The Cuckoos (1930 Film)
''The Cuckoos'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor. Directed by Paul Sloane, the screenplay was adapted by Cyrus Wood from the 1926 Broadway musical ''The Ramblers'' by Guy Bolton, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. The film stars Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and while they had appeared on Broadway and in other films together (most notably RKO's '' Rio Rita'' the year before), this was their first time starring as a team. The success of this picture, combined with ''Rio Rita'' being their most successful film of 1929, convinced the studio to headline them as the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey, through 1937. Plot Professor Bird (Woolsey) and his partner, Sparrow (Wheeler), are a pair of charlatan fortune tellers who are bankrupt and stranded at a Mexican resort just south of the border. An heiress, Ruth Chester ( June Clyde), appears, who is running away from her aunt, Fanny Furst (Job ...
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