Cowboy Serenade

Cowboy Serenade (1942)

Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up losing the cattle in a crooked poker game, however, and Gene and his sidekick Frog set out to find the cheating gamblers. It soon becomes clear that the leader of the gamblers is none other than Asa Lock, the dastardly father of Gene's romantic interest Stephanie.

Date of release
1942-01-30
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
54m
Genres
Western
Director
William Morgan

Casting

Interesting facts

Cowboy Serenade is a 1942 American Western film directed by William Morgan and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Fay McKenzie. Written by Olive Cooper, the film is about a singing cowboy and cattleman who goes after a gambling ring after they fleece the cattlemen association's representative of their cattle. The film features the songs "Nobody Knows", and "Sweethearts or Strangers", and the title song.

Production

Cowboy Serenade was filmed November 24 to December 10, 1941. The film had an operating budget of $83,486 (equal to $1,827,437 today), and a negative cost of (equal to $2,067,167 today).

Beale's Cut, Newhall Pass, California, USA

Chatsworth Railroad Station, Chatsworth, California, USA

Iverson Ranch, 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Republic Pictures Backlot, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

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