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Sioux City Sue

A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.

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Release : 1946
Rating : 6.2
Studio : Republic Pictures, 
Crew : Art Direction,  Set Decoration, 
Cast : Gene Autry Champion Lynne Roberts Sterling Holloway Richard Lane
Genre : Western Music

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Reviews

Moustroll
2018/08/30

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Teringer
2018/08/30

An Exercise In Nonsense

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Lucia Ayala
2018/08/30

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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Raymond Sierra
2018/08/30

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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JohnHowardReid
2018/01/30

By way of contrast with his most expensive and good-by-to-Hollywood movie, "Bells of Capistrano", Gene Autry's comeback movie after his four-year stint in the Army Air Force, "Sioux City Sue" (1946), rates as more than something of a disappointment. Smiley was gone - he was now partnering Charles Starrett at Columbia - and Gene himself was somewhat chubbier. For a new partner, Gene settled on Sterling Holloway of all people, because "he was a veteran and I thought audiences would react favorably to him on that score. I was wrong, of course. I forgot how quickly people forget!"Worse, Holloway seems to be competing against Gene rather than acting with him. And even far less subtle in his approach, Richard Lane seems determined to direct all audience attention HIS way. Despite its movie-making background, the plot makes little sense - although it's nice to see photographer Reggie Lanning riding the camera car. The lovely Lynne Roberts offers some consolation, and the title song is put across with admirable gusto, but all in all, "Sioux City Sue" is a miss!

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classicsoncall
2010/03/14

The streak continues. I tune in to Encore Westerns every Sunday at noon for a Gene Autry flick, and I still haven't run into a repeat. Sometimes they look familiar, but after a while, a lot of them do. This one started out resembling an earlier Autry picture called "Down Mexico Way" from 1941. That one had some crooked film producers trying to scam an investment for a phony movie deal from Gene's home town. In this one, the production is on the up and up, but Gene is being tagged to lend his singing voice to a cartoon mule. Look, I only report 'em as I see 'em.Say, here's some advice for Sue Warner (Lynne Roberts), the Paragon Studio talent scout who's job it is to find and sign a cowboy crooner with a voice fairly dripping with sagebrush. The next time you get dragged by a runaway buckboard, let go of the rope! Sterling Holloway portrays Sue's assistant in a comic relief role that replaces the need for an Autry sidekick. Ken Lundy might have been that character as the cowhand with a cactus voice; fortunately that gimmick wasn't carried too far. I always liked Holloway as a kid, but I don't know if I would have that same affection today if I hadn't seen him back in the day with the likes of Gene and Roy.Fortunately, Sioux City Sue manages to get an actual role for Gene in one of Paragon's pictures that doesn't involve Ding-Dong Donkey. To do it, she had to sign on as Gene's camp cook, and even then, she was already past trying. The title song is repeated often throughout the story, along with "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You". I found the repetitive numbers to be somewhat distracting, but overall, the picture is another treat for Gene Autry fans.

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bkoganbing
2008/06/05

Sioux City Sue marked Gene Autry's return to motion pictures after service in the Army Air Corps. In the time that Gene was off the screen, Roy Rogers took over Autry's position as number one singing cowboy and would be that until both stopped making feature films. In fact Sioux City Sue was more reminiscent of the kind of film that Roy and Dale Evans would make.In fact for good measure Lynne Roberts who did a few films with Roy Rogers before World War II is thrown in for good measure. She plays a talent scout for Paragon Pictures and studio executive Richard Lane wants her to find a western type voice for a cartoon character he's launching. So Roberts and her assistant Sterling Holloway go east to the wild west from Hollywood to find a voice.Guess who's voice they find for the singing donkey, it ain't Allan Jones. Rancher Gene Autry however thinks its him they want and he goes west thinking he'll be a new singing cowboy star. Imagine his surprise when his film turns out to be a cartoon and he's the voice of a singing donkey.This was the kind of stuff Roy and Dale in their kittenish ways would be doing at Republic. My guess is this was a Rogers film script to be that Herbert J. Yates just recycled for Autry. The action also is typical B western stuff. Gene only does this because as usual he's owing money on the ranch. The climax involves the villain Ralph Sanford blowing up a dam.The title song was written several years ago and because Gene used it in a film Sioux City Sue enjoyed a revival. Bing Crosby had a hit record of it and Gene also sings Someday You'll Want Me To Want You of which Vaughn Monroe had a hit a record.Sioux City Sue is a pleasant enjoyable western comedy with enough western action for the kids and grownups would find easy to take. Best performance in this film has to be Richard Lane as the studio executive headed for an ulcer. Also Helen Wallace as Lane's secretary who proves to be a cupid in skirts.

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krorie
2006/08/19

This action-filled Gene Autry entry indicates that Gene had lost none of his horse-opera appeal to his legion of fans following his service to our country in World War II. This was one of Gene's last films at Republic to fulfill his contract before ending his screen career with Columbia over another ten-year period, a decade which saw Gene successfully make the transition from movies to the new medium of television, which along with wise investments made him one of the wealthiest men around.As a kid in the early 50's, I saw tons of Saturday matinée fodder. Most I don't recall, though I do remember the cowboy stars and their sidekicks. "Sioux City Sue" is an exception. I vividly remember the cartoon of the donkey with Gene Autry's voice warbling "Ridin' Double." In those halcyon days, big Hollywood stars thought it condescending to talk for cartoon characters, unlike today when movie icons find it highly lucrative and completely acceptable by their fans to be the voice of animated figures. In 1946, voice impersonators such as Mel Blanc often imitated stars such as Bogart, Bette Davis, and Gable, but those matinée idols would never have consented to do the voices themselves. Knowing that, today's viewer can well understand how embarrassing a western personage such as Gene Autry would feel seeing an animated donkey lip sync to one of his songs. That is also why this sequence is so memorable for the ones who saw it when released or re-released.There is no Smiley Burnette to assist Gene with the songs and humor. He was now tied up with other partners, Sunset Carson, Charles Starrett, and the like. Pat Buttram had yet to enter the picture. Actually, for his first post-war outing, Gene has no comical sidekick. The marvelous Sterling Holloway (who later was the voice of an animated character of his own, "Winnie the Pooh") is in cahoots with those attempting to exploit Gene's talents. Though comical, he is a sycophant for the studio big wigs.There are several good songs in "Sioux City Sue," even if it is easy to tire quickly of the title ditty, one of the big hits of 1946. Woody Guthrie's "Oklahoma Hills" is one of his best, co-written by Woody's cousin who recorded the hit version of this autobiographical creation. Besides "Oklahoma Hills," the other gem is Jimmy Hodges's "Someday You'll Want Me To Want You," recorded by many artists over the years, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Brenda Lee, and Ray Charles. Gene does such an admirable job singing it that he repeats it three times before the film is over. His amour is the captivating Lynne Roberts who plays Sioux City Sue Warner. Helping Gene in the singing department are the Cass County Boys, not the Sons of The Pioneers but not bad.The story is easy to follow. A Hollywood studio looking for a singing cowboy finds Gene and in the process nearly bankrupts him. He is offered a part in a picture, not knowing that it is a voice over for a cartoon. Humiliated Gene walks out of the film preview. Sue Warner becomes distraught over the situation and seeks forgiveness. Testing her sincerity, Gene offers her the job of chief cook and bottle washer. She comes to love the ranch and the cowboy way of life. In the meantime, the studio head sees the film footage of the real-life Gene in action and orders his underlings to find the cowboy and sign him up. One of the men Gene had a run-in with and beat up decides to get revenge by blowing up the dam to flood Gene's ranch and drown his cattle. This segment of the picture is one of the highlights, with effective camera shots and daredevil stunt work."Sioux City Sue" lets everyone know that Gene Autry is back in town and ready for action.

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