There were times when Gene didn't have a sidekick in his stories, and when that happened like you have here, Sterling Holloway was often on hand to take up the slack. Hollaway's character here is Waldo T. Brooks Jr., a nervous principal in the Brooks Land Corporation, who gladly signs over his interest to Gene so he can just get away from it all. A story like this wouldn't even be able to pass muster today, but the 1940's were a simpler time, and I guess you could make a go of it with something like this.
When the other partners in the Brooks Corp. find out that Gene intends to put things on the right financial track for the company, they finagle an impromptu buyout offer requiring fifty thousand dollars from each member. For Gene, this will involve reigning in Waldo's free spending sister Shelly (Lynne Roberts) and selling off some assets to raise the dough. Falling short about half way, Gene develops plans for a rodeo to come up with the rest of the cash. This would have all worked fine, but the baddies have a pickpocket pal plant a phony power of attorney on Gene, making it look like Waldo's original transfer of his property was a forgery.
Well you don't think something like this would stand in an Autry flick now, do you? With a passel of tunes backed up by the Cass County Boys, Gene sets things right using a gimmick introduced right at the beginning of the story - a Smedley Dicto-Recordo Graph machine won by the Boys' guitar man Jerry Scoggins. I don't know if there ever was such a thing as a Smedley Dicto-Recordo Graph, but it sure sounded good. As did the recording that trapped the bad guys at their own game. Now they'll all have time to go fishing.
When the other partners in the Brooks Corp. find out that Gene intends to put things on the right financial track for the company, they finagle an impromptu buyout offer requiring fifty thousand dollars from each member. For Gene, this will involve reigning in Waldo's free spending sister Shelly (Lynne Roberts) and selling off some assets to raise the dough. Falling short about half way, Gene develops plans for a rodeo to come up with the rest of the cash. This would have all worked fine, but the baddies have a pickpocket pal plant a phony power of attorney on Gene, making it look like Waldo's original transfer of his property was a forgery.
Well you don't think something like this would stand in an Autry flick now, do you? With a passel of tunes backed up by the Cass County Boys, Gene sets things right using a gimmick introduced right at the beginning of the story - a Smedley Dicto-Recordo Graph machine won by the Boys' guitar man Jerry Scoggins. I don't know if there ever was such a thing as a Smedley Dicto-Recordo Graph, but it sure sounded good. As did the recording that trapped the bad guys at their own game. Now they'll all have time to go fishing.