Father Steps Out (1941)

Director
Jean Yarbrough

Main cast
Frank Albertson; Jed Prouty; Lorna Gray; Frank Faylen; John Dilson

Genres
Comedy

Description
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.


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