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Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)

Cowboy from Brooklyn poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
comedy film, Western film, musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A city man pretends to be a cowboy to win a radio singing contest. He gets caught up in a series of comedic misunderstandings on a ranch with a woman he likes.

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What happens

Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American Western musical romantic comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Earl Baldwin. It stars Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien and Priscilla Lane. The film was based on the 1937 Broadway play Howdy Stranger by Robert Sloane and Louis Pelletier. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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