A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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| Don DeFore | ... | Jim Bullock | |
| Ann Harding | ... | Mary O'Connor | |
| Charles Ruggles | ... | Michael J. O'Connor (as Charlie Ruggles) | |
| Victor Moore | ... | Aloysius T. McKeever | |
| Gale Storm | ... | Trudy O'Connor | |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | Farrow | |
| Edward Brophy | ... | Cecil Felton | |
| Alan Hale Jr. | ... | Whitey Temple | |
| Dorothea Kent | ... | Margie Temple | |
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Edward Ryan | ... | Hank (as Edward Ryan Jr.) |
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Cathy Carter | ... | Alice |
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Every winter, Michael J. O'Connor, the second richest man in the world, vacates his 5th Avenue mansion for his winter home in warmer climes. Every winter, Aloysius T. McKeever, a homeless man, and his dog moves into vacated mansions. This particular winter, McKeever meets Jim Bullock, an army veteran who has recently been evicted from his apartment and offers to share the mansion with him. It's not long before the mansion has a few more guests, including two of Jim's army buddies and their wives and children; runaway heiress Trudy Connor; her mother and even Michael J. O'Connor, himself. Written by L. Hamre
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19 April 1947 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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(uncredited)
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[Sung by wordless chorus as the characters are saying goodbye at the end]
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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 19, 1947 with Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles and Gale Storm reprising their film roles. See more »Goofs
Mac rigged the house so that if anyone came in through the front door, the electricity in the house would be cut. When Mike entered through the front door using his own key and when the patrolmen entered on Christmas Eve, the electricity to the house was not cut. See more »Quotes
Jim Bullock: Listen, chum. I've hunted three months for this foxhole, and I'm not leaving this bed.See more »
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Auld Lang Syne(uncredited)
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[Sung by wordless chorus as the characters are saying goodbye at the end]
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This is a very enjoyable holiday film that gets no press. I learned about it because it was included in a set of holiday films.
If you are familiar with and enjoyed the 18th century play, "She Stoops to Conquer," the same social commentary about relations between the upper and lower classes appears here with a Dreppression era - post World War II twist. It requires you to suspend your sense of logic, but if you can do that, you will have a lot of fun. It's a holiday film that you will enjoy viewing year after year.
The professional critics big knock on this film is that it is too long. That is valid criticism for the ending. A scene or two could have been cut or shortened without damaging the plot. That weakness is more that offset by a great many laughs and chuckles and honest warmth which make the first 90 minutes fly by.
Watch for Gail Storm as the run-away college student who was a very popular TV personality in the early 1950s and Alan Hale, Jr., as one of World War II veterans, who was the captain on "Gilligan's Island."