Under Western Stars

Spinning headlines into action, Roy Rogers and his crew (Smiley Burnette as sidekick “Frog”) are running fence, the Republic Pictures crew working at Tinnemaha Reservoir, out near Death Valley, as we’re left to surmise the competing interests in a Western water war, opening Under Western Stars, 1938.

The Academy Award-nominated song, by Johnny Marvin, occasioned by a Washington, D.C. party thrown by now-congressman Roy Rogers (playing “himself,” with love-interest Carol Rogers attending), who was elected to represent the plight of Western cattlemen against greedy capitalists, with fancy A/V support in Under Western Stars, 1938.

Under arrest but as-ever a hero, this time for letting loose water for desperate local cattlemen, Roy Rogers cheerily stands up to the water company boss (Guy Usher) and gets put up himself by the mayor (Earl Dwire) with a tune by Eddie Cherkose and Charles Rossoff, sung by the convenient Maple City Four, in Republic’s Under Western Stars, 1938.

Just collared by the friendly sheriff (Jack Rockwell) for opening up the dam to get water for local ranchers, Roy Rogers, backed by pal “Frog” (Smiley Burnette) and the Maple City Four offers his first song, written by Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin, in Republic Pictures’ Under Western Stars, 1938.