Riders in the Sky (1949)
Gene and Champion Ride To Glory!... as the range echoes to the stirring strains of the great cowboy ballad!
69 min
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.
- Release date
- November 29, 1949
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Gene Autry as Gene Autry
- Champion Jr. as Champ
- Gloria Henry as Anne Lawson
- Mary Beth Hughes as Julie Stewart
- Robert Livingston as Rock McCleary
- Steve Darrell as Ralph Lawson
- Alan Hale Jr. as Marshal Riggs
- Tom London as Old Man Roberts
- Pat Buttram as Chuckwalla
- Hank Patterson as Luke - Stagecoach Driver
Crew
- John English · Director
- Herbert A. Woodbury · Writer
- Gerald Geraghty · Writer
- Armand Schaefer · Producer
- William Bradford · Cinematographer
- Henry Batista · Editor