Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)

Director
Joseph Kane

Main cast
Roy Rogers; Trigger; Mary Lee; Dale Evans; John Hubbard

Genres
Western

Description
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred.


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