Public Cowboy No. 1

Arthur Loft's cattle-rustling operation is a marvel of modernity: he spots the herds from the air, orders the rustling by radio, and moves them by truck. Long-time sheriff William Farnum is baffled, so the county fires him and his deputies (including Gene Autry) and brings in James C. Morton, who boasts he catches the criminals before they commit the crime. But Autry has his own thoughts on how to catch crooks, and pretty newspaper editor Ann Rutherford.

Orvon Grover Autry's movies were often set in the present day, and this is another of them, with Autry singing four songs, and Smiley Burnette three. It's clean and bright, and well produced; just the sort of movie that would make Autry a wealthy man, first to sell a million copies of a record, first to get a gold record, the only entertainer with five stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.