Television
The Gene Autry Show
The Bandits of Boulder Bluff
Flying A Pictures
Season 2, Episode 8 (2-08)
Production #37
Network: CBS
Running Time: 30 minutes
Black and White
Original Air Date:
Saturday, November 24, 1951
Sponsor: Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum
Brief Synopsis:
Marshal Gene Autry aids Pat Buttram in exposing the murderer in a gold dust robbery. Gene and Pat search for the killer after an innocent man is falsely accused.
Detailed Synopsis:
Old maid Miss Lucy vows to leave Boulder Bluff for good because she is fed up with the fighting between her nephew, Tom, and his stepfather, George Colby. As stagecoach driver and sheriff, Pat Buttram, drives her off, the horses run away. When Gene Autry tries to stop them, coincidentally at a spot where outlaw Ace Judkins and his henchmen are in hiding, Pat mistakes Gene for a bandit. Ace pretends he is a U.S. Marshal, but later at Pat’s office, Gene recognizes Ace’s face on a reward poster, just as Mitch Lawson rides up with the news that a wagonload of gold has been stolen and George Colby killed. All evidence points to Tom as the killer. Gene catches Tom and arrests him. Mitch learns that Miss Lucy has persuaded Gene to try to establish Tom’s innocence, so he attempts to ambush him. Gene then realizes Mitch is part of the gang. During a fight, Gene tells Mitch that he is after the gold and offers Mitch a choice of either being turned over to the law or leading Gene to the gold. Miss Lucy, tipped off by Gene, rides to inform Pat, and Gene leaves with Mitch for Ace’s hideout. Gene, unseen by Mitch, drops reward posters along the road, so that Pat can follow. At the hideout, Ace and his men are preparing to double-cross Mitch and leave with the gold. They start a fight, killing Mitch, but Gene shoots at them until Pat arrives in the nick of time with his posse. The bandits are rounded up, and Tom’s innocence is proved.
Cast:
| Character: | Performer: |
| Gene Autry | Gene Autry |
| Pat Buttram | Pat Buttram |
| Tom Colby | Dick Jones |
| Miss Lucy | Anne O'Neal |
| Deputy | Gordon Jones |
| Ace Judkins | Harry Lauter |
| Mitch Lawson | Leonard Penn |
| Bill | Bill Kennedy |
| Champion | Champion, World's Wonder Horse |
Songs:
| 'Neath the Blue Montana Skies | Gene Autry |
Crew:
| Executive in charge of Production |
Armand Schaefer |
| Directed by | George Archainbaud |
| Producer | Louis Gray |
| Screenplay | Howard J. Green |
| Director of Photography | William Bradford, A.S.C. |
| Film Editor | Jodie Copelan |
| Musical Director | Carl Cotner |
| Music Supervisor | Irving Friedman |
| Musical Score | Walter Greene |
| Assistant Director | Nathan Barragar |
| Recorded by | Glen Glenn Sound Company |
