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Released May 24, 1940
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Universal
64 min. (Feature Film)

Frank Stewart (Richard Arlen) arrives in the steel town of Arlington, PA, and takes a room at Mrs. Morrison's boarding house. His old friend Matt Morrison (Andy Devine) arranges him a job at the Farley Steelyards, where Frank puts his education as a metallurgist to work and develops a new steel alloy process to improve efficiency. Rita Martin, the ambitious wife of Farley's top steelworker Dave Martin, is having an affair with the factory's general manager George Barnes. Barnes wants the new alloy so he can sell it to a competitor, Mr. Carlton, and after accidentally murdering Dave, he and Rita steal the alloy sample and frame Frank for the murder.

Joe Besser costars as Siggie Landers, a steelyard employee and boarding house tenant.

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Andy Devine
Matt Morrison

Richard Arlen
Frank Stewart

Peggy Moran
Bebe Morrison

Anne Nagel
Rita Martin

Donald Briggs
George Barnes

Wade Boteler
Joe Farley

William Gould
Distracted banker

Edwin Stanley
John, 2nd banker

Tom Chatterton
3rd banker

Dorothy Vaughan
Mrs. Morrison

Billy Wayne
Dave Martin

Joe Besser
Siggie Landers

Mira McKinney
Elvira Appleby

James Flavin
Storm Swenson

Charles Flynn
Steelworker

Victor Zimmerman
Steelworker

Thomas E. Jackson
Police Inspector

Edward McWade
Mr. Carlton

Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Detective

Sam Finn
Bartender


Ben Pivar
Producer

Maurice Tombragel
Original Story and Screenplay

William A. Sickner
Director of Photography

Edward Curtiss
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Richard H. Riedel
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor

William Hedgcock
Sound Technician

Hans J. Salter
Musical Director

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Charles Henderson
Music and Lyrics


















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