Riders of the Rockies (1937)
Tex Rides With Arizona Rangers In A Desperate Man-Hunt!
Género : Western
Tiempo de ejecución : 56M
Director : Robert N. Bradbury
Sinopsis
Tex and his pals join the Rangers to fight rustlers along the border. When Doc and Pee Wee get framed for rustling and then jailed, Tex deserts the Rangers, crosses the border, and joins up with the outlaw gang hoping somehow to clear his pals.
Antología de seis capítulos, cada uno enfocado desde una perspectiva distinta con respecto a la frontera norteamericana y a los peculiares personajes que habitan en sus alrededores. Cada parte cuenta una historia distinta basada en las convenciones del Lejano Oeste de los Estados Unidos.
Tras su gran éxito un año antes con su ópera prima "Loca academia de Policía", el director Hugh Wilson repite en la comedia con este homenaje-parodia de los westerns musicales de antaño, rodado en Almería. En concreto "Rustlers' Rhapsody" homenajea la inocencia y pulcritud de los films de Roy Rogers, el vaquero cantante, siempre imbatible e impecable en sus acciones y apariencia. Con su vestimenta blanca, su guitarra y su caballo Wildfire, Rex O'Herlehan recorre los pueblos del oeste sin otro fin que hacer justicia.
Una banda de ladrones se hace con el control del suministro de agua en una zona casi desértica, pidiendo a los ganaderos un alto precio por ella. El agente del Gobierno, Saunders, es enviado al lugar para resolver la situación. Junto a los rancheros de la zona, Saunders trabajará para que el río se vuelva a abrir y acabar con la tiranía de la banda de James Kincaid.
El mejor autor de novelas del oeste, Bronco Bob Mitchell, nunca ha puesto un pie en el oeste. Un artículo de prensa ha puesto de manifiesto este hecho a sus fans, y su imagen está sufriendo a causa de ello. Por ello decide lavar su imagen haciendo una aparición en un rodeo de caridad de Long Island. Mientras está montado en un caballo, un novillo se escapa y se lanza contra él. No sabiendo qué hacer, una vaquera, Anne Shaw, viene a su rescate y le salva la vida. Mientras tanto, Duke y Willoughby son vendedores de cacahuetes en el rodeo. No son muy buenos en su trabajo, y pronto causan estragos. En una de esas se esconden de su jefe en un vagón de ganado y de pronto se encuentran camino hacia el oeste...
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
Tom is a cowboy boot-wearing cat at a Texas dude ranch. When a beautiful female cat comes for a visit, Tom takes time from his regular torturing of Jerry to use the mouse as a way to impress the dame. Naturally, Jerry gives Tom his comeuppance.
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
Join Little Joe and his rootin' tootin' French pea brothers on an adventure that will take them from an abandoned mineshaft all the way to Dodge Ball City--with Little Joe's faith being tested every step of the way! It's a Wild West yarn that teaches us to keep the faith when facing hardship because, in the end, god can work all things out for good. Yee-haw!
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology such as, airplanes, radios and refrigerated trucks to steal the cows, butcher them in the field and ship them out before getting caught. This causes the town to bring in a modern NYC detective to catch the crooks, but will Autry and Frog be permanently out of a job?
A rustler's son (Roy Rogers) courts a rancher's daughter (Mary Hart) during a range war.
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers. Jeannie, afraid for his safety, tells Foster of Bill's secret route not knowing Foster is the leader of the outlaw gang.