Silly Billies (1936)
Folks, It's a MASSACRE! The "Cuckoos" Are on the Run..and Are the Indians Wild?
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
- Date of release
- 1936-03-20
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Genres
- Western, Comedy
- Director
- Fred Guiol
Casting
- Bert Wheeler — Roy Banks
- Robert Woolsey — Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington
- Dorothy Lee — Mary Blake
- Harry Woods — Hank Bewley
- Ethan Laidlaw — Trigger
- Chief Thunderbird — Chief Cyclone
- Delmar Watson — Martin
- Richard Alexander — John Little
- Philip Armenta — Indian
- Harry Bernard — Prospector
- Willie Best — Excitement
- Maurice Black — Bandit with Toothache
Interesting facts
Silly Billies is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol from a screenplay by Al Boasberg and Jack Townley, based on a story by Guiol and Thomas Lennon. The film was the twentieth feature for the comedy duo of Wheeler and Woolsey, and also stars Dorothy Lee, who had been in a number of their films. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures on March 20, 1936.
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