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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1395

The Cuckoos

193097 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 97:04
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Paul Sloane · Public domain

Synopsis

Two penniless fortune-tellers at a Mexican resort become involved in romantic rivalries and a scheme against a wealthy heiress. When a kidnapping carries two women away, the unlikely rescuers must turn their tricks toward a practical purpose.

Cast

Bert Wheeler

Robert Woolsey

DirectorsPaul Sloane

Inspirations

The film adapts the Broadway musical The Ramblers. Its success helped establish Wheeler and Woolsey as a starring screen team after their earlier appearance in Rio Rita.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Bert Wheeler — NBC Blue Network · Public domain
Robert Woolsey — RKO Radio Pictures · Public domain

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