''Ridin' the Cherokee Trail'' is a 1941 American

Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

film directed by

Spencer Gordon Bennet Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Benne ...

and written by Edmond Kelso. The film stars

Tex Ritter Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and ...

, Slim Andrews,

Forrest Taylor Edwin Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color films. Early years Taylor was born in Bl ...

Betty Miles Betty Miles (January 11, 1910 – June 9, 1992) was an American B-movie film actress and stuntwoman of the late 1930s and well into the 1940s, who later became an educator. Her father, George Henry T. Henninger, was a Texas cattleman, and had ta ...

, Jack Roper and

Fred Burns Frederick D. Burns (born September 6, 1889, in Nevada, Missouri; died December 22, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an important figure in Midwest amateur tennis in the early part of the 20th century. Burns was a journalist by profession from 1911 ...

. The film was released on February 25, 1941, by

Monogram Pictures Monogram Pictures Corporation was an American film studio that produced mostly low-budget films between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram was among the smaller studios i ...

Plot

Cast

as Tex Ritter *Slim Andrews as Slim *

as Brad Craven *

as Ruth Wyatt * Jack Roper as Squint *

as Wyatt *Nolan Willis as Dirk Fargo *Gene Alsace as Bat *Bob Card as Captain Wallace *

Chick Hannan Chester William Hannan (May 24, 1901 – August 14, 1980) was an American actor and rodeo performer. He was known for starring as Yucca Bill Thompson in the 1937 film ''Stars Over Arizona''. Hannah was born in Iron River, Michigan. In 1924 he ...

as Blackie *Jack Gillette as Tennessee Rambler Fiddle Player *Harry Blair as Tennessee Rambler Guitar Player *'Happy Tex' Martin as Tennessee Rambler Banjo Player *Cecil Campbell as Tennessee Rambler Steel Guitar Player *Kid Clark as Tennessee Rambler Accordion Player *

Snub Pollard Harold Fraser (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962), known professionally as Snub Pollard, was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s. Career Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 No ...

as Saloon Drunk (uncredited)

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* {{Spencer Gordon Bennet 1941 films 1940s English-language films American Western (genre) films 1941 Western (genre) films Monogram Pictures films Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet American black-and-white films 1940s American films