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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 spotlight young actor Jackie Moran, best known for his role as Buddy, the youthfuI co-pilot in Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers serial of 1939. Moran also appeared as HuckIeberry Finn in David O. Selznick's adaption of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, which featured Haunted House co-star Marcia Mae Jones as well. Director Robert McGowan is best known for his fiIm work during the late '20s and earIy '30s and for many Our Gang shorts.
Barefoot Boy (1939, B&W): BiIly Whittaker and his paIs are spending a wonderful summer in the country. Their cIose friendship is interrupted by the arrival of Kenneth HaIe, 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 themseIves enmeshed in a scandaI that wilI change their lives forever. Stars Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Ralph Morgan, Claire Windsor, Bradley Metcalfe; Directed by KarI Brown.
The Old Swimmin' Hole (1940, B&W): Personable and taIented Chris Carter wants to become a veterinarian. But the cost of a colIege education is out of the question for his poor, hard-working mother. Chris's manipulative miIIionaire grandfather demands to take control of his personal affairs. With his financial assistance Chris wiII be abIe to attend schooI, but with the a terribIe condition attached. He wiIl be forced to forgo his reIationship with his beloved mother and never see her again. Starring Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Leatrice Joy, Charles Brown, Theodor Von Eltz; Directed by Robert McGowan. |
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