Wall Street Cowboy

Wall Street Cowboy
Directed byJoseph Kane
Written byGerald Geraghty (screenplay)
Norman S. Hall (screenplay)
Doris Schroeder (story)
StarringRoy Rogers
Edited byLester Orlebeck
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • August 6, 1939 (1939-08-06)
Running time
66 minutes
54 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Wall Street Cowboy is a 1939 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.[1]

Plot[edit]

Wall Street stock marketeers try to swindle Roy Rogers out of his ranch, when molybdenum, a valuable mineral is discovered on the property, which the villains plan to use for their steel-mining activities. Unable to pay his mortgage thanks to a crooked financier (Ivan Miller), Roy and his friends ride east to stop the Wall Street crooks.

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Critical reception[edit]

Leonard Maltin wrote, "engaging Western with two sidekicks (Hayes and Hatton) touches upon Depression-era subjects of corrupt banking institutions and foreclosures; fun to watch Roy riding in a steeplechase and singing in a nightclub (wearing a coat and tie)";[2] and Dennis Schwartz wrote, "this Roy Rogers film had an undeserved bad reputation. I actually found it to be one of his better B Westerns, it was at least up to par with the typical Rogers action-packed oater except that the singing cowboy only sang a few songs. It uses the present as its setting. Joseph Kane ("The Arizona Kid"/"Jesse James at Bay"/"Frontier Pony Express") directs in his usual credible fashion and it's ably written by Gerald Geraghty and Norman S. Hall."[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wall Street Cowboy (1939) - Joseph Kane - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  2. ^ "Wall Street Cowboy (1939) - Overview - TCM.com".
  3. ^ "wallstreetcowboy".

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