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Singing Cowgirl (1939)

1939 · Feature film · 56 min · dir. Samuel Diege

  • Western

Synopsis

Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.

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Details

Director
Samuel Diege
Studio
Grand National Pictures
Released
1938-06-02
Running time
56 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Dorothy Page · hercule-poirot · 2010-07-29

The best of the movie are the songs of Dorothy Page.

★★★ · That much shootin means trouble · jimelena · 2006-09-21

Lots of good cowboy phrases here. You know what to expect. And you'll get it too. The characters don't seem all that cowboyish but the writting is accidently funny. Edgier than a rattle snake in pickle barrel. I don't know what that means.

★★ · Dorothy Page "Singing Cowgirl" & Dave O'Brien in a Western Melodrama · Poohbah70 · 2019-11-30

Its not a cowboy shoot-'em-up western - its a melodrama set out west, where a boy loses his mother and father to cowardly shoot-'em-down crooks. Hero Dave O'Brien is another version of the handsome, earnest, tender, fall-in-love-at-first-sight type cowboy, who never gets to draw his gun, although he proves to be handy with his fists. Interestingly, he was married to Dorothy Short, the other young beauty in this film. Dorothy Page is no great actress, but sings a nice lullaby. Stanley Price made a career of playing sly villains with his devilish stare and a twisted grin - even when the bad guy…

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