In Old Santa Fe

In Old Santa Fe (1934)

Genres - Western, Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure, Crime  |   Sub-Genres - Musical Western  |   Release Date - Nov 15, 1934 (USA - Unknown), Nov 15, 1934 (USA)  |   Run Time - 62 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Having recently left Universal Pictures in a huff, mercurial cowboy star Ken Maynard stopped briefly at Mascot Studios for a brace of films. The first was In Old Santa Fe, a modern story set at a dude ranch where Maynard (playing himself) is employed. The villain is dude sharpshooter Chandler (Kenneth Thomson), who makes a play for Maynard's sweetheart Lila Miller (Evelyn Knapp). Before our hero is permitted to triumph, the film makes a side trip to a western nightclub, wherein a couple of radio crooners named Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette make their joint film debuts. Less than a year later, Autry would replace a recalcitrant Ken Maynard in the Mascot serial Phantom Empire -- and the rest, as they say, is history.

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accusation, false-accusation, frame-up, gangster, horse-racing, killing, murder, ranch-hand, songwriter, city, cowboy, dude-ranch, ranch