Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)

The Screen's New Singing Cowboy Star

Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.

Date of release
1935-09-05
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 1m
Genres
Western, Music
Director
Joseph Kane

Casting

Interesting facts

Tumbling Tumbleweeds is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Lucile Browne. Written by Ford Beebe, the film is about a cowboy who returns home after a five-year absence to find his father murdered and his boyhood pal accused of the dastardly deed. Tumbling Tumbleweeds features the songs "Riding Down the Canyon", "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine", and the Bob Nolan classic "Tumbling Tumbleweeds".

Production

Tumbling Tumbleweeds was filmed July 6–12, 1935. The film had an operating budget of $15,344 (equal to $360,323 today), and a negative cost of $18,801.

Monogram Ranch, 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California, USA

Having learned the art of screen fighting from Yakima Canutt, Gene Autry handled all of the fight scenes himself. Ken Cooper doubled for Autry during the dangerous riding sequences.

"I'll Yodel My Troubles Away" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) by Gene Autry

"Cowboy Medicine Show" (Smiley Burnette) by Gene Autry and the Medicine Show troupe

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