My Son, the Hero
A broken down boxing promoter finds that his son has become a hero fighting in the pacific and is about to come home for a war bond tour. Trouble is, he's been lying about how successful he's been for…
My Son, the Hero
A broken down boxing promoter finds that his son has become a hero fighting in the pacific and is about to come home for a war bond tour. Trouble is, he's been lying about how successful he's been for years. So he enlists his punchy fighter and his ex-wife to help him put on a fake show of opulence in a borrowed mansion. —WesternOne Boxing promoter "Big-Time" Percy Morgan (Roscoe Karns) is trying to make a prizefighter out of Kid Slug Rosenthal (Maxie Rosenbloom), who has more brawn than brains. Gertie Rosenthal, the Kid's ex-wife, still has a soft spot in her heart of the big lug. So she sticks around with the two, and they manage to get by. Morgan has been separated for years from his wife and son, Michael (Joseph Allen Jr.) The latter is returning on furlough from the Pacific war zone. In his letters to his wife and son, Morgan has led them to believe he is wealthy, and remarried to a beautiful wife with a stepdaughter. So, when he hears of his son's return, he is panicky. Gertie is resourceful and says she will pose as the imaginary wife. She takes over temporarily the Beverly Hills mansion of a friend of a friend who is out of town. Gertie also hires for the occasion a pretty girl named Nancy Cavanaugh (Lois Collier) to play the imaginary step-daughter. Kid Slug and his pals are hired as domestic help. Michael arrives and is impressed with his dad. He is smitten with Nancy. The tells Morgan that his mother Cynthia (Joan Blair) is in town, so Gertie, the perfect hostess, graciously invites her for a visit. Cynthia is a poised and charming matron. She and Gertie become chummy over a double brandy. They plan a costume ball to help Michael in his bond-selling drive for the U. S. Treasury. Linda Duncan (Carol Gughes), daughter of Sam Duncan (Sam Flint), comes home to find this strangely assorted group occupying the family home. Knowing Michael and his mother from earlier days, she sets her cap for Michael, to the annoyance of Nancy, who is doing fine with Michael up to this time. A rich dowager, Mrs. Olmstesd (Isabel La Mal) gives Michael $50,000 in appreciation of his heroic deeds as a Marine. Michale gives the money to his dad to turn over the the government, but the temptation is too great for Morgan. He "borrows" $2,000 from the fund and gives it to Kid Slug to place on a horse named "My Son" , but the Kid becomes confused and places the money on another horse named "The Hero" which wins. The costume ball is a success, with a big sales or War Bonds, but Morgan is in a terrible stew, when learning that the horse he picked had lost and he must replace the "borrowed- funds. His ex-wife suspects the worse and coaxes him to tell all, as she still loves him.So Morgan confesses all, including the data about the phony wife and step-daughter. Then Kid Slug returns with the winnings on the wrong horse. Morgan happingly replaces the funds he borrowed from the safe, and with the winnings buys war bonds for Michael. The latter understand the entire situation, is forgiving and happy, for Nancy has promised to wait for him until the war is over. And his mother decides that her form husband needs taking care of, and "Big Time" Morgan is perfectly willing to have it that way. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
My Son, the Hero
Comedy,Romance,Sport
Film Details
A broken down boxing promoter finds that his son has become a hero fighting in the pacific and is about to come home for a war bond tour. Trouble is, he's been lying about how successful he's been for years. So he enlists his punchy fighter and his ex-wife to help him put on a fake show of opulence in a borrowed mansion.
—WesternOne Boxing promoter "Big-Time" Percy Morgan (Roscoe Karns) is trying to make a prizefighter out of Kid Slug Rosenthal (Maxie Rosenbloom), who has more brawn than brains. Gertie Rosenthal, the Kid's ex-wife, still has a soft spot in her heart of the big lug. So she sticks around with the two, and they manage to get by.
Morgan has been separated for years from his wife and son, Michael (Joseph Allen Jr.) The latter is returning on furlough from the Pacific war zone. In his letters to his wife and son, Morgan has led them to believe he is wealthy, and remarried to a beautiful wife with a stepdaughter. So, when he hears of his son's return, he is panicky.
Gertie is resourceful and says she will pose as the imaginary wife. She takes over temporarily the Beverly Hills mansion of a friend of a friend who is out of town. Gertie also hires for the occasion a pretty girl named Nancy Cavanaugh (Lois Collier) to play the imaginary step-daughter.
Kid Slug and his pals are hired as domestic help. Michael arrives and is impressed with his dad. He is smitten with Nancy.
The tells Morgan that his mother Cynthia (Joan Blair) is in town, so Gertie, the perfect hostess, graciously invites her for a visit. Cynthia is a poised and charming matron. She and Gertie become chummy over a double brandy.
They plan a costume ball to help Michael in his bond-selling drive for the U. S. Treasury.
Linda Duncan (Carol Gughes), daughter of Sam Duncan (Sam Flint), comes home to find this strangely assorted group occupying the family home. Knowing Michael and his mother from earlier days, she sets her cap for Michael, to the annoyance of Nancy, who is doing fine with Michael up to this time. A rich dowager, Mrs.
Olmstesd (Isabel La Mal) gives Michael $50,000 in appreciation of his heroic deeds as a Marine. Michale gives the money to his dad to turn over the the government, but the temptation is too great for Morgan. He "borrows" $2,000 from the fund and gives it to Kid Slug to place on a horse named "My Son" , but the Kid becomes confused and places the money on another horse named "The Hero" which wins.
The costume ball is a success, with a big sales or War Bonds, but Morgan is in a terrible stew, when learning that the horse he picked had lost and he must replace the "borrowed- funds. His ex-wife suspects the worse and coaxes him to tell all, as she still loves him.So Morgan confesses all, including the data about the phony wife and step-daughter. Then Kid Slug returns with the winnings on the wrong horse.
Morgan happingly replaces the funds he borrowed from the safe, and with the winnings buys war bonds for Michael. The latter understand the entire situation, is forgiving and happy, for Nancy has promised to wait for him until the war is over. And his mother decides that her form husband needs taking care of, and "Big Time" Morgan is perfectly willing to have it that way.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>.