Under Western Skies | |
Director: | Jean Yarbrough |
Producer: | Warren Wilson |
Screenplay: | Stanley Roberts Clyde Bruckman |
Story: | Stanley Roberts (Original Story) |
Starring: | Martha O'Driscoll Noah Beery, Jr. |
Cinematography: | Charles Van Enger |
Editing: | Philip Cahn |
Studio: | Universal Pictures |
Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
Runtime: | 56 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Under Western Skies is a 1945 American Western musical film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery, Jr. It is set in the fictional town of Rim Rock, Arizona.
Katie Wells (Martha O'Driscoll) is part of a traveling musical troupe that arrives in town after having been waylayed by local bandit King Carlos Randall (Leo Carrillo) who is smitten by the pretty entertainer. Randall and his gang follow the troupe into town and disrupt the show when Sheriff James Whitcolm Wyatt (Irving Bacon) accosts them.
Rim Rock school teacher Tod Howell (Noah Beery, Jr.) begins courting Wells, but plans are thwarted when Randall kidnaps Wells. Sheriff Wyatt rescues Wells, and she and Howell are married.[1]