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The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)

• Director
  • Noel M. Smith
• Writers
  • Fred Niblo Jr.(screen play)
  • Ring Lardner(from a play by)
  • George M. Cohan(from a play by)
• Stars
  • Bert Wheeler
  • Marie Wilson
  • Gloria Dickson

  A tough football scout thinks he has finally found a potential star quarterback when he sees a burly country-store stock boy casually unloading huge sacks of potatoes. Then and there the talent scout signs the boy to play for the Green Bay Packers. This comedy examines what happens when the naive lad's sudden stardom goes to his head and he gets involved with some potentially dangerous gamblers. The story was adapted from the 1929 baseball film Fast Company, which was later remade as Elmer the Great in 1933.