• Rating:
• Genre: Western
• Movie Type: B-Western, Musical Western
• Themes: Taming the West
• Director: Joseph Kane
• Main Cast: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey, Harry Shannon
• Release Year: 1943
• Country: US
• Run Time: 70 minutes

Plot

At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another B-flick. The story concerns the efforts by kindly judge Grey (Harry Shannon) to establish a "Boy's Town"-style establishment for wayward youngsters. The judge is opposed by gambling-house proprietress Belle Bonner (Ona Munson), who is a prositute in everything but name. Belle hopes to discredit Grey by revealing the judge's criminal record, but state ranger Roy Rogers comes to the rescue. The climax finds Rogers, heroine Terry Grey (Virginia Grey) and the ex-delinquent kids (played by members of the Robert Mitchell Boy Choir) capturing Belle's bandit gang. Gabby Hayes, Roy Rogers' former sidekick, is conspicuous by his absence in Idaho; Hayes was replaced on this occasion by the ubiquitous Smiley Burnette, as always cast as "Froggy Millhouse." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Roy Rogers - Roy
• Smiley Burnette - Frog Millhouse
• Virginia Grey - Terry
• Harry Shannon - Judge Grey

Ona Munson - Belle Bonner; Dick Purcell - Duke Springer; Onslow Stevens - Chief Ranger; Arthur Hohl - Spike Madagan; Hal Taliaferro - Bud; Roy Barcroft; Pat Brady; Lynton Brent; Al Bridge; James Bush; Tristram Coffin; John Dilson; Gus Glassmire; Karl Hackett; Earl Hodgins; Jack Ingram; Eddie Kane; Jack Kirk; Rex Lease; Tom London; Jack Mulhall; The Sons of the Pioneers - Themselves; Spike Jones Orchestra; Forrest Taylor; Trigger the Horse; Wally Wales - Bud; Fred Burns; Bob Nolan; The Bob Mitchell Boy Choir; Tommy Coats

Credit

Roy Chanslor - Screenwriter; Olive Cooper - Screenwriter; Harry Grey - Producer; Joseph Kane - Director; Joseph Kane - Producer; Reggie Lanning - Cinematographer; Arthur Roberts - Editor; Morton Scott - Composer (Music Score); Morton Scott - Musical Direction/Supervision; Russell Kimball - Art Director

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