Champion

Champion

Movies for Champion...

It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Title: The Adventures of Champion
Character: Champion, the Wonder Horse
Released: September 23, 1955
Type: TV
The Adventures of Champion follow a wild stallion named Champion, who remarkably becomes friends with a young boy named Ricky North.The show followed the boy and the horse as they went on crazy adventures in the Southern West during the late 1800s.
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Last of the Pony Riders
Title: Last of the Pony Riders
Character: Champ (as Champion World's Wonder Horse)
Released: November 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Ex-Pony Express rider Autry ties to protect his US mail franchise as the Pony Express gives way to stage coach mail and the telegraph. Gene's last film appearance as a singing cowboy.
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Saginaw Trail
Title: Saginaw Trail
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
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Pack Train
Title: Pack Train
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: July 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Gene Autry is assigned to safely transport supplies to a band of settlers. The villains, headed by Ross McLain, intend to bushwhack Autry, grab the supplies, and sell them at high prices to a local mining camp.
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Goldtown Ghost Riders
Title: Goldtown Ghost Riders
Character: Champ
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy.
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On Top of Old Smoky
Title: On Top of Old Smoky
Character: Champ
Released: March 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable minerals. Autry and the Cass County Boys, mistaken for Texas Rangers, help out.
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Winning of the West
Title: Winning of the West
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse (as Champion - World's Wonder Horse)
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang.
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Blue Canadian Rockies
Title: Blue Canadian Rockies
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse (as Champion World's Wonder Horse)
Released: November 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Montana ranch owner Cyrus Bigbee sends his foreman, Gene Autry, and Rawhide Buttram to his Canadian timber land to stop the marriage of his daughter Sandy to Todd Markey, whom he dislikes. Sandy wants to turn the property into a dude ranch, with Carolina Cotton and the Cass County Boys (Fred S. Martin, Jerry Scoggins and Bert Dodson) among the entertainers, and runs up against local timbermen who want it for cutting timber. When a Mountie is murdered, with suspicion pointing to Todd, Gene finds the real culprit and brings peace to the area.
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The Old West
Title: The Old West
Character: Champ
Released: September 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Autry in an effort to clean up the town of Sadderlock.
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Wagon Team
Title: Wagon Team
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse (as Champion World's Wonder Horse)
Released: September 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Gene Autry is back in the saddle again as an undercover detective in this action-packed Western complete with a showdown. Gene poses as a jailbird to wangle the truth from a boy (Dick Jones) suspected of stealing an Army payroll. When the youngster escapes from lockup and rejoins his family's medicine show, intrigue is in the wind as Gene tries to solve the mystery of the missing money and to save the lad from a vicious mob. Pat Buttram co-stars.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.
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Apache Country
Title: Apache Country
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: May 30, 1952
Type: Movie
A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities' attention from their own activities.
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Valley of Fire
Title: Valley of Fire
Character: Champ
Released: November 20, 1951
Type: Movie
An outcast gambler hijacks a wagon train of eligible women taken west by a mayor.
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Hills of Utah
Title: Hills of Utah
Character: Champ
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A singing doctor on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners.
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Silver Canyon
Title: Silver Canyon
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: June 19, 1951
Type: Movie
At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie.
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Whirlwind
Title: Whirlwind
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: April 16, 1951
Type: Movie
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis) estate from fraud.
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Texans Never Cry
Title: Texans Never Cry
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger tries to bring down counterfeiters selling fake lottery tickets.
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Gene Autry and the Mounties
Title: Gene Autry and the Mounties
Character: Champ, Gene's horse
Released: January 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help.
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The Blazing Sun
Title: The Blazing Sun
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: November 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother. When Kitty Bartlett comes to town claiming to be the slain Bartlett's widow, Gene has to save her from the irate townspeople who are not aware that her name isn't Bartlett but she really is the daughter of a law officer slain by Al Bartlett. Ben Luder, a local hood, tricks Bartlett back into town by saying he has to fixed to have Doc Larry Taylor do plastic surgery on him. En route they meet Doc and his assistant Helen Ellis and Ben's ruse is exposed. Bartlett kills Ben and forces Doc to drive him to the railroad. Gene, in a fight atop a runaway train, captures Bartlett.
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Indian Territory
Title: Indian Territory
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading a group of renegade Indians on a series of destructive raids.
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Beyond the Purple Hills
Title: Beyond the Purple Hills
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: July 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.
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Title: The Gene Autry Show
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: July 23, 1950
Type: TV
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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Cow Town
Title: Cow Town
Character: Champ
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene responds to cattle rustling by stringing barbed wire all around his range.
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Mule Train
Title: Mule Train
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they have a monopoly of the wagons needed to haul rocks to the site. A pretty sheriff notwithstanding, it's a job for a singing marshal.
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Riders in the Sky
Title: Riders in the Sky
Character: Champ, Gene's Horse
Released: November 29, 1949
Type: Movie
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.
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The Cowboy and the Indians
Title: The Cowboy and the Indians
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse (as Champion World's Wonder Horse)
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the Chief's valuable necklace. When the dying chief is found, having been attacked and robbed, Martin blames Lakhona who would become the new chief. When Gene helps Lakhona they soon find themselves fleeing from the law.
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Rim of the Canyon
Title: Rim of the Canyon
Character: Champ
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
20 years ago, 3 men robbed a stage and hid $30,000. They were caught and sent to prison by Marshal Steve Autry. 20 years later, the men bust out of prison and return to the ghost town where they stashed their treasure searching. Steve's grandson picks up where Steve left off to foil the plans of the outlaws.
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The Big Sombrero
Title: The Big Sombrero
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who is more interested in going to America than taking care of her Mexican holdings. Gene, discovering Garland's plan to run all the Mexican rancheros off the ranch, turns against his boss and shortly finds himself in the middle of cattle stampedes and an avalanche started by Garland's men.
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Riders of the Whistling Pines
Title: Riders of the Whistling Pines
Character: Champion
Released: March 16, 1949
Type: Movie
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright, Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning.
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Loaded Pistols
Title: Loaded Pistols
Character: Champ, Gene's Horse
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
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The Strawberry Roan
Title: The Strawberry Roan
Character: Champ, the Strawberry Roan
Released: August 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Last Round-up
Title: The Last Round-up
Character: Champion
Released: November 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.
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Trail to San Antone
Title: Trail to San Antone
Character: Champ
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Gene's prize mare. Piloting a plane, Autry seeks out and locates the stallion.
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Sioux City Sue
Title: Sioux City Sue
Character: Champ, Gene's Horse
Released: November 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Character: Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Home in Wyomin'
Title: Home in Wyomin'
Character: Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
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Heart of the Rio Grande
Title: Heart of the Rio Grande
Character: Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Under Fiesta Stars
Title: Under Fiesta Stars
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros. Unfortunately, the other half goes to Easterner Barbara Erwin (Carol Hughes), who is only interested in monetary remuneration. To convince Gene to buy her share, Barbara enters into an unholy alliance with unscrupulous attorneys Arnold (Ivan Miller) and Fry (Sam Flint), who, without their client's consent, hire a gang of thugs headed by Tommick (John Merton). When a ranchero (Elias Gamboa) is mortally wounded in the ensuing gun battle, Barbara sees the error of her way and switches sides.
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Title: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
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Gaucho Serenade
Title: Gaucho Serenade
Character: Champ
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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South of the Border
Title: South of the Border
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
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In Old Monterey
Title: In Old Monterey
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: August 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: March 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Champion - Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salting the mine with gold. But when a new vein is really discovered Gene has to stop the sales but is trapped in the mine by Scanlon's men.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Champion - Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
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Boots and Saddles
Title: Boots and Saddles
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Title: Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Character: Champion - Gene's Horse
Released: May 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
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Git Along Little Dogies
Title: Git Along Little Dogies
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town.
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Round-Up Time in Texas
Title: Round-Up Time in Texas
Character: Champ
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys.
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The Old Corral
Title: The Old Corral
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.
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Ride, Ranger, Ride
Title: Ride, Ranger, Ride
Character: Champion - Gene's Horse (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1936
Type: Movie
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Champion - Studio Horse
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.
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Oh, Susanna
Title: Oh, Susanna
Character: Autry's Horse
Released: August 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.
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Guns and Guitars
Title: Guns and Guitars
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: June 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
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The Singing Cowboy
Title: The Singing Cowboy
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.
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Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Title: Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Character: El Diablo
Released: April 13, 1936
Type: Movie
His horse Champion steals the show from Gene when what's at stake is a horse race and a bull fight.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Gene's Horse
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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The Singing Vagabond
Title: The Singing Vagabond
Character: Tex's Horse
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
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The Sagebrush Troubadour
Title: The Sagebrush Troubadour
Character: Champ
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is looking for Martin's old horse that can lead them to it. When under-cover Texas Ranger Autry arrives to investigate, he is accused of the murder and finds the Sheriff after him.
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Melody Trail
Title: Melody Trail
Character: Champ - Gene's Horse
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.