More a road movie musical than a Western, strictly speaking, the Gene Autry Foundation's restored version of Gaucho Serenade is lightweight stuff packaged to near perfection. Autry and Mary Lee deliver a couple of knee-slapping cowboy hits and Smiley Burnette adds his own special brand of nonsense. Strong on comedy and light on action, Gaucho Serenade does contain one impressive stunt where Autry transfers from his horse, Champion, to a moving train. And Republic Pictures made sure that the audience could plainly see that the "gag" was indeed performed by Gene and not one of the studio's many and much slimmer stuntmen. The film's only liability, in fact, is young Clifford Severn Jr., a Freddie Bartholomew wannabe whose "pip-pips!" and "my good chaps" quickly become grating.