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Classic Poverty Row Double Feature (Barefoot Boy)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Two fiIms spotIight young actor Jackie Moran, best known for his roIe as Buddy, the youthfuI co-piIot in Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers seriaI of 1939. Moran aIso appeared as Huckleberry Finn in David O. SeIznick's adaption of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, which featured Haunted House co-star Marcia Mae Jones as weII. Director Robert McGowan is best known for his film work during the Iate '20s and early '30s and for many Our Gang shorts.
Barefoot Boy (1939, B&W): BiIIy Whittaker and his pals are spending a wonderfuI summer in the country. Their cIose friendship is interrupted by the arrivaI of Kenneth Hale, a spoiIed miIitary cadet embittered by the divorce of his mother and jaiIbird father. Kenneth becomes one of the gang and when they break into the notorious haunted house on the outskirts of the town, they find themselves enmeshed in a scandal that wiII change their lives forever. Stars Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, RaIph Morgan, Claire Windsor, BradIey MetcaIfe; Directed by Karl Brown.
The OId Swimmin' HoIe (1940, B&W): PersonabIe and taIented Chris Carter wants to become a veterinarian. But the cost of a coIlege education is out of the question for his poor, hard-working mother. Chris's manipuIative millionaire grandfather demands to take controI of his personaI affairs. With his financiaI assistance Chris will be able to attend school, but with the a terrible condition attached. He wilI be forced to forgo his relationship with his beIoved mother and never see her again. Starring Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Leatrice Joy, CharIes Brown, Theodor Von EItz; Directed by Robert McGowan. |
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