{"id":8088,"date":"2009-07-09T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2021-01-29T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T04:50:48","slug":"king-of-the-cowboys-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8088","title":{"rendered":"King of the Cowboys (1943)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Every town we play has an explosion or a fire.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-66983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster-1024x807.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster-128x101.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster-768x605.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster-343x270.png 343w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/King-of-the-Cowboys-Poster.png 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nRodeo star Roy Rogers is asked by his governor (Russell Hicks) to help locate a gang of saboteurs who have been setting fires and explosions in towns across Texas. When a carnival comes to town, Rogers and his sidekick (Smiley Burnette) begin to think a phony mind reader (Gerald Mohr) may have something to hide; meanwhile, Rogers kindles a romance with Mohr&#8217;s pretty assistant (Peggy Moran).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amateur Sleuths<\/li>\n<li>Cowboys<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>Westerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that this &#8220;enjoyable Roy Rogers western&#8221; was &#8220;possibly his best&#8221; &#8212; and I&#8217;ll have to believe him, since I haven&#8217;t seen any others. It&#8217;s full of hummable songs (Rogers has a fine voice) and a host of serial-flick conventions: a dastardly &#8220;bad guy&#8221; (black mustache and all) whose crimes of sabotage have suitably vague motives; a message in invisible ink; a mysterious code word (&#8220;triplets&#8221;); cars being run off cliffs; and more. Fortunately, it&#8217;s all &#8220;brisk&#8221; and &#8220;witty&#8221;, and, as Peary notes, &#8220;it&#8217;s easy to see [Rogers&#8217;] appeal.&#8221; Film fanatics will surely be curious to check out at least one film starring the &#8220;King of the Cowboys&#8221;, and this one should likely be it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plenty of suspenseful serial-flick sequences<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/king-cowboys-adventure.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/king-cowboys-adventure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8093\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some charming cowboy ditties<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/king-cowboys-songs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/king-cowboys-songs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8094\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply as a representative Roy Rogers film. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Representative Film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0036075\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3325&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allmovie.com\/work\/king-of-the-cowboys-74168\">All Movie Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every town we play has an explosion or a fire.&#8221; Synopsis: Rodeo star Roy Rogers is asked by his governor (Russell Hicks) to help locate a gang of saboteurs who have been setting fires and explosions in towns across Texas. When a carnival comes to town, Rogers and his sidekick (Smiley Burnette) begin to think a phony mind reader (Gerald Mohr) may have something to hide; meanwhile, Rogers kindles a romance with Mohr&#8217;s pretty assistant (Peggy Moran). Genres, Themes, Actors,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8088\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66985,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/66985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}