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Film Info

Red River Valley

1936
Republic Pictures
Production #: 3570
56 minutes

Synopsis:
Cowhand Gene Autry and his partner, Frog Millhouse, help Arizona cattlemen who are trying to build a dam to bring water to their parched lands. Unscrupulous men, including town banker Moore and superintendent of the cattlemen's irrigation company Conway, attempt to hinder these plans for their own profit. Gene volunteers as night-riding ditch guard, but is caught in rock avalanche when Bull, sabotaging construction boss, sets off a dynamite blast on purpose. Gene is saved by his own quick wit, so Conway has Bull stir up the construction workers into striking over failure of payment. When the payroll is stolen, Gene and Frog head to the desert to recover it, are pursued, and forced into leaping off a cliff into the Colorado River to escape. On their way back to town, they catch Bull and two men dividing the money. Bull confesses, but Conway and Moore start a battle between the cattlemen and the rioting construction crews. Gene arrives with the payroll money, hoping to end the riot by paying the men. In a final desperate effort to win, Conway and Moore open the dam's floodgates. Gene is washed into the raging current, but saves the money. The two shady men, seeing the jig is up, attempt to escape on a construction train, and are killed when it collides with a flat car of dynamite.

Red River Valley is also known as Man of the Frontier.

Cast:

Character: Performer:
Gene Autry Gene Autry
Frog Millhouse Smiley Burnette
Mary Baxter Frances Grant
Conway Boothe Howard
Mike Jack Kennedy
Baxter Sam Flint
Bull George Chesebro
Sam Charles King
Iodine Eugene Jackson
Sheriff Edward Hearne
Moore Frank LaRue
Long Ken Cooper
Becker Frank Marvin
Champion Champion

Songs:

YODELING COWBOY Gene Autry
HILL BILLY DANCE #1 Instrumental
HILL BILLY DANCE #2 Instrumental
RED RIVER VALLEY Gene Autry
FETCH ME DOWN MY TRUSTY FORTY-FIVE Smiley Burnette
CONSTRUCTION SONG Extras
RED RIVER VALLEY George Chesebro, Gene Autry, Extras
RED RIVER VALLEY Gene Autry, Extras

Crew:

Director B. Reeves Eason
Supervisor Armand Schaefer
Screenplay and Original Story Stuart McGowan and Dorrell McGowan
Supervising Editor Joseph H. Lewis
Photography William Nobles
Sound Engineer Terry Kellum
Film Editor Carl Pierson
Songs Sam H. Stept, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette
Musical Supervision Harry Grey

Watch a Clip from Red River Valley: