Oklahoma Blues (1948)

Director
Lambert Hillyer

Main cast
Jimmy Wakely; Dub Taylor; Virginia Belmont; I. Stanford Jolley

Genres


Description
Jimmy Wakely plays a singing cowboy named "Jimmy Wakely" who ends up posing as an outlaw called "the Melody Kid" after his big-mouthed friend Cannonball Taylor spreads tall tales. (Cannonball Taylor, incidentally, is played by Dub "Cannonball" Taylor.)


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