The best Smiley Burnette’s western movies

Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

18/03/1911- 16/02/1967
Today we present the best Smiley Burnette’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Smiley Burnette’s movies.
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Silver Spurs

Silver Spurs
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/08/1943
  • Character: Frog Millhouse
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.

Idaho

Idaho
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/03/1943
  • Character: Frog Millhouse
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.

Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade
6.4/10
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Melody Trail

Melody Trail
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/10/1935
  • Character: Frog Millhouse
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.

Heart of the Rio Grande

Heart of the Rio Grande
6.5/10
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.

The Phantom Empire

The Phantom Empire
6.2/10
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.

King of the Cowboys

King of the Cowboys
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: Frog Millhouse
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.

Oh, Susanna

Oh, Susanna
5.5/10
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.

Down Mexico Way

Down Mexico Way
6.3/10
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.

Call of the Canyon

Call of the Canyon
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/08/1942
  • Character: Frog Millhouse
A radio saleswoman (Ruth Terry) helps a singing cattleman (Gene Autry) trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

Mountain Rhythm

Mountain Rhythm
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/06/1939
  • Character: Frog Milhouse
Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.

Red River Valley

Red River Valley
5.4/10
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.

Desert Vigilante

Desert Vigilante
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/04/1949
  • Character: Smiley Burnette
Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the rustlers who are now going to have the Durango Kid to contend with.

Guns and Guitars

Guns and Guitars
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/06/1936
  • Character: Frog Millhouse
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.

Cyclone Fury

Cyclone Fury
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/08/1951
  • Character: Smiley Burnette
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier Durango effort, Galloping Thunder (1946), footage that included sidekick Smiley Burnette warbling "Hear the Wind (Singing a Cowboy Song)" accompanied by Merle Travis and his Bronco Busters.

Whirlwind

Whirlwind
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 16/04/1951
  • Character: Smiley Burnette
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis) estate from fraud.

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/06/1937
  • Character: Colonel Millhouse
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Tumbling Tumbleweeds
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/09/1935
  • Character: Smiley
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.

Mexicali Rose

Mexicali Rose
6.4/10
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.

Junction City

Junction City
7.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/07/1952
  • Character: Smiley
Durango, aka Steve Rollins (Charles Starrett) rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescue of pretty Kathleen Case, who is being victimized by greedy relatives.

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