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Released November 20, 1942
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
60 min. (Feature Film)

Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, and pianist Bob Saunders, are on the 7-year college plan and happy to flunk out again if they can make it to 8. They'd rather spend their evenings jamming at Pops' (Shemp Howard) soda shop. Bob's father has had enough, and sends his son out west to the family's Circle S Health Ranch to learn business management from the resort's officious and prissy manager Mr. Cathcart (Franklin Pangborn). Bob decides that Ozzie, the band and Pops, should go with him and turn the Circle S into a jumping success. The neighboring Arizona Ranch, run by Sally Monroe, is going out of business. Bob falls in love with Sally, and when he learns that he can't change his father's ideas, the orchestra and Pops head for the Arizona with plans to turn it into a country swing nightclub. Pops takes on the job of convincing (or, conning) a cantankerous rancher (Leon Errol) to sponsor a radio broadcast for the Nelson band.

Shemp Howard costars as Pops, and steals every scene he's in (which is most of them), even upstaging Leon Errol.

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Avg. Rating: [8.33/10]
 
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Ozzie Nelson
Ozzie Nelson

Richard Davies
Bob Saunders

Mary Healy
Sally Monroe

Leon Errol
Carter Durham

Eddie Johnson
Skat Foster

Russell Hicks
R. C. Saunders

Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Cathcart

Tim Ryan
Professor Blake

Charles Lang
Russ Monroe

Jimmy Wakely
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band

Dick Reinhart
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band

Johnny Bond
Jimmy Wakely and His Cowboy Band

Joey Ray
Waiter

Ralph Dunn
Big Boy

Neely Edwards
Angry man

Frances Morris
Switchboard operator

Drew Demorest
Circle S desk clerk

Jack Gardner
Arizona desk clerk

Holmes Herbert
Commissioner

Lloyd Ingraham
McClelland

Francis Sayles
Hotel guest


Vernon Keays
Director

Joseph Gershenson
Assoc. Producer

Warren Wilson
Original Screenplay

Kenneth Higgins
Original Screenplay

John Boyle
Director of Photography

Edward Curtiss
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director

Joe Lapis
Sound Technician

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Harold Adamson
Music and Lyrics

Jimmie Davis
Music and Lyrics

Fred Rose
Lyrics

John Mattison
Dance Director


















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