Wall Street Cowboy

Wall Street Cowboy is a 1939 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.^[1]

Wall Street Cowboy
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
Release date	August 6, 1939 (1939-08-06)
Running time	66 minutes 54 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

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.

Cast

• Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers
• George 'Gabby' Hayes as Gabby
• Raymond Hatton as Chuckawalla
• Ann Baldwin as Peggy Hammond
• Pierre Watkin as Roger Hammond
• Louisiana Lou as Louisiana Lou - Singer
• Craig Reynolds as Tony McGrath
• Ivan Miller as William Niles
• Reginald Barlow as Bainbridge
• Adrian Morris as Big Joe Gillespie
• Jack Roper as Gillespie Henchman
• Jack Ingram as Henchman McDermott

Critical reception

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]