The Singing Outlaw is a 1938 American "B" movie Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Bob Baker as a singing cowboy.[1]
Plot
A singing outlaw named Cueball and a U.S. Marshal kill each other in a shoot-out and a bystander decides to take over the Marshall's identity.[2] To trap the local outlaw gang he pretends to be Cueball.[1] He finds himself struggling to stop the cattle rustlers and win the love of the daughter of a rancher.[2] Things get complicated when a sheriff captures him with the gang, and he nearly gets hanged before it is proved that he is not Cueball.[1]
Production
The film was the third that Lewis had directed, after Navy Spy (1937), which he co-directed with Crane Wilbur and Courage of the West.[3] This was the second of four films in which Fuzzy Knight played the comic sidekick to Universal's new singing cowboy, Bob Baker.[4]
Reception
A reviewer said, "The second of Baker's outings as a singing cowboy is notable for Miller's exceptional camera work and Lewis' emphatic direction."[5]
Notes and references
Citations
- ^ a b c The Singing Outlaw (1937) - IMDB.
- ^ a b Beatty, England & Halperin 2005, p. 30.
- ^ Thomson 2008, p. 1650.
- ^ McClure & Jones 1972, p. 21.
- ^ Hardy 1983, p. 87.
Sources
- Beatty, Josh; England, John; Halperin, James L. (October 1, 2005). Heritage Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction 2005 Catalog #624. Heritage Capital Corporation. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-59967-004-1. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- Hardy, Phil (1983). "The Singing Outlaw". The encyclopedia of western movies. Octopus. ISBN 978-0-7064-2555-0. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- McClure, Arthur F.; Jones, Ken D. (1972). Heroes, heavies and sagebrush: a pictorial history of the "B" western players. A. S. Barnes. ISBN 978-0-498-07787-6. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- "The Singing Outlaw (1937)". IMDB. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- Thomson, David (December 18, 2008). The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 1650. ISBN 978-0-307-48868-8. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
