It's a Great Life!
Cast & Crew
Edward F. Cline
Joe Morrison
Paul Kelly
Rosalind Keith
William Frawley
Charles "chic" Sale
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Synopsis
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps. At first the hardship of the Corps induces Rockie to quit, but he returns with a recruit, Lazy Bones. Since Rockie has no family, Johnny induces him to send twenty-five dollars of his thirty-dollar paycheck to Johnny's neighbor, Mary Jennings, who has been raising her little brothers and sisters since her parents died. On a two-week vacation, Johnny brings Rockie home to meet the family, and Rockie is surprised to find Mary to be a beautiful and independent woman. Mary and Rockie fall in love, but when Johnny proposes marriage to Mary, she does not give a definite yes or no. Back at camp, Rockie throws himself into his work, but Johnny becomes jealous when he sees that Rockie is receiving letters from Mary and he is not, and accuses Rockie of stealing his girl. Mary comes for visitors' day, and Rockie avoids her to give Johnny time with her. Mary is mystified by Rockie's disappearance during the camp's informal stage show, during which she plays accompaniment to Johnny's song. When a forest fire erupts in the forest and entraps the trucks carrying the visitors home, Johnny grabs dynamite to explode the dam, so that their powder house will not be threatened by the fire, but Rockie knocks him out and does the job himself. Water from the broken dam extinguishes the fire, and Rockie recuperates in the hospital, and later, at Mary's house. After Rockie recovers, Johnny gladly acts as witness at Rockie and Mary's wedding, and then happily returns to the Corps.
Director
Edward F. Cline
Cast
Joe Morrison
Paul Kelly
Rosalind Keith
William Frawley
Charles "chic" Sale
David Holt
Dean Jagger
Baby Leroy
Florence Nash
Gloria Ann White
Oscar Polk
Irving Bacon
Al Hill
Eddy Chandler
Oscar Rudolph
Jack Murphy
The Four Esquires
Duke York
Clarence Badger Jr.
Frances Morris
Allen Cavan
Matty Roubert
George Barton
Victor Lewis
Howard Joslin
Jay Calvin
Jack Chapin
George Mccullough
Joel Debard
Bryson Rogers
Hurley Breen
Thomas Carr
Frank Losee Jr.
Buron Dahl
C. Brandt
Crew
Ernest R. Ball
John Cope
Hans Dreier
A. E. Freudeman
Lewis E. Gensler
Lewis E. Gensler
George Graff Jr.
Earl Hedrick
Frederick Hollander
Harold Hurley
Arthur Lake
Chauncey Olcott
Ben Reynolds
Leo Robin
Sherman Rogers
Arthur Singley
Paul Gerard Smith
Harlan Thompson
Paul Weatherwax
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor
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