Song of the Saddle (1936) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

A cowboy sets out to avenge the murder of his father years ago.

Cast & Crew

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Louis King

Dick Foran

Frank Wilson, Jr.

Alma Lloyd

Charles Middleton

Addison Richards

Frank Wilson, Sr.

Eddie Schubert

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Song of the Saddle - (Original Trailer)

Film Details

Genre

Western

Release Date

Feb 28, 1936

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Distribution Company

The Vitaphone Corp.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

58m

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Film Length

6 reels

Synopsis

When Indian lands are opened for settlers, Phineas Hook steals another man's stake because he thinks it is ideally located for his store. Five years later, he kills trader Frank Wilson, Sr., stealing back the money he paid him for his goods. The only witness is Wilson's son Frank, Jr., who escapes, vowing revenge. When he is grown, Frank, who is known as the Singing Kid, and his men hold up a stagecoach owned by Hook. Hook augments his income by rustling cattle. Hook blames his latest theft of cattle on on three drifters and is about to hang them when he is stopped by the Singing Kid, who ties Hook and his men to the trees. That night, Frank and his men return the cattle that Hook stole. In town, without his disguise, Frank meets Jen Coburn who traveled west on the wagon train with him and his father. He sings her a song and Hook recognizes the Singing Kid's voice. Hook then tries to arrest him, but Frank escapes. He tells Jen his true identity and also reveals that Hook and the Bannion brothers murdered his father. Frank cleverly sets a trap for Hook that forces him to kill two of the men responsible for his father's murder. Hook himself is killed by the marshal after he robs the mail. Now that the score is evened, Frank and Jen leave for California to start a new life.

Director

Louis King

Cast

Dick Foran

Frank Wilson, Jr.

Alma Lloyd

Charles Middleton

Addison Richards

Frank Wilson, Sr.

Eddie Schubert

George Ernest

Monte Montague

Victor Potel

Kenneth Harlan

Myrtle Steadman

Pat West

James Farley

Bud Osborne

Julian Rivero

Bonita Granville

William Desmond

Mary Mersch

Frontiersman's wife

Sam Rice

Nick Copeland

Julie Carter

Steve Clark

Milton Kibbee

Gene Alsace

Bud Geary

Everett Sullivan

Joe Rixon

Dick Rush

James C. Morton

Pauline Garon

Crew

Dan Clark

Leo F. Forbstein

Bryan Foy

Esdras Hartley

William Jacobs

Story and Screenplay

M. K. Jerome

Harold Mclernon

Jack Scholl

Jack L. Warner

Executive Producer

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Song of the Saddle - (Original Trailer) Dick Foran sets out to revenge his father's murder, all the while singing the Song of the Saddle (1936).

Film Details

Genre

Western

Release Date

Feb 28, 1936

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Distribution Company

The Vitaphone Corp.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

58m

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Film Length

6 reels

Articles

Song of the Saddle - SONG OF THE SADDLE

October 30, 2002

Song of the Saddle (1936) was Dick Foran's second Warner Bros. Western as a "singing cowboy" star; the first was Moonlight on the Prairie (1935). In Song of the Saddle, Foran plays a character known as The Singing Kid who is out to avenge the murder of his father. The movie is noteworthy in part because of a supporting cast that includes Roy Rogers as part of the singing group The Sons of the Pioneers. Rogers joins the other "Sons" and Foran in tunes including "Underneath a Western Sky" and "A Happy, Rovin' Cowboy." Within two years Rogers would emerge as star of his own singing cowboy movies. Among other supporting players are child actress Bonita Granville, who played Nancy Drew in a film series of the 1930s and later became a producer of television's "Lassie" series; and former silent-screen star William Desmond, who plays a stage driver.

Foran (1910-1979) was born in Flemington, N.J., and broke into show business as a band vocalist. He made his movie debut in 1934 and appeared in several "B" movies under the name Nick Foran. In addition to his string of Westerns at Warner Bros., he played leads in several of the studio's minor productions and supporting roles in "A" movies. Some of the better-known films among his credits are Four Daughters (1938), My Little Chickadee (1940), Fort Apache (1948) and Donovan's Reef (1963).

Producer: Bryan Foy
Director: Louis King
Screenplay: William Jacobs
Cinematography: Daniel B. Clark
Art Direction: Esdras Hartley
Original Music: M.K. Jerome, Jack Scholl, Howard Jackson (uncredited), Bernhard Kaun (uncredited)
Editing: Harold McLernon
Principal Cast: Dick Foran (Frank Wilson Jr., aka The Singing Kid), Alma Lloyd (Jen Coburn), Charles Middleton (Phineas P. Hook) and The Sons of the Pioneers: Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Bob Nolan, Roy Rogers, Tim Spencer
BW-58m.

By Roger Fristoe

Song Of The Saddle - Song Of The Saddle

Song of the Saddle - SONG OF THE SADDLE

Song of the Saddle (1936) was Dick Foran's second Warner Bros. Western as a "singing cowboy" star; the first was Moonlight on the Prairie (1935). In Song of the Saddle, Foran plays a character known as The Singing Kid who is out to avenge the murder of his father. The movie is noteworthy in part because of a supporting cast that includes Roy Rogers as part of the singing group The Sons of the Pioneers. Rogers joins the other "Sons" and Foran in tunes including "Underneath a Western Sky" and "A Happy, Rovin' Cowboy." Within two years Rogers would emerge as star of his own singing cowboy movies. Among other supporting players are child actress Bonita Granville, who played Nancy Drew in a film series of the 1930s and later became a producer of television's "Lassie" series; and former silent-screen star William Desmond, who plays a stage driver. Foran (1910-1979) was born in Flemington, N.J., and broke into show business as a band vocalist. He made his movie debut in 1934 and appeared in several "B" movies under the name Nick Foran. In addition to his string of Westerns at Warner Bros., he played leads in several of the studio's minor productions and supporting roles in "A" movies. Some of the better-known films among his credits are Four Daughters (1938), My Little Chickadee (1940), Fort Apache (1948) and Donovan's Reef (1963). Producer: Bryan Foy Director: Louis King Screenplay: William Jacobs Cinematography: Daniel B. Clark Art Direction: Esdras Hartley Original Music: M.K. Jerome, Jack Scholl, Howard Jackson (uncredited), Bernhard Kaun (uncredited) Editing: Harold McLernon Principal Cast: Dick Foran (Frank Wilson Jr., aka The Singing Kid), Alma Lloyd (Jen Coburn), Charles Middleton (Phineas P. Hook) and The Sons of the Pioneers: Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Bob Nolan, Roy Rogers, Tim Spencer BW-58m. By Roger Fristoe

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Trivia

Sam Rice and Nick Copeland are in studio records as immigrants, but never appear in the film.

Notes

Modern sources list Robert Kortman and The Sons of the Pioneers in the cast

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