The year after "Wyoming" (1940), Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main were brought back for another Hugo Butler scripted/Richard Thorpe directed picture with a strong supporting cast, this time with irrepressibly cute Virginia Weidler. Beery not only sings another duet with Main, but sings with Connie Gilchrist as well, before the two ladies duke it out over the big galoot. There will never be another Wallace Beery, now that we are in such a self-important, serious age. He is purely entertaining, without any edifying purpose at all, despite a few sanctimonious comments now and then to stay on the right side of the censorious.
Review of Barnacle Bill
