Ace in the Hole (1951), Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940), Son of Paleface (1952), On Top of Old Smoky (1953), Mountain Rhythm (1939), Guns and Guitars (1936), Sioux City Sue (1946), Blue Montana Skies (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Singing Cowboy movies.
Storyline: Carruthers has sold shares in a phony oil well and when Gene investigates he finds the well is a fake. Gene has a plan to recoup everyone's money. Pouring some oil in a recommended location gets Corruthers to drill a real well. Gene plans to let him know it's a fake and redeem the shares before the oil comes in.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor's name in tagline, california, song, modern west, actor shares last name with character, singer, self sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, actor's name in tagline, sidekick, grindhouse film, resolvement, jail break, homesteader ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry. But when studio star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) disappears, Mannix has to deal with more than just the fix.
Plot Keywords: film within a film, hollywood, dance number, film industry, screenwriter, film premiere, lasso ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mine owner dies and leaves half to Gene and half to easterner Barbara Erwin. Gene wants to continue operation of the mine as requested in the will but Barbara wants to sell and leave with her half of the money. So she hires two lawyers not knowing they are crooks. They then sent their henchman out and Gene's life is soon in danger.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, slapstick, violence, fiesta, treachery, land grab, retribution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.—Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu>
Plot Keywords: face slap, husband wife relationship, microphone, audience, nudity, breasts, dressing room ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a men is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: song, jail break, crooked sheriff, reformation, modern west, singing cowboy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Since the first covered wagon pioneers came west, the Adams family has bred fine horses on their ranch near Buckaroo ad bronze statues of succeeding generations of Adams men stand in the town square. Their horses have always been famous and until recent years regularly won the government cavalry horse reward. The current holder of the family name, Jeff Adams (Joseph Crehan) is proud of his horses and the ranch but he prefers gambling to business; so, for several years, he has let the contract for horses slide into the hands of suave and shifty Buckaroo businessman Brock Danver (Onslow Stevens) who has his eyes set on the Adams ranch and means to get control of it. He also has an eye on Jeff's pretty, stage-struck daughter Kim (Ruth Terry.) Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers), a light-hearted, foot-loose , singing cowboy rides into town>Kim likes Roy's singing, and save him from being thrown into jail as a saddle-tramp sans cash, by Danver's stooge-sheriff Mac Marclay (LeRoy Mason) - she gives Roy and his brawny pal Teddy Bear (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) jobs as wranglers on the Adams ranch. Roy soon catches onto Danver's scheme to wreck to wreck the Adams horse-raising business in order to further his own prospects , and sets about thwarting Danver's plot. Jeff Adams , tempted by Danver to ride a half-wild stallion Trigger (Trigger) for a five-hundred dollar bet. Jeff is killed in the ride and Danver orders Trigger shot. But Roy defies the order as he knows Danver wants the horse shot to destroy the Adams' best blood-line and hides Trigger in a faraway meadow in the hills. Under Roy's patient training and handling, Trigger becomes a fine, usable horse. Meanwhile, Danver takes control of The Adams' family business affairs, and persuades Kim that it would be useless for her to continue ownership of te ranch, and offers to take it over for nothing---in settlement of the debts and mortgages her father ran up in Danver's crooked gambling house. Then, Roy steps in.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, modern west, jailbreak, false accusation, grief, fistfight, schemer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: b western, song in title, violence, vindication, reprisal, retribution, female villain ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At a border town, Eddie Dean and his partner, Soapy Jones, attend a fiesta at the home of Don Lopez who, in accordance with his custom, displays a valuable diamond necklace to his guests and has one of them, Maria, wear it. Jim Barrett, another guest, offers to buy the necklace but Don Lopez declines to sell. Barrett, with his henchmen Corey and Avery, plan to steal the necklace and the rest of the Lopez diamonds. Maria, to Eddie's surprise, appears to be working with the outlaws. But, as Eddie's investigation proceeds, it develops that Barrett's gang has also robbed Don Lopez of his gold, and that Maria is a representative of the Mexican government, sent to protect the gems.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, police officer, girl, guitarist, fiddler, necklace, confidence artist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Eddie and his pals deliver cattle to the Lawrence ranch, they run into trouble with Ringo Evans and his gang. Ringo's men are rustling cattle and attempting to kill the foreman. Seeing the resemblance between the foreman and his pal Waco, Eddie has Waco impersonate the foreman. They then find proof that Evans is behimd the rustling but find themselves greatly outnumbered when the gang attacks.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, fast draw, redemption, reprisal, imposter, violence, vindication ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Immediately following the Civil War, former Confederate cavalry captain Gene Autry, now a sergeant in the Union Army, is assigned to help break up Indian raids on the frontier. While working with a scout, Shadrach Jones, Gene tangles with and is forced to lick Lt. Randolph Mason, who is in love with Melody Colton, daughter of rancher Jim Colton. Gene manages to forestall one Indian raid, fails to stop another one but does stop the gun-running activities of Curt Raidler and the Apache Kid.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, fistfight, held at gunpoint, damsel in distress, jealousy, gang leader, gang member ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by both singing cowboy Bill Harkins and the Banton brothers, Roy and Bart. During a stagecoach race to determine who is awarded the contract, Roy, fueled by his greed as well as his desire for Bill's lady friend, resorts to sabotaging his rival's rig in order to win. Bill, having an idea who is behind a recent rash of stagecoach robberies, devises a plan to catch the highwaymen but not before he is himself arrested for robbery and murder, having been seen committing the crime by impartial eye witnesses.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: vindication, hostage, competition, fistfight, sabotage, treachery, barfly ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie Dean, under orders as a U.S. Land Office agent, is trying to prevent a range war from being started between homesteaders and ranchers when a caravan of the so-called 'Nesters', start to take over land acquired by the homesteaders by a government lease. Quirt Thayer, working both sides against the middle, has his gang join with the ranchers seeking revenge against the settlers for raids on the ranchers by Quirt's henchmen. Eddie uses his friendship with Mary King, daughter of the leading rancher, to pin the guilt on the correct culprits.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, western music, vindication, schemer, lynch mob, frame up, false accusation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gene Autry (Gene Autry), foreman of an absentee-owner ranch, agrees to a ruse to help an elderly friend, Dad Haskell (Frank Darien), who has lied in letters to his daughter Betty (Jean Rouveral) back east, telling her he is a wealthy rancher. When his daughter, her prospective bridegroom, Walter Gregory (George Wolcott) and his haughty mother, Mrs. Gregory (Margaret Armstrong) arrive, Gene helps Dad Haskell deceive them into believing the ranch is the old man's. Gene and the cowhands pretend to turn the place into a dude ranch. However, the ruse is ruined when the real owner arrives, compounded by some unscrupulous crooks who have discovered helium gas on the range and plot to steal it for a foreign power.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: poker game, henchman, gunfight, guest, gambling, foreman, foreign agent ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When crafty Doc Wallace sends for Johnny Trent and his pal, Kansas to come home to the Trent ranch in Arizona, Johnny meets Martha Brooks, who is caring for his invalid father, whose ranch some unknown enemy is trying to wrest away, as it has become suddenly valuable. Aided by Wayne Carson and Martha, Johnny uncovers the culprit to be Doc Wallace, the supposed family friend.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: reconciliation, confrontation, turmoil, anger, hostility, brawling, resolvement ...
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