---
title: 'Melody Ranch (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Joseph Santley'
released: '1940-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/melody-ranch-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032779/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Melody Ranch (1940)

1940 · Western · United States


## Synopsis

Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western musical film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, and Ann Miller. Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town. In 2002, the film was added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board and selected for preservation as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

## Credits

- **Director:** [Joseph Santley](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-santley)
- **Screenplay:** [F. Hugh Herbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/f-hugh-herbert), [Betty Burbridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/betty-burbridge), [Jack Moffitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-moffitt), [Bradford Ropes](https://cinepixo.com/people/bradford-ropes)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Raoul Kraushaar](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-kraushaar)
- **Producer:** [Sol C. Siegel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-c-siegel)

## Cast

- [Veda Ann Borg](https://cinepixo.com/people/veda-ann-borg)
- [George Chesebro](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chesebro)
- [Gene Roth](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-roth)
- [Barton MacLane](https://cinepixo.com/people/barton-maclane)
- [Frank Hagney](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-hagney)
- [George "Gabby" Hayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-gabby-hayes)
- [Jimmy Durante](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimmy-durante)
- [Edmund Cobb](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-cobb)
- [Herman Hack](https://cinepixo.com/people/herman-hack)
- [Joe Sawyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-sawyer)
- [Lloyd Ingraham](https://cinepixo.com/people/lloyd-ingraham)
- [Gene Autry](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-autry)
- [Jerome Cowan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerome-cowan)
- [George Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chandler)
- [Clarence Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-wilson)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/melody-ranch-1940
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