Silly Billies 1936 Story by Thomas Lennon and Fred Guiol, screenplay by Al Boasberg and Jack Townley, directed by Fred Guiol. A period peace with the fellows in the 1840s.
Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler are dentists, they set up in a town the day before all the citizens leave for the California gold rush in a wagon train. The guys overhear the local scumbag plot to wipe out the wagon train with the help of a neighboring tribe. The local scumbag is the wagon train's scout. He plans to leave the wagon train and let the tribe attack, once the new settlers are wiped out, they split the loot with the tribe.
Wheeler and Woolsey ride out to tell the wagon train but they get framed for the plot by an unfortunate slip of Woolsey's tongue. There's plenty of running about and cowboy movie stuff going on but they do save the citizens. There are jokes, some are fairly good, some not. Sadly the movie is often marred by the tired old racial stereotypes depicting Native Americans. It's the 22nd film the guys made together in 8 years, I'm including the shorts they made together, and they still have 3 more to go before Woolsey passes away in 1938.
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