Melody of the Plains

Melody of the Plains

NR 1937 · 55 min · ★ 8.0 · Western

The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.

Directed by Sam Newfield · Written by Bennett Cohen

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Cast

Fred Scott Steve Condon
Al St. John Fuzzy
Louise Small Molly Langley
Hal Price Gorman
Slim Whitaker Cass
Lew Meehan Henchman Scar
Lafe McKee Dad Langley
Billy Lenhart Bill Langley
David Sharpe Bud Langley

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