Movielogr
Gaucho Serenade (1940)
Directed by Frank McDonald
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.
Rated NR | Length 66 minutes
Actors
Gene Autry | Smiley Burnette | June Storey | Mary Lee | Duncan Renaldo | Clifford Severn | Lester Matthews | Smith Ballew | Joseph Crehan | William Ruhl | Wade Boteler | Ted Adams | Wendell Niles | Chuck Baldra | Ralph Bucko | Fred Burns | Ed Cassidy | Champion | Jim Corey | Kernan Cripps | Joe Dominguez | José Eslava | Joel Friedkin | Olaf Hytten | Jack Kirk | George Lloyd | Tom London | Frankie Marvin | Walter Miller | Gene Morgan | Julian Rivero | Ralph Sanford | Harry Strang | Al Taylor | Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | Fred Velasco | Mary Velasco | Hank Worden