Yes, it's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up: a small boy falls out of a covered wagon on its way West and shows up years later as a quick trigger cowboy. When he is unjustly accused of theft, a gunfight breaks out to the strains of "Oyfn Pripitchik." This spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to the Son of Oklahoma, a 1932 Hollywood Western. A hilarious short for a Yiddish-speaking audience!
The National Center For Jewish Film
Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454
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The Cowboy
USA, 1968, 11 minutes, B&W
Yiddish (unsubtitled)
Directed by Abe Wexler
Director (Son of Oklahoma): Robert North Bradbury$25 Institutional Use DVD
Public Exhibition 16mm, Beta Rental also available
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