Along the Navajo Trail (film)

Along the Navajo Trail is a 1945 American western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers, George Gabby Hayes and Dale Evans. The films story was based on a William Colt MacDonald novel. The film marked the debut of the Cuban actress Estelita Rodriguez, who Republic Pictures then began to build up into a star. Its title song is Along the Navajo Trail, an instrumental version of which appears with the opening credits, with a brief vocal version during the last twenty seconds of the film. The first few bars of the song are used as background music in several chase scenes.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Roy Rogers poses as a wandering poet, finding and defeating a group of bad guys who, for reasons they keep to themselves, are trying to oust a girl and her father from their ranch. As the plot develops, it is revealed that they want the ranch so they can sell it to a company that wants to run an oil pipeline through a mountain pass at the edge of the property.Roy comes to the town of Padre Wells, leaving his guns at his squatters camp on the LadderA ranch. He gets into a fistfight with Rusty Channing, a cowboy from the BridleBit ranch who is harassing a gypsy girl and her boyfriend. After defeating Channing, BridleBit owner J. Richard Bentley advises Roy to bring his guns the next time he shows up. Roy returns to the LadderA, where he forms a relationship with the owners daughter Lorrie Alastair, and moves into the bunkhouse. Lorries father has been shot in the arm by the bad guys who are after his ranch. A range war ensues, with Roy, the LadderA group and the gypsies on one side, and the BridleBit gang and bad guys from the Santa Fe Oil Company on the other. The gypsy girl briefly has a crush on Roy, but his heart belongs to Lorrie. Ultimately there is a showdown at the BridleBit, with the bad guys having the upper hand until the gypsies race in and save the day. Roy and Lorrie openly fall in love and live happily ever after. ........

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