A small town boy prefers playing the trumpet to working.A small town boy prefers playing the trumpet to working.A small town boy prefers playing the trumpet to working.
Photos
Clem Bevans
- Pop
- (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
- Theatre Manager
- (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
- Inn Patron
- (uncredited)
John Harron
- First Bank Examiner
- (uncredited)
Shep Houghton
- Inn Patron
- (uncredited)
Vera Lewis
- Mrs. Fletcher
- (uncredited)
Jack Luden
- Inn Patron
- (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
- Night Club Guest
- (uncredited)
Jack Mower
- Second Bank Examiner
- (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
- Inn Patron
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- George Bricker
- H.W. Hanemann(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- SoundtracksIt's Against the Law in Arkansas
Music by Bernard Hanighen
Lyrics by Charles Henderson and Winston Tharp
Performed by Johnnie Davis and Penny Singleton
Featured review
It's 1938!
Good thing they tell you this specifically in this Warner B comedy, because this hodge-podge small town comedy might have been made by Mack Sennett in 1923, given sound. It's all very mechanical and by-the-numbers as small-town inventor and swing trumpeter Johnny Davis wrangles with sweetheart Penny Singleton (about ten minutes before she bolted for Columbia Pictures and the Blondie series) against stuffed-shirt banker and park-band conductor Donald Briggs.
This being a Warner B, everyone talks very fast and there is something heartless about the direction by perpetual Warner B director William Clemens. A few scenes show the gloss that a big studio could afford in their Bs, like the one in the roadhouse, but this is one you can skip.
This being a Warner B, everyone talks very fast and there is something heartless about the direction by perpetual Warner B director William Clemens. A few scenes show the gloss that a big studio could afford in their Bs, like the one in the roadhouse, but this is one you can skip.
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- boblipton
- Oct 12, 2011
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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