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Rose of the Rancho

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1hr 25min
Genres:
Musical,Western
Release:
1936
Director:
Marion Gering
Starring:
Gladys Swarthout, Charles Bickford, Willie Howard  ...more
Synopsis: In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta about the female leader of a gang of vigilantes battling usurpers plotting to steal valuable land grants. The masked Don Carlos (aka Rosita Castro) uses her operatic voice as a call to arms, singing Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin's "If I Should Love You," "Thunder Over Paradise," "Where Is My Love?," and other selections, but her attempt to lynch accused bandit leader Joe Kincaid ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
To quote a contemporary reviewer, "Gladys Swarthout's voice can be heard, if you listen carefully, above the groans and bone-creakings of the plot in Rose of the Rancho." And the plot of this ancient operetta remains "bone-creaking" to the point of distraction. Not that operetta must necessarily make sense, but the somewhat realistic settings here only add to the drama's artificiality. On top of all ... Full Review
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Gladys Swarthout
Rosita Castro
Charles Bickford
Joe Kincaid
Willie Howard
Pancho Spiegelgass
Herb Williams
Phineas P. Jones
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