Melody Trail
Melody Trail is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Sherman L. Lowe and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes after the men who kidnapped the baby he should have been babysitting. The film features the songs On the Melody Trail, A Lone Cowboy on the Lone Prairie, and Western Lullaby.
That night, while Gene dreams about Millicent, his 1,000 in rodeo winnings are stolen by a gypsy named Frantz Willy Castello, the husband of a fortuneteller named Perdita Marie Quillan. The next day, while Millicent goes into town with her father, rancher Timothy Thomas Wade Boteler with Millicents dog, Souvenir a compulsive thief, takes a detour into the gypsy camp. Souvenir steals a basket containing Frantz and Perditas baby daughter Rica. Millicent later discovers the infant and takes her in, not knowing who her parents are. Frog and Gene, who end up working as cooks on the Thomas ranch, assume the baby is hers.Going by the name of Arizona, Gene captures two wild stallions to impress Millicent and the cowgirls she has hired to replace Matt and his men, who have defected. After Souvenir steals Genes cookbook, his efforts in the kitchen are far less successful, and the meal that he and Frog prepare for the cowgirls makes them all sick. Meanwhile, Matt plots to rustle the Thomas cattle. While the cowgirls bathe in a pond, Matt steals their clothes in order to prevent them from protecting the herd. ........
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