Corrupt mayor Barney Turlock appoints lawyer-wannabe greenhorn Tom Brewster as sheriff but regrets his choice when Brewster becomes efficient at fighting crime and solves the murder of the p... Read allCorrupt mayor Barney Turlock appoints lawyer-wannabe greenhorn Tom Brewster as sheriff but regrets his choice when Brewster becomes efficient at fighting crime and solves the murder of the previous sheriff.Corrupt mayor Barney Turlock appoints lawyer-wannabe greenhorn Tom Brewster as sheriff but regrets his choice when Brewster becomes efficient at fighting crime and solves the murder of the previous sheriff.
- Crazy Charlie
- (as Lon Chaney)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Prisoner
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
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Did you know
- TriviaWinston Miller's script served as the basis for the Warner Bros. TV series, Sugarfoot (1957).
- GoofsWhen Katie shot the cigar in Barney's mouth, the bullet should have gone through the window in the door behind, but did not.
- Quotes
Katie Brannigan: [after Tom had told her earlier there was a law against women wearing pants, she looked it up] There's no such law at all.
Sheriff Tom Brewster: Huh?
Katie Brannigan: There's nothing in here about women not being able to dress as they please.
Sheriff Tom Brewster: Well, I didn't say it was a law in *this* town. Back where I come from it is. Folks there got sense. They want some quick way of tellin' their women apart from their men... that is, at a distance.
Katie Brannigan: I almost went home and changed.
Sheriff Tom Brewster: Wish you had. You'd look a darn sight better.
Katie Brannigan: That's a matter of opinion.
Sheriff Tom Brewster: Not either. It's a matter of build. How do you think I'd look in a skirt?
Katie Brannigan: Well, I-I-I...
Sheriff Tom Brewster: Go home and think that over and see where you come out. If you got any imagination, I'll bet it's without pants.
Katie Brannigan: [aghast] Why!
[she leaves]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Life (2015)
The screenplay for this movie and the pilot of "Sugarfoot," titled "Brannigan's Boots" is so close that even the co-stars of "Boy" appear as their same characters in "Brannigan!" For example, Sheb Wooley plays the foreman of the mayor's ranch, Pete Martin, in both movie and TV show. Also doing double duty is Slim Pickens as Shorty!
Some of the dialog is also word for word although the television version is somewhat annotated and a few changes are evident. The movie Tom Brewster doesn't use a gun, instead, he's quick with a rope, as was his father in real life, that wicked twine twirler and American icon, Will Rogers. In fact, this Tom can't use a gun whereas the television Tom as portrayed by Will Hutchins, can and does, when the need arises. The movie Tom gets the heroine, or at least her promise that she'll wait for him; while the TV Tom must push on, leaving the pretty young thing to pine after what might have been.
"Boy From Oklahoma" is well-filmed in color; has a likable hero in the junior Rogers and spawned a pretty darned good TV show to boot! (Uh, no pun intended)!
- dr-holliday
- Sep 5, 2004
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,400,000
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1