Melody of the Plains (1937)
Overview
The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.
Cast
Fred Scott
Steve Condon
Al St. John
Fuzzy
Hal Price
Gorman
Slim Whitaker
Cass
Lew Meehan
Henchman Scar
Lafe McKee
Dad Langley
Billy Lenhart
Bill Langley
David Sharpe
Bud LangleyRecommendations
Go West
Annie Get Your Gun
Ramrod
Oklahoma!
Decision at Sundown
Man Without a Star
Return of the Gunfighter
The Last Hunt
Carry On Cowboy
The Last Wagon
Gunless
The Last Sunset
The Comancheros
Hombre
Union Pacific
Destry Rides Again
The Man from the Alamo
Forty Guns
Canyon Passage
Rough Night in Jericho