Public Cowboy No. 1

Public Cowboy No.is a 1937 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Ann Rutherford. Based on a story by Bernard McConville, the film is about a singing cowboy who chases down rustlers who are using airplanes, shortwave radios, and refrigerated trucks to steal cattle.

Newspaper editor Helen Morgan Ann Rutherford, responding to the increased cattle raids, demands that Sheriff Doniphon be replaced, claiming he is too oldfashioned to deal with modern rustlers. Gene defends the sheriff against Helens editorial. Having been raised by the sheriff after being orphaned by outlaws as a young boy, Gene knows the mans character and abilities. Helen, however, refuses to change her stance.While investigating the recent raids, Gene and Frog grow suspicious of the Chicago and Western Packing Co., owned by Jack Shannon Arthur Loft and run by Jack and his brother Jim House Peters Jr.. The deputies find the carcasses of some rustled cattle and demand to see the hides in order to check the brands. Lying to the deputies, Jim tells them that the cattle belong to his partner, Thad Slaughter Maston Williams, and that Slaughter has the hides at his ranch. ........

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