Movie
Texas Rangers
Overview
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
Details
- Release date
- 2001-11-30
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genres
- Western, Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Dimension Films
- Country
- United States of America, Canada, Mexico
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Van Der Beek as Lincoln Rogers Dunnison
- Rachael Leigh Cook as Caroline Dukes
- Ashton Kutcher as George Durham
- Dylan McDermott as Leander McNelly
- Usher as Randolph Douglas Scipio
- Tom Skerritt as Richard Dukes
- Randy Travis as Frank Bones
- Leonor Varela as Perdita
- Brian Martell as Jean-Pierre Marsele
- Alfred Molina as John King Fisher
- Billy Morton as Abajo
- Kate Newby as Henrietta Dukes
Crew
- Steve Miner - Director
- Scott Busby - Screenplay
- Martin Copeland - Screenplay
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