What a waste this parodic western, involving a tenderfoot - Will Rogers - becoming a sheriff against his will. Totally uninteresting for me, but after all why not...It is not without qualities, but it is not a real western, only the surroundings are. In the tenderfoot topic I prefered Jack Lemmon in Delmer Daves' COWBOY, or Dan Duryea in BOUNTY KILLER, but those two last westerns were not comedies; COWBOY just a bit light hearted but far far more interesting than this one in terms of character study and above all change during the story. DESTRY was also a western with a tenderfoot scheme, and also better than this film. But because it is from Michael Curtiz, I won't say it's a lousy film, because Curtiz was a great Hollywood vet at Warner during the previous decades.
Review of The Boy from Oklahoma
