Father Steps Out

Father Steps Out

🎞️ Movie 63 min US
โ˜… 2.8 /10 1941

HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN FATHER!

A remake of Monogram's 1934 'City Limits' with practically all of the character role names the same as in the earlier film, and the primary difference here is that the author of the original story, Jack Woodford, receives no mention here. George Waggner (as Joseph West),who adapted the story for the first film, takes an 'original screenplay' credit here with no nod in the direction of the man who wrote the story in the first place. A glance at a few Universal B-westerns Waggner 'wrote' for Bob Baker will find that the majority of them had also been written before by other writers, mostly in the John Wayne Lone Star westerns. Edmond Kelso's additional dialogue credit must have been for the interplay between Frank Faylen's and Charlie Hall's hobo characters, especially when Faylen starts explaining why the sixty-cent dollar is still worth a dollar in a 40-year precursor to voo-doo economics. Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.

Cast

Frank Albertson
Frank Albertson
Jimmy Dugan
Jed Prouty
Jed Prouty
J. B. Matthews
Lorna Gray
Lorna Gray
Helen Matthews
Frank Faylen
Frank Faylen
Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam
John Dilson
John Dilson
Tom Oliver
Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
Kathryn Sheldon
Kathryn Sheldon
Aunt Martha Matthews
John Maxwell
John Maxwell
City Editor Macy
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Mary Field
Mrs. Benton, Farm Woman
Tristram Coffin
Tristram Coffin
Dr. R. G. Stafford
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Mack Stengler
Cinematographer