The Big Show

A Roundup of action actually filmed at the Texas Centennial!

The Big Show — Plot

At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.

• Release date
• November 16, 1936
• Runtime
• 71 min
• Genres
• Action, Drama, Music, Romance, Western
• Director
• Mack V. Wright

The Big Show — Cast

Gene Autry Gene Autry/Tom Ford Smiley Burnette Frog Kay Hughes Marion Hill Sally Payne Toodles Brown William Newman Lee Wilson Max Terhune Ventriloquist Charles Judels Swartz - Studio Head Champion Champion - Studio Horse