Gaucho Serenade
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
Cast
Gene Autry
as Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
as Frog Millhouse
June Storey
as Joyce Halloway
Mary Lee
as Patsy Halloway
Duncan Renaldo
as Gaucho Don José
Clifford Severn
as Ronnie Willoughby
Lester Matthews
as Frederick Willoughby
Smith Ballew
as Buck Benson
Joseph Crehan
as Edward Martin
William Ruhl
as Henchman Carter
