Product Details

• Actors: Gene Autry, Brabara Britton, Chill Wills
• Directors: John English
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Timeless Multimedia
• VHS Release Date: December 1, 1994
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303905706
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #473,828 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Man Of The Frontier, December 31, 2001

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PATRICIA T. ALMDALE (AULANDER, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red River Valley [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Another title for this movie was Man Of The Frontier. Gene delivers cattle to a small town which is having a struggle keeping swindlers from shutting down the dam that supplied water to the valley...Smiley Burnette is his sidekick and at his funniest best! Lot's of action from this early movie made in the late 1930's. You will see a rising star really doing a dangerous stunt himself. Autry did alot of his own stunts and in this one almost got sweep down the river because of slippery moss as he was wading across the dam according his film biography. So watch this and see him progressing on his way to the top!! What can you say!! He was a HERO!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars We'll stop 'em from blowin' up the dam, but first... I'm gonna sing a song!, August 16, 2010

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man of the Frontier (DVD)

ALPHA VIDEO offers bargain priced, often hard-to-find vintage movies that are ideal for those willing to skip DVD extras. Their transfers show no evidence of restoration, so quality varies from one title to the next, with "fair to good" being the average.

REPUBLIC Pictures programmer RED RIVER VALLEY (aka "Man of the Frontier") originally ran a full hour. Presented here is the edited 54 minute version. (A 2004 restoration clocks in at 59.) Filmed on location in Yuma, AZ., Gene Autry's vocal on the traditional cowboy ballad title song includes lyrics modified by Nick Manoloff. Besides incidental music, this western songfest has one original Autry tune, a pair by Smiley Burnette and one written by both men.

The river construction project at the center of this story seems right out of the TVA or the New Deal's WPA.

SYNOPSIS--
Valley banker Hartley Moore (LaRue) sabotages efforts of local citizens to construct a Red River irrigation system. When five men overseeing the dam's construction are murdered, Gene accepts a job as "ditch rider," an armed and mounted patrol officer. Steve Conway (Howard), an employee of project overseer George Baxter (Fiint), becomes jealous when Baxter's daughter Mary (Grant) shows a romantic interest in Gene. He throws in with Moore and hires Bull (Chesebro) plus several cohorts to dynamite the dam and kill Gene and sidekick 'Frog' (Burnette).

Amidst all this trouble, Gene and friends are able to perform a few numbers. It's a typical Autry western, with a usual less-than-steller supporting cast and formulaic plot that holds together primarily because of the efforts of our singing hero. Recommended for fans of 'B' unit westerns and '30s cowboy music.

Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.

(5.7) Red River Valley (1936) - Gene Autry/Smiley Burnette/Frances Grant/Boothe Howard/Sam Flint/ George Chesebro/Frank La Rue

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to par - DVD wise., October 27, 2003

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BVT (Paranaque City Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man of the Frontier (DVD)

This movie is the original of the re-released version known as Red River Valley, a VHS copy of which I have. This DVD is of medium quality as it appears to have been made not from a film print but from a VHS tape. The double shadows and ghost effects are obvious. MY Goodtimes EP mode VHS copy was far better than this.