Of movie dentists, audiences cringed with Laurence Olivier in "Marathon Man", laughed in agony at Steve Martin's in "Little Shop of Horrors", and winced in hysterics with W.C. Fields in the short "The Dentist". With Robert Woolsey, they pray for an extra shot of chloroform. Any early American dentist who travels around with a set of giant teeth the size of Fred Flinstone's Brontosaurus Steak is cause for alarm. When Woolsey and his assistant (Bert Wheeler) realize the town that they have set up their practice in has been abandoned (with the residents off to California in search for gold), they set off to warn them that they are all in danger of being massacred by Indians. Of course, there are villains in the covered wagon party who make it appear that the boys are in cahoots with the Indians, and it is up to Wheeler and Woolsey to expose them with the help of a sling shot and a very interesting replacement for ammunition.
This silly western is highlighted by a drunken sequence in which Woolsey tries to perform oral surgery on a goat, the obligatory musical number ("Tumble On, Tumbleweed") and the slapstick finale. Dorothy Lee makes her last appearance in a Wheeler and Woolsey comedy as the sweet love interest who has her eyes, as usual, on Wheeler. Woolsey's silly string of wisecracks range from corny to hysterical, but as usual, it is his delivery that makes them Dijorno. Willie Best has a bit role as a lazy, sleeping black resident of the town who runs off in a stereotypically cowardly fashion after learning that he's the last resident left other than Wheeler and Woolsey.
This silly western is highlighted by a drunken sequence in which Woolsey tries to perform oral surgery on a goat, the obligatory musical number ("Tumble On, Tumbleweed") and the slapstick finale. Dorothy Lee makes her last appearance in a Wheeler and Woolsey comedy as the sweet love interest who has her eyes, as usual, on Wheeler. Woolsey's silly string of wisecracks range from corny to hysterical, but as usual, it is his delivery that makes them Dijorno. Willie Best has a bit role as a lazy, sleeping black resident of the town who runs off in a stereotypically cowardly fashion after learning that he's the last resident left other than Wheeler and Woolsey.