Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
HE WAS AN OPTIMIST... He could see the doughnut when others only saw the hole!
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
- Date of release
- 1938-02-18
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Director
- Gordon Wiles
Casting
- Stuart Erwin — Oliver Boggs
- Helen Chandler — Oleander Tubbs
- Toby Wing — Irene Lee
- Tully Marshall — Morton Ross
- Spencer Charters — Angus Tubbs
- Walter Byron — Dennis Andrews
- Harry Tyler — Sam Mason
- Milburn Stone — Burns
- Otto Hoffman — Jenkins
- Peter Potter — Bob DeBrette
- Nora Cecil — Widow Peddie
- Elliot Fisher — Tommy Mason
Interesting facts
Mr. Boggs Steps Out is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Gordon Wiles. The film is based on the Clarence Budington Kelland Saturday Evening Post short story Face the Facts. The working titles of the film were Face the Facts and Mr. Boggs Buys a Barrel.
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