Melody Trail

Melody Trail (1935)

SING With GENE! GALLOP With GENE! ROMANCE With GENE!...in a melody melee of danger and thrills!

Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.

Date of release
1935-10-21
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 2m
Genres
Western
Director
Joseph Kane

Casting

Interesting facts

Melody Trail is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Sherman L. Lowe and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes after the men who kidnapped the baby he should have been babysitting. The film features the songs "On the Melody Trail", "A Lone Cowboy on the Lone Prairie", and "Western Lullaby".

Production

Melody Trail was the first of four film appearances by Ann Rutherford as Gene Autry's leading lady. Therese Ann Rutherford was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on November 2, 1917. After her parents divorced, her mother, a silent film actress, moved to Hollywood with Ann and her sister. While still in middle school, Rutherford began acting in a serial drama at radio station KFAC.

Melody Trail was filmed August 21–27, 1935. The film had an operating budget of $15,075 (equal to $354,006 today), and a negative cost of $18,386 (equal to $431,759 today).

Jack Garner Ranch, State Highway 74, San Bernardino National Forest, California, US

"Hold On Little Dogies Hold On" (Gene Autry) by Gene Autry

"On the Melody Trail" (Smiley Burnette) by Gene Autry

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