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Director
  
Harold Young

Initial DVD release
  
September 28, 2004

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Film series
  
Lum and Abner Film Series

Language
  
English

Dreaming Out Loud (film) movie poster

Writer
  
Robert Hardy Andrews
,
Howard J. Green
,
Barry Trivers

Release date
  
September 30, 1940 (1940-09-30)

Cast
  
Chester Lauck
(Lum Edwards),
Norris Goff
(Abner Peabody),
Frances Langford
(Alice)

Similar movies
  
Dreaming Out Loud and The Bashful Bachelor are part of the same movie series

Dreaming Out Loud is a 1940 American film based on the radio series Lum and Abner, directed by Harold Young starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. It is also known as Money Isn't Everything.

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Plot summary

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This time around, Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) and Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), the two elderly men owning the Jot ’Em Down general store which is the centre of life in Pineridge, Arkansas, tries to lend a helping hand to their unfortunate town neighbors. An alcoholic, Wes Stillman (Irving Bacon), loses his daughter Effie Lou (Sheila Sheldon) in a traffic accident, when she is hit by a passing car. Wes is beyond himself with grief and cannot stop blaming himself for not taking better care of her. In order to bring relief to Wes, Lum and Abner see to it that Wes is appointed deputy sheriff, and in charge of putting traffic offenders to justice. Wes gets to serve as deputy directly under police Constable Caleb Weehunt (Robert McKenzie).

Another neighbor in distress is up next. The store also serves as the town's post office, where Alice is working as post-mistress. Doctor Kenneth Barnes (Robert Wilcox), son of Doctor Walter "Doc Walt" Barnes (Frank Craven, cannot marry his fiancé Alice (Frances Langford), because her aunt Jessica Spencer (Clara Blandick) demands she make a better choice financially - and she has a feud with Doc Walt. Kenneth is working as a doctor in the next town; but, doesn’t make enough to support a wife and their younger brother; so, they have to wait. Lum and Abner try to get the doctor a mobile medical unit which would let him support his wife and her younger brother Jimmy (Bobs Watson) when he arrives from his present working place in Adamstown. But the wealthy aunt doesn’t budge because she doesn’t approve of Doc Walt. When Jimmy falls very ill with pneumonia, Doc Walt saves his life, using a special oxygen inhalator that he himself invented. Doc Walt dies (?) in his efforts to save the boy. Ridden by guilt, Aunt Jessica finally coughs up the money to buy Ken a mobile medical unit, so that he can save more lives. Soon after, the person who hit Effie Lou is caught and arrested. It turns out it was Jessica’s secretary Will Danielson (Donald Briggs).

Cast

  • Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards
  • Norris Goff as Abner Peabody
  • Frances Langford as Alice
  • Frank Craven as Dr. Walter Barnes
  • Bobs Watson as Jimmy
  • Irving Bacon as Wes Stillman
  • Clara Blandick as Jessica Spencer
  • Robert Wilcox as Dr. Kenneth Barnes
  • Donald Briggs as Will Danielson
  • Robert McKenzie as Constable Caleb Weeunt
  • Phil Harris as Peter Atkinson
  • Sheila Sheldon as Effie Lou Stillman
  • Troy Brown Jr. as Washington
  • Soundtrack

  • Frances Langford - "Dreaming out Loud" (By Sam Coslow)
  • References

    Dreaming Out Loud (film) Wikipedia
    Dreaming Out Loud (film) IMDb Dreaming Out Loud (film) themoviedb.org