Product Details

• Actors: Gene Autry, Champion, Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway, Richard Lane
• Directors: Frank McDonald
• Writers: Olive Cooper
• Producers: Armand Schaefer
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Run Time: 69 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000G3AR
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,097 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, March 31, 2002

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Douglas Doepke (Claremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sioux City Sue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A highly enjoyable Autry western, boosted by a spirited supporting cast, a non-formula script, and a sprinkling of very listenable songs including the delightful title number. Autry was always an unlikely cowboy hero, short, stout, and wooden, yet his way with a song was always pleasant and natural, while his horsemanship and fight scenes were as convincing as any. His secret of success may well have been his ordinariness. Unlike a towering John Wayne, Crash Corrigan, or innumerable other icons of the Saturday matinee, Autry was always within reach of the audience, a reassuring nearness for those of us who knew we would never grow into the boots of a Wayne or Corrigan. Anyway, I suppose the audience for this kind of innocent bucholic fun dwindles each year as we matinee kids age and shuffle off, leaving such fare to film historians and curiosity seekers. Historians should find this film particularly revealing for its behind-the-scenes look at the making of musical westerns, and also for a fluttery Sterling Holloway, a most unlikely comic relief for the macho western, which, I suppose, amounted to someone's comment on the film industry since he appears as a production assisstant. The leading lady also goes against type. A hard-driving studio scout, who overshadows the laid-back Autry, she defies patriarchal expectations by remaining with the studio at film's end. All in all, this programmer rises above the low expectations of a cowboy movie and remains well worth a look on several levels.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!, November 2, 1999

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

This review is from: Sioux City Sue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

THIS PICTURE JUST GOES TO PROVE THAT GENE AUTRY WAS STILL COWBOY #1 EVEN AFTER HIS RETURN FROM THE WAR. WAS THEN AND STILL IS NOW!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the post-WWII Autry movies, August 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sioux City Sue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is probably the best of the the Post-WW2 Autry movies from a music standpoint. Many of the songs were hits for him and are delivered by a more mature Autry. The Cass County Boys do an excellent job of supporting him musically. The quality of this uncut video is excellent and the sound is above average for a reissue. A 'must have' for those who collect singing cowboy music and films.