Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941)

Directed by

Lew Landers

Genre

Western film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A singing cowboy looks into a bank robbery and follows the clues to a showboat. There he finds a teenage singer whose father is helping the criminals to save money for her future.

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What happens

Ridin' on a Rainbow is a 1941 American western musical film directed by Lew Landers and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette and Mary Lee. Written by Bradford Ropes and Doris Malloy, based on a story by Ropes, the film is about a singing cowboy whose investigation of a bank robbery takes him to a showboat, where he finds that a teenage singer's father has been working with the robbers to provide for her future. The film received an Academy Award nomination for best original song for "Be Honest with Me" (Gene Autry, Fred Rose). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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