Moonlight on the Prairie is a 1935 American Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman. It was the first of a Warner Bros. singing cowboy film series with Dick Foran and his Palomino Smoke. A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
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Cast
Dick Foran as Ace Andrews (as Dick Foran the Singing Cowboy)
Smoke as Smoke - Ace Andrews' Horse (as Smoky)
Sheila Bromley as Barbara Roberts (as Sheila Mannors)
George E. Stone as Small Change
Joe Sawyer as Luke Thomas
Joe King as Sheriff Jim (as Joseph King)
Robert Barrat as Buck Cantrell
Dickie Jones as Dickie Roberts
Bill Elliott as Jeff Holt (as Gordon Elliott)
Herbert Heywood as Pop Powell
Raymond Brown as Stage agent
Richard Carle as Colonel Gowdy (scenes deleted)
Milton Kibbee as Henchman Pete (as Milt Kibbee)
Critical reception
Motion Picture Herald wrote that the film offered "little more than a further presentation of the often tried tooting, rooting, shooting, wild riding western formula ... there being only one departure from standard specifications — that of having the action pause a bit while the star sings."