Gene Autry Collection 12

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Gene Autry is the only entertainer with all five stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, one each for Radio, Recording, Motion Pictures, Television and Live Performance. He was the silver screen's first singing cowboy and is credited with creating the genre of the musical B Western. As the star of 89 feature films, Gene brings music, comedy and action to each of his roles. Now, for the first time in a DVD Collection, Gene Autry's rollicking big screen adventures and unforgettable tunes are brought home in these Western classics, fully restored and uncut from Autry's personal film archives. THE SAGEBRUSH TROUBADOUR Rangers Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse travel undercover as Western troubadours to find the killer of old, half-blind Frank Martin. Their only clues are a guitar string and a swayback horse that is the key to finding the dead man's lost goldmine. Complicating matters is the old man's granddaughter, a blonde cyclone of a gal, who is suspicious of Gene and Frog and hires them to supply the music for her grand masquerade dance so she can keep an eye on them. (1935) RIDE, RANGER, RIDE Former Texas Ranger Gene Autry receives a commission as lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry and, along with troopers Frog Millhouse and Rufe Jones, reports to Colonel Summeral at Fort Adobe. Gene's personal charm and ability to sing, quickly win him the heart of Dixie, the Colonel's daughter. But when jealous Lt. Cameron conspires with an Indian spy to send Gene and his detachment into an ambush, Gene loses a man in the fray. After he and his friends are disgraced and ousted from the army, Gene must round up the real troublemakers and win back favor with the colonel… and with Dixie. (1936) YODELIN' KID FROM PINE RIDGE Gene Autry is involved in a feud between cattlemen, who want land for grazing, and turpentine forest folk, who make a hardscrabble living off pine trees, in his hometown in Georgia. When Gene warns the turpentiners that the ranchers plan to burn them out of the forest, he is accused of being on their side, is disowned by his father and leaves town to join a Wild West Show. Years later, when the show returns, local bad man Len Parker is still stirring up trouble. Before Gene can put an end to his cattle-rustling and tree-burning, Parker has Gene framed for murder! Gene must enlist the aid of the Wild West Show to stop a range war and clear his name. (1937) GOLD MINE IN THE SKY When spoiled Eastern gal Cody inherits a ranch, it is up to the ranch foreman, Gene Autry, to keep things in order. Since Cody can't sell the ranch until she weds, she makes plans to marry a Chicago cattle broker and turns the place into a dude ranch. Gene soon learns the fiancé is an unscrupulous racketeer who only wants the valuable property and to get rid of Gene! In between songs with Gene and the Golden West Cowboys there's a fake cattle-rustling raid, kidnappings and attempted murder. With the help of his sidekick, Frog Millhouse, Gene rides down the adventure trail in his most exciting Western thriller! (1938) Only the best buy direct from GRUV