In Old Missouri
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Frank Mcdonald
Leon Weaver
Frank Weaver
June Weaver
June Storey
Marjorie Gateson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sharecroppers Abner, Cicero, Elviry and Violey Weaver decide to appeal to their landlord, Mr. Pittman, to improve the lot of his tenants. Pittman, who is afflicted with ill health, a frivolous wife, a playboy son and growing financial losses, seizes the opportunity to sign his estate over to his backwoods clients and disappear. The Weavers then move into the Pittman mansion, joining Junior Pittman's French dancing girls, while Abner meets with Pittman's business partners. After Abner fends off the partners' demands for money, they set Pittman's creditors on him, but Elviry raises the money to pay them off by auctioning Mrs. Pittman's furs at a charity fashion show. When Abner accuses the partners of cheating Pittman, they retaliate by accusing Abner of murdering Pittman. Fleeing from the police, the Weavers return to their farm, where they find a contented Pittman. After Pittman refuses to go home to confront his problems, Abner assures him that his problems are all solved, and to prove it, convinces him to play dead. Pittman's grieving "widow" then approaches his death bed and pledges her love, while his remorseful son Junior proclaims that he regrets not entering his father's business and settling down with Mary, Pittman's secretary. After his partners confess to cheating him, Pittman rises from his death bed and relieves the burden of the sharecroppers.
Director
Frank Mcdonald
Cast
Leon Weaver
Frank Weaver
June Weaver
June Storey
Marjorie Gateson
Thurston Hall
Alan Ladd
Loretta Weaver
Andrew Tombes
Mildred Shay
Willis Claire
Leonard Carey
Earle S. Dewey
Forbes Murray
The Hall Johnson Choir
Crew
George Blair
Cy Feuer
Hall Johnson
John Victor Mackay
Dorrell Mcgowan
Stuart Mcgowan
Ernest Miller
Ernest Nims
Adele Palmer
Armand Schaefer
Murray Seldeen
Al Wilson
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The film's opening title card reads: "Republic Pictures presents the Weaver Bros. and Elviry in Old Missouri." The Weaver Brothers and Elivry were billed as The Arkansas Travelers during their many years in vaudeville and on The Grand Old Opry radio show. For additional information about their films, Down in "Arkansaw" (above).
