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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5/10

Boulder Dam Scam

This Gene Autry western, Man From Music Mountain uses the opening of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam as the springboard for the story of this B film. The dam will now provide electric power for the residents of three states and some sharp operators are going to take advantage.

As this film is set in the modern west, it's a 20th century plot we're dealing with. Ivan Miller is the chief villain and he's selling real estate, lots in a ghost town to be precise. But the scam he's working is that with Boulder Dam in operation there will be power lines coming soon and there is a gold mine nearby. Oh, Miller's selling shares in that as well.

As Gene and Smiley Burnette have dealt with Miller before, they smell a rat. But in trying to outsmart him, they nearly outsmart themselves. You'll have to see Man From Music Mountain to know what I mean.

The feminine leads are Carol Hughes and Sally Payne who have traveled west and bought those lots to open a beauty salon. It was nice that Republic Pictures thought of giving Smiley Burnette a girl as well for a change.

The title song is the only new song in the film that was not written by Gene Autry, but it's the best number in the film. It's not a bad B western with a topical event to center the plot around.