Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge

In Georgia or the Florida Panhandle, the ranchers think the turpentiners are stealing their cattle. Only Gene Autry knows better, and is kicked out by his father, Charles Middleton. The turpentiners hate him too, despite Betty Bronson speaking up for him. Her father, Russell Simpson is mad at her. Autry gets a job with Smiley Burnette's Wild West congress and investigates.

It's a nice B western for Autry, with the Tennessee Ramblers providing a far more hillbilly sound than usual for the series. With good performers, a script that offers a handsome variation on a stock western plot, and Joseph Kane directing, there's good music and handsome camerawork by William Nobles proceeding at a good pace thanks to editing by Lester Orleback.

Betty Bronson rose to fame when she was chosen to play the title role in the silent version of Peter Pan. She was a fine actress, but tastes changed, her producers didn't know what to do with her, and she largely abandoned the screen after her marriage in 1933. This would be her last screen appearance for two dozen years. She died in 1971, largely forgotten, at the age of 64.