Roy RogersFilmography

Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans

Synopsis: The director of this documentary recounts how his childhood was enriched by his enjoyment of American Westerns, particularly those by Roy Rogers, and he screens clips from a few of his favorite Roy Rogers films complete with their Dutch subtitles, to show what so appealed to him. In addition to Read More

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

The Muppet Show: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans join the cast of The Muppet Show for a cowboy themed evening. Musical performances include an all prairie dog version of "Blue Skies", and a medley ("Hazy Mountains", "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", "Happy Trails") by Rogers and Evans. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music: Making Moonshine (Country Music)

Actors: Bill Anderson, Doug Kershaw, Ernest Tubb, Jimmie Driftwood, Jimmie F. Rodgers

Synopsis: In this installment in the All You Need Is Love documentary series, filmmakers examine the phenomenon of country music, eventually traveling backstage at the Grand Ole Opry during a broadcast of Grand Ole Gospel Time. Artists featured in concert footage and interviews include Bill Anderson, Jimmie Read More

Mackintosh and T.J.

Actors: Roy Rogers, Clay O'Brien, Billy Green Bush, Andrew Robinson, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: After sixteen years of cinematic retirement, Roy Rogers made a surprise return before the cameras in Mackintosh & T. J. Rogers plays Mackintosh, an ageing, tale-spinning ranch hand who befriends T.J., a sullen young boy (Clay O'Brien). The film is low-key, like Rogers himself, and Rogers' faithful Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Doctor Jed Clampett

Synopsis: As a reward for a $10 million endowment, Jed Clampett receives an honorary doctorate from Greely College. Unfortunately, this incurs the jealousy of Granny, who up until now was the only "doctor" in the family. Somehow or other, the plot of this episode brings Granny in close contact with a troupe Read More

The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show [TV Series]

Actors: Dale Evans, Roy Rogers

Synopsis: Roy and Dale appear as hosts in this family variety show. ~ All Movie Guide 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

Disneyland: Disneyland, the Park, and Pecos Bill

Actors: Roy Rogers, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, The Sons of the Pioneers

Synopsis: The first portion of this Disneyland episode brings viewers up to date on construction of the Disneyland theme park as of the spring of 1957. Somehow or other, this segues into an illustrated history of American folklore. The episode's final segment consists of the "Pecos Bill" segment from the Read More

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Pals of the Golden West

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pinky Lee, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: In Roy Rogers' final big-screen effort, the cowboy hero plays a U.S. Border Patrolman assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over from Mexico. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Roy Rogers Show [TV Series]

Son of Paleface

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Bill Williams, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way, thanks largely to the spirited, creative direction of Frank Tashlin. Hope is cast as Junior Potter, a Harvard-educated dude who heads West to claim the inheritance left him by Read More

South of Caliente

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pinky Lee, Douglas Fowley, Ric Roman

Synopsis: After a string of winners, Roy Rogers faltered a bit with South of Caliente. Rogers, playing himself, is the owner of a trailer-van service who is hired to transport a prize horse across the Mexican border. En route, Roy is bushwhacked and the horse stolen. The animal's owner Doris Stewart (Dale Evans Read More

Heart of the Rockies

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Trigger, "The Smartest Horse in the Movies," enjoy above-the-title billing in Heart of the Rockies. This time, Rogers (playing himself) is pitted against Andrew Willard, a crooked but very powerful landowner, played with relish by Ralph Morgan. Opposing the construction of a new Read More

In Old Amarillo

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards, Pinky Lee

Synopsis: Yet another Roy Rogers Western whose title refers to a song, In Old Amarillo actually takes place in and around Amarillo of 1951. Fired by cattleman George Hills (Minor Watson), foreman Clint Burnside (Roy Barcroft) plans to avenge himself by ruining Hills' wastrel son, Philip (Ken Howell). Along Read More

Spoilers of the Plains

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Grant Withers

Synopsis: Roy Rogers enters the atomic age with this sci-fi western directed by serial ace William Witney. Our hero runs a pipeline near a site where Dr. Manning (William Forrest) and his daughter Frankie (Penny Edwards) are experimenting with long-range weather forecasting by using rockets. Enter nasty Read More

Trail of Robin Hood

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Rex Allen

Synopsis: Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers' starring films. Roy comes to the rescue of veteran cowboy star Jack Holt (playing himself) when the latter's Christmas-tree business is jeopardized by greedy rivals. With the Read More

Trigger, Jr.

Actors: Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: According to Roy Rogers himself, this action-packed western remained one of his favorites. The manager of a traveling show, Rogers is wintering at a ranch belonging to wheelchair-bound Colonel Harkrider (George Cleveland), his daughter Kay (Dale Evans) and grandson Larry (Peter Miles). The latter Read More

Shoot 'Em Up

Synopsis: See the segments which make movies action classics in this compilation ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Twilight in the Sierras

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Russ Vincent

Synopsis: The King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West perform their noublesse oblige in Twilight in the Sierras. Roy Rogers plays a US marshal, pursuing a vicious gang of counterfeiters. Dale Evans (not yet Mrs. Rogers) hasn't got much to do but provide love interest, warble a few tunes, and Read More

North of the Great Divide

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Roy Rogers goes "PC" in North of the Great Divide. In this one, Roy champions the cause of the Oseka Indians, whose supply of salmon has been cut off. The perpetrator is fish-cannery owner Banning (Roy Barcroft), who has been hogging the salmon for his own business. Not only that, Banning Read More

Sunset in the West

Actors: Roy Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Will Wright

Synopsis: Sunset in the West finds Roy Rogers playing a deputy sheriff in a wide-open town. Roy must contend with a vicious gun-smuggling ring, this time aided and abetted by a bloodhound (not Rogers' "wonder dog" Bullet). The climax, set aboard a moving freight-car festooned with cases of live ammunitions Read More

Down Dakota Way

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Montie Montana, Elizabeth Risdon, Byron Barr

Synopsis: In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) before the latter can report his findings to the Read More

The Golden Stallion

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: Part of the Roy Rogers series, this film focuses on Roy Roger's horse, Trigger, and his infatuation with a handsome palomino mare. When Trigger discovers the mare being beaten by her lowlife owner, he kills him, leaving Rogers to take the blame. However, it seems that Trigger's new girlfriend Read More

Bells of Coronado

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Grant Withers

Synopsis: Bells of Coronado was another of Roy Rogers' always-entertaining Republic "specials," blessed with script and production values that would have done any "A" picture proud. Roy plays an undercover insurance investigator who hopes to ascertain the whereabouts of a vein of gold ore--and to solve the Read More

Susanna Pass

Actors: Roy Rogers, Estelita Rodriguez, Martin Garralaga

Synopsis: Republic's Trucolor "special" Susanna Pass stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, King and Queen of the West. Rogers plays "himself," while Evans is cast as female doctor Kay Parker. The villains this time around are trying to force a fish hatchery owner out of business so they can drill for underwater Read More

Under California Stars

Actors: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, George Lloyd, Wade Crosby

Synopsis: Opening with a brief look at Republic Pictures' back lot in Studio City, CA, this average Roy Rogers songfest settles down to weightier matters after Roy returns to the old homestead to perform a radio broadcast. Peace and quiet, however, are rudely interrupted when someone kidnaps the cowboy Read More

Eyes of Texas

Actors: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Andy Devine, Nana Bryant, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Few Roy Rogers westerns were as gratuitously violent as the 1948 release Eyes of Texas. This time, Rogers' principal antagonist is a woman lawyer named Hattie Waters (Nana Bryant). With a battalion of homicidal henchmen at her beck and call, Hattie attempts to grab up all the valuable ranch Read More

Melody Time

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dennis Day

Synopsis: Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting "Bumble Read More

Night Time in Nevada

Actors: Roy Rogers, Adele Mara, Andy Devine, Grant Withers, Marie Harmon

Synopsis: Roy Rogers plays Roy Rogers, as ever, in Night Time in Nevada. This time Roy is a cattle owner whose stock is stolen by Grant Withers. It is Withers' hope to sell the livestock, thereby covering funds that he's been appropriating from leading lady Adele Mara's trust fund. Roy is able to vanquish Read More

Grand Canyon Trail

Actors: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Robert Livingston, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Released in Republic Pictures' low-budget Trucolor and filmed at the majestic location of the title, Grand Canyon Trail stars Roy Rogers is a rancher going up against a crooked mining engineer played by fellow Western star Robert Livingston. The latter, Bill Regan, has conned eastern silver Read More

The Far Frontier

Actors: Roy Rogers, Gail Davis, Andy Devine, Francis Ford, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Roy Rogers stars in the full-color Republic "special" The Far Frontier. This time, Roy deals with a plot to smuggle fugitive criminals into the U.S. Old reliable heavy Roy Barcroft plays Bart Carroll, the head bad guy, who'll mow down anyone--friend and foe alike--to avoid capture. Rogers has a Read More

The Gay Ranchero

Actors: Roy Rogers, Tito Guizar, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Estelita Rodriguez

Synopsis: One of the better Roy Rogers films of its period, The Gay Ranchero also happens to be one of the more violent Rogers efforts. The villains want to gain control of a private airport, and aren't above sabotage and murder to get what they want. Riding to the rescue is sheriff Rogers, who is aided by Read More

Springtime in the Sierras

Actors: Stephanie Bachelor, Roy Barcroft, Harry V. Cheshire, Chester Conklin

Synopsis: Republic's Springtime in the Sierras bestows upon star Roy Rogers two leading ladies. The first is his usual vis-a-vis Jane Frazee; the second is statuesque Stephanie Bachelor, playing the head of a poaching gang. Bachelor, it seems, has murdered a game warden who happens to be Rogers' closest Read More

Home in Oklahoma

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Carolyn Hughes, George Meeker

Synopsis: One of the better Roy Rogers vehicles of its period, Home in Oklahoma casts Rogers as a crusading frontier newspaper editor. Forsworn to find the murderers of a prominent cattle rancher, Roy teams up with big-city journalist Connie Edwards (Dale Evans) and grizzled ranch foreman Gabby Whittaker Read More

Bells of San Angelo

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Andy Devine, John McGuire, Olaf Hytten

Synopsis: The Bells of San Angelo was the second Republic Roy Rogers western to be filmed in the "new" Trucolor process (actually the old Magnacolor process). Set in the modern west, the story involves a silver-smuggling racket headed by rotten Rex Gridley (John McGuire). In a novel scripting touch, Roy Rogers Read More

Apache Rose

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Olin Howland, George Meeker, John Laurenz

Synopsis: Apache Rose is a "typical" Roy Rogers-Dale Evans musical western: few surprises, but plenty of entertainment value. Rogers plays an oil man who hopes to get drilling rights to an old Spanish settlement in California. The villains plot to grab up the land from themselves, exploiting a handful of Read More

Hit Parade of 1947

Actors: Eddie Albert, Chester Clute, Joan Edwards, Frank Fenton, William Frawley

Synopsis: In this musical, the fourth entry in a five-film series, three singers come together to form a nightclub act. Their songwriter falls for the female. They become a hit and are soon signed to appear in Hollywood musicals, but when the female becomes a star, the group disbands. Songs include Read More

On the Old Spanish Trail

Actors: Roy Rogers, Tito Guizar, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Estelita Rodriguez

Synopsis: With the defection of Gene Autry from the Republic lot, Roy Rogers was truly the King of the Singing Cowboys. In On the Old Spanish Trail, Rogers is for the first time teamed with Latin American singing favorite Tito Guizar. The plot finds Roy and Tito involved with a travelling cowboy tentshow in Read More

Song of Arizona

Actors: Johnny Calkins, Michael Chapin, Edmund Cobb, Tommy Cook

Synopsis: Roy Rogers could do no wrong at the box office in 1946, so it's safe to assume that Song of Arizona would have been a hit even if it hadn't been as good as it is. The plot is slightly reminiscent of Boys Town, with Gabby Whittaker (Gabby Hayes) running an Arizona ranch for homeless boys. One of Read More

Heldorado

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Paul Harvey, Barry Mitchell

Synopsis: In the tradition of several of the Gene Autry vehicles of the 1930s, Roy Rogers' Helldorado is built around a real-life frontier celebration. In this instance, the story is set against the backdrop of Las Vegas' annual "Heldorado Week", at which time the Old West came to life in the form of Read More

Under Nevada Skies

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: Republic's Under Nevada Skies blends equal parts music and action, resulting in a treat for fans of both. Roy Rogers stars as a wandering cavalier in search of valuable pitchblende deposits. Assisting Roy in his quest is "Queen of the West" Dale Evans and grizzled, dentally challenged Gabby Hayes. Read More

Out California Way

Actors: Monte Hale, Adrian Booth, John Dehner, Nolan Leary

Synopsis: Republic Pictures trotted out some of their popular Western stars -- including Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger, Allan Lane and Don "Red" Barry -- for this backstage musical starring the company's newest singing cowboy, Monte Hale. To top it all off, the studio "inaugurated" Trucolor, which, in Read More

My Pal Trigger

Actors: Roy Barcroft, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Al Bridge, Harlan Briggs, George "Gabby" Hayes, Jack Holt, Paul E. Burns, Kenne Duncan, LeRoy Mason

Synopsis: This gentle, tuneful western is one of cowboy crooner Roy Rogers' best and most successful films; it is also his personal favorite. The fanciful tale tells how Rogers obtained his magnificent horse Trigger and begins with horse trader Rogers as he prepares to breed his best mare with his best Read More

Song of the Sierras

Synopsis: As with his previous music Western vehicle, Moon over Montana (1946), former radio crooner Jimmy Wakely composed the title song for this film. With Wesley Tuttle and His Texas Stars as his backup group, Wakely also warbled Paul Westmoreland's Detour, De Camptown Ladies, by Stephen Foster, and I Read More

Roll on Texas Moon

Synopsis: Roll on Texas Moon was the first of 26 Roy Rogers vehicles directed by fast-action specialist William Witney. The plot concerns a deadly feud between cattle ranchers and sheepherders, with the villains playing both ends down the middle. Working on behalf of the cattlemen, Rogers tries to avoid an Read More

Rainbow Over Texas

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Sheldon Leonard, Robert Emmett Keane

Synopsis: Rainbow over Texas is set in a western never-never land, with vintage six-shooters and stagecoaches sharing screen time with modern limousines and radio studios. Roy Rogers (cast as "himself," as usual), plays a cowboy singing star who agrees to participate in a re-creation of the first Pony Read More

Man From Oklahoma

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Roger Pryor, Arthur Loft

Synopsis: The Man From Oklahoma is set during a 20th century renactment of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush, but if patrons wanted to assume that the film had something to do with the Broadway musical hit Oklahoma!, that was certainly their privilege. Roy Rogers is on hand to help Peggy Lane (Dale Evans) Read More

Sunset in El Dorado

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Hardie Albright, Margaret Dumont

Synopsis: In this western, a dreamy young woman, tired of her boring life and job travels to an abandoned town where her grandmother had been a notorious dancehall queen. There she imagines scenes from her illustrious grandma's life. The dream takes up most of the picture and during it, the gal meets many Read More

Along the Navajo Trail

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: A tuneful Roy Rogers Western, Along the Navajo Trail finds Dale Evans' Lazy A Ranch under siege from nasty J. Richard Bentley (Douglas Fowley), who is in cahoots with a greedy oil company aiming to erect a pipeline through the property come what may. Drifter Rogers, who is really a U.S. Marshal in Read More

Don't Fence Me in

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes, Robert Livingston, Moroni Olsen

Synopsis: Having previously introduced Cole Porter's hit song "Don't Fence Me In" in Hollywood Canteen, Roy Rogers performs the song once again in this same-named Republic "special." When he's not singing, Rogers is dealing with nosy female journalist Toni Ames (Dale Evans), who hopes to learn the truth Read More

Where Do We Go from Here?

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his country but has been classified 4-F. While working at a local USO, Bill falls in love with the fickle Lucilla (June Haver, soon to be Mrs. Fred MacMurray), never realizing Read More

Bells of Rosarita

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Adele Mara, Grant Withers

Synopsis: The standard Roy Rogers musical western Bells of Rosarita is enlivened by a cute last-reel gimmick. Rogers is appropriately cast as a cowboy star who invariably rescues the heroine from the villain in his movie vehicles. But when Sue Farnum (Dale Evans) is cheated out of her inheritance by the Read More

Utah

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Peggy Stewart

Synopsis: Most cowboy leading men have only a single leading lady: in Utah, Roy Rogers is literally surrounded by delectable females, including his perennial movie (and real-life) sweetheart Dale Evans. The plot concerntrates on actress Dorothy Bryant (Evans), who inherits a ranch in (where else?) Utah. Read More

Lake Placid Serenade

Actors: Vera Ralston, Eugene Pallette, Vera Vague, Robert Livingston, Stephanie Bachelor

Synopsis: In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately, while she is there the war breaks out and she is unable to go home. While in America, she is cared for by her rich uncle. She soon falls in love with his handsome junior Read More

The Lights of Old Santa Fe

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Roy Rogers saves Dale Evans from being hoodwinked by a rodeo competitor in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, B-Western from Republic Pictures. Due to the mismanagement of old-timer Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes), The Brooks Rodeo is about to be gobbled up by competitor Frank Madden Read More

Song of Nevada

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mary Lee, Lloyd Corrigan, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans weren't yet husband and wife when they co-starred in Song of Nevada, but the rapport and chemistry is already very much in evidence. Roy befriends millionaire Thurston Hall, who was believed to have been killed in a plane crash. Hall hires Rogers to "tame" his snooty Read More

The Yellow Rose of Texas

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Harry Shannon, George Cleveland

Synopsis: The Yellow Rose of Texas is, at least in the case of this Roy Rogers vehicle, both the title of a song and the name of a fancy showboat. Rogers plays a frontier insurance investigator who is assigned to locate a company payroll stolen several years earlier. Working undercover, Roy poses as a Read More

The Cowboy and the Senorita

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Lee, Dale Evans, John Hubbard, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Synopsis: Yet another tuneful Roy Rogers Western named after a song, The Cowboy and the Senorita features Roy and sidekick Teddy Bear (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) as a couple of would-be prospectors fired from a small town café when the latter gets in trouble with an irate customer (rotund Ferdinand Munier). Read More

San Fernando Valley

Actors: Dale Evans, Jean Porter, Andrew Tombes, Charles Smith

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans still weren't man and wife when they costarred in Republic's San Fernando Valley. As always, Rogers is cast as a cowboy who happens to be named Roy Rogers; Evans, on the other hand, plays feisty femme ranchowner Dale Kenyon. At the behest of Dale's grandfather (Andrew Tombes Read More

Brazil

Actors: Tito Guizar, Virginia Bruce, Robert Livingston, Henry Da Silva, Edward Everett Horton, Veloz & Yolanda

Synopsis: Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of American films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson (Virginia Bruce), who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? Read More

Hollywood Canteen

Actors: Robert Hutton, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Julie Bishop, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Sydney Greenstreet, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

Hands Across the Border

Actors: Roy Rogers, Ruth Terry, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Synopsis: There's practically no western action in Hands Across the Border, but there's music aplenty. Roy Rogers stars as a wandering cavalier (named "Roy Rogers", naturally), who comes to the aid of entertainer Kim Adams (Ruth Terry). The daughter of a rancher, Kim does her patriotic bit by raising prize Read More

Idaho

Actors: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey, Harry Shannon

Synopsis: At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another B-flick. The story concerns the efforts by kindly judge Grey (Harry Shannon) to establish a "Boy's Town"-style establishment for wayward youngsters. The judge is opposed by Read More

King of the Cowboys

Actors: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Peggy Moran, Gerald Mohr

Synopsis: The budget for this fine Roy Rogers Western was doubled and the title changed from Starlight on the Trail to the more descriptive King of the Cowboys, mainly due to Rogers' great reception on a personal appearance tour in the fall of 1942. Republic had lost Gene Autry to the war effort and this Read More

Silver Spurs

Actors: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, John Carradine, Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis: This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by resort-hotel operator Lucky Miller (John Carradine). It's all part of Lucky's scheme to take financial advantage of a railroad right-of-way construction project. Conspiring with the Read More

Song of Texas

Actors: Sheila Ryan, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Arline Judge

Synopsis: Roy Rogers heads the cast of Song of Texas as a rodeo star named Roy Rogers. Quitting the rodeo operated by larcenous Jim Calvert (Barton MacLane), Roy goes into the ranching business. As a favor to his old pal, washed-up bronco buster Sam Bennett (Harry Shannon), Roy convinces Bennett's daughter Read More

Texas Legionnaires

Actors: Roy Rogers, Ruth Terry, Paul Kelly

Synopsis: Though it bears the same title as an earlier Gene Autry western, Roy Rogers' The Man from Music Mountain isn't a remake. Rogers is appropriately cast as a cowboy who's hit it big as a radio singing star. Returning to his hometown for a special remote broadcast, Roy finds himself in the middle of a Read More

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Linda Hayes

Synopsis: Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteeers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude Read More

Romance on the Range

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Linda Hayes, Edward Pawley

Synopsis: It's hard to dislike the Roy Rogers musical western Romance on the Range, but it's equally hard to get too enthusiastic about it. Rogers plays the owner of a western ranch who suspects that something is amiss with his highly secretive foreman Banning (Edward Pawley). Assuming a phony name, Roy Read More

Heart of the Golden West

Actors: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ruth Terry

Synopsis: Roy Rogers saves the day for the ranchers of Cherokee City in this fast-paced comedy-Western directed and produced by Joseph Kane. Roy and no less than three sidekicks -- Smiley Burnette, George "Gabby" Hayes and Bob Nolan of the music group The Sons of the Pioneers -- attempt to persuade Read More

Man from Cheyenne

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Lynne Carver, William Haade

Synopsis: The Man from Cheyenne is Roy Rogers, who does his best to squash a gang of cattle rustlers. What Roy doesn't know is that the mastermind behind the gang is a beautiful woman, East Coast socialite Marian (Lynn Carver). Making Marian's job easier is the fact that all the local cattlemen are crazy Read More

Sons of the Pioneers

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Maris Wrixon, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: Sons of the Pioneers is a showcase for?the Sons of the Pioneers, who are reteamed with ex-"Son" Roy Rogers in this budget western. The plot is contingent upon a deposit of rare minerals, vital to the American war effort. The villains want to get their hands on these minerals, and to do so organize Read More

Sunset on the Desert

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lynne Carver, Frank M. Thomas, Beryl Wallace

Synopsis: In this western, Roy plays both the villain and the hero. As the bad-guy, he heads a ring of rustlers. The trouble begins when the gang runs across good-Roy and mistake him for their wicked leader. Good-Roy plays along so he can bring the gang to justice. Unfortunately, bad-Roy shows up and mayhem Read More

South of Santa Fe

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Linda Hayes, Paul Fix, Judy Clark

Synopsis: In this western, brave Roy Rogers and his pals take on high-tech big city gangsters who fight their battles with airplanes and tommy guns. The trouble begins as Rogers is taking three important investors to see some land. At the same time, a crime lord endeavors to kidnap the investors and leave Read More

Sunset Serenade

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Helen Parrish, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Roy Rogers champions the cause of Easterner Sylvia Clark (Helen Parrish), who is in danger of losing her father's ranch to crooked land speculators. Roy tries to deal with the villains through legal channel, but they spoil things by resorting to strong-arm tactics. Making our hero's task all the Read More

Jesse James at Bay

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Pierre Watkin, Ivan Miller

Synopsis: In 1939's Days of Jesse James, the title character was played by Don "Red" Barry, with official star Roy Rogers carrying the brunt of the plotline. Two years later, Rogers was cast as ol' Jesse himself in Republic's Jesse James at Bay. Since Jesse is herein depicted as a "good guy", whose Read More

Nevada City

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, George Cleveland, Billy Lee

Synopsis: Nevada City finds Roy Rogers and his perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes cast as stagecoach drivers. Their boss is Joseph Crehan, an ornery crust who can't abide the notion of the railroad cutting into his business. Roy and Gabby try to establish a détente between Crehan and railroad man George Read More

Arkansas Judge

Actors: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Roy Rogers, Spring Byington

Synopsis: The down-home Weaver family stars in this countrified drama set in Peaceful Valley where if things went any slower they'd be going backwards. Things pick up a bit when someone steals $50 from a widow. The townsfolk are outraged and Judge Weaver finds himself accusing the widow's cleaning lady of Read More

In Old Cheyenne

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Joan Woodbury, John Farrell MacDonald, Sally Payne

Synopsis: In Old Cheyenne is where the viewer can find Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes this time out. Rogers is cast as frontier journalist Steve Blane, determined to print the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in his weekly rag. But when Steve inaugurates a series of articles about alleged Read More

Red River Valley

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

Bad Man of Deadwood

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Carol Adams, Henry Brandon, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin the honest businessmen of Deadwood. Even the sheriff, Jordan (Monte Blue), answers to nasty Jake Marvel (Ralf Harolde), whose reign of terror forces the decent people to Read More

Sheriff of Tombstone

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Elyse Knox, Addison Richards, Sally Payne

Synopsis: In this western, Rogers and his sidekick Gabby get into all kinds of trouble when they ride into Tombstone and find themselves mistaken for the hired gun and his assistant. The gunslinger was engaged to work for the mayor and for a time Rogers goes along with it. When he discovers that the mayor Read More

Robin Hood of the Pecos

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Reynolds, Leigh Whipper

Synopsis: Robin Hood of the Pecos was set immediately after the Civil War, when most of Texas was under the thumb of corrupt northern politicians. Alleviating things somewhat is the presence of a mysterious masked night rider, inclined to rob from the rich and give to the poor. Believe it or not, this Read More

Young Buffalo Bill

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Pauline Moore, Hugh Sothern

Synopsis: Young Buffalo Bill was one of a brief series of Roy Rogers "historical westerns" of the early 1940s. Per the title, Rogers plays the youthful Bill Cody, here depicted as an assistant land surveyor in old New Mexico. The villains plot to get their hands on valuable mineral deposits in the region Read More

The Carson City Kid

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery, Jr., Pauline Moore

Synopsis: Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the masters of the genre, Joseph Kane. Learning that the man he believes to be the killer, Lee Jessup (Bob Steele), is running a gambling establishment in Sonora, the Kid manages to Read More

Young Bill Hickok

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, John Miljan, Sally Payne

Synopsis: This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature anti-fascist", singing frontiersman Bill Hickok (Roy Rogers) tries to thwart the takeover of West by foreign invaders. John Miljan is frontier fuhrer Nicholas Tower, who hires a gang Read More

Colorado

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Pauline Moore, Milburn Stone, Maude Eburne

Synopsis: Brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in this Western set during the Civil War. Posing as a Union officer, Don Mason, aka Don Burke (Milburn Stone), attempts to divert the Union troops from the struggle with the Confederacy by arming the Colorado Indian tribes. Unbeknownst to Don, however Read More

The Dark Command

Actors: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of William Clarke Quantrill, the schoolteacher-turned-renegade, whose raids -- ostensibly on behalf of the Confederacy -- turned Kansas into a charnel house. John Wayne plays Bob Read More

The Ranger and the Lady

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Jacqueline Wells, Harry Woods, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: The Ranger and the Lady stars Roy Rogers and Jacqueline Wells (aka Julie Bishop) in the title roles. Captain Colt (Rogers) of the Texas Rangers finds himself at odds with territorial administrator Kinkaid (Henry Brandon), left in charge of the Lone Star Territory while President Sam Houston is in Read More

West of the Badlands

Actors: Roy Rogers, Carolyn Hughes, Joe Sawyer, Maude Eburne

Synopsis: This Roy Rogers vehicle was based on a Zane Grey story, previous filmed twice in the silent and early-talkie era. Rogers stars as young doctor Steve Kells, who after leaving New York in disgrace (it wasn't his fault) takes up residence in Idaho territory. Here he redeems himself by taking on a Read More

In Old Caliente

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, George "Gabby" Hayes, Jack LaRue, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: As in all his early westerns, Roy Rogers battles true Old West outlaws in the fine In Old Caliente. He is, as usual, Roy Rogers, but this time a trusted hand at the Olde California ranchero belonging to Don José (Frank Puglia). Unbeknownst to the Don, however, his "half-breed" foreman, Suguaro Read More

The Arizona Kid

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally March, Stuart Hamblen, Dorothy Sebastian

Synopsis: In this excellent western, Roy, Trigger and Gabby ride out to stop angry Confederate terrorists from harassing Missouri residents because they voted to side with the Union in the days leading up to the Civil War. Roy plays a Union captain who is faced with a difficult situation when he is ordered Read More

Frontier Pony Express

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane, Noble Johnson

Synopsis: Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A" picture. Per the title, Rogers plays an express rider, working the California-to-Kansas City route. While the Civil War rages in the East, our hero must contend with Yankee Read More

Rough Riders' Roundup

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Acuff, William Pawley

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Frontier Pony Express came the equally exciting Roy Rogers vehicle Rough Riders' Roundup. In the first film, Rogers was an express rider during the Civil War era; in the second, he's a veteran of the Spanish American war (ubiquitous fellow, isn't he?) With several of his fellow Read More

Days of Jesse James

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Don "Red" Barry, Pauline Moore, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Donald Barry plays the legendary outlaw of the title in this Roy Rogers Western which, needless to say, plays fast and loose with history. Returning to Missouri from the gold fields of California, Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes) is persuaded by his granddaughter, Mary (Pauline Moore), to Read More

Saga of Death Valley

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Don "Red" Barry, Doris Day, Frank M. Thomas

Synopsis: Roy Rogers is forced to chase down his own kid brother in this exemplary Republic Pictures oater produced and directed by Joseph Kane. Roy Rogers Sr. (Lane Chandler) is brutally murdered by nasty Ed Tasker (Frank M. Thomas), who takes off with the only witness to the killing, Rogers' youngest son Read More

Southward Ho!

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, George "Gabby" Hayes, Wade Boteler, Arthur Loft

Synopsis: Roy Rogers got himself a new sidekick in the disheveled, toothless person of George “Gabby” Hayes in this fine Republic western, a partnership that would last until 1946. Roy and Gabby play veterans of the Confederate Army who inherit half-ownership of a Texas ranch. Unfortunately, the other half Read More

Jeepers Creepers

Actors: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, Roy Rogers, Maris Wrixon

Synopsis: In this drama, a young businessman is forced to dig with a pick for a day after he almost caused a fire. While toiling away, he discovers a major coal vein on the Weaver's land. The greedy fellow then begins to slyly buy up their land. His incautious digging then causes a forest fire. Fortunately Read More

Wall Street Cowboy

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Raymond Hatton, Ann Baldwin, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: Despite its tantalizing title, Wall Street Cowboy must rank as one of the lesser Roy Rogers films. The story is set in motion by a crooked cartel of stock marketeers who hope to swindle Rogers out of his ranch. It seems that his property is rich with the valuable mineral molybdenum, which the 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

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Scotty, Stanley Andrews

Synopsis: This Roy Rogers starrer is set in motion by a range war between ex-partners Brower (William Farnum) and Jackson (Stanley Andrews). Adding to Brower's headaches is the fact that Jackson is a crook who's not above stealing cattle to suit his purposes. When Jackson manages to frame Brower on a Read More

Come on Rangers

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, John Farrell MacDonald, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: This Roy Rogers musical western (his second starring vehicle for Republic) concerns itself with a group of Texas Rangers, forced to disband when Texas is admitted the Union. The state brings in members of the U.S. Cavalry to provide law enforcement in the Rangers' stead, yet the Cavalry officers Read More

Billy the Kid Returns

Actors: Smiley Burnette, Lynne Roberts, Morgan Wallace, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: Roy Rogers fans were in for a shock in the opening scenes of Billy the Kid Returns--for there was Rogers, playing the title character, being gunned down in the dark by sheriff Pat Garrett! Within a few minutes, however, things were explained satisfactorally when Rogers showed up again as a young Read More

Under Western Stars

Actors: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Carolyn Hughes, Maple City Four, Guy Usher

Synopsis: In this western, Roy Rogers plays a cowboy-congressman from a dustbowl state who travels to Washington, DC to lobby for badly needed water rights which he wants to make public and free. Roy is assisted by his sidekick and other friends. There, they show their peers a documentary that graphically Read More

The Old Wyoming Trail

Actors: Charles Starrett, Donald Grayson, Barbara Weeks, Dick Curtis, Edward J. Le Saint

Synopsis: In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Read More

Wild Horse Rodeo

Actors: Max "Alibi" Terhune, June Martel, Walter Miller

Synopsis: An early entry in Republic Pictures' popular "Three Mesqueteers" western series, Wild Horse Rodeo features Robert Livingston who, as Stony Brooke, wants to capture Cyclone, a wild stallion made famous in the magazine illustrations of Alice Harkley (June Martel). Against the wishes of Alice, with 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

Song of the Saddle

Actors: Dick Foran, Alma Lloyd, Charles B. Middleton, Addison Richards, Eddie Shubert

Synopsis: The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first (Moonlight on the Prairie). Foran is cast as Frank Wilson Jr., who heads Westward to avenge the long-ago murder of his father (Addison Richards). Frank had witnessed the Read More

The Mysterious Avenger

Actors: Jon Hall, Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Wheeler Oakman, Edward J. Le Saint, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: In his second of an unprecedented 131 Westerns for Columbia Pictures, handsome Charles Starrett donned his trademark white Stetson to portray Ranny Maitland, a Texas Ranger whose father (Lafe Mckee) is feuding with his neighbor, Lockhart (Edward Le Saint. Pretending to be on Lockhart's side in the 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

Rhythm on the Range

Actors: Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Martha Raye, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Bing Crosby's only western (outside of the 1966 version of Stagecoach), Rhythm on the Range stars Crosby as a casual cowpoke on his way back to the Wide Open Spaces after an eastern visit. He meets a young train stowaway (Frances Farmer), whom he regards as a hoydenish vagabond until learning that Read More

The Old Homestead

Actors: Mary Carlisle, Lawrence Gray, Dorothy Lee, Willard Robertson, Eddie Nugent

Synopsis: In this countrified musical, a farm boy and his girl head for the big city to find fame on the radio. When he becomes popular their relationship is strained and the two break up and begin pursuing other relationships. Fortunately, they are reunited in the end. Look closely for a brief appearance Read More

Gallant Defender

Actors: Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Harry Woods, Edward J. Le Saint, Jack Clifford

Synopsis: Making his debut as Columbia Pictures' new cowboy hero -- replacing, incidentally, the aging Tim McCoy -- handsome {$Charles Starrett played Johnny Flagg, a roving cowboy who arrives in Oro Grande in the midst of a feud between ranchers and homesteader. Lead by the disreputable Bar Munro (Harry Read More

Salute to the "King of the Cowboys," Roy Rogers

Synopsis: See Rogers as he sings, acts and shares time with his family and friends. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Night Riders