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You know when you have characters named Skipalong, Butcher Baer, Sneaky Pete, Square Deal Sal and Honest John, you are not in the John Wayne or Roy Rogers or Gene Autry type of western. Even characters mentioned but not living like Two Gun Gertie, a photo of whom is actually a man in drag, prove to be over-the-top in nature.

This is equivalent to a Three Stooges short (as they went out west a number of times) or films set among the tumbleweeds featuring comics like Joe E. Brown, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and the Bowery Boys. It is completely over the top, nonsensical, overloaded with slapstick, and even giving a little preview of television with an occasional phony commercial thrown in.

Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom was the go-to guy if you wanted a dumb lug who is actually quite sweet underneath his braun and lack of brain. The basic plotline deals with the search for a gold mine (a common Western film trap), so there are plenty of bad guys and even a femme fatale (Hillary Brooke). Max Baer, Fuzzy Knight and Jackie Coogan are among the other wackos involved in this opus oater.

This was definitely made for the kiddies with its corny style of action, focusing on schtick that most modern audiences will roll their eyes at. Jacqueline Fontaine is the pretty heroine who even gets to sing, but Brooke, playing another baddie, is more appealing a female character even though she's basically played this part in almost every film she did. Thankfully short, it seems dated for the time it was made (early TV era), but it is good for a few giggles, forgettable for most everything else.