New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Acting
Wheeler & Woolsey's rapid-fire banter—vaudeville legends at peak chaos.
Direction
Seiter keeps seven plot threads spinning without breaking a sweat.
Costume
Pre-code flapper fashion that screams 'we're not in Kansas anymore.'
Director
William A. Seiter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first of four films pairing Wheeler & Woolsey with director William A. Seiter; they'd become RKO's most reliable comedy machine through 1937.
Made just before the Hays Code crackdown, this 'pre-code' gem gets away with gambling, casual divorce references, and Mitzi Green's kid sister character being weirdly independent for 1932.
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