I'll never figure out how some of these old time B Westerns are titled when they have no connection at all to the story. It's not just Roy Rogers' films, it happens all the time with other cowboy stars as well. This flick has no Navajo Trail and no Indians. Go figure.
What it does have are the usual suspects, i.e, Roy, Dale Evans, Gabby Hayes, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, and the requisite bad guys, this time in the person of Douglas Fowley and Roy Barcroft. The plot involves the villains attempting to buy the ranch owned by Breck Alastair (Sam Flint) and his daughter Lorry (Dale Evans) for an oil company pipeline before any of the locals get wind of it. A band of gypsies hover in the background with some colorful song and dance numbers, with Estelita Rodriguez casting her romantic eyes in Roy's direction, much to the consternation of Dale's character after getting off on the wrong foot with Roy to begin with.
Although Roy decides against wearing his six-guns in the story, he does have names for them - Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane! Gabby has a talented mutt named General, and manages to get hoodwinked a couple times by the Gypsy leader Janza (Nestor Paiva). When he goes to dress down a beautiful pinto he bought from Janza, the white spot on the pinto's rump washes away! I've seen that gimmick used once before but couldn't tell you where among the hundreds of old time Westerns I've seen. As the story closes, Gabby gets his money back, but upon closer inspection, finds out the bills were recently printed, as the ink smears as he inspects them for defects!
If you watch closely during that final chase scene when Roy goes after bad guy Bentley (Douglas Fowley), as Bentley's buckboard goes over a cliff, the dummy that replaces the actor for the scene lands vertically right on its head! You couldn't have timed that more perfectly, and made me go 'ouch', even if it was a mannequin.
What it does have are the usual suspects, i.e, Roy, Dale Evans, Gabby Hayes, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, and the requisite bad guys, this time in the person of Douglas Fowley and Roy Barcroft. The plot involves the villains attempting to buy the ranch owned by Breck Alastair (Sam Flint) and his daughter Lorry (Dale Evans) for an oil company pipeline before any of the locals get wind of it. A band of gypsies hover in the background with some colorful song and dance numbers, with Estelita Rodriguez casting her romantic eyes in Roy's direction, much to the consternation of Dale's character after getting off on the wrong foot with Roy to begin with.
Although Roy decides against wearing his six-guns in the story, he does have names for them - Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane! Gabby has a talented mutt named General, and manages to get hoodwinked a couple times by the Gypsy leader Janza (Nestor Paiva). When he goes to dress down a beautiful pinto he bought from Janza, the white spot on the pinto's rump washes away! I've seen that gimmick used once before but couldn't tell you where among the hundreds of old time Westerns I've seen. As the story closes, Gabby gets his money back, but upon closer inspection, finds out the bills were recently printed, as the ink smears as he inspects them for defects!
If you watch closely during that final chase scene when Roy goes after bad guy Bentley (Douglas Fowley), as Bentley's buckboard goes over a cliff, the dummy that replaces the actor for the scene lands vertically right on its head! You couldn't have timed that more perfectly, and made me go 'ouch', even if it was a mannequin.