Gaucho Serenade
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65% Critic Match

Gaucho Serenade

It's Gene at his best ! Singing, riding, fighting his way into great new adventure !

6.5 / 10 1940 1h 6mNR English
ComedyDramaMusicWestern

Storyline

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Cast & Crew

Gene Autry

Gene Autry

Gene Autry

Lead
Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Frog Millhouse

June Storey

June Storey

Joyce Halloway

Mary Lee

Mary Lee

Patsy Halloway

Duncan Renaldo

Duncan Renaldo

Gaucho Don José

CS

Clifford Severn

Ronnie Willoughby

Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews

Frederick Willoughby

Smith Ballew

Smith Ballew

Buck Benson

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Frank McDonald's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Gaucho Serenade is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker