Romance Rides the Range (1936)

The first of thirteen singing-Westerns starring former San Francisco Opera baritone Fred Scott, Romance Rides the Range was thoroughly geared to the handsome singer's forté: light opera. Scott played Barry Glendon, an opera singer who returns to the old homestead after an especially successful season. Learning that his neighbors, Carol Morland (Marion Shilling) and her kid brother Jimmy (Buzz Barton), have been conned into buying a parcel of useless land, Barry cons the con men (Robert Kortman and Theodore Lorch) into believing that the Morland property contains a hidden gold mine. Does our hero fall in love with his pretty neighbor along the way? Why, of course he does!