Excellent but underrated film

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

" Guns of the Pecos" was another in Warner Bros. "Singing Cowboy" series starring Dick Foran. This time around he's a Texas Ranger named Steve Ainslee.Major Burton (Gordon Hart) is charged with bringing a herd of wild horses in for the army. Judge (don't call me Roy Bean) Hardy (Robert Middlemass) is a corrupt judge holding court in a saloon. He instructs his gang Henry Otho, Monte Montegue, Bud Osborne and Milton Kibbee to rustle the herd. Along comes "The Singing Ranger" Steve Ainslee to join up with the rustlers, undercover of course. He gets to sing another song while riding herd to the horses.Major Burton, who has a fetching young daughter Alice (Anne Nagel) by the way, rushes to save his herd but is shot dead by the rustlers. One of the rustlers removes Burton's wallet. Later, while carrying a $25,000 cheque for Judge Hardy, He loses it to Steve. Steve seeing the cheque with Hardy's name on it, formulates a plan to have Hardy reveal himself as the head man by catching him red handed cashing the cheque (which is for the selling of the horses).While foiling a break in attempt by Hardy's men, Steve is arrested for Major Burton's murder and the rustling when Alice recognizes her father's wallet. Steve's partner Jeff Carter (Eddie Acuff) manages to aid Steve's escape. Steve and Jeff hide out at Alice's ranch but are discovered by Hardy and his men. Hardy sends for more men and they attack the ranch. Steve sensing defeat, rides for help from Ranger Headquarters. Capt. Norris (Joseph Crehan) and the rangers ride with Steve to the rescue. But, will they get there in time? Meanwhile the beleaguered few fight on until..................................................... Of note is the mock trial of loud mouthed drunken Hardy critic Wellman (Gordon "Wild Bill" Elliott) who is fined the amount in his wallet and tossed out the front door of the saloon. Acuff provides what little comedy relief there is through his unwanted advances from Aunt Carrie (Fay Holden). Foran gets the girl but wisely doesn't marry her this time but gets to serenade her..

Guns Of The Pecos casts Dick Foran as a singing Texas Ranger who goes on an undercover assignment to nail a Judge Roy Bean like character who being both a judge and an outlaw has a nice little racket going in the town that he rules. As Foran notes to his captain "Rangers are as popular as rattlers" in that neck of the woods.Robert Middlemass plays the crooked judge who is Roy Bean in all but his groupie like devotion to Lily Langtry. Anne Nagel plays the daughter of a ranch owner who is killed when his herd of horses is rustled. She gets a nice taste of Foran's baritone and after that she's his.Middlemass is really something to see. Walter Brennan might have taken notes on what Middlemass does in Guns Of The Pecos before he played Roy Bean in The Westerner. Fans of the singing cowboy genre and Dick Foran in particular should be pleased with this one.

Dick Foran,(Steve Ainslee),"The Mummy's Hand",'40, was an under cover Texas Ranger who merrily sang his tunes and wound up joining a gang of outlaws who worked for a crooked Judge who seemed to have a run of the local town and held his court room in his Bar/Hotel. There were horse stealing which involved a sweet young gal named Anne Nigel,(Alice Burton),"Black Friday",'40, who was being run off her ranch after her father was murdered in Cold Blood. Alice Burton was not a very trusting young lady and gave Steve Ainslee a very hard time and almost had him hung by the neck.No matter how you feel about a singing Cowboy and this Corn Ball B Film, it is still a Classic Western and many people in 1937 were very entertained by this WESTERN, probably your Great Great Grandfathers & Mothers! Foran really sounded like Nelson Eddy!

Abuse of authority, corrupt lawmen, corrupt judge, bandits, shootouts, good guys, bad guys, damsels in distress, this movie has everything you'd look for in a western. Watched this movie on the late,late,late show on AMC hoping it would put me to sleep, but I ended up following the plot lines and staying up to watch the ending, even though I knew that the bad guys always lose in the end. Happily, not too much singing, enough gun play to keep it interesting.The only problem I had with this movie was the actor they chose for Judge Blake, his acting leaves much to be desired, and he fails to convey just how evil and corrupt a man his character is.All in all a pretty good movie for it's day. Compared to other movies of this era I've seen, I'd give it a 9/10, compared to all movies, it's a 7/10.