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Melody of the Plains (1937)
Directed by Sam Newfield
Overview
The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the “Silvery-Voiced Baritone,” Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey’s “Albuquerque.” The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve’s colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud’s father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.
Rated NR | Length 55 minutes
Actors
Fred Scott | Al St. John | Louise Small | Hal Price | Slim Whitaker | Lew Meehan | Lafe McKee | Billy Lenhart | David Sharpe