Stardust on the Sage

Gene Autry has been paying William Henry for cattle, but Henry has been using the money to keep digging on his prospective mine. Autry is willing to go along to help the investors recover their money. What no one knows is that the mining engineer, Emmett Vogan, has bought up the mortgage on the mining equipment, and a full day's shutdown will give him the mine.

It's start and stop on the plot for a while until it gets moving. That's no problem with a Gene Autry movie: just sing another song, including a couple of duets with Edith Fellowes and a singalong for the theater audience at the end.

Smiley Burnette turns out to be useful in a fight in this one. Will wonders never cease? Like most of Autry's movies, it came in over its $86,378 budget. It cost $87,830 to get it in the can. Spendthrift!