Gaucho Serenade (1940)
It's Gene at his best ! Singing, riding, fighting his way into great new adventure !
66 min
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
- Release date
- May 9, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Gene Autry as Gene Autry
- Smiley Burnette as Frog Millhouse
- June Storey as Joyce Halloway
- Duncan Renaldo as Gaucho Don José
- Mary Lee as Patsy Halloway
- Clifford Severn as Ronnie Willoughby
- Lester Matthews as Frederick Willoughby
- Smith Ballew as Buck Benson
- Joseph Crehan as Edward Martin
- William Ruhl as Henchman Carter
Crew
- Frank McDonald · Director
- Betty Burbridge · Writer
- Bradford Ropes · Writer
- Reggie Lanning · Cinematographer
- Tony Martinelli · Editor