Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
Acting
Mantan Moreland steals every scene he's in—period.
Production
Made for peanuts, looks like it, somehow charming anyway.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Johnny Downs
Freckles Winslow
Gale Storm
Jane Potter
Mantan Moreland
Jeff the porter
Irving Bacon
Constable Caleb Weaver
Bradley Page
Nate Quigley
Marvin Stephens
Danny Doyle
Betty Blythe
Minerva Potter
Walter Sande
Muggsy Dolan
Max Hoffman Jr.
Hymie
John Ince
Hiram Potter
Laurence Criner
Roxbury B. Brown, III
Gene O'Donnell
Monk
Si Jenks
Lem Perkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the third and final Freckles film; Johnny Downs quit while he was... behind.
Gale Storm became a 1950s sitcom icon; this was her grinding through Monogram Pictures quickies. Mantan Moreland's role reflects the limited, stereotyped parts available to Black actors in 1940s Hollywood—he elevates it anyway.
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