a5c7b9f00b Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. The ranch where Martin is foreman is in financial trouble, and with Lewis&#39;s unorthodox help, the good guys win out. Rich momma&#39;s boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father&#39;s footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father&#39;s former partner. Wade overcomes Slim&#39;s initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his jobforeman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called &quot;masked raiders.&quot; Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch&#39;s mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither &quot;pardner&quot; realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers&#39; murderer, is the leader of the gang. This is the second to last film starring Dean Martin &amp; Jerry Lewis–and so the title does seem a bit ironic! The film begins with Dean and Jerry&#39;s fathers (played by them with powdered hair) dying in a shoot out with baddies. However, both men had sons. One was a capable and manly cowboy (Martin) and the other a pampered mama&#39;s boy (Lewis) and they grow up not knowing each other. However, when Martin meets with his old partner&#39;s widow (Agnes Moorehead) to try to get money for a prize bull, she refuses but her son (Lewis) decides to go west with Martin and learn to be a real he-man. Plus, his mother has plans for him that include marriage to an amazon–and he wants no part of it. The rest of the film consists of Jerry acting wimpy and very goofy (perhaps too much so at times) and Martin being exasperated but loyal to his new friend who makes everyone (including Jerry) think he&#39;s a lot more rugged and brave than he really is.<br/><br/>If you think about it, this plot is basically &quot;That&#39;s My Boy&quot; (an earlier and better Martin &amp; Lewis film) all over again. The locale is different, but the rest is basically the same formula. It&#39;s a pleasant formula, but also shows lazy writingwell and the film could have benefited from more originality. Plus, in a few scenes Jerry really does ham it up too much (even more than normal) and there are just too many &quot;ooooo, oooohs&quot; and &quot;whoo-oooaa&quot; moments in the otherwise pleasant but unremarkable film. And,a result of so much screen time for Jerry, Martin is mostly relegated to the background–and you can see how films like this ultimately pushed them to their dissolving their pardner-ship.<br/><br/>By the way, this film also bears a strong similarity to the Bob Hope films &quot;The Paleface&quot; and &quot;Son of Paleface&quot;. See them all and you&#39;ll probably agree. The plot is quite simple: Dean Martin is the rodeo riding, singing cowboy, and foreman of a ranch. Jerry Lewis is a rich kid who wants to become a real cowboy, and hence he becomes the clumsy (unwanted) sidekick of Dean Martin. Oh, and for good measure there&#39;s some bad guys trying to take over the ranch,well…<br/><br/>If you expect &quot;Cat Balou&quot;, don&#39;t watch this. This is no comedy for adults,its slapstick humour is horrendously outdated, and the set-pieces are all too cliched. This movie is fun for kids, because it is so naive and harmless, and the violence is never serious. Also, the characters are justsimpleStan and Ollie, justloveable if you&#39;re a kid.<br/><br/>As adult, I&#39;d recommend to grab a &quot;Cat Balou&quot; tape instead, for a good classic western comedy.
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