Father Steps Out (1941)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Frank Albertson	...	Reporter Jimmy Dugan
	Jed Prouty	...	J. (John) B. Matthews
	Lorna Gray	...	Helen Matthews
	Frank Faylen	...	Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam
	John Dilson	...	Tom Oliver
	Charlie Hall	...	Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon (as Charles Hall)
	Kathryn Sheldon	...	Aunt Martha Matthews
	John Maxwell	...	City Editor Macy
	Mary Field	...	Mrs. Benton, Farm Woman
	Tristram Coffin	...	Dr. R. G. Stafford
	Paul Maxey	...	Jenks, the Butler
	J. Arthur Young	...	Banker
	Gene O'Donnell	...	Jones

Storyline

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... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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