Balas Traidoras

Roy Rogers finishes his latest picture. He and Trigger head to their ranch to discover that Andy Devine has hired a lot of new hands, all of whom look like him, because they're cousins: all except the new horse trainer, Jane Frazee. But such pleasantries are discarded when some men who have been rounding up and butchering wild horses on his land. Roy stops them, and they decide that it will be much more profitable to kidnap Trigger and hold him for ransom. Roy is willing to pay, but then they start killing people....

Roy moves into color productions with this one; the print I looked at was not in great shape, obscuring Jack Marta's usual fine compositions and scenery shots. Wade Crosby makes a fine mean villain, and George Lloyd an interesting conflicted one. Roy, the Sons of the Pioneer, Andy, and Miss Frazee get some nice singing in as usual, and we get to see Roy ride another, uncredited horse. Although the story seems a little sketchy at times -- perhaps it had to be edited a touch more tightly than usual -- there are the usual nice stunt touches to keep the audience happy.