behind Me) this go-around, to satisfy.However, Ritter is good as always, the leading lady is quite attractive, and the kiddie audiences of the day probably loved it, especially the real-life scouts.
classicsoncall
As the title says, Tex Ritter and sidekicks Stubby and Pee Wee (Horace Murphy and Snub Pollard) hook up with a Boy Scout troop to take down a gang of train robbers in this somewhat offbeat singing Western. What gets the picture off to an interesting start is a brief clip of events from a 1936 Washington, D.C. jamboree. The story includes a couple of unusual elements like the appearance of a Chinese laundry man, and this might be the earliest film in which you'll hear that infamous tag line - "No tickee, no washee". But the real sit up and take notice moment occurs when the chief villain Dorman (Forrest Taylor) actually shoots young Scout Buzzy Willis (Tommy Bupp) in the back!!! Man, what kind of a heel would do that? I always get a kick out of the logistics in these old films, when the laws of physical science were often held in complete disregard. Keep an eye on that early scene when the good guy trio stop to read the Private Property sign on the Black Hawk Mining property. A warning shot knocks Stubby's hat off from the direction in which he's facing, but all three turn left to see a couple of henchmen who were responsible. Had the bullet come from that direction, it might have hit Tex, who was right behind Stubby on horseback at the time.Tex gets to show his stuff with a handful of singing numbers, including 'Girl of the Prairie' with which he serenades pretty Norma Willis (Marjorie Reynolds), but as far as romance, that didn't really go anywhere. As with many of these old oaters, their relationship starts out with a misunderstanding before they patch things up to wind up on the same side. Little brother Buzzy survives his near fatal gunshot to identify Dorman as the shooter, and pretty soon, Tex and his boys round up all the bad guys and the stolen gold.Back in it's time, the picture probably served as a reliable recruiting vehicle for the Boy Scout organization, with it's emphasis on building character and good citizenship. Some of the scenes took me back to my own Scouting days, though that wasn't until a couple of decades later. It's the Boy Scout connection that warrants catching the picture, otherwise it's pretty much a run of the mill Western where the good guys come out on top.
