Gene Autry Collection: Melody Ranch (1940) Rating: Starring: Gene Autry, Barbara Allen, Jimmy Durante, Gabby Hayes, Mary Lee, Ann Miller Director: Joseph Santley Category: Musical, Westerns, Musical Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: Length: 84 mins     Dust off your best cowboy hat and polish up your spurs as America's first and favorite singing cowboy gallops across the silver screen into your living room. Gene Autry, star of radio, records, film, TV and rodeo, invented the musical Western, capturing America's hearts as a guitar-slinging, song-singing, six gun-toting good guy. Riding Champion, the World's Wonder Horse, Autry became a beloved American hero whose popularity remains strong today. Now for the first time on DVD, Gene Autry's rollicking big screen adventures and unforgettable tunes are brought home in these Western classics fully restored and uncut from Autry's personal film archives. Melody Ranch Lawlessness runs rampant in Gene's hometown of Torpedo until the movie and radio cowboy returns as Honorary Sheriff for a Frontier Days celebration and cleans up the town. Showcasing classics like "We Never Dream the Same Dream Twice" and its title song, and featuring Jimmy Durante and Ann Miller, this musical was Gene's biggest theatrical production when it was released November 15, 1940.