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Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
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13 February 1942 (USA)
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GAGS! NAGS! SWEETIES AND SWING! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west...
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The 19 Year Old Dorothy Dandridge
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Bud Abbott | ... | Duke | |
| Lou Costello | ... | Willoughby | |
| Dick Foran | ... | Bronco Bob Mitchell | |
| Anne Gwynne | ... | Anne Shaw | |
| Johnny Mack Brown | ... | Alabam Brewster | |
| Judd McMichael | ... | Tom | |
| Ted McMichael | ... | Harry | |
| Joe McMichael | ... | Dick | |
| Mary Lou Cook | ... | Dotty Davis | |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... | Ruby | |
| Samuel S. Hinds | ... | Sam Shaw | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Jake Rainwater | |
| Morris Ankrum | ... | Ace Anderson | |
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| The Buckaroo Band | ... | Themselves | |
| The High Hatters | ... | Themselves | |
| The Merry Macs | ... | Themselves | |
| The Rangers Chorus | ... | Themselves | |
| Chief Yowlachie | ... | Chief Tomahawk (scenes deleted) | |
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82 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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The original production plans were delayed in favor of another of Abbott and Costello's service comedies, Keep 'Em Flying (1941), which were proving to be huge box office hits for Universal.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Willoughby is in Doctor Ha-Ha's sanitarium, he pick's up the phone and asks for water. When he hangs up, you can see the water hose connected to the phone.
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Edited into Western Melodies (1949)
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
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Although Abbott and Costello were watchable, this somewhat disposable film provided the 19 year old Dorothy Dandridge the opportunity to act alongside of them. She piled in a lot of celebrity films on her c.v., and was very lucky by every stretch of the imagination.