Other than using the same title this film has no connection to nor is there any film credit linking it to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jackie Moran | ... | Billy Whittaker | |
| Marcia Mae Jones | ... | Pige Blaine | |
| Bradley Metcalfe | ... | Kenneth Hale | |
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Johnnie Morris | ... | Jeff Blaine |
| Marilyn Knowlden | ... | Julia Blaine | |
| Terry | ... | Toto | |
| Ralph Morgan | ... | John Hale | |
| Claire Windsor | ... | Valerie Hale | |
| Helen MacKellar | ... | Martha Whittaker | |
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Matty Fain | ... | Blake |
| Frank Puglia | ... | Hank | |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Warden | |
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Charles D. Brown | ... | Calvin Whittaker (as Chas. D. Brown) |
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Roger Gray | ... | Dutch |
| Earle Hodgins | ... | Sheriff | |
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Other than using the same title this film has no connection to nor is there any film credit linking it to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend, Pige Bennett, and punky Kenneth get involved with a "haunted" house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a "better man" out of Kenneth. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
3 August 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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This film received its initial USA telecast Saturday 24 January 1942 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). Post-WWII television viewers got their first look at it Friday 6 August 1948 on WATV (Channel 13) and Monday 25 October 1948 on WCBS (Channel 2); in Chicago it first aired Thursday 27 January 1949 on WBKB (Channel 4), and, on the West Coast, in Los Angeles, it was first seen Wednesday 8 February 1950 on KTSL (Channel 2). See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Other than using the same title this film has no connection to nor is there any film credit linking it to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker.
The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend, Pige Bennett, and punky Kenneth get involved with a "haunted" house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a "better man" out of Kenneth.
Filmed well, acted well, just a ridiculously slow, tedious, bland story.
It's mindless.