Gene AutryFilmography

Memories of Hollywood

Synopsis: This fascinating program takes us on a star-studded trip down memory lane. Relive the Golden Age of Hollywood. Featuring memories of the stars from the great westerns, screen sweethearts, Shirley Temple, Bette Davis, James Stewart and many more. An added bonus is a chapter of original trailers Read More

Bad Girls in the Movies

Synopsis: This breezy compilation highlights the great villainesses, trollops and femme fatales of the American cinema. Special attention is given the film noir genre, as typified by Gloria Grahame, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Greer. There are also generous dollops from the "women's prison" flicks of Read More

Wizard of the Strings: A Portrait of Roy Smeck

Actors: Roy Smeck

Cowboys of the Saturday Matinee

Synopsis: This documentary concerns the legion of B-westerns made from the end of the silent era to the present, including stock footage of all the classic cinema cowboys. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Semi-Tough

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as two pro-football pals who both fall for the team-owner's very rich daughter. Kind of goofy, kind of funny, and somewhat endearing--those are the qualities that surface in this light-hearted comedy built upon an extremely predictable scenario. ~ All Read More

Alias Jesse James

Actors: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

Dave Garroway's Wide, Wide World

The Adventures of Champion [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon

The Last of the Pony Riders

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kathleen Case, Dick Jones

Synopsis: Last of the Pony Riders was also the last theatrical starring feature of singing cowboy Gene Autry. This time, Autry plays a troubleshooter for the Pony Express who hopes to keep the West safe for the mail riders so that a new stagecoach line can be established. He is opposed by crooked banker Read More

On Top of Old Smoky

Synopsis: Gene Autry's second 1953 entry, On Top of Old Smoky casts Autry more or less as himself, a travelling balladeer. The story gets under way when Autry and his back-up vocalists are mistaken for a group of Texas Rangers. Not wishing to disappoint anyone, Gene agrees to help heroine Jen Larrabee (Gail Davis Read More

Goldtown Ghost Riders

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Carleton Young

Synopsis: The title of this Gene Autry opus is almost as long as the film itself. This time, Autry plays a circuit judge who presides over a murder case in a mining town. The accused, Ed Wheeler (Kirk Riley), has confessed to the killing, and is undeniably guilty, but Autry considers this to be a case of Read More

Pack Train

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Kenne Duncan

Synopsis: Gene Autry's summer release for 1953 was the 56-minute Pack Train. In this one, Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by Ross McLain (Kenne Duncan), intend to bushwhack Autry, grab the supplies, and sell them at high prices to a local mining Read More

Winning of the West

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Richard Crane, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Winning of the West was Gene Autry's first western vehicle for 1953. It was also one of Autry's better offerings, with the star cast as a territorial ranger with an uncharacteristically nasty streak. When a local newspaper publisher is slain by an outlaw gang, Gene hesitates to pull his gun Read More

Saginaw Trail

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Connie Marshall, Eugene Borden, Ralph Reed

Synopsis: Saginaw Trail is a rare "mid-western" from Gene Autry. Set in 1827, the story takes place in the wilds of Michigan. Autry plays an officer in Hamilton's Rangers, determined to bring scurrilous fur-trapper Jules Brissac (Eugene Borden) to justice. To protect his own interests, Brissac has been Read More

Night Stage to Galveston

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Virginia Huston, Thurston Hall, Judy Nugent

Synopsis: Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the wild-and-wooly days when the Texas Rangers were supplanted by various local corrupt police officials, the story finds Gene at odds with crooked police chief Gen. Slaydon (Robert Livingston Read More

Wagon Team

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Dick Jones, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes undercover once again in this rather pedestrian western from Columbia Pictures. Suspecting jailed youth Dave Weldon (Dick Jones) of complicity in an army payroll heist, special investigator Autry has himself jailed. He quickly discovers that there is more to the case than meets the Read More

The Old West

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Lyle Talbot, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his all to this story of frontier religiosity. Left for dead in an outlaw ambush, Gene is nursed back to health by a travelling parson (House Peters Sr.) Our hero decides to help Read More

Apache Country

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Carolina Cotton, Harry Lauter, Mary Scott

Synopsis: The "B"-western field of the 1950s was laid low by increasing budgets and decreasing box-office appeal. Gene Autry's series for Columbia was still turning a profit in 1952, but films like Apache Country were a lot stingier-looking than his earlier efforts. Autry plays a government agent who rides Read More

Blue Canadian Rockies

Synopsis: In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude ranch and several murders which require solving. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Barbed Wire

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Anne James, William Fawcett, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: Gene Autry plays a cattle buyer in the better-than-average formula western Barbed Wire. Investigating a paucity of fresh livestock, Autry returns to his home turf of Texas. Here he discovers that powerful ranch owner Steve Ruttledge (Leonard Penn) has been fencing off valuable grazing land Read More

Valley of Fire

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Russell Hayden, Christine Larson

Synopsis: Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of a wide-open western town. The villain of the piece, Tod Rawlings (Harry Lauter), decides to undermine Gene by convincing a band of disreputable miners to hijack a wagon Read More

Gene Autry and the Mounties

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elena Verdugo, Carleton Young, Richard Emory

Synopsis: Gene Autry is back in the saddle again, albeit North of the Border. Montana marshal Autry and another lawman pursue a bank robber into Canada. Teaming with a straight-arrow Mountie, Autry tracks down the criminal in the Canadian wilderness, taking time out once in a while to sing one of his host's Read More

Whirlwind

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Thurston Hall, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: Gene Autry stars in the 1951 sagebrusher Whirlwind. In this outing, Autry plays a frontier postal inspector known for his lightning speed in the saddle (hence the title). Travelling incognito, Autry and his sidekick Smiley Burnette endeavor to get the goods on the "respectable" head of an outlaw Read More

The Hills of Utah

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elaine Riley, Donna Martell, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Hills of Utah casts Gene Autry as a frontier doctor with a predilection for singing. A recent med-school graduate, Autry sets up practice in the midst of a long-standing feud between cattlemen and miners. While patching up the participants of the feud, Gene searches every nook and cranny for the Read More

Silver Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Jim Davis, Bob Steele

Synopsis: This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie (Jim Davis). Read More

Texans Never Cry

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Mary Castle, Russell Hayden, Gail Davis

Synopsis: Texans Never Cry but they sure do sing a lot in this Gene Autry western. Cast as a Texas Ranger, Autry is trying to get the goods on a frontier numbers racket. Perpetrating the crime is Tracy Wyatt (Richard Powers, who'd previously been a western hero himself under the name of Tom Keene). Adding Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Posse

Synopsis: Gene Autry takes a page out of Lady for a Day in this television western initially released on September 17, 1950. Having majored in animal husbandry, Easterner Mary Darrow (Wendy Waldron) is ready to take command of her father's ranch. But unbeknownst to Mary -- or so everyone assumes -- old Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Double Switch

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings "When the Bloom is on the Sage" in this early entry in his popular television series. When the board of supervisors allocates $20,000 for government roadwork, including $3,000 from newcomer Henry Harlow (Steven Darrell), the latter voices his fear of road agents. To safely Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Star Toter

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings his own and Ray Whitley's "Back in the Saddle Again" in the opening sequence of this, the fifth episode of his 1950 television series. A sheriff this time, Gene takes on ten-year-old Jimmy Foster (Billy Gray), whose father, Ben (George J. Lewis), has been jailed for bank robbery. Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Blackwater Valley Feud

Synopsis: Aired originally on September 3, 1950, and restored by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2000, this The Gene Autry Show series entry features Stanley Andrews as Carl Meachem, the owner of the "Flying M" cattle ranch. Determined to keep the range free of fences, Meachem bars a right of way for neighbor Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Silver Arrow

Synopsis: In the third entry of his long-running television series, Gene Autry comes across a man murdered by a silver arrow. In Cottonwood, Autry and sidekick Pat Buttram learn that the victim was one of four men responsible for sending Randy Edwards (Jim Frasher) up the river for a crime he may not have Read More

Beyond the Purple Hills

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Don Beddoe, James Millican

Synopsis: Gene Autry and his horse Champion play "themselves" in Columbia's Beyond the Purple Hills. This one finds Autry serving as a cattle-town sheriff. When his best friend is accused of murder, Gene does his duty and arrests the man--then conducts his own investigation to prove that his pal is Read More

Indian Territory

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Kirby Grant, James Griffith

Synopsis: Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading Read More

Mule Train

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Sheila Ryan, Robert Livingston, Frank Jaquet

Synopsis: Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on film, in a picture titled ... what else? .... Mule Train. This time, Autry plays a federal marshal who comes to the aid of a grizzled old prospector who has been framed for Read More

The Gene Autry Show: Gold Dust Charlie

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings "Home on the Range," "Cowboy Blues," and "Mexicali Rose," and the Cass County Boys take care of the humorous "Great Grandad" in this television Western, the second entry in Autry's 1950-1955 series. Coming across the murdered body of Gold Dust Charlie, Autry hurries to the assay Read More

The Blazing Sun

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Lynne Roberts, Anne Gwynne, Edward Norris

Synopsis: Gene Autry is back in the saddle again in The Blazing Sun. On this occasion, Autry plays a lawman in pursuit of two bank robbers. Adding novelty is the fact that the film is set in the contemporary West, with Pat Buttram co-starring as a conceited radio actor Mike. Weaving in and out of the Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Doodle Bug

Synopsis: Someone is trying to ruin the Rocky Mountain Stage Line in Dentonville and mine superintendent Gene Autry suspects that Collins (Gregg Barton), the stage driver, has something to do with it. Meanwhile, the local stage agent, Mrs. Wilhelmina Wilkins (Minerva Urecal), takes a dim view of Read More

The Gene Autry Show: Head for Texas

Synopsis: "Sing Me a Song of the Saddle," warbles Gene Autry in this, the premiere episode of his five-season-long television series. Autry was powerful enough in 1950 to disobey his feature film employer Columbia Pictures, who, in concert with the rest of the Hollywood establishment, looked upon television Read More

Cow Town

Actors: Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Harry Shannon, Buddy Burroughs

Synopsis: At first glance, Cow Town seems to be a documentary, as an unseen narrator describes the changes made in the Old West by the advent of barbed wire. Before long, however, the audience is assured that this will be a typical Gene Autry western. Autry plays a ranch owner who incurs the wrath of his Read More

Riders in the Sky

Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Pat Buttram, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this success into a film, which proved to be one of Autry's best postwar efforts. The basic plot concerns Autry's efforts to clear rancher Ralph Lawson (Steve Darrell) of a Read More

The Big Sombrero

Actors: Gene Autry, Elena Verdugo, George Lewis, Vera Marshe

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings, fights, and sings some more in the Cinecolor "special" The Big Sombrero. Autry comes to the aid of senorita Estrellita Estrada (Elena Verdugo), who is slated to marry villainous James Garland (Stephen Dunne). The caddish Garland intends to sell Estrellita's ranch for a huge Read More

Rim of the Canyon

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Thurston Hall, Clem Bevans, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Gene Autry plays a dual role in the above-average Columbia oater Rim of the Canyon. Our hero plays "himself" and his own father, a famed sheriff. Twenty years ago, Autry Sr. threw a trio of outlaws (Walter Sande, Jock Mahoney and Francis McDonald) into jail for stealing a large sum of money. When Read More

The Cowboy and the Indians

Actors: Gene Autry, Sheila Ryan, Frank Richards, Hank Patterson, Jay Silverheels

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy comes to the aid of the Indians. The story begins as hero, Gene Autry, begins an investigation of a series of Indian raids. They had been stealing food from homesteads located around the reservation. Autry is appalled to discover that they have been taking the food Read More

Riders of the Whistling Pines

Actors: Gene Autry, Patricia White, Jimmy Lloyd, Douglas Dumbrille, Damian O'Flynn

Synopsis: Gene Autry's second 1949 release for Columbia was Riders of the Whistling Pines. As was customary for Autry, the title refers to one of the songs heard in the film, rather than the plotline at hand. The villains busy themselves destroying all the timber in a government forest preserve. When Autry Read More

Sons of New Mexico

Actors: Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Robert Armstrong, Dick Jones, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Not quite as memorable as his previous Riders in the Sky, Gene Autry's Sons of New Mexico is still well up to the star's standard. This time, Gene tries to reform Randy Pryor, a would-be juvenile delinquent, played by Autry-protégé Dick Jones (who later starred in the Autry-produced TV series Range Rider Read More

Loaded Pistols

Actors: Gene Autry, Barbara Britton, Chill Wills, Jack Holt, Russell Arms

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes in search of the man who killed his friend during a blackout in this action-packed western from Columbia. Someone cuts the lights and kills Ed Norton (Stanley Blystone) during a heated poker game and that someone, according to Sheriff Cramer (Chill Wills), may just be young hothead Read More

The Strawberry Roan

Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Jack Holt, Dick Jones, Pat Buttram

Synopsis: Gene Autry's equine sidekick Champion takes the center stage in western drama, based on a story by fellow sagebrush star Ken Maynard. Walt Bailey (Jack Holt) is teaching his young son Joe (Dickie Jones) how to break in a horse when a high-spirited steed (Champion) throws the boy, leaving him Read More

Trail to San Antone

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Peggy Stewart, Sterling Holloway, William Henry

Synopsis: Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Read More

The Last Round-Up

Actors: Gene Autry, Jean Heather, Ralph Morgan, Carol Thurston, Mark Daniels

Synopsis: Dissatisfied with his postwar Republic westerns (not to mention his comparatively low salary), Gene Autry switched his base of operations to Columbia in 1947, where he wore two hats as both star and producer. Autry's first Columbia effort, The Last Round-Up, is a vast improvement over the Read More

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Actors: Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans

Synopsis: Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry Western. Autry, sidekick Sterling Holloway, and the Cass County Boys get involved with fiery Elena Del Rio (Adele Mara), a singer in the local cantina who alternately throws Read More

Saddle Pals

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway, Irving Bacon, Damian O'Flynn

Synopsis: Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal (Sterling Holloway) and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an Read More

Robin Hood of Texas

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Stanley Andrews, Gene Autry, Michael Branden, Al Bridge, Paul Bryar

Synopsis: A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan song for Republic Pictures, lovingly restored by UCLA and Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Swindled out of their savings, Gene and the Cass County Boys mistakenly get mixed up Read More

Sioux City Sue

Actors: Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway, Richard Lane, Ralph Sanford

Synopsis: In his first film after four-years of military duty, Gene Autry returns to a familiar setting: a modern western musical-comedy with accent on music and comedy. Crooning Jimmie Hodges' lilting "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You", cattle rancher Gene Autry is discovered by Hollywood talent scouts Read More

Robin Hood of the Range

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Charles Starrett, Arthur Hunnicutt, Kay Harris, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes Read More

Stardust on the Sage

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Edith Fellows, Louise Currie

Synopsis: Not quite as exciting as it should be, Stardust on the Sage is still a serviceable Gene Autry vehicle. This time, Gene is teamed up with young Jeff Drew (Bill Henry), who tries to sell mining stock to the local cattlemen. Meanwhile, villain Pearson (Emmet Vogan) plots to steal the mine from Gene Read More

Home in Wyomin'

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Olin Howland, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: Music, gangster melodrama, and snappy newspaper comedy is blended into the usual Western shenanigans in this unusual Gene Autry vehicle filmed on-location at the Russell Ranch near Agoura Hills, CA. Autry, as always, plays himself, a singing star, with Smiley Burnette and Joe Strauch Jr. as Read More

Cowboy Serenade

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Cecil Cunningham, Addison Richards

Synopsis: Just before entering the armed services, Gene Autry delivered one of his best Republic westerns, Cowboy Serenade. Many of Autry's previous vehicles had suffered from too much music and not enough action. Happily, Cowboy Serenade struck the happy medium common to Autry's vintage 1930s efforts. Read More

Call of the Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, The Sons of the Pioneers, Ruth Terry, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Cattleman Gene Autry is put out-to say the least-when he finds out that he's been slickered by crooked purchasing agent Thomas McCoy (Edmund MacDonald). It turns out that McCoy is in debt to bookies, and has been skimming his customers to pay off his gambling losses. Autry hopes to put a stop to Read More

Heart of the Rio Grande

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Edith Fellows, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: Spoiled little rich girl Edith Fellows does what she can to avoid spending time on Gene Autry's dude ranch in this tuneful Western restored by U.C.L.A. in 2001 for Gene Autry Entertainment. Despite the best efforts of her teacher Alice Bennett (Fay McKenzie), Connie Lane (Fellows) quickly manages Read More

Bells of Capistrano

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey, Lucien Littlefield, Morgan Conway

Synopsis: In his final film before entering war service, Gene Autry joins the World Wide Wild West Show, a faltering enterprise about to be taken over by the more powerful Johnson Bros. Rodeo, and his success as the Singing Bronco Buster allows the show to open at San Capistrano instead of the rival outfit. Read More

Sierra Sue

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Robert E. Homans

Synopsis: In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves ineffectual, the local banker, Stacy Bromfield (Frank M. Thomas), sends for a government inspector in desperation. The inspector, played by Autry, quickly suggests spraying Read More

The Singing Hill

Synopsis: Also known as The Singing Hills, this Gene Autry western boasts a screenplay cowritten by Jesse Lasky Jr. Gene and his saddle pal Smiley Burnette ride into town and sing a few songs. They make the acquaintance of heiress Virginia Grey, who wants to divest herself of her land holdings. Villain Read More

Red River Valley

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Gale Storm

Synopsis: In this entertaining western, Roy Rogers rides to the rescue of ranchers threatened by a drought. With his rousing songs, he rallies the reluctant fellows together to donate a large sum of money to build a new reservoir. Things go well until a gambler gets involved and winds up stealing the Read More

Back in the Saddle

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Edward Norris

Synopsis: Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to take watch over his employer's son Tom (Edward Norris), a young hothead who enjoys the so-called finer things in life. Tom has to be corralled out of the wicked city after Read More

Ridin' on a Rainbow

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Carol Adams, Ferris Taylor

Synopsis: Gene Autry gets help from teenage singer Mary Lee and fetching tap dancer Carol Adams in this tuneful Republic songfest restored in 2001 by Gene Autry Entertainment. Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette can only watch as gangsters Ralf Harolde and Anthony Warde rob the local bank. Read More

Under Fiesta Stars

Synopsis: Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros. Unfortunately, the other half goes to Easterner Barbara Erwin (Carol Hughes), who is only interested in monetary remuneration. To convince Gene to buy her share Read More

Down Mexico Way

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer) Read More

Sunset in Wyoming

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, George Cleveland, Maris Wrixon, Robert Kent

Synopsis: Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western interludes. This time, Autry champions the cause of a group of ranchers who are being victimized by the apparent megalomania of lumber baron George Cleveland. Upon palavering Read More

Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Warren Hull

Synopsis: Unique among the Gene Autry starrers of 1940, Ride Tenderfoot Ride actually contains more action than music. In this one, Autry falls heir to a meat-packing firm which has been targetted for a hostile takeover by the villains. June Storey plays Ann Randolph, owner of a rival meat concern, who is Read More

Melody Ranch

Actors: Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane, Barbara Jo Allen

Synopsis: Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright, tuneful, and at times quite action-packed piece of B-Western extravaganza, Republic style. The victim of both a drop in ratings and a tardy leading lady, radio star Gene Read More

Rancho Grande

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Dick Hogan

Synopsis: East meets west in this musical western starring singing cowboy Gene Autry. After the death of its owner, the financially troubled Rancho Grande is left to Kay Dodge (June Storey) and her siblings Patsy (Mary Lee) and Tom, (Dick Hogan), three wealthy young socialites from the East who are as Read More

Shooting High

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Kay Aldridge

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's Shooting High. Instead of playing "himself" as he usually does, Autry is cast as Will Carson, whose family is engaged in a decades-long feud with the Pritchard clan. The Read More

Saturday Night Serials

Synopsis: Rhino Video put out this compilation tape of trailers and film clips from the golden age of serials (the 1930s and 1940s), released mainly by Republic, Columbia, Universal and Mascot. Among the serials showcased are The Phantom Creeps, Junior G-Men, Phantom Empire and Undersea Kingdom. ~ Brian Read More

Gaucho Serenade

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: Gene Autry rescues a young boy from a gang of kidnappers in this delightful musical-Western from Republic Pictures. Having lost their jobs with the rodeo, Gene and sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) are heading west when they discover a young British stowaway, Ronnie Willoughby (Clifford Severn Jr. Read More

Keep Rollin'

Men with Steel Faces

Crew: Singer

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: In hopes of cashing in on the popularity of "Number One Cowboy" Gene Autry, a fly-by-night firm called Times Pictures reissued a shortened version of Autry's 1935 Mascot serial Phantom Empire under the title Men with Steel Faces. It will be remembered that the original plotline of this 12-episode Read More

Carolina Moon

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Eddy Waller

Synopsis: Like so many Gene Autry westerns of the early 1940s, Carolina Moon draws its title from a popular song of the era, duly warbled by Autry in the course of the film. In fact, music takes precedence over action in this outing, which would remain one of Gene's quietest and most laid-back vehicles. The Read More

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Carlisle, Douglas Dumbrille, William Farnum

Synopsis: While James Stewart was filibustering from his senator's pulpit in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Gene Autry battled congressional bureaucracy in Rovin' Tumbleweeds, which barely could call itself a Western. Gene runs for a congressional seat in order to pass a flood control bill that would Read More

South of the Border

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Lupita Tovar, Mary Lee

Synopsis: South of the Border, a western directered by George Sherman, features two United States government agents (Gene Autry) and (Smiley Burnette) and their trip to Mexico, where they hope to stop German agents from forming a revolution. This propagandist musical feature was released approximately two Read More

Colorado Sunset

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes up against another "protection" racket in this tuneful series entry, which also features country & western singer Patsy Montana and the CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers. Doc Blair (Robert Barrat), a crooked veterinarian, is doing a good business terrorizing the local dairy farmers into Read More

Home on the Range

Mexicali Rose

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Noah Beery, Sr., Luana Walters, William Farnum

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes up against a crooked oil company in this delightful music Western restored in 2001 by Gene Autry Entertainment. Carruthers (William Royle) of the so-called Alta Vista Oil Company is selling worthless stock from a non-existent well located on a Spanish land grant occupied by Padre Read More

Home on the Prairie

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George Cleveland, Jack Mulhall

Synopsis: Home on the Prairie finds Texas ranger Gene Autry trying to halt an anthrax epidemic. The villains are cattlemen Walter Miller and Gordon Hart, who've been knowingly transporting diseased cattle across the US-Mexico border. The bad guys try to pin the blame on female rancher June Storey, but Gene Read More

In Old Monterey

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George "Gabby" Hayes, The Hoosier Hotshots

Synopsis: The United States Air Force dropping bombs on decent, taxpaying ranchers is perhaps not your standard B-Western theme but that is exactly what happens in In Old Monterey. It's 1939 and war is breaking out in Europe. Fearing a possible invasion, the air force feels the urgent need to test its Read More

Mountain Rhythm

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Maude Eburne, Ferris Taylor

Synopsis: The action content of Republic's Gene Autry musical westerns was considerably enhanced by veteran director B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, as demonstrated by the mile-a-minute Mountain Rhythm. True, there's a plot, with Autry coming to the rescue of elderly Maude Eburne, who is in danger of losing her Read More

Blue Montana Skies

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Harry Woods, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Too many of Gene Autry's Republic western sacrificed action in favor of music. A notable exception to this syndrome is Blue Montana Skies, directed by a fast-action maestro B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason. The up-to-date plotline finds Autry battling a gang of fur smugglers operating on the Read More

Western Jamboree

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jean Rouverol, Esther Muir, Joe Frisco

Synopsis: Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its full length by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Just as Apple Annie had in Lady for a Day (1933), kindly old Dad Haskell Frank Darien) has gilded the lily a bit by Read More

Prairie Moon

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Shirley Deane, Walter Tetley

Synopsis: Just before going on a brief one-man strike for better wages, Gene Autry starred in the Republic musical western Prairie Moon. In this one, a trio of tough Chicago orphans are relocated to the Wild West and ensconsed in their late uncle's ranch. The three street punks-Brains (Tommy Ryan), Nails (Walter Tetley Read More

Gold Mine in the Sky

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carolyn Hughes, Craig Reynolds, Cupid Ainsworth

Synopsis: In this musical western, ranch owner "Lucky" Langham (Robert Homans) dies unexpectedly, and in his will he leaves his spread to his daughter Cody (Carol Hughes). However, "Lucky" added the proviso that ranch foreman Gene (Gene Autry) is to be the executor of his will, and must give his OK before Read More

The Man from Music Mountain

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carolyn Hughes, Sally Payne, Ivan Miller

Synopsis: Gene Autry stars in this vintage musical Western that pits a group of poor but honest cattle ranchers against two-faced real estate speculators when it's learned that there may be a gold mine on the ranch. Gene sings four original songs, including "Love Burning Love," "I'm Beginning to Care," and Read More

The Old Barn Dance

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Helen Valkis, Sammy McKim

Synopsis: An enjoyably silly Gene Autry romp, this music Western had an early ecological message: Horse-power instead of tractors. Or at least tractors manufactured by greedy Thornton Farming Equipment. Having lost his horse-trading business to Thornton (Ivan Miller), Autry signs with Helen Valkis' local Read More

Rhythm of the Saddle

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Pert Kelton, Peggy Moran, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: Its somewhat risible title aside (how can a saddle have rhythm?), this is one of the better Gene Autry westerns of the late 1930s. The story is built around a Frontier Week rodeo, owned by pretty Maureen (Peggy Moran). Despite doing land-office buisness, Maureen is in danger of losing the rodeo Read More

Rancho Grande

Actors: Tito Guizar, René Cardona, Sr., Esther Fernandez, Lorenzo Barcelata, Carlos Lopez

Synopsis: Popular South-of-the-Border recording artist Tito Guizar stars in the romantic semi-western Rancho Grande. Guizar plays a carefree charro who falls in love with beautiful senorita Esther Fernandez. His best friend Rene Cardona, unaware of Guizar's feelings towards Fernandez, seduces her himself. Read More

The Big Show

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Sally Payne

Synopsis: The Big Show is a modestly budgeted but elaborately turned out Gene Autry western. Autry plays "himself," a famous cowboy star, and his own stunt man. When Autry-the-star reneges on a agreement to make a personal appearance at Dallas' Texas Centennial (represented through newsreel shots), Read More

Git Along Little Dogies

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maple City Four, Judith Allen, Weldon Heyburn

Synopsis: Gene Autry gets into a heated fight with an oil company in this very tuneful early entry in the Autry oeuvre, restored in 2001 under the auspices of Gene Autry Entertainment. Gene, who believes the oil wells will pollute the grazing land, is feuding with broadcaster Doris Maxwell (Judith Allen) Read More

Public Cowboy No. 1

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, William Farnum, James C. Morton

Synopsis: In this 20th-century western, hero Gene Autry uses his old-fashioned horse and six-shooter to foil the plans of cattle rustlers who ply their trade via airplanes, refrigerated trucks and shortwave radios. Songs include: "The West Ain't What It Used to Be?", "I Picked up the Trail When I Found Read More

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Actors: Phil Regan, Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, Tamara Geva, James Gleason

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry Read More

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Betty Bronson, Jack Kirk, LeRoy Mason, Charles B. Middleton, Art Mix

Synopsis: The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly suffered cuts after censors found it too violent. Gene, as usual, plays Gene Autry, this time the son of a Georgian cattleman (Charles Middleton) waging a war against the areas Read More

Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Armida, Monte Blue

Synopsis: Gene Autry and his sidekick, Smiley Burnette, are suspected of cattle rustling in this action-packed Republic Pictures Western directed by former actor Mack V. Wright. Actually, Gene and Frog (Burnette) had been chasing a couple of real cattle rustlers, Apache Kid (Max Hoffman Jr.) and Black Jim (Charles King Read More

Oh, Susanna!

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Earl Hodgins, Donald Kirke

Synopsis: Gene Autry is the star (but not the title character) of Oh, Susanna!, a Republic musical western. What plot there is consists of Autry running afoul of masked robbers. Thrown from a speeding train, Autry is rescued by comedy relief Smiley Burnette and grizzled Earle Hodgins. Autry takes a few more Read More

Boots and Saddles

Actors: Gene Autry, Merrill McCormack, Nelson McDowell, Smiley Burnette, Judith Allen, Chris-Pin Martin, Bob Reeves, Ra Hould, Al Taylor, Guy Usher

Synopsis: A superior Gene Autry Western in every way, Boots and Saddles features child prodigy Ra Hould (aka Ronald Sinclair) as Edward, Earl of Granville, a young Briton arriving in the West to claim his inheritance: a sprawling ranch. Foreman Gene Autry and sidekick, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), who Read More

Springtime in the Rockies

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Polly Rowles, Ula Love, Ruth Bacon

Synopsis: Gene Autry and veteran Western director Jospeh Kane team up for this lightweight effort. Gene (Gene Autry) is the foreman of a ranch which has just been put under new ownership, though he soon has his doubts about his new boss -- Sandra Knight (Polly Rowles), a pretty young woman with a college Read More

Round-Up Time in Texas

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maxine Doyle, The Cabin Kids, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: Gene Autry leaves the West behind (at least temporarily) in Roundup Time in Texas. Hired to deliver a herd of horses to his diamond-mining brother, Autry and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) journey all the way to Africa. Hoping to get rid of the Autry boys and move in on the diamonds Read More

Ride, Ranger, Ride

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Monte Blue

Synopsis: The Texas Rangers vs. the United States Cavalry. That is basically the main thrust of the plot in this tuneful, fairly engrossing Gene Autry music Western. That Autry's singing-style is rather more endemic to 1936 than the late 19th century is merely part of the Autry phenomenon. While supposedly Read More

Man of the Frontier

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Boothe Howard, Jack Kennedy

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this formula western as Gene Autry (so far, so good), who teams up with his buddy Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) to investigate a series of accidents which have stopped construction of a dam being constructed by Sam Flint (George Baxter) and claimed the lives Read More

The Singing Cowboy

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lois Wilde, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western, Gene Autry plays a cowboy with a heart as big as Texas who heads for the city to try to raise money so that a crippled little girl can get the operation she needs to walk again. First he talks a coffee company into being his sponsor. They opt to broadcast their performance on Read More

Comin' Round the Mountain

Actors: Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Roy Mason

Synopsis: Gene Autry's acting skills were still shaky when he made Comin' Round the Mountain, but his singing abilities could not be faulted. An uneven blend of comedy and melodrama, the story has something to do with the formation of the Pony Express, though much of the action takes place at the hacienda Read More

The Old Corral

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Hope Manning, The Sons of the Pioneers

Synopsis: A typical Gene Autry everything-but-the-kitchen-sink musical Western, The Old Corral featured the spectacle of Autry getting robbed at gunpoint by his future rival, Roy Rogers. Rogers, who was then known as Dick Weston, and his fellow highwaymen (the singing group the Sons of the Pioneers) go Read More

Guns and Guitars

Actors: Gene Autry, Dorothy Dix, Smiley Burnette, Tom London, Charles King

Synopsis: Guns and Guitars could have served as the title of any Gene Autry picture released in 1937. In this one, medicine-show entertainer Gene runs afoul of a crooked town boss who moonlights as an outlaw. The villain murders the local sheriff and pins the blame on poor Gene. With the help of comical Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 10 - The Rebellion

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Despite the deadly radium beam, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) manages to pull the lever that opens the surface entrance to Murania, allowing Gene Autry and sidekicks Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore) entry to the underground empire. Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy) finally learns of Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 07 - From Death to Life

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: On Queen Tika's orders, a lifeless Gene Autry) is brought to Murania's Radium Reviving Room, the queen (Dorothy Christy) hoping that the crooner may disclose the identity of the traitor among her officers. But before the reconstituted Autry can spill the beans, Lord Argo (Wheeler Oakman) destroys Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 06 - Disaster from the Skies

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Saved from electrocution by the sudden appearance of a trap door operated by the traitorous Lord Argo (Wheeler Oakman), Gene Autry overhears the Muranian conspirators plan to destroy the universe by means of several hideous weapons invented by Rab (Warner P. Richmond). After subduing both Rab and Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 09 - Prisoners of the Ray

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) survive the airplane crash no worse for wear but are quickly picked up by the Muranian Thunder Riders. Brought before Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy), the kids ridicule Murania in general and the queen in particular and are condemned to spend Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 11 - A Queen in Chains

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Gene Autry is saved in the nick of time by Frankie Frankie Darro, who smartly pulls him off the conveyor belt. Murania is now under the evil regency of the former chancellor, Argo (Wheeler Oakman), and Gene's attempt to rescue the dethroned Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy) causes him once again to be Read More

Melody Trail

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, Wade Boteler, Al Bridge

Synopsis: Gene Autry's second starring western for Republic was the well-named Melody Trail. Unlike Autry's inaugural vehicle Tumbling Tumbleweeds, which offered an equal blend of action and music, this second effort is virtually all music, with occasional comedy relief from Smiley Burnette. The story Read More

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lucille Browne, Norma Taylor, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: Gene Autry's first starring Western, Tumbling Tumbleweeds sets the pace for the 98 or so Autry oaters to come. As he would for the remainder of his screen career with only one exception, Gene plays Gene Autry, cowboy troubadour, who, upon his return west with musical friends Smiley (Smiley Burnette Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 12 - The End of Murania

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: In the final chapter of The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry is saved by Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore), who manage to drag him away from Murania's feared disintegrating atom-smashing machine. In the control room, Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy) can only watch as a bumbling Lord Argo Read More

The Singing Vagabond

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, Barbara Pepper, Warner P. Richmond

Synopsis: Ann Rutherford, who would later rise to fame in the Andy Hardy series at M-G-M and in a number of musical roles, made one of her first screen appearances in this Gene Autry musical western. Teenage runaway Lettie Morgan (Rutherford) stows away with a group of showgirls en route to California after Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 01 - The Singing Cowboy

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: In the opening chapter of the Mascot serial The Phantom Empire, a stagecoach is held up for its content -- musical instruments. One of the "outlaws," a bashful young man, removes a fake mustache to address his radio audience: "Yes folks, it's Gene Autry making another raid on your time with his Read More

The Phantom Empire [Serial]

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy Ross King) establish a group of Junior Thunder Riders to emulate a mysterious band of horsemen that seems to vanish into thin air. Read More

The Sagebrush Troubador

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Barbara Pepper, Frank J. Glendon, Denny Meadows

Synopsis: Given a title like Sagebrush Troubadour, it virtually went without saying that the star of this 1935 western was singing cowboy Gene Autry. This entry surprisingly downplays its musical content in favor of a murder-mystery storyline. Working undercover, federal agent Autry and his pal Smiley Burnette Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 02 - The Thunder Riders

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Although the Thunder Riders sever his rope, Gene Autry manages to grab hold of a tree limb, climb to safety and return to Radio Ranch in time to join Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore) for a hearty rendition of Burnette's "I'm Oscar; I'm Pete". The Ranch performers then reenact a Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 04 - Phantom Broadcast

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Seconds before his automobile crashes over a cliff, Gene Autry is saved by Frankie (Frankie Darro), Betsy (Betsy Ross King) and the Junior Thunder Riders. Still wanted for the murder of his Radio Ranch partner, Gene is forced to broadcast from Frankie's secret laboratory in the barn. Meanwhile Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 05 - Beneath the Earth

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Gene Autry, {$Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) all escape the tunnel explosion courtesy of the Junior Thunder Riders, who manage to unlock the secret exit. Planning to broadcast from a shack in the desert, the fugitive Autry is surprised by a Muranian lieutenant (George Read More

The Phantom Empire: Chapter 03 - The Lightning Chamber

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy, Frankie Darro

Synopsis: Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) manage to parachute to safety. Meanwhile, 25,000 feet below the surface, in Murania, Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy) sentences the captain of the Thunder Riders (Ray Bernard, later known as Ray "Crash" Corrigan) to death in The Lightning Read More

In Old Santa Fe

Actors: Ken Maynard, Evelyn Knapp, H.B. Warner, Ken Thomson, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Having recently left Universal Pictures in a huff, mercurial cowboy star Ken Maynard stopped briefly at Mascot Studios for a brace of films. The first was In Old Santa Fe, a modern story set at a dude ranch where Maynard (playing himself) is employed. The villain is dude sharpshooter Chandler (Kenneth Thomson Read More

Mystery Mountain [Serial]

Actors: Ken Maynard, Tarzan the Horse, Verna Hillie, Edward Earle, Lynton Brent

Synopsis: In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as "the Rattler." Wearing a strange disguise consisting of eye glasses, a fake nose, and crepe-hair mustache, the Rattler, aka "the Menace of the Mountain," attempts to Read More