Fact1: Singing cowboy Gene Autry appears on radio program to promote U.S. Defense Bonds, Fact2: wisecracking photographer Clementine Benson and reporter Hack In make fun of singer and devoted fans audience, Fact3: Clementine and Hack After get embarrassing story on Gene program, Fact4: Gene decides Always ready to help out friend to drive to Gold Ridge to lend hand with rodeo, Fact5: Frog and Frog 's Tadpole accompany him to Wyoming
Output: Singing cowboy Gene Autry Gene Autry appears on a radio program to promote U.S. Defense Bonds. In the audience, wisecracking photographer Clementine Benson Fay McKenzie and reporter Hack Hackett Chick Chandler make fun of the singer and his devoted fans. After the program, Clementine and Hack try to get an embarrassing story on Gene, who knows their game and eludes the pair, who previously ridiculed him in print. Gene is approached by Pop Harrison Forrest Taylor, the owner of the rodeo troupe that gave Gene and his sidekick Frog Millhouse Smiley Burnette their start. Pop is worried that his son Tex is destroying their rodeo through his irresponsible drinking and gambling. Always ready to help out a friend, Gene decides to drive to Gold Ridge, Wyoming to lend a hand with the rodeo and straighten Tex out. Frog and Frogs brother Tadpole accompany him to Wyoming. They are followed by Clementine and Hack, who were ordered to follow Gene. When they arrive at Bartletts dude ranch in Wyoming, they watch Tex and the boys are preparing for their next rodeo. Hacks laughter at Texs drunkenness provokes a fistfight, and Hack, a former prizefighter, easily beats up the drunken cowboy. Afterwards, Gene uses the incident as an opportunity to give Tex a stern lecture. Tex agrees to start acting more responsibly, and Gene tells him to attend that nights barbecue so the others can see that hes changed his ways. That night, Hack follows three suspicious ranch guests to a saloon, where he joins them in a card game along with Tex and Sunrise Olin Howland, an eccentric miner who shows off some gold he found. Hack quickly wins several hands, happy to take their money and Sunrises gold. The leader of the three suspicious ranch guests, Crowley George Douglas, is unnerved when Hack implies that he knows them from Chicago and is aware of Crowleys shady past. Gene comes to the saloon and retrieves Tex. After Hack leaves the saloon, Crowley, who is actually a gangster named Luigi Scalese, and his men follow him. On the road, someone takes a shot at Hack, nearly missing him. The following day, as Tex performs in a staged shootout during the rodeo, Hack is shot and killed in the audience by someone who then loads a real bullet in Texs gun which was dropped during the confusion. When the sheriff Hal Price investigates, he discovers the real bullet in Texs gun and arrests him, despite the protests of Gene and his friends. Later, Clementine tells Gene about Hacks suspicion of Crowley, and Gene prevents Crowley and his men from leaving the ranch. Crowly sends letters to Clementine and Gene, making it appear that each is inviting the other on a date that evening. While Clementine is away, Crowley breaks into her room and steals her photograph case in order to destroy pictures of himself in the crowd. Later Gene sends the remaining photographs off for fingerprinting, and soon after, Pop receives a telegram identifying the fingerprints on the photographs as belonging to Chicago mobster Luigi Scalese, Crowleys true identity. Later that day, someone breaks into Pops home, shoots him, and takes the incriminating telegram. Gene suspects Crowley and races off to arrest him. Clementine stays behind and learns from Pop that there is a secret entrance to a mine beneath his house. Clementine asks Sunrise to lead her through the tunnels of the mine, and quickly discovers that Sunrise is insane, and that he killed Hack and wounded Pop fearing they would divulge the location of his precious gold. As Sunrise attempts to kill Clementine, Gene arrives and saves her, as the crazy miner falls down a mine shaft to his death. Afterwards, as Pop recovers from his wound, Tex promises him that he will really straighten up this time, and Clementine and Gene ride off together singing a song.