Melody Ranch

Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western musical film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, and Ann Miller. Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town. In 2002, the film was added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board and selected for preservation as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Realizing that Hollywood life has softened him to the extent that he cant hold his own against three assailants, Gene decides to remain in Torpedo and get into shape again. He is encouraged by his friend Cornelius J. Corney Courtney Jimmy Durante and Pop Laramie George Gabby Hayes. Refusing to return to Hollywood, Gene now broadcasts his radio shows from Torpedo.Julie Sheldon Ann Miller, a debutante with theatrical aspirations, sees Gene in his natural setting and begins to take an interest in the cowboy she formerly scorned. Meanwhile, Gene rounds up the Wildhacks and fights them singlehanded, forcing them to sing on his broadcast. When the brothers become determined to get revenge, Gene runs for sheriff so he will be in position to clean up the Wildhack political machine for good, and also make use of the Vote for Autry song. During the battles that ensue, one of Genes friends is killed. Gene discovers evidence that identifies the Wildhacks as the killers. ........

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