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Cowboy Serenade is a american film of genre Western directed by Smiley Burnette released in USA on 30 january 1942 with Gene Autry
Cowboy Serenade (1942)
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Add to a movie listCowboy Serenade is a 1942 American Western film directed by William Morgan and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Fay McKenzie. Written by Olive Cooper, the film is about a singing cowboy and cattleman who goes after a gambling ring after they fleece the cattlemen association's representative of their cattle. The film features the songs "Nobody Knows", and "Sweethearts or Strangers", and the title song.
^ Magers 2007, p. 202.
^ Magers 2007, p. 203.
Synopsis
As president of the Flagpole Cattlemen's Association, singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) entrusts the sale of the association's large cattle herd to young Jimmy Agnew (Rand Brooks), who is so thrilled with the opportunity that he proposes marriage to his girlfriend, Millie Jackson (Linda Leighton). The next day, while traveling to Hays City with the cattle, Jimmy is persuaded to join a poker game by two crooked gamblers, Dixie Trambeau (Tristram Coffin) and Joe Crowley (John Berkes), who fleece the naive cattleman and force him at gun point to turn over the power of attorney authorizing them to sell the cattle. Ashamed at his blunder, Jimmy goes into hiding.Actors
Gene Autry
(Gene Autry)
Smiley Burnette
(Frog)
Fay McKenzie
(Stephanie Lock)
Cecil Cunningham
(Priscilla Lock)
Addison Richards
(Asa Lock)
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