Lee 'Lasses' White

Lee 'Lasses' White

Born: August 28, 1888
Died: December 16, 1949
in Wills Point, Texas, USA
Leroy Robert White (August 28, 1888 – December 16, 1949), better known as Lee "Lasses" White or Leroy (sometimes Le Roy or Lee Roy) "Lasses" White, was an American vaudeville pianist, songwriter and entertainer who became an actor of the stage, screen and radio. He became famous doing minstrel shows during the early part of the 1900s, and wrote one of the first copyrighted twelve-bar blues, "Nigger Blues". After spending some time on radio, White entered the film industry in the late 1930s. During his eleven-year career he appeared in over 70 films.

Movies for Lee 'Lasses' White...

The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
Title: The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
Character: Colorado Charley
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A western in which Calamity Jane's rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly loses the business to a shady crook, but Texas lawyer Ellison puts up a legal battle to help her stay in charge. After a sensational fight, the letters proving her right are discovered.
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The Iroquois Trail
Title: The Iroquois Trail
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
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Red Rock Outlaw
Title: Red Rock Outlaw
Character: Lasses
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Produced, written, and directed by the veteran Elmer Clifton (here for obscure reasons billed Elmer S. Pond), Red Rock Outlaw had the audacity to feature its novice star, Bob Gilbert (who also wrote the original story), as identical cousins -- one good, the other bad. The good Gilbert, a rancher, enjoys a campfire singalong with the members of s stranded girls' band, falling in love with Carolina (Ione Nixon), a bleach-blonde looker, along the way. The bad cousin, meanwhile, is scheming with neighboring rancher Jim Martin (Forrest Mathews) to have nice Bob killed so they can combine their properties. Produced in 16 mm back in 1946 or 1947 and released on States' Rights by Screen Features, Inc., Red Rock Outlaw was merely an excuse to showcase a series of country & western specialty acts, including Wanda Cantlon, who, according to an onscreen credit, introduced the song "Alimony" and supplied choreography.
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Mississippi Rhythm
Title: Mississippi Rhythm
Character: Dixie Dalrymple
Released: May 28, 1949
Type: Movie
On board a riverboat bound for Creek City, singer Jimmie Davis, who is going to become half-owner of a land development company willed to him by his uncle, shares a cabin with traveling salesman Dixie Dalrymple. After Dixie invites Jimmie to perform in a concert he is putting on for the other passengers, Jimmie is persuaded to participate in a crooked card game run by Judge Homer Kenworthy and his associates. However, with Dixie's intervention, Jimmie wins handsomely, then accuses the gamblers of trying to cheat him.
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The Valiant Hombre
Title: The Valiant Hombre
Character: Whiskers
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped miner and reunites him with his dog.
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Indian Agent
Title: Indian Agent
Character: Inky
Released: December 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies from an Indian reservation.
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The Golden Eye
Title: The Golden Eye
Character: Pete
Released: August 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: Old Man Bush (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Albuquerque
Title: Albuquerque
Character: Stage Passenger with Juke (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
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Louisiana
Title: Louisiana
Character: Old Timer
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Title: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Character: Shotgun Rider (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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Song of the Wasteland
Title: Song of the Wasteland
Character: Doc Henderson
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.
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Six-Gun Serenade
Title: Six-Gun Serenade
Character: Lasses
Released: April 14, 1947
Type: Movie
In this western, two cowboys are framed as cattle rustlers and tossed in the pokey. Later, honest ranchers spring them and together they ride out against the rustlers.
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Rainbow Over the Rockies
Title: Rainbow Over the Rockies
Character: Lasses
Released: February 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Driving a herd of cattle to market, Jimmy finds the trail has been fenced off by an old friend of his. While the two sides try to settle the matter peaceably, a man from each outfit get together to try and start a range war between them figuring they will end up with the cattle. When cattle are rustled, Jimmy finds the clue, horses with shoes that make tracks that look like cattle.
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Ginger
Title: Ginger
Character: Gramps McTavish
Released: January 4, 1947
Type: Movie
The adventures of a boy and his dog in a small town.
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Song of the Sierras
Title: Song of the Sierras
Character: 'Lasses' White
Released: November 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely wishes to sell to the government a group of wild mustangs which he has captured and trained for rancher Matt Blake. The competition is Flora Carter, the owner of a near-by ranch. The army colonel in charge decides to buy the winning horses of a cross-country race. Flora has her henchmen, led by Sam Phelps resort to foul means in order to try to win the race.
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Trail to Mexico
Title: Trail to Mexico
Character: 'Lasses' White
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
All-American singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely went below the border in this musical Western from the assembly line at Monogram, performing such ditties as Adios Mariquita Linda, Rose of the Rancho, the inevitable La Cucaracha, and his own title tune. As always, Jimmy Wakely plays himself, this time heading for Don Roberto Lopez's (Julian Rivero) ranch to track down a missing gold shipment.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Marine (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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West of the Alamo
Title: West of the Alamo
Character: Texas Ranger 'Lasses' White
Released: April 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Despite his unprepossessing screen personality, singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was starred in a series of Monogram westerns, one of which was West of the Alamo. Wakely and comedy sidekick Lee "Lasses" White play a pair of government agents who work undercover to solve a series of baffling crimes. It comes to no one's surprise that the criminal mastermind is the town's leading citizen, in this case banker Clay Bradford (Jack Ingram). As was typical in the Wakely westerns, West of the Alamo is approximately 25 percent action and 75 percent musical. Among the guest warblers this time out is the Arthur Smith Trio, headed by a gospel singer who'd later emcee a popular religious TV talk show.
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Moon Over Montana
Title: Moon Over Montana
Character: Lasses White
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely and his sidekick "Lasses" White run into trouble as they attempt to hire some cattle cars on the Cattleman's Railroad to take their herd to market. Rancher Joseph Colton has bought up all the cattle cars and intends to purchase the penniless line from principal stockholder Gywnn Randall. She is eager to sell to Colton but doesn't realize that he intends to force all the ranchers out of business once he has control of the line.
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Lonesome Trail
Title: Lonesome Trail
Character: Lasses White
Released: December 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Jimmy and partner Dusty have bought a ghost town in the Cherokee strip. When they arrive they find their other partner Lasses has sold 51% to four crooks.
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Lasses White
Released: November 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely and Dusty, traveling with the medicine show owned by "Lasses" White, stop at the Ferguson ranch and find the rancher and his wife killed. They take the Ferguson baby to their camp, where outlaws Joe, Slick and Pete attempt to kidnap the baby, while Dusty is reporting the murders to Sheriff Beasley and town mayor Melinda Pringle. Wakely and his singers hide the baby from its legal guardian, Doc Judd Thomas, as they suspect him of being connected with the Ferguson murders.
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Saddle Serenade
Title: Saddle Serenade
Character: 'Lasses' White
Released: August 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Doris Rogers, half owner of a dude ranch, as Jimmy Wakely, "Lasses" White and Dusty Smith to help run it. U.S. Marshal Tom Logan, posing as a stage driver, is killed during a mock holdup of new arrivals to the ranch. Brenda Amers and Horatio Pennypacker, eastern jewel thieves, bring their loot to Roy Williams, who owns the other half of the ranch as a blind for his gang which resells stolen jewels. Vaughn, the desk clerk, re-cuts the jewels in a secret room in the ice house. Fearing he will be caught, Brenda refuses Williams her stolen diamonds and hides them in a bar of soap.
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Springtime in Texas
Title: Springtime in Texas
Character: Lasses White
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Pete Grant controls the town of Pecos and it's Mayor and Marshal. When Jimmy, Denny, and Lasses arrive they soon find themselves in trouble. Already suspected of murder, Jimmy and Denny catch two of the three men that rob the Express Office only to find themselves framed for the robbery. Posing as a woman, Lasses breaks them out and they head after the third man who is the one that can clear them.
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In Old New Mexico
Title: In Old New Mexico
Character: Clem Petty
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.
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Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Song of the Range
Title: Song of the Range
Character: Lasses
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Finding Dale's wallet, Denny returns it just as two men shoot each other with one dying and one escaping. Dale blames Denny for the murder and Lasses has to pose as the Sheriff to free him. Trailing the wounded man they learn he and Dale are Government Agents. Jimmy, Denny, and Lasses now join up with Dale and soon find themselves involved in a gold bullion smuggling racket.
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Alaska
Title: Alaska
Character: Mark Bennett
Released: November 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
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When Strangers Marry
Title: When Strangers Marry
Character: Old Man
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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The Unknown Guest
Title: The Unknown Guest
Character: Joe Williams
Released: October 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
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Something to Shout About
Title: Something to Shout About
Character: Uncle Bert
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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Cinderella Swings It
Title: Cinderella Swings It
Character: Ed Potts
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
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Mug Town
Title: Mug Town
Character: Pirkle
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Hound Keeper (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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Thundering Hoofs
Title: Thundering Hoofs
Character: Whopper Hatch
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
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Come on Danger
Title: Come on Danger
Character: Whopper
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.
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Land of the Open Range
Title: Land of the Open Range
Character: Whopper
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
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Riding the Wind
Title: Riding the Wind
Character: Whopper
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water. When windmills are built and they start pumping water, Dodge has them blown up. When a court order forces him to release the water, he decides to blow up the dam and flood the valley.
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Dude Cowboy
Title: Dude Cowboy
Character: Prof. Whopper Hatch
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
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The Bandit Trail
Title: The Bandit Trail
Character: Whopper
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Luke - Target Keeper (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Six-Gun Gold
Title: Six-Gun Gold
Character: Whopper
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
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Cyclone on Horseback
Title: Cyclone on Horseback
Character: Whopper
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Corbin when intercepted by smooth-talking Cobb Wayne, who is in a deadly competition with Corbin.
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Title: Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Character: Ed Potts
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
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The Roundup
Title: The Roundup
Character: Sam Snead
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
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Scattergood Baines
Title: Scattergood Baines
Character: Ed Potts
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
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Road Show
Title: Road Show
Character: Constable (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Bailey Brothers' Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Oklahoma Renegades
Title: Oklahoma Renegades
Character: Jim Keith
Released: August 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close of the Spanish-American War, and are concerned that some of their wounded buddies have no prospects for a satisfactory future. When the government offers preferred homesteads in the newly-opened Oklahoma territory to war veterans, they send word for their pals to join them there. Once there, the veterans meet a hostile reception as the cattlemen resent the influx of "nesters" and are determined to drive them out. Mace Liscomb and his brother Orv plan not only to drive out the homesteaders, but to also double cross the cattlemen and gain exclusive titles to the range lands for themselves. Stony and his pals eventually show the honest cattlemen that there is room for the settlers and that both are fighting a common enemy. Written by Les Adams
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Title: Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Character: Storekeeper
Released: November 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.