Enjoyable, if frivolous comedy about two aging cowboys preparing for the rodeo, has little by way of plot but plenty of smile enducing moments. Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford are likable rogues, still a bit roguish and female crazy, dealing with a crooked horse traider (Chill Wills, looking like a beardless Colonel Sanders), trainer Edgar Buchanan, his two man hungry daughters (Kathleen and Joan Freeman) and two dizzy big city broads (Sue Ann Langdon and Hope Holliday) and a horse who likes corn whiskey a bit too much. Fonda and Ford seem determined to get out of each female encounter still single, yet having a bit of fun before they escape.
The background music features instrumentals fron famous MGM musicals, as well as some Christmas carols sung to a Hee Haw beat. Freeman is very funny as she leers at both men with the desire of matrimony in her eyes, while Wills and Buchanan play funny characters that the similar actors could easily have changed. Langdon and Holliday are delightfully dumb in their characterizations of "Mary and Sister", but their names could have easily have been "Bubbles", "Poopsie" or "Maizie". The outdoor setting is gorgeous, making me certain that this looked glorious on the big screen. I just wish that this had a more complex plot rather than be a bunch of amusing moments that made it memorable rather than just a passable time filler.
The background music features instrumentals fron famous MGM musicals, as well as some Christmas carols sung to a Hee Haw beat. Freeman is very funny as she leers at both men with the desire of matrimony in her eyes, while Wills and Buchanan play funny characters that the similar actors could easily have changed. Langdon and Holliday are delightfully dumb in their characterizations of "Mary and Sister", but their names could have easily have been "Bubbles", "Poopsie" or "Maizie". The outdoor setting is gorgeous, making me certain that this looked glorious on the big screen. I just wish that this had a more complex plot rather than be a bunch of amusing moments that made it memorable rather than just a passable time filler.