The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.

• Spectrum Pictures (I)
• Callaghan-Buell Productions
• Fred Scott
• Al St. John
• Louise Small
• Hal Price
• Slim Whitaker
• Lew Meehan
• Lafe McKee
• Billy Lenhart