Goin' to Town (1944)
THEY'RE JIVE DIZZY
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
- Date of release
- 1944-09-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Leslie Goodwins
Casting
- Chester Lauck — Lum Edwards
- Norris Goff — Abner Peabody
- Barbara Hale — Patty
- Florence Lake — Abigail
- Dick Elliott — Squire Skimp
- Grady Sutton — Cedric
- Herbert Rawlinson — Wentworth
- Dick Baldwin — Jimmy Benton
- Ernie Adams — Zeke
- Jack Rice — Clark
- Sam Flint — Dr. Crane
- Andrew Tombes — Parker
Interesting facts
Goin' to Town is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins from an original screenplay by Charles E. Roberts and Charles R. Marion, based upon the successful radio program Lum and Abner created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. It was the fifth of seven films in the Lum and Abner series, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures on September 28, 1944. The film stars Lauck and Goff, along with Florence Lake and Andrew Tombes.
Production
In July 1944, RKO announced that Goin' to Town would be one of at least 50 films on their 1944–45 production schedule, although work had already begun on the picture in April. The film was slated to be one of five RKO productions to be screened at New York City tradeshows from September 18–22.
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