Film Info
Carolina Moon
1940
Republic Pictures
Production #: 908
65 minutes
Synopsis:
Pals Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse enter the local rodeo to win enough money to buy a ranch. Miss Caroline Stanhope and her father, Colonel Stanhope, have also come to town to enter her thoroughbred horse, Betsy, in the rodeo. The Colonel, swindled by a couple of city slickers, loses over a thousand dollars and begs to turn over Betsy in lieu of cash. The conmen refuse, and Gene steps in, offering to pay Colonel Stanhope his entire rodeo winnings for the horse so that the Colonel may settle his debt. The Colonel agrees, and promptly drowns his sorrows. Caroline, finding her father in a drunken condition, packs him into the car, shoves Betsy into the trailer and heads back for Carolina. She thinks that Gene is in league with the city slickers and she is determined to thwart the scheme to cheat her father out of his horse. Gene, on the other hand, is equally determined to thwart the Stanhope's scheme to cheat him out of his thousand dollars, and he and Frog go to Carolina to recover either their money or the horse. They discover that the Stanhopes are honest folk, who, with their neighbors, are hard-pressed by poverty and the threatened foreclosure of their lands. Henry Wheeler, the only solvent plantation owner in Fairfield County, is campaigning to take the planters' lands, where once worthless timber is now valuable. Gene uncovers the plot and urges the planters to hold their land and sell the timber themselves. When Wheeler attempts to block this plan by holding up lumberjacks, preventing them from fulfilling the terms of their contracts, Gene sends out an SOS for cowboys to work as lumberjacks. They cut down the Fairfield County timber, so that the plantation owners, including the Stanhopes, are able to clear their mortgages and still retain their land.
Cast:
| Character: | Performer: |
| Gene Autry | Gene Autry |
| Frog Millhouse | Smiley Burnette |
| Caroline Stanhope | June Storey |
| Patsy Stanhope | Mary Lee |
| Colonel Stanhope | Eddy Waller |
| Henry Wheeler | Hardie Albright |
| Colonel Jefferson | Frank Dae |
| Evangeline | Terry Nibert |
| Barrett | Robert Fiske |
| Mammy | Etta McDaniel |
| Billy | Paul White |
| Thompson | Fred Ritter |
| Foreman | Ralph Sanford |
| Musical Group | Jimmie Lewis and His Texas Cowboys |
| Champion | Champion |
Songs:
| CAROLINA MOON | Studio Singers |
| AT THE RODEO | Gene Autry, Jimmie Lewis and His Texas Cowboys |
| ME AND MY ECHO | Mary Lee, Smiley Burnette |
| SWANEE RIVER | Extras |
| CAROLINA MOON | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Extras |
| DREAMING DREAMS THAT WON'T COME TRUE | Gene Autry, June Storey |
| SAY SI SI | Gene Autry, June Storey, Mary Lee |
| CLIMBIN' UP D'MOUNTAIN | Extras |
Crew:
| Director | Frank McDonald |
| Associate Producer | William Berke |
| Screenplay | Winston Miller |
| Original Story | Connie Lee |
| Production Manager | Al Wilson |
| Photography | William Nobles |
| Film Editor | Tony Martinelli |
| Musical Supervisor | Raoul Kraushaar |
