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A Balasaur Score of 47 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 20%. Audiences rate it 37 points higher than critics do. Most of the 246 1940s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Ratings
Audiences rate it 37 points higher than critics do.
18 audience votes
Key crew
- King VidorDirector
- Leslie FentonDirector
- Heinz RoemheldOriginal Music Composer
- John O'HaraWriter
- Lou BreslowScreenplay
- Laurence StallingsScreenplay
Cast
- Paulette GoddardMartha Pease
- Burgess MeredithOliver M. Pease
- James StewartSlim
- Henry FondaLank Solsky
- Harry JamesHarry James
- Dorothy LamourGloria Manners
- Victor MooreAshton Carrington
- Fred MacMurrayAl
- William DemarestFloyd
- Hugh HerbertEli Hobbs
- Charles D. BrownMr. Sadd
- Eduardo CiannelliMaxim
