Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1938-02-18
Director: Gordon Wiles
Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland , Richard English
Language: English
Stars: Stuart Erwin , Helen Chandler , Toby Wing , Tully Marshall (1864–1943) , Spencer Charters , Walter Byron , Harry Tyler , Milburn Stone , Otto Hoffman , Peter Potter
Runtime: 68 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Mr. Boggs Steps Out (United States of America) , Mr. Boggs Steps Out (United Kingdom) , Mr. Boggs Steps Out , Mr. Boggs Buys a Barrel (United States of America) , Face the Facts (United States of America) , Un caso fortunato (Italy)
Plot: Oliver Boggs, a typical office drone, with no success in sight, who can spout statistics about anything and everything, wins $1500 in a bean-guessing contest at the movie theatre, quits his job and sets forth for the seedy, down-at-the-heels town of Peckham Falls. There he buys a barrel factory and falls in love with Irene Lee, the snobbish niece of crusty old Morton Ross, the town's only rich man and owner of the closed canneries. Oleander Tubbs and her inventor father Angus, who sold Oliver the factory, tell him it has no future but he disagrees and says he will have everything booming again. Oleander thinks he is daffy but she and her father agree to help him. Angus invents a collapsible barrel and Oliver, seeing fame and fortune just ahead, spends all of his money just keeping the factory going. Oliver persuades old man Ross to re-open the canneries and to use the ground-breaking barrels and things appear to be going okay, until Dennis Andrews, Ross' slick attorney, tries to double-cross both Ross and Oliver by bilking Angus out of the patent rights to the barrel.
IMDB:tt0029266