Russell Gleason and Jack La Rue in A Tenderfoot Goes West (1936)

A Tenderfoot Goes West

1936Approved1h 1m
ActionComedyMusicWestern
5.7 / 10(24)

Wellington Pike (Russell Gleason), 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 (Virginia Carroll) 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 (Jack La Rue) and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled.

Rated
Approved
Runtime
1h 1m
Released
1936

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Release year: 1936

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Wellington Pike (Russell Gleason), 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 (Virginia Carroll) 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 (Jack La Rue) 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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