Inside the Law 1942 N/R, 65 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Hamilton MacFadden Cast: Wallace Ford, Frank Sully, Harry Holman, Luana Walters, Lafe McKee, Barton Hepburn, Danny Duncan, Earle Hodgins, Rose Plumer, Robert Frazer
Cross-country con artists, led by Pop Cobb (Lafe McKee) and Mom Cobb (Rose Plumer), find a letter appointing the recipient to the job as cashier at the local bank. Gang member Billy (Wallace Ford) assumes the identity and takes the cashier job through which the gang plans for him to walk away with the deposits. But, as days pass, the gang members decide to go straight and, after a series of funny events, become town heroes.
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So This Is Washington 1943 N/R, 64 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Ray McCarey Cast: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Alan Mowbray, Mildred Coles, Roger Clark, Sarah Padden, Matt McHugh, Minerva Urecal, Danny Duncan, Barbara Pepper
In this entry of their seven-part film series, radio comedians Lum (Chester Lauck) and Abner (Norris Goff) head for Washington, D.C., during World War II to offer the government their concoction made of licorice to be used as synthetic rubber. In the process of wheeling and dealing, they offer their brand of homespun advice to members of Congress who line up to talk to them.
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Two Weeks to Live 1943 N/R, 76 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair Cast: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn, Kay Linaker, Irving Bacon, Herbert Rawlinson, Ivan F. Simpson, Rosemary La Planche, Danny Duncan, Evalyn Knapp, Charles Middleton, Luis Alberni
Lum (Chester Lauck) and Abner (Norris Goff) are in Chicago to check out a railroad Abner has inherited when Abner falls down some stairs and ends up at the hospital. After being misdiagnosed as having two weeks to live, Abner signs up for a trip to Mars to obtain enough money to pay off a debt.
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| 1. Inside the Law (1942)
2. So This Is Washington (1943)
3. Two Weeks to Live (1943)
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