Dale Evans and Gabby Hayes own a traveling rodeo show. However, they are almost broke--no one wants to book the show. Gabby is too stubborn to try to update the show and thanks to Roy arriving on the scene, the show starts to do better. At the same time a 'nice guy' is wooing Dale and has offered to merge his show with hers. And, to make sure she needs him, he makes sure her show fails repeatedly with his dirty tricks.
Dougdoepke wrote in their review that this film was a personality film. In other words, the idea of it being a western or even having a traditional story was completely abandoned by the time "Lights of Old Santa Fe" debuted--it was simply Roy Rogers playing Roy Rogers. And, I must point out, there wasn't a whole lot of attempt to give this film much of a story. Instead, he mostly plays himself and he and Dale Evans as well as the Sons of the Pioneers just sing and sing and sing and sing--and the plot seems completely incidental. However, unlike Dougdoepke and the other reviewers, I felt there really wasn't anything left to watch--it really wasn't much of a movie. And, as a result, it must rank among the very worst of Rogers' films. It's basically a parody of itself and make no effort at all. A lazy and easy to skip little 'western'(???). If you adore the music, watch it--otherwise, you should try some of Roy's earlier films when he and the studio actually cared.
By the way, Dale and Gabby must have felt a bit irked. That's because Trigger actually got higher billing in the film than they did!!
Dougdoepke wrote in their review that this film was a personality film. In other words, the idea of it being a western or even having a traditional story was completely abandoned by the time "Lights of Old Santa Fe" debuted--it was simply Roy Rogers playing Roy Rogers. And, I must point out, there wasn't a whole lot of attempt to give this film much of a story. Instead, he mostly plays himself and he and Dale Evans as well as the Sons of the Pioneers just sing and sing and sing and sing--and the plot seems completely incidental. However, unlike Dougdoepke and the other reviewers, I felt there really wasn't anything left to watch--it really wasn't much of a movie. And, as a result, it must rank among the very worst of Rogers' films. It's basically a parody of itself and make no effort at all. A lazy and easy to skip little 'western'(???). If you adore the music, watch it--otherwise, you should try some of Roy's earlier films when he and the studio actually cared.
By the way, Dale and Gabby must have felt a bit irked. That's because Trigger actually got higher billing in the film than they did!!