The Big Sombrero (1949)

19491h 00mdir. Frank McDonald, Armand Schaefer, Gene AutryUnited StatesWestern film

Note: this print runs 60 minutes against a recorded 82 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Gene Autry

Directed by Frank McDonald, Armand Schaefer, Gene Autry

The Big Sombrero still

The Big Sombrero is a 1949 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Gene Autry and Champion. Written by Olive Cooper, the film is about a singing cowboy hired as foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by a man working against the interests of the ranch's absentee owner and workers. It was the last of two Autry Columbia films shot in Cinecolor, it was preceded by The Strawberry Roan.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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