Heart of the Rio Grande

Mar 11, 1942

1h 8m

★ 8.0

THE NATION'S NO. 1 OUTDOOR STAR...IN A STAMPEDE OF Action and song!

Overview

As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.

Genres

Adventure

Comedy

Music

Western

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

Gene Autry

Frog Millhouse

Smiley Burnette

Alice Bennett

Fay McKenzie

Connie Lane

Edith Fellows

Randolph Lane

Pierre Watkin

'Tadpole' Millhouse

Joe Strauch Jr.

Hap Callahan

William Haade

'Skipper' Forbes

Sarah Padden

Pudge

Jean Porter

Wranger (uncredited)

Yakima Canutt

Gene's Horse (uncredited)

Champion

Bartender (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran cowboy star comes to the aid of a beleaguered female rancher. Just "drifting along," Steve Garner (Mack Brown) obtains the job of foreman on a spread belonging to pretty Pat McBride (Lynne Carver). Unbeknownst to Pat, local banker Jack Dailey (Douglas Fowley) not only holds the mortgage on the ranch but is also the man responsible for the death of Pat's father. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/drifting-along-v90041#OtPRR6jLd1ubhlQv.99

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