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Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar is a 1965 American comedy film directed by Victor Duncan, and is notable for the reunion of Bowery Boys' actors Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall, who had last appeared in a film together nine years earlier—in Crashing Las Vegas. The film was released on September 15, 1965, by Marathon Pictures.

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Directed by	Victor Duncan
Written by	Seymour D. Rothman
Starring	Arnold Stang Pamela Hayes Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall
Cinematography	Gary Galbraith
Edited by	John Mullen
Music by	Audrey Williams
Distributed by	Marathon Pictures (USA) Astral Films (Canada)
Release date	September 15, 1965 (1965-09-15)
Running time	107 minutes
Language	English

Plot

Jubal A. Bristol loves country music, but his wife thinks it is beneath her to listen to it. Mrs. Bristol is planning an opera event, but the company that was supposed to play are stranded in New York City. Jubal gathers a large group of country artists to come and play the opera in their place and saves the day.

Cast

• Arnold Stang as Jubal A. Bristol
• Pamela Hayes as Mrs. Bristol
• Leo Gorcey as Leo
• Huntz Hall as Huntz

The cast includes a variety of country music guest stars, including Little Jimmy Dickens, Lefty Frizzell, Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys, Dottie West, George Hamilton IV, Pete Drake, Sonny James, Minnie Pearl, Billy Walker, Connie Smith, Johnnie Wright, Kitty Wells, Del Reeves, Faron Young, and Webb Pierce.

Home media

The film was released on DVD on February 27, 2007.[1]

Significance

This was Gorcey and Hall's first appearance together in a color film, after starring in dozens of black & white films together as "The Dead End Kids", "East Side Kids", and "The Bowery Boys" from the 1930s to the 1950s.

References

External links

• Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar at IMDb
• Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar at Rotten Tomatoes
• Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar at the TCM Movie Database

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