Comin' Round the Mountain
Cast & Crew
Charles Lamont
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Kirby Grant
Shaye Cogan
Joe Sawyer
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Synopsis
At nightclub Chez Bleu, talent agent Al Stewart books one smash act, singer Dorothy "The Manhattan Hillbilly" McCoy, with the escape-artist routine of his pal Wilbert Smith. Wilbert's bumbling act ends when a mouse runs up his pants and he screams. Although Al and Wilbert are thrown out of the club, they are pleased to discover that Dorothy recognizes Wilbert's unique yell as that of her clan, the McCoys. She explains that Grandpa "Squeezebox" McCoy left millions in buried treasure in the hills of Kentucky, and that Granny will reveal the hiding place only when one of Squeezebox's relatives returns. Bearing proof of his lineage--Squeezebox's photograph and concertina--Wilbert travels to Kentucky with Al and Dorothy. There, Dorothy first informs them about the age-old feud between the McCoys and the Winfields, then introduces them to the hillbilly McCoys. The assorted cousins declare Wilbert a runt and insist that he prove his mettle by winning the county fair turkey shoot. At the fair, Dorothy's singing attracts the attention of a handsome Easterner who is scouting for unspoiled talent. After admitting that his name is Clark Winfield, he and Dorothy agree to disregard the feud for the sake of their mutual attraction. The turkey shoot begins, and Al, eager to uncover the family fortune, pays teenager Matt McCoy, who has a crush on Wilbert, to hide behind a tree and shoot for him. Wilbert wins the shoot, but when Winfield clan leader Devil Dan accuses him of cheating, a shootout erupts between the two families. After spending the night in bed with four other cousins and assorted farm animals, Wilbert discovers that Granny wants him to marry Matt as a condition for turning over the treasure. Granny soon learns, however, that Wilbert loves Dorothy, and decides that even Wilbert would be a better match for Dorothy than Clark. To ensure the union, she sends Wilbert and Al to Aunt Huddy, a witch, who gives them a potion that causes whomever drinks it to fall in love with the first person he sees. That night, Dorothy drinks the potion and falls in love with Wilbert, but immediately afterward, Wilbert inadvertently drinks it and falls for Matt, who then drinks some and swoons over Al. Frustrated by the dueling romances, the McCoys demand that Wilbert marry Matt. At the wedding, cousin Kalem holds the bride and groom at gunpoint, but Dorothy arrives with her own shotgun and pushes Matt aside. Just as the judge recites the vows, however, the potion wears off and Dorothy faints into Clark's waiting arms. Before anyone can be married, the angry Winfields appear. Granny wants to end the feud, but when Wilbert starts the McCoy jalopy, the Winfields mistake the backfiring noise for a gunshot and begin shooting. Devil Dan attacks Wilbert and Al, but Matt knocks Dan out and reveals the treasure map she discovered in the folds of Wilbert's concertina. Dan revives but, after accidentally drinking the love potion, embraces Wilbert and declares the feud over. Using the map, they all head for an abandoned mine, but just as they enter, the potion wears off and Dan calls his clan and chases after Wilbert and Al. The two friends trap the Winfields in the mine shaft but are soon on the run from the McCoys, who want the treasure. As part of their effort to escape, Wilbert and Al burst into a secret room and uncover piles of gold bars. When they attempt to take a bar, however, military policemen arrive and inform them they have infiltrated Fort Knox.
Director
Charles Lamont
Cast
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Kirby Grant
Shaye Cogan
Joe Sawyer
Glenn Strange
Ida Moore
Margaret Hamilton
Robert Easton
Dorothy Shay
Russell Simpson
Guy Wilkerson
Virgil "slats" Taylor
O. Z. Whitehead
Norman Leavitt
Stanley Waxman
Jack Kruschen
Barry Brooks
Peter Mamakos
Hank Worden
Dan White
Harold Goodwin
William Fawcett
Robert R. Stephenson
Jane Lee
Sherman E. Sanders
Shirlee Allard
Betty Jane Barton
James Clay
Joe Kirk
Crew
George Beatty
Milt Bronson
Leslie I. Carey
Howard Christie
Edward Curtiss
Lynn Duddy
Joan Edwards
Fred Frank
Russell A. Gausman
Joseph Gershenson
John Grant
Bernard Herzbrun
David S. Horsley
John Kemp
Joe Kish
Carl Lee
Robert Lees
Rosemary Odell
Eddie Pola
Robert Pritchard
Richard Riedel
Frederic I. Rinaldo
George Robinson
Dorothy Shay
Hessie Smith
Joan St. Oegger
Dewey Starkey
Irving Taylor
Bud Westmore
Betty Wood
Allie Wrubel
Robert Wrubel
George Wyle
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Notes
The film's working title was The Real McCoy. Shaye Cogan made her feature film debut in this picture. Margaret Hamilton's character "Aunt Huddy" strongly resembles her "Wicked Witch of the West" character from the 1939 M-G-M film The Wizard of Oz. According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, Billy Snyder was cast, but his appearance in the final flim has not been confirmed. The Hollywood Reporter review erroneously lists the film's running time as 62 minutes.
