Gene And Frog Escape From The Crowd example essay topic

Red River Valley The movie "Red River Valley", is a B-western that really portrays the way life was in the early 1900's. The music in the movie really set the moods, and gives you a better understanding of what's going on. The song that opens up the movie has a fast tempo that is played what sounds like a trumpet. Then we are introduced to Gene Autry and his partner, Frog Mill house. The two were tending cattle and seemed to be pretty skilled at it.

Then Gene and his partner set out to help build a dam to bring water into the dry land. They will take on the task of being ditch guards at the dam. The cowboy music in the movie starts when Gene and Frog walk into the town's saloon. There is a band up on stage that is playing a fast tempo song. They are playing with a guitar, piano, harmonica, and other exotic looking instruments, like a bottle that the band member blows into.

The men at the saloon are dancing, drinking, playing checkers, and seem to be having a good time. Then Gene and Frog leave the saloon and go to the dam. In the beginning of the scene, a fast pace song that is played with trumpets starts to play, which made me think that the scene would have a lot of action in it. The two men go to work on the dam, but Gene realized that they were set up, and there was dynamite that was about to explode. But he uses his quick wit, and they escape with no harm. After that the two men go back to the saloon to perform on stage.

Gene Autry sings and plays the guitar very well up on stage. His voice has a baritone / high pitch sound to it, but he sounds like he has skill. Then after Gene, his partner Frog gets up on stage to perform. Frog uses the whole band and their many different instruments while he sung about his trusty forty-five.

The duo was a crowd pleaser, and they left the saloon immediately after performing. Then there is a scene with group of men walking and singing together with shovels. The men sing with a very deep, bass sounding tone. These men are the guys that are working to build the dam, and they are upset because they aren't getting paid.

Gene takes action and goes to the saloon to convince these union workers to keep on building the dam. He makes one of the men sing the song "Red River Valley" for money. The man sounds like a terrible singer, and doesn't even know all the lyrics. Everyone else in the saloon joins in and sings along. It changes the attitude of the men, and then they are bribed into working for more money. However, when the men in the union line up to get paid again, a fight ends up breaking out, and then the payroll is stolen.

Everyone attacks Gene, because they suspect that he was the one who has stolen the money. While Gene is running away, there is more fats pace, action packed music played with trumpets. Gene and Frog escape from the crowd, and are now determined to find out who really stole the money. So they set out to the desert to find the thieves. They find the men dividing up the money, and then they arrest them and drag them back to town.

Gene arrives with the payroll, hoping to end the riot that the construction crew started. But when Gene is walking across the river, a man opens up the dam to stop him. Gene is washed away, but saves the money. The criminals that were responsible for all the troubles, try to escape on the train, and are killed when it collides with a pile of dynamite. The construction workers finally are able to get their money, and everyone is happy.

The movie ends with the train full of men joyously singing "Red River Valley" as they go on their way..