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Twilight on the Rio Grande

{{Short description|1947 film by Frank McDonald}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Twilight on the Rio Grande

| image = Twilight on the Rio Grande poster.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Frank McDonald

| producer = Armand Schaefer

| screenplay = Dorrell McGowan
Stuart E. McGowan

| starring = Gene Autry
Sterling Holloway
Adele Mara
Bob Steele
Charles Evans
Martin Garralaga

| music =

| cinematography = William Bradford

| editing = Harry Keller

| studio = Republic Pictures

| distributor = Republic Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1947|4|1}}

| runtime = 71 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Twilight on the Rio Grande is a 1947 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald, written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan, and starring Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans and Martin Garralaga. It was released on April 1, 1947, by Republic Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/51335/Twilight-on-the-Rio-Grande/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310092329/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/51335/Twilight-on-the-Rio-Grande/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-10 |title=Twilight-on-the-Rio-Grande - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes |date=2016 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2015-09-08}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25399 |title=Twilight on the Rio Grande |publisher=Afi.com |date= |accessdate=2015-09-08}}

Plot

Gene Autry, starring in his own name, visits a Mexican border town with some of his ranch hands, to attend a carnival. Dusty, one of the ranch hands, falls victim to a jewelry smuggling operation and is murdered in the process. Gene soon learns that one of the town’s attorneys, Henry Blackstone, is masterminding the smuggling operation. Gene breaks into Blackstone's office one night looking for evidence, but Blackstone and his men surprise him and then attempt to frame him as a burglar. Gene is fortunate that the local police are also investigating the smuggling racket and let him go. After an attempt by Blackstone’s men to kill an insurance investigator who is working with the local police, Gene discovers that Blackstone and his men are trying to smuggle more jewelry into the United States via an ambulance. Gene intercepts the ambulance and kills Blackstone in an ensuing gun fight.{{cite web |title=Twilight on the Rio Grande |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94135/twilight-on-the-rio-grande#overview |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=7 December 2022}}

Cast

Reception

The film was included in the 1978 book, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and How They Got That Way), by Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss, and Michael Medved.{{cite book |last1=Medved |first1=Harry |title=The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (and how They Got that Way) |date=1978 |publisher=Angus & Robertson |isbn=9780207958915 |pages=288 |edition=First |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpQHAQAAIAAJ |access-date=16 May 2021}}

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|0039924|Twilight on the Rio Grande}}

Category:1947 films

Category:Republic Pictures films

Category:American Western (genre) films

Category:1947 Western (genre) films

Category:Films directed by Frank McDonald

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:1940s English-language films

Category:1940s American films

Category:English-language Western (genre) films

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