Review of Dudes Are Pretty People

Just because there is upbeat music here and even a brief song doesn't make this Hal Roach streamlined feature even remotely funny. In fact, I can count each laugh on two closed fists. Jimmy Rogers and Noah Beery Jr. are traveling cowboys looking for work, and Jimmy falls for pretty ranch owner Marjorie Woodworth who is actually from the northeast. He tries to get a job working at Sarah Edwards' ranch and instead is offered a job as an entertainer, singing even though he can't hold a note. Rogers gets someone to sing for him. There's a few horse chases and some shoot-outs, but where there's supposed to be comedy, there's only stale air. Other than Edwards (quite formidable as the lady rancher), a touch of class is offered by veteran actress Marjorie Gateson who for once doesn't play a high fallutin' society dame. This is among the worst of the Hal Roach streamliners of which there were many in the early 40's, not many of them any good.