Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade (1940)

It's Gene at his best ! Singing, riding, fighting his way into great new adventure !

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Date of release
1940-05-09
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 6m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Music, Western
Director
Frank McDonald

Casting

Interesting facts

Gaucho Serenade is a 1940 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and June Storey. Written by Betty Burbridge and Bradford Ropes, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes up against a group of businessmen who plot to kidnap the son of a former partner so he won't testify against them.

Production

Walter Miller was one of the top paid leading men in the silent era before transitioning to villain roles in talkies. He was born Walter Corwin Miller on March 9, 1892 in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He was educated in Brooklyn, New York. Miller started his acting career doing stagework before being signed as a leading man by Reliance, a small independent film company. By 1912 he was working for D. W.

Wendell Niles was a prominent radio announcer, best known for his work on The Don Ameche Show and Gene Autry's Melody Ranch. In 1932, he began working in films, mainly in the role of a radio newscaster or police broadcaster. In his later career, he was known for his television work as announcer on Let's Make a Deal and Truth or Consequences.

Gaucho Serenade was filmed March 21 to April 8, 1940. The film had an operating budget of $77,885 (equal to $1,789,875 today), and a negative cost of $83,633.

Jack Kirk (Smiley Burnette's stunt double)

Nellie Walker (June Storey's stunt double)

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