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About 1:06 into the movie after Toro has beaten Dundee, Bogart turns to his wife played by Jan Sterling and says he will get her out of the arena. She tells him to go ahead and go to Toro and that she will get someone to take her home. Just as he begins to depart, he says "Alright." If one watches and listens closely at that point one can see his mouth open slightly and hear a faint cough which after the film was finished began to get worse. It was urging by some of his friends who were concerned about the worsening cough that prompted him to go to a doctor who diagnosed the cancer. It was Greer Garson who finally dragged him to the doctor.

The film is very touching although I am confused about the father's actions at the very beginning. Why would he do what he did? Also, I believe the ending would have been much more effective if she had morphed into the little girl he left behind, instead of morphing into a young woman.

All in all, the film is very touching and melancholy with beautiful music and extremely well placed and well done "bicycle bell" ringing and other sound effects.

Independent Film Channel has aired this beautiful little film several times and each time I see it I am more and more attracted to it.

Yep, it is so bad that it is almost good. The acting, other than Ankers and Ellison and Ingram , is pathetic. Lee "Lasses" White almost drove me to drink. This movie has virtually no credibility and no saving graces, except that the Trucolor photography is excellent...as excellent, that is, as two-color photography will allow. Struss does an excellent job in the color photography department which is the real reason I stayed with the film. The Trucolor photography has an unreal look to it...almost like a pastel painting. I only wish Gene Autry had made at least one Trucolor film in addition to his two Cinecolor films. All in all, watch it late at night with a bottle of Jack Daniels and relax....after all, it's only a movie!

I agree with the comments of the person from Arkansas. I saw the movie on television during the late fifties and I have never really forgotten it. I was only 14 years old at the time and a Gene Autry fan but seeing both Tom Mix and the film The Rider of Death Valley made an immense impression on me. I can understand how Tom Mix can truly claim the title as the real King of the Cowboys. I will never forget the scenes in Death Valley and during a recent visit to the Lone Pine California area I made a point to visit the outer areas of Death Valley all because of my memories of this great film. Truly a gritty, austere film well worth seeing. I only wish the powers to be at Universal would restore the film and release it again.

I had just finished watching Gene Autry in "Rancho Grande" on the Western Channel when I noticed that the Western Channel was going to show "Hoedown" immediately following "Rancho Grande". Starting watching "Hoedown" and nearly fell over when Jock Mahoney, playing a cowboy singing star, started to sing and the voice was that of Gene Autry...Fairly funny and interesting inside Hollywood joke and pretty good tongue in cheek acting by Mahoney, especially when he sings in his own voice. Carolina Cotton and Eddy Arnold are ok also. It's not often that one either sees or hears Gene Autry as a guest star or making an uncredited appearance as he does in this film. Of course since this is a Columbia film and Gene was producing his own films at Columbia and had ties to Jock Mahoney (later the star of Autry's Range Rider series) it all makes sense. Pretty good film if one is inclined toward this genre.

I believe Jon Voight's "Runaway Train" performance is his finest. Acting, script, music, cinematography are all first rate.

A perfect blend...a perfect movie!!! I get a chill everytime I see the first sighting of the "ghost" train coming out of the mist accompanied by the foreboding Trevor Jones music.