Perfect cast and a good story

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans, and of course -- Trigger...all get together for another of those great old cowboy movies that Roy made back in the 1940s. While this is not the best of Roy's films -- that would be "Don't Fence Me In" with a wonderful Gabby Hayes performance -- this is far better than average.Here, Gabby and Roy start off on opposite sides when Gabby refuses to breed his horse -- the Golden Sovereign -- with Roy's horse. The two horses escape, and Golden Sovereign is shot...Roy is blamed. Time passes and Roy returns with Trigger, the son of Golden Sovereign. Of course, Roy gets to clear his name.Another nice thing about this film -- Bob Nolan and the Sons Of The Pioneers. The bad guy here -- once cowboy star himself, and later character actor Jack Holt.Many of the old Roy Rogers films didn't survive well being cut up to fit 60 minute time slots on black and white television back in the 1950s. This one did (at least the version shown recently on TCM), although the sound track has a very bad hiss throughout.One thing that these later Roy Rogers films suffered from were clear glimpses that Roy was using a double, for example, in the fight scenes...and that happens here. Gabby Hayes does more real acting in this film -- playing the father to Dale's character, and he shows more depth than usual.Westerns have certainly lost their dominance in cinema today, and the Roy Rogers films are certainly out of vogue, but historically Roy was the King Of The Cowboys, and this is one of his films that is worth watching.

Roy Rogers was the epitome of the stylized singing cowboy of the mid 20th century. This movie and others with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans are probably better received by those who have an understanding of the real relationship and lifestyles of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans off screen.Typically the Roy Roger movies and television series were very stylized between black and white morality. This movie breaks the mold to the extent that while at heart, Roy plays an honest cowboy, his solution to being falsely arrested is to become a fugitive from justice. He also forces his way into a barn on private property when his mare goes into foal and fights the owner and ranch hands when they insist that he leaves.As with most "hero" movies, the truth comes out in the end when Dale Evans becomes to believe in Roy's innocence which is ultimately proved and the bad guys go to jail.On the surface this movie had Roy's fancy clothes and saddle, pistols and rifles, beautiful horses, cowboy singing, and even a square dance on horseback. By the 1940's, this was one version of the west that the movie companies presented to the public.As a side note, it is always interesting to reflect upon the style of any movie made just before, during, or after the depression or WII.

I saw an edited version of this film that was done for television. Other reviewers here have mentioned scenes from it that I didn't see.There is more drama in this than in most of Roy Rogers's films. In fact he and Dale only sing one number right at the beginning because they become enemies.Dale is Gabby Hayes's daughter and Gabby is playing it more serious than he usually does. Roy's riding a mare called Lady when the film opens and he wants to breed his mare with Gabby's palomino named Golden Sovereign. Even though Roy's request is refused, the horses have a clandestine liaison. But then Gabby's horse is shot dead and Roy gets blamed for it. The rest of the film is how Roy rights all the wrongs and ends up with the product of the mating. You guessed it, his pal Trigger.I'm also thinking that maybe a musical number or two might have been cut from the version of My Pal Trigger I saw. I doubt it though, it would have taken away from the general seriousness of this particular Rogers-Evans film.Also note the presence of Jack Holt who is the villain of this film. It was one of his last, but his son Tim was doing B westerns over at RKO while Jack was in this Republic product. Jack Holt's got all kinds of villainous tricks up his sleeve here. Hopefully other viewers will see a complete version of My Pal Trigger and not the one I saw.

I went on a nostalgia trip and screened this movie when hearing of the death of Dale Evans. It is the best of the Roy Rogers movies with a real story and some genuinely touching moments, it is also a nice reminder of what a pretty and gracious lady Dale Evans was.