Rhythm On The Range

One of only two westerns made by Bing Crosby (the other was the 1966 remake of STAGECOACH), RHYTHM ON THE RANGE marked the film debut of Martha Raye, already a nightclub and vaudeville star at 27, and she steals every scene she's in. While returning to California via freight train with the prize bull he's won at a Madison Square Garden rodeo, singing cowboy Jeff Larrabee (Crosby) meets bejeweled stowaway Doris Halliday (Frances Farmer), who is fleeing an arranged marriage. Jeff invites her to stay at the dude ranch he manages with the slow-witted Buck (Bob Burns), who has fallen for a high-society miss (Raye) on his passenger train return from New York. Back on the...