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Bells of Capistrano is a american film of genre Western directed by Smiley Burnette released in USA on 15 september 1942 with Gene Autry
Bells of Capistrano (1942)
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Add to a movie listBells of Capistrano is a 1942 American Western film directed by William Morgan and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Virginia Grey. Written by Lawrence Kimble, the film is about a singing cowboy who helps out a beautiful rodeo owner when her competitor gets too rough. The film features the popular songs "Forgive Me", "At Sundown", "In Old Capistrano", and "Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You". Bells of Capistrano was Autry's final film before entering the service for World War II.
^ Magers 2007, p. 220.
Synopsis
The World Wide Wild West Show is a struggling rodeo outfit about to be taken over by the powerful Johnson Brothers rodeo. Daniel "Pop" McCracken (Lucien Littlefield) and Melinda "Ma" McCracken (Claire Du Brey) from World Wide get into a brawl with Jed (Tris Coffin) and Stag (Morgan Conway) Johnson after the brothers catch the desperate McCrackens vandalizing their advertisements. Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) come upon the brawl and try to break up the fight, but Frog's little brother Tadpole draws the sheriff's attention, and soon they are all taken to jail, where Gene sings a song for his new friends.Actors
Gene Autry
(Gene Autry)
Smiley Burnette
(Frog)
Virginia Grey
(Jennifer Benton)
Lucien Littlefield
(Daniel (Pop) McCracken)
Tristram "Tris" Coffin
(Jed Johnson)
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