The Cowboy Quarterback (1939 – Warner Bros)

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Bert Wheeler’s first movie since the death of Robert Woolsey and his last film as a leading man. It is best remembered for his comic vocal performance of “Mother MacCree” with Eddie Foy Jr., another old vaudevillian and a personal friend of Wheeler. Overall, the film isn’t the best example of Wheeler’s
work, but it is rarely shown and worthy of at least one viewing by diehard fans. Clips from this movie have surfaced in British music videos in recent years. Wheeler & Woolsey have always been “bigger” in England and Irish network television still shows their films in prime time, 70 years after their original
release.

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