Whirlwind

Apr 16, 1951

1h 10m

★ 5.0

GENE AND CHAMPION CARRY THE MAIL FOR UNCLE SAM!

Overview

A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis) estate from fraud.

Genres

Western

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Cast

Gene Autry aka The Whirlwind

Gene Autry

Champ - Gene's Horse

Champion

Elaine Lassiter

Gail Davis

Big Jim Lassiter

Thurston Hall

Wade Trimble

Harry Lauter

Lon Kramer

Dick Curtis

Sheriff Barlow

Harry Harvey

Bill Trask

Gregg Barton

Smiley Burnette

Townsman

Chris Allen

Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.

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0.0

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0.0

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5.9

Ride 'Em Cowboy

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4.7

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5.5

Rustlers' Rhapsody

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A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.

3.3

Six-Gun Rhythm

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4.7

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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!

0.0

The Singing Hill

Apr 25, 1941

If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.

0.0

Slim Carter

Nov 1, 1957

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5.5

Sunset Serenade

Sep 14, 1942

Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."

3.0

Code of the Fearless

Jan 5, 1939

When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it's just a plot between Fred and the Ranger Captain. Fred then gets into Red's gang and makes plans that will enable the Rangers to bring them all in. But his message to the Captain is intercepted and the hoax revealed.

7.1

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Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

0.0

The Rangers Ride

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After the Texas Rangers are disbanded, the the reconstruction years following the Civil War, a private state-police force extorts money from the citizens in a "protection" scheme. Ex-Rangers Jimmy Wakely and "Cannonball" Taylor foil an arrest by state-police officers Hamon and Kelly. Commissioner Jed Brant tells his nephew that his old friend Jimmy is plotting against the law-and-order forces. Vic's fiancée and ranch-owner, Sheila Carol, refuses to sign up with the crooked police outfit, and believes Jimmy is an outlaw. On Chief Barton's order, Hamon shoots ex-Rangers Murphy and Payson, so they can be blamed for a raid on Sheila's ranch.

0.0

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3.0

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6.0

Mexicali Rose

Mar 26, 1939

Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.

0.0

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Jul 8, 1938

It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.