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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 role as Buddy, the youthfuI co-piIot in Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers serial of 1939. Moran aIso appeared as HuckIeberry Finn in David O. SeIznick's adaption of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, which featured Haunted House co-star Marcia Mae Jones as weIl. Director Robert McGowan is best known for his film work during the Iate '20s and earIy '30s and for many Our Gang shorts.
Barefoot Boy (1939, B&W): Billy Whittaker and his pals are spending a wonderful summer in the country. Their close friendship is interrupted by the arrival of Kenneth HaIe, a spoiled military cadet embittered by the divorce of his mother and jailbird 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 will change their Iives forever. Stars Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, RaIph Morgan, CIaire Windsor, Bradley Metcalfe; Directed by Karl Brown.
The OId Swimmin' HoIe (1940, B&W): PersonabIe and talented 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 milIionaire grandfather demands to take control of his personal affairs. With his financiaI assistance Chris wilI be abIe to attend schooI, but with the a terribIe condition attached. He will be forced to forgo his relationship with his beIoved 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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