Up until late in the film, I thought "Valley of Fire" was a decent but unremarkable Gene Autry film. But the finale involving the exploding guns and bad accompanying sound effects sure left a bad final impression!
The story is set in Quartz City...an old west town with no law and a jerk who owns the local den of sin who likes it that way and is determined to keep running business as usual. But when Gene Autry is elected mayor and vows to clean up the town, you know eventually the pair will come into conflict. Part of the bad man's plan involves kidnapping the women Autry has arranged to become brides of the men in town...as well as killing Autry and returning to the bad old ways.
The notion of Mayor Autry appointing the idiot, Breezie (Pat Buttram) sheriff is ludicrous...and, not surprisingly, the plan ends up being a serious mistake because, well, Breezie is an idiot! But that did not bother me as much as the ending...which I mentioned above. It was just cringe-worthy and makes it a very weak Autry outing.
The story is set in Quartz City...an old west town with no law and a jerk who owns the local den of sin who likes it that way and is determined to keep running business as usual. But when Gene Autry is elected mayor and vows to clean up the town, you know eventually the pair will come into conflict. Part of the bad man's plan involves kidnapping the women Autry has arranged to become brides of the men in town...as well as killing Autry and returning to the bad old ways.
The notion of Mayor Autry appointing the idiot, Breezie (Pat Buttram) sheriff is ludicrous...and, not surprisingly, the plan ends up being a serious mistake because, well, Breezie is an idiot! But that did not bother me as much as the ending...which I mentioned above. It was just cringe-worthy and makes it a very weak Autry outing.