Gaucho Serenade

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

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Music, Western
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.

Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1940-05-09
Run time: 66 minute / 1:6
Director: Frank McDonald
Writers: Betty Burbridge, Bradford Ropes.
Production Company : Republic Pictures
Production Country: United States of America

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	Gene Autry as Gene Autry
	Smiley Burnette as Frog Millhouse
	June Storey as Joyce Halloway
	Mary Lee as Patsy Halloway
	Duncan Renaldo as Gaucho Don José
	Clifford Severn as Ronnie Willoughby
	Lester Matthews as Frederick Willoughby
	Smith Ballew as Buck Benson
	Joseph Crehan as Edward Martin
	William Ruhl as Henchman Carter
	Wade Boteler as Rancher
	Ted Adams as E.J. Jenkins
	Wendell Niles as Radio Announcer
	Chuck Baldra as Rancher
	Buck Bucko as Henchman
	Fred Burns as Cowhand
	Ed Cassidy as Customs Officer
	Champion as Champ
	Jim Corey as Henchman on Train
	Kernan Cripps as Police Radioman
	Joe Dominguez as Mexican Vaquero
	José Eslava as Orchestra Leader
	Joel Friedkin as Small Official
	Olaf Hytten as Norton School Headmaster
	Jack Kirk as Gas Station Attendant
	George Lloyd as Steve
	Tom London as Sheriff Tom Olson
	Frankie Marvin as Gas Station Attendant #2
	Walter Miller as George Blake
	Gene Morgan as Motorcycle Cop #2
	Julian Rivero as Mexican Rancher
	Ralph Sanford as Motorcycle Cop
	Harry Strang as Policeman
	Al Taylor as Deputy
	Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as New York City Pier Worker
	Fred Velasco as Dancer
	Mary Velasco as Dancer
	Hank Worden as Farmer Driving Jalopy

Directing
Frank McDonald	Director
Writing
Betty Burbridge	Screenplay
Bradford Ropes	Screenplay