Gene Autry in another "C" western that would have been marginally better than the others I've seen because there's a lot less music, but suffers from having too much idiot comedy from both Smiley Burnette and Max Terhune. The plot has two themes that wind up intertwined - first the Texas Rangers are disbanded and Autry and Terhune commissioned with the U.S. Cavalry and all his men join him - then Autry gets arrested and before getting shot escapes and all his men join him. Autry goes to the Governor and gets the Rangers re-formed and all his men join him. Why all this back and forth - a renegade Indian has the Cavalry Colonel befuddled and his blinkered of circumstances and Indians is a problem. Of course Gene is right and it all gets sorted out as Indians attack a wagon train and Autry brings the Cavalry and Rangers in for protection. Terhune is grossly hick and in the spirit of the day, virulently anti-Indian; Burnette is just dumb and has a running joke in which an Indian keeps trying to scalp him - Ugh! Kay Hughes - Autry's love at first sight cutie - has little to do but look pretty and they marry at the end. IMDb says between 1933-45 she appeared in 28 films before retiring. IMDb says its 63:00, but we get 53:00 here. A few fights and the final battle provide the little action available - otherwise there's a little talk, s little riding and a few changes of jail. You can't trust the Rangers, you can't trust the Cavalry, you can't trust the Indians - but you can always trust Gene Autry. Ho Hum and Ugh!

In the 1930s the big draw for movie goers was to see the stars they'd been listening to over the radio.

Gene Autry was big box office until WWII. While he served his country, his on screen boots were filled by Roy Rogers.

Fairly uneven script for this film. Burnett and Terhune are clearly vying for screen time but they work well together to provide comic relief.

Max Terhune, who plays Rufe in the film, had worked with Gene Autry at WLS in Chicago. Terhune had come out to Hollywood in hopes that Autry could get him a job in films. Terhune had been a rube comedian, specializing in barnyard noises and slapstick. After his appearance in the film, he was approached by Smiley Burnette, who also had worked with Autry on the road and now was his steady sidekick. Burnette reportedly told him that while he (Terhune) might have a career in films, it would not be in Autry's films as there was already an official sidekick. Terhune found steady employment as a comic ventriloquist in Republic's Three Mesquiteer films.

This is one of my favorite B westerns. It's light-hearted, lots of action and politically incorrect. For what it's worth, I'm part Shawnee, and my favorite thing about this film is that throughout its length, an Indian chases one of the characters about for the purpose of scalping him. This movie is just short of Mel Brooks (except I couldn't stand 'Blazing Saddles').

A better than average Gene Autry western that was produced at the beginning of his movie career when his movies features a lot of action and not so many songs to stop the plot cold. Smiley Burnette and Max Terhune play well off each other as sidekicks. Check it out, if you like "B" westerns. There are worse ways to spend an hour.

i have never seen a film as bad as this, i watched 5 minutes and i could hardly bare any more... and this was for my homework!!!

I've seen worse, but not many.

Fairly tame Gene Autry vehicle (as if there were any hard-hitting, serious-minded ones) that deals with Autry and his pals getting jobs with the Texas Rangers, In this we realize a number of things.. we see that the rangers are trigger-happy when it comes to arresting Autry (and rehiring people on the spot), it shows how to to do the old flattened metal dish to block doorways from being locked, how people are around handily to turn tables over when thereÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs a fight, and how the Indians, while using their ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂMan go that wayÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ type of talk, also use sign language to get their point across. This is a rather curious movie, that teaches us that the Texas Rangers are not to be trusted, has an EXTREMELY lame love interest, and how they are able to get a song in our head by repeating it 3 times. Yikes!

Back in 1936.on a saturday afternoon,children went to the movies and this is one of the films that would be screened. It was usually the only time that they would see a film. In the evening the film would be shown to adults as a second feature and often it would be found more enjoyable than the much more expensive main film