Yankee Fakir (1947)
Actors:
Tex Palmer (actor),
Bud Osborne (actor),
Stanley Blystone (actor),
Ernie Adams (actor),
Edmund Cobb (actor),
Clem Bevans (actor),
Franklyn Farnum (actor),
Douglas Fowley (actor),
Herman Hack (actor),
John Ince (actor),
Marc Lawrence (actor),
Johnny Luther (actor),
Ben Corbett (actor),
Jack O'Shea (actor),
Edward Peil Sr. (actor),
Plot: "Yankee" Davis and his partner,"Shaggy" Hartley, a couple of carny-type traveling (usually just ahead of the law) pitchmen with their own tent to pitch from, arrive in a small Arizona town, close to the Mexican border. Davis falls in love with Mary Mason, daughter of a Border Patrolman. Mr. Mason is murdered, and Davis sets out to find the killer, and thinks the town's richest citizen might know something about it.
Keywords: 1890s, alias, archive-footage, arizona, b-movie, b-western, bank, banker, border-patrol, carnival
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Mystery,
Western,
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
Actors:
Milburn Stone (actor),
Harrison Greene (actor),
Ted Billings (actor),
Spencer Charters (actor),
Wilson Benge (actor),
Walter Byron (actor),
Horace B. Carpenter (actor),
Otis Harlan (actor),
Otto Hoffman (actor),
Michael Jeffers (actor),
Eddie Kane (actor),
Stuart Erwin (actor),
Tully Marshall (actor),
Bruce Mitchell (actor),
Harry Tyler (actor),
Plot: Oliver Boggs, a typical office drone, with no success in sight, who can spout statistics about anything and everything, wins $1500 in a bean-guessing contest at the movie theatre, quits his job and sets forth for the seedy, down-at-the-heels town of Peckham Falls. There he buys a barrel factory and falls in love with Irene Lee, the snobbish niece of crusty old Morton Ross, the town's only rich man and owner of the closed canneries. Oleander Tubbs and her inventor father Angus, who sold Oliver the factory, tell him it has no future but he disagrees and says he will have everything booming again. Oleander thinks he is daffy but she and her father agree to help him. Angus invents a collapsible barrel and Oliver, seeing fame and fortune just ahead, spends all of his money just keeping the factory going. Oliver persuades old man Ross to re-open the canneries and to use the ground-breaking barrels and things appear to be going okay, until Dennis Andrews, Ross' slick attorney, tries to double-cross both Ross and Oliver by bilking Angus out of the patent rights to the barrel.
Keywords: 1930s, americana, audience, b-movie, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cannery, cigarette-smoking, clerk, contest, embarrassment
Genres:
Comedy,
Romance,
Taglines: From the American Magazine story "Face the Facts" by the Author of "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town." (original poster) HE WAS AN OPTIMIST... He could see the doughnut when others only saw the hole!