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The Big Sombrero (1950)

The Big Sombrero poster
Directed by
Armand Schaefer, Frank McDonald, Gene Autry
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A singing cowboy is hired to run a ranch. His employer is secretly working against the owner and the workers.

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What happens

The Big Sombrero is a 1949 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Gene Autry and Champion. Written by Olive Cooper, the film is about a singing cowboy hired as foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by a man working against the interests of the ranch's absentee owner and workers. It was the last of two Autry Columbia films shot in Cinecolor, it was preceded by The Strawberry Roan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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