Fuzzy Settles Down – Wishing to settle down, Fuzzy uses his reward money to buy a newspaper. He then raises money for the new telegraph line. When it is stolen, Barlowe incites the towns people to hang him. But his pal Billy Carson is at work to clear him.
Fuzzy Settles Down (1944)
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Louise Rousseau
Stars: Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John
Genre: Western, Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1944 (United States)
Also Known As: Fuzzy und die heiße Presse
Filming Locations: Iverson Ranch – 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Story:
Billy Carson and Fuzzy Jones have just collected a reward and Fuzzy indulges in a dream of getting away from the hectic life he has been leading and wants to settle down. They arrive in Red Rock just as the newspaper is being sold at foreclosure and, despite the attempts by Lafe Barlow to intimidate him from bidding. Fuzzy finds himself the owner of a newspaper. Fuzzy meets Edith Martin, daughter of the former owner, and unthinkingly commits himself to carrying on her father’s policy of bringing a telegraph line to Red Rock. For reason of his own, Barlow is against this and has his henchmen wage a campaign of terror against the ranchers and citizens. Before long, Billy who had been lazily indifferent to everything connected to Fuzzy and his newspaper, decides to take a hand on the side of the good guys.
Review:
"Fuzzy Settles Down" is Well Presented and Fun
"Fuzzy Settles Down" would at first expectation be a comedy, based on the lightweight and overly simplistic title and because Al "Fuzzy" St. John is so prominently featured. But this is actually a more serious entry in the Buster Crabbe/St. John series, not one played for laughs but, of course, with considerable smile-inducing comic relief dotting the landscape. Viewers follow the increasing intrigue as our two newly-arrived heroes become involved in a little town’s struggle against Charles King’s perfectly underplayed performance as the bad man intent on taking over the town’s future. King becomes exasperated as his staff of cutthroats, who are dispatched to carry out his machinations, are consistently thwarted in carrying out their work by the omnipresent Crabbe, who’s sole purpose in life seems to be protecting his good but naive buddy Fuzzy. Interestingly, Crabbe plays his role as Billy Carson kind of like Superman, in that to the outside world he is seen as being aloof to the dastardly goings-on around him, which lead the heroine and others to believe he is a good-for-little hanger-on. Of course, with the passage of time they all find out better. The cast is big and the acting is sharp, and even Buster Crabbe seems confident and comfortable in this one. The premise is strong, the story and dialog are well thought out, none of the fighting nor the use of guns seem gratuitous or drawn out, and the whole program is a pleasure to observe and really get wrapped-up in. Written by glennstenb on imdb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Fuzzy Settles Down
Sweden Sensationernas herre
United States Fuzzy Settles Down
West Germany Fuzzy und die heiße Presse(TV Title)
West Germany Tal der Vergeltung
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