Texas Rangers (film)
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| Directed by | Steve Miner |
| Produced by | Frank Price Alan Griesman Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein |
| Screenplay by | Scott Busby Martin Copeland John Milius |
| Based on |
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Ranger by George Durham |
| Starring |
James Van Der Beek Rachael Leigh Cook Ashton Kutcher Dylan McDermott |
| Narrated by | James Coburn |
| Music by | Trevor Rabin |
| Cinematography | Daryn Okada |
| Edited by | Gregg Featherman Peter Devaney Flanagan |
| Distributed by |
Dimension Films Miramax Films |
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Running time
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Original cut 110 minutes Theatrical cut 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38 million |
| Box office | $763,740 |
Texas Rangers is a 2001 American action western film starring James Van Der Beek, Ashton Kutcher, Alfred Molina, and Dylan McDermott. Directed by Steve Miner, it follows a group of Texas Rangers in the post-American Civil War era. This film is very loosely based upon the book Taming the Nueces Strip by George Durham, who based it on his own experiences serving in joined Captain Leander McNelly's (portrayed in the film by McDermott) Texas Ranger group as a young man.
Ten years after the Civil War ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) to recommission a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. Aside from a few seasoned veterans, the recruits are young men, such as George Durham (Ashton Kutcher), who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime. The antagonist of the story is John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) who is stealing cattle from Texas cattle barons like Richard Dukes and Victor Logan and driving them into Mexico, where he sells them to the Mexican army.
After McNelly and his men pursue Fisher for a while, they fall into a trap, where many of the young and ill-trained Rangers are killed. Defeated and low on morale, the men fall back to a ranch house and attempt to set up an ambush for Fisher. After being double crossed by a woman (perhaps unwittingly), the rangers remain one step behind Fisher and his men. Two of the Rangers follow Fisher and his men to the Mexican border, where they wait for the rest of their company. Once the entire Ranger force arrives, they plan their final attack. In a final gun-slinging showdown, the Rangers face off against Fisher and his men that will tip the state of the border country in the direction of either chaos or justice.
The film's source was the book Taming of the Neuces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers by George Durham.
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