The Big Show (1936)
A Roundup of action actually filmed at the Texas Centennial!
71 min
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.
- Release date
- November 16, 1936
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Gene Autry as Gene Autry
- Gene Autry as Tom Ford
- Smiley Burnette as Frog Millhouse
- Kay Hughes as Marion Hill
- Sally Payne as Toodles Brown
- William Newell as Lee Wilson
- Max Terhune as Ventriloquist
- Charles Judels as Swartz - Studio Head
- Sons of the Pioneers as Musicians
- The Jones Boys as Singers
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Musicians
Crew
- Mack V. Wright · Director
- Dorrell McGowan · Writer
- Stuart E. McGowan · Writer
- Nat Levine · Producer
- Edgar Lyons · Cinematographer
- William Nobles · Cinematographer
- Robert Jahns · Editor
- Murray Seldeen · Editor