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The Singing Vagabond
The Singing Vagabond is a 1935 American Western film directed by Carl Pierson and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Oliver Drake and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a cowboy who rides to the rescue when badguys kidnap a beautiful woman.
Plot.
At a St. Louis opera house in 1860, a singer in blackface named Jerry Barton, known as "King of the Minstrels", comes backstage and asks his sweetheart, Lettie Morgan (Ann Rutherford), to
shirt. The prisoner is in shock as his surroundings shift and he is now in a different part of the woods and the hanging body is gone. The wind blows and he hears his voice singing through the trees:
"Oh lord, I ain't ever gon' make it back home."
He looks off into the distance in shock.
Cast.
- Ashton Ron-Gabriel as Prisoner 48073
- Andrew Lewis as hanging vagabond
Production and development.
J. Colby Doler heard about the