User Reviews

Corny as corny can be, this western spoof is another case of city slickers in the wild, wild west. Of course, Jiggs and Maggie are not Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert and certainly no influence on Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert. But in the one previous entry of this series based on a long forgotten comic strip, Jiggs and Maggie did indeed live on Park Avenue, and Renee Riano's Maggie wanted to break into society, even with her uncooth manner. Joe Yule's Jiggs is a reluctant tag along who'd rather be at old hangout Dinty Moore's than dealing with life in a ghost town where Maggie has inherited a gold mine. There's plenty of effort to stop Maggie from finding this mind through old family rivals whose ancestors killed her grandfather, now haunting Maggie and driving Jiggs nuts.

Only a few of the series have shown up for viewing, and that doesn't mean that they are must see's. The characters could have filled out plenty of two reel comedy shorts, but the films are so dated that even the funniest old cliché metaphor doesn't get as much as a chuckle. The actor voicing grandfather's ghost seems to be trying to do a W.C. Fields impression, but all that does is temporarily distract from the fact that this is completely unfunny. I found the Bowery Boys funnier in the west as well as Wheeler and Woolsey, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and Abbott and Costello. Riano and Yule remind me of the routines of the Three Stooges which seems to repeat the same old routines in pretty much everything they did.