| Release Date: | Feb 1938 |
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| Genres: | Comedy / Romance |
| Cast: | Stuart Erwin (Oliver Boggs), Helen Chandler (Oleander Tubbs), Toby Wing (Irene Lee), Tully Marshall (Morton Ross), Spencer Charters (Angus Tubbs), Otis Harlan (Abner Katz), Walter Byron (Dennis Andrews), Peter Potter (Bob DeBrette (as William Moore)), Harry Tyler (Sam Mason), Milburn Stone (Burns), Nora Cecil (Widow Peddia), Harrison Greene (Mr. Pry), Elliot Fisher (Tommy Mason), Eddie Kane (Theatre Manager), Wilson Benge (The Butler), Mike Jeffries (Chauffeur), Isabel La Mal (Mrs. Mason), Betty Mack (Miss Feathrewell), Otto Hoffman (Jenkins), Stuart Erwin (Oliver Boggs), Helen Chandler (Oleander Tubbs), Toby Wing (Irene Lee), Tully Marshall (Morton Ross), Spencer Charters (Angus Tubbs), Otis Harlan (Abner Katz), Walter Byron (Dennis Andrews), Peter Potter (Bob DeBrette (as William Moore)), Harry Tyler (Sam Mason), Milburn Stone (Burns), Nora Cecil (Widow Peddia), Harrison Greene (Mr. Pry), Elliot Fisher (Tommy Mason), Eddie Kane (Theatre Manager), Wilson Benge (The Butler), Mike Jeffries (Chauffeur), Isabel La Mal (Mrs. Mason), Betty Mack (Miss Feathrewell), Otto Hoffman (Jenkins) |
Oliver Boggs, a typical office drone, with no success in sight, who can spout statistics about anything and everything, wins $1500 in a bean-guessing contest at the movie theatre, quits his job and sets forth for the seedy, down-at-the-heels town of Peckham Falls. There he buys a barrel factory and falls in love with Irene Lee, the snobbish niece of crusty old Morton Ross, the town's only rich man and owner of the closed canneries. Oleander Tubbs and her inventor father Angus, who sold Oliver the factory, tell him it has no future but he disagrees and says he will have everything booming again. Oleander thinks he is daffy but she and her father agree to help him. Angus invents a collapsible barrel and Oliver, seeing fame and fortune just ahead, spends all of his money just keeping the factory going. Oliver persuades old man Ross to re-open the canneries and to use the ground-breaking barrels and things appear to be going okay, until Dennis Andrews, Ross' slick attorney, tries to double-cross both Ross and Oliver by bilking Angus out of the patent rights to the barrel.
