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westerns inspired by the comic strip by Fred Harman. Pike's Peak CasJ: William Elliott (incomplete). ProducerDirector: Joe Kane. Original: Gerald Geraghty. Screenplay: Not set. This is a story of the gold rush of 1859 in Colorado. Much of the action will be shot at the famed ghost town of Central City, just outside of Denver, in that state. The Pilgrim Lady Cast: Lynn Roberts, Warren Douglas, Alan Mowbray, Otto Kruger, Veda Ann Borg, Clarence Kolb, Helen Freeman, Producer: William J. O'Sullivan. Director: Lesley Selander. Original: Dane Lussier. Screenplay: Not set. A pornographic novel becomes a success when Warren Douglas persuades attractive Lynn Roberts to pose as its author, although it actually was written by her aunt. When the hoax about the book’s authorship is exposed, Lynn and Warren marry and the aunt goes to work on her second novel. The Plainsman and the Lady Cast: William Elliott, Vera Ralston, Gail Patrick, Joseph Schildkraut, Andy Clyde, Donald Barry, Raymond Walburn. Producer-Director: Joe Kane. Original: Michael Uris, Ralph Spence. Screenplay: Richard Wormser. Joseph Schildkraut tries to foil attempts to launch the Pony Express because it would interfere with his stage route. Hired to head the Pony Express, William Elliott enlists the aid of his Indian friends to defeat Schildkraut, and marries Vera Ralston, daughter of the express line’s owner. Rio Grande Raiders Cast: Sunset Carson, Linda Stirling, Bob Steele, Tom London, Tristram Coffin, Edmund Cobb. Producer: Bennett Cohen. Director: Thomas Can. Original: Norman S. Hall. Screenplay: Norton S. Parker. Driver for a stagecoach line. Sunset Carson persuades his boss to hire his brother, an ex-convict, in debt to a rival coach line, as one of its drivers. The brother becomes involved in robberies of coaches as he is forced to give information to the rival outfit. Complications arise, but the situation is straightened out when the rival firm is exposed and Carson wins the race awarding his outfit mail contracts. Robin Hood of Texas Cast: Gene Autry (incomplete). Producer: Armand Schaefer. Director: Not set. Original: Jack Townley. Screenplay: Not set. A musical western in the Gene Autry series. Roll On, Texas Moon Cast: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George ‘'Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Dennis Hoey, Elisabeth Risdon, Francis McDonald. Producer: Edward J. White. Director: William Witnev. Original; Jean Murray. Screenplay: Paul Gangelin, Mauri Graqhin. Trying to prevent a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen, Roy Rogers goes to work on Dale Evans’ ranch and discovers that Francis McDonald, the ranch foreman, is the ringleader in an attemnt to kill Dale and steal her property. When the McDonald gang tries to run Rogers out, there is a free-for-all in which Roy emerges the winner. San Antonio Sunset Cast: Roy Rogers (incomplete). Producer: Edward J. White. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screen’^Iav: Not set. A Roy Rogers musical western. Sergeant Gene Autry Cast: Gene Autry (incomplete). Producer: Armand Schaefer. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. This is a fictionalized version of the adventures of Gene Autry, screen cowboy, when he abandoned his acting career to join the U.S. Marines in World War II. Sioux City Sue Cast: Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway, Richard Lane, Ralph Sanford, Cass County Boys. Producer: Armand Schaefer. Director: Frank McDonald. Original Screenplay: Olive Cooper. Gene Autry, a cattleman, accepts a film contract, not knowing that his voice will be used by a singing donkey in an animated cartoon. Disgusted when he finds out, he returns to his ranch. Lynne Roberts, the talent scout who sold him the idea, tries to persuade Gene to return to Hollywood but is not successful until she foils an attempt of Gene’s rival to wreck his herd. Convinced Lynne is sincere, Gene gives films another try. Slippy McGee Cast: Donald Barry (incomplete). Producer: Lew Broclc. Director: Albert Kelly. Original: Marie Conway Oemler. Screenplay: Robert Lee Johnson, Norman Hall, B. B. Beauchamp. The Trucolor adaptation of Marie Conway Oemler’s story of the minister who becomes involved with the safecracker. Song of the Golden West Cast: Roy Rogers (incomplete). Producer: Donald H. Brown. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A Roy Rogers sagebrusher, with musical interludes. Spoilers of the North Cast: Evelyn Ankers, Paul Kelly, James Millican, Francis McDonald, Adrian Booth, Roy Barcroft. Producer: Donald H. Brown. Director: Richard Sale. Original: Milton H. Raison. Screenplay: Richard Sale. Action adventure, this revolves around the great salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest. Springtime in the Sierras Cast: Roy Rogers (incomplete). Producer: Edward J. White. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A musical western, with Roy Rogers in the starring role. Stagecoach to Denver Cast: Allan Lane, Bobby Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roy Barcroft, Edmund Cobb, George Chesebro, Stanley Price, Forrest Taylor. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenolay: Earle Snell. The citizens of Elk Horn regard Roy Barcroft as a pillar of the community, not knowing that he operates the stage line to Denver as a means of acquiring property illegally and murdering the land commissioners who come out once a year to check. But Red Ryder (Allan Lane) learns of the plot, kills Barcroft in a pitched battle and returns the land to the rightful owners. That Brennan Girl Cast: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, June Duprez, Frank Jenks, Dorothy Vaughan, Charles Arnt. Producer-Director: Alfred Santell. Original: Adela Rogers St. John. Screenplav: Doris Anderson. Social drama of a girl reared to live by trickery. She meets and marries a forthright young man after her racketeer friend goes to jail. The former is killed in the war and she is left to support their child. The court takes her child away from her. She reforms and cares for an abandoned baby. The racketeer is released and goes straight. Because she reforms, her baby is restored to her and she marries the onetime racketeer. That's My Gal Cast: Donald Barry, Lynne Roberts, Pinky Lee, Frank Jenks, Edward Gargan. Producer: Armand Schaefer. Director: George Blair. Original Screenplov: Joseph Hoffman. Three genial crooks, with Donald Barry as the ringleader, buy a burlesque play, then sell out to a group of suckers, anticipating the play will be closed and they will cash in on the gravy. Lynne Roberts, attractive business girl, interferes with the scheme: the play emerges successful, and the crooks reform. The Tiger Woman Cast: Adele Mara, Kane Richmond, Richard Fraser, Peggy Stewart, Cy Kendall. Producers: Dorrell and Stuart McGowan. Director: Philip Ford. Original: John A. Dunkel. Screenplay: George Carleton Brown. When Adele Mara, night club singer, approaches her husband for a divorce she finds he has been murdered. Her husband’s business partner, with whom she has been having an affair, is accused of the crime. Just as he is on the verge of confessing who the real killer is, he is shot and killed; the authorities discover Adele is guilty of both murders. Traffic in Crime Cast: Adele Mara, Kane Richmond, Anne Nagel, Wilton Graff, Roy Barcroft, Arthur Lott, Wade Crosby, Dick Curtis. Producer: Donald H. Brown. Director: Les Selander. Original: Leslie Turner White. Screenplay: David Lang. Kane Richmond, veteran newspaper man, is hired by a police chief to clean up a town. Through his resemblance to one racketeer, Richmond manages to create war between this racketeer and another as well as a crooked policeman. He eventually breaks up the gang, exposes the whole group to the local newspaper editor, and settles down in marriage with the editor’s daughter. Trail to San Antone Cast: Gene Autry, Peggy Stewart, William Henry, Sterling Holloway, Cass County Boys. Producer: Armand Schaefer. Director: Jack English. Original Screenplay: Jack Natteford, Luci Ward, Olive Cooper, Gene Autry, a western rancher, returns home to find his men have bought him a horse, which turns out to have been stolen from a lovely girl neighbor. In solving the theft, they also rehabilitate a jockey who thought he was finished, and expose a crooked racehorse breeder. In one episode Gene ropes a runaway horse from a low-flying airplane. Turn Home Cast: Not set. Producer: Armand Schaeter. Director: Not set. Original: Eleanor Mayo. Screenplay: Frances Hyland. Bob Dolliver, the town bad boy, comes back to his Maine home to clear his name after an unexplained absence. Wanting to stand on his own merits, he does not reveal that he has fought at Guadalcanal. He has difficulty overcoming his reputation, but with the help of a loyal girl he succeeds. Twilight on the Rio Grande Cast: Gene Autry (incomplete). Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A musical western in the Gene Autry series. Under Nevada Skies Cast: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Douglass Dumbrille, Tristram Coffin. Producer: Edward J. White. Director: Frank McDonald. Original: M. Coates Webster. Screenplav: Paul Gangelin, J. Benton Cheney. Dale Evans, discovered near the body of a dead man, tells Roy Rogers she was searching for a chest which the man had stolen from her father. Roy finds the chest and, as he is examining it, Douglass Dumbrille and his gang attack. A freefor-all ensues, the heavies are captured, and Roy learns the chest contains a map showing the location of a mineral necessary in the manufacture of atomic bombs. Vigilantes of Boomtown Cast: Allan Lane, Bobby Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roscoe Karns, Roy Barcroft, Peggy Stewart, (jeorge Turner. Producer: Sidney Picker. Director: R. G. Springsteen. Original Screenplay: Earle Snell. Red Ryder arranges to have Nevada’s first prize fight at the duchess’s ranch. Molly, fiery daughter of a senator, inter CONTINUED ON PAGE 195 BOXOFFICE 137