Song of Nevada

1944 film

Olive Cooper (original screenplay)
Gordon Kahn (original screenplay)

Produced byHarry Grey (associate producer)StarringSee belowCinematographyJack A. MartaEdited byTony MartinelliMusic byMort GlickmanDistributed byRepublic Pictures

Release date

5 August 1944 (1944-08-05)

Running time

75 minutes (original version)
54 minutes (edited version)

CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Song of Nevada is a 1944 American musical Western film directed by Joseph Kane, and starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Plot

Rancher John Barrabee is upset his daughter doesn't want to stay in the West; instead, she is a New York City nightclub singer who is engaged to marry shady playboy Rollo Bingham. Travelling back west, Barrabee's plane makes an emergency landing in Nevada and awaits another airplane that brings them parts needed to repair the aircraft. Barrabee wanders off and meets trail boss Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. Happy he is back roping and riding with fellow cowboys, he misses his plane's departure, and joins Roy in droving cattle.

After the cattle drive, Barrabee discovers he is presumed dead as his plane crashed with no survivors. Barrabee uses the opportunity to get Roy to straighten out his daughter.

Cast

Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers
Trigger as Trigger, Roy's Horse
Dale Evans as Joan Barrabee
Mary Lee as Kitty Hanley
Lloyd Corrigan as Professor Hanley
Thurston Hall as John Barrabee
John Eldredge as Rollo Bingham
Forrest Taylor as Colonel Jack Thompson
George Meeker as Chris Calahan
Emmett Vogan as Master of Ceremonies
LeRoy Mason as Ferguson
Bob Nolan as Bob
Sons of the Pioneers as Musicians
Helen Talbot as the Stewardess

Soundtrack

"It's Love, Love, Love" (written by Mack David, Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer)
"New Moon Over Nevada" (written by Ken Carson)
"A Cowboy Has to Yodel in the Morning" (written by Ken Carson)
"Hi Ho Little Dogies" (written by Glenn Spencer)
"The Wigwam Song" (written by Glenn Spencer)
"Nevada" (written by Charles Henderson)
"What Are We Going to Do?" (written by Charles Henderson)
"Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium" (written by Charles Henderson)
"And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" (written by Felix McGlennon and Monroe Rosenfeld)
"Scrub Scrub" (written by Smiley Burnette)