Song of Nevada
Song of Nevada is a 1944 American musical Western film directed by Joseph Kane, and starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Plot
Rancher John Barrabee is upset his daughter doesn't want to stay in the West; instead, she is a New York City nightclub singer who is engaged to marry shady playboy Rollo Bingham. Travelling back west, Barrabee's plane makes an emergency landing in Nevada and awaits another airplane that brings them parts needed to repair the aircraft. Barrabee wanders off and meets trail boss Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. Happy he is back roping and riding with fellow cowboys, he misses his plane's departure, and joins Roy in droving cattle.After the cattle drive, Barrabee discovers he is presumed dead as his plane crashed with no survivors. Barrabee uses the opportunity to get Roy to straighten out his daughter.
Cast
- Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers
- Trigger as Trigger, Roy's Horse
- Dale Evans as Joan Barrabee
- Mary Lee as Kitty Hanley
- Lloyd Corrigan as Professor Hanley
- Thurston Hall as John Barrabee
- John Eldredge as Rollo Bingham
- Forrest Taylor as Colonel Jack Thompson
- George Meeker as Chris Calahan
- Emmett Vogan as Master of Ceremonies
- LeRoy Mason as Ferguson
- Bob Nolan as Bob
- Sons of the Pioneers as Musicians
- Helen Talbot as the Stewardess
Soundtrack
- "It's Love, Love, Love"
- "New Moon Over Nevada"
- "A Cowboy Has to Yodel in the Morning"
- "Hi Ho Little Dogies"
- "The Wigwam Song"
- "Nevada"
- "What Are We Going to Do?"
- "Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium"
- "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back"
- "Scrub Scrub"