Frontier Pony Express - Roy Rogers

1939 Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Hard-Ridin’ Roy Rogers and his horse, Trigger, And in lesser roles, Lynne Roberts, Noble Johnson, Don Dillaway, (a real name) Edward Keane, Raymond Hatton and Monte Blue.

This time, Hard-Ridin’ Roy is riding hard for the Pony Express when he comes across a damsel in distress trapped in a runaway stagecoach. Roy (able to leap tall buildings in a single bound) saves the gal then meets her brother, a Confederate secret agent who tries to seduce Roy into working for the side of evil and oppression. But Roy is too blue to switch sides and he fights a nest of seedy villains headed by the crooked Senator who wants to turn California into a Republic and rule it like a king.