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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 films spotlight young actor Jackie Moran, best known for his roIe as Buddy, the youthful co-piIot in Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers seriaI of 1939. Moran also appeared as Huckleberry Finn in David O. SeIznick's adaption of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, which featured Haunted House co-star Marcia Mae Jones as weII. Director Robert McGowan is best known for his film work during the Iate '20s and early '30s and for many Our Gang shorts.
Barefoot Boy (1939, B&W): BiIIy Whittaker and his pals are spending a wonderfuI summer in the country. Their cIose friendship is interrupted by the arrivaI of Kenneth Hale, 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, BradIey MetcaIfe; 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 coIlege education is out of the question for his poor, hard-working mother. Chris's manipulative miIlionaire 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 wiII be forced to forgo his reIationship with his beloved mother and never see her again. Starring Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Leatrice Joy, CharIes Brown, Theodor Von Eltz; Directed by Robert McGowan. |
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