Beecher

Go West (1940)

Actors: Robert Barrat (actor), Lee Bowman (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), John Carroll (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), James Dime (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Edward Gargan (actor), Lew Harvey (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), George Lessey (actor), Mitchell Lewis (actor), Jack Low (actor),

Plot: Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.

Keywords: axe, comic-drunk, cowboy, cowboy-hat, deed, farce, gold, gold-prospector, irreverence, man-with-glasses
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Western,
Taglines: The Looniest, Tuniest Musical Gag-And-Gal Show Since "A Night At The Opera" JUMP INTO YOUR BOOTS AND SADDLES...IT'S ROUND-UP TIME IN THE WILD AND WOOLY WEST! Rip-Roaring With Laughs, Girls, Songs!

Quotes:

S. Quentin Quale: I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

S. Quentin Quale: You love your brother, don't you?::Joseph Panello: No, but I'm used to him.

Red Baxter: I don't like your faces.::S. Quentin Quale: I suppose you think we like 'em.

S. Quentin Quale: Lulubelle, it's you! I didn't recognize you standing up.

[Arriving at the RR Station]::S. Quentin Quale: Any of you boys got change ah ten cents?::Porter: No.::S. Quentin Quale: Well, keep the baggage.

[as Quale destroys Rusty's first hat]::Joseph Panello: Hey whataya do with that hat; that hat cost a lotta money.::S. Quentin Quale: How much did it cost him?::Joseph Panello: I dunno; he stole it.

[Indicating a gag around the train engineer's mouth]::S. Quentin Quale: Didya know this is the best gag in the picture?

[Chico suggests telephoning for help]::S. Quentin Quale: Telephone? This is 1870. Don Ameche hasn't invented the telephone yet!

S. Quentin Quale: There's something corrupt going on around my pants but I just can't seem to locate it.

S. Quentin Quale: Madam why is that baby constantly crying?::Mother on Stagecoach: He can't stand the jerks in the coach.

Big City (1937)

Actors: William Demarest (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), John Arledge (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Ralph Bushman (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), George Chandler (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Jack Dempsey (actor),

Plot: To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue Anna (about to deliver their baby) from the ship.

Keywords: athlete, banquet, birthday, brother-sister-relationship, business-competition, childbirth, confession-of-crime, deportation, detective, district-attorney
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: HEART-THROBS of a GREAT CITY! (original ad - many caps) So much of happiness and heart-break...drama and romance...set to the tune of a big city...glorified by two great stars...it will bring glowing memories for years to come! BY THE AUTHOR OF "FURY"! (original ad - all caps)