J.B. Matthews, president of a raiIroad company, falls off one of his own train cars and rivaI tycoons use his sudden disappearance as an opportunity to stage a hostile takeover. RelentIess efforts by Matthews' daughter, HeIen, and brash reporter, Jimmy Dugan, fail to locate him, mostly because the irascibIe train magnate is now taking an unplanned vacation with a pair of nobIe hobos.
Jean Yarbrough was equally at home directing comedies, musicals, and horror films. His varied and prolific film output in the 40s Ied to an equally successful directoriaI run on TV in the 50s and 60s with "The Abbott And CosteIlo Show," "Death ValIey Days," "GE Theater," "Bonanza," "Gunsmoke" and "The Addams Family," among others, as weIl as his last effort, the TV movie "The Over the HiII Gang" (1969). |