''Shine On, Harvest Moon'' is a 1938 American

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film directed by

Joseph Kane Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (March 19, 1894, San Diego – August 25, 1975, Santa Monica, California) was an American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on Western ...

and starring

Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American singer, actor, television host, and Rodeo, rodeo performer. Following early work under his given name, first as a c ...

and Mary Hart. Written by Jack Natteford, the film is about a crazed outlaw who looks up a former partner, who has "gone straight", and tries to blackmail him with his past into resuming a life of crime. When this plan fails, the outlaw and his two psychopathic sons re-establish their gang and begin a wave of violence and rustling in the surrounding area, and arrange evidence that his former partner is the actual criminal. The partner's daughter engages the sympathy of Roy Rogers in bringing the truth to light and the real villains to justice. The supporting cast includes

Stanley Andrews Stanley Martin Andrews (born Andrzejewski; August 28, 1891 – June 23, 1969) was an American actor perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program ''Little Orphan Annie'' and later as "The Old Ranger", the first host of ...

and William Farnum, and features Lulu Belle and Scotty in their only film appearance.

Plot

Cast

as Roy Rogers * Mary Hart as Claire Brower (as Mary Hart) * Myrtle Wiseman as Lulu Belle (as Lulu Belle and Scotty) * Scotty Wiseman as Scotty (as Lulu Belle and Scotty) *

as Pa Jackson * William Farnum as Milt Brower * Frank Jaquet as Homer Sheldon * Chester Gunnels as Chester * Matty Roubert as Ben Jackson *

Pat Henning Fred Patrick Henning (July 5, 1908 – April 28, 1973) was an American character actor, best known for playing Kayo Dugan in ''On The Waterfront'' (1954). Henning was born in Boston as one of the fourth generation of a theatrical family. He ...

as Shag Jackson * Jack Rockwell as Foreman Jim Mason * Joe Whitehead as Sheriff Clay

References

External links

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