| Wall Street Cowboy | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Kane |
| Written by | Gerald Geraghty (screenplay) Norman S. Hall (screenplay) Doris Schroeder (story) |
| Starring | Roy Rogers |
| Edited by | Lester Orlebeck |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 66 minutes 54 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Wall Street Cowboy is a 1939 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. [1]
Wall Street stock marketeers try to swindle Roy Rogers out of his ranch, when molybdenum, a valuable mineral is discovered on the property, which the villains plan to use for their steel-mining activities. Unable to pay his mortgage thanks to a crooked financier (Ivan Miller), Roy and his friends ride east to stop the Wall Street crooks.
Leonard Maltin wrote, "engaging Western with two sidekicks (Hayes and Hatton) touches upon Depression-era subjects of corrupt banking institutions and foreclosures; fun to watch Roy riding in a steeplechase and singing in a nightclub (wearing a coat and tie)"; [2] and Dennis Schwartz wrote, "this Roy Rogers film had an undeserved bad reputation. I actually found it to be one of his better B Westerns, it was at least up to par with the typical Rogers action-packed oater except that the singing cowboy only sang a few songs. It uses the present as its setting. Joseph Kane ("The Arizona Kid"/"Jesse James at Bay"/"Frontier Pony Express") directs in his usual credible fashion and it's ably written by Gerald Geraghty and Norman S. Hall." [3]
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Jasper Joseph Inman Kane was an American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on Western films.
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