Guy Kibbee (Asa Plunkett), May Robson (Marcia Prentiss), Sybil Jason (Abigail Prentiss), Jane Bryan (Betsy Ann Prentiss), Fred Lawrence (Tom Squires), Dick Purcell (Chester), Mary Treen (Libby), Gus Shy (Johnny Shores), Maude Allen (Miss Chester), Granville Bates (Sheriff Pengast), Vic Potel (Jake), George E. Stone (Steve), Gordon Hart (mayor), Tom Wilson (Bill Brown), Robert Emmett Keane (Bridges), Jack Wise (Weymouth, the desk clerk), Jessie Perry, Leo White, Jacqueline Saunders, Stuart Holmes, Joseph E. Bernard (jurors), Joe Cunningham (jury foreman), Joseph Crehan (Knickerbocker), Fred Trowbridge (judge), Spec O'Donnell (bumpkin), Lillian Harmer (Mrs Pengast), Hal Craig (motorcycle policeman), Annoe O'Neal (Flora, the telephone operator).
Director: NICK GRINDE. Screenplay: Tom Reed. Treatment: Roy Chanslor. Story: Earl Felton. Photography: Ernest Haller. Film editor: Jack Saper. Art director: Carl Jules Weyl. Gowns: Milo Anderson. Music: Howard Jackson. Title song and "Drifting Along" by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. Assistant director: Frank Shaw. Producer: Bryan Foy.
Copyright 4 December 1936 by Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 23 January 1937. 8 reels. 72 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An eccentric but pleasant town drunk entertains the local kids with outlandish tales of adventure.
COMMENT: The films Nick Grinde directed at Warner Bros are far superior to those he managed for MGM. This one is a delightfully folksy comedy with a splendid chase climax. True, the screenplay is inclined to be a bit talky, but the dialogue is amusing and briskly delivered.
A couple of pleasant songs are thrown in (including the catchy title tune) and the sets are far more eye-catching than is the norm with offspring from the studio's "B" unit.
Director: NICK GRINDE. Screenplay: Tom Reed. Treatment: Roy Chanslor. Story: Earl Felton. Photography: Ernest Haller. Film editor: Jack Saper. Art director: Carl Jules Weyl. Gowns: Milo Anderson. Music: Howard Jackson. Title song and "Drifting Along" by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. Assistant director: Frank Shaw. Producer: Bryan Foy.
Copyright 4 December 1936 by Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 23 January 1937. 8 reels. 72 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: An eccentric but pleasant town drunk entertains the local kids with outlandish tales of adventure.
COMMENT: The films Nick Grinde directed at Warner Bros are far superior to those he managed for MGM. This one is a delightfully folksy comedy with a splendid chase climax. True, the screenplay is inclined to be a bit talky, but the dialogue is amusing and briskly delivered.
A couple of pleasant songs are thrown in (including the catchy title tune) and the sets are far more eye-catching than is the norm with offspring from the studio's "B" unit.