Down Dakota Way (1949)

Down Dakota Way (1949). 1h 7m | Approved

“Veterinarian Emmet Vogan tells rancher Roy Barcroft his cattle have hoof-and-mouth disease. Theyu0026#39;ll all have to be destroyed. Barcroft hires Byron Barr to kill the vet and make sure he canu0026#39;t get the news out. The law figures out Barr killed him, and goes to the house of his mother to arrest him, but Elisabeth Risdon holds them off so he can escape. Roy Rogers walks in, identifying himself as one of her old pupils, and she goes to jail. Meanwhile, Barcroft starts getting the diseased and deadly cattle ready for market.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRogersu0026#39; singing westerns certainly evolved from their relatively humble beginning. They still had real stories, but now they also were shot in color. Likewise, the choices of music are much more varied, with Dale Evans singing the only western song, and the outdoor sequences have a full, dramatic, orchestral score by Nathan Scott. If the ending is a little clangorous in its rush to wrap things up, and the stunt doubling a trifle obvious, thereu0026#39;s still a fine story, an excellent performance by Miss Risdon, and some fine outdoors camerawork by Reggie Lanning.”