''In Old Caliente'' is a 1939 American

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film directed by

Joseph Kane Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (March 19, 1894, San Diego – August 25, 1975, Santa Monica, California) was an American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on Western f ...

and starring

Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebra ...

Plot

Set after California's Statehood but before the

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, Roy Rogers is working for a wealthy Spanish family. One of their men is secretly betraying the arrival of targets of opportunity to a group of Anglo American bandits but puts the blame on Roy. The film has several unusual sequences such as having several scenes shot on a beach and having bandits after a giant sphere of gold. There is only one mention made of

Caliente, California Caliente ( Spanish for "Hot") is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located east-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of . Caliente has a population of 1,019. Telephone numbers in Caliente follow the format ( ...

Cast

as Roy Rogers *

Lynne Roberts Lynne Roberts, also credited as Mary Hart, born Theda May Roberts (November 22, 1922 – April 1, 1978) was an American film actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She appeared exclusively in what were referred to as B-movies. Early ...

as Jean Marshall *

George "Gabby" Hayes George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 1969) was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, c ...

as "Gabby" Whittaker *

Jack La Rue Jack La Rue (born Gaspare Biondolillo; May 3, 1902 – January 11, 1984) was an American film and stage actor. Early years The son of Sicilian immigrants Pasquale and Concetta Biondolillo, La Rue was born in New York City. His father sailed to ...

as Sujarno *

Katherine DeMille Katherine Lester DeMille (born Katherine Paula Lester; June 29, 1911 – April 27, 1995) was a Canadian-born American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s. The adopted daughter of director Cecil B. DeM ...

as Rita Vargas *

Frank Puglia Francesco Giuseppe "Frank" Puglia (9 March 1892 – 25 October 1975) was an Italian-American film actor. He had small, but memorable roles in films including '' Casablanca'' (a Moroccan rug merchant), '' Now, Voyager'' and ''The Jungle Book''. ...

as Don José Vargas * Harry Woods as 'Curly' Calkins * Paul Marion as Carlos Vargas *

Ethel Wales Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress who appeared in more than 130 films during her 30-year career. Biography Born in 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, Wales graduated from "Wisconsin university". Wales had ...

as Aunt Felicia *

Merrill McCormick William Merrill McCormick (February 5, 1892 – August 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1916 and 1953. William Merrill McCormick was born on February 5, 1892, in Denver, Colorado. McCormick ap ...

as Pedro

Soundtrack

* Roy Rogers - "Sundown on the Rangeland" (Written by Fred Rose) * Roy Rogers and George "Gabby" Hayes - "We're Not Coming Out Tonight" (Written by

Walter G. Samuels Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1 ...

) * Roy Rogers - "The Moon, She Will Be Shining Tonight" (Written by Walter G. Samuels) * Roy Rogers - "Ride On Vaquero"

External links

* * * 1939 films 1939 Western (genre) films Republic Pictures films American black-and-white films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Joseph Kane 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-Western-film-stub