TWO WEEKS TO LIVE (1943) 76m RKO bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), Franklin Pangborn (Mr. Pinkney), Kay Linaker (Mrs. Carmen), Irving Bacon (Gimpel), Herbert Rawlinson (Stark, Sr.), Ivan Simpson (Prof. Frisby), Rosemary LaPlanche (Nurse), Danny Duncan (Postman), Evalyn Knapp (Secretary), Charles Middleton (Kelton), Luis Alberni (Van Dyke), Jack Rice (Hotel Clerk), Tim Ryan (Higgens), Oscar O'Shea (Squire Skimp), Edward Earl (Doctor). Lauck and Goff continue as Lum and Abner in TWO WEEKS TO LIVE, which sends the homey boys to Chicago to claim a railroad they've been willed. They have to come up with a hefty sum of cash before it's theirs, however, sending Goff off on a number of zany expeditions to raise the bills. He learns that he's terminally ill (hence the title) and agrees to be sent to Mars in a rocket. p, Ben Hersh;d Malcolm St. Claire; w, Michael Simmons, Roswell Rogers; ph, Jack MacKenzie; ed, Duncan Mansfield; md, Lud Gluskin; art d, F. Paul Sylos. Comedy (PR:A MPAA:NR) |
SO THIS IS WASHINGTON (1943) 64m Jack William Votion /RKO bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), Alan Mowbray (Mr. Marshall), Roger Clark (Roger Blevins), Mildred Coles (Jane Nester), Sarah Padden (Aunt Charity), Minerva Urecal (Mrs. Pomeroy), Dan Duncan (Grandpappy), Matt McHugh (Stranger), Barbara Pepper (Taxi Driver). Radio personalities Lum `n' Abner (Lauck and Goff) try to help the war effort by inventing synthetic rubber. They take their idea to Washington for some governmental advice, but before long they are the ones giving advice. They offer their commodity of common sense to senators and representat ives who are completely bogged down in the bureaucracy. Likeable wartime fluff. p, Ben Hersh; d, Ray McCarey; w, Leonard Praskins, Roswell Rogers (based on a story by Rogers, Edward James); ph, Harry Wild; ed, Duncan Mansfield; md, Lud Gluskin; art d, Hans Peters. Comedy (PR:A MPAA:NR) |
GOIN' TO TOWN (1944) 68m RKO bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), Barbara Hale (Patty), Florence Lake (Abigail), Dick Elliot (Squire), Grady Sutton (Cedric), Herbert Rawlinson (Wentworth), Dick Baldwin (Jimmy Benton), Ernie Adams (Zeke), Jack Rice (Clarke), Sam Flint (Dr. Crane), Andrew Tombes (Parker), George Chandler (Jamesworth), Ruth Lee (Mrs. Wentworth), Danny Duncan (Grandpappy Spears), Marietta Canty (Camellia), Nils T. Grandlund (N.T.G.). Lauck and Goff take their popular "Lum and Abner" characters off the radio and onto the big screen in this short feature. Fooled by a city Sliker, they talk their neighbors into mortgaging their property and investing in a supposed pool of oil beneath the Jot-Em-Down Store. Of course, no oil is found but all is well in the end when the pair unload their property on the city slicker. A pleasent comedy with direction and script adequate for the material and even some showgirls for an added production number. p, Jack Votion; d, Leslie Goodwins; w, Charles E. Roberts, Charles H. Marion; ph, Robert Pittack; ed,Hanson T. Fritch; md, Lud Gluskin; art d, Alfred C. Ybarra; ch, Paul Oscard. Comedy (PR:A MPAA:NR) . |
PARTNERS IN TIME (1946) 74m RKO bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), Pamela Blake (Elizabeth), John James (Tim), Teala Loring (Janet), Danny Duncan (Grandpappy Spears/Constable Spears), Grady Sutton (Cedric Weehunt/Caleb Weehunt), Dick Elliot (Squire Skimp), Phyllis Kennedy (Abagail), Ruth Lee (Miss Thurston), Charles Jordan (Gerald Sharpe), Ruth Caldwell (Josie). This was the sixth and final Lum and Abner film (Lum and Abner were radio stars) which tells the tale of how the two got started in the little town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas. In 1904 Goff arrives in town and meets up with Lauck and they romance the women, put out the towns first fire, and start up their Jot-Em-Down Store. In between flashbacks, the duo have to fight off Elliot and Jordan to keep their store and save the romance of two young lovers, James and Loring. p, Ben Hersh; d, William Nigh; w, Charles E. Roberts; ph, Jack Mackenzie; ed, S.Roy Luby; md, Lud Gluskin; art d, Ralph Berger. Comedy (PR:A MPAA:NR) |
LUM AND ABNER ABROAD (1956) 72m Howco bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), Jill Alis (Marianne), Lila Audres (Collette), Branko Spoylar (Papa Possavetz), Gene Gary (Nicky), Vern Mesita (Duchess), Valdo Stephens (Mischa), Steven Voyt (Frankenshpinin), Nada Nuchich (Lisa), Chris Peters (Croupier), Jim Kiley (Tommy Ellis), Joseph Batistich (Dignitary). This originally was three short television shows based on the famous radio comedy team. However, they were linked together by a narration and released as a sort of three part film. The first story finds Lauck and Goff helping out Alis, a ballerina unlucky in love. She's crazy about a journalist who's missing and the two kindly gents, with the help of the U.S. Embassy, get the lovers back together. Next it's off to Paris where they accidentally get involved with some smugglers. Finally they end up in Monte Carlo, breaking the bank, but settling for $14.80 so that the food citizens won't have to pay any taxes. For their efforts, they are admirably decorated. p&d, James Kern; w, Carl Herzinger (based on stories by Kem Herzinger); ph, Octhvian Miletich; ed, Maurice Wright, Blanche Jens. Comedy (PR:AA MPAA:NR) |
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DREAMING OUT LOUD (1940) 81m RKO bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), Frances Langford (Alice), Frank Craven (Dr. Walter Barnes), Bobs Watson (Jimmy), Irving Bacon (Wes Stillman), Clara Blandick (Jessica Spence), Robert Wilcox (Dr. Kenneth Barns), Donald Briggs (Will Danielson), Robert McKenzie (Caleb Wehunt), Phil Harris (Peter Atkinson), Shella Sheldon (Effie Lou), Troy Brown, Jr. (Washington). The legendary (for their time) radio comedians Lum and Abner make their film debut in a career that would continue in a series of B comedies for RKO. The two are store owners in the town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, and in this episodic story line they act as fundraisers, matchmakers, and detectives hunting a hit-and-run driver. P, Jack Votion, Sam Coslow; d, Harold Young; w, Howard J. Green, Barry Trivers, Robert D. Andrews (based on a story by Trivers, Andrews); ph, Phillip Tannura; m, Lucien Moraweek; ed, Otto Ludwig; md, Lud Gluskin; art d, Bernard Herzbrun; m/l "Dreaming Out Loud," Coslow. Comedy (PR:A MPAA:NR) |
BASHFUL BACHELOR, THE (1942) 78m RKO bw Chester Lauck (Lum), Norris Goff (Abner), ZaSu Pitts (Geraldine), Grady Sutton (Cedric), Oscar O'Shea (Squire Skimp), Louise Curry (Marjorie), Constance Purdy (Widder Abernathy), Irving Bacon (Sheriff), Earle Hodgins (Joe), Benny Rubin (Pitch Man). Rural comedy starring Lauck and Goff as Lum and Abner. Abner trades a delivery car for a race horse, but all turns out fine when the nag wins a big race. p, Jack William Votion; d, Malcolm St Clair; w, Chandler Sprague (based on a story by Chester Lauck and Norris Golf); ph,Paul Ivano; ed, Duncan Mansfield; md, Lud Gluskin. Comedy (PR:A MPAA:NR) |
