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(More customer reviews)Love Roy & Dale and all their films, but I just can't stand it when my favorite cowboy films get all butchered up!... For some reason the song SUSANNA PASS went buzzing through my head the other day so I reached for this newly bought set to enjoy the movie. Now, the dvd states the running time as 67 minutes which is the correct running time for this movie. However, during the first 10 minutes I noticed that things just didn't seem quite right. Too many quick splice/cuts. And then when Roy arrives at the jailhouse early on after chasing an escaped convict I remembered that a song seemed to be missing. So when I pulled out my old REPUBLIC PICTURES vhs double bill of this film along with SONS OF THE PIONEERS I not only noticed that the video tape print was clearer with better color contrast, but also that there were no early splice cuts, snipping a couple seconds here and there. And best of all, as Roy arrives at the jailhouse, Estrelita Rodriguez is singing the song TWO GUN RITA which is not on this dvd version!!!
Now I know that those in charge of marketing for the Roy Rogers estate claim that the songs were cut for tv release way back when and are now lost on the cutting room floor... So how come my old vhs tape from REPUBLIC PICTURES has the same movie intact running also at 67 minutes?
It seems to me that the missing time ( cut songs ) were done so that Roy & Dale could host their HAPPY TRAILS THEATER on tv and talk to guest stars, in this case Gene Autry & Pat Buttram. I have nothing against yackin' about old times and kindda like seeing it as a bonus feature...but when it means cutting the songs out of a singing cowboy movie, it grates me somewhat!
After all, according to the promo blurb for Roy & Dale's 4-disc cd collection of their movie songs "...It was always the music."!!!
Then, if so, why cut the music?
This film,and others, THE BELLS OF ROSARITA, UNDER CALIFORNIA STARS, etc are available uncut with all songs intact on cheap public domain lables, many of which offer better looking prints.
Shop wisely and avoid any release that is tied into the ROY ROGERS HAPPY TRAILS tv product. They're all cut versions! They're all missing the songs!
I love the songs and I love my movies uncut and I'm sorry to see such wonderful packaging wasted on such an inferior product.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!
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