Unusual Roy Rogers film, in that it is split between the contemporary world, and Dale's dream world that she was her famous grandmother: Golden Nugget saloon entertainer, Kansas Kate........Dale, as Lucille, works for a tour company, evidently in southern Arizona, near Yuma, where she is supposed to marry Cecil Phelps,(Hardie Albright), imminently. However, she sneaks a ticket on a tour bus, as she has not been to the places she promotes to clients. She especially wants to visit the Golden Nugget, in the present ghost town of El Dorado. However, her Aunt Dolly(played by the veteran Margaret Dumont) and Cecil get wind of this and speed to the bus, demanding that Lucille come with them. They then set off for Yuma. Actually, Cecil is more Dolly's choice for Lucille's husband. Dolly and Cecil seem to travel around together. I don't understand their connection, unless it's just that he is her choice, rather than Lucille's. Lucille delays their progress by throwing something out, and telling Cecil to retrieve it. While he's gone, she pulls some critical wires under the dashboard, so that the car won't start. Along comes Roy, and offers to help. Lucille seems to take a liking to him. She tells him she wants to go to El Dorado, even though there are no auto mechanics there. So, Roy hitches up Trigger to the front of the car, and they slowly make their way to El Dorado(Good thing traffic is light!) Once there, Roy disappears and Lucille meets the grizzled old-timer, Gabby. He knew Kate well, and remarks that Lucille looks remarkably like her, as shown in a painting. They go check out Kate's room, upstairs. Somehow, Lucille falls asleep, and dreams she is back in Kate's time, and is Kate. The manager of the Golden Nugget is an alternative version of Cecil, called Cyril. Along comes Gabby and brings his mule and gear into the Nugget. The latter 2 are ejected. He wants to talk to Kate, who has been supplying him with his grubstake, and tells her he struck it rich. Somehow, Cyril finds out, and arranges for his henchmen to hold up the stage that Gabby plans to take to Tucson, to register his claim ......Kate, and Anabella(the alternate version of Dolly) also take that stage, but I don't know why, other than the fact that they will become damsels in distress for Roy to rescue. Cyril's men hold up the stage, and there is a gun battle. The driver is killed, and the coach horses are scared into running away with the coach, which still contains Lucille and Anabella. Roy shows up, chases the stage, jumps on the stage and gets in the driver's seat. He takes the stage back to El Dorado, where he meets Gabby, who complains that the outlaws stole all his gold and his mine map, which is written in code. Says he can't find his mine without that map.(By the way, how did Gabby get back to El Dorado, if not by the stage?). Kate is suspected of being in on the robbery, since Gabby told her about the gold, and the robbers didn't take her expensive necklace. Roy gets in a fight with the Nugget bouncer: Buster, and Roy finally wins. Cyril offers to replace Buster with him, and Roy accepts. He's also Kate's body guard, which gives him an excuse to follow her around. Kate does one of her stage routines, and Roy comes on stage shooting his weapons, then helps Kate sing "The Belle of El Dorado." Roy and Kate take a ride in the country, and stop to talk. Buster sneaks up on them and shoots at them, but Roy wounds him. Buster says that Cyril has Gabby's map. Meanwhile , Cyril is working on Gabby, filling him with alcohol, trying to get him to tell where on his map the mine is. Unbelievably, Gabby tells them.........In his office, Cyril shoots Buster dead, then blames it on Roy, who was also there. Kate doubts Roy is guilty, thus arm-twists Cyril into releasing him into the custody of 2 of his henchmen, with instructions to take him to the Mexican border. However, along the way, Roy overpowers them, shooting one dead, and getting the other to talk about Cyril. Roy and the Sheriff enter the Nugget, and arrest Cyril, who doesn't go quietly. Kate was supposed to marry Cyril after her last performance. But, now she has changed her mind..........At this point, Lucille awakens. Gabby berates Polly for insisting that Lucille marry Cecil. Roy suggests that he take Lucille on an extended horse trip around and point out some other things of interest. Lucille accepts. We see the two riding side by side, singing, while Gabby and Dolly ride side by side behind them. Gabby and Dolly: now there's the least compatible couple I can imagine!
