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A Tenderfoot Goes West (1936)

Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about. Rancher Ann Keith and her cowhands, who have read and laughed at Pike's "wild" west, decide to give him a shock impression that is even wilder than depicted in his imaginative literary flights. Gang leader "Killer" Madden and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled.

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Russell GleasonWellington Pike
Virginia CarrollAnn Keith
Jack La RueJames "Killer" Madden
John MertonHenchman Jake
Bud McClureHenchman Bud
John InceThe Sheriff
Glenn StrangePrankster Butch
Merrill McCormickPrankster Bud Gordon
Si JenksStorekeeper
Ray TurnerPrankster in Jail

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