Under California Stars

Director: William Witney

Overview

This western features the "Smartest Horse in the Movies," Trigger, and his crooning cowboy rider, Roy Rogers, as they round up a gang of horse thieves. The trouble begins when the villains target Trigger for the next heist.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/18/2002
UPC:	0089218306197
Original Release:	0000
Source:	Alpha Video
Language:	English
Sales rank:	75,746

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Roy Rogers	Roy Rogers
Jane Frazee	Caroline Bullfincher
Andy Devine	Cookie Bullfincher/Alf Bullfincher
George H. Lloyd	Pop Jordan,Jonas "Pop" Jordan
Wade Crosby	Lye McFarland
Michael Chapin	Ted Conover
House Peters Jr.	Ed
Steve Clark	Sheriff
Joseph A. Garro	Joe
Paul Power	Director
John Wald	Announcer,Announcer
Bob Nolan	Bob
Trigger the Horse	Actor
Morton Scott	Composer

Technical Credits

Paul Gangelin

Sloan Nibley

Theodore Lydecker	Special Effects,Special Effects
Edward J. White	Producer
Paul Gangelin	Screenwriter
Sloan Nibley	Screenwriter,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Director William Witney's stamp is all over Under California Stars, including a prolonged and quite brutal fistfight between Roy Rogers and House Peters, Jr. The climactic shoot-out is also more potent than was usually the case in family-oriented B-Western fare, what with one villain killing the other before being felled by Roy. All of which, of course, don't amount to a hill of beans in today's climate but the small fry of 1948 must have had a field day. In contrast to his fine action sequences, Witney gets very little out of leading lady Jane Frazee, who replaced an otherwise engaged Dale Evans in five Rogers Westerns 1947-1948 and whose presence here is merely decorative. The petite Frazee, as tubby Andy Devine's relative, does become the victim of the film's funniest line, when after picking up the swooning actress, Roy quips: "She must be your cousin because she weighs a ton!"