Released
Melody of the Plains
April 1 1937 (almost 88 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Sam Newfield
- Writer: Bennett Cohen
- Genre: Western
- Runtime: 55 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Spectrum Pictures (I), Callaghan-Buell Productions
The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.