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3.5/5 Amazon Edited by Frederick Bain Running time 66 minutes Director Ray Taylor Cinematography Gösta Peterson | 4.8/10 IMDb Directed by Ray Taylor Release date Nov 1937 Initial release November 1937 Produced by Edward Finney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Tex Ritter
Marjorie Reynolds Distributed by Grand National Pictures Cast Tex Ritter, Marjorie Reynolds Written by Edmond Kelso, Lindsley Parsons Similar Tex Ritter movies, Westerns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tex rides with the boy scouts 1937 tex ritter
Song of the Gringo is a 1937 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor. The film stars singing cowboy Tex Ritter and Troop 13 Los Angeles District Boy Scouts of America. The film was shot in Old Kernville, California and premiered on Broadway in November 1937.
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Plot
The film opens with a tribute to the Boy Scouts of America with footage of their first Jamboree in Washington D.C. and an appearance by Robert Baden-Powell. The scene switches to the robbery of a train carrying $1,000,000 in gold by a gang of outlaws hiding out at an abandoned mine. Tex Ritter and his two sidekicks are driven from the mine but are allowed to stay in the camp of a troop of Boy Scouts who are impressed when Tex informs them that he too was a Boy Scout and shows them his Silver Beaver Award. Tex and his sidekicks investigate the robbery, then use the Scouts to recover the gold and bring the gang to justice.
Cast
Soundtrack
Performed by the Beverly Hillbillies
Sung by Tex Ritter
Sung by Tex Ritter with the Beverly Hillbillies