The Cowboy Millionaire
About The Cowboy Millionaire
Bob Walker and Persimmon Bates stage fake holdups at a dude-ranch hotel near Phoenix to pay for their gold claim. English tourist Pamela Barclay will not leave the coach, asks for Bob as her guide to get even, and he bets a clerk she will be eating from his hand within a week. She learns of the bet and goes back to Britain. A promoter offers Persimmon $10,000 for a claim worth $100,000, and Persimmon heads for England with Pamela's confidence-man beau. When the mine pays, Bob follows, fights the beau, and burns the signed transfer.
Cast & crew
More about The Cowboy Millionaire
Edward F. Cline directed. George Waggner and Daniel Jarrett wrote the screenplay from Jarrett's story. Sol Lesser produced it for Fox, which released it on May 10, 1935. Frank B. Good photographed it. W. Donn Hayes edited it. The resort in the story is El Reposo, near Phoenix.
Themes
Look
Frank B. Good photographed the Fox Western, including the staged holdup at the El Reposo resort.
Notes
- George O'Brien is Bob Walker. Evalyn Bostock is Pamela Barclay. Edgar Kennedy is Persimmon Bates. Maude Allen is Henrietta Barclay, Pamela's mother.
- AFI names the confidence man Hadley J. Thornton and the promoter Edward Doyle.
- Bob stops the stage wearing a false mustache. Pamela refuses to step down.
- The claim figure in the AFI synopsis is $100,000 to a buyer, against Doyle's $10,000 offer to Persimmon.
Scenes
- Bob, in a false mustache, stops the stage and Pamela will not get out.
- She learns about the bet and leaves for Britain.
- In England, Bob throws the mine contract into the fire.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Cowboy Millionaire (1935).webm)
