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Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)

NR 02/13/1942 Comedy, Western 1h 26m
58%
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Score
6.5/10

They'd make a horse LAUGH!

Overview

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Arthur Lubin

Director

Edmund L. Hartmann

Story

John Grant

Screenplay

True Eames Boardman

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott

Duke

Lou Costello

Lou Costello

Willoughby

Dick Foran

Dick Foran

Bronco Bob Mitchell

Anne Gwynne

Anne Gwynne

Anne Shaw

Johnny Mack Brown

Johnny Mack Brown

Alabam' Brewster

Judd McMichael

Judd McMichael

Tom

Ted McMichael

Ted McMichael

Harry

Joe McMichael

Joe McMichael

Dick

Mary Lou Cook

Mary Lou Cook

Dotty Davis

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Media

Ride 'Em Cowboy Official Trailer #1 - Lou Costello Movie (1942) HD

Ride 'Em Cowboy Official Trailer #1 - Lou Costello Movie (1942) HD

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on June 24, 2017

The boys own Way Out West?

Well obviously not close to that brilliant offering from Stan & Ollie, but this is a nice genre attempt from Bud & Lou.

The guys here are peanut vendors at a rodeo show, after accidentally burning their boss's foot they hide away on a train heading west. They end up at the Lazy S ranch and get work despite the fact that they clearly have no idea what they are letting themselves into.

That's as much as you need to know really, there is the usual mix up of songs, love interest, and pure mania that goes with the decent films from the boys considerably large CV. A running plot strand of the guys on the run from Indian's because Lou has accidentally got engaged to a squaw, makes for some great and humorous scenes, but the stand out sequence takes place at a s...

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