Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940), Mountain Rhythm (1939), Guns and Guitars (1936), Blue Montana Skies (1939), Bells of Capistrano (1942), Heart of the Rio Grande (1942), Sierra Sue (1941), Mexicali Rose (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Singing Sidekick movies.
Storyline: Overly shy cowboy Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, gunfire, inheritance, jail, lawyer, rancher, sabotage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: singing cowboy, horse and carriage, hypnotism, jail, new mexico, resort, robbery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gene joins in the fight against Morgan and his men who are trying to run infected cattle to the railroad. When Morgan's man shoots the Sheriff, Gene runs in the election to replace him. Morgan accuses Gene of the murder but Gene wins anyway and it's not long before he gets the chance to nab Morgan and his gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: ruse, quarantine, election, murder, gang, cattleman, ambush ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hendricks is smuggling furs across the border. Gene's partner sees them and is murdered. But before he died he wrote the initials HH. So Gene and Frog head to the HH dude ranch to investigate. They eventually get wise to Hendricks game but as soon as they find the furs they are made prisoners.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, shoot out, ruse, treachery, greed, grief, bushwhacker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shag Johnson, owner of the Johnson Brothers Rodeo, has been trying for years to gain control of the World-Wide Wild West Show managed by Jennifer Benton, by fair means or foul. Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse arrive on the scene during a battle between the two rival shows and rescue Pa and Ma McCracken from an attack by Johnson's hired henchmen. All hands are carted off to jail, and great crowds are attracted there by Gene's singing, and Pa McCracken decides to add the singing cowboy to his World-Wide show. He does and Gene skyrockets the box-office receipts, which enrages Johnson since it appears certain that World Wide will be able to secure the contract for the annual Capistrano festival and the following Madison Square Garden rodeo. Gene refuses Johnson's offer of $10,000 per week to change shows, and Shag hires Jenkins to burn the Capistrano set-up to the ground. Pa McCracken is seriously injured and Gene learns that only a specialist from the east can save him, and his fee is $5,000. He accepts Johnson's offer in order to pay the doctor, and Jennifer is heartbroken over his apparent disloyalty. At Johnson's show, however, Gene learns of Johnson's duplicity, forces confessions from Shag and Jenkins, makes the former pay Pa's doctor bill and release Gene from his contract.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, jail break, competition, ruse, despair, desperation, double feature film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: guitar player, treachery, cattle rancher, airplane pilot, 1940s, cattle ranch, grindhouse film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When poisonous devil-weed infects the grazing lands of cattle country, misguided ranchers , including George Larrabee (Robert Homans), burn off every acre of the infected area-the wrong thing to do. The State Agricultural Commission sends inspector Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his pal Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) to look into the problem but they encounter strong opposition and are even mistaken for bank robbers when they are found in possession of cash from a crashed crop-duster airplane whose pilot, Jerry Willis (Eddie Dean), they were only trying to help. Against all the opposition, Gene eventually persuades the ranchers chemical spraying is the only way to rid the grazing land of the devil-weed while also romancing the rancher's daughter, Sue Larrabee (Fay McKenzie) and saving the cattle from a fiery stampede.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: chemical, radio, radio program, prairie, posse, poison, musician ...
Movie Details Click Here!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: 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: When Gene's boss is murdered, the boss's daughter is seriously injured. To raise money for her operation, Gene and the ranch hands enter the new medium of television as singers. When they do well, the bank agrees to lend them the needed money. Martin, who is the murderer, is after the ranch. Now he has to make sure the daughter doesn't get the operation so he sends his henchmen out to wreck Gene's equipment.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, shootout, slang, cattle ranch, cattle rancher, grindhouse film, slapstick comedy ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the new ranch owner and her girlfriends arrive from the East, Foreman Autry directs them to a rundown shack hoping they will go back. Learning of Autry's trick, Briggs gets her to sell the ranch cheap. Then to get Autry out of the way he has him framed for murder.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, grindhouse film, fistfight, showdown, guitar player, redemption, range war ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sally Dawson gets Gene to sign a contract to sing on her struggling radio station. Gene is selling horses and unknown to him the sponsor of his program is the tractor company he is competing against. When the ranchers that bought tractors can't make their payments and Maxwell forecloses, the ranchers blame Autry.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, slapstick, fistfight, resolvement, anger, dire straits, stock footage ...
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