Round Up Time in Texas

RoundUp Time in Texas is a 1937 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Oliver Drake. The film stars Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Maxine Doyle. Despite its title, the majority of the film takes place in South Africa.

After rounding up a large herd of horses in Texas, Gene Autry Gene Autry receives a telegram from his brother Tex Ken Cooper, who is mining diamonds in South Africa. The message states that Tex and his partner, Edward Barclay, have discovered a big strike in the Valley of Suspicion and urges Gene to bring as many horses as possible to Dunbar, South Africa, where he can contact John Cardigan LeRoy Mason, the saloon owner who grubstaked Tex and Barclay. Gene and his sidekick Frog Smiley Burnette quickly arrange for passage overseas and accompany the horses to South Africa.Meanwhile Tex and his partner, while on their way back to Dunbar from their mine, are ambushed by Cardigans men. Barclay is killed and Tex wounded but able to escape. Cardigan wants sole control of the mine. Sometime later, Gene and Frog arrive at Dunbar and hire Barkey McCuskey, a smalltime English con artist, as their auctioneer for when they sell their horses. Worried that Tex is not in Dunbar, Gene stoutly defends his brother when Cardigan tells him he is being sought for the murder of Barclay. Gene grows suspicious of Cardigan when he sees that the saloon owner tampered with another telegram from Tex. Cardigan in turn grows jealous as Gene who becomes friendly with saloon singer Gwen Maxine Doyle, who is Barclays daughter. ........

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