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Border Law

1931 film by Louis King

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4944582 ↗
Source-derived summary

Border Law is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Louis King and starring Buck Jones. The film was remade as Whistlin' Dan (1932) and again with Buck Jones as The Fighting Ranger (1934).

The film was based on a story by Stuart Anthony.

Plot

Captain Wilks of the Texas Rangers orders Jim Houston and his crew, Thunder Rogers and Jim's brother Bob, to go to Eureka, Texas to break up the Shag Smith gang.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Border Law” as 1931 film by Louis King. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Border, film and Louis.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 1932, 1934—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Border, film and Louis providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Border Law”, the useful work is to connect “1931 film by Louis King” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4944582. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931, 1932 and 1934.

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This entry incorporates text from “Border Law” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.