Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Acting
Wheeler & Woolsey's vaudeville chemistry is pure caffeinated chaos.
Writing
Pre-Code edge lets the con men stay gloriously unrepentant.
Director
Fred Guiol
Bert Wheeler
Billy
Robert Woolsey
Roscoe Horne
Dorothy Lee
Margie Spencer
Berton Churchill
Simon Parker
George Meeker
Orville Parker
Frederick Roland
Henry Spencer
Clarence Wilson
Dennis P. Hogan
Edgar Dearing
Kelly
Harry Bernard
Fireman
Billy Bletcher
Townsman
Eddie Borden
Hobo
Harry Bowen
Switchman
Ed Brady
Farmer
Don Brodie
Townsman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the real Dust Bowl, the drought metaphor landed hard with 1935 audiences desperate for any kind of deliverance.
Wheeler & Woolsey were RKO's answer to Laurel & Hardy—this was their 17th film together in just six years.
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