In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram's "Range Buster" series, Texas ranch owner Conroy (Steve Clark) returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range Busters, Dusty (John King), Davy (David Sharpe) and Alibi (Max Terhune), are selected to take the horses there but, before leaving, they capture three spies who are trying to steal the horses and also learn that the ranch cook, Cookie (Escolastico Baucin), is a Japanese spy, but he manages to escape. In the Philippines, they go to a cafe for dinner and see Cookie and Miller, a German spy. Eavesdropping, they learn that Ken Richards (Frank Ellis), a neighboring Texas rancher, is the Axis contact back in the states. They capture Cookie and break up the spy ring in the Phillipines, and then return to Texas intent on settling matters with Richards. They do so and are honored by the U.S. Government just as the radio blares forth the December 7, 1941 announcement of the Pearl Harbor bombing. They h watch
Seeking to arrange the perfect hunt for a group of wealthy associates, media mogul Broddick (Adam Kendrick) imports an 80-foot python. But an accident allows the python to escape, and it begins putting the squeeze on the locals. The snake's trail of carnage leads FBI agent Alan Sharpe (Kirk B.R. Woller) to the underground tunnels of a water treatment plant. He and marine biologist Monica Bonds (Jaime Bergman) enlist a prominent herpetologist (David Hewlett) whose 70-foot Scarlet Queen boa will be outfitted with Monica's tracking system and used to hunt the python. But Broddick's hunters also want to bag it, Monica's equipment goes haywire, and the bodies keep piling up. Things come to a head in a packed dance club where two of nature's most terrifying predators square off in an action-packed battle of fangs. watch
