Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.
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Gabby Whittaker: Hey, I'm late for the meetin'.
Roy Rogers: What meeting?
Gabby Whittaker: Over at the Hardy ranch. Since old man Hardy died his daughter's been runnin' it. You remember her.
Roy Rogers: Well, sort of.
Gabby Whittaker: Well, she's growed up too.
Sally Whittaker: [whistles] Boy, has she. Ever since she went East to that school she thinks she's a glamor girl.
Gabby Whittaker: Sally! Now that ain't nice.
Sally Whittaker: Well, it burns me up the way that dame makes fools of every old goat in the county.
Gabby Whittaker: Sally! She ain't a dame and I ain't an old goat.
- ConnectionsEdited into Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
An unusual feature in many old B-westerns is to set them in the present day....but with everyone dressed as cowboys and plots which would have been just as appropriate for the mid-late 19th century. So, in a film like "Man from Cheyenne" you have cattle rustlers....who use trucks! Such things were common in Roy Rogers and Gene Autry movies...as well as with a few of the other film cowboys.
When the story begins, you see cattle being stolen...and hidden in a cave! Weird...but I saw this in a Hopalong Cassidy film. Roy gets involved when the government and the local Cattlemens Association are looking for some tough guy to go investigate...and that tough guy is, naturally, Roy. But what he and the Association don't know is that the leader of these baddies is a woman!
So is the film worth your time? Yes, though I think the writer wasn't willing to quite commit to a villainess in the film. She was, in some ways, presented as a 'nice' bad girl...which isn't very realistic. I think it's probably because in B-westerns there was almost an unwritten rule against a completely sociopathic lady villain...they often had SOME good quality about them. And, they often ended up dying by the end of the film! I personally wanted to see her with no redeeming qualities whatsoever! But, I know I am in the minority on this one...and must admit that this is a very good Rogers film....enjoyable throughout.
By the way, early in the film I really enjoyed one of the musical numbers, as Roy and the Sons of the Pioneers sing a dandy rendition of "Happy Cowboy". Sometimes the music in Roy's films were more a distraction than anything else...but here it was quite welcome.
- planktonrules
- Oct 20, 2020
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- Vaqueiro Errante
- Filming locations
- Andy Jauregui Ranch - Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall, California, USA(ranch building scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1