Under Western Skies Movie

Under Western Skies
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Run Time: 57 min
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Released: 1945
Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Genre/Type: Musical
Western
Producers: Warren Wilson
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief 57 minutes. Martha O'Driscoll plays Katie, the daughter of travelling showman Willie (Leon Errol). While playing an engagement in a wild-and-wooly Arizona town, Katie runs afoul of a group of bluenoses who harbor a low opinion of show folk. Denied access to the local music hall, the troupe pitches camp at the saloon owned by King Randall (Leo Carrillo). When it turns out the Randall is the head of an outlaw gang, Katie and friends are rescued by shy schoolteacher Tod (Noah Beery Jr.), who happens to be a crack shot! Among the performers in Willie's entourage is the venerable vaudeville team of Al Shaw and Sam Lee, whose routines are older than dirt and just about as funny.

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Actors Character Born
Martha O'Driscoll Katie Mar 4, 1922 in Tulsa, OK
Leo Carrillo King Randall Aug 6, 1880 in Los Angeles, CA
Leon Errol Willie Jul 3, 1881 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Irving Bacon Sheriff Sep 6, 1893 in St. Joseph, MO
Ian Keith Prof. Moffett Feb 27, 1899 in Boston, MA
Jennifer Holt Charity Nov 10, 1920 in Hollywood, CA
Edna May Wonacott Faith Feb 6, 1932 in Willits, CA
Earl Hodgins Mayfield
Shaw and Lee The Barton Brothers
Dorothy Granger Maybelle Nov 21, 1914 in New London, OH
Jack Rice Neil Matthews May 14, 1893 in Michigan
Nan Leslie Prudence
Perc Launders Hank
Warren Jackson
Frank Lackteen Dan Boone Aug 29, 1894 in Kubber-Ilias, Asia Minor
Jack Ingram Red Hutchins Nov 15, 1902 in Chicago, IL
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