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Home on the Prairie is a american film of genre Crime directed by Jack Townley released in USA on 3 february 1939 with Gene Autry
Home on the Prairie (1939)
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Add to a movie listHome on the Prairie is a 1939 American Western film directed by Jack Townley and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and June Storey. Written by Charles Arthur Powell and Paul Franklin, the film is about a cattle inspector's efforts to prevent a corrupt cattle rancher from shipping to market a herd of cattle infected with hoof and mouth disease.
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A corrupt cattle rancher, Belknap (Walter Miller), and a cattle broker, H.R. Shelby (Gordon Hart), learn that their livestock have contracted the deadly hoof and mouth disease. They scheme to ship their herd to market before the agricultural inspector, Gene Autry, learns of the infection. That night, as Gene escorts Martha Wheeler (June Storey) to a square dance, Belknap and Shelby load their infected cattle onto a truck.Actors
Gene Autry
(Gene Autry)
Smiley Burnette
(Frog Millhouse)
June Storey
(Martha Wheeler)
George Cleveland
(Jim Wheeler)
Jack Mulhall
(Dr. Sommers)
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, 1h7Directed by Frank McDonald
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, 1h5Directed by Frank McDonald
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, 1h10Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, William Farnum, June Storey, Lupita Tovar, Mary Lee
Rating59%
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, 54minutesDirected by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Hooper Atchley, June Storey, Slim Whitaker, Tom London
Rating65%
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, 1h5Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper, Buster Crabbe, Robert Barrat
Rating63%
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, 56minutesDirected by B. Reeves Eason
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