The Cuckoos

The Cuckoos

Infobox Film
name = The Cuckoos


producer = William LeBaron
Louis Sarecky
director = Paul Sloane
writer = Guy Bolton
Bert Kalmar
starring = Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Dorothy Lee
Marguerita Padula
music = Harry Ruby
cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca
editing = Arthur Roberts
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
released = start date|1930|05|4
runtime = 97 min.
country = USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0020799

The Cuckoos was a 1930 musical comedy, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor.

Plot

A phony fortune teller, Professor Bird, and his partner, Sparrow, are in a Mexican resort near a gambling casino. During their trip, his partner falls in love with an American girl named Anita (who has lived with Gypsies her entire life). But Julius, the gyspy leader, is also in love with her.At the casino is Miss Furst and her niece Ruth who loves Billy, an aviator. Furst wants her to marry the Baron, and the Baron wants Ruth for her money. Miss Furst falls in love eith Bird after getting her wallet back. After finding out that Ruth is engaged to Billy, the Baron goes on the Gypsies' side to kidnap her.Anita, who was following Sparrow, was also kidnapped. Bird, Billy, and Sparrow go back to Mexico to save their loved ones from the Baron and the Gypsies, and succeed in doing so.

This film also contains a fiery Technicolor dance sequence with Anita and the Gypsy Queen, titled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GKCsKZc2vM "Dancing the Devil Away"] .


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