Gaucho Serenade 1940

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

Gene Autry

Smiley Burnette

June Storey

Mary Lee

Duncan Renaldo

Clifford Severn

Lester Matthews

Smith Ballew

Joseph Crehan

William Ruhl

Wade Boteler

Ted Adams

Wendell Niles

Chuck Baldra

Buck Bucko

Fred Burns

Ed Cassidy

Champion

Jim Corey

Kernan Cripps

Joe Dominguez

José Eslava

Joel Friedkin

Olaf Hytten

Jack Kirk

George Lloyd

Tom London

Frankie Marvin

Walter Miller

Gene Morgan

Julian Rivero

Ralph Sanford

Harry Strang

Al Taylor

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Fred Velasco

Mary Velasco

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