Television
The Gene Autry Show
Cold Decked
Flying A Pictures
Season 3, Episode 10 (3-10)
Production #56
Network: CBS
Running Time: 30 minutes
Black and White
Original Air Date:
Tuesday, September 15, 1953
Sponsor: Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum
Brief Synopsis:
Gene fights for justice when a local banker, who is believed to have embezzled bank funds, is threatened by a half-crazed lynch mob.
Detailed Synopsis:
Snake River's citizens are thrown into a furor when Ben Tansey, the local banker, mysteriously disappears and is believed to have embezzled the bank's funds. While checking Tansey's house, Sheriff Jeb Warner is attacked by a pair of drygulchers, one of whom rides the missing banker's horse. Gene Autry saves the lawman's life and takes over the investigation with the able assistance of his pal, Pat Buttram. After exceedingly clever detective work on Gene's part, plus plenty of exciting fisticuffs and gunplay, the real crooks are rounded up, and Tansey is saved from decorating a cottonwood tree.
Cast:
Character: | Performer: |
Gene Autry | Gene Autry |
Pat Buttram | Pat Buttram |
Ben Tansey | Stanley Andrews |
Sheriff Jeb Warner | Alan Bridge |
Lee Strickland | Henry Rowland |
Snuffy | Terry Frost |
Blake | Myron Healey |
Rich | Gregg Barton |
Ed Martin | Kenne Duncan |
Elliott | Ted Mapes |
Thompson | Bob Woodward |
Champion | Champion, World's Wonder Horse |
Songs:
The Yellow Rose of Texas (Exact same footage and performance as episode #42, "Rock River Feud") |
Gene Autry |
Crew:
Executive in charge of Production |
Armand Schaefer |
Directed by | Wallace Fox |
Producer | Louis Gray |
Screenplay | Elizabeth Beecher |
Director of Photography | William Bradford, A.S.C. |
Film Editor | Jack Wheeler |
Musical Director | Carl Cotner |
Music Supervisor | Irving Friedman |
Musical Score | Walter Greene |
Assistant Director | Harry Mancke |
Recorded by | Glen Glenn Sound Company |