Like the opening song says, Roy, Gabby and Ray Hatton are a happy go lucky bunch of punchers in this quick paced story that moves West to New York and back again to the Circle R to have Roy Rogers save his ranch from a gang of would be land grabbers. The bad guys are after the molybdenum found at Skeleton Canyon on Roy's property. The story is one of those modern Westerns where technology competes with the cowboy life, as in an early scene when the good guy trio block the road of a passing car with their herd of cattle. Did cows really have the right of way back then?
Gabby and Ray share a fair amount of screen time here with Roy, usually in some kind of a dust up between themselves but always in a good natured way. They're at their best when they start a brawl at a night club to divert attention from Roy, who has his share of trouble in the picture. Say, how is it when the trio jumped on the East bound train with only the clothes on their back, they're shown at the Valley Stream Steeplechase with new suits? Especially since Roy needed an extension on the next mortgage payment for the ranch. I guess viewers really weren't supposed to notice things like that back in the Thirties and Forties.
There's probably a few other things you weren't supposed to notice, like how Gabby and Ray made it to the end of the horse race finish line at the same time as the riders - but they were on foot! Or the shootout at the cabin back out West; Gabby's firing at the villains in the cabin, but one of his bullets shatters a light fixture on the inside wall that's in the same direction as the line of fire. The bullet would have had to make a one hundred eighty degree turn in mid flight at the very least!
But for all that, it's still a fun paced Western that manages to pack it's share of songs by Roy, along with a tune by a gal named Louisiana Lou. This would be a good one to catch with Ray Hatton's choice of refreshment handy, a 'sasparilly' with a whiskey chaser!
Gabby and Ray share a fair amount of screen time here with Roy, usually in some kind of a dust up between themselves but always in a good natured way. They're at their best when they start a brawl at a night club to divert attention from Roy, who has his share of trouble in the picture. Say, how is it when the trio jumped on the East bound train with only the clothes on their back, they're shown at the Valley Stream Steeplechase with new suits? Especially since Roy needed an extension on the next mortgage payment for the ranch. I guess viewers really weren't supposed to notice things like that back in the Thirties and Forties.
There's probably a few other things you weren't supposed to notice, like how Gabby and Ray made it to the end of the horse race finish line at the same time as the riders - but they were on foot! Or the shootout at the cabin back out West; Gabby's firing at the villains in the cabin, but one of his bullets shatters a light fixture on the inside wall that's in the same direction as the line of fire. The bullet would have had to make a one hundred eighty degree turn in mid flight at the very least!
But for all that, it's still a fun paced Western that manages to pack it's share of songs by Roy, along with a tune by a gal named Louisiana Lou. This would be a good one to catch with Ray Hatton's choice of refreshment handy, a 'sasparilly' with a whiskey chaser!