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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm

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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Release : 1937
Rating : 5.3
Studio : Republic Pictures, 
Crew : Director of Photography,  Director, 
Cast : Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Armida Monte Blue Hal Taliaferro
Genre : Western

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Reviews

Micitype
2018/08/30

Pretty Good

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Gurlyndrobb
2018/08/30

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Rio Hayward
2018/08/30

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Casey Duggan
2018/08/30

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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corporalko
2015/07/22

By the time Gene Autry made this film, he had been starring in B-Westerns for almost two years, and was right on the verge of being named "Public Cowboy No. 1" for 1937, based on the box-office returns from his movies. He held that honor for six straight years, before entering the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.Gene and Buffalo Brady (Hal Taliaferro) are co-owners of a large Western ranch from which cattle are being rustled. Gene and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) set out to try to find the rustlers, at one point changing clothes with two lawmen they have found murdered, to aid in hiding their identities in their search. Their journey brings them into some shenanigans with two attractive ladies, and climaxes with a wild stagecoach chase. And I may be wrong, but I'm fairly sure Gene himself did the transfer from Champ's back to the stage.Hope I haven't posted any "spoilers" here, because the movie is much better than the other posters here have implied, with their lukewarm descriptions like "OK," "Pleasant enough," etc. And when one posts, "Not up to Autry's usual standard," I'd like to know which "usual standard" of his movies they're talking about, as they almost always say that in their reviews.

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classicsoncall
2012/01/04

With so many Gene Autry Westerns restored and played on the Encore Western Channel, seeing this one on DVD was something of a let down, kind of grainy with a story that rambles back and forth a bit. The Apache Kid (Max Hoffman Jr) and Black Jim (Charles King) are a pair of cattle rustlers who make their getaway by shooting a couple of deputies and exchanging clothes with them. In turn, Gene and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) come upon the dead lawmen and don their gear to impersonate the bad guys. As an outlaw, Gene draws a lot of attention with that gaudy vest that belonged to the Apache Kid. Seems to me one would want to keep a lower profile if you were on the wrong side of the law.Along the way, Gene and Smiley mix it up with a couple of senoritas at the Stafford adobe. The girls mistake them for the real rustlers and hogtie the boys before they realize their mistake. The intended match-ups between Gene and Armida (Rosa Montero) and Frog with Mary Ellen (Ann Pendleton) come off a bit awkward, and there's no romance to speak of even when Gene serenades his gal at the end of the story.With a title like "Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm" you would expect a fair number of tunes and the boys deliver on that score. Al Clauser and His Oklahoma Outlaws provide some of the music along with lending a hand as a good guy posse. This is one of the very few films with Gene where I've seen him yodel and he sounded pretty good to my ear. Frog provides his usual entertaining antics, including gimmicks with sneezing powder and exploding cigars he uses to good advantage.

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funkyfry
2007/02/12

Pleasant enough Autry film but with no special musical or comedic qualities to distinguish it from the herd.Gene Autry and Frog (Smiley Burnette) are cattle ranchers who must track down their stolen 400 heads of cattle, but Gene has bigger fish to fry as he convinces Frog to don the clothing of the 2 criminal rustlers to infiltrate the cattlemen's association and discover the corrupt officials who are allowing the theft to happen. Along the way of course they meet 2 lovely ladies who refuse to believe they are not the bandits. Buffalo Brady makes a very interesting supporting performance as a hired gunman who takes Gene's men out of camp after the rustlers against his orders.Some singing, not much dancing, typical novelty tunes from Burnette. Not much to distinguish it but should be fun for kiddies and fans of oaters on the light side.

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krorie
2006/05/01

This is one of Gene's early starring westerns for Republic filled with plenty of action and just enough music to keep it interesting. Quite obviously famed stuntman Yakima Canutt is at the helm. He had already perfected the stunt used many years later in "Ben-Hur" where the stuntman goes under the horses, then continues back to also go under the wagon. It's amazing to watch, and just as exciting in 1937 as it would be in 1959 when a chariot rather than a wagon is employed.Gene croons a few numbers. My personal favorite is "Mexicali Rose." It was so loved by Gene's fans that he named one of his later oaters after it. Frog too gets to show off his varied musical talents. An accomplished songwriter, singer, musician, Smiley Burnette could play over one hundred instruments. Besides guitar, this outing Frog also plays up a storm on an accordion. Frog's humor left a lot to be desired but was appealing to the youngsters. In the early days, as in this film, Frog used a yell for assistance from Gene or out of frustration that was similar to one later used by Lou Costello to greater effect when calling for help from Bud Abbott.The script if fairly routine, but involves so many mistaken identities involving donning other's clothing and going undercover that viewers may get confused at times, especially the kids. Gene and Frog slip out to chase rustlers. Not long afterward, Gene's cowhands joined by a few new recruits with suspicious credentials also slip out to chase the same rustlers. Two fugitives with a price on their heads shoot two lawmen and exchange clothing with them. Gene and Frog come upon the crime. They proceed to take the fugitives' cast off clothing and exchange it for their own. This leads to all sorts of complications to say the least which eventually involve two ladies who catch Gene and Frog asleep and hogtie them. This time there's not only a woman for Gene but a fairly good looking one for Frog as well. In future films, Frog would usually get stuck with wallflowers or frog lookalikes of a different gender. In the end Frog and Gene are able to extricate themselves from the situation and also from the two women. Frog says it best, "Say goodbye? Why, Lady, we never even said hello."

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