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The Singing Outlaw

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Director
  
Joseph H. Lewis

Country
  
USA

6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Singing Outlaw movie poster
Release date
  
January 23, 1938 (1938-01-23) (USA)

Writer
  
Harry O. Hoyt (story)

The Singing Outlaw was a 1938 "B" movie directed by Joseph H. Lewis starring Bob Baker as a singing cowboy.

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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. This was the second of four films in which Fuzzy Knight played the comic sidekick to Universal's new singing cowboy, Bob Baker.

Synopsis

A singing outlaw named Cueball and a U.S. Marshal kill each other in a shoot-out. A bystander (Baker) decides to take over the Marshall's identity. To trap the local outlaw gang he pretends to be Cueball. He finds himself struggling to stop the cattle rustlers and win the love of the daughter of a rancher (Joan Barclay). 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.

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."

References

The Singing Outlaw Wikipedia
The Singing Outlaw IMDb