Prairie Chickens

Prairie Chickens is a 1943 sequel to Dudes are Pretty People (1942) and Calaboose (1943), Western films from "Hal Roach's Streamliners," a series of approximately 50-minute comedic movies, in this case directed by Hal Roach, Jr. and starring Jimmy Rogers as "Jimmy" and Noah Beery, Jr. as "Pidge Crosby" (Beery's real-life nickname was "Pidge"). The supporting cast features comedy veteran Raymond Hatton, who had been an unofficial comedy partner with Beery's uncle Wallace Beery in several pictures two decades earlier, and the featurette's running time is 48 minutes.

Prairie Chickens
Theatrical poster.
Directed by	Hal Roach, Jr.
Produced by	Fred Guiol
Written by	Donald Hough Arnold Belgard
Starring	Jimmy Rogers Noah Beery, Jr. Joe Sawyer
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	May 21, 1943 (1943-05-21)
Running time	48 minutes