Silly Billies

Silly Billies

Folks, It's a MASSACRE! The "Cuckoos" Are on the Run..and Are the Indians Wild?

NR 1936 · 64 min · ★ 8.5 · Western, Comedy

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

Directed by Fred Guiol · Written by Fred Guiol

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Cast

Bert Wheeler Roy Banks
Robert Woolsey Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington
Dorothy Lee Mary Blake
Harry Woods Hank Bewley
Ethan Laidlaw Trigger
Chief Thunderbird Chief Cyclone
Delmar Watson Martin
Richard Alexander John Little
Philip Armenta Indian
Harry Bernard Prospector
Willie Best Excitement
Maurice Black Bandit with Toothache

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