Sexylocher
Masterful Movie
Helllins
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
JohnHowardReid
"The Man from Music Mountain" (1938) is available on Platinum Disc in a rather dark print copied from 16mm TV. Athough Gene is prominently featured on ads and credits, the movie actually stars Smiley Burnette, who not only has a slightly larger role - he even partners Gene at the action climax - but the best of the musical numbers, namely "She Works Third Tub at the Laundry" (one of Smiley's own compositions). What's worse for Autry fans is that Gene is very obviously doubled by a stunt expert zipping through the action at the start and at the finish. With all the songs and the comedy involving Smiley, Carol Hughes, Sally Payne, and a "cute" boy with buck teeth, the plot doesn't really get underway until ten minutes before the end title. At this breathless point, the heavies who have very cunningly presented themselves as Mr Nice Guys, suddenly fall out of character and commit a motiveless act of murder. Not one of Gene's best Republic outings by any means, yet it's one that most people remember. You have only to say, "Boulder Dam", and people instantly recall the revived ghost town, where cashed-up but feeble-brained homesteaders buy worthless land plots from a sleazy duo of obvious confidence men, who promise a bonanza when electricity and water are connected from the Dam - in the never-never!
bkoganbing
This Gene Autry western, Man From Music Mountain uses the opening of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam as the springboard for the story of this B film. The dam will now provide electric power for the residents of three states and some sharp operators are going to take advantage.As this film is set in the modern west, it's a 20th century plot we're dealing with. Ivan Miller is the chief villain and he's selling real estate, lots in a ghost town to be precise. But the scam he's working is that with Boulder Dam in operation there will be power lines coming soon and there is a gold mine nearby. Oh, Miller's selling shares in that as well.As Gene and Smiley Burnette have dealt with Miller before, they smell a rat. But in trying to outsmart him, they nearly outsmart themselves. You'll have to see Man From Music Mountain to know what I mean.The feminine leads are Carol Hughes and Sally Payne who have traveled west and bought those lots to open a beauty salon. It was nice that Republic Pictures thought of giving Smiley Burnette a girl as well for a change.The title song is the only new song in the film that was not written by Gene Autry, but it's the best number in the film. It's not a bad B western with a topical event to center the plot around.
ofumalow
Not to be confused with the later Roy Rogers film (THE Man from Music Mountain), this is very much a Poverty Row assembly-line oater, yet it's also better than most by far. For one thing, Autrey's foe isn't so much a villainous individual as a corporate usurper trying to suck the lifeblood by duplicitous means from an already-impoverished mining town that might or might not have a still-unmined gold reservoir. FDR would approve! For another, the musical sequences are frequent and often humorously eccentric. (I loved the number partially played on sleigh bells.) The whole thing is pretty tongue-in-cheek, with more singin' and yappin' than ridin' and shootin' until the last reel. I saw fhis on a cheap DVD collection (50 Gunslinger Classics) and it looked fine. I need to fill ten lines, right? Kerfuffle. Kablooey.
Michael O'Keefe
Gene Autry stars in this 1938 vintage musical western. Things get shady when crooked real estate developers 'hoodwink' poor honest cattle ranchers. Worthless mining stock is sold for the asking in a desert mining town. Gene and his sidekick Frog Millhouse(Smiley Burnette)put the kibosh on the white-wash, when word circulates that gold has been found. The guitar slinging cowpoke sings several tunes including "Love Burning Love" and "I'm Beginning To Care". Even Frog strains his vocal chords with "She Works Third Tub At The Laundry". Other cast members include: Carol Hughes, Ed Cassidy, Polly Jenkins, Ivan Miller and Sally Payne. All in all...the Autry movies are pretty much formulated.
