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nce who had a very long career as a sinister looking hood this is a fine showcase for all of the regulars from the 40s roy rogers pictures bob nolan and the sons of the pioneers back rogers up both musically and when it s time for fisticuffs and the wonder horse trigger does a high stepping dance with rogers astride him to an instrumental version of don t fence me in and even takes a bow when he s finished roy and dale s relationship is more antagonistic than in many of their other pictures but it s still fun to watch when she first shows up and tries to stow away in the boot of a coach roy tosses a hunk of stinky limburger cheese in the back with her and takes her on a bumpy ride she later pays him back by pushing him into a swimming pool don t fence me in ends with a delightful rendition of the title song performed by roy dale and the sons of the pioneers with a few lines added at the beginning about wildcat kelly to tie the whole thing together leave a comment posted in 1945 october 1945 and tagged andrew tombes bob nolan charles craft cole porter dale evans don t fence me in donald h brown dorrell mcgowan douglas fowley edgar dearing george gabby hayes john english john k butler lucille gleason marc lawrence moroni olsen musicals paul harvey republic pictures robert livingston roy rogers stephen barclay stuart e mcgowan the sons of the pioneers tom london trigger westerns william bradford bookmark the permalink sunset in el dorado sept 29 1945 posted on october 28 2009 by adam lounsbery a lot of men were drafted during world war ii roy rogers was one of them with a 1 a classification he expected to be shipped out in the spring of 1945 consequently screenwriter john k butler working from a story by leon abrams came up with a script to showcase rogers s leading lady dale evans when v e day rolled around however the draft board exempted men over the age of 30 who had children so rogers never had to serve director frank mcdonald s sunset in el dorado ended up starring both the king of the cowboys and the queen of the west but evans is still the central figure and it s a great showcase for her sunny persona the film begins in the present day evans plays a young woman named lucille wiley who works for a company called worldwide tours in the first scene lucille shows a filmstrip that illustrates everything visitors will see on their western tour package as shots of a ghost town appear on screen lucille says and this is el dorado in its day a roaring boomtown the golden nugget el dorado s most famous or infamous fandango hall in its day it rivaled the halls in dodge city or the notorious barbary coast the legendary kansas kate was the feature attraction here and what a colorful attraction she was although she has a good pitch and kansas kate was lucille s grandmother lucille has never been west of hoboken in a fit of pique she runs off on one of worldwide s tour buses determined to see the little town of el dorado she s having a grand old time singing go west young man with her fellow passengers bob nolan and the sons of the pioneers when her drippy fiancé cecil phelps the president of worldwide tours played by hardie albright and her old maid aunt dolly show up to spirit her away cecil intends to marry lucille immediately in yuma but she desperately wants to see el dorado their car breaks down on the way and any hope cecil has of making lucille his wife pretty much falls off a cliff when roy rogers and trigger ride up to help he finds lucille off on her own and says to her well i ve seen mirages before but this is the first one that ever talked back are you a mirage trigger tows their car to the nearest town which happens to be el dorado once there lucille explores the remains of the golden nugget and discovers a painting of kansas kate hanging above the bar she s interrupted by an ornery old coot named gabby george gabby hayes who s been dropping by the saloon for 40 years to make sure nothing happens to the painting as lucille stares at the picture and fantasizes about what her grandmother s life might have been like the movie flashes back to the old west but the narrative continues as everyone has a counterpart evans plays kansas kate rogers continues to play that character called roy rogers he played in so many movies gabby plays his younger self and cecil the drip becomes cyril the heavy the plot moves at a brisk pace and hinges on the coded map to gabby s gold claim being stolen by a group of bandits roy suspects that kate was behind the plan especially since she originally told him she was a schoolteacher not a saloon owner in order to impress him after roy slugs it out with the toughest guy in the bar a heavy named buster roy barcroft he takes over buster s position as kate s bodyguard apparently his first duty as her bodyguard is to perform belle of the el dorado with kate and her backup singers in a fully choreographed number the romantic scenes between rogers and evans are as always sweet and believable after they take a break from riding together she asks him what i can t understand is why you took this job in the first place particularly when you thought i swindled old gabby out of his gold mine that s why i took the job to find out if you did he responds did you find out yet she asks oh just a hunch that s about all he says chewing on a piece of alfalfa and smiling i won t be giving anything away if i tell you that everything turns out all right for roy dale gabby and trigger both in their present day incarnations and their rootin tootin old west versions the only question i was left with was since lucille looks exactly like kansas kate her own grandmother and roy looks exactly like the old west character roy rogers who presumably married kate does that mean that the modern day lucille and roy are actually cousins well probably not but it couldn t help but cross my mind leave a comment posted in 1945 september 1945 and tagged bob nolan bob wilke dale evans dorothy granger ed cassidy frank mcdonald george gabby hayes hardie albright john k butler leon abrams louis gray margaret dumont musicals republic pictures roy barcroft roy rogers stanley price sunset in el dorado the sons of the pioneers tom london tony martinelli trigger westerns william bradford yakima canutt bookmark the permalink along the navajo trail sept 15 1945 posted on october 21 2009 by adam lounsbery there are no navajos to be found in this run of the mill roy rogers picture or american indians of any tribe for that matter the title comes from a popular song that was written by dick charles a k a richard charles krieg larry markes and edgar de lange in 1945 and is sung by rogers dale evans and the rest of the gang to close the picture no the only people of color in along the navajo trail are spanish speaking gypsies who are portrayed in much the same way mexicans were in hollywood westerns except that they wear funny clothes travel in wagons and the men wear gold hoop earrings they also provide george gabby hayes s character with a series of comic interludes in which he attempts to cheat the gypsies and is in turn cheated himself these horse trades don t add much to the plot but they do result in hayes sputtering the memorable line i sure have gypped that gyppin gypsy in along the navajo trail rogers plays a character named roy rogers who at first appears to be an itinerant cowpoke but whom we later discover is a deputy u s marshal dale evans plays a ranch owner named lorry alastair and hayes plays her foreman gabby whittaker lorry is skittish about rogers when he drifts onto her property the ladder a ranch and orders gabby to run him off she changes her tune however when she walks to his relocated campsite herself to kick him off her land but he ends up singing to her under his tarp in the rain making up a song as he goes and asking her if she knows a girl s name that rhymes with saskatoon lorry eventually finds the deputy u s marshal badge in his boot and realizes beyond a doubt that he s one of the white hats the black hats in along the navajo trail are the representatives of the santa fe drilling company there isn t any oil on lorry s land but the company needs to lay a pipeline through her property and they ll stop at nothing to do so along the navajo trail is heavier on action than some of rogers s efforts and it should please most fans of old b westerns as usual rogers solves problems with haymakers and gunplay but stops short of ever getting too bloodthirsty since plot contrivances take care of the worst of the bad guys the climax of the picture occurs when the final black hat loses control of his buckboard and it flies over a cliff and he falls to his death in the form of an especially noticeable dummy rogers rides to the edge of the cliff and surveys the destruction with the same look of mild disapproval one reserves for drunks puking in dumpsters in the middle of the afternoon at the end of the picture rogers evans and the rest of the cast gather to sing along the navajo trail and then they all live happily ever after or at least their characters do rogers hayes evans and trigger would all be back exactly two saturdays later when sunset in el dorado was released into theaters leave a comment posted in 1945 september 1945 and tagged along the navajo trail bob nolan dale evans david cota douglas fowley edward cassidy edward j white emmett vogan estelita rodriguez frank mcdonald george gabby hayes gerald geraghty musicals nestor paiva republic pictures roy barcroft roy rogers sam flint the sons of the pioneers tony martinelli trigger westerns william bradford william colt macdonald yakima canutt bookmark the permalink utah march 21 1945 posted on september 4 2009 by adam lounsbery the western genre may be moribund but it refuses to kick the bucket singing cowboys on the other hand are deader than vaudeville there was a time however when gene autry and roy rogers were two of the biggest film stars in america i saw bits and pieces of rogers s movies on tv when i was younger but to be honest his horse trigger made more of an impression on me than he did and i still have never seen a gene autry movie as part of my obsessive compulsive project of watching old movies in the order they were released however i added utah to my netflix queue it stars the holy trinity of hokey singing cowboy movies rogers dale evans and gabby hayes i was surprised by how charismatic i found rogers in this movie sure he s corny but he s charming and handsome at a time in america when a muffin faced hayseed like van johnson was considered the height of attractiveness by a lot of bobby soxers rogers is refreshingly dark almost eurasian looking and dale evans looked fantastic i m used to seeing her and rogers in publicity stills from the 50s when they were both middle aged but here at the age of 32 she looks about 19 rogers too looks younger than his 33 years utah has a predictable plot rogers and his singing group the sons of the pioneers work as ranch hands along with the crotchety hayes on the bar x ranch meanwhile evans and her singing and dancing troupe of ladies are performing in chicago when they learn their financial backing has fallen through fortuitously evans s grandfather bequeathed her a ranch in utah which she realizes she can sell to make enough money to keep her show going guess which ranch it is evans and her distaff posse have to visit utah to take care of business natch and hijinks ensue roy and gabby attempt some elaborate trickery to convince evans not to sell the ranch and there are some black hats who want the ranch for themselves even in black and white the utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and there are a lot of musical numbers and fistfights to keep the film moving this isn t a great movie but it s enjoyable especially if you like singing cowboy music by the time he made utah rogers had already starred in more than 40 films his first lead role was in under western stars 1938 when he replaced gene autry who had walked out on his contract born leonard slye he rechristened himself roy rogers for this starring role and a matinee idol was born after his first marriage ended in divorce he married arline wilkins they had three children together and he was still married to her when he and evans started making movies together wilkins died in november 1946 shortly after the birth of roy rogers jr from complications due to a caesarean section rogers and evans of course eventually married in december 1947 together they adopted four children and they remained married until his death in 1998 leave a comment posted in 1945 march 1945 and tagged betty burbridge dale evans donald h brown george gabby hayes gilbert wright jack townley john english john k butler musicals republic pictures roy rogers the sons of the pioneers trigger utah westerns bookmark the permalink recent posts beyond a reasonable doubt sept 13 1956 the violent years 1956 on the bowery september 1956 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