In Old Santa Fe (1934) on Netflix
Cowboy Ken, known as Kentucky, and his sidekick Cactus bring their horse Tarzan to a canyon race at Charlie Miller's dude ranch, where Chandler and Tracy are plotting to blackmail him.
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Plot summary
Ken, who goes by Kentucky, and his sidekick Cactus reach the dude ranch run by Charlie Miller, whose daughter Lila they meet when her car runs off the road. Ken and Cactus plan to enter their horse Tarzan in the ranch's canyon race. Chandler and Tracy have arrived for the race too, and they are pressuring Charlie over a crime in his past, with Chandler also seeking Charlie's consent to marry Lila. Lila is showing interest in Ken. Charlie will not give in and insists he was innocent of that crime. Cactus, who likes to gamble, is drawn into a bet that would cost Ken his horse if he loses the race.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In Old Santa Fe (1934)
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- The film carries Gene Autry's first screen appearance, singing a bluegrass rendition of "Wyoming Waltz" on his own acoustic guitar with Smiley Burnette on accordion; both men were uncredited, but the scene served as their screen test for later singing cowboy films.
- Longtime character actor George Hayes developed his "cranky but lovable" sidekick character here for the first time, a turn that led to his sidekick roles in John Wayne and Hopalong Cassidy Westerns and later, as Gabby Hayes, to "singing-cowboy immortality" in Gene Autry and Roy Rogers films.
- Producer Nat Levine set the film on a modern dude ranch where horses and roadsters shared the open spaces, and replaced the traditional lawman hero with radio stars and touring entertainers, an approach that became a hallmark of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers films at Republic Pictures.
- In Old Santa Fe was Ken Maynard's first film for Mascot Pictures, and he was paid $10,000 a week for four weeks to shoot it; he was the highest-paid Western actor in Hollywood at the time.
