I got a kick out of that early scene when Dale Evans comes barreling down the road and splashes Roy and Gabby when she runs across a small creek. There was a similar scene in the 1937 Gene Autry flick "Git Along Little Dogies", when actress Judith Allen pulled the same stunt on Gene. In that one Autry simply got wet when it happened, but was splashed with mud by the time he chased her down. I was waiting for something similar here but someone must have thought better of it.
This is probably one of the more entertaining of Roy's pictures with future wife Dale Evans, they were married a year later in 1947. You never really consider how talented she was until you see her sing like she does in this picture, both on her own ('I Wanna Go West') or in duet with Roy getting together for the title tune. Maybe Roy got the inspiration to propose when he said at one point - "I get all my best ideas when I'm singin'."
Say, keep an eye on Gabby Hayes when he does that drunken routine to set up some of the film's villains - didn't he look a lot like Foster Brooks doing his own routine a couple of decades later? The stagger was just about right and the beard added to the resemblance. I wonder if Brooks ever saw this picture.
Now I don't know about you, but I had no idea what to make of that pirate skit in the middle of the picture. It was handled by Bob Nolan's Sons of the Pioneers and was entertaining enough, but who came up with that one?
As for the story, Roy and Gabby help Helen Williams (Dale Evans) recover a crest rimmed with emeralds that was stolen from her family. It's also the objective of the film's bad guys including Tris Coffin and LeRoy Mason, but of course Roy has a plan to smoke them all out. He manages to get an assist from the Bear Valley Indian tribe led by the ever grinning Chief Flying Eagle (George J. Lewis). I wondered why the Indians in the picture kept smiling all the time, but finally figured they were all just having a good time.
This is probably one of the more entertaining of Roy's pictures with future wife Dale Evans, they were married a year later in 1947. You never really consider how talented she was until you see her sing like she does in this picture, both on her own ('I Wanna Go West') or in duet with Roy getting together for the title tune. Maybe Roy got the inspiration to propose when he said at one point - "I get all my best ideas when I'm singin'."
Say, keep an eye on Gabby Hayes when he does that drunken routine to set up some of the film's villains - didn't he look a lot like Foster Brooks doing his own routine a couple of decades later? The stagger was just about right and the beard added to the resemblance. I wonder if Brooks ever saw this picture.
Now I don't know about you, but I had no idea what to make of that pirate skit in the middle of the picture. It was handled by Bob Nolan's Sons of the Pioneers and was entertaining enough, but who came up with that one?
As for the story, Roy and Gabby help Helen Williams (Dale Evans) recover a crest rimmed with emeralds that was stolen from her family. It's also the objective of the film's bad guys including Tris Coffin and LeRoy Mason, but of course Roy has a plan to smoke them all out. He manages to get an assist from the Bear Valley Indian tribe led by the ever grinning Chief Flying Eagle (George J. Lewis). I wondered why the Indians in the picture kept smiling all the time, but finally figured they were all just having a good time.