Rainbow Over Texas

1946 "Roy's On The Trail Of Texas Renegades!... Ridin' into danger with a song on his lips!"

Rainbow Over Texas

6.3 | 1h5m | en | Western

Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to sabatoge Roy's entry. They fail, or course. Songs include the title song and "Smile for me, Senorita."

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6.3 | 1h5m | en | Western | More Info

Released: May. 09,1946 | Released Producted By: Republic Pictures , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Roy Rogers , George 'Gabby' Hayes , Dale Evans

Director

Frank McDonald

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Trailers & Images

Cast

Roy Rogers

as Roy Rogers

The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show The Roy Rogers Show Spoilers of the Plains In Old Amarillo Heart of the Rockies South of Caliente Trigger, Jr. Trail of Robin Hood Sunset in the West

George 'Gabby' Hayes

as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker

The Cariboo Trail The Gabby Hayes Show El Paso Return of the Bad Men Albuquerque Trail Street My Pal Trigger Roll on Texas Moon Home in Oklahoma

Dale Evans

as Jackie Dalrymple, posing as Jackie Larkin

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Reviews

Neil Doyle Here's a Roy Rogers western based on a Max Brand magazine story and starring Roy with DALE EVANS, TRIGGER and SHELDON LEONARD as the gambling villain.It's poorly edited in the version shown on TCM with abrupt cuts from scene to scene and fadeouts that reflect the low-budget production values. The choppy editing even extends to the final "The End" credit where the music is suddenly cut off.The story is a trifle with Dale masquerading at the start as a boy when she's a stowaway on a train carrying Roy Rogers and Trigger. GEORGE 'GABBY' HAYES gets her to admit her masquerade and before you know it the plot, with some nice musical interludes, is off on a fast pony express contest that Rogers finally wins--in time for a final musical version of a sprightly number called "Rainbow Over Texas." Roy briefly takes time out to solve the shooting incident in a crowded barroom before the fadeout. It's nothing much, but I'm sure it pleased Roy's fans back in 1946. The very slim plot all takes place within a brisk hour.The Sons of the Pioneers do a nice job on a couple of pleasant western numbers and both Dale and Roy sing their songs with professional ease.

bkoganbing Because this is a Roy Rogers picture no one could or would expect the same kind of sexual ambiguity situation with Dale Evans spending some of the film masquerading as a boy like Katharine Hepburn did in Sylvia Scarlett. At least not for long.Dale's a young heiress from Chicago with a yen to see the place where her wealthy father sprung from, a desire not encouraged by Robert Emmett Keane as her father. She runs away and stows away on a train where her singing idol Roy Rogers is returning to Texas. It just so happens he's returning to the town of Dalrymple named for Dale's family.Dale doesn't spend too much time in drag, Roy's fans were definitely not the kind to appreciate the subtleties of gender bending humor. The action returns to traditional western fare with Sheldon Leonard in an accustomed place as the gambler/villain looking to cash in big on a pony express style relay horse race.Not bad, but a little out of the ordinary for Roy and Dale's fans.