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Witnessing her boss Scarlotti (John Bradford) murder his business
partner during a casino raid, showgirl Hope Manning escapes the big city
head over heels & ends up in a small Western town, where people
still lilve like in the Old West. To prove just that, the bus in
which she arrives is robbed in true Western style - by Roy Rogers &
the Sons of the Pioneers, who need some publicity to sell their records
(they are singing cowboys you know).
But luckily, sheriff Gene
Autry (also a singing cowboy) was on the bus, & he, as the
hero, has no problems to bring the boys behind bars. He also finds out
soon enough that Manning is wanted as a murder witness, but still he
helps her when she is starting a career as a nightclub singer at the
local saloon. Soon though, Scarlotti & gang learn of the whereabouts
of the girl, &, thinking themselves as big city thugs superior to
Autry's hick sheriff, try to take her from under his nose. But Autry
still has a thing or two to teach the gangsters, & finally - with the help of
Roy Rogers & the Sons of the Pioneers, who Autry released from jail &
deputized, & a cattle stampede - brings Scarlotti & gang safe
behind bars.
Ed 'Oscar' Platt & Lou Fulton debut their shortlived comical roles as
backwood yokels Oscar & Elmer here.
B-Westerns of the 30's were generally aimed for the whole family, but
the Westerns of Gene Autry, while missing none of the action &
shoot-outs, were especially kids-oriented, with very simplistic
plots, a hero that is less of a tough hombre & more of a likeable
fellow, & sidekick Smiley Burnette is actually childish to the point
of annoying. This movie here has some nice & unusual (for a Western)
action - there are a cattle stampede and a car chase as integral
elements of the plot -, but it's mainly interesting for having both Gene
Autry - who - & Roy Rogers in the cast. Autry himself was back then relatively new to the business, having had his
first starring role (in The Phantom Empire)
just the year before, while Roy Rogers was still 2 years away from his own breakthrough (with Under
Western Stars),
making him the hottest singing cowboy of the movie business, besides
Gene Autry. Both of them later had their own TV-shows in the 1950's. Lon Chaney jr by
the way plays a small fry gangster in this one, being a few years away
from his breakthrough performances in the Universal
horrors.
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