Back in the Saddle (film)
Back in the Saddle is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Mary Lee. Written by Richard Murphy and Jesse Lasky Jr., the film is about a singing cowboy who attempts to bring peace between ranchers and the operator of a copper mine whose chemicals are poisoning the areas water supply. The film features several of Autrys hit songs, including Back in the Saddle, Im An Old Cowhand, and You Are My Sunshine.
During the train ride back to Solitude, Gene meets his old friend, gambler Duke Winston Addison Richards, who just eluded the men he cheated in a card game. When they arrive at Solitude, Tom manages to run off on his own and soon meets singer Taffy Jacqueline Wells and her teenaged sister Patsy Mary Lee who are in town looking for work. Thinking that Duke is as important as he pretends to be, Tom asks him to help Taffy get a singing job at the local saloon. Having already convinced mine owner and saloon owner E.G. Blaine Arthur Loft to hire him as manager, Duke has no problem hiring Taffy. Gene thinks that Taffy is a common showgirl after Toms money, and his rudeness to her initiates a brawl. Afterwards, Tom tries to convince him hes wrong about Taffy, and that shes nice. Gene replies, Shes a dance hall girl in a mining towntheyre all nice. Thats their business.Soon after, Gene discovers that cattle are dying on the banks of a stream used by Blaine and his copper mines the waste from the mine is poisoning the cattle. Back in town, Gene tries to reason with Blaine, urging him to build proper drainage pits to clean the water, but when the foreman says they would have to shut down operations for weeks, Blaine refuses. Infuriated by Blaines greed, Gene goes to Judge Bent to obtain an injunction to stop the mining, but learns that he must travel to Phoenix to get it. At the train station, Gene runs into Patsy and Taffy, and apologizes for his earlier behavior. ........
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