Genre:
Western
Release Date: 11/20/2007
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Image
Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of
Stan Jones' haunting
"Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this success into a film, which proved to be one of
Autry's best postwar efforts. The basic plot concerns
Autry's efforts to clear rancher Ralph Lawson (
Steve Darrell) of a trumped-up murder charge. The trumper-upper, Rock McCleary, is played by
Robert Livingston, a former cowboy star who turned to character roles late in his career. The heroine is played by
Gloria Henry, ten years removed from her TV fame as Alice Mitchell in
Dennis the Menace. The title song is imaginatively staged by director
John English, with a ghostly
Tom London riding hard and fast as a montage of moody images play across the screen. So effective was this vignette that
Columbia included it in the coming-attractions trailer for
Riders in the Sky.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide