The Yellow Rose of Texas (1944)

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Harry Shannon, George Cleveland ... see more  , William Haade , Weldon Heyburn , Hal Taliaferro , Tom London , Dick Botiller , Janet Martin , John Dilson , Rex Lease , Jack O'Shea , Sons of the Pioneers , Fred 'Snowflake' Toones , Trigger the Horse , Emmett Vogan , Wally Wales , Robert J. Wilke , Bob Nolan , Don Kay Reynolds

The Yellow Rose of Texas is, at least in the case of this Roy Rogers vehicle, both the title of a song and the name of a fancy showboat. Rogers plays a frontier insurance investigator who is assigned ... read more to locate a company payroll stolen several years earlier. Working undercover, Roy poses as a singer on the aforementioned "Yellow Rose of Texas." The showboat's owner, Betty Weston (Dale Evans), is the daughter of the man who was arrested for the robbery. She's convinced that her dad is innocent, and Roy proves that she's right by capturing the genuine culprit. Running seven reels as opposed to the usual six, The Yellow Rose of Texas was marketed as a "special" by canny Republic Pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi