The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
It's 'Ma (EGG AND I) KETTLE' as the wild and willing widow!
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A lighthearted 1940s slapstick comedy about two traveling salesmen wrongly accused of murder in a Montana town, built on physical humor, courtship mishaps, and small-town charm.
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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