Movie

Gaucho Serenade (1940)

• NR
• May 9, 1940
• 1h 6m

• Comedy
• Drama
• Music
• Western

“It's Gene at his best ! Singing, riding, fighting his way into great new adventure !”

Overview

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.

Director

Frank McDonald

Writers

Betty Burbridge, Bradford Ropes

Starring

Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey