'' Colorado '' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.

Plot

During the American Civil War a Confederate officer who is also a Captain in the Union Cavalry is keeping Federal troops in the Colorado Territory from reinforcing their armies in the East by forming an alliance of secessionists, outlaws, and opportunists as well as arming hostile Indians. Unable to send more reinforcements, the United States Secret Service sends one man, Military intelligence officer Lieutenant Jerry Burke to identify who is behind the troubles and put an end to it. Armed with a sweeping letter of both law enforcement and military powers signed by President Abraham Lincoln Jerry meets his old comrade in arms Gabby to go west. The Confederate/Union officer calling himself Donald Mason is actually Jerry's brother Donald. Donald escapes arrest but confronts his alliance that they are getting rich whilst he is doing all the work and facing all the danger. Donald takes over by shooting a corrupt Indian Affairs commissioner after informing him that the agent is no longer an asset but a liability. Donald saves his brother's life and is repaid by Jerry by allowing him to face his end by
ley de fuga
' instead of hanging after Jerry captures him.

Cast

* Roy Rogers as Lieutenant Jerry Burke * George "Gabby" Hayes as "Gabby" Whittaker *

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as Lylah Sanford *

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as Don Burke alias Captain Donald Mason * Maude Eburne as Etta Mae *

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as Jim Macklin – Indian Commissioner * Hal Taliaferro as Weaver * Vester Pegg as Henchman Sam Smith * Fred Burns as Sheriff Jeff Harkins * Lloyd Ingraham as Henry Sanford * Iron Eyes Cody as Indian Henchman * Spade Cooley as Henchman * Joseph Crehan as General Ulysses S. Grant

Soundtrack

*Roy Rogers - "Night on the Prairie" (Written by Nathan Gluck and Ann Parentean) *Played offscreen by a piano in a saloon - "

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!" (Written by Stephen Foster) *Played offscreen by a piano in a saloon - "Gwine to Rune All Night" (De Camptown Races) (Written by Stephen Foster) *Played offscreen by a piano in a saloon - " Oh! Susanna" (Written by Stephen Foster) *Played offscreen by a bugler - " Taps" (Written by Daniel Butterfield) *Played on piano by an unidentified man in a Durango bar - " Cielito Lindo" (Traditional Mexican Ballad)

External links

* * * 1940 films 1940 Western (genre) films American Civil War films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Joseph Kane Republic Pictures films Films set in Colorado American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{AmericanCivilWar-film-stub