Home in Oklahoma (1946)

Director:

William Witney

Writer:

Gerald Geraghty (original screenplay)

Release Date:

18 October 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

Ridin'...Singin'...Fightin'!

Plot:

In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner( making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E...

Plot Keywords:

Horse | Last Will And Testament | Murder | Cattle | Waterfall

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Roy Rogers	...	Roy Rogers
Trigger	...	Trigger, the Smartest Horse in the Movies
George 'Gabby' Hayes	...	Gabby Whittaker
Dale Evans	...	Connie Edwards
Carol Hughes	...	Jan Holloway
George Meeker	...	Steve McClory
Lanny Rees	...	Duke Lowery
Ruby Dandridge	...	Devoria - the cook
George Lloyd	...	Sheriff
Arthur Space	...	Coroner Jud Judnick
Frank Reicher	...	Jason (lawyer)
George M. Carleton	...	Kennedy (newspaper editor) (scenes deleted) (as George Carleton)
Flying 'L' Ranch Quartet	...	Singers (as Flying 'L' Ranch Quartette)
Bob Nolan	...	Bob
Sons of the Pioneers	...	Musicians, Ranch hands

Runtime:

72 min (original version) | 54 min (edited version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #11832, General Audience) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Filming Locations:

Flying L Ranch, Davis, Oklahoma, USA

Company:

Republic Pictures

Trivia:

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were married on location at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma after filming "Home in Oklahoma" together. There exists a memorial plaque there today commemorating their marriage.

Soundtrack:

Jailhouse Sequence

Dueling Reporters

If Home In Oklahoma was located in the blue state east instead of the red state middle America, we might be talking about Tracy and Hepburn in the leads here.

One of the things that always runs through Roy Rogers and Dale Evans's films is the battle of the sexes banter. In this film they are rival reporters, he for his local Oklahoma town paper and she for a big newspaper in St. Louis. They're both hot for a scoop involving the death of a local millionaire rancher. Of course this being a Roy Rogers western, he's also a cowboy.

Hey, if Tracy and Hepburn could be rival lawyers in Adam's Rib, why can't Roy and Dale be rival reporters? Now don't expect the dialog to be on the level of Garson Kanin, but it ain't actually too bad.

Home in Oklahoma boasts a very nice title song that Roy recorded and did well in the country/western market. Too bad Rodgers&Hammerstein already wrote a nice Oklahoma song or this one might be the state song for the Sooner State.