Along the Navajo Trail (film)
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Release date September 15, 1945 Cast (Roy Rogers), Trigger (Trigger), George 'Gabby' Hayes (Gabby Whittaker), (Lorry Alastair), (Narita), (J. Richard Bentley)Similar movies The Big Country , Old Yeller , Sundown Trail , Phantom Rancher , Sunset Trail , Bucking Broadway Tagline Hear Roy Sing the Nation's No. 1 Song Hit "ALONG THE NAVAJO TRAIL" to Dale Evans |
Gypsies help a U.S. deputy marshal (Roy Rogers) pose as a singing drifter and bust an oil syndicate.
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Along the Navajo Trail is a 1945 American western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers, George Gabby Hayes and Dale Evans. The film marked the debut of the Cuban actress Estelita Rodriguez, who Republic Pictures then began to build up into a star. Its title song is Along the Navajo Trail, an instrumental version of which appears with the opening credits, with a brief vocal version during the last twenty seconds of the film. The first few bars of the song are used as background music in several chase scenes.
The film was part of the long-running series of Roy Rogers films produced by the studio.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
Plot
Deputy U.S. Marshal Roy Rogers poses as a wandering poet, finding and defeating a group of bad guys who, for reasons they keep to themselves, are trying to oust a girl and her father from their ranch. As the plot develops, it is revealed that they want the ranch so they can sell it to a company that wants to run an oil pipeline through a mountain pass at the edge of the property.
Roy comes to the town of Padre Wells, leaving his guns at his squatters camp on the Ladder-A ranch. He gets into a fistfight with Rusty Channing, a cowboy from the Bridle-Bit ranch who is harassing a gypsy girl and her boyfriend. After defeating Channing, Bridle-Bit owner J. Richard Bentley advises Roy to bring his guns the next time he shows up. Roy returns to the Ladder-A, where he forms a relationship with the owners daughter Lorrie Alastair, and moves into the bunkhouse. Lorries father has been shot in the arm by the bad guys who are after his ranch. A range war ensues, with Roy, the Ladder-A group and the gypsies on one side, and the Bridle-Bit gang and bad guys from the Santa Fe Oil Company on the other. The gypsy girl briefly has a crush on Roy, but his heart belongs to Lorrie. Ultimately there is a showdown at the Bridle-Bit, with the bad guys having the upper hand until the gypsies race in and save the day. Roy and Lorrie openly fall in love and live happily ever after.
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