In Old Caliente

1939

54m

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5.0/10

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Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."

Directors

Joseph Kane

Writers

Gerald Geraghty(screenplay by)

Norman Houston(screenplay by)

Stars

Roy Rogers

Lynne Roberts

George 'Gabby' Hayes

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Jean

Gabby

Manuel Delgardo …

Don José Vargas

Carlos Vargas

Rita Vargas

Aunt Felicia Vargas

Curly Calkins

Pedro

Settler Wagon Master

Tall Lead Henchman

Henchman

Henchman

Henchman

Henchman

Smelter Worker Trying to Lift Gold Ball

Buck Bucko

Vaquero

Directors

Joseph Kane

Writers

Gerald Geraghty(screenplay by)

Norman Houston(screenplay by)

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Roy Rogers looks so immaculately pristine as to have come straight from an high school barn dance - luckily for all, though, Gabby Hayes injects a bit of realism and grit into a really procedural tale of the expansionist Gringo's, determined to upset the established order of the Spanish Don's as they arrive en mass in California. It's got loads of action, a dastardly, murderous, plot with plenty of back-stabbing shenanigans and oddly enough (for me, at any rate) the songs are not nearly so annoying, or frequent, as they might have been. Rogers as an hero, though, is just too goody-goody; epitomising what Americans would have liked their trailblazing forebears to have been, rather the reflect what they actually were and I found it all rather sugary.

Geronimo196722 Jun, 2022