Silver City Bonanza finds Rex Allen and Buddy Ebsen in yet another film that was obviously meant for Roy Rogers. Anytime you find kids in the film you can bank on that idea.
If it was meant for Rogers than Roy missed a good one. Rex and Buddy are on the trail of a blind relative of Buddy's played by Harry Lauter. But all they find is Lauter's dead body with his faithful seeing eye dog beside him. Lauter was on the trail of a lost silver mine with reportedly freshly mined bullion inside it.
After that the two get involved with the troubles of Rex's Dale Evans like leading lady Mary Ellen Kay and her younger brother Billy Kinkley and sister Alix Ebsen. Billy's a baseball loving kid and the only one I've ever seen play baseball with cowboy boots on. They discover the source of their troubles is the same as whoever knifed Harry Lauter.
The key here is a knife was used and you won't believe how well this mine was hidden. Can't say more it's also a key to solving the mystery and bringing the criminals to justice.
Rex gets a couple of nice songs to sing, one where Kay joins him. And for those who don't remember Buddy Ebsen before he was Davy Crockett's sidekick, Jed Clampett or Barnaby Jones, Ebsen was a pretty fair dancer with a nice style that took advantage of his bean pole build. He dances here with his own daughter Alix in a way similar to what he did with Judy Garland back in MGM days in the Thirties.
One of Rex Allen's better Republic features.
If it was meant for Rogers than Roy missed a good one. Rex and Buddy are on the trail of a blind relative of Buddy's played by Harry Lauter. But all they find is Lauter's dead body with his faithful seeing eye dog beside him. Lauter was on the trail of a lost silver mine with reportedly freshly mined bullion inside it.
After that the two get involved with the troubles of Rex's Dale Evans like leading lady Mary Ellen Kay and her younger brother Billy Kinkley and sister Alix Ebsen. Billy's a baseball loving kid and the only one I've ever seen play baseball with cowboy boots on. They discover the source of their troubles is the same as whoever knifed Harry Lauter.
The key here is a knife was used and you won't believe how well this mine was hidden. Can't say more it's also a key to solving the mystery and bringing the criminals to justice.
Rex gets a couple of nice songs to sing, one where Kay joins him. And for those who don't remember Buddy Ebsen before he was Davy Crockett's sidekick, Jed Clampett or Barnaby Jones, Ebsen was a pretty fair dancer with a nice style that took advantage of his bean pole build. He dances here with his own daughter Alix in a way similar to what he did with Judy Garland back in MGM days in the Thirties.
One of Rex Allen's better Republic features.