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21 May 1943 (USA) morePlot:
Another in the Roach "streamliner" series of semi-westerns top-billing Jimmy Rogers (Jimmy) and Noah Beery... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Chickens Home To Roost moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Jimmy Rogers | ... | Jimmy |
| Noah Beery Jr. | ... | Pidge |
| Joe Sawyer | ... | Albertson, Lazy 'K' Ranch foreman |
| Marjorie Woodworth | ... | Lucy |
| Jack Norton | ... | Henry Lewis-Clark III |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Jefferson 'Jeff' Gibson |
| Rosemary La Planche | ... | Yola |
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Third and final entry in a trilogy of "streamlined" features from Hal Roach featuring Jimmy Rogers and Noah Beery Jr.. First in the series was Dudes Are Pretty People (1942); second was Calaboose (1943). moreFAQ
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I have to say I was pleasantly surprised viewing this film in the early AM and finding out how good this 48 minute feature film was for something done on a sandal string by Hal Roach, Jr.
Jimmy Rogers (who was the younger son of Will) and Noah Beery, Jr. are a pair of down on their luck cowboys that I don't think we saw anything close to until Burt Kennedy's The Rounders over 20 years later. These two galoots don't even have horses, they're getting around the country in an old clunker that one still has to start with a crank.
They get themselves hit by a chauffeur driven car with Jack Norton as the perpetually soused multi-millionaire who's visiting one of his properties, a ranch that Joe Sawyer has been running for him and skimming the profits off. Norton may very well have been the inspiration for Dudley Moore's Arthur.
No use to go any further in describing this film, but it's a lot of laughs as only Hal Roach studios knew how to manufacture them on a dime.
It's also notable for the fact that Noah Beery, Jr.'s character name in the film is Pidge which was a nickname he was known by among his friends.
This film is really quite a scream.