Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm 1937

Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog Milhouse decide to leave Gene’s ranch to pursue cattle rustlers who have been terrorizing the range. The men they are following, the Apache Kid and Black Jim, kill two lawmen and exchange clothes with them. When Gene and Frog discover the bodies, they decide to take their clothes and, disguised as wanted outlaws, head for the border.

Gene discovers that Joe Stafford, a supposed upstanding head of the cattlemen’s association, is the boss behind the rustling gang. When Stafford’s niece, Rosa Montero, and his stepdaughter Mary Ellen Stafford mistake Gene and Frog for the Apache Kid and Black Jim, they turn them in to the deputies, who turn out to be the real outlaws in disguise.

Gene and Frog are able to escape, and with the help of Gene’s partner, Buffalo Brady, and a group of singing cowhands, who eventually reveal themselves to be Texas Rangers, the rustlers are captured. After Stafford is killed, Gene and Frog return to Gene’s ranch.