Title: Arizona Days
Year: 1937
Genres: Western; Musical
Director: John English

Cast:

• Tex Ritter as Tex Malinson
• Syd Saylor as Claude “Grass” Hopper
• William Faversham as Professor McGill
• Eleanor Stewart as Marge Workman
• Forrest Taylor as Harry Price
• Snub Pollard as Cookie
• Tommy Bupp as Billy Workman
• Glenn Strange as Henchman Pete
• Budd Buster as Sheriff Ed Higginbotham
• Salty Holmes as Harmonica Player

Synopsis:

Singing cowboy Tex Malinson and his bumbling sidekick “Grass” Hopper join Professor McGill’s travelling minstrel show, hoping for adventure and a share of the profits. When a rowdy group of cowboys sneaks in without paying, Tex stages a mock “robbery” of the audience—impressing the county commissioner, who hires him as the new tax collector. With his commission, Tex secures funds to keep the medicine show on the road, dispatches crooked rustlers, and leads lively musical numbers that lift spirits across the frontier.

Trivia:

• Features four original songs performed by Tex Ritter: “High, Wide and Handsome,” “Tombstone, Arizona,” “Arizona Days,” and “If Love Were Mine.”
• Produced by Edward Finney for Grand National Pictures on a modest budget typical of “singing cowboy” series.
• Many surviving prints are missing sequences, as the original negative was poorly preserved before entering the public domain.
• Hunts for back taxes and frontier justice blend action and music, making it one of Ritter’s most beloved early Western musicals.