''Trail to San Antone'' is a 1947 American Western film directed by John English, written by Jack Natteford and Luci Ford, and starring

Gene Autry Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer, and baseball owner who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning s ...

, Peggy Stewart, Sterling Holloway,

William "Bill" Henry William Albert Henry (November 10, 1914 – August 10, 1982) was an American actor who worked in both films and television. Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Henry started as a child actor, then was a hero in B-movies (mainly wes ...

, Johnny Duncan and Tris Coffin. It was released on January 25, 1947, by

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. It was filmed in

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and at Deerwood Stock Farm in Thousand Oaks, California.Schneider, Jerry L. (2015). ''Western Filming Locations Book 1''. CP Entertainment Books. Page 133. .

Plot

Gene is out to help a crippled jockey when a wild stallion runs away with the speedy mare he plans for the jockey to ride, so Gene takes off in an airplane to bring them back.

Cast

as Gene Autry * Peggy Stewart as Kit Barlow * Sterling Holloway as Droopy Stearns *

as Rick Malloy * Johnny Duncan as Ted Malloy * Tris Coffin as Cal Young *

Dorothy Vaughan Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Vir ...

as The Commodore * Edward Keane as Sheriff Jones *Ralph Peters as Storekeeper Sam *The Cass County Boys as Singing Ranch Hands

References

External links

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Trail to San Antone trakt.tv
1947 films Republic Pictures films American Western (genre) films 1947 Western (genre) films Films directed by John English American black-and-white films Films shot in Ventura County, California 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1940s-Western-film-stub