Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade (1940) is a comedy, drama film directed by Frank McDonald rated 6.5/10.

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Cast

Gene Autry

Gene Autry

Smiley Burnette

Frog Millhouse

June Storey

Joyce Halloway

Mary Lee

Patsy Halloway

Duncan Renaldo

Gaucho Don José

Clifford Severn

Ronnie Willoughby

Lester Matthews

Frederick Willoughby

Smith Ballew

Buck Benson

Joseph Crehan

Edward Martin

William Ruhl

Henchman Carter

Wade Boteler

Rancher

Ted Adams

E.J. Jenkins