The Cuckoos

The Cuckoos 1930 is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in twostrip Technicolor. Directed by Paul Sloane, the screenplay was adapted by Cyrus Wood, from the Broadway musical, The Ramblers, by Guy Bolton, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby. It starred Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and although they had appeared on Broadway and in other films together most notably RKOs Rio Rita the year before, this was their first time starring as a team. The success of this picture, combined with Rio Rita being their most successful film of 1929, convinced the studio to headline them as the comedy team Wheeler amp Woolsey, through 1937.

Sparrow, meanwhile has fallen in love with a young American girl, Anita Dorothy Lee, who has been living with a band of Gypsies. This creates an issue, since the leader of the Gypsy band, Julius Mitchell Lewis, has had his eye on Anita for years.When Fannie Hurst arrives, she attempts to persuade Ruth into marrying the Baron, but unbeknownst by Fannie, The Baron is only interested in marrying Ruth for her money. During the course of events, Fannie falls in love with Bird, but when the Baron finds out that Ruth is engaged to Billy, he conspires with Julius to kidnap her. During the kidnapping, Anita is also taken, and the girls are taken deeper into Mexico. Bird, Sparrow and Billy track them down and recover the girls, and they live happily ever after. ........

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