MFAH | Films | Rainbow Over Texas On Friday, May 18, at 7:00 P. M., the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will be showing, free of charge, a great double feature. Check it out.
Like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers was a singing cowboy who cranked out westerns for the Saturday matinee crowd. Rainbow Over Texas was Rogers’s 60th film since 1935, counting uncredited roles and the twenty-seven films in which he played a version of himself. Then there was Trigger, his faithful horse, and Dale Evans, who had already been his steady squeeze for fifteen films, and would later marry Roy and star in a TV show that ran for six years. The sidekick, Gabby Hayes, likewise starred in at least twelve films with Rogers, having previously served as William Boyd’s (alias Hoppalong Cassidy) sidekick. However, Rainbow was not just routine; Dale Evans appears first as a boy to travel west. – UCLA
Followed by Heart of the Rio Grande (directed by William Morgan, USA, 1942, 68 min.)
Gene Autry’s 51st film in less than eight years, Heart of The Rio Grande was different because it’s a contemporary Western, taking place in 1942, the first year of America’s involvement in World War II (reflected in the narrative in Gene’s plea for folks to buy war bonds.) It’s less of an action film than many of Autry’s westerns, and more of a lyrical, musical western. Autry runs a dude ranch and must contend with the spoiled daughter of a millionaire and a disgruntled ex-foreman. Gene manages to find time to sing a few tunes of course, including “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” – UCLA
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