Prairie Chickens

{{short description|1943 film by Hal Roach, Jr.}} {{about|the 1943 film|the bird|Tympanuchus}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = Prairie Chickens |image = Praise_Chickens.jpg |caption = Theatrical poster. |producer = Fred Guiol |director = Hal Roach, Jr. |writer = Donald Hough<br>Arnold Belgard |starring = Jimmy Rogers<br>Noah Beery, Jr.<br>Joe Sawyer |runtime = 48 minutes |released = {{film date|1943|5|21}} |distributor = United Artists }} '''''Prairie Chickens''''' is a 1943 American Western fearurette film and a sequel to ''Dudes are Pretty People'' (1942) and ''Calaboose'' (1943), Western films from "Hal Roach's Streamliners",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fetrow |first=Alan G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYlZAAAAMAAJ&q=prairie+chickens+western+hal++roach |title=Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography |date=1994 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-89950-914-3 |language=en}}</ref> a series of approximately 50-minute comedic movies, in this case directed by Hal Roach, Jr. and starring Jimmy Rogers as "Jimmy" and Noah Beery, Jr. as "Pidge Crosby" (Beery's real-life nickname was "Pidge"). The supporting cast features comedy veteran Raymond Hatton, who had been an unofficial comedy partner with Beery's uncle Wallace Beery in several pictures two decades earlier, and the featurette's running time is 48 minutes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pitts |first=Michael R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aTX2mv0uX7UC&dq=prairie+chickens+western+hal++roach&pg=PA254 |title=Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, 2d ed. |date=2013-01-04 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-6372-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Graham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmDwDwAAQBAJ&dq=prairie+chickens+western+hal++roach&pg=PA436 |title=Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 |date=2020-07-27 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-8118-4 |language=en}}</ref>

==Plot== {{no plot|date=January 2024}}

==Cast== * Jimmy Rogers as Jimmy * Noah Beery, Jr. as Pidge * Joe Sawyer as Albertson * Marjorie Woodworth as Lucy * Jack Norton as Henry Lewis-Clark III * Raymond Hatton as Jefferson 'Jeff' Gibson * Rosemary La Planche as Yola

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036274/ ''Prairie Chickens''] in the Internet Movie Database

Category:1943 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1943 Western (genre) films Category:American Western (genre) films Category:American sequel films Category:1943 English-language films Category:1943 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films