Melody of the Plains

The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.

• Sam NewfieldDirector
• Bennett CohenScreenplay

• Fred ScottSteve Condon
• Al St. JohnFuzzy
• Louise SmallMolly Langley
• Hal PriceGorman
• Slim WhitakerCass
• Lew MeehanHenchman Scar
• Lafe McKeeDad Langley
• Billy LenhartBill Langley
• David SharpeBud Langley