The Boy from Oklahoma

A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

Cast

Will Rogers Jr.

as Sheriff Tom Brewster

Nancy Olson

as Katie Brannigan

Lon Chaney Jr.

as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)

Anthony Caruso

as Barney Turlock

Slim Pickens

as Shorty

Wallace Ford

as Walter "Wally" Higgins

Merv Griffin

as Steve

Clem Bevans

as Amiel "Pop" Pruty

Louis Jean Heydt

as Paul Evans

Sheb Wooley

as Pete Martin

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