This is a different Gene Autry film, not featuring either a lot of music or a lot of action. That's why I gave it only an "8" instead of a "10." But the complaining some other reviewers did about "Where's Robin Hood?" was explained by the first review posted above. It was a phrase often used by Republic Pictures to identify a movie in which the hero has to defy the "powers that be" in order to catch the bad guys and return the working people's money that has been stolen -- as Gene does in this film about a bank robbery in which he and his partners, the Cass County Boys, are accused (unfairly) of being "accomplices." A series of coincidences leads Autry and the Cass County Boys to a dude ranch they set up on property inherited by one of the Boys. The "bad guys" who robbed the bank, one by one show up there, thinking the money they stole has been hidden on the ranch, and so does an undercover police officer who still believes Gene and the Boys were somehow "in cahoots" with the crooks.While there is not very much action in the film as a whole, the climactic scene involves a hell-for-leather pursuit of the two remaining bad guys by Gene on Champ, and a fist fight among the three aboard a barreling, two-up farm wagon.An element not mentioned by any other review I've read is the amoral evil of the bank robbers -- attractive men (and one woman), well-dressed, but with absolutely no compunction about killing each other off in order to make off with the entire load of swag.All in all, a good, and different, Gene Autry flick. Sometimes "different," IS good.

Robin Hood of Texas was one of five movies Gene Autry made for Republic, while waiting for the courts to decide if his contract was still valid after serving in the Army Air Corps. Autry maintained that the time limit had expired while he was in the service and Republic claimed that they still had the right to his services. Autry had returned to Republic to find that Roy Rogers was known the Western king of the box office. He wanted to produce his own films over at Columbia, but needed a release from Republic. Robin Hood of Texas was heavy on music and comedy, using the talents of the Cass County Boys, Autry's musical back-up on his radio show. Republic used the term "Robin Hood" in several of their movies to create the image of the hero who often had to flee from the law to capture the real thieves. In this particular picture, Autry and his friends are accused of assisting bank robbers make their getaway.

This Republic Picture has Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys accused of bank robbery. To prove their innocence, Gene and the boys are used as decoys to find the missing money. A dude ranch is renovated and who is among the first to check into the Serenity Ranch; dudes for sure, two rival groups of gangsters with two purposes...to hideout and search for the stolen money. Plenty of action; the usual fisticuffs, horse and car chases plus Gene and the Cass County Boys sing several songs including: "Going Back to Texas" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".Where is Texas? This oater is filmed in Chatworth, California. To be exact...where is Robin Hood? Among the list of players: Sterling Holloway, Lynne Roberts, Adele Mara, James Cardwell and Ray Walker.

Basically your regular Autry picture. Judging by this one and the other Autry pics I've seen from just after the War, it looks like here Republic was trying to depart with each film from standard oater locations. In the case of this one, though, when they decided to add big-city bank robbers, a search for the stolen money, and a noir-esque gun moll to the Autry brew, they did little to thicken the stew. Diverting, but standard. And........ where is Robin Hood?