Melody of the Plains(1937)

Name: Melody of the Plains
Director: Sam Newfield
Genre: Western
Released: 1937-01-01
Duration: 55 min
Cast: Fred Scott, Al St. John, Louise Small, Hal Price, Slim Whitaker

Fred Scott Al St. John Louise Small Hal Price Slim Whitaker

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.