It’s the old west and singing cowboy Terry wants to marry pretty Eve, but grampy forbids it. Terry’s pappy sold gramps Dead Man’s Gulch, and wouldn’t you know, there ain’t a lick of gold on it, the swindler! Terry tries to set things straight by convincing the railroad to route their line through there making it valuable. Unfortunately, there are bad guys who want to swindle him, but the boys are there to help. Kinda.
Pretty standard fare at this point in their career. Some witty lines but not quite as clever as the early years. Tedious musical numbers nobody asked for, Chico gets his piano solo and Harpo his harp. Do they even do different songs from movie to movie? I can't even tell. No Margaret Dumont, but don’t worry. She comes back for one more. Only novelty here is seeing the boys in a western. Is it a western? I suppose so.
Like most of their films, the plot is little more than a premise around which the boys frame their bits. Only now the bits are sparse and uninspired. Perhaps the songs returned to pad the runtime. What we end up with is a watchable, vaguely amusing hour twenty. Groucho gets in a few good cuts, but not like in the earlier days. AMRU 3.
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