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atever if you like roy rogers dale evans and trigger you ll love this movie 1 comment posted in 1947 april 1947 and tagged andy devine bells of san angelo bob nolan charles maxwell charles sullivan dale evans dale van sickel david sharpe eddie acuff edward j white ernest gold fred snowflake toones fritz leiber hank patterson jack a marta john mcguire joseph dubin karl farr keefe brasselle ken carson lester orlebeck olaf hytten pat brady paul gangelin ray turner republic pictures rex rossi roy rogers sloan nibley the sons of the pioneers tim spencer trigger westerns william witney bookmark the permalink out california way dec 5 1946 posted on december 27 2010 by adam lounsbery in the grand tradition of singing cowboys monte hale plays a character in out california way named monte hale out california way is filmed in trucolor a two color film process owned by republic pictures and throws hale into a metafictional world that pulls back the curtain and allows boys and girls at the saturday matinée to see what might be going on behind the scenes at republic with all of their favorite cowboy stars hale doesn t sit quite as tall in the saddle as republic s big boys gene autry and roy rogers but he s self effacing and charming enough to be believable when he says he s just a plain cowboy trying to break in to the movies he s assisted by little danny mccoy bobby blake famous for playing little beaver in the red ryder series who s trying to get his horse pardner into the movies opposing them is the prima donna rod mason john dehner who s a big radio star as the robin hood of the range and has a career in pictures too little danny mccoy is president of the rod mason fan club but that changes pretty fast after he actually meets the guy not only is mason temperamental and nasty to his co stars but he hates children and animals after threatening to whip pardner if danny doesn t get him off the set it s clear that danny has room in his heart for another cowboy actor for that matter so does his young pretty mother gloria played by lorna gray who s just 16 years older than blake hale s an expert horse trainer and together he and pardner form a great team originally cast as stunt actors on one of rod mason s pictures they do such a good job that every rewrite comes back with a bigger role for hale and a smaller part for mason mason and his sidekick stunt rider ace hanlon fred graham are typical black hats so they stop at nothing to foil hale and pardner s success while performing a stunt ace throws short fuse dynamite at hale that doesn t kill him but totally blows pardner s nerves hale takes time off to retrain pardner and help him over his trauma but mason and ace immediately undo his hard work by sneaking into the corral at night and freaking out pardner all over again by repeatedly firing a revolver near his head on his journey from plain cowboy to movie star hale is joined by special guest stars allan lane don red barry dale evans roy rogers and horse trigger all members of republic pictures stable of western stars and all playing themselves in the sequence in which hale gives gloria a tour of the studios roy and dale perform a nice rendition of ridin down the sunset trail for them not bad for a first date john dehner who would later be a recurring actor on gunsmoke both the radio and tv versions was a fine actor and makes for a great villain in this picture while out california way isn t substantively different from any of the hundreds of other oaters put out by republic pictures it was fun to see a slightly different plot than the dependable old evil land baron makes a grab for smaller ranchers land 1 comment posted in 1946 december 1946 and tagged adrian booth allan lane barry shipman betty burbridge bobby blake bud thackery charles craft dale evans don red barry don barry donald barry edward keane foy willing fred graham jimmy starr john dehner lesley selander lorna gray louis gray monte hale musicals nathan scott nolan leary out california way republic pictures robert blake roy rogers st luke s episcopal church choristers the riders of the purple sage tom london trigger westerns bookmark the permalink don t fence me in oct 20 1945 posted on november 23 2009 by adam lounsbery don t fence me in is a particularly good roy rogers picture directed by john english who with william witney directed some of the best republic serials of the late 30s and early 40s it s a well paced exciting and thoroughly enjoyable b western the film opens with a western montage accompanied by the cole porter song from which the film gets its title after the credits roll we re treated to a cheap looking boot hill set with a matte painting background that looks as if it s about two feet away a narrator tells us that once upon a time as a matter of fact nearly forty years ago there was a notorious western outlaw named wildcat kelly he didn t want to be fenced in either but they stuffed him into a pine box and buried him six feet under the sod on boot hill a masked man rises from behind kelly s tombstone carrying a gun and a wells fargo case the narrator sounding surprised says wait a minute that looks like wildcat kelly it is wildcat kelly there s something mighty strange about this i think we d better investigate the story of mr wildcat kelly and investigate we shall but the job will fall on the pretty shoulders of a girl reporter named toni ames dale evans toni has enough moxie to make an 800 pound gorilla stop dead in his tracks when we first meet her she s performing the song a kiss goodnight while dancing on the table at a hot party in a big city displaying her shapely gams to maximum effect she s doing it all for a story though a reporter for a tabloid called spread magazine toni is undercover secretly snapping shots of the party s guest of honor a dirty old cad named cartwright andrew tombes who s running for mayor as an incumbent the plot eventually takes toni out west to the r barr dude ranch to investigate the legend of wildcat kelly who it turns out faked his own death nearly 40 years ago and has been living as a regular western joe named gabby whittaker he s played by george gabby hayes and it s a good part for him in a lot of these pictures hayes was able to just coast on his ornery persona but don t fence me in actually gives him something to do rogers plays that charming and laconic singing cowpoke character called roy rogers that he played in dozens of movies roy is gabby s friend and the only person who knows his secret he tries to convince toni not to publish what she knows about wildcat kelly but she goes ahead with her story and that s when things get interesting there are a group of gangsters whose motives are shadowy but who clearly want kelly dead once it s revealed he is still alive one of them is played by the great character actor marc lawrence 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 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