Starring Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, June
Collyer
Directed by Frank Tuttle

Print: black/white
Runtime: 71 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests
seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy
Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore
and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair
when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of
actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes
down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign. Carr offers to board and lodge
them free for a week if they can provide enough excitement to keep
Meadows and the other guest from leaving. The actors agree. They have
the properties and costumes for a Western melodrama,"Vance Kilroy's
Revenge", which they proceed to adapt real-life for the occasion. That
evening a woman (Mrs. Merridew) rushes into the hotel lounge with her
little daughter (Alice), begging to be saved from the whip of her brutal
husband Black Jud (Judd). He comes after them with a whip but the
heroic Vance Kilroy (Jenifer) arrives and saves them. Black Jed leaves,
shaking his fists, trimming his mustache and vowing to return. The
visitors swallow the hoax, and dedcide to return. Jenifer (as Vance Kilroy)
falls in love with Susan, but she sees through his false baravado and
snubs him. A gang of bandits, planning to rob the local bank, arrives as
hotel guests. Burson, the "ladies' man" dandy of the group takes a shine
to Susan. When "Black Jed" returns, he is pursued and "strangled" by
"Kilroy" but Burson openly shows his disbelief in the hero. Having being
"killed" as "Black Jed", Judd re-appears the next morning as a Sioux
Indian chief. When the bank robbery is committed, one of the gang wears
a costume similar to Jennifers, and suspicion is cast on him. Sheriff
Simonson arrives and arrests Jennifer, but Alice sees the bandits kidnap
Susan, and she convinces the wooden-headed sheriff that he has
arrested the wrong man. Jennifer joins the posse in pursuit of the fleeing
gangsters. The ads, in London, carried a blurb from the Sunday Times
reviewer in which he called the film... "Quite the funniest and brainest
satire of American cowboy Wild West stuff I have ever seen..." "Ruggles
of Red Gap" in 1935 probably knocked him for a loop. Quite-ho like.