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- When his stagecoach is disabled in a race, Gene is left stranded and makes his way by foot to an old ghost town. There he finds a woman who says she comes here to talk to the ghost of a man that died twenty years ago. Three men also arrive, two of whom were sent to prison twenty years ago by Gene's father. They are looking for the money that was never recovered and Gene is in trouble when thay capture him. But then he gets unexpected help when the ghost turns out to be real.
- Gene Autry's stolen horse turns up in a ghost town where Gene goes after he is left stranded during a stagecoach race.
- First off, let me inform planktonrules, above, that the title, "Rim of the Canyon," DOES have something to do with the movie! It's the title song, which Gene sings early on; and there is mention made in dialogue of a particular place in the Western area where the film takes place, referred to locally as "the rim of the canyon." So there.<br/><br/>Gene Autry's movies for Columbia, which were filmed starting in 1947, tended to include darker plots, less music, more action, and a more mature, better actor as the star. And "Rim of the Canyon" is one of the best.<br/><br/>Autry is sabotaged out of winning a stagecoach race, and, with an injured leg, limps into a ghost town where he meets a rather plain, bespectacled young school teacher Ruth Lambert (Nan Leslie). She goes to the town to be alone and write when she has time, and as Gene discovers, she is friends with an older man who lives there secretly, and who faked his own death years before, Big Tim Hanlon (Thurston Hall).<br/><br/>Meanwhile, three outlaws who were captured after a $30,000 robbery 20 years before have broken out of prison and are headed for the ghost town to reclaim the money one hid there before their capture. The connection? They were captured by Sheriff Steve Autry, Gene's father, also played by Gene in a flashback. While preparing to head for the ghost town, they steal Gene's horse Champ, who was waiting for his master to return from the stagecoach race. As a result, Champ plays a much larger part in this film than in most Autrys, including getting his own revenge on one of the three outlaws.<br/><br/>Autry is informed by the elderly stranger in the ghost town that Ruth is in love with the cowboy. He also tells how he (Hanlon) has come to be known as the "ghost" in the "ghost town." Shortly after, the three crooks arrive, and the plot thickens and includes much more action than in the first half of the movie -- including two knock-down, drag-out fights between Gene and the towering Jack Mahoney, playing the youngest of the thugs. Some serious gun play and riding is also included before Gene finally wins out in the end -- and wins Ruth also. She has been transformed into a beautifully gowned, strikingly lovely young woman at a "magic moment" in the film.<br/><br/>Gene Autry's riding, fighting and acting are outstanding in this movie. The others also turn in fine acting jobs, especially Thurston Hall as the "ghost." In fact, when he's walking away from the camera, chuckling, near the end, did it seem to anyone else that he just suddenly disappeared into the night? ...<br/><br/>This is a very fine B-Western, one of Gene's best, never mind what some of the "nay-sayers" above think about it. I heartily recommend it.
- Riding, shooting and singing...Gene Autry plays in a dual role chasing bad guys that his dad Marshal Steve Autry(Autry)jailed over twenty years earlier. Wonder horse Champion is stolen and Gene has tracked the culprits to a ghost town where school teacher Ruth Lambert(Nan Leslie)believes to have talked to the ghost of an old prospector(Clem Bevans). Gene finds Champion and the horse gets his revenge by trampling a villain. Gene finds time to romance Ruth and gets to sing the popular "You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven" as well as the title song "Rim Of The Canyon". It is easy to see that Columbia Pictures has a larger budget than Republic. Also in the cast: Thurston Hall, Jock Mahoney and Alan Hale Jr.
- "Different, more action-oriented Western for Autry with fewer songs." - <a href="/name/nm0540795/">Leonard Maltin</a> (ed.), Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide, NY, 2005, p. 466 Watch Rim of the Canyon (1949) on:<br/><br/>Flick by Flick here. a5c7b9f00b
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