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

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Cast:
Gene Autry - Himself
Gloria Henry - Ann Lawson
Pat Buttram - Chuckwalla Jones
Mary Beth Hughes - Julie Steward
Robert Livingston - Rock McCleary
Steven Darrell - Ralph Lawson
Alan Hale, Jr. - Marshal Riggs
Tom London - Old Man Roberts
Hank Patterson - Luke
Ben Welden - Dave
Dennis Moore - Bud Dwyer
Joe Forte - Willard Agnew
Kenne Duncan - Travis
Frank Jaquet - Coroner
Roy Gordon - J.B. Balloway
Lois Bridge - Widow Cathart

Production:
Jon English - Director
Armand Schaefer - Producer
Henry Batista - Editor
Gerald Geraghty - Screen Writer
Harold H. MacArthur - Art Director
William Bradford - Cinematographer
Mischa Bakaleinikoff - Musical Direction/Supervision
Paul Mertz - Musical Direction/Supervision
Herbert A. Woodbury - Short Story Author
Jimmie Davis - Songwriter
George Cooper - Sound/Sound Designer
Stan Jones - Songwriter