Melody of the Plains

Name: Melody of the Plains
Director: Sam Newfield
Genre: Western
Released: 1937-04-01
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Fred Scott, Al St. John, Louise Small, Hal Price, Slim Whitaker

1937

55m

Western

Director: Sam Newfield

Writer: Bennett Cohen

Overview

The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.