The Cuckoos (1930)
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Directors
Paul Sloane
Cast
Bert Wheeler, Ivan Lebedeff, Jobyna Howland, June Clyde, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Woolsey, Wheeler & Woolsey
The story
thumb|thumbtime=20|The Cuckoos (1930) Prof. Cunningham and his partner Sparrow are a pair of charlatan fortune tellers, broke and stranded at a Mexican resort just south of the border. An heiress, Ruth Chester, is running away from her aunt, Mrs.
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musical film
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