Prairie Chickens

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Prairie Chickens
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Theatrical poster.
Directed by Hal Roach, Jr.
Written by Donald Hough
Arnold Belgard
Produced byFred Guiol
Starring Jimmy Rogers
Noah Beery, Jr.
Joe Sawyer
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • May 21, 1943 (1943-05-21)
Running time
48 minutes

Prairie Chickens is a 1943 American Western fearurette film and a sequel to Dudes are Pretty People (1942) and Calaboose (1943), Western films from "Hal Roach's Streamliners", [1] a series of approximately 50-minute comedic movies, in this case directed by Hal Roach, Jr. and starring Jimmy Rogers as "Jimmy" and Noah Beery, Jr. as "Pidge Crosby" (Beery's real-life nickname was "Pidge"). The supporting cast features comedy veteran Raymond Hatton, who had been an unofficial comedy partner with Beery's uncle Wallace Beery in several pictures two decades earlier, and the featurette's running time is 48 minutes. [2] [3]

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  1. Fetrow, Alan G. (1994). Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-89950-914-3.
  2. Pitts, Michael R. (January 4, 2013). Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, 2d ed. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-6372-5.
  3. Webb, Graham (July 27, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959. McFarland. ISBN   978-1-4766-8118-4.