The Big Sombrero

The Big Sombrero (1949)

OUTLAWS FEAR HIM...SENORITAS CHEER HIM...when Gene streaks into action!

Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who is more interested in going to America than taking care of her Mexican holdings. Gene, discovering Garland's plan to run all the Mexican rancheros off the ranch, turns against his boss and shortly finds himself in the middle of cattle stampedes and an avalanche started by Garland's men.

Date of release
1949-04-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Western
Director
Frank McDonald

Casting

Interesting facts

The Big Sombrero is a 1949 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Gene Autry and Champion. Written by Olive Cooper, the film is about a singing cowboy hired as foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by a man working against the interests of the ranch's absentee owner and workers. It was the last of two Autry Columbia films shot in Cinecolor, it was preceded by The Strawberry Roan.

Production

Vasquez Rocks, Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Road, Agua Dulce, California, USA

Corriganville Movie Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Monogram Ranch, 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Placerita Canyon, Santa Clarita, California, USA

Rancho Maria, 25933 Sand Canyon Road, Bear Gap, Canyon Country, California, USA

Red Rock Canyon State Park, Highway 14, Cantil, California, USA

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