Public Cowboy No. 1

1937
U
1h 1m

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Gene Autry in Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)

Rustlers using modern technology (airplanes, shortwave radios, refrigerated trucks) are Gene's target.Rustlers using modern technology (airplanes, shortwave radios, refrigerated trucks) are Gene's target.Rustlers using modern technology (airplanes, shortwave radios, refrigerated trucks) are Gene's target.

Director
- Joseph Kane
Writers
- Oliver Drake
- Bernard McConville
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5.6/10

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Director
- Joseph Kane
Writers
- Oliver Drake
- Bernard McConville
Stars

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Top cast38

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Gene Autry

Deputy Sheriff Gene Autry

Smiley Burnette

Frog Millhouse

Ann Rutherford

Helen Morgan

William Farnum

Sheriff Matt Doniphon

Arthur Loft

Jack Shannon

Frankie Marvin

Deputy Stubby

House Peters Jr.

Jim Shannon

James C. Morton

Eustace P. Quackenbush

Maston Williams

Thad Slaughter

Frank LaRue

The Judge
(as Frank La Rue)

Milburn Morante

Ezra

Ray Bennett

Spotter Collins
(uncredited)

Charles Brinley

Townsman
(uncredited)

Bob Burns

Rancher
(uncredited)

Edward Cecil

Lawyer
(uncredited)

Champion

Champion - Gene's Horse
(uncredited)

Tommy Coats

Rustler
(uncredited)

Ernie Daniels

Townsman
(uncredited)

Director
- Joseph Kane
Writers
- Oliver Drake
- Bernard McConville
All cast & crew
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User reviews11

Featured review

6/10

Calling All Cowboys

Times are changing out in the west and there's this gang of rustlers who've got sheriff William Farnum and Deputy Gene Autry baffled. The local newspaper editor Ann Rutherford is calling for sheriff Farnum to be replaced and that's not sitting well with Gene. Besides that political differences are interfering in a promising romance.

Who'd ever have believed it, but Gene's perennial sidekick Smiley Burnette decides that a short wave radio just might be the key to things and son of a gun he turns out to be right. Ham radio operators the world over must have loved this picture.

No really great songs for Gene come out of this particular film, but Smiley Burnette is a sight to see in a disguise as a cow trying to fend off the attentions of an amorous bull. All in the line of doing some undercover work. Worth watching Public Cowboy No. 1 for that alone.

bkoganbing
Dec 13, 2007
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Goofs
After Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) falls off the refrigerated meat truck where he was dangling on a meat hook, the back of his jacket no longer has a hole in it where the hook would have been.

Quotes
Deputy Sheriff Gene Autry: Thanks a lot, folks. Speeches are not exactly my strong point so maybe I better sing. I'm dedicating this number to a man we should all be mighty grateful to. You old timers remember about 30 years ago this town was pretty wild. Gunfights took place in this very street that claimed the lives of my folks and some of yours. Then a young fella named Doniphon was elected sheriff. He didn't have much equipment - just his guns and his nerves. He still carries the scars of those battles, but he made this a placewhere decent folks could live and raise their families. And that's why I'd like to dedicate "Old Buckaroo" to Matt Doniphon.

Connections
Featured in The Best of Tumbleweed Theater (1987)

Soundtracks
Wanderers
(1937) (uncredited)
(also known as "Wanderers of the Wasteland")
Written by Felix Bernard and Paul Francis Webster
Sung by Gene Autry, William Farnum, and others
Reprised by them at the end