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Wall Street Cowboy is a 1939 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.

SYNOPSIS
Roy Rogers and his pals go to New York City to prevent a Wall Street conglomerate from taking their land. The land is rich in a mineral used for making steel and some greedy power brokers will stop at nothing to get it.

Wall Street stock marketeers try to swindle Roy Rogers out of his ranch, when molybdenum, a valuable mineral is discovered on the property, which the villains plan to use for their steel-mining activities. Unable to pay his mortgage thanks to a crooked financier (Ivan Miller), Roy and his friends ride east to stop the Wall Street crooks.

CAST & CREW
Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers
George 'Gabby' Hayes as Gabby
Raymond Hatton as Chuckawalla
Ann Baldwin as Peggy Hammond
Pierre Watkin as Roger Hammond
Louisiana Lou as Louisiana Lou - Singer
Craig Reynolds as Tony McGrath
Ivan Miller as William Niles
Reginald Barlow as Bainbridge
Adrian Morris as Big Joe Gillespie
Jack Roper as Gillespie Henchman
Jack Ingram as Henchman McDermott

Directed by Joseph Kane
Written by Gerald Geraghty (screenplay), Norman S. Hall (screenplay), Doris Schroeder (story)
Edited by Lester Orlebeck
Distributed by Republic Pictures
Release date August 6, 1939
Running time 66 minutes, 54 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
Leonard Maltin wrote, "engaging Western with two sidekicks (Hayes and Hatton) touches upon Depression-era subjects of corrupt banking institutions and foreclosures; fun to watch Roy riding in a steeplechase and singing in a nightclub (wearing a coat and tie)"; and Dennis Schwartz wrote, "this Roy Rogers film had an undeserved bad reputation. I actually found it to be one of his better B Westerns, it was at least up to par with the typical Rogers action-packed oater except that the singing cowboy only sang a few songs. It uses the present as its setting. Joseph Kane ("The Arizona Kid"/"Jesse James at Bay"/"Frontier Pony Express") directs in his usual credible fashion and it's ably written by Gerald Geraghty and Norman S. Hall."

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