Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 68 mins Color
Starring: Gene Autry, Champion, Sheila Ryan
Evil Indian Agent Richards is cheating the Indians into starvation. Gene shows that their raids are only for survival.
Running Time: 82 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Champion, Elena Verdugo, Stephen Dunne
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who is more interested in going to America than taking care of her Mexican holdings. Gene, discovering Garland's plan to run all the Mexican rancheros off the ranch, turns against his boss and shortly finds himself in the middle of cattle stampedes and an avalanche started by Garland's men.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Judith Allen, Bill Elliott (as Gordon Elliott), Ronald Sinclair.
Young English lord wants rid of an inherited ranch, but Gene and Frog are out to make a cowpoke out of him. Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Judith Allen, William Farnum.
Autry leads the cattle ranchers in a war against invading oilmen, and ends up getting framed for murder. Produced by Armand Schaefer. Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 78 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Barbara Britton, Chill Wills, Jack Holt
The only Gene Autry film where the leading lady, Barbara Britton, is equally billed above the title as the co-star, thereby knocking his horse Champion out of the honors, if one chooses to overlook the 1941 novelty from 20th Century-Fox that had Jane Withers and Gene Autry above the title in that order. This Autry entry has Larry Evans, whose gun had been used to kill rancher Ed Norton in a poker game, escaping a lynching party headed by ranchers Dave Randall and Bill Otis. Norton's friend Gene Autry, investigating on his own, discovers that Larry's gun had been put in the poker pot with the chips, after Larry had lost all of his money, and anyone could have used it when the lights went out. He finds Larry and his sister Mary Evans in a hideaway, and sends Mary back to town and hides Larry in the cabin of miner Jim Hedge. Finding out that Randall and Don Mason have tried to buy the Evans ranch, Gene decides to take a look at it. Hedge shows up and says he can't figure out what could ...
Running Time: 58 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Sally Payne, Ivan Miller, Earl Dwire.
Gene and Frog must keep the new settlers of a small town from being swindled by some bad guys. Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Boothe Howard, George Chesebro, Charles King.
Devious banker attempts to sabotage a vital irrigation system by dynamiting the ditches, so Gene and Frog take jobs as ditchdiggers to uncover the conspiracy. Dir. B. Reeves Eason
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Earle Hodgins
Fleeing the law, Wolf Benson hops on a train, throws Autry off, and assumes Autry's identity. Still posing as Autry he robs and kills Autry's friend Lee. When Autry is jailed, his friends Frog and the Professor break him out and the three head out to clear him of the murder charge.
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Earle Hodgins
Fleeing the law, Wolf Benson hops on a train, throws Autry off, and assumes Autry's identity. Still posing as Autry he robs and kills Autry's friend Lee. When Autry is jailed, his friends Frog and the Professor break him out and the three head out to clear him of the murder charge.
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Joan Valerie, Sammy McKim, Earl Dwire, Hooper Atchley, Carleton Young.
A crooked tractor company puts Autry and his horse ranch out of business, forcing them to go to work singing on the radio. Watch for Roy Rogers, billed as Dick Weston, as one of Autrey's singers. Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Irene Manning, Lon Chaney Jr, Cornelius Keefe, The Sons of the Pioneers.
Sheriff Autrey goes up against the O'Keefe boys, a gang of criminals who hold up passenger buses. And who plays the parts of the O'Keefe gang? None other than those Sons of the Pioneers, including Roy Rogers (Dick Weston). Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 61 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, William Farnum
Shannon is running a modern rustling operation using an airplane to spot the cattle, short wave radio to alert the rustlers, and trucks to haul away the beef. When the aging Sheriff Doniphan is unable to bring them in, he is replaced by an eastern detective. But Doniphan's deputy Gene suspects Shannon and sets a trap to nab him and his gang.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Lester Smiley Burnette, Jack Carlyle, Dorothy Christy.
Singing rancher discovers a subterranean city under his ranch while fending off the crooks who are after radium deposits on his land. Feature version of the serial "The Phantom Empire", which was Autry's first starring role. Dir. Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason
Running Time: 57 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Monte Blue, Max Terhune, Chief Thundercloud.
Texas Ranger scouting for the army tries to warn the colonel about an impending Commanche attack, and is put in jail for his trouble. Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Champion, Patricia Barry, Jimmy Lloyd
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter (
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Jock Mahoney, Thurston Hall, Clem Bevans, Alan Hale Jr, Denver Pyle.
Autry in a dual role as a lawman tracking villains whom his father put in prison twenty years ago. Produced by Armand Schaefer. Dir. Jon English
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Armida
Chasing rustlers, Gene and Frog find that two of them have killed two deputies and changed clothes with them. Hoping to find the gang leader they change into the outlaw's clothes. This puts them on the right track when the big boss Stafford saves them from a posse. But the two outlaws now posing as Deputies arrive and Gene and Frog soon find themselves prisoners. Written by Maurice VanAuken
Running Time: 61 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maxine Doyle, The Cabin Kids
Gene and Frog head for South Africa where Gene's brother Tex has found diamonds. Arriving they find Tex missing. Heading into the jungle, they are captured by a local tribe. Frog's magic gets Gene's release and Gene finds Tex. But Tex is a prisoner and Gene quickly finds himself a prisoner also.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Polly Rowles, Ula Love, Ruth Bacon.
Lady ranch owner brings in sheep, much to the chagrin of neighboring cattlemen. It's up to Gene, the lady's foreman, to smooth things out without a war. Dir. Joseph Kane
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Carlisle, Douglass Dumbrille
A flood has wiped out the ranchers. Congressman Fuller was against the Flood Control bill so Gene runs against him in the next election and wins. Gene goes to Washington but has no success in passing the bill as Holloway is using his influence to block it. Then just as Gene returns home another disastrous flood hits.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Betty Bronson, Charles Middleton, LeRoy Mason, Fred Snowflake Toones.
Gene tries to break up the Georgia equivalent of a range war between turpentiners and cattlemen, with the help of the ever reliable Smiley. Produced by Armand Schaefer. Dir. Joseph Kane