Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Michael Morrison "Hollywood Cowboy" is also listed at YouTube as "Wings over Wyoming," and you can find it under either or both titles. But if you look, I'm afraid you won't find a very good print.Which is a shame. I might have given it a 10 if I could have seen it in one piece, without the dark picture, without the breaks and pops and jumps, and without the hiss on the sound track.It has a crackerjack cast, starring the very good-looking and extremely capable George O'Brien, with the beautiful and also talented Cecilia Parker. Hers was another Hollywood story of a beautiful talent who apparently crossed the studio bosses, because she obviously had the looks and ability to have become a star."Wings over Wyoming" is as good a title as "Hollywood Cowboy" because all those words figure in the story, well co-written by Dan Jarrett and director Ewing Scott, who was helped in the directing by the great George Sherman, who helmed many a Western movie.It is a slightly involved story, with bunches of characters including city-slicker gangsters trying to transfer their skulduggery to the ranges of, yes, Wyoming.There have been other efforts with a similar premise, but none better than this one.I highly recommend this, for cast, scenery (actually California), and good story. I just hope you find a better print.

jacobs-greenwood George O'Brien stars as B movie cowboy Jeffrey Carson in this B Western that was directed and co-written (with Dan Jarrett) by Ewing Scott. While shooting a movie in Wyoming, Carson gets involved in a range war ostensibly between wealthy ranchers and their cattle wranglers, before he later discovers that the conflict has been exacerbated by some gangsters (led by Charles Middleton) that had been run out of their city by the 'new administration'.After his movie wraps, Carson runs into a writer friend he calls Shakespeare (played by Joe Caits), who's on the run from a Hollywood scandal, and the two begin a hunting trip to lay low for a while. But after Carson rescues pretty Joyce Butler (Cecilia Parker) from some of Kramer's (Middleton) thugs, he and his friend end up working for her tough mom Violet (Maude Eburne), who has so far resisted paying the 1% graft to Kramer's Cattlemen Protection Agency. Naturally Carson is attracted to Joyce, as she is to him, especially per the contrast between the handsome actor and the less than manly rancher Courtney (Frank Milan) that had been courting her.Of course, Kramer and his thugs are no match for Carson, who employs a Hollywood stunt pilot (Lester Dorr) to force down the gangster's plane and pilot (Walter De Palma), who'd been terrorizing the other ranchers by driving off their herds and bombing water troughs and even a dam.

JohnHowardReid This movie is now known as "Wings Over Wyoming", which in some ways is a better title because the film's most impressive scenes are those in which cattle are stampeded by a diving airplane – an original device if nothing else! Director Ewing Scott handles these action scenes with considerable flair, but both his screenplay, written in collaboration with Dan Jarrett, and his handling of it are less satisfactory. In fact, the many long dialogue exchanges without music or sound effects, remind us of independent westerns made at the very beginning of the sound recording era rather than major studio endeavors as late as this. Also the plot device in which the hero's rival is stupid enough to confuse a movie poster with the real thing doesn't ring true unless it's first established that the man is a moron or at the very least a bigot who hates movies with all the ignorance-is-bliss fervor of a revivalist preacher. Charles Middleton handles the role of the villain with his usual panache, Cecilia Parker makes a grand heroine, Maude Eburne is a wonderful foil, but Frank Milan is at best a rival of no account whatever.

ejrjr The story has some unusual twists including Kramer, a white-collar criminal who plots to exploit a feud between cattlehands and cattlemen plus fleece cattlemen of money through a dummy Cattlemen's Protection Association.George O'Brien plays Geoffrey Carter, a Hollywood cowboy shooting a western film at Lone Pine, CA. He just happens to rescue Joyce, a cattlewoman's daughter from the city gangsters and falls for her. Then he goes to work for her mother as an anonymous cattlehand.The most interesting plot element is the use of a single-engine, dual wing biplane to frighten cattle and then a subsequent air dual with an aircraft from Hollywood flown by Carter's friend.Final roundup of the criminals has a nice twist but the ending is standard Hollywood schmaltz. There are some holes in the story never resolved. But nothing out the ordinary for a 1937 RKO Radio Picture.George O'Brien is adequate but the supporting cast never have opportunities to rise above predictable or pedestrian, which is simply a fault of the script. However, this is a 64 minute, low-budget B-western, so there was little time or reason to worry about character development. This is a rare film and not many prints exist either as Hollywood Cowboy or Wings Over Wyoming. Showcase Media of Studio City California 91604 has one, good, complete 16mm dupe print.