Melody Ranch (1940)
- Directed by
- Joseph Santley
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A singing cowboy goes back to his childhood town. His old rivals have taken over the town, and he works to bring back peace.
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What happens
Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western musical film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, and Ann Miller. Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town. In 2002, the film was added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board and selected for preservation as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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