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Public Cowboy No. 1 is a american film of genre Western directed by Smiley Burnette released in USA on 11 june 1937 with Gene Autry
Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 june 1937
Length 1h1
Directed by Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, Joseph Kane, Sol C. Siegel, Gene Autry, Bernard McConville, Oliver Drake
OriginUSA
Genres Western
Rating56%
Public Cowboy No. 1 is a 1937 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Ann Rutherford. Based on a story by Bernard McConville, the film is about a singing cowboy who chases down rustlers who are using airplanes, shortwave radios, and refrigerated trucks to steal cattle.
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A rash of strange cattle rustlings have occurred in which cattle are slaughtered on the range and their carcasses taken away. Sheriff Matt Doniphon (William Farnum) and his deputies, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), watch over one rancher's cattle as they are driven to Box Canyon. After the sheriff and his men leave, the rustlers move in, radio the cattle's location from an airplane, and then bring in refrigerator trucks. The rancher and one of his workers are murdered, the cattle killed, and the carcasses taken away.Actors
Gene Autry
(Helen Morgan)
Smiley Burnette
(Helen Morgan)
Ann Rutherford
(Helen Morgan)
William Farnum
(Sheriff Matt Doniphon)
Arthur Loft
(Jack Shannon)
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