Melody Ranch

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Audience Member For me, this film surprisingly works. Melody Ranch is so cheesy that it should have been painful to watch. Instead, it was somehow charming. It felt like a live-action version of the fictional television show "Woody's Roundup" that appears in Toy Story 2. While that was probably more directly parodying shows like "Howdy Doody", it was hard for me not to notice some similarities. The good guys act like proverbial boy scouts, and while the clean-shaven bad guys lack any mustaches to twirl, they do things like knowingly endanger children, and literally attempt a violent voter suppression. The romance in the film is intentionally kid-friendly (apparently, the studio executives even cut out the one onscreen kiss that was originally filmed, because they thought the kids in the audience wouldn't want to see it.) Even the obligatory romantic triangle gets resolved with no hard feelings between the three individuals involved. This movie is about as clean-cut and safe as you can get, but because of that, it feels like an amusing window into what "family-friendly entertainment" used to be like. Join me as I watch and review all of the films on the National Film Registry: @NFRCompletist (Twitter and Instagram) Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the better Autry "Westerns." If you've never seen one of these it's sort of like HR Puppenstuff for the 1940's Western kiddie crowd. If Autry didn't do drugs his writers certainly did as there is usually some bizarre angle in his films. In this case Gabby Hays Street car which for some odd reason has about 10,000 miles of track running across the desert and links every single rancher homestead and seemigly can run as fast as a Japanese bullet train. The rest of the film is pretty straight forward with good guys/ bad guys and lots of singing and comedy. Features one of the bigger shoot-outs for an Autry film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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