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- An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
- An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution.
- When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
- Baseball superstar Gehrig is one of several ranchers being coerced by a bunch of bandits. His sister and her lawyer/lover organize the ranchers.
- "Dapper Dan" Franklin (Frank Albertson) and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington (Isabel Randolph). One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine (Lorna Gray), and Dan decides to stay in Harmony... Blue Laws or not. "Pappy" confidentially tells Dan he can't be chased from town if he buys any piece of property and even gives him the cash to but a worthless lot behind City Hall, where the troupe sets up their headquarters. But through a mix-up Dan has accidentally brought the City Hall... and times will be changing in Harmony.
- Federal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandit 'Pecos Pete.'
- Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the film, but the better-known (on a national scale) Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadors, Jack Guthrie and Jimmy and Leon Short more than make up for that. The slight plot, around 18 songs, begins with Tubb and his band searching for $2000 needed to rebuild their town chuch after it burned down while they were rehearsing in it. Hollywood, here they come.
- A showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
- As executor of the owner's will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn't marry without his approval.
- A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that television viewing is cutting down the size of the listening audience for radio programs, and those featuring platter-spinning radio disc jockeys. He sets out to prove otherwise and calls on 28 disc jockeys in major cities across the United States to help prove his contention.
- Krag Sabine has aroused the wrath of all the ranchers by stealing their land with the aid of his henchmen, led by Ace Barco; when Lafe Martin objects, the outlaws shoot him down. Lucky Randall promises Ann Martin he will avenge her wounded father. He sets up headquarters on the Martin ranch and sends for Bob Merritt and his men, the Texas Playboys (Jesse Ashlock, Leon McAuliffe, Cotton Thompson, Junior Barnard and Luke Wills). Krag organizes his remaining men for an attack on the ranch. Lucky's men get the upper hand but Krag escapes with Ann as his hostage.
- Crooks try to take over an airport by sabotaging the planes. Sheriff Roy catches them. Songs: title song, "Granada, " "You Belong to my Heart, " and "Wait'll I get my Sunshine in the Moonlight."
- Looking for a job in radio, the girls land a break when other performers walk out just before air time.
- The small church Ted Burke pastors in a small Western town struggles to thrive as all the men gather at Jack Higgins' Mustang Saloon every Sunday. Burke decides to ask Higgins to close his business on Sunday, but Higgins' only concern is to find a baritone to sing in the saloon's quartet, and has his henchies toss Ted out into the street. Ted decides to fight fire with fire, so he gathers up the down-and-out vaudeville act of Chase and Chase (who don't take long to show why they are down-and-out), knife-thrower Steve Clemente, and a dozen or so Western musicians from Gower Gulch as the before-the-sermon at his tabernacle. Higgins sends his rowdies over to bust up the Sunday-morning competition.
- Hanson is using Bobby's carrier pigeons to receive messages. His man Slim shoots them down before they reach Bobby. When Slim is injured, Ranger Daniels, posing as a drunk, gets the job. He misses the next pigeon on purpose and gets the message from Bobby. But his identity has now become known and the gang rides to get him.
- Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tightfisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps. Dan, who is hungry, joins a group of college students at Uncle Si's ice cream parlor, where he meets Betty, Minerva's granddaughter. A friendship develops between the two, alarming James Rutherford, Betty's snobbish boyfriend. The young people of Lyndale operate a small radio station that broadcasts a program known as "The Village Barn Dance". Because of Dan's training as an electrical engineer, he is given a job as technician at the station. Meanwhile, Minerva, determined to make Lyndale a large manufacturing city, turns a receptive ear to James Rutherford, Sr., who tells her that he will bring his large milk factory to Lyndale provided that the water and power works can handle the additional load. By threatening to refuse the local merchants credit at her bank, Minerva browbeats them into floating a loan to build a new power plant. The new plant is built on funds the merchants have raised by mortgaging their businesses, but Rutherford reneges on his offer, stating that he will bring his factory to Lyndale only if James, Jr. lives there and manages the plant. James, Jr.'s decision depends on whether Betty will marry him, and so, to save the town, Betty refuses Dan's offer of marriage and promises to marry James, Jr. Uncle Si, learning of this, reveals that he is Minerva's estranged husband, and as Betty's grandfather, he feels entitled to save her from an unhappy marriage. He then takes The Village Barn Dance program to a nearby city that boasts a national network, commandeers the station and broadcasts the show nationally, announcing that it is being sponsored by the Rutherford Milk Company. Betty and James are about to be married when she hears the radio show and realizes that she is free to marry Dan. The program is so successful that the radio fans force Rutherford to retain the program and pay the participants a salary that will more than pay for the mortgages written to finance the power plant.
- The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
- Hezzie (Paul Trietsch), a member of unemployed radio performers The Hoosier Hotshots, learns he has won a hotel in Arizona. But before he can legally acquire it, back taxes must be paid. The band's manager, Mary Parker (Cheryl Walker), suggests they broadcast authentic Western music from the hotel. Arriving at the hotel, thought to be haunted, they meet Jimmy Benson (Ken Curtis), who claims to be the hotel's rightful owner. The Hotshots discover they have been swindled but since Jimmy, too, can't meet the taxes, they combine their talents and begin broadcasting to get the money. Meanwhile, the two swindlers, Noah Jones (Raymond Hatton) and Slim Jensen (Victor Potel), living in the hotel for free, bribe Zeke Winslow (Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams) to break up the broadcast by pretending to be the ghost of old John Bass, the former owner. But he discovers buried treasure in the cellar.
- Baxter is transporting counterfeit bills across the border in the bottom of fox cages. When veterinarian Allen places the fox ranch under quarantine tying up the bills, Baxter's plan to get at the money means trouble.
- Set in a cheese factory and a radio station, Caroline Bird (Esther Dale), cheese factory owner and radio program sponsor, sets out to solve a mysterious crime by disguising herself and her screwball secretary, Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) by taking jobs in the cheese factory. Complications arise faster than buttermilk biscuits.
- When sponsor Nottingham cancels King Russell's radio program, The Hot Shots try to change his mind. They not only fail but Nottingham's son forces them to take him back to Russell's ranch. Once there he starts playing practical jokes. With everyone disliking him and learning his father is coming, he has a plan to redeem himself.
- In order to keep their band together, Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra have been flunking their college final examinations for years. Bob Saunders, the new pianist in the band, agrees to fail as well, forgetting that his father, Roger "R. C." Saunders, owner of the Saunders Restaurant chain, had planned for him to join the family business upon graduation. When R. C. shows up at the college and discovers his son's musical studies, he orders Bob to leave New York and go to Big Horn, Arizona to help run their newest restaurant, the Circle S Ranch. Unknown to his father, Bob takes the entire band to Arizona with him. Arriving in Arizona, Bob, posing as Bob Smith, meets and is immediately attracted to Sally Monroe, proprietor of the rival Arizona Lodge. He is not nearly as impressed with the older clientele of the Circle S and its manager, Cathcart, however. When Cathcart refuses to hire Bob's friends, they successfully conspire to convince the current staff to quit their jobs. The musicians are soon fired from their newly acquired jobs, so Bob tries to get the band hired at the Arizona Lodge, but learns from Sally that business has been poor at her resort ever since R. C. bought the Circle S. Meanwhile, Pops, an ex-soda jerk who is now the band's manager, unsuccessfully tries to get cattleman Carter B. Durham to sponsor a radio show for the band, but fails. Unwilling to give up, the band puts on a fake radio show, claiming to be sponsored by the vegetable industry. Before Pops can get Durham to sign the contract, however, Cathcart phones R. C., and the restaurateur fires his son in the midst of the "broadcast." That night, Sally offers to send the band off with a late-night barbecue at the Arizona Lodge. After the barbecue, Sally tells Bob that she and her brother may have to sell out if business does not improve. She then agrees to hire the band in a last ditch effort to boost business by turning the resort into a nightclub. Just before opening night, however, Sally's brother Russ arrives and tells them that R. C. has bought an option on the lodge. Sally then informs Bob that she knows his real identity, and it makes no difference to her. Meanwhile, Durham tells R. C. that, as a member of Saunders' board of directors, he will not approve the purchase of the Arizona Lodge. The restaurateur then travels to Big Horn, where jealous singer Dixie Lee tells him all about his son's activities. R. C. goes to the lodge and informs the Monroes that he will not exercise his option if Bob performs with the band that night. Durham convinces R. C. to attend the show, where they are recognized by Pops as the old-time vaudeville act of "Turkey-Trot" Durham and "Cake-Walk" Saunders. Afraid of having their past exposed, R. C. agrees to allow jazz music in his restaurants and Durham agrees to sponsor the proposed radio show.
- Andy Bryant is a University of Arizona student. His grades suffer however because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. And he is in love with the blond Laurie Sherman. Tod Bryant, Andy's father, is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
- Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the idea that the act is all about him, and his changes to the act to reflect his own ego, causes the quartet to get fired. Later, all make good in other areas of show business ... stage, radio and motion pictures.
- Bob Carson, a talent-scout for a soap-company that sponsors a television program, and his entertainer-friend, Vicky Doran, go hunting for television talent in a rural community, and are met by Katy O'Connor, who wants her boyfriend, Dodo Dixon, and his hillbilly band to break into television. Bob is more impressed with Katy's singing, however, and brings her to New York to star in the company's show. There, she finds a job for Dodo in a Greenwich Village nightclub. Katy becomes successful but Dodo bombs, and thinks he can do better if he gives a big concert, bombs again and gets bad reviews. Can he make it big on the New Jersey seashore?. Maybe.