Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)

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Billed as “a new kind of entertainment with music, thrills and comedy” in 1935, Tumbling Tumbleweeds presented Gene Autry as “radio’s silver voice now heard on the talking screen in trills, frills and spills.” Singing cowboy Gene Autry is thrown into the midst of the mysterious killing of his father and to make matters worse, his best friend is accused of the crime. This rip-roaring Western has daring rescues, an old time medicine show, fast riding, hard-hitting fistfights, rib-tickling antics from Smiley Burnette and the sensational songs of Gene Autry!

Songs include I’ll Yodel My Troubles Away, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Corn Fed and Rusty, Ridin’ Down the Canyon, and That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine.

The movie starred Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lucile Browne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Norma Taylor and was directed by Joseph Kane for the newly formed Republic Pictures. It was the first starring role for Autry.

Synopsis:
Gene Autry returns home as the co-owner of a traveling medicine show after a five-year absence following a quarrel with his father. On their way to town, the troupe finds a badly wounded Harry Brooks, Gene’s old friend, in an abandoned shack. Before he loses consciousness, Brooks gasps that he is not guilty of an unspecified crime. The sheriff’s posse arrives, but Brooks has hidden. Gene believes Brooks has been framed when Blaze Williams, a member of the posse, returns later to shoot him. Gene hides the wounded man in the medicine wagon and starts for town. Meanwhile, Blaze tells his boss, Barney Craven, that Brooks is hidden in the wagon. In town, Gene learns that Brooks’ crime is the murder of Gene’s father. Rushing out to the wagon, Gene finds that Brooks is gone. Thinking his wife, Janet, may have taken him away, Gene heads to the Brooks ranch with his friends Smiley Burnette and McWade. Craven’s men follow Gene. Janet and McWade convince Gene that Brooks is not guilty by telling him that Brooks sold water rights to Gene’s father, which Craven wanted, so he killed the older man, framing Brooks. Gene captures Craven’s men with the aid of one of his records, and then tricks Craven into rescuing them. Gene and his friends wait for Craven instead and fight to the finish. The culprits are thrown into jail, and Gene finds time to pay attention to the serious courtship of Janet’s younger sister.

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