Utah
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John English
Roy Rogers
Trigger
George "gabby" Hayes
Dale Evans
Peggy Stewart
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Dorothy Bryant, a singer in a Chicago musical play, learns that the show will shut down unless the producers come up with $25,000. She and her friends immediately set off for Coldbrook, Utah, where Dorothy has inherited the Bar X ranch, which is run by Roy Rogers and Gabby Whittaker. Realizing that Dorothy wants to put the ranch up for sale, Roy has his men fix up the place to impress her. When he picks the women up at the train station, however, Roy and Dorothy take a quick dislike to each other. He disapproves of her plan to sell the land, and she feels that he and Gabby take a superior tone with her. On the way back to the ranch, Roy pretends the car has broken down, which gives him and Gabby enough time to switch the signs between the Bar X and Gabby's small, broken-down piece of property. After Dorothy sees Gabby's place, thinking it is hers, she decides she cannot make much money from its sale and plans to leave the next day. Crooked cattle dealers Ben Bowman and Steve Lacey, however, make an appointment with her, hoping to take advantage of the misunderstanding by offering Dorothy very little money for her ranch, which they can then re-sell at a hefty profit. That night, Roy brings a horse over for Dorothy and they take a ride together, during which he shows her the beauty of the land and convinces her not to sell. In the meantime, Dorothy's friend, Wanda Harris, has met up with Robert, one of Roy's cattle drivers, and he has revealed Roy's plan to her. When Dorothy returns to their shack, she overhears Wanda telling the other women that Roy has been swindling Dorothy by making her fall in love with him. Hurt, she sells the land to Bowman for $5,000 the next day, and Bowman immediately brings his men to the Bar X to round up the cattle. Roy and his men rush out, and, not believing Bowman when he insists he now owns the ranch, they fight and land in jail. The sheriff finds Dorothy and the women at the train station, and they confirm that the ranch was sold. Robert warns Roy through the jail window that Bowman is loading the cattle onto a train for Chicago, and Roy breaks out of jail by giving the sheriff a mild electric shock. The men board the cattle train and, once in Chicago, fight Bowman and his men again. This time, they are all arrested, but when they arrive at the police station, the sheriff phones to say that Bowman's check to Dorothy has bounced and that the deal was all a trick. Although Bowman writes another check for Dorothy, the Chicago police hold him and Lacey for fraud. Roy delivers the now-good check to Dorothy, the show's name is changed to Utah , and Roy, Gabby and Dorothy show the rest of the cast how a "western comedy with music" should be done.
Director
John English
Cast
Roy Rogers
Trigger
George "gabby" Hayes
Dale Evans
Peggy Stewart
Beverly Loyd
Jill Browning
Vivien Oakland
Grant Withers
Hal Taliaferro
Jack Rutherford
Emmett Vogan
Bob Nolan
Crew
William Bradford
Donald H. Brown
Betty Burbridge
John K. Butler
Dale Butts
Tom Carman
Ken Carson
Larry Ceballos
Gano Chittenden
Dave Franklin
Johnny Grubbs
Charles Henderson
Harry Keller
Howard Lydecker
Theodore Lydecker
Bob Mark
Bob Nolan
Joseph Novak
Adele Palmer
Bob Palmer
Gordon C. Schaefer
Morton Scott
Otto Siegel
Glenn Spencer
Tim Spencer
John Stransky Jr.
Jack Townley
George Webster
Howard Wilson
Gilbert Wright
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, portions of the film were shot on location in Lone Pine, CA. Modern sources add the following actors to the cast: Ed Cassidy, Ralph Colby, Forrest Taylor and Horace B. Carpenter.
