Colorado Sunset

Colorado Sunset (1939)

A TROUBADOR Who wrote songs in GUNSMOKE!

When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.

Date of release
1939-07-30
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Western
Director
George Sherman

Casting

Interesting facts

Colorado Sunset is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and June Storey. Written by Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts, based on a story by Luci Ward and Jack Natteford, the film is about a singing cowboy and his buddies who discover that the ranch they bought is really a dairy farm—and worse, it's subject to intimidation from a protection racket that prevents dairy products from safely reaching the market.

Production

Keen Camp, State Highway 74, Mountain Center, San Jacinto Mountains, California, USA

Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Garner Ranch, Mountain Center, California, USA

"Colorado Sunset" (Con Conrad, L. Wolfe Gilbert) by Gene Autry, June Storey, and Cowboys at the end

"On the Merry Old Way Back Home" (Walter G. Samuels) by Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and The Texas Rangers

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