Not so much of an anachronism for the year it was made (1936), but moreso for us - seeing the melding of horses, buggies, and Chicago mobsters in 3-piece suits.
This wasn't unusual for Gene Autry, who had this strange mix of modern and old in a lot of his oaters, but here it is done better than usual.
It was great fun seeing Gene paired up with a very young Roy Rogers, and that makes for a lot of songs by both Gene and The Sons of the Pioneers.
Many Roy Rogers films also inhabited parallel worlds where the Old West (with 'good' cowboys on horseback chasing outlaws similarly mounted) operated in tandem with the contemporary period of the day with cars, telephones and radios.
I was never quite sure how the alternative title 'Texas Serenade' came about given that the fugitive witness was travelling from Chicago to California - Texas must have been quite a detour.
To modern eyes the film is corny, hammy and with little technical merit.
To those of us who grew up with Gene Autry and Roy Rogers (albeit their post war films) it's a marvellous wallow back to our youth.
Gene and Roy were outstandingly popular movie performers of their time. Of that there can be no argument.