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Nice Appearance For Chester Conklin
boblipton27 December 2021
Jean Joyce visits the Lazy Q ranch with her fiance and his mother. She thinks her father, Chester Conklin owns it, her guests think it can be sold for a lot of money. Conklin is actually a hand. Ray Whitley owns the spread, but goes along with the gag because Miss Joyce is pretty and he doesn't want to humiliate Conklin.

It's all a pleasant excuse for half a dozen country swing melodies by Whitley and his group. It was a musical genre that within another seven years, would sell more records than any other form of music. Whitley would appear in a dozen or so shorts with sketchy plots and lots of music over the next few years.
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8/10
Helping Pop through a minor crisis...and some delightful music.
planktonrules27 February 2022
In the 1930s and 40s, Ray Whitley made quite a few western shorts. All the ones I have seen are quite pleasant...and Whitley has a wonderful voice...every bit as nice as the best B-western stars. Among the Whitley shorts I've seen, "Sagebrush Serenade" is among the best. The music is particularly good and the story also quite enjoyable.

When the story begins, some folks arrive at Ray's ranch. However, they mistakenly believe that Pop (Chester Conklin) owns the place, as Pop has been lying in the letters he's been sending his daughter...who he hasn't seen in many years. Out of the blue, she's decided to see 'her father's ranch'...and she's brought her incredibly awful fiance and his even more incredibly awful mother. Why are they so bad? Well, the pair are haughty and condescending...and you really want terrible things to happen to them. To try to help spare her, Ray pretends that Pop IS the owner, as do the rest of the ranch hands.

So why did I like this one? Well, the music is even better than usual AND by the end of the film the rich snobs get theirs. How? See this pleasant short and find out for yourself.
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