Prairie Chickens

1943 film by Hal Roach, Jr.

This article is about the 1943 film. For the bird, see Tympanuchus.

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Prairie Chickens
Theatrical poster.
Directed by	Hal Roach, Jr.
Written by	Donald Hough Arnold Belgard
Produced by	Fred Guiol
Starring	Jimmy Rogers Noah Beery, Jr. Joe Sawyer
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	May 21, 1943 (1943年05月21日)
Running time	48 minutes

Prairie Chickens is a 1943 American Western film and a sequel to Dudes are Pretty People (1942) and Calaboose (1943), Western films from "Hal Roach's Streamliners", a series of approximately 50-minute comedic movies, in this case directed by Hal Roach, Jr. and starring Jimmy Rogers as "Jimmy" and Noah Beery, Jr. as "Pidge Crosby" (Beery's real-life nickname was "Pidge"). The supporting cast features comedy veteran Raymond Hatton, who had been an unofficial comedy partner with Beery's uncle Wallace Beery in several pictures two decades earlier, and the featurette's running time is 48 minutes.