ROTR – Dreaming Out Loud (1940)

Retro Orpheum Theater Revue Presents the first Lum and Abner movie, Dreaming Out Loud (1940). Since this an audio podcast, I offer you the movie through a You Tube embed. If you’re downloading this episode in the usual way, all you’ll get is an audio track.

Dreaming Out Loud (1940)
81 min – Comedy – 30 September 1940 (USA)

Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

Director: Harold Young
Writers: Robert Hardy Andrews, Howard J. Green, and 1 more credit »
Stars:Chester Lauck, Norris Goff and Frances Langford

Complete credited cast:
Chester Lauck … Lum Edwards
Norris Goff … Abner Peabody
Frances Langford … Alice
Frank Craven … Dr. Walter Barnes
Bobs Watson … Jimmy
Irving Bacon … Wes Stillman
Clara Blandick … Jessica Spencer
Robert Wilcox … Dr. Kenneth Barnes
Donald Briggs … Will Danielson
Robert McKenzie … Constable Caleb Weeunt (as Bob McKenzie)
Phil Harris … Peter Atkinson
Sheila Sheldon … Effie Lou Stillman
Troy Brown Sr. … Washington

Storyline
Lum and Abner’s General Store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas is the center of the town, where everybody hangs around. Also in the store is the town’s post office, where Alice, the niece of the wealthiest person around, is working as post-mistress. She is in love with the local doctor’s son Kenneth, whom she would like to marry, but her aunt, who has a feud with his father does everything to prevent this. Kenneth is working as a doctor in the next town, but does not make enough money to support a wife and their younger brother, so both have to wait. When the town’s drunkard’s daughter is killed by a hit and run driver, they convince the sheriff to make the father a deputy, to give him self assurance…

Written by Stephan Eichenberg IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032417/
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