The Bashful Bachelor 1942 LUM & ABNER
Channel: Popcorn Time
Date: 2020-04-30

Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse. And because Lum doesn't have the guts to grab the woman he is in love with, Geraldine (ZaSu Pitts), and propose to once and for all, he lays a complex scheme to impress her in a fake "rescue" mission. He fails tremendously in this mission, and nearly gets everyone killed in doing so. However, he doesn't give up, but tries again, and finally succeeds in impressing her. His problems aren't over though, since his proposal, who was to be delivered to Geraldine by his partner Abner, ends up in the wrong hands when it is delivered to a very prone bachelorette, Widder Abernathy (Constance Purdy) instead. She jumps at the possibility of marrying Lum, and the game is afoot. Lum doesn't get out of trouble until the town sheriff (Irving Bacon) finds widow Widder's disappeared husband.
Chester Lauck in the film
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Charles Kerr (assistant)
Produced by Jack William Votion
Written by Chester Lauck (story) and
Norris Goff (story)
Chandler Sprague (screenplay)
Cinematography Paul Ivano
Edited by W. Duncan Mansfield
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license used:

PUBLIC DOMAIN MOVIES
CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Public Domain Dedication
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en