Cowboy Serenade

Jan 30, 1942

0h 54m

★ 6.5

Overview

Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up losing the cattle in a crooked poker game, however, and Gene and his sidekick Frog set out to find the cheating gamblers. It soon becomes clear that the leader of the gamblers is none other than Asa Lock, the dastardly father of Gene's romantic interest Stephanie.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

Gene Autry

Frog

Smiley Burnette

Stephanie Lock

Fay McKenzie

Priscilla Lock

Cecil Cunningham

Asa Lock

Addison Richards

Jim Agnew

Rand Brooks

Dixie Trambeau

Tristram Coffin

Pappy Vanderpyle

Slim Andrews

Millie Jackson

Linda Leighton

Joe Crowley

John Berkes

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6.2

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5.9

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6.5

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5.4

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7.0

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4.5

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4.8

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6.9

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6.9

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5.4

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6.6

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8.0

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7.0

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7.2

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7.0

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7.0

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