Gaucho Serenade (1940)

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Genes horse Champion They discover that Ronnie Willoughby a young boy just off the boat from school in England has hitched a ride thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesnt know that his father Alfred Willoughby is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frameup by the officials of a packing company To keep the father from testifying against them the packing company officials Carter Jenkins and Martin have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped Along the way a runaway bride Joyce Halloway and her young sister Patsy join the troupe