Man from Music Mountain

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Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Carol Hughes in Man from Music Mountain (1938)

When nasty land developers try to bilk honest ranchers who don't know their land holds lots of gold, Gene puts a stop to it.When nasty land developers try to bilk honest ranchers who don't know their land holds lots of gold, Gene puts a stop to it.When nasty land developers try to bilk honest ranchers who don't know their land holds lots of gold, Gene puts a stop to it.

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Trivia
Harry Harvey and Murdock MacQuarrie are listed as cast members by a modern source, but they were not seen in the film.

Quotes
Gene Autry: Now how do you expect to run all this junk without electricity?
Frog Millhouse: Well, we're gonna have electricity.
Gene Autry: Sure you will if lightning strikes you.

Connections
Featured in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000)

Soundtracks
There's a Little Deserted Town on the Prairie
(uncredited)
Written by Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin and Fred Rose
Performed by Gene Autry and Cowboys

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7/10

A pretty good B-western--though the plot is a bit familiar.

A group of scoundrels decide to sell worthless land to naive settlers with promises that the land would be electrified and they'd make tons of money with their businesses. Instead, they know the new dam won't bring electricity there and the mine they sell them is worthless. When Gene Autry discovers this, he tries to help--but no one believes him.

There were a ton of B-westerns made in the 40s and 50s, so it shouldn't be any surprise that the plot to 'Man From Music Mountain" was VERY familiar. In fact, it had been used a year earlier in "Gunsmoke Ranch" and a few years later in "Pioneers of the West"--both Three Mesquiteer films and all three films from Republic Pictures. Still, this Gene Autry outing is quite good and worth seeing.

In this installment, Gene is joined by Smiley Burnett--one of the few sidekicks who could and would often sing in the films as well as the leading man. Smiley's comic songs are nice and I was strangely intrigued by the couple who made music using bells--you just have to hear it for yourself. Additionally, Gene is in his element and it's hard not to enjoy yourself when watching this film.